...Name Instructor Course Date Effects of Advanced Technology on Teenagers In the modern day, technology advancements are constantly perceived through everyday life. There more and more services available for example, portable Internet, cell phones, iPods, laptop computers, 3D TVs among others (Clinton 24). Technology appears to possess a lot of detriments; however, it also has a more positive impact on the society. In some of the situation, Internet has negative consequences when it comes to sociability. Therefore, this paper aims at informing the reader about both negative and positive impacts of technology on teenagers. Specifically, the research focuses on how teens use it to share information, raise their grievances, and how it helps them in their academic process. About negative impacts, it will be imperative to center the research on how technology causes violence, social barrier, health issues, and addiction as well as dependence. According to Clinton, a journalist at the CNN investigates the explosive growth of the social media and Internet. Clinton relays on his knowledge and numerous statistics to develop his argument about the use and impact of technology on teenagers and children. Clinton also acknowledges the massive growth of technological gadgets such as Smartphones. The author says that one of the immense impacts of technology on teens is the use of the Internet that offers numerous positive opportunities. Primarily, the Internet makes information...
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...The impact of technology and online communities The importance of social media in today’s generation is really significant, and because of its influence, it is recognized as an excellent marketing tool and could help businesses in building an online presence. Social media paved the way for the evolution of social relations and of people’s interaction. Nowadays, people seem to do everything online: making friends, watch movies, and even transact businesses (admin, 2011). As part of your social media branding, the importance of social media in today’s society is nothing to be overlooked at and it should never be, it was not existed a short few years ago but yet we could not see ourselves without it. Today’s social media is much more than just a website that young teenagers and our children use to talk to their friends. Everybody from big business to independent business owners is using some form of social media marketing plan in their day to day lives. Social media is being used all over the world by many people, different age range but mostly by teenagers and young adults. Social media is being used mostly for businesses, social networking, researching, entertainment and news. The importance of social media has really made the world a smaller place; we can now do business with people from all over the world so much easier and quicker than before (Lodge, 2012). If social media was to be removed, the effects on society would obviously be negative but in a way somewhat positive...
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...Internet, social networking, have been integrated into people’s lives. In fact, researches have shown that the number of adults and teenagers relying on mass media to gather information or communicate with one another has increased exponentially in the last few years. There have been many debates on whether mass media have a positive or negative effect on our lives. Many people argue that the socializing benefits of media, the fact that distance is no longer an insurmountable issue, and the possibility of sharing information globally proves how mass media have changed our lives for the better. However, the other side of the argument states that isolation, increased risks and the loss of critical thinking are the main consequences that media have had on our lives, changing them for the worse. Paradoxically, both arguments are true as the reality lies in between them. The effect that mass media has had on socialization is one of the most controversial and debated effects of mass media. Social networks are one example of mass media communication which has had a great impact on our society; Facebook alone has reached more than 500 million users, 65% of whom are teenagers. The reason for this is that there virtual platforms offer the so called “third space” (outside of the home and school), which psychologists claim to be indispensible to teenagers in order to socialize and build up their personality. The opportunity social networks offer is in fact a welcoming, more accessible ‘third...
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...Technology: It’s Effect on Our Youth Growing up I remember playing outside all day, enjoying the outdoors, and riding bikes down the dirt roads, trying to find some new adventure to get into. Looking around now, I notice teenagers glued to their phones when they are out eating, walking around and even while driving. It seems like a lot has changed since I was a child. Technological advances have made our way of life easier by making communication faster than ever before, improving production rates, and making it easier to access information. However, with the good also comes the bad. I have noticed an increase in the time children spend inside, as opposed to outdoors, the changes in behavior of children and teenagers, and the decline in personal interaction. I believe that technology, if not used in moderation, could have a negative influence on our youth. I have noticed the significant change that has occurred in technology in just a generation’s time. As a child, I remember when people were purchasing their first personal computers, usually for everyone in the household to share. These computers were not nearly as fast and advanced as computers are today. Now, nearly every home in America has a personal computer, laptop or some other way of accessing the internet, like a smartphone or tablet. While access to the internet can help educate children if used in an educational way, misuse of technology, like playing violent video games, could cause a setback...
