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Have you ever wonder why adolescence when portrayed in fictional media are seen as carefree? I other words reckless, irresponsible, or easily influenced by others and their environment. You should be asking yourself, is that how actual adolescence/teens act? Most fictional medias that are portraying adolescence/teen with the idea of being careless have the right idea. As an adolescence have a narrow mind making this one of the reasons why adolescence make carefree and bad decisions. This…

I read the book, No Bullshit Social Media, by Jason Falls and Erik Deckers. Their goal for this book is to not waste readers’ time and cut to the chase by focusing on only the important things readers need to know about social media. There are three key points in this book. The first one is that social media does not just gain friends and followers, but gains detractors. The second one is the social media does not just form communities, but forms brand power. And the third one is that social…

Rojin Bijan Jessica Taylor English 100A 12 December 2017 Fixation Our lives as individuals is surrounded by personalized feeds, which is shaping our lives as who we are and who we will be in the future; it shapes our relationships as it destroys intimacy and changes the way we interact with our loved ones. We as a society have been conformed to this fixed mindset of what we believe we need in our relationships based on others. This virtual reality of our lives through smart-phones is damaging…

Mr. Dean, The primary purpose of my paper is to argue why employers that use social media aren’t invading anyone’s privacy as well as argue why social media can benefit people. Since the world is changing with technology, it is important that the way people search for jobs changes too. For instance, social media is being used more and more for business endeavors. Recruiters and employers are using social media to find that perfect candidate for their job. The specific audience for my paper is…

follow Australia’s guidelines causing the cattle to undergo unnecessary suffering. ABC’s Four Corners created a documentary about the Indonesian slaughtering. The video exploded onto Facebook creating different pages wanting to end the live export of cattle to Indonesia (Schoenmaker et. al 17). Getup! was one of the Facebook pages created after the documentary was released. In a short time Getup! received almost 600,000 likes. The Getup! page created the fastest growing petition that received…

The Effects of Technology on Society In Maria Konnikova's article, "The Limits of Friendship" she explores the theoretical number of friends people can really have, also known as the Dunbar number, and whether social media has affected the way people perceive friend groups. In Konnikova’s article, “The Limits of Friendship,” technology has affected people’s social skills by allowing us to stay connected with people all over the world, but prevent us from making deeper face to face connections…

Everyone uses it one way or another, social media runs the world. Anyone can voice their opinions and thoughts, but can social media really create a global change? Malcolm Gladwell, the author of the New Yorker article Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted, argues that groups using social media to achieve change will never gain strong enough ties or commitment to make a difference. Gladwell’s article, written in 2010, compares some of today's activism to the Greensboro sit-in in…

Get Out is the horror film directed by comedian Jordan Peele, it follows main character Chris Washington as he joins his girlfriend Rose on a trip to meet her white liberal parents. What happens when Chris and Rose arrive is what made Get Out one of the most successful horror films of the year. Peele created a film that dealt with a black person’s navigation in White America, in my research of the discourse surrounding Get Out I found five articles and one thread of viewer comments on Tumblr.…

The empty emotion of loneliness has crept up on people at least once in their lifetime. To avoid this, people, especially teens, use social media as a way to prevent feeling lonely. Without distractions of social media and friends, people find themselves with an excluded, isolated feeling. Loneliness does not just express itself now, Steinbeck uses the feeling when writing to describe the characters as well. The absence of these distractions causes men on the ranch to find themselves feeling…

media and Society”, this article states the good and the bad effects of social media on society and individuals. The author starts his article with an opening statement about how social media dominated our lives and how many years ago there were no Facebook, twitter or even e-mail which was hard for people because they couldn’t reach eachother instantly. He starts by stating the positive effects of social media like how it made everybody closer to people living in far, different countries. He…