In Our Time

that we ran into that we didn't know how to handle, whatever the case maybe us as humans have ran to Google over time for all our problems. We have become so comfortable using the internet that we no longer know how to do simple things in life; for example, how to work an elementary problem because the internet spoon feeds it to us. When we wake up, the first thing some of us check is our phone. Google is always keeping us updated on news; it could be a sale or something that might be going on…

the current view of time General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform about different artifacts Central Idea Statement/Thesis: Ancient technology, figurines, and imbedded materials can make us rethink our perception of the human time line and discover more about long gone civilizations. Introduction I. We know how our timeline as humans go, cavemen, farmers, castles, military industrial complex and then now. But what if relics had been found and dated to disturb our common knowledge.…

Per Lewis H. Lapham, the record is our inheritance, the one that Goethe had in mind when he suggested a restructuring of the deal that Satan offered Faust. It isn’t with magic that men make their immortality. They do so with what they’ve learned on their travels across the frontiers of five millennia, salvaging from the ruin of families and the death of cities what they find to be useful or beautiful or true. We have nothing else with which to build the future except the lumber of the…

I felt the constant feelings of being lucky, worried, and trapped. During that week, my family and I were lucky that we didn’t get flooded because of the ditches on our street. Even though it was raining hard where we lived the ditches hold as much of the water it could. Our power went out here and there but never for a long time like everyone else. We were safe throughout the storm with no injuries or destruction. We were always worried about or family especially my aunt Juana, Aunt Lety,…

ourselves, our identities. In order to stay connected to our identities, we have defined when the past became the past and how we can connect the past to our present. In Paul Bloom’s “The Origins of Pleasure”, he discusses that it is through human belief that causes us to place value on things based on origin thus creating historical continuity. On the other hand, Zerubavel discusses that the creation of historical connectivity comes from preserving one’s original identity in his book “Time…

outside the walls of the castle. There were beggars, houses made of leftover materials, and very few people to prevent this. I got a job, and what I did was study the stars every night, I would record what I would see and calculate how far it was from our planet. I got my own house and I was set for a while. About a year had past when I received a letter in the mail informing me that people were being hired to become a pirate. The amount of money they were paying was way more than my…

In our day-to-day life, we spend a large amount of our time on multiple social media platforms. Social media has fully integrated itself and has become an integral element in our everyday life. As we find ourselves having more free time, we spend it on social media, other technologies and activities. This is most commonly known as Cognitive Surplus, a concept that I will introduce later on in this essay, and analyze its relation to online promotional communication practices and social media. I…

or the future of our race. The motivation in the past was to fill the immediate needs with little thought about the long lasting impact humans…

The story of the Lady of Guadalupe starts off in a time where religious preachers tried to get the Native population to convert to the Christian faith. A very poor Indian man, named Juan Diego was one of the very few converts. He was taking care of his sick and dying uncle, when suddenly, in Tepeyac Hill country, he saw a very beautiful woman, encircled in a very bright ball of of light. The lady introduced herself as “...the ever-virgin Mary, Mother of the true God who gives life and maintains…

In class and through our readings we have learned a lot. Part of learning is putting the terms and ideas into tangible examples. I will be discussing spotlight effect, possible selves, planning fallacy, automatic thinking, controlled thinking, and immune neglect. “The spotlight effect means seeing ourselves at center stage…” (Myers, 2013, pg. 34). People have the tendency to think that others attention is on them, even when it is not. This happens a lot which students in middle school. They…