...will go to extreme lengths to do so. Some people despise the life they live in this small minded world so much, they place themselves into another one and in Mildred’s case, this is her television program and technology. When Mildred attempts to take her life with sleeping pills, she goes to her technology and acts like nothing like wrong occurred the night before. She was trying to distract herself from reality. Guy was vexing Mildred about had happened she only replied saying “it was really fun, It’ll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth [TV] installed”(20). She was cutting him out and ignoring him using the television, changing the subject. Her relationship with her husband is so stuff and distant, they can’t even talk about something as serious as suicide. Guy was concerned for his wife’s safety and health but she only wanted to discuss the materialistic portion of her life....
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...Identify the Logical Fallacies 1. Mabel is not qualified to lead the school board because she used to drink liquor in her 20s. • This is anAd hominem fallacy: It attacks the character of the arguer rather than the argument. It is an error in reasoning because you should focus on the argument. 2. A child can be either an athlete or a good student. • This is an Either-or type fallacy: it presents someone with a limited choice when there are more choices. The error is that people will know they have more choices and discredit your argument. 3. Any change in health care will lead to socialism; we don’t want to live in a socialist country, so we can’t reform health care. • Begging the Question: Using circular reasoning to prove a conclusion. This is done in the news a lot and this type of fallacy goes unnoticed. The error is that the claim is false so the conclusion is false and people will notice this. 4. All teenagers text while they drive; therefore, we should raise the driving age to 21. • Hasty generalization: Using a part to make an inaccurate claim about a whole. This is wrong because if any part of the claim is wrong it will make the whole argument wrong. 5. If we don’t all drive hybrid cars, the world will end in the next decade because of environmental damage. • Slippery slope: Suggesting that one event will automatically lead to a chain of other events. This is wrong because the claim that the world will end isn’t supported be any evidence...
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...book, Guy Montag returns home to find his wife, Mildred, lying on her bed with her Seashell radios plugged into her ears. “And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty.” (Bradbury 42) Guy observes that “The room was indeed empty,” If Mildred knew of Guy’s presence, she did not acknowledge it. The media played through the earbuds of a large part of society often distract us from the life happening all around. In fact, even when attentiveness should be most important, as a pedestrian or driver, still we find that the mobile device’s power to distract is all prevalent. Speaking on listening to music and other media whilst walking, “This risky behavior is called "inattentional blindness," the growing problem of sensory deprivation and distraction. Because more people are walking around in a cocoon of music and talk from iPods and other MP3 players, it's inevitable that the number of accidents -- because they don't hear imminent danger -- is going to go up.” If pedestrians can be so distracted by their music as to be involved in street accidents where the cause was lack of attentiveness, then the effect that the music has on a person doing nothing is certainly equal, if not more...
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...Stupid” and published by The Atlantic in JULY/AUGUST 2008 ISSUE. Carr’s main point in his essay is that internet is making us dumb. He states, “ The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing” (Carr 315). I may agree with his argument but also i would also have a disagreement because internet does help in many cases but not all the time. Many people use google to find what they want, although we may feel like google is the answer to everything. Sometimes that goes to show that we as a society are so use to technology that we don’t even bother trying to look for an answer reading a book. Using the internet “Google” also has advantages, making a research much faster than going to the library reading books all day. Carrs points out how he used to read long articles with no problem. Now he can’t anymore he says “Now my concentration often starts to drift two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread,...
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...myself that I sometimes let that time spill into time that I need to be studying, getting homework done, cleaning, doing laundry or something else productive. I always have a list of tasks that I want to accomplish during the week but I rarely get them all completed. Something else that’s more appealing to me always seems to steal me away from what I know that I should be doing. This leaves me rushing at the last minute to get everything done. Oddly enough, this tends to motivate me and I seem to work better when I know I have a tight time limit set. In order to be able to take steps to rid me of bad time management and procrastinating I need to determine what I do that wastes the most of my time. As well as eliminate the things that distract me most from being productive and accomplishing tasks in a timely matter. I have found that a lot of my time has been wasted doing little insignificant things instead of or during trying to accomplish tasks. I get caught up in things like playing games on my cell phone, getting on Facebook, playing with the dogs, and texting. These pesky detours end up taking up a lot more time than I think they do. If I were able to consciously catch myself doing these things I would be able to cut a lot of unnecessary wasted time out of my day. Then I could finally know what it feels like to accomplish everything on...
