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Mcdonalds freewrite (5 minutes) So the whole situation happened when I looked at my schedule on 1/3/2016 and noticed that I was working from 8:00am-10:30am on 1/7/2016 Wednesday. It was weird how I was scheduled to work two and a half hours because I have not been scheduled to work that short amount of time in about a whole year. Nevertheless, I was not disappointed because my great grandmother was turning 88 on that day. So I made plans to spend time with her after work. On 1/6/2016 I double…

Many writers post articles about this new generation destroying department stores, diamonds, golf, and more. Jean M. Twenge’s article titled “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” appears to take on the same point of view. However, she focused on behaviors and emotional health. She avoided bashing the post-Millennial generation (referred to as iGen) and instead studied the effects of the smartphone. Twenge completed research to show that, while physically safer, the new generation of…

On average, how much time do you spend on the internet? If you said around 8 hours, then you fall under the majority of Americans. In the popular novel "What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains: The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr, Carr explains how the internet is changing our mindset and making us more shallow hence the title of the book. Carr also describes how we are less capable of doing our own work because we have access to popular search engines such as Google or Yahoo. In the novel "What the…

Communication has evolved beyond what one could have imagined just in the fifty some odd years of my life. This journey from my perspective is a great example of never knowing what to expect. If the future is as exciting as the past then who knows where this might lead, we are already back to the cave man’s form of communicating with symbols. My best friend lived across the street and on top of the hill. I remember as a child my main form of communication was yelling at the top of my lungs.…

1.Cornwell,B & Lundgren D.C. (2001) Love on the Internet: involvement and misrepresentation in romantic relationships in cyberspace vs. realspace. In computers in Human Behavior, 17(2), 197-211. doi: 10.1016/S0747-5632(00)00040-6 The increasing use of technology and online dating are changing what society defines as romantics relationship norms. In Love on the Internet: involvement and misrepresentation in romantic relationships in cyberspace vs realspace, researchers B. Cornwell and D.C…

posted on Facebook to a malicious text message. According to Peter Smith and his colleagues, they define cyber-bulling as, “An aggressive, intentional act carried out by a group or individual, using an electronic form of contact, such as e-mail, instant messages, digital images, and messages sent to a cell phone.” (Kowalski, Limber, Agatston, 57). Cyber-bullying destroys many lives and family, so I believe it should be taken more seriously now than it has ever been. In 2015, a Massachusetts high…

Internet makes life better In the process of the new information age, human being has entered a completely new stage in its history. Thereupon the issue of the Internet has brought into public focus, quite a few people claim that the network shortens the distance of people, and they can enjoy the life conveniently which is brought by the information technology. But other people regard the Internet as a murderer, which effectively putting a brake on people's development and bringing the bad…

Texting has become the most common way for teens to communicate among one another (Nakaya 11). There has been a severe decrease in adolescent literacy due to the growing everyday use of texting. The simplicity of typing words into the phone then tapping send, is all too simple and the effect of that is showing their day to day interactions with other people. Texting impacts teen literacy by causing a decline in mental health in adolescents, a loss of communication skills, and fosters distraction…

Imagine a scenario where someone is driving with one hand on the wheel and the other hand involved in a conversation texting. Suddenly, a car in front of them stops and the driver crashes right into them. Any time someone gets behind the wheel, they are at risk for getting hit by someone who could be texting and driving. Technology is booming with excitement, which is why there are always people texting and driving. Texting when you are driving is a big problem in the United States and is only…

smoke cleared I could see light, I reached my hand in there and found my phone. I was without my phone so I felt that I wasn’t really connected to the world, in a way I felt alone. One reason that texting is better than sending a letter is because instant messaging…