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Is the Modern Era Ruining Childhoods Countless opinions exist debating whether or not the modern era is ruining childhoods. Attributes of today's society have led people to pick sides on the matter. Although this controversial topic may never have a definite answer, one thing is for sure, childhood today is the polar opposite to past childhoods. Society now has technology that benefits children. Some view the idea of technology helping children as absurd, but the fact of the matter is…

Companies track everyday interactions with consumers to better there advertising and products. They should not be allowed to do this with out the permission from the consumers, it is an invasion of privacy. Many people try to avoid the outside world and keep a low profile but with big companies tracking their every move they are no longer able to live the life the want. People walking into stores and around town do not want to be watched for things they like and dislike if companies want to…

“Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation,” is an article written by Jean M. Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University. Twenge has been studying generational differences for 25 years. Jean M. Twenge likes to call babies born from 1995 to 2012 “generation I” because of I phones, or smartphones. In this article, she states Generation I babies have grown up with smartphones, and because of that, they have some distinct differences that previous generations do not possess. Some of…

In addition, senior citizens and handicapped people would greatly benefit from this new installation. They will probably more struggle if they get into this kind of situation than ordinary people because many times they are in a situation where they can’t make a phone call without other people’s help when they get into car crashes. They might have physical limitation that can cause serious problem such as senior citizens tend to have weaker physical strength than young people so when they got…

One of the main reason kids are to come to school, is to learn, but phones are holding students back. As a result, ninety-four percent of high schoolers are on their smartphones daily throughout school. This situation is getting worse and worse everyday, kids are focused on being on there phone in class instead of learning. How are kids ever going to set good life goals, whenever there more focused on what’s going on in there phone, then what’s happening around them at school. However phones can…

Although throughout the years, there have been bounteous inventions, this main invention has entirely changed how we live. There is an amount of many inventions being created today. But, I believe the phone has changed the way all of us live daily. Phones have changed the way we live by so many ways. First, so many children have phones at such young ages. In my opinion, children do not need phones until they are old enough to take on that responsibility. An abundant amount of adolescent…

Do you agree or disagree with your colleague’s conclusion(s) regarding the positive and/or negative effect(s) of technology within his or her chosen developmental periods? I agree with the reasons and conclusion for these different developmental periods. Children are very smart and enjoy helping older people with things that they know how to work. Whether or not you agree with your colleague’s conclusion(s), describe how one of your colleague’s stated advantages may actually be a disadvantage…

(The only other two digit percentage comes from the "don't care" category. Windows and Blackberry Phones are both in the bottom 5%) Despite some doubt about this study due to it being unearthed that Apple has been an investment banking client of Piper Jaffray, everything I see at my own school, a typical middle class public high school, confirms it. Here at CDO High School in Tucson, Arizona, iPhones are everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if iPhones were represented at an even higher…

After reading the article of the statistics of driving a couple of things stood out to me on the teenagers part. Although it does not say anything about texting and having phones I wouldthink that Running of the road, Failing to keep in proper lane and driver distraction is all part of texting and driving or just messing around on their phone. It surprises me that only 9% of crashes in teenagers is distracted driving, I would think it would be higher because everyone these…

Specific Purpose: The purpose of the speech is to make other people aware that texting and driving can be very dangerous. Central Idea: Texting and driving is dangerous. Drivers should not text and drive at the same time to keep them and other drives safe. Introduction – Attention getter Show the YouTube video about texting and driving. – Warn the audience it is graphic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7911kgJJZc Topic – Texting and driving is very dangerous. The people of the United States…