Sherry

The internet can be a tool for a community to run more smoothly. Just because we use our phones and electronic devices more often than we did 100 years ago does not mean we have become completely cold and cruel humans. No matter how much technology advances, we are humans and we will always have the ability to feel and have feelings. In Sherry Turkle’s book, Reclaiming Conversation, the author is optimistic that we still have time to reverse the effects of technology. She is incorrect. Some technological advancements are helping to give people a second chance at life and this is not something they want reversed. Instead I would tell Sherry Turkle to really try and make the most of how much technology has advanced and live with it, because there is no way we are going back. As I read her book I noticed how many connection Sherry Turkle made about how the media has basically destroyed our lives. On page 55 Sherry Turkle speaks about the point I made above. Sherry Turkle mentions her conversation with some parents who work for social media companies who sent their kids to school so they can…

Sherry Turkle on the Colbert Report Sherry Turkle is professor of social studies of science at M.I.T and has published multiple books. Her recent book titled “Alone Together”, was discussed on TV show “The Colbert Report”. The host Stephen Colbert asked aggress questions in this interview, suggesting that technology is the most significant gift of modern times and it should be understood rather than criticized. He argued that the book “Alone Together” might have neglected the important role…

Before the invention of the telephone, communication was founded solely on face-to-face communication. However, in recent years, the internet has come to the forefront. It has adapted everything in the world that surrounds us, especially communication. Texting, snapchat, and various other forms of non-verbal communication have become more common than talking on the phone or emailing. Some see no fault in the shift from verbal to non-verbal; however, author Sherry Turkle believes the populous…

Sherry Turkle, a teacher at MIt wrote an article called “No Need to call”. In this article she explores the changes in electronic messaging and how it affects our communication with each other. Sherry Turkle communicates to the reader that technology such as texting, emails, social media, ect.. have become a new way for people to converse and create for themselves a second identity. Sherry turkle gives an example of a girl named Audrey, who is shy, and how she uses social media to act and…

The article Growing Up Tethered written by Sherry Turkle argues that other than benefiting our lives, technology also has side effects that impair our abilities to truly be independent. She then further explains how this current generation is restricted rather than freed by the technology today. This topic is important because it discusses how we might be together in the sense of collaboration, at which almost everyone is doing it, and becoming what was once considered problematic. Also we are…

With all this business, we have more wine than ever before! The finest in all of Italy is sold here. With all this in mind, one pipe of sherry missing should be a mere nothing. With all the money, I’m bringing in, one pipe should do no harm. I deserve it! All Fortunato does is test the wine, he does not find…

The Cask of Amontillado Punishment for Crimes A dark and sinister murder plot unfolds itself in Edgar Allen Poe’s story, “The Cask of Amontillado.” Poe’s attempt to enthrall and entertain his audience is carried out as the deception of a perceived friendship by Montresor for Fortunato reveals itself to be a ruse to lure Fortunato into the deep catacombs of Montresor’s family vault with the promise of sampling a dry Spanish sherry, Amontillado. Montresor enacts his revenge upon Fortunato in…

Knowing that Fortunato would do anything to taste the cask of Amontillado Montresor begins to lure him in even further telling Fortunato that he has plans for Luchresi to taste it because “if anyone has a critical turn it is he”(166). Fortunato is sure that no one is better at wine tasting then he is, insulting Luchresi saying, “Luchresi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry. Yet some fools will have it that his taste is a match for your own”(166). This begins the turn that even Fortunato’s pride…

prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine,” (866). Having met Montresor after consuming a lot of alcohol at the carnival has impaired Fortunato’s thinking in that, at the very least, he does not realize that he has already intoxicated and goes on to drink more at the offering of Montresor. He does not recognize that although he has made insults toward Montresor he is still very friendly with him and greets him graciously (866). His issue of pride goes deeper than just gluttony for alcoholic…

Fortunato was struggling against his bonds and he was yelling while trying to exert a force to break the chains. Montresor wants to prove he is better than Fortunato, so he yells louder to show his dominance and by showing his dominance, Montresor increases his own pride. Fortunato shows pride as well in the story, close to the beginning. “‘As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchesi… Luchesi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry’” (4). This quote is showing you how Montresor plays Fortunato’s…