Narrative Constructed Response

    (Introduction) “Put down the phone, turn off your the laptop, and do something-anything-that doesn’t involve a screen” (Twenge 63). It is astonishing the amount of time teens spend on phones. Jean Twenge discusses the effects smartphone usage has created among the younger and past generations in the article, “Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation”. The purpose of Twenge’s article is to aware readers about the many consequences the smartphone usage has impacted generations.

THESIS: In today’s world, the phone often provides a primary source of access to both social support and necessary data for school and extracurricular activities,” Dodgen-Magee says. “To simply yank it away would be like taking away the support of a bridge with nothing in its place.”

When children hit their adolescent years, most of them are given cellular phones by their parents. Parents may think that by providing their young adolescent with a cellular phone it is a form of keeping touch with them at all times. Even though I do not believe this is very responsible of the parents to do because adolescents do not get to build up a sense of self awareness in the dangerous world around them; they seem to lack their sense of direction since the android cellular phones now in days give you the answers to practically everything. From searching the web to always communicating through a text; cellular phones have tethered

Remember when flip phones were the thing? Not anymore since phones had upgraded. That’s a big problem! It’s okay because most of the kids in the world, like ourselves, know how to use the newest iPhones and Androids. They will learn how to download music, call their friends, download apps, and know how to use the GPS! Learning all of these things is useful for them because if they’re ever in trouble, they can call their friends, downloading apps help them because

Since 1975, the telephone has altered the