The End of Solitude William Deresiewicz is a former teacher for English at Yale University. Currently he’s a contributing writer at “The Nation” and published his most famous essay “The End of Solitude” in 2009. In his essay, he claims that through new ways to communicate with each other like Facebook, human beings would lose a certain sense of solitude and the space everyone needs to figure who they are and what they believe in. He opens his argumentation saying that we only live in relation to others without any solitude because technology is taking away privacy and concentration. He proves this point with examples of his students who, according to Deresiewicz, write 3000 texts a month and don’t want to be alone so bad that they sit next to friend, even when they have to write a paper.
Li Yanhui WCWP 10A 1/13/2015 Essay 1C In “The End of Solitude, ” William Deresiewicz claims that people increasingly prefer to rely on the technology to get rid of the solitude, rather than stay alone. The reason of this phenomenon is that people are afraid of being loneiness and recognized by others. Deresiewicz believes that technology is the most important factor to replace people’s attitude of solitude in constant communication. Deresiewicz uses an example of a teenager who text more than three thousand messages per month and never being alone.The author also provides three thesis to support his view. At the beginning of the article, the author says that television and the Internet were designed to help people get rid of bored and technology does not allow people to solitude.
They might instead skip around, scanning for pertinent information of interest… I can’t get my students to read whole books anymore…” (318). Students are not focusing on reading a book from beginning to end. Instead, students tend to skim through and miss the important information which is a negative impact on them. Carr agrees that using the Web so often is having a negative effect on him because he is having a harder time focusing and reading articles which are more than a few sentences. He points out, “When I mentions my troubles with reading to friends, many say they’re suffering from similar afflictions.
And he is one of the 3% of the population who is unaffected by the self-help book. 2. One serious conflict experienced by Edwin is that he published a self - help book -- “What I Learned on the Mountain” and the book works; however, before Edwin knows it, a chain of events has been started that have enormous consequences for himself and the world. It is not an internal conflict and is not between two characters, it is between the protagonist and the real happiness that people always chase. 3.
NATIONAL REVIEW has attempted during its tenure as, so to speak, keeper of the conservative tablets to analyze public problems and to recommend intelligent thought. The magazine has acknowledged a variety of positions by right-minded thinkers and analysts who sometimes reach conflicting conclusions about public policy. As recently as on the question of troops to Bosnia, there was dissent within the family from our corporate conclusion that we'd be best off staying home. For many years we have published analyses of the drug problem. An important and frequently cited essay by Professor Michael Gazzaniga (Feb. 5, 1990) brought a scientist's discipline into the picture, shedding light on matters vital to an understanding of the drug question.
While some people might not agree with the idea that the Internet is diminishing our intelligence. We’re provided with evidence from a few of Carr’s acquaintances who say that the more they use the Web, the more they have to stay focused on long pieces of writings. These statements make sense, due to the fact that our society has become all about immediacy and less about patience. While I’m an avid user of technology, ranging from the latest MacBook to the next iPhone, I have to agree with Carr’s claim that technology is indeed diminishing our intelligence. A few months ago I was showing my Grandmother the different shortcuts my MacBook offered, such as swiping three fingers up displayed all the open windows, swiping two fingers back loaded the previous Internet page, and she was amazed by the simplicity my
Most current college students feels as if there are way more cons of being a college student then pros simple because of the stress and length of time, it takes to complete college. Then you have those students who come and leave college, get caught up and regret they ever left. I guess college is one of those things that really depend on person, attitude, and determination. If you didn’t get anything out this paper I wanted you to get the point of not letting someone choose college for you, don’t even let college choose you, you pick up a book, computer of magazine and you choose college. Do your research and don’t become a statistic become successful and complete as many goals on the list and let that be your college, and you
The world famous blogger and novelist Michael Siegel a professor in the Department of Community Health has come out with another debatable topic that has anti-smoker advocates in an uproar. Michael is trying to promote that electronic cigarettes can help smokers give up smoking or at least reduce the edge to smoke. On the other hand the anti-smoker advocates highly disagree with Michael saying that “electronic cigarettes don’t help smokers quit but merely prolong their addiction to nicotine”. They also argue that smokers who stop using electronic cigarettes will automatically stop having the edge to smoke all together. Michael retaliated mocking their proposal stating that “This is a ridiculous argument and those advancing it are not living in reality”.
With those distractions the hunger to be educated has dropped considerably. Students in high school have so many other things to do and less responsibility to learn and work. That once graduated from high school, they are unprepared for a higher level of learning. << Fragments. See MHH 32>> Studies have shown that there is a big gap between what teachers in high school are teaching students and what college professors expect their students know.
This essay will critically respond to her arguments. Two of the arguments that Wanda Williams gives are that people are writing less meaningfully and academically; and young peoples' verbal, social skills and ability to read and absorb a long, complicated text are harmed. Williams explains that in the past, people would spend hours, even days on writing letters, full of meaningful discourse and communication, but now young people do not think about what they are writing, they simply exchange meaningless sentences and their ability to write academically is suffering. The author also states that the young generation finds it more difficult to understand and process a complex text; and they become unable to deal with simple social interactions necessary to advance their careers. First, the writer fails to convince the reader that people are using less meaningful and academic writing because of using email or social networks.