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...society that burns books and interacts with parlor walls. Bradbury’s intentions were not to predict the future, but rather prevent this futuristic society from existing. Throughout the story, Montag is faced with reality while the people around him are oblivious to everything. His wife watches television an extensive amount of time every day. His wife’s friends could care less about their children, and the whole city is ignorant to the war happening. The people in Fahrenheit 451 are totally absorbed by technology, completely disconnected from emotion and utterly unaware of the violence their society portrays, much like our people today. Technology in Fahrenheit 451 distracts and causes people to be oblivious to everything. Mildred, Montag’s wife, cannot seem to remove herself from her parlor room. She sits and interacts with her television for unhealthy periods of time without even realizing it. Mildred cannot seem to be bothered with anything besides playing her part in her TV shows. On page…, it says “______________________________________.” Mildred does not even care about the issue at hand or that she has almost died, all she wants to talk about is her shows. She is indifferent about herself taking a whole bottle of pills. In our world, people are on their phones twenty/four/seven. From personal experience I know, a teenager cannot be asked to put their phone down for more than three seconds without picking it back up. Parents are so distracted by phone calls or emails that...
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...Multitasking is it good or bad. What do you concern multitasking? “Multitasking changes the way people learn,” (Poldrack) Can this statement be really true? Every day I multitask. Rather it being “Media multitasking”—that is, the simultaneous use of several different media, such as television, the Internet, text messages, telephones, and e-mail. Nowadays we live in a wide variety of interruptions. While reading the article “The Myth of Multitasking” I am against Rosen opinion about multitasking. What is multitasking? How can multitasking help you throughout your day? And is multitasking a bad idea? I also understand why Rosen is against multitasking. One may think that forcing on one idea and paying attention is a great strategy. The reason...
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...can potentially be damaging in the next couple of decades so people live I fear of what is to come. This same fear prevents people from thinking outside of the box. We came so far in the mist of our issues that it almost seems unfixable. With new technology today we have various ways for exploring outside our world to find new ways to make life on earth a little easier. Since issues on earth are still in effect, people’s fear of what is to come in the future prevent them from becoming aware of how exploring outside this world in space can actually benefit us all, and how important it is to our planet earth. Although there are many environmental issues on earth, outer exploration should continue to be funded. Outer space exploration may be needed in the future to prevent or solve new issues on earth to come. Oblivious To the Benefits There are many benefits to outer space exploration that people are aware not of. Before I decided to do research I was unaware of the number of things that we actually use today that would have never been possible if we did not explore outer space in the past, that we are going to get into later on is this paper. Imagine you went to the grocery store and spent 300 dollars on food, and you go home, check your pockets, and see the receipt for your purchase of food. Now Imagined the food disappeared or you put the food away and it doesn’t look like as much food as you thought it was. Having...
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...Abstract This study explores how and why people get addicted to television using a survey asking people about their viewing habits, and getting their opinions on television and television programs. It will explore topics such as why people watch television, what types of programs people watch, and how much television people watch on average. The study will define addiction through people's answers in the survey, if they think of themselves as television addicts, and what individuals want to get out of watching television (social interaction or to escape reality for a brief period.) The interviewees will add insight into the direction of the study and they will define television addiction and the level of television that will be a concern (addiction). Through the study more than half the subjects agreed that television has addicting powers, but it lacks withdrawal affects and it doesn't cause harm instantly it should be classified separately from other addictions. Through the results of the study were not conclusive. The people who thought of themselves as addicted the types of programs they watched varied along with their backgrounds. Further studies will have to be done to draw any correlations. Introduction With the amount of television stations broadcasting in the United States alone, there is no lack of programming or genre to watch. With how society views television as a norm and how individuals watch television every day it is important to understand why some...
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...The Effects of Technology on Society Brian William Anderson Stevens-Henagar College The age of the computer has come and some people say that is the greatest thing that has ever happened to us. But some people say that because of dependency of technology we have been trapped in a hole and we have no way to get out. Technology helps us live our lives; technology has made it easy to do a lot of things like that we just couldn’t do or was extremely difficult communication The time that it takes a letter to travel from New York to California is two to three days to get to its destination. With the use of the Internet and E-mail the same information can be sent and it will be there in a matter of seconds. There have been so many advances in the telecommunication field just over the last few years. The impact of verbal communication is that it is faster, cheaper it takes less effort and now has a wider range. The impact of non-verbal is the same as verbal plus it is easier to manipulate (Sturm, 2009). Technology has also made it possible to connect to multiple people at the same time. It is possible to hold a conference with the members of a meeting being in different countries around the world via video conferencing which is known as VTC. This also saves the company money and greatly reduces carbon dioxide emissions (IVCi, 2011) ENTERTAINMENT Today there is at least one computer in every house in the United States; they allow us to do many things that before the late 1980’s...
