Nicholas Carr says, in his book, The Shallows, that because of his constant use of computers and the Internet, he has become unable to concentrate on one thing for long periods of time. He can no longer read books without losing interest in them after a few short pages. He doesn’t understand things at great depth, he looks for the shallow understanding of many things. I agree with what Carr said about what using the internet and technology has done to our ability to concentrate and focus on one thing and to read a book and understand things at a deeper level. Since using the Internet, I have noticed that when I look through magazines, I LOOK through them not read them.
In the World State no one really grows up because the World State wants everyone to be happy and not experience pain which means no one loses their innocence. To grow up and become wiser, people need to get hurt and learn from
When we got there we spent time with family and I was irritable almost the entire day, luckily everyone understood that I had no sleep and didn’t take it personally. I was not able to pull myself to do any school work that day. I had it pulled up on my computer, but I could not focus enough to do it. Normally I have energy during the day and am motivated to clean and do other things. The day we arrived I had no motivation to do anything.
If technology continues to develop at this rate, people will slowly begin to depend on it just as much as Mildred did. People nowadays forget about the conventional things in life and allow themselves to be consumed by a world of technology. People have now begun to rely on technology such as portable devices for entertainment. This increase in use of technology will cause more people to stop reading for fun and begin experimenting with these new gadgets. Even though these devices come with many ways to read, most people do not use this to their advantage.
They would have problems focusing and were easily distracted. Many multitaskers even thought they were the, “efficient exception.” In his study it was brought to the surface that multitasking is everywhere, whether it’s watching television and texted friends or sitting in on a lecture and having a social network on the computer. Multitasking is when people try to perform two or more related tasks either at the same time or alternating between them, errors go way up, and it takes far longer to get the jobs done than if they were done separately. Multitasking, in many ways, challenges the quality of our everyday work. This is something that I, personally, have witnessed growing up in a family with eight other siblings and two sets of parents.
With the unemployment rates so high; more and more Americans have to go on a government funded plan. These plans are very time consuming for the doctors which again takes away from patient care time. Yes, the incentives were out of hand before with the drug companies, but now the regulations for such are very strict and very limited, why can’t we find a happy medium. Now, with the healthcare reform benefits, premiums, and services covered will be a lot worse. Guidelines and limitations on prescriptions, tests, and specialists will be even more stringent.
Technology is a really over-powering thing and a growing epidemic and I feel that it's really taking a tole on young people but at the same time advancing the communication between us. To know that teens are using their phones on average 60 times a day is quiete saddening because there are so many other things you can be doing, such as doing home work, studying and spending time with family.
Even when asked to participate they either complain for extended periods of time or find themselves busy with other projects. They are expert procrastinators and have no interest in contributing to the duty of housekeeping. The issue that I am facing is that my husband is home with the children when they get home from school and he does not reinforce the chore problem. We are both very busy and many times it is easier to let the kids go to a friend’s
Because they have their own business in school or after-school, they reject to stop their extracurricular instead to do more homework. So how to influence them to change their mind? In other word, how to let their performance same as the “A” students. Probably a lot of parents would say “No!”. Of course they can, the “C” students have same ability as the “A” students.
Especially with foster children, foster children are always treated like they aren’t smart. People don’t push foster children to have high expectations for them to succeed. Children just believe what people are telling them and not being able to have the confidence to prove them wrong. (Spark Action) Most children don’t even have any knowledge about college or even crosses their mind. This is because they go home to home, that they feel they won’t be in a place to worry about that.