E1 Unit 2

Unit 1 Argumentative Essay Imagine that you were all alone in Antarctica. Your best friend, and at the time your only friend, just died. You are 100 miles away from a boat taking you rescue coming to port in four days. This is the story of Douglas Mawson, who faced adversity similar to Phineas Gage and Henrietta Lacks to contribute to science. Phineas Gage had an inch hole in his brain due to an accident with dynamite and a tamping iron on the railroad; he luckily survived but suffered infections, seizures and frontal lobe disorder.

What does one picture when you hear the word “dystopia”. Does one act as if it is the same as our modern life. Or, quite opposite, does one feel they are very different. If oneself thought either of these things, neither of them are completely wrong. Our modern-day society may be on a slight downfall, but the effects of a dystopia are far worse than our reality.

“The Internet was originally designed to provide people access to each other and information. If a resource is inaccessible because of coding problems or incompatibility with certain browsers or special-needs users, it fails to meet even the minimum requirements

(Mill, 1859) People love free things; the word free is even a way that companies promote their products. Keeping this in mind, it would mean that the internet would revolutionize the economy. More people would be educated just by having access to internet. Knowledge and education would be free because of all the information available online. Following the utilitarian view of ethics from the content providers and the end users would want to have the ISPs to pay for the internet

The Internet has negative and positive impacts, it depends how we will make use of it; the negative effects can be like a computer virus, internet theft, pornography, and dating sites, however the internet can be used for good purposes. Internet helps people to communicate and be connected with everyone all around the world by mail, Skype, Facebook, Google, twitter, and other social network apps and web sites; I personally believe technology benefits everyone and we are depending on this platform to better our lives in a positive way.

While some people can afford to pay extra for a faster and less censored internet, there also exists those who can not. Because of this, people with a low socioeconomic status will have less access to the internet than those of a higher economic status. If this were to happen, not only would we see people in the middle class have less and less access to the internet, but we would also see less and less people escaping the lower and middle class. Many people use the internet to showcase their special abilities, their creativity, and their own unique abilities, and without the internet, these talented people would never go viral and would never end up utilizing their abilities to help them

A big reason why keeping net neutrality is important is that it allows free access to information. The internet is full of sources that help educate people all across the nation.

Many years ago you wouldn't have ever thought we’d be here deciding whether the internet should be paid for depending on the different sites you went to. But as we know technology has grown bigger and bigger over time. So some people think that we should have to pay. Also speaking there are some people who think differently.

Income inequality is the unspoken truth of American life. Millions of Americans live in poverty while the minority holds the majority of the wealth. This problem has become more severe in recent years, with the wealth gap increasing exponentially. While innovation drives economics in the free market, recent innovations have caused the wealth gap to become skewed. Broadband Internet is one particular innovation that has spurred economic growth but has hurt the lower class. Broadband Internet can be defined as “768 Kbps download and 200 Kbps upload” (Dunbar). Although there are many varying classification of broadband Internet, this definition will be utilized for the purposes of this paper. The non-adoption of broadband Internet by those living

Network neutrality has been debated for years now. Questions have risen such as “Should internet users communicate online freely?” and “Should internet provide unbiased information to users?” The answer to these questions is yes. I agree with Julius Genachowski in his speech “Preserving a Free and Open Internet: A Platform Innovation, Opportunity, and Prosperity” that net neutrality, or open internet, provides many valuable benefits for the internet community and for our society as a whole.

There are places all over the world that are without the luxury of the internet. People have been trying to give those without access to the internet to those without it. One person who has been trying to achieve that goal is Mark Zuckerberg. Him and his team have been building a drone that they call Aquila, which will grant people without access to the internet, access to it. Their goal is to “bring the internet to all 7 billion people on Earth, regardless of their income or where they live” (theverge.com).

The internet has always been a source of opulence. During the 1700’s, many people successfully lived their lives to the fullest without internet. In many cases, our society seems to cling to mother internet. Shockingly to some, the lack of internet has no true effect on poor citizens. Julianne Malveaux’s quote is presented as an oxymoron that causes citizens to look as if they depend on the internet, which in turn isn’t healthy to over use anyway.

As stated in the AOW article “, Nearly every single family that has enrolled in Internet Essentials say it has improved their children’s grades—an unimpeachable validation of the importance of home broadband.” This quote from the article is proof that Internet access can radically change lives! Who knows, these family’s children might’ve been failing their classes just because they didn’t have internet access. The quote also shows how important internet is in not only our daily life, but our educational lives as

Do you have any cell phone or laptop? If the answer is yes, you might be a part of “internet user” on the world. Internet gives human a lot of convenience to do almost everything. Teachers use internet to help students for their works, let alone most of jobs at today need to use internet to work on it. According to A Day Of The Internet, 78.6% of people use internet in North America, that means in North America, 417.6 million people have been using internet. Internet becomes a part of our life gradually. However, internet also brings something that are negative. It let some people get internet addiction, myopia and even let human become lack thinking. But should people stop using internet just because it may be bad to them? Of course not.

“Today, Internet is not a luxury, it is a necessity” (Barrack Obama). The internet has