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...Younger people are driving less and less today because of cultural changes such as new technology as well as a poor economy. The “Millenials” and young people of “Generation Y” no longer see it as imperative that they get their license immediately upon turning sixteen. Instead they have waited longer and been relying more on social media such as Facebook and smartphones to communicate with each other rather than driving everywhere as teenagers did in the past. According to an article by Jordan Weissmann, “Young people are buying fewer cars than ever before, just 21 percent ages 21-34 while in 1985 it was 38 percent”. (Weissmann) Not only are young people driving less because social media is more convenient, it is cheaper too. Programs like Facebook are free and smartphones and other devices are becoming less and less expensive. In a poor economy such as ours, young people would rather buy a cheaper smart phone than put payments down on a car. Not only do teenagers not want to get a license early or buy a car, but they don’t even want to buy gas for it. Gas has been more expensive than ever and teenagers weigh this con as another reason not to drive somewhere and instead Skype their friends online. For example, “The average number of miles driven by people younger than 35 fell by 25 percent according to survey data compiled by the U>S Transportation Department. (Arizona Republic) Teenagers do not want to buy gas, and for good reason, very few have jobs. “Youth employment rates...
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...Fright Night Fright night is a horror and comedy movie. Directed and written by Tom Holland, released in 1985. Fright Night is about a teenager that discovers a vampire lives in the house next door, but no one will believe him. THESIS?? Nose que poner! Setting and time of the movie is what most of the audience commonly wants to know about. The screen time of the movie is of 106 minutes, but the duration in the movie’s story is less than a month. The movie took these weeks to explain and emphasize each scene correctly. This time was to show exactly scene-by-scene since the beginning of the story, how the character discovers something and his struggle to prove it. The setting of the story is in a neighborhood, where the main character lives in. This neighborhood is located in Culver City, California in the United States. Most of the story takes place in that neighborhood, the key moments of the movie happen in there. The genre of this movie is comedy and horror. Fright Night movie uses horror to scare the audience, but in most of the scenes comedy was involved. Characters are critically important for the creation of a good movie. The protagonist is a teenager called Charlie Brewster, acted by the great actor William Ragsdale. The antagonist is a vampire called Jerry Dandridge, interpreted by the actor Chris Sarandon. Some other main characters are Charlie’s girlfriend Amy Peterson, Charlie’s best friend Evil Ed, and Dr. Vincent, and old man who had a program about how...
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...English 100 Luma F. Alsalah The Story Behind Aggressive Driving The causes for aggressive behavior of some drivers can be caused by different reasons like stress, material abuse, high speed modern cars and mental disorders and in some cases by peer pressure. Most of the time people tend to overlook these causes and ignore them. But they can significantly affect the way people drive. Violence in any form mainly originates from work related stress. People who are not happy with their jobs or bosses often tend to show their aggression while doing other things, like driving. The effects of anxiety on aggression can be enhanced by family problems and bad relationships. As it is while driving a person transitions from work to home and vice versa, the person who faces tension at these two places will drive more violently. Mental disorders such as “Tourette’s syndrome” can also lead to aggressive driving. People suffering with such disorders are unable to control their sudden swings of mood, causing them to drive more aggressively at times. There are other disorders where the person cannot control his anger even while driving. Although there is not much these people can do about this, they can train themselves to control their behavior while driving and be more responsible. Violent video games, watching high speed car races and videos of dangerous car stunts can increase aggressive behavior of drivers substantially. Video games such as “Need for...
