BlackBerry

Research In Motion, the original name for the BlackBerry, was founded in 1984. Mike Lazaridis was an engineering student from the University of Waterloo and Douglas Fregin was an engineering student from the University of Windsor and together they found Research In Motion (RIM). When they released the first BlackBerry in 1999, it was a PDA with a paging function. It wasn’t until 2003 that they released the first BlackBerry smartphone, which supports email, mobile telephone, text messaging,…

The book I am going to be discussing is “Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Spectacular Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry” by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff. Originally, BlackBerry was named RIM, which stands for Research in Motion and was founded by Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin in in 1984. They both created a device where uses could type words that flashed on Television screens and they named it “Budgie”. Usually, the start of a new technological device or website, I…

In my observational years in the surrounding of a Midwestern college life, the Iowa State University, I have witnessed several unprecedented and extraordinary form of communication but there is one that strikes me as the most astounding that is the form of texting. Texting is a norm in the life of a college community where they would strike a string of conversational whims and chats with ease. This custom usually involves the youth of the campus community, which are the students. By my…

Thank you Technology Getting ready to leave for the cold, rainy, Friday night football game, I get on social media to see who’s going to be at the game tonight. I check Twitter and see that many students are going. They tweet pictures in the stands and post status’s that read “GO WHS” or “Good luck WHS” along with students asking for rides. Texting my friends quickly, I let them know to be ready in five minutes and texting those who need a ride that I can pick them up. They quickly reply. While…

Why are people today so addicted to their smartphones? I feel that everywhere that I go all I see is people with their noses in their phones. Why is this? Teens and young adults who were born in the late 20th century were introduced to something at a young age that the world has never seen before, and that was the smartphone. The smartphone has taken over the lives of not just teens, but also many adults. Smartphones have ruined people 's communication skill, and the skill to hold a face to face…

Smart phones, practically hand-held computers, hinder society through many of its features. For instance, smart phone use while driving impacts not only society, but also the individual person using it, negatively in a number of ways. Firstly, the use of GPS causes a person’s brain to not function properly. McGill University conducted a study that shows that dependence on GPS has a negative effect on brain function, especially the hippocampus. The hippocampus is in charge of memory and…

Parents and teachers have speculated since the emergence of texting if this “new age” communication technology hinders formality and accuracy of academic writing. David Crystal in “Why All the Fuss?” presents a compelling and persuasive argument emphasizing that texting has not negatively influenced academic writing, and that it may also have some benefits to students’ ability to write formally. I agree with Crystal’s emphasis that text language is not used in formal writing and that texting…

Part One: Topic 2 2. Explain how the blackberries, the birds, and the flies are contextual symbols. I think the blackberries are being used to represent a person’s life. In the beginning of a journey, the blackberries are ripe. The “blackberry alley” end in the second stanza. In the third stanza, “of white and pewter lights” could represent the end of the journey. The birds she identified as choughs. They resemble a crow. Crows are often used to symbolize, or relate to death. Crows…

Growing Up Stained Leslie Norris’s “Blackberries” describes a little boy’s journey of maturing into adulthood. Imperative to the story is her use of symbolism emphasizing that growing and changing is often hard and scary, yet necessary and beautiful if one is allowed to flourish. Norris begins with the boy “hav[ing] his locks shorn.” The boy is having his first real haircut, which represents coming of age and growing older. The barber’s hands are cold and the boy “[is] quite frightened.” Change…

In his nostalgic poem “Blackberries”, Yusef Komunyakka allows the reader to better connect with the speaker’s problems by the use of first person point of view. By allowing the young boy to express his stream of conscious directly to those listening to the poem, we get an intimate glimpse at his transition from innocence. The poem begins with the boy recalling his time spent picking wild blackberries. He enjoys this act, and how it leaves his hands stained “like a printers/Or a thief’s before…