Throughout this semester, my favorite essay that I have written has been about Twitter. In this assignment, we were instructed to use one, or all of the articles that we were discussing in class and analyze it, linking it to a website of our choice. In the beginning, the idea of writing an essay about Twitter seemed a bit ridiculous, especially when it was required to link it to an academic article. However, through brainstorming I was able to come up with the question: “Does Twitter make us stupid?” Within this essay I discussed the layout of the website itself, how people use the application, as well as some positive and negative opinions on Twitter while relating it to Carr’s main idea in his article “Does Google Make us Stupid”. My own
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At that point, the reader is unaware that the topic is in fact a social media site. It is not until line 19 that I actually mention Twitter directly. By presenting the idea of obsession early on in the poem, the reader is able to understand that the speaker is in love—or infatuated at least. The plot twist is that it is not a “distant lover,” contrarily, Twitter. Describing the application as a “liberating prison” forces the audience to think about the power that Twitter actually holds over their lives. Sometimes, addiction is not always easy to identify until someone brings the symptoms to life. To do this, I mentioned specific instances when people ignore those around them for Twitter. Once the audience realizes that this is relatable, hopefully they will get the idea that it is time to take a break. Another strategic aspect of the poem is that in the beginning I decided to have a first person point of view, speaking as if I was the one infatuated. Towards the middle, I changed the pronoun from “I” to “you” to shift the attention on the audience rather than the speaker of the poem. By the very last stanza, I replicated the structure of the first stanza to bring the poem into a complete concluding circle. Hopefully by the end of “The Breakup,” the audience will both be entertained as well as aware that Twitter can be an addicting
At that point, the reader is unaware that the topic is in fact a social media site. It is not until line 19 that I actually mention Twitter directly. By presenting the idea of obsession early on in the poem, the reader is able to understand that the speaker is in love—or infatuated at least. The plot twist is that it is not a “distant lover,” contrarily, Twitter. Describing the application as a “liberating prison” forces the audience to think about the power that Twitter actually holds over their lives. Sometimes, addiction is not always easy to identify until someone brings the symptoms to life. To do this, I mentioned specific instances when people ignore those around them for Twitter. Once the audience realizes that this is relatable, hopefully they will get the idea that it is time to take a break. Another strategic aspect of the poem is that in the beginning I decided to have a first person point of view, speaking as if I was the one infatuated. Towards the middle, I changed the pronoun from “I” to “you” to shift the attention on the audience rather than the speaker of the poem. By the very last stanza, I replicated the structure of the first stanza to bring the poem into a complete concluding circle. Hopefully by the end of “The Breakup,” the audience will both be entertained as well as aware that Twitter can be an addicting