Purpose: To inform. Specific Purpose: After hearing my speech, my audience will know more about the risks and benefits associated with diagnostic x-rays. Thesis: Medical benefits of diagnostic x-rays outweigh any slight risks. Introduction Open with impact: It’s all around us. You can’t feel it, you can’t see it, but it’s here nonetheless. I am talking about radiation of course. Radiation is energy that comes in many forms and is all around us, all the time. I have couple questions for the…
its content; it is more about what occurs in social media and the effects. Social media has both positive and negative impacts on individuals, which subsequently influence culture. The effects are of social organization, customs and traditions, language and economic systems. Some of the benefits are politics, business, socialization, education, and language. Social media has an impact on the election because many people follow those feeds and make their determination based on the information.…
a whistleblower for Oceania, but due to the environment of fear that has been forever present in INGSOC Winston is unable to expose the government’s immoralities with a substantial impact. Nobody even would believe him due to the amount of control the party holds. A key difference between Winston’s society and society and the modern United States can be seen through the actions of Edward Snowden, and how the results of him leaking private NSA information affected the situation. An article from…
Communication has went on a downward spiral since cell phones have become popular. Some will say cell phones have made a great impact in society by allowing individuals to chat with family members or friends hundreds of miles away. Some also say they are an advancement in society because of the availability of the internet. However there are more downsides to cell phones. Cell phones have taken over everyday conversations and have changed the way the world communicates. The younger generation…
Higher education and a higher level of awareness have caused a shift in the values from the previous generations in the commitment of one 's self-involvement in the world. Millennials think about how their actions impact the world around them. Millennials are very aware of the impact they play in the environment they live. In my furniture retail world, we have customer’s now asking about such things as the content of materials, recycling and recycle up (reuse of material that was once…
meaning he limited how often his children could use electronic devices. In an interview, technology executives agreed with Jobs’ parenting style in that they have seen the dangers of technology firsthand and do not want its negative consequences to impact their young ones (Bilton). One of the severe negative consequences that can arise with overusing electronics is addiction. Addiction is defined as the compulsive need to participate in an activity; in this case it relates to using technology…
novel Fahrenheit 451, children are raised in a society that relies strictly on media and cell phones. This directly affects them psychologically and causes them to lose touch with themselves. In today’s society, children are using media and cell phones more and more at a younger age. Overuse at such a young age may be harmful to the brain. This begs the question: how does growing up in a media-reliant society affect younger generations? In today’s society, overuse of media has been linked to…
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone, “once said in a quote by Dorothy Parker is something we hear as people every day; however, we live in a society that contradict the beliefs we’re taught. If looks really don’t matter as much as some people say, why is it that some go as far to harming themselves to reach a particular goal to feel beautiful or accepted? Why is it that some females and males photoshop their images on social media such as Instagram to receive a certain…
When the word cellphone is heard, most people think terms like vital, revolutionary, in-touch, and social. Very few take into consideration the damages it tolls on modern living, especially to young adults. As per the American Trends Panel two out of three Americans own a smartphone. That is nearly 64 percent of the entire United States population, and to take into consideration 15 percent of the population are senior citizens and another 6.6 percent are under the age of 11. While cell phones…
are ingenious in finding ways to make their lives better such that we just build a raft in order to help us wade in flood waters, we wrap our shoes with plastic in order not to get wet and we even make business out of the calamities we faced (i.e. cellphone and laptop charging during typhoon Haiyan, selling ice cold water, etc.). There is nothing wrong in doing these things, however, along the process we forget to seek solutions to these bigger problems. We learned that ours is a hopeless case…