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...becoming distracted on the road, be it the radio, other motorist, or children. As mobile phones become more common people are questioning how to deal with this distraction and does it pose the same danger as drunk driving? In 1908 the first wireless telephone was released as a “cave radio”. By 1910, Lars Magnus Ericsson installed a mobile phone in his car, this was not a radio telephone. 1926 first class passenger trains in Europe first used radio telephones. In the 1950's the first generation of mobile phones were introduced. Hand held phones have been available since 1973. Mobile phone were very expensive, large, had poor quality, and was used mostly as a status symbol then a tool. During the 1980's mobile phones were advanced to the 1G network featuring international roaming. The second generation mobile phone in the 1990's known as the 2G network, allowed mobile phone to send and receive text messaging, accessing media content, and downloading ring tones. The 2G phone became widespread and people starting using the mobile phone as apart of their daily lives. The demand for data services and speed prompted the 3G network by the 2000's, and now the 4G network. Driving and Mobile Phones 3 Being attentive, vision and hearing are the most important factors of safe driving....
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...In the essay, The Truth About Video Games and Gun Violence, “‘In this game, a player takes the first step to creating violence and I shudder to think what will come next if this is encouraged. It’ll be pretty gory,’” said by a psychologist from the National Safety Council. In the games, we have today, with as advanced as they are it shows that killing people is okay and is sometimes needed to move on to the next level. Another article, ProCon, quotes Jane Katch talking about how violence games have an effect on young children. “I found that young children often have difficulty separating fantasy from reality when they are playing and can temporarily believe they are the character they are pretending to be.” Jane Katch helps indicate that after playing the games children still might think they are the character, even after not playing it anymore. These games could be showing it is okay to kill people without knowing the serious...
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...of personality, sense of humor, and cannot interact the same way because of what social media had done to them. I have seen people basically develop different personalities because of social media. Over social media they act a certain way, but when they are face-to-face they are completely different people. This is largely due to people expressing their feelings and emotions behind their phones, but when it comes time to do so verbally, they cannot. Especially the younger generations, people who are about 24 years and younger are so dependent on social media and the Internet. Before technology was so booming, people were not relying on social media, or interactions behind screens as much. That basically explains why older generations are better at face-to-face verbal conversations compared to the younger generations. The younger generations have been exposed to all of this technology such as advanced social media. They are accustomed to it, they communicate through the Internet, but then when it comes to verbal communications in person, younger generations have lost some of their communication skills. They are more socially awkward now a day. I have seen people who do not know how to communicate, but when it comes to speaking through social media, they can express their opinions and speak very thoroughly. Social Media Affect Social media is a great tool of everyday lives. Coming from someone who has social media and is a frequent user, I personally love social media. I use...
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...throughout the world. A. This paper aims to show the effects of internet to the lives of young people. B. It also aims to show the new practical system to monitor children while using the internet. I. The internet, like other technologies, has also its history. A. The invention of the internet started to help people in making their research more progressive. B. Later on, the Internet started to develop and become the way it is today. II. There are many effects of using the internet. A. Internet has been very useful to everyone. B. Internet has become one of the problems of many parents. III. Parents have roles in developing their children. A. It is important that children must have a proper guidance for their parents in their early childhood. B. Even though children become teenagers and have the right to decide for themselves, they still need to be guided to prevent bad information from corrupting their minds. IV. Parents could use new practical systems to monitor their children. A. They could use manual monitoring. B. They could also use advanced technology to monitor them. Conclusion: Certain ways are being conducted to prevent young people from getting addicted to the internet. A. Internet can be useful to us but sometimes it can make someone addicted to it and may have a bad effect. B. Parents should always monitor their children while...
