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Video games can lead to addiction, depression, aggression, and many health issues. In fact, research has been conducted for decades on the negative effects of video game play. So why then have video games become over a $16 billion industry? Well, video games have immense positive potential. In addition to their entertainment value, video games can offer considerable success when they are designed to address a specific problem or teach a specific skill. Video games can be a particularly valuable…

What Bradbury Got Right Fahrenheit 451 is an extremely important novel, especially in today’s world. The novel centers around Montag, a fireman who sets fires ablaze instead of putting them out. “What is he burning?” One might ask. The answer is literature. Books in this world are completely banned and must be burned if discovered. Technology has completely taken over, and people are constantly immersed in it. He loves his job until he meets his neighbor, a teen girl named Clarisse. She helps…

PROJECT PROPOSAL OUTLINE Name of Student: Eden Thomas Date of Submission: 12th October, 2017 Proposed Title of Investigation: 1. An analysis of how different port ownership structures can affect the human resource structures at the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago in allowing the Port of Port of Spain to become an economically viable entity. 2. An analysis of how the human resource structures at the Port of Port of Spain affect the ports opportunity of becoming a viable economic entity.…

conversation, which is what we see in the readings from class. While it's complicated by danah boyd focuses on the positives of the connection we experience in today's world due to social media, the op-ed piece, "The Flight From Conversation," by Sherry Turkle seeks to bring awareness to how technology has hindered our connections outside of the digital world. In boyd's novel, she examines the use of social media and how teens use it to connect with each other. She mainly focuses on the…

8.6 million people in the United States live with a serious illness caused by smoking. 8.6 million people made the conscious decision to start smoking, a highly addictive activity that can lead to cancer, ulcers, and even death (“Tobacco Facts and Figures”). According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, cigarette and tobacco companies spent $9.5 billion in the US on advertising alone in the year 2013. But with all of this money being spent towards such a harmful cause, anti-smoking…

The Evil That Men Do Both Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to find” are horror stories exploring the darker side of human nature. In both stories two men commit murder for personal reasons. While each story uses similar characters, with similar traits that set the overall theme, they differ in the ways that each character is affected by them. Montresor comes from a former powerful noble house and plans on killing Fortunato. A family goes on…

was with Gatsby, she got married to Tom and had a child. He believes that since he is now wealthy that that means he is able to be with her, but doesn't realize Daisy would never leave Tom because she is reliant on old money and Gatsby is new money. Sherry states that “it is Gatsby's habitation in West Egg that denotes his aspiration to a social status that seems unattainable.”(Morton). In the novel, there is a difference between the classes. Gatsby believes that since he is now rich, that he is…

with questions people can relate to. DISTRACTED BY EVERYTHING: DIGITAL NATION As I think about where I plan to go in my career I can relate the information that I have learned in this documentary in my professional life. I think Mit Professor Sherry Turkel says it best “ The internet is neither good or evil, it’s powerful”. It is up to everyone to use the internet for the good things it has to offer and not over obsess about staying engaged in the internet world when there is a healthy…

Yanagita Kunio had a method with his folktales and legends that made him stand out. His search for the origins of Japan’s unique culture led to him being the first, and many would agree, best folklorist, of the Meiji Period. Yanagita’s ability to make a lore, passed on by an informant, increasingly literary made his legends of Tōno distinguishable. This approach of evoking powerful emotions such as fear through a literary standpoint can have an impact on the reader by producing a physical…

John Carroll University, approximately one to four stalking victims reported cyber- stalking. People are able to create false profiles and pretend to be someone they aren’t. People can’t trust others on social media that they don’t know. According to Sherry Turkle, people are “drawn to connections that seem low risk and always at hand” (Kat Ascharya, “What Facebook is doing to your brain is kind of shocking”). This causes people to have emotional laziness and neglect. They begin to not expect…