Ender's Game

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Ender’s Game and “Is google Making Us Stupid?” Ender’s Game and “Is google making us stupid”, is intertwined with ways author Nicholas Carr describes in his article how technology, is lowering human’s ability to understand how interaction with the, internet affect our ability to decipher what is real and what is not. Ender is so intertwined with Technology, that it is actually making him believe that everything, that happens at the battle school is just a game but in reality real.
In the beginning of Ender’s games. As a baby Ender has a device that was inserted in the back of his neck, so that he could be monitored by Colonel Graff and Mazer Rackham. This is like Carr’s article where when we use google it
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Ender kill a boy named Bonzo, in the showers and another boy that attack, him on the flight to the battle school. But in his mind he just hurting them, to the point that they would not try to fight him again. Ender learns for the battle in the battle, that you have to end the fight for good so that the attacker, cannot come back at a later time and attack you again. You can intertwine this with Card article is google making us stupid, and I think if you look form the side of Ender, it is actually making him smarter in some way and drummer in other ways. Ender has learned the pattern in the games, and is able to make adjustment to his squid on the fly, by seeing the actual battle in his mind before it take place. This is an adjustment that Colonel Graff and Mazer Reakham, hoped that Ender would be able to make without much effort. As Ender kept advancing and perfecting his Battle skill, he was actually wining the real battle against, the Bugger without him knowing the battles were real. The major thing that Ender did not know, was that the Bugger were not the real aggressor, but the human …show more content…
The Battle that Ender was told about by Mazer Reakham, the real story was the bugger were, just trying to save their race when the first to battle took place. It had always been drilled into, him by Colonel Graff on a daily basis from the, time he got to the ballet school, that the buggers were the aggressor and had to be stop, before they completely wipe out the human race. Ender was six years old when he got to the battle school, this had a great influence on Ender and what, he thought about the buggers as a spices. Because all he was shown were tape of, the battle from years ago and he was only show, one side of the battles from the human perspective. The made Ender believed the buggers should be wipe out in one fell swoop. Like the battle in the battle room where his army, would defeat any army that was put up against them. Colonel Graff is starting to worry about, ender mental health toward the end of the battle school. Because he did not want to keep, fighting the battle they wanted him to fight. This is like Carr article where he talks about long and short term effect of [the internet on our cognition

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