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...BACK TO THE FUTURE 1985 ENG225: Introduction to Film Brad Waltman Brian Brinson 09/15/2014 Back to the Future Back to the Future is one of the comic science films that earned and still earns much respect by moviegoers. Zemeckis, written by both Zemeckis and Gale and produced by Spielberg, directed the movie. The stars in the movie are Michael Fox, Crispin Glover, Thomas Wilson, Lea Thompson and Christopher Lloyd. Fox (Marty McFly) plays the role of the main character who is sent back in time by the time machine of his friend, Doc (Shail & Stoate, 2010). Back in the 1955, Marty meets his parents during the college life and strives to unite them before resuming to his future life. The story was written because of amusement of Gale who bumped into his father’s papers back in the college. He mused upon whether he would befriend his father if they attended the same college back then (Engelen, 2007). The film begins with an ambitious Marty who is into music so much but his parents live an inferior life. His supervisor bullies the father while his mother is an alcoholic who reminisces about the past and how she mate Marty’s father in the college. When Marty meets his friend Doc, he unveils a time machine that can speed to the future or past. Accidentally, Marty is taken back to 1955 where he interacts with his then teenage parents; succeeds to bring them together before resuming his future state of life. After resuming the future state of life, Marty realizes that things...
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...Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Computer has led to groundbreaking outcome which completely revolutionized the society. One display of these fast growing advancements to society is computer gaming. Teenagers who are playing these computer games said that they are playing these games just for fun, to keep away from the heat of the sun, without knowing that there are a lot of effects of playing these games that are more than what they think. In 2006, Luke Ahearn stated that “Game development is booming! In the past few years many books have been written, more information than ever is available on the internet, and many colleges are offering courses – even degrees – in game development.” In addition, Adams & Rolling (2007) stated that games are created to serve a purpose and they are related to the human desire for play and our capacity to pretend. Also video games are forms of art, thus aesthetics are part of their design. It’s also shown in some studies that computer gaming helps the brain, especially to the young at age, to develop their logic skills. “Computer-based video games can clearly facilitate students’ learning performance. This finding indicated that computer-based video game playing not only can improve participants’ fact differentiation/recall processes, but also promotes problem-solving skills by recognizing multiple solutions for problems.” (Chuang & Chen, 2009, p.7). In addition, playing computer games according to some research...
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...interdependence of the world’s economies, societies, and cultures because of advances in communications, technology, trade, international investment movement of currency, and migration. In my opinion, technology is the big roles or function that brings the globalization. Same as Kenichi Ohmea words, globalization as a borderless world seeks to change the world into a single unit only. This process is easier with the advances in communication technology. There are numerous ways in which globalization has impacted the world. The globalization has impacted on education, economic, culture, language, food and others. Globalization also means the phenomenon that makes the world seem smaller in terms of human relations due to the speed of development of information technology. Human easily get information and difficult to filter the negative elements that permeate the hearts and minds. Some terms such as “borderless worlds” and “open skies” make such as trade, the development of political and economic power towards the development of civilization. Education is the process of receiving and giving systematic instruction, especially at school and university. There are positive and negative impacts of globalization on education. Globalization causes the education more open to the outside world either to study or to open branches of university in other country. In addition, the advances of technology assist the education to improve the competitiveness and quality of world-class education. The acquisition...
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...by foreigners before thirty years, but the condition has changed by these years. With pushing the Open Door Policy into effect, Chinese people’s mind are opened either. They do not be old-fashioned any more. They welcome and accept new stuff coming into China. They have their own opinion and speech rather than fossil. In contemporary, Chinese can show their real reaction except against the Party. Their behavior and value are different with the development of China. Some people are influenced by West Culture. They looks fashion and brave to show up their opinion. People live in cities obtain more new and advanced stuff than people live in suburban areas. Also, they can get better education. In other words, urbanized areas are richer than suburbs. Therefore, more and more people like to immigrant to cities. Because of the diversification of population in cities, more and more different value and behaviors disappear. In these two movies, Cell Phone and Betelnut, present people’s different behavior and value in different background and period, respectively. Characters in movies just represent a part of people’s behaviors and value. No matter what these value and behaviors are right or not, they are constructive of this society in China. However, every people has different behaviors and value in these movies. Between these two movies, the development of technology and different period make result of different people and phenomenon. People have different behaviors in movies. Firstly...
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