Analysis Of Sam Graham Felsen 's Article

Technology has become a daily part in one's lives where it helps people do the simplest of tasks and allows time consuming tasks be completed in seconds. People don't have to go to a bookstore to buy books anymore since e-books made the process easier or have to wait in long lines at the DMV when people can make an appointment through their phones. The amount of time technology saves people isn't beneficial though, according to Paul Goldberger and Christina Kline technology has belittled experiences that they believe are part of the experiences of life on a daily basis.

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.

Since the beginning of slavery, leaders called on their faith to justify the immoral actions of the slave trade. These strong preachers for their communities’ strategically defined the meanings of scriptures to sway members into the ideals of North vs. South. Richard Furman and John G. Fee are historical activists using scripture to inform the community of their views. Both figures, arguments juxtaposed reveal the stark differences in their interpretations of the connection between human nature and scripture.

“In the last 50 years, up to 100,000 Americans lost their lives due to inactivity leading to some sort of conditional disease such as heart disease [including the laziness within people of society]” (Wise 12). So many people have died from becoming lazy, doing nothing but go on their phones, devices, rather than doing everyday things. Technology has changed the way society approaches life, always depending on it rather than themselves and others. The society today consists of nothing but TV screens, telephone, smartphones, iPads, and items the 19th century would consider a dream to lay hands on. A book written by Bradbury presents lack of effort people put into their lives and society; Bradbury predicts how the future will become later on in the society. Becoming more similar to the laziness and ignorance in the novel, Fahrenheit 451, the society today struggles the society today struggles with dependency on technology which results to lack of social interactions with one another and failure in becoming literate with books.

Nick Gillespie article, “Millennials Are Selfish and Entitled, and Helicopter Parents Are to Blame”(2014), asserts that as the title states, that children are the newest generation of children are the way they are due to an overly involved parent generation. Gillespie backs up this claim through his use of statistics. These statistics demonstrate the restrictions on children in today’s time period. Gillespie’s purpose is to point out the way helicopter parents are being overbearing and alert the reader to problems that they may be unaware of. Next, Gillespie discusses the nature of how children are acting and the fact that consumption of violence, and other forms allotted to previous generations has been cut off with little to no effect in

In the article "Our Cell Phones, Ourselves," by Christine Rosen, she explains the dependency on cell phone use while highlighting unforeseen consequences that may occur with cellular device use. From allowing parents to track down their children, to having a casual conversation with a friend, cell phones offer people an unparalleled level of convenience. Furthermore, cell phone owners feel much safer knowing that in an emergency, help is just a phone call away. This convenience, however, does not come without any negative effects. Many cell phone owners become too engrossed in their phones and therefore ignore the physical world, an idea that Rosen refers to as "absent presence.” Also, people may use their phones as a way to prove they are

He references the story of the Oji-Cree people, nomads who relied very little on technology. It was not until the nineteen-sixties, when technology, such as engines and electricity, was introduced to them. After this advancement, the threat of dying in the winter due to starvation was eliminated; however, obesity and diabetes emerged throughout the population. This raises the question of whether the technology caused more harm than good. He presents this story to model how our society is not much different, “When it comes to technologies, we mainly want to make things easy. Not to be bored. Oh, and maybe to look a bit younger” (Wu 4). Technology, while intended to help us, allows us to be lazy as a society, which introduces a whole new set of problems. He furthers his point by saying that we are “comfort-seeking missiles” (Wu 4). This theory causes the reader to reflect on themselves to notice if they have fallen victim to the misuse of technology. By inserting this study into his article Wu is able to persuade the reader to agree with

