Analysis Of Richard Copper's Article 'Click, Flick'

Historical- This story was written in the 1970’s about war, the Vietnam War to be more specific. The reason I know it was that war is because the author himself fought in the Vietnam War. In 1968, after graduating from college, O’Brien gets a paper saying he’s being drafted. He was going to flee to the boarder of Canada but he went to war. Coming back after the war he attended Harvard and became an Award winning novelist. The text is saying briefly it was a hard period in time. There were parts where he talks about the character Paul and he says “He was pretending he was a boy again”, I’m guessing deep down he didn’t want to be there fighting.

In the exposition 'A hundred thousand straightened nails' the writer Donald Hall Started the article with a memory of how he started to know about stories of friends and family from his granddad at their ranch he would visit each late spring. He did this to give us the readers a general thought of the setting that his paper will happen in and as of what time in his life it was which was his initial adolescence years. The author in his narrative stated that “if I was morbid, it was not my grandfather’s fault” implying that every one of the stories of death didn't change his look on it, rather it better taught it, what appears like an existence occasion that had "struck" him was the decay of new Hampshire where things would change for the

Sherry Turkle’s “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk” article was published on September 26, 2015 in The New York Times. The author explains that college students spend more time on their phones than talking face-to-face. Turkle mentions that parents have realized this at the dinner table with their kids or just trying to have a conversation with them. Teenagers and young adults claim that they can multitask and understand what the person is saying while being preoccupied. Multiple studies have been done to demonstrate the influence and behaviorial changes without a device. This generation reports that they feel more personal when their phones were taken away for a certain period of time. A boy from one of the studies describes this dilemma as “It’s what texting does to our conversation when we are together that’s the problem” (Turkle par. 6). Texting has become more popular as time goes on and college students were born in a world where phones were a problem and with new features coming out, they have become more intrigued. Using rhetorical strategies such as mentioning research studies and rhetorical appeals, the author effectively explains how technology changes society.

Yet again, she is right on point. I feel that this merges into her chapter Absent without leave. People get so focused on this cell phone screen that they are like a zombie, not mentally just physically, they are lost in a cell phone screen. Rosen, (2001) Within the essay, Disconnected Urbanism, Paul Goldberger adds to this idea, he states “there in body but not it any other way? You are not on Madison Avenue if you’re holding a little object to your ear that pulls you toward a person in Omaha”. Goldeberger, (2003) I feel that this line pulled from his essay wraps up a message same as Christine Rosen. This issue has only excessively become worse since technology is much more advanced from when these essays were written. People all over the world are simply living in a digital world and the younger generation is losing valuable personal communication

Many people are not mindful of how technology is disconnecting us from one another. When people pull out smartphones during a conversation or social gathering they will cause others to feel disconnected. These phones allow people to withdraw from what is happing now and move another situation reducing the quality of the conversation that is within our reach. In the essay "Stop Googling. Let's Talk" by Sherry Turkle; she believes that we are becoming a culture of short chats versus growing our culture of thinkers that are open to sharing in constructive and meaningful conversations with one another.

Tannen believes that much of this breakdown is caused by the lack of people interacting face to face. She feels that our high tech world infused with social networking, email, cell phones, texting and more has given people a way to communicate without actually connecting with each other. “The proliferation and increasing portability of technology isolates people in a bubble-” warns Tannen.

As much as I regret to admit it, I’m attached to my phone. I’m constantly reaching into my pocket to check the time, make sure I haven’t gotten a new update, or to send a message. I do this even when I’m not talking to anyone! It’s become an addiction, having to make sure I’m not missing anything, and I'm not the only one who has this problem. Seventy-five percent of the world population has a cell phone, and that number will only increase. With the creation of new technology portions of life have become easier. Technology has changed the way we go through life. It’s made talking to people easier, as well as keeping up with the lives of others. However, the effects have affected the aspects of our lives that don’t include technology.

