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American children between 8 and 18 years of age spend an average of 6 hours and 21 minutes each day using entertainment media (VITM). Children spend a lot of time on media a day; on twitter, listening to music, watching TV and playing video games. The major concern among people is how do children respond to watching violence in the media. It has become impossible to escape the violence. By 18 years of age, the average young person will have viewed an estimated 200,000 acts of violence on…

Whether it’s predicting what you are fixing to type, choosing shortest routes factoring in traffic, or navigating a flight on autopilot to its destination (Kelly, 2012). While it’s succeeding in making our lives easier and more manageable, it is also diminishing our abilities. The old adage goes if you don’t use it, you will lose it. Currently as it stands we rely too much on technology…

We are not at all close at witnessing a hoverboard, like in Back to the Future. But we are making steady progress towards it. Lexus a reputable company, recently featured their own hoverboard. In their advertisement they show off their recent attempts in producing a hoverboard. And in all honesty it stood up to the test. The hoverboard uses electromagnets and liquid nitrogen to float above a magnetic track. Although, it isn’t as glamorous as a fully levitating board it could…

Technology is mean to make humanity better but at the same time it also interfere with our senses as human. People rarely spend times to social outside of homes, they cut off their lives from the reality and try to immerse themselves into a virtually world, one that can collapse easily if there is no Wi-Fi and bandwidth. People need to know that when they are depending on something too much other than themselves, it…

The public is the single most important factor in designing a product for the market. It is even put as number one in the engineering code of ethics for software engineers. As an engineer you have a responsibility to society to make the product safe. Vehicles can be dangerous machines but with the technology available today engineers have made these vehicles safer than ever before. I believe that there is still room for improvement and it must be exploited to the fullest extent to keep society…

The economic impact that fishing and hunting has in New York is easily seen in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-associated report. This report states that in 2006, a total of 1.2 million resident sportsmen in New York spent $5 million a day for an annual total of $1.8 billion. This amount of money definitely has an economic impact on the state of New York as well as an impact on many lives. The 1.2 million resident sportsmen in New York…

Increased technology leads to unprecedented opportunities for advancement. Today’s technology facilitates the ability to create robots with human characteristics and functions. This opens discussion concerning the relationship between robots and humans. Two stories that take part in this discussion are “For a Breath I Tarry”, by Roger Zelazny and “The Algorithms for Love” by Ken Liu. Both of these works explores what it means to be human through the sci-fi elements of machines and transformation…

the book. "Next...yeah, ship control.". Cheoh ran to the control room and flipped through the book again, "Now...push that button there and another one there...", Cheoh said while clicking the buttons. Soon enough, the ship got off the ground, and after setting it to autopilot, Cheoh sat a chair in the corner of the room. "Now I can just relax for an hour!", Cheoh said to himself while closing his…

Jeanette Winterson is a British writer, she is also a lesbian. Being a lesbian writer has become a common identifier when she would rather be referred to as a writer who is a lesbian. In “The Semiotics of Sex,” Jeanette Winterson tackles the inherent relationship between the artist and their artwork by digging through the biased judgment that encases it. According to Winterson, using sexual preference “to judge the work of the writer” creates a distorted reality about their work of art (173).…

The world we live in today would be unrecognizable to someone living not even 10 or 15 years ago. Smartphones and a handful of social media platforms have dramatically changed the way we communicate with one another. In our schools, it would be impossible for teachers to teach a classroom of students without the aid of the internet and computers. Automated jobs have eliminated whole job markets with factories filled with robots and machines. Now, though, we have come to a point where our…