He compares and contrasts how his life was with the Web and without it. For example, “Just as Microsoft Word had turned me into a flesh-and-blood word processor, the Internet, I sensed, was turning me into something like a high-speed data-processing machine, a human HAL (325). The Web has changed him in such a way that he felt like a machine. He wanted to stay connected, therefore, he would yearn to check his e-mail, click links, or explore on Google. He noticed the Net was having a much stronger influence over him than his PC ever had (324).
Two images, the refrigerator and the television would probably dominate a glance at modern civilization. Television is the center of most homes. Families generally spend downtime with the rest of their family watching a TV program. Keeping this in mind it is easy to realize how much of an impact that the content broadcasted on television has on the human race. The writer of a TV show, especially today, has a highway to communicate with the entire world.
Cody Janowski 12/2/10 English Comp Assignment 4 The Internet has undoubtedly changed the way people live their lives. Any information we could possibly want- and more- is at our disposal, and has made life for us incredibly convenient and easy; some, however, might say too easy. One of these people is Nicholas Carr, author of the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” featured in the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic. Carr argues that the Net seems to be slowly demolishing our abilities to concentrate on one subject, as well as contemplate information, based on the ease of access to everything the Internet provides today. I agree with Carr to an extent; however I would say that his theory most certainly does not apply to everyone.
Tevin Hutchinson 11/10/2012 English 102 Technology plays a huge role in our everyday life. I do believe that technology has made our lives easier, but it also has made us more dependent on the technology itself. When using the internet for a dictionary you could easily get distracted. Anyone can put anything on the internet, so what you find might not be accurate. Most people find that looking things up on the internet is distracting because you are already on the web so why not check YouTube for a funny video, or update your status on the social network.
Text speak saves time and shortens text length. In preparation and sending messages it reduces costs.... Some of the negative aspects of text speak are that.... Whether text speak eventually becomes the standard.... Over the past ten to fifteen years, there has been a major change in the way people communicate to each other due to the development of the internet. Because of this, there has been a massive effect on the amount of socialising between friends and family; using technology in online social messaging websites such as Bebo, MSN, Facebook and many more.
Stated in the book, The Jungle, based on real events, a young boy is left in a factory overnight and is eaten by rats. This horrific event is graphic yet shines light on the harsh reality of life for a factory worker of yesteryear. Workers would often fall ill to the unsanitary working conditions yet would still come to work yet to infect even more workers, practically making the factory a biohazard. Workers lived in poverty dispute their long work hours and many children developed mental or physical defects due to these horrible conditions. Needless to say, the life of these factory works were far from easy.
The town folks were almost like bullies towards the Torrens. “Only mad people make up words,” this also makes you have sympathy for the Torrens family for as they are different... but isn’t everyone? Eventually it gets so bad that they end up moving. It was mostly Mrs. Torrens terrifying rage when she walked on top of the fence furious about her husband’s Injury. After the move from Tantallo, Mr. and Mrs. Torrens found work working in a factory cleaning.
It speeds up the retrieval and dissemination of information, partially eliminating such chores as going outdoors to the mailbox or the adult bookstore, or having to pick up the phone to get hold of your stockbroker or some buddies to shoot the breeze with. That one thing the Internet does, and only that.” * - Tom Wolfe, from Digibabble, Fairy Dust, and the Human Anthill in Hooking Up (published in 2000) Established only a few decades ago, the Internet itself is a neutral device originally designed for easing researches and studies among academic and military structures. The Internet is a system of enormous technical and social complexity.
A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer “I focused all of my attention on Mother’s face. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a blurred object fly from her hand. A sharp pain erupted from just above my stomach. I tried to remain standing, but my legs gave out, and my world turned black. Mother had stabbed me.” A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer is an intense, heart wrenching novel about dave himself, and the struggle he went through as a child to try and stay alive through all of the harsh beatings and punishments that his drunken and abusive mother had given him for no diserving reason.
The amount of data and free press is unprecedented and as someone who has grown up with such technology virtually constantly at my side it not difficult to immerse myself in this digital age and culture of limitless connectivity. For better or for worse, the internet has undoubtedly had an impact on my life. It can be, if you so wish it to be a wholly welcoming world – when you have the ability to contact the billions around the globe. They say that university is much different to high school in that now you are exposed to so many different people from such vastly varying backgrounds that it is hard to form the stereotypical clique and be as discriminatory. The internet is so much more than that.