In the second chapter of her book, “The Empathy Diaries” Sherry Turkle argues that people are fleeing or running from normal conversation. She also states that even though we want to be with each other, we also want to be able to disconnect with reality and connect somewhere else. She claims “What we value most is control over where we put our attention” (19). We want to be close but not that far away, but just right. The writer acknowledges that our phones give us a sense of “companionship” without having to deal with the demands of an actual relationship. With that being said, even our conversations are being impacted by our phones. The writer even states that, “even the mere presence of a phone on a table (even a phone turned off) changes

These drawbacks include too many people being reliant to talking online rather than in person and not verbally communicating with friends even though they are in the same room. Jasmine Fowlkes shows the reality in how social media is affecting our new generation through her article, “Viewpoint: Why Social Media is Destroying our Social Skills.” After discussing the results conducted by several researchers, Fowlkes states,“As more generations are born into the social age, social media will continue to be the favored communication form among young people. However, this shift may begin to affect their ability to properly communicate in person with peers.” Many start to rely on applications on our devices to talk to people, but this results in less verbal communication. In addition, Kelly-Fay’s Talktrack research study showed that conversations held in person are much more impactful than on social media. Rather than making social media a huge part of your life, Fowlkes wishes that people would look up from their phones and engage more with others since that could change their lives.

Yet again she is right on point. I feel that this merges into her chapter Absent without leave. People get so focused on this cell phone screen that they are like a zombie, not mentally just physically, they are lost in a cell phone screen. Rosen, (2001) Within the essay, Disconnected Urbanism, Paul Goldberger adds to this idea, he states “there in body but not it any other way? You are not on Madison Avenue if your holding a little object to your ear that pulls you toward a person in Omaha”. Goldeberger, (2003) I feel that this line pulled from his essay wraps up a message same as Christine Rosen. This issues have only gotten worse since technology is much more advanced from when these essays were written. People all over the world are simply living in a digital world and the young generation is losing valuable personal communication

Cell phones are commonly the first and last thing that the people in our society look at before they go to sleep. All over the place you can spot children who "are all hanging out, but instead of looking at each other, they are staring at their phones." (Newsela, From phone-to-phone). In this day and age, people are losing the ability to communicate, and instead of doing so they text each other on their phones. No matter where in the world, kids spend more time "corresponding with their friends through text messaging rather than talking to them in person." (Newsela, From phone-to-phone). These phones are taking away the ability to speak to one another. Not only that, but they are taking away part of what it means to be human. Ray Bradbury sends this message as well in his novel, Fahrenheit 451. One of the characters in this book, known as Clarisse, talks about how she enjoys communication and how she thinks that "being with people is nice. But I don’t think it’s social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you?" (Bradbury 27). Bradbury shows that if humans do not talk to each other, even if they are together, they all not being social. Bradbury also expresses the fact that if people do not interact, they will not be able to remember one another. Montag can't even remember his own wife. He tries and tries but can only come up with "my wife, my wife. Poor Millie, poor, poor

    Sherry Turkle, a professor and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, wrote an essay called “No Need To Call” to talk about her research on cell phones and social life. She goes in depth into a few lives of those who use their cell phones frequently and those who avoid it. Turkle starts off her essay by talking about Elaine, a seventeen year old. Elaine acknowledges the use of texting within her generation, she states “It’s only on the screen that shy people open up.” (373). Elaine then follows this by speaking of the ability to pause and think before you send a message. You have more time to think before you say something, unlike in person or on the phone. Turkle then reflects on this teen’s analysis, she says, “Elaine is right in her analysis: teenagers flee the telephone. Perhaps more surprisingly, so do adults.” (374).

The urge to be connected has become more of an addiction than a form of convenient communication; due to the amount of time people spend on technology. This causes a severe disconnection with others around them. People spend more time looking at the “perfect” lives of other celebrities, that they forget to enjoy what is around them. If people spend more time looking up from their screens, they could make more friendships or companionships with other people. Imagine all the possible conversations you missed because you were too busy talking to people through a screen, instead of those around you. People often use their means of technology as a way to distract them or avoid talking to others. Perhaps this is due to the social disconnect they have with others around them. If people spend less time on technology, more connections with people would form. You would have more time to do things you want to do, such as reading, exercise, or more. Instead of connecting with people through technology, we should make connections with people close to us the top priority.

The short fiction story “Tickits,” written by Paul Milenski is about Toby Heckler giving tickets to all those he finds doing wrong especially his mother. How can I help all those around me someone like Tobey can ask himself? I can shed light to the troubles one may cause others like a superheroes providing safety to the citizens around them. My cloak and armor is my sharp appearance with not even a smudge on my pearly white sneakers. There are many imperfections when it comes to people behavior in a sense to not caring about others.

Over the years technology has been growing fast. Knowing human use communication by texting and calling. It’s careless for humans because not seeing each other could cause them to have problems. Instead of going out together and be active they just waste time on their phones. Humans putting a stop of when they have access to their phones so that they can spend more time with friends.