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The topic of controversy for this essay is whether or not technology has a negative or positive affect on people. In order to help explain whether or not technology has a positive or negative affect on us there will be four articles that will be discussed within this essay. The first article is “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, “The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens by Ferris Jabr, “Get Smarter” by Jamais Cascio, and “Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us…

Negativity: The Destroyer of Results Negative emotion: usually an unpleasant or unhappy emotion which is evoked in individuals to express a negative affect towards an event or person (Psychology Dictionary). An example of a negative emotion is sadness, anxiety, guilt, shame/embarrassment, and more. A person’s response to conflict shows what type of person someone is. One of the best ways that a person can react to conflict is by avoiding negative emotions and feelings. Negative thoughts can…

BarbieDavalos ENC1102 Professor Gonzalez Literary Analysis “Nosedive” Imagine living in a world where everyone had the ability to rate you as a person, how would that change how you interact and behave? Nosedive, an episode in the series of Black Mirror depicts this world and gives us a tiny glimpse of how our society acts today. By a simple swipe going up or down…

The person I chose to interview is my close friend, Jessica, who I view as a sister even. We are very close with one another and we spend a lot of time together and support one another. Process 1. Interview your partner to discover how your words and deeds influence his or her self-concept. Identify specific incidents to illustrate these influences, and discuss which specific parts of the self-concept you have affected. One way that I had an influence on her self-concepts is that I noticed…

An article published by John Gottman and Robert Levenson (1999), How Stable is Marital Interaction Over Time has been critically evaluated to complete the following background information for counseling couples. Summary: The article identified the lack of research in couples who are stable over time. The identified problem then becomes, how do stable couples interact over time? The purpose of the study in the general sense was to examine the couple’s expression of emotional patterns with one…

Love is a motivation for people to fight, defend, and mature for. Lucius Apuleius' myth, Cupid and Psyche, tells the story of the strength and determination of the mortal needed to regain a lost love. Francesca Lia Block's modern retelling, Psyche's Dark Night, emphasizes the many issues that affect relationships and explores the pain that accompanies dating. The retelling offers a new look into love and whether or not it is worth all the pain that accompanies it. The updated setting and…

As mentioned previously, the GoPro Hero 4 Silver has a horrible battery life but it has an average battery life compared to its other competition. For example: The Olympus TG-tracker (1hr 30min), Olfi (1-2 hours), and the Garmin Virb XE (1-2 hours). The competition for a Small POV (point of view) High Definition camera is very slim. GoPro is like the “iPhone” of POV high definition cameras. They set new standards in the POV high definition cameras but as time goes by their rivals are improving…

If you would have asked a resident in Grant’s Valley three years ago about 33rd street, they would have said that it’s a calm trail with a wonderful view of the river, old houses, and trees, where locals do their shopping, hiking, or get their morning coffee. However, this is no longer the case, the old houses have been converted into expensive businesses that attract tourists. The calm environment is now an issue for the locals because the tourists cause traffic and take residential parking…

In the Merriam Webster dictionary, the literal definition of the word museum is “an institution devoted to the procurement, care, study, and display of objects of lasting interest or value; also : a place where objects are exhibited”. So what exactly do exhibitions represent and how do they do so? Exhibitions are put into museums that differ by age, target audiences, content, national and regional orientations and just simply by ambition. The type or genre of a museum might be the significant…

Fires involving gasoline are unique because they cannot be extinguished by water alone. “The ability of water without additives (foaming agents) to put out a fire is limited on low-flash-point flammable liquids” (Cote & Bugbee, 1988, p.168). The reason that water alone cannot be used on flammable liquid fires with low flash points is that the water will probably sink to the bottom of the fuel. If the fire was contained in a tank, the water would sink and cause the fuel to rise in the…