...Research Proposal Proposal for Research Topic The topic that I chose to research about is how technology is affecting people and how they interact with one another. More specifically though, I want to focus on the younger generation and children, and how their engulfment in the digital world is seriously affecting their physical relationships with family and friends. Now, to focus on children, family, friends, and how they are all being affected by the new and coming digital life is a decently broad topic. So, to limit my topic I will look closely at what questions and answers I can ask in regards to each of the above areas of research, and develop a tentative thesis. The preliminary research that I’ve conducted so far includes three articles; “How our digital devices are affecting our personal relationships”, “Children, technology, problems, and preferences”, and “Kids really are different these days”. The first of the three, entitled “How our digital devices are affecting our personal relationships”, brings to attention the fact that everyone nowadays is getting really caught up in recent technologies, and it goes on to discuss how such a strong involvement in technology is negatively affecting our personal relationships. Furthermore, the article mentions how the presence of cell phones reduces many vital factors in maintaining strong relationships with friends and family, including trust, closeness, and empathy. The second article, entitled “Children, technology, problems...
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...study As we move into the 21st century, technology has greatly improved and has become better. It is continuously growing and changing in many aspects until now. It makes the people’s life easier than the usual and is greatly helpful and useful especially to the students. Technology invented gadgets like computers and laptops that students can use in their studies. These gadgets changed how students learn, process and obtain new or old information. These can also use when it comes to finishing their task and completing their school works because students can freely visit many educational websites. Students can also play educational games, which can help them improve their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. However, technology has also negative effects like other things. Like computers, instead of using it for research purposes, students tend to use it for playing games like DOTA and Couter Strike. Students also use it for just viewing or signing in their social networking pages. Computer is a factor that distracts or steals away the attention or the focus of the students in their studies. Students abuse the power of technologies. Computer technology has positive and negative effects in the lifestyle of the students. Computer were invented to help students and not the be abused by the students which brings negative effects. But, majority of the results that were gathered presents that most students agree that computer technology is a good material that helps in the study...
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...Streppone English Composition 1- Formal Essay 2030 American society and even the world as a whole today are becoming more dependent on technology everyday. Technology advances have increased at a much faster pace in the last 20 years and is only getting faster. Not only is it getting faster, but it is increasing at a much higher rate as well. We have advanced more in the last 5 years than we would in 15, say 20 years ago. That is almost triple the rate. There is the technology that we need, and the technology that we just desire. With both of those come some positive and negative effects. Living in the world of 2013, we can only imagine what it will look like in 2030. People this day in age are addicted and dependent on technology in many different ways. Some of the important things that we need, that rely on technology are communication, transportation, bills/financial needs, food preservation, medical procedures and medicine, and emergency situations. Those are generally the benefits of technology that we typically could not survive without. These types of technological advances by 2030 should be very positive, I think. For instance, better research equipment will help find cures and treatments to different diseases and disorders. I believe that in school systems there will be electronic paper that looks just like paper but when you write can be saved as a file. Most likely text books will be done away with too. Think about it. There might not even be a need for...
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...Importance of Handwriting Handwriting is an essential skill for both children and adults (Feder & Majnemer, 2007). Even in the age of technology, handwriting remains the primary tool of communication and knowledge assessment for students in the classroom. The demands for handwriting are great, whether in the classroom or beyond. A 1992 study (McHale & Cermak) found that 85 percent of all fine motor time in second-, fourth- and sixth-grade classrooms was spent on paper and pencil activities. A more recent study (Marr, Cermak, Cohn & Henderson, 2003) noted that kindergarten children are now spending 42 percent of their fine motor time on paper and pencil activities. The addition of handwritten components to many state standardized assessments and of a handwritten essay to the College Board SAT in 2005 further emphasize the importance of handwriting. Furthermore, good handwriting is important long after graduation. In Script and Scribble (2009), Florey writes in reference to handwritten job applications, “Like it or not, even in our machine-driven world, people still judge you by your handwriting.” Research literature extensively documents the consequences of poor handwriting on early literacy and academic performance. Children who experience difficulty mastering this skill [handwriting] may avoid writing and decide that they cannot write, leading to arrested writing development (Graham, Harris and Fink, 2000). Handwriting is critical to the...
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...Thesis Statement and Outline Worksheet Part One Step One In Week 1 you chose a topic to research for your final essay, and in Week 2 you narrowed this topic to a specific area of discussion that reflects your particular point of view on it. For this assignment, you are now asked to identify three ways in which you can support that point of view. For example: Topic: Video games Points of View: Video games can help young players develop some important skills. Main Points of Support: • First Main Point: Video games can help young players develop academic skills in literacy and math. • Second Main Point: Video games can help young players develop decision-making and logic skills. • Third Main Point: Video games can help young players develop social skills. Step Two Create a thesis statement by using your selected topic, point of view, and main points in the following formula: Identify your specific and narrowed research topic. This is A. Identify your opinion or position on the research topic. This is B. Identify at least three main points that would support this opinion or position. This is C. The way this looks, when it's all said and done, is: A+B+C= Thesis Statement. For example: A = Playing video games B = Benefits to young players C = Benefits of playing video games include academic, thinking, and social skills. Once corrected for readability and grammar, it might read as: Video games...
