In the article Only Disconnect by Andrew Reiner he illustrates his worries for student’s preoccupation in social media that has hindered their interest in learning. Reiner believes that students are afraid to stand out, afraid to be their own individual, afraid to take risks, and afraid to miss what is happening online. He believes that technology makes students less social and takes away their excitement in every moment. Reiner wants students to disconnect every now and then, engage with each…
concussion. Along with the concussion, the doctors predict that she will have some memory loss too.” With she answers, my heartbeat returned to its normal pace, and I sunk back into the chair next to my brother. We looked at each other, with no need to exchange words, just ready for the long road of recovery ahead. It was a few days later when I got to go back to HCMC and see my grandma. I walked back up the stairs and down the long hallways to her room. I almost gasped when I saw her for the…
The final meeting of the year 2016 began with a welcome from Mrs. Cruz who is the Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program project director, and she introduced to the staff a new hire, Thea Parayno. Thea gave a short speech by sharing her experience in the program and thanking several staff who had trained her in certain job duties. Eileen Buckner, peer counselor coordinator, presented to the staff her four peer counselors’ graduates and thanked them for their efforts in helping to increase the…
Technology is an amazing thing. People are able to check email, video chat, broadcast live video, or order a pizza all from the their phone. The ability to make a phone call from a smartwatch was only something James Bond was able to do, but now anyone can purchase a smartwatch and be just like James Bond. The ability to ask for directions, a phone number, or even the weather forecast, is just the press of a button away. With the amount of tasks that be performed right from a person’s mobile…
There are many measures that people who use online dating can use to ensure their safety. In a survey conducted from June to October 2002, 740 women who were 18 or older and had put an online personal ad were surveyed about their experience. The survey concentrates on three main types of safety measures regarding online dating such as online screening, email negotiation, and face-to-face survey. Many women used online screening methods to figure out if the man that they were interacting with…
Technology is constantly changing and becoming more advanced for people, but mainly teens are becoming very attached to technology. Gadgets such as phones, transportation, and computers have been created over time for us to use and hopefully make life easier and efficient. We do not even realize that these so called gadgets are taking over our everyday life. People today are too dependant on technology because every time someone turns the corner they see somebody on their phone, computer or…
Every year when spring cleaning rolls around, I always rummage through my closet to organize the years worth of junk I’ve hoarded. In my closet sits my pink, bedazzled Motorola Razr that I treasured in middle school. Though my minutes were limited and I could only play a demo of bejeweled for free, my first phone had a special place in my heart. It was only ever what it was meant to be; a back up, only to be used in emergency situations. As I put away my first phone, I walk out of my room,…
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the exchange of information. If she didn’t use the telephone when she was younger, the only other way to spread information was by mail or word of mouth. Today, the speed of life is much faster. She claims that she “can barely keep up with all the changes.” It amazes my grandma how every day there is a new way to communicate. First, direct phone lines, then car phones, then cell phones, then email, then text messaging, and finally Skype. She asks, “what’s wrong with picking up the telephone and…
Western Union, the battle of who provided better service was not over. In 1879, The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd. was registered and began to work on Edison telephone patents. The first official exchange by The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd. was opened on September 6, in London with 10 initial subscribers, but by February The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd had had opened two other exchanges. The company now served a total of 172 subscribers. Edison managed great…