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Journal #3 part:1 Freeway Jam was about the abundance of freeways In Los Angeles and the infamous Los Angeles traffic. One person mentioned in the reading was a man named, Reyner Banham who is basiclly the grandfather of freeways in LA. He wrote the book “Los Angeles:The Architecture of Four Ecologies” Reyner even coined the word “autopia.” He stated “as you acquire the special skills involved , the Los Angeles freeway become a special way of being alive.” Banham was a british architectul…

Many people in modern society disregard the importance of a relationship with nature in their lives. The siren call of technology distracts people, and keeps them from engaging with the world around them. Whether this is going out with friends or taking their dog for a walk, technology takes over. People go out together, but ignore each other, totally absorbed by their phones, rather than being involved in the experiences life has to offer. The poem “Falling Song” by Daniel David Moses explores…

Do you like technology? Do you like being on your phone when you're with friends? The main topic is relationships and technology with our society/ generation of teens. My thesis is how technology delays the daily interactions with family,friends, acquaintances, and society. I hypothesize that technology is diminishing personal in direct confrontation with one another human beings because teenagers currently rely on their phones, tablets, computers, or ipad’s to connect with each other. Simply,…

Cell Phones are life savers. There are many kids who bring their phones to school in grades six through twelve. Our rule of cell phones should be prohibited, should be changed. Many schools have banned or set this rule many years ago because cell phones were connected to drug and gang use. Times have changed, and there have been more school shootings. The rule of prohibiting cellphone use at school should be changed because in emergency situations, they can be life savers. The first advantage…

Can you imagine life in school without being able to use cell phones? It sounds really weird right? Well, that’s I will be talking about in this argumentative essay is whether cell phone usage should be allowed in school or not. I will be talking about why cell phones should not be allowed in school. Cell phones are great, but they just cause so many distractions in school. When students ask if they can look up something, they just gonna get on social media to look at how many likes they got…

After reading texting while walking isn't funny anymore I would have to agree that texting is becoming really dangerous for pedestrians. I've witness people walking down the street or walking across a intersection without looking up and they are seriously injuring themselves. I even had a incident when i was texting while walking and I hit my hand on a street sign because i didn't bother looking up. I feel like nothing is that important that your walking with your head down and your not paying…

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) states that generalized anxiety disorder presents itself through excessive worrying. It may also manifest itself in more physical symptoms such as sleep disturbance and muscle tension. The Beck Anxiety Inventory is a test that analyzes these symptoms of anxiety through a series of questions. It provides a method for psychologists to measure anxiety levels in an individual. Social behaviours have…

Darby Leaf Intro to Soc 1/31/17 The word culture is a term that many people use to rationalize behaviors and represent all sorts of people and their different patterns. It is the sum of social concepts that humans recognize including our behaviors, beliefs, and practices. Culture depends on the many different influences that it may encounter. One reason that culture may differ from place to place could be related to environmental changes that are associated with a specific area. Sometimes it…

The right of confiscating a phone during a fight becomes permitted. The usage of electronics during school have increased because of the advancement of the cell phone. With society changing the way you use phones, it has also changed the ethics in school with using phones. Educators have the right to take a student’s phone away, if it interrupts the classroom. Overtime, cell phones became a big part in school, to cheating through a phone, to recording fights. The right of confiscating the phone…

An interesting sociological insight that I picked up from this article, is a relation between the Roughnecks and marginalized communities. While marginalized communities are clearly at a much larger scale, I noticed that the concept that defines a marginalized community, that they are a material legacy of injustice, can apply to the Roughnecks too. There were several reasons throughout the article as to why the Roughnecks were termed as more delinquent than the Saints, even though their…