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...Cyber Bullying Over the past few years, technology has improved tremendously and people are using technology for a variety of different reasons. For example, it has greatly impacted the education industry, making hard-to-find information more easily accessible. Also, technology has allowed communication to all parts of the world readily available. Although the overwhelming increase of technology throughout the world has done a great deal of good, it has also caused many lawsuits, confusion, and even caused people to take their own life. In a time where social networking is more popular and powerful than ever, individuals need to acknowledge the impact that their words (whether kind or hurtful) have on others, and take responsibility for their words by not participating in abusive online acts, known as cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is something that has become a familiar term to people in this society. It is a form of bullying that takes place using electronic technology (“What is Cyberbullying” needs page or paragraph number). If you use a title in an in-text, you need to italicize or use quotation marks based on whether it is italicized or in quotations in the Works Cited. It can be done by text message, email, and chat rooms. Of all the different ways cyber bullying can be done, it is most common on social networking sites. Social networking sites include Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. Sadly, it is often done by children as young as elementary school, but is also...
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...Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, was written to address the uprising concern surrounding advancing technology and the effects it has on the public. Nicholas Carr provides an understanding on how technology is affecting the way human’s process information. In the article, Carr unlocks our mind to the negative affects advancing technology is having on the human brain. Nicholas Carr provides research from a range of reliable specialists on how the internet is modifying the way our brain translates information. Technology is engraved into our everyday routines and most children nowadays are being exposed to technology at younger ages. Exposure at younger ages enables the mind to adapt to technology quicker than adult individuals...
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...Environmental Scan Paper Environmental Scan Paper According to BusinessDictionary.com, “an environmental scan is the vigilant monitoring and evaluation of a firm’s external and internal environments for detecting early signs of opportunities and threats that may influence current and future plans” (BusinessDictionary.com, 2011). In strategic planning, an environmental scan can help an organization increase understanding of the internal and external environmental factors that are required to reach the long-term goals of the company. This paper’s purpose is recognizing and exploring the external and internal situations of two successful organizations, Apple and Coca Cola. Also, to examine the competitive advantages and strategies used by these organizations, as well as sustaining value in an increasingly competitive market through creative strategic business plans. Another area being explored is the measurement guidelines used to substantiate the strategic effectiveness for these organizations and the effectiveness of these measurement guidelines. Internal and External Environments The whole process can be seen as beneficial knowledge for managers wishing to increase the long-term efficiency and develop strategic plans for the business. An organization’s environment can be broken into two separate divisions. First, the internal environment which is generally compiled of the factors or elements directly involved within the company. This would basically include the managers...
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...keeping is one reason why health care costs in the United States are so high. The majority of medical record keeping here in the United States is paper it makes it difficult to access and share. 2. The factors responsible for the building of electronic medical record systems are like organization, doctors, insurance companies, patients, and the lacking of technology. Doctors difficulties is that they have limited time and to take 20 hours of training to use the EMR. The United States government also plays a big role by having a short term goal that by 2015 that all medical facilities will be utilizing EMR. And patients have a concern of confidential information that will be stored in this system that can be read all across the United States. 3. The business, political, and social impact of not digitizing medical records are that doctors will not be able to have instant access to a patient’s medical records. And without digitizing medical records means that there will be the need for more paper work. Politically the 2015 goal set by the US government would also be impacted. Socially people would expect little error to this EMR system like correct dosages. And by not digitizing medical records has a greater risk of errors. 4. The business and social benefits of digitizing medical recordkeeping are when taken from paper and filing them to the EMR patient’s records will be easier accessed. And unlike filing cabinets a computer has extensive memory to store them...
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...media in regards to levels of violence in our communities is actually beneficial in protecting the public by creating a: ‘Fear of Crime-Media Feedback Model’, whereby the media influences levels of fear in its audience and affects their routine activity, thereby affecting their exposure to potentially victimizing situations by encouraging avoidance behavior; influencing people to remain in their home as opposed to venturing onto the streets. The researcher believes that with further research, the model could be used to reduce the victimization risk to the public by using media reporting to influence the public’s behavior. Methods While the researcher did not conduct his own data gathering research, he did utilize research work that had been done in on this subject to support his thesis. The subject matter of these works include; the introduction of the ‘fear of Crime-Media Feedback model, violent crime and avoidance behavior, the Routine Activity Theory (RAT), and encouraging the use of technology by youth to increase in-home activities. These works include but are not limited to; Cashmore, J. (2012). ‘Crime reducing entertainment: The contribution of media entertainment and communication technologies to the UK’s victimisation drop’. Internet Journal of Criminology. [Online] Garofalo, J....