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...Psychology of Aggression & Violence: Aggression: Behavior perpetrated or attempted with the intention of harming another individual physically or psychologically or to destroy an object. Violence: Actual, attempted, or threatened physical harm that is deliberate and non-consenting: * Includes violence against victims who cannot give full, informed consent * Includes fear-inducing behavior, where threats may be implicit or directed at third parties Types of Aggression: Hostile (or expressive) aggression: Occurs in response to anger-inducing conditions, such as real or perceived insults, physical attacks, or one’s own failures. (Goal = to make victim suffer. Intense and disorganized emotion) Instrumental aggression: Begins with competition or the desire for some object or status possessed by another person. Goal = obtain desired object. No intent to harm, although indifferent. Violence as a Choice: The proximal cause of violence is a decision to act violently .The decision is influenced by a host of biological, psychological, and social factors .Neurological insult, hormonal abnormality, psychosis, personality disorder, exposure to violent models, attitudes that condone violence. Cognitive Models of Aggression: Most research supports the notion that human aggression is primarily learned (early learning and socialization). Hostile attribution bias: Individual’s prone to violence are more likely to interpret ambiguous actions as hostile and threatening ...
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...Avril Lavigne Is Dead There are hundreds of conspiracy theories over almost anything that will come to mind. Over people, technology, fast food restaurants, and many more. Topics that would not cross the human mind are being discussed all around the world that were most likely started by a single rumor. May believe them, may not, it is an opinion that is decided by yourself. Conspiracy theories are developed among time of rumors and information that others want to hear. Does not mean that they are facts, until they are truly proven true. There is a bunch of false information and stories that are put together to make a conspiracy theory actual conspiracy theories. Everyone can not believe everything that is heard on tv, on the internet, or from...
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...top aides, calls in spin doctor extraordinary, Conrad Bream (Robert De Niro). Conrad goes to work immediately, thinking of the best way how to turn away the public's attention from the Firefly Girl issue. He came out with the idea to create another bigger issue for the public to think about and over power the bad publicity caused by the sex scandal. "Change the story, change the lead" is his motto, so he decides to manufacture a small, cost-effective war against Albania, which he euphemistically refers to as a pageant. Why he choose Albania of all the countries in the world because the name sounds sinister and no one in the United States knows anything about the country. Hence it will be easier for them to formulate a story about it that people will surely believe eventually. For the plan to manifest, Winifred Ames and Conrad Bream flew to Los Angeles to seek the help of a top...
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...Calamba City Science High School Chipeco Avenue, Brgy. 3, Calamba City EFFECTS OF FACEBOOK TO ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE Ana Beatrice S. Del Rosario Hans Alfred B. Alib Allaina Marie A. Narvacan Ivan Kelly Gajes Jebril Czar Macanas Jhelsey Joyce E. Pareja Feb.14, 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract ------------------------------------------------------1 Introduction --------------------------------------------------2 Statement of The Problem ---------------------------------2 Significance of the Study -----------------------------------3 Definition of Terms ------------------------------------------3 Scope and Delimitation-------------------------------------3 Conceptual Framework-------------------------------------4 The Related Literature------------------------------------5-6 History of facebook Purpose of Facebook Different effects of Facebook Methodology-------------------------------------------------- 7 Date Analysis,Presentation and Interpretation of Data--------------------------------8-12 Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation-----------------------------------13-14 Appendices-----------------------------------------14-18 ABSTRACT The study was about Facebook. Facebook is a social networking site in internet where you can post your feelings, chat with friends, etc. Facebook was used to be the relaxing agents of students after studying or after going back to school and spending 6 hours and above...
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...society. And yes every person version of their own utopia but there are some things that most people will agree on. The literature version of dystopian future has been written about a lot. This is especially true of books like The Hunger Games, and Divergent have given new to life and popularity to the genre. However, the messages are a little misread by a society obsessed with stories. These stories in actuality remind us of what we could become in the future. There are many classical works of literature that shows us the future of our society. There is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury where knowledge and reading are sin. There is Anthem by Ayn Rand which handles the topic of collectivism, and only doing what the party tell you to do. There is Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, where the main topic of discussion is how media distracts and brainwashes you, while also...
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