In Our Time

me to. In August of 1998, my parents packed me up and moved me into my dormitory at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro. This was the first time I had ever been away from home for a long period of time. It was scary, considering I wasn’t a very outgoing person. I always stayed to myself and talked only when I was spoken…

Many years ago, the world was divided when Trayvon Martin was fatally shot George Zimmerman. The world was literally divided. The victim was no longer a victim, instead this tragedy became a precedent for the racial divide we have in our society today. The question was, did Trayvon deserve to get shot because he was a criminal? Should George Zimmerman have minded his own business and let the police handle this situation? As more information surfaced, so did riots. The media also misrepresented…

You can always dream and hope, but you can also be and do. The only thing inhibiting you is yourself. “I know of no more encouraging fact that the unquestionable ability of a man to elevate his like by a conscious endeavor.” So easily can we improve our lives by doing a simple task that makes us happy. Pursue your passion, achieve your dreams, make every moment of your life worth it. “Every man is tasked to make his like even in its details, worthy of contemplation.” Make your life one to hear…

Quite frankly I can be rather brusquely honest at times. Is there ways that I could phrase things more delicately? Perhaps. Would the point I’m trying to get across still remain the same? Absolutely. Do I care if I hurt people’s feeling by being honest? Not really. Telling the truth helps people feel better…

Clive Thompson, a freelance journalist and blogger for New York Times Magazine, and Wired, composed an essay entitled “Smarter than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better.” He claims that “we are becoming centaurs. But our digital tools can also leave us smarter even when were not actively using them” (360). Clive Thompson waists not time on explaining what it means to be a modern centaur. He begins by explaining the game of chess and what it's like playing man vs. man…

can be used to track where you are, at any given place and time. Just like in the world of Big Brother, there are eyes watching us at all times even when we are least expecting it, with the technology industry expanding and advancing everyday it has taken us beyond the world of Big Brother has ever imagined. These devices that are hiding around us, even the ones that we hold in our hands, have given us away, not only our privacy, but also our personal information. In the novel, the sly…

a romantic relationship with one another but it was difficult because of our age. We were fairly young and still needed to identify with our own individual self and also understand and identify ourselves as a couple. The dialectics autonomy-connection was a major obstacle for our relationship. “Autonomy-connection is the contradiction between the “me” and “we” of a relationship. Couples struggle with the need to spend time together and the need to be alone” (Burnett & DeGreeff, p. 8).…

We see every day that the evolution of technology has become something remarkable in our lives. This development is the result of our many technological devices, however, we can not live without them. They are harmful to society in general and private users. Although the technology has facilitated us a lot of things of our lives, we have some negative effects, and that does not mean in any way to do without them, but emphasizes the need for the ban when used. Computer, for example, is a…

easy, I would choose to remain a kid forever. I was forced to get older by a familiar thing known as time. Time never slows down, time never stops, and time never rewinds no matter how bad you wish it would. It steadily keeps moving forward until one day your time is up. I…

I have been born 3 times. The first time was 13.8 billion years ago, when the universe began to exist. The second time was on November 24, 1997, when my mother brought her second child into the world. The third time I was born, and the time most relevant to this discussion, was on a sweaty afternoon in Sophomore year when a girl asked me for bus money, and I decided it was time I learned to accept the first two. So here I am, made up of atoms that are 13.8 billion years old, a body almost 19…