On an online debate website, a student speaks out about thru experiences with homework communicating.” We kids nowadays have a lot of stuff to do. By the time we get home the day is almost over and we dinner and sports (Debate.org).” We have seven hours of school and when u get home with homework (tons) and you have dinner and sports so if we had less homework we would be able to eat dinner or eat late and no sports. On Scholastic news have parents interviewed about how less homework we should have.” What’s bad for” parents, is generally worse for kids.” School (for my son) is work,” one mother writes,” and by the end of a seven-hour workday, he’s exhausted. But like a worker on a double shift, he has to keep going once he gets home. (NEA Today).” Seven hours is a lot of the day working all day and we never stop five days a week and we have homework which is bad for us, it makes us tired.” Decades ago, the American Educational Research Association released this statement: “Whenever homework crowds out social experience, outdoor recreation, and creative activities, and whenever it usurps time that should be devoted to sleep (Scholastic news).” Kids need to play outside and have a social life they need to enjoy their free time but there is no free time because of all the homework.
iAlone Imagine its a normal Saturday. Instead of enjoying lunch with your best friend. You sit next to each other and spent half an hour texting about your day. After that, instead of going to talk to your English teacher, you emailed her your question from home. Because of this your teacher will never get to know you.
Anonymous Professor Gaboune English 1000 7 October, 14 Facebook in a Crowd: Why is it impossible to establish a human connection online? Why is it impossible to establish human connections online? In the short story, “Facebook in a Crowd”, Hal Niedsvieck learn the hard way. Only one person showed up for his “Facebook Party”. Only one person was willing to meet him face-to-face.
In my house, internet is a necessity because of online classes, but having a house phone isn’t necessary so we could cut that out. I made my own laundry detergent and have saved over $25 so far. We won’t be able to go out to eat, cutting down to basic satellite, not going many places or doing a whole lot that costs money. The job market is also terrible right now, and it doesn’t help that I have been a stay at home mom for thirteen years. You can’t be hired without experience, but you can’t get experience if you don’t get hired.
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).
Everyone had a cell phone or computer at home to talk with each other on MySpace. I didn’t get a cell phone until I went off to college and I didn’t have money for the latest things or clothes. I didn’t start working until my senior year, I felt so behind everyone else and I felt that they were different from me. I started hanging out at the school library every lunch period and burying myself in my books. In Merton's strain theory that discuss how people react when society’s goals for success does not provide the means to obtain them.
And while I had my toys and my friends around I still had to be responsible about doing my homework and wake up every morning and wear my clothes to go to school. I learned to do everything by myself and. Finally after one year my dad decided that we can go to see my mom. At the first time, I did not feel anything when I saw her because I could not remember her as a mom. This really hurt me as
In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not one in all that time” (Bradbury 2) The idea behind this is, Leonard walked by that same spot everyday for tem years and he has not met one person. Not one person is outside being active and staying healthy. Everyone except Leonard has been dragged into the somewhat recent technology fad and is at home with their eyes glued to the television. Technology is not only taking over people’s home live but is also talking over work lives also. “In a city of
The phrase ‘death chariots’ with their association of death, violence and destruction has the intended affect to fear readers of these manic, destructive young teens. It is this appeal to fear which evokes activity in the community to promote a change in society. Wowser also refers to the waste of ‘our tax dollar on a futile and ineffective effort to lower road toll by advertising’ reiterating that the law in place is not desired. This evokes hostility and a want for change in readers. Wowser adds an appeal to community service in saying it is rare ‘to find a young person who is a member of the Salvation Army’.
Being able to attend college online, communicating with my long distance relatives and taking care of all my finances online are just a few ways technology has simplified my life. Technology has definitely changed the way students learn, how teachers teach and whether or not either one has to step foot into a classroom. In my case, getting into a classroom became almost impossible. My boss commutes back and forth from New York City every day. Most days she would come home on time, but it always seemed that, on days, she knew I had to get to class; she would either miss her train or take a later train home.