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Parents at our school have proposed to the school board to take part in a national movement called “Shut Down Your Screen Week”. The movement encourages students to refrain from the use of any electronic media for an entire week. The parents believe that this would be beneficiary for the students, and I agree. Not using any electronic media for a week would benefit students’ academic performances and their everyday lives. The use of electronics is affects our ability to focus. Having to…

Distracted driving is a big issue while driving a motor vehicle especially for teens because a lot of teens think that they are invincible and nothing will happen to them and if an accident were to happen that they will be fine so while driving they tend to get distracted easier if not by texting by other things . There are a lot of things out there that can distract a teen while driving such as the radio, their phones, and other people in the car or even eating while driving because this causes…

Every day, millions of people go out and drive. Whether it’s going to the store, to work, school, or a long trip on the high way, you can predict about fifty percent of people are on their phones texting or calling someone back. As you’re learning to drive the number one rule is to keep your eyes on the road. As you become more comfortable in the driver’s seat you become more reckless and unless someone points out the fact that you are texting and drive, most of the time it is just a habit and…

The citizens of Chelsea are tired of the Chelsea Middle School’s car rider being backed up? Chelsea gets very backed up with the car rider. The car rider affects how people will get to Forest Oaks Elementary, how people will get to the community center, and much more of the town. Even though Chelsea Middle School’s car rider is backed up often, but the county has come up with a plan, the school will start to use both car rider lines and Chelsea will move the place where the people vote to the…

"In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in operational and practical fact, the medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology." (McLuhan 7) With the “medium in the…

Text speaking has been used by all teens and many people think that this is becoming a problem. Some people say it is bad because they do not know how to spell or read words, and some people say it is good because it helps teens become more creative when writing. Although teens become creative and can write better than teens than do not text, I am going to support the claim that text speech does harm the grammar of teens. Although it is fun texting these language shortcuts like “Lol” and…

Here we go again, it has started to sprinkle and now we can’t run the mile outside because of the DIRT TRACK. I guess we have to run it in the hot and smelly building. I also want to do track but my friends and I don’t have cars and we don’t have a ride to the track either. For gym and track students they often complain about having a dirt track. Most schools in Montana don’t have dirt tracks, but Havre High School does. For this reason HHS students have to practice and have meets at the middle…

The internet is changing our thoughts, minds, and behavior by saying that people around the world needs to look and act a definite way. It’s shaping who we are by changing what is happening around us and every human being in society. The internet has not made our lives deeper or richer because that is not the purpose of the internet, but it has made us closer to the people we love owing to the fact that if we have friends or family out of the state, people can utilize the internet to contact…

The informational and the intimate discusses the ideas of cyborgs and different identities and how we sometimes get lost within the internet from seeing whats real and what isn’t. We are constantly seeing people change on the internet with different personalities. They are behind the screen and no one can see who they really are. The social material production of new media discusses the social and different issues within the world of technology. I chose to focuses in on two different articles…

In the present, people are on their phones at almost all waking moments of the day. Face to face communication and small talk are a dying concept. People now days, need to put down their phones and communicate with their mouths rather than their thumbs. Garrison Keillor has many interesting thoughts on this topic. The article, The small-talk pleasantries we don't do much anymore, is about how we don’t talk to strangers and strike up good conversation anymore. Even in small towns, people walk…