She then brings up the issue of unnerving newspaper headlines such as “Bloodlust Video Games Put Kids in the Crosshairs” (205). Sternheimer feels not enough emphasis has been given to other issues such as “social rejection and depression” (206). She also brings our attention to information on statistical evidence. Sternheimer believed it to be “controversial” and feels it “exclude[s] a host of other factors” (207). Sternheimer feels it is these other over looked factors that are truly the cause of “young killers” (210).
When children start to abuse the convenience of the internet by harassing other people, the internet becomes very dangerous. What makes cyber bullying so dangerous? Cyber bullying is dangerous because it has the ability to take the smallest incident and build up so much tension around it that it results in a murder or suicide. Some people may blame the victim for lacking self control and not being able to ignore the situation. Some people may claim it was just a joke and may blame the victim for being too sensitive or insecure.
Cyber bullying can have a longer lasting effect on the victim. It can be humiliating due to the fact that it has a bigger audience opposed to the kids on the playground. There are many warning signs that could indicate that someone is involved in bullying. Some of the signs include the following; they come home with damaged or missing clothing, they have thing such as electronics and jewelry come up lost, and they have unexplained injuries and complain frequently of feeling sick. They can hurt themselves, and they can lose interest in school, friends and activities that they used to enjoy.
There are many reasons to worry about it. This social media is hurting our society in such way that it causing harm to one’s privacy, it disseminates misinformation, and effect on student’s grade. It is clear that social media is hurting our society by putting one’s privacy and security at risk. In the article “Teens Privacy Is Threatened by Social Networking” author Peter Bazalgette said, “Can you truly delete entries from social networking sites with the confidence they no longer exist on a server somewhere? You cannot” (Bazalgette p.1).
In a care home setting it may be hard to communicate with residents that have dementia, this is because they forget things, get upset and in the last stages of dementia, they can become violent. This can influence the communication method between you and the resident, as they may not understand what you are trying to explain, also if they are upset it can be confusing and stressful for them. It will affect the conversation because they will be agitated and wont listen to what you have got to say. Another example is in a special school for people with learning disorders. People who have learning disorders may have problems with reading and writing, this will affect the communication barrier as they cant show how they feel through writing and drawing.
Carr thinks that excessive use of the internet might cause permanent changes to the way our brains work and we don’t have to remember as much, because we have RAM (Random Access Memory). Carr suggests that due to all the choices and distractions the internet provides its user whilst searching for information, it ‘turns us back to our native state of distractedness’ (Carr 373). Carr feels like due to the constant quick thinking skills that the internet demands us to have; we are losing our higher order cognitive abilities gained from focus reading such as from a book. Our ability to think in a creative and reflective way is diminishing. Carr feels the automatic way of thinking means we are ‘losing our mental discipline’ (Carr 375).
2011 December, 14 2nd period Do Not Forget Memories, people can learn from them or they can destroy a person, either way memories are an important part of what shapes our culture and us as individuals. Sometimes memory poses some problems, unpleasant memories can make a person bitter, depressed, vulnerable, scared, and even can cause people to have nightmares. Furthermore people learn from the mistakes they have made and even a whole world can change from events in the past that has affected a large portion of the world. No matter what you remember you can learn from the memory, even if it was a good memory. In the novel “Speak” the character Melinda Sordino was raped at a party over the summer, and then she called the police.
Others authors were offended by Berry’s words because the article might seem aggressive and even attacking those authors who are used to write on computers. Berry is very decisive on his reasons, plus he tries to persuades his readers that buying a computer is a bad
Shelly Weeks Mrs. Morgan English 111 17 January 2015 Summary of “Does the Internet Make You Dumber?” In “Does the Internet Make You Dumber?” author Nicholas Carr points out that when it comes to using the internet people are constantly distracted causing our thinking and attention to be affected. First, the author points out that people who are constantly distracted by the busyness of the internet tend to comprehend less than people who read a traditional book. Also he states that several studies have shown results that while technology may improve some skills, it also interferes with our thinking. He also points out that students who use computers with internet in the classroom tend to perform more poorly on tests than students that
Just one click of the mouse and your problems are over. Unfortunately, this feature of online socialization cheats people of the opportunity to learn how to resolve conflict in the world outside the internet and it could retard or cripple one’s social