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...PROBLEM STATEMENT There are low rates of enrollment, retention and completion of female students in the Science and technology education in the Marampa, Port Loko District due to CFS, EFS and lack of self-efficacy among JSS to SSS female students. The CFS include lack of qualified science Teachers, lack of equipped science laboratories, lack of teaching and learning materials with Examination malpractices in the science subjects. The EFS are poverty, sexual harassment, early marriages, teenage pregnancies, distance, cultural beliefs and practices, lack of access to Healthcare services, Food and adequate drinking water and environmental sanitation. The lack of self-efficacy is natural and could be nurtured by the environment of the female...
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...analysis and discuss the results, together with results paper will concentrate on marketing and positioning strategies and Ansoff’s Matrix, and also recommend strategy measures for achieving sustainable economic development outcomes. It was found that, first of all, Cirque du Soleil is making a profit while most of its competitors are fail to break even. Second, with its innovative and creative productions, the Cirque stays in a distinct position that none of its competitors can compete. Third, the Cirque’s shows ease to accept by the world and became more flexible due to the sufficient diversity in performers’ nationalities and with experience in multi-field. Table of Contents 1. Introduction………………………………………………………..5 2. PEST and Porter’s 5-forces analysis................................................5 3. SWOT Analysis................................................................................11 4. Marketing and positioning strategies...............................................14 5. Ansoff’s Matrix…………………………………………..………..16 6. Conclusion........................................................................................18 Bibliography.....................................................................................19 1. Introduction In the modern world, the entertainment industry has been enormously developing with new technology available and innovations and is distinguished by a highly...
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...obligations to give the less privileged but talented and gifted students of the province of Laguna the opportunity to develop their potentialities and is committed to establish and operate vocational, technical, and higher education to accommodate graduates of secondary schools to pursue vocational, technical and higher education courses.By virtue of Provincial Ordinance No. 1 s. 2006, the Laguna University was established on February 15, 2006. The incumbent governor was elected President and Chairman of the Board of Regents under Resolution No. 198. A s. 2006 dated March 29, 2006 by the SangguniangPanlalawiganng Laguna. This research paper is about the effect of spelling ability of the second year IT students of Laguna University. The student must had books and writing of the correct spelling of words and correct grammar. The aim of this research paper is to develop the spelling ability of the cellphone users. Background of the study In the primitive ages, people have used signals, to get a message from one point to another. And that is a clear evident that even before, it is very important to communicate or to get messages from other places. That is why Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. Probably no means of communication has revolutionized the daily lives of ordinary people more than the telephone. Telephone comes from the Greek word tele, meaning from afar, and phone, meaning voice or voiced sound. Generally, a telephone is any device which conveys...
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...Health Research and Designs Kimberly Mongold HPR 460 Analysis of Health Research Instructor: Sarah Howell September 07, 2014 Health Research and Designs This paper is in regard to a cross-sectional study that was used to estimate the prevalence of tobacco consumption and secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in private cars, commercial vehicles and taxis in the city of Barcelona in Spain (Curto, A., Martínez-Sánchez, J., & Fernández, E. (2011). “Cross sectional studies are the best way to determine prevalence and are useful at identifying associations that can then be more rigorously studied using a cohort study or randomised controlled study. Although they are quick and easy, they do not allow for the distinction between cause and effect” (Mann,C.J., 2003). Although most cross sectional studies are done using questionnaires, in this case the use observation to collect their data. The purpose of this study was to research the health effects from exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke in in private cars, commercial vehicles and taxis. The sample size was 2442 private cars, commercial vehicles and taxis on 40 public roads. There were two main variables, total tobacco consumption ,either by the driver or the passenger, and SHS exposure. This study provided an estimation of smoking in some types of vehicles and highlighted the need for public health measures that would be aimed at reducing tobacco consumption in private cars, especially in the presence of children...
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...pillar aims to transform eight key social sectors including; education and training, health, water and sanitation, environment, housing and urbanization. The Kenya Vision 2030 identifies the education sector as key within the social pillar to steer Kenya into middle-level income country in 20 years. 1.1 Overall Goal on Education and Training Under education and training, Kenya aims to provide a globally competitive and quality education, training and research. Kenya aims to be a regional centre of research and development in new technologies. This will be achieved through: i) Integrating early childhood education into primary education ii) Reforming secondary school curricula iii) Modernizing teacher training iv) Strengthening partnerships with the private sector v) Developing key programmes for learners with special needs vi) Rejuvenating ongoing adult training programmes vii) Revising the curriculum for university and technical institutes to include more science and technology; and viii) In partnership with the private sector, the Government will also increase funding to enable all these institutions to support activities envisaged under the economic pillar 1.2 Medium Term Plans Vision 2030 is being implemented through Medium Term Plans which outlines short term goals and targets within a five year period. The first medium plan covered the years 2007 to 2012. The flagship projects for the first Medium Term Plan were...
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