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Weeeoooeee, weeeoooeee, weeeoooeee. Listening to the sirens go off, seeing the flashing lights and hearing the footsteps getting closer, causes one’s heart to start pounding faster than Usain Bolt. Most people are aware not to judge a book by it’s cover; in order to avoid false first impressions on others, individual’s should also be educated on the importance of getting to know a person and the reasons behind the steps and actions people take. A stereotype is an over exaggerated truth.…

We live in a digital world; it is in all parts of life. Technology today has everything shaped into the speediest and most advantageous forms possible to make individuals lives greater and more importantly, easier. The innovations and growth that have been made through recent years are astounding when compared to where the world was only a couple of years to ten years prior. With the web and everything connected to it, messaging, video calls, educational programs and shopping- the potential…

Technology can easily be argued to have a profound effect on how we manage and create our personal and professional relationships. You can reach practically anyone in the word with the click of a button. You can forge relationships with people you’ve never met in face-to-face. Friendships are easier than ever to cultivate with the help of social media. It is possible to make a friend while alone in the comfort of your home. This outside connection available to us gives us undeniable freedom.…

In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman compared the public discourse between before and after telegraph invention, he suggested the telegraph altered the very nature of social and personal discourse in American culture."The telegraph made a three-pronged attack on typography 's definition of discourse, introducing on a large scale irrelevance, impotence, and in coherence.”Said in The Peek-a-Boo World chapter. The author believed modern technology from telegraph to television, makes…

I always wondered, what did the generation before us do without the internet? I know for a fact and experience I can 't live without the internet and the good and the bad that comes with it. The internet is a collection of websites and services. Fifty years ago the Internet came into existence, it has extremely changed our life from the second we wake up to until we go back to sleep. Around three billion people use the Internet. It was only in the 1990s that Internet was provided to the public.…

When you hear the word “social media” what do you think of? Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, even Snapchat is what I would imagine. I am sure we can all admit that we have one or even all of these that were named. While Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat are easy ways to communicate with friends and family, few stop to consider the implications its usage may have for them in the future, or the hidden dangers of having an account. Besides the effect of your eligibility for employment that…

Critical discourse analysis is a, somehow, new field in linguisticstics. Many scholars have worked on developing this new field which is really useful in people’s everyday life. Critical analysis of media discourse has been worked by Van Dijk (1988). He considered a comprehensive analysis of both the textual and structural level of media discourse and analysis at the production and comprehension level. Wodak (2001, as cited in Shyholislami) and her colleagues have worked on discourse…

Scientists say that teen texting is out of control and that most teens couldn’t give up their phones. However, I think that I could give up my phone because I have a strong will. It would be hard at first because I’m very used to texting a lot. I also think that texting is getting way out of hand. People are texting more than they are having conversations in real life. Let me explain what I mean. First, people are using their phones when they are out in public with friends. Instead of talking…

from a tradition of Western Culture in which the ideal was the complex, dense and “cathedral-like” structure of the highly educated and articulate personality”. Stephen Marche (2012) writes “… connection is not the same thing as a bond, and that instant and total connection is no salvation… Facebook denies us a pleasure whose profundity we had underestimated: the chance to forget about ourselves for a…

Wikipedia accuracy is very low a lot of people say not to use Wikipedia just for the simple fact you can change the words and everything on this site. The content of this site is more or less more valid then the accuracy of the site. Most of the stuff in Wikipedia is true it really just depends on what exactly it is about 80-85 % of it is true. When I was in high school I remember people knowing how to put their own words in Wikipedia. Meaning that you can search something up on this site and it…