This picture from the Battle of Collierville Civil War reenactment shows a young female child in a purple calico 1863 style dress holding a digital camera backwards, while intensely staring at the photographer who took this photo. In the background are two women and another female child all in dresses from the 1863 era. They are sitting on a quilt with a small basket. The women and second and second little girl, who is in a green calico dress, are all laughing and smiling at the young little girl before them who is unknowingly trying to use a digital camera backwards. Under the picture is a description of what is happening, "Anglia Sanders, Gillian Sanders, 6, and Shelly Autry laugh as Annalyse Sanders, 3, shoots a picture with the
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How is this love of technology taking away from the daily lives of Americans, and how is the ever encroaching technology removing enjoyment and memories in the lives of Americans? As the Americans in the photo have a digital camera so do most Americans. The exception being that now days almost all Americans carry their cameras in their cell phones. Cell phones are now miniaturized computers that most have on their person at all times. These cell phones give Americans access to kinds information, to people, and mind numbing games at all times of day and anywhere they may …show more content…
When people used to get to gether they would play cards, cook out, laugh, and communicate with one another, they would socialize. Now, as technology has advanced and is available to the masses when people get together there is no longer the verbal communication between them. When a group get together to eat out you will almost always find that each member of the group has their cell phone in their hands. Each person has the glow from the screen of the cell phone on their face and none of them could tell you what the other is doing. Instead of enjoying the moment, enjoying those around them, or even making a memory, Americans are becoming anti social hermits. Sadly the way that this technological gadgetry
How is this love of technology taking away from the daily lives of Americans, and how is the ever encroaching technology removing enjoyment and memories in the lives of Americans? As the Americans in the photo have a digital camera so do most Americans. The exception being that now days almost all Americans carry their cameras in their cell phones. Cell phones are now miniaturized computers that most have on their person at all times. These cell phones give Americans access to kinds information, to people, and mind numbing games at all times of day and anywhere they may …show more content…
When people used to get to gether they would play cards, cook out, laugh, and communicate with one another, they would socialize. Now, as technology has advanced and is available to the masses when people get together there is no longer the verbal communication between them. When a group get together to eat out you will almost always find that each member of the group has their cell phone in their hands. Each person has the glow from the screen of the cell phone on their face and none of them could tell you what the other is doing. Instead of enjoying the moment, enjoying those around them, or even making a memory, Americans are becoming anti social hermits. Sadly the way that this technological gadgetry