The human brain learns new information and actions through repetition and hands on experience. When the brain is tasked with the job to complete an action, cells called neurons fire signals to each other in order to communicate what was to be done. Those signals transmit data which gives commands to other cells in the body to perform the desired action or think about a specific subject. As these neurons fire the same signals repeatedly, the effort that it takes to do so decreases and the brain becomes more efficient at completing those tasks. However, When not in frequent use the path forged by the constant firing of signals weakens and the neurons essentially “forget” how to send the signal to complete the action. This process illustrates what is happening in the brain when society stops performing tasks that used to seem as if they could only be done with the careful care that can be provided through the gentle human touch and designate them to automation. The result of allowing machines to take over these such actions that used to be so commonplace in everyday life is much more worrisome than to be initially expected. The benefits of hard work done by hand are being lost to the convenience of robot vacuum cleaners and handheld devices that can direct their user to the closest Subway or McDonalds near them. By allowing this to happen, society is essentially forgetting how to live life without the aid of technology by its side. There will come a day that society will no longer know to function without every action done for it. No longer will humanity be the most intelligent and dominant race, but the race that was easily dominated by the touch of a finger and the push of a

Noels article, talks about the comparison of the Haudenosaunee to the Anglo- Americans, as well as the Dutch and the French women to the Anglo- Americans women. His main points were about the power that is behind their voices, when it came to political and economic opinions. Noel article main thesis states that “ these entrepreneurs were accepted figures among the Dutch and French of North America- a minority to be sure, but not an insignificant one. In vastly larger numbers, ordinary women traded their produces and handiwork at local markets” . Noel also states that “ compared to Knowatsi’tsiaenni, even the most privileged women of the day in England and New England had little political influence” . Highlighting the importance of indigenous

Unconscionable technology among a society can generate an astonishing amount of ignorance and commodity. When one has access to most things within seconds and at your fingertips there's a loss of understanding on what work is people suddenly become ungrateful like seen in page seven of the novel, "You don't need an M.D., case like this; all you need is two handy men, clean up the problem in half an hour." And "Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had the special machines built." This goes to show that if we let technology overtake our society things like these will happen, our health and mental stability will not be a priority and treated as

Rather than dwell on how much technology, and cell phones in particular, have destroyed our society and individuals, we should start to look at the benefits of cell phones.

A well-known journalist and a book writer, Robert J. Samuelson has worked in different fields such as political, economic, and social issues. He has published abundance articles for famous newspapers such as Sunday Times of London, the Los Angeles Times and his book was published in 1995. Samuelson has won numerous journalism awards; he is also in top fifty journalists in the capital city. As a contributor to The Washington Post, Samuelson has engaged with more men columnists than women columnists in the journal industry. Thus, the people that are allowed to speak is mostly males. The majority of Samuelson’s articles are centralized on economic and social issues. For example, Robert J. Samuelson’s article, What’s the real gender pay gap? illustrates

Technology dehumanizes man in such a way that no one truly notices it. People start to live by something that cannot feel, cannot make us feel, but something that forces us to ignore what happens around us and move at a fast pace. We, therefore “[have] no time to be anything but a machine,” for if people stopped to think, they would lose the train and their “progress” would be slowed (5). Not only does the train cause our days to move so fast that no one can enjoy the “maples turn[ing] scarlet,” but it “distract[s] our attention from serious things” (46). To Thoreau, it seemed as though no one cared about the revolution happening at the time in France. Even know, we are so focused on ourselves and how we are portrayed to the world that we don’t

Paragraph 3: (Positive Effects) Don’t you ever just sit and wonder how people lived before the cell phone even existed? How they communicated from different places or what they did for fun? Nowadays people can barely live without their phones and is considered a punishment for many kids in their households if they don’t follow instructions or are bad. Well, that’s what brings out such beauty to the invention! The many advantages the cell phone provides us with is

Since the beginning of time, the human population has strived to live simpler lives. We have spent generations, creating innovations within technology to ensure our lives would always be more simplistic than those who lived centuries before us. People now have the ability to update their Facebook status’, map the human genome to target strands of DNA that can be disastrous to one’s health, send out amber alerts nationwide, and create plants that are resistant to pesticides. Many fields, such as medicine, law enforcement, and entertainment have benefited greatly from advancements in technology which has inevitably changed the way society operates. However, with the abundance of technology available, society has developed an unhealthy relationship where we now rely on technology too heavily. Technology has rendered our minds incapable of the ability to play, communicate, and live our lives in the moment, despite its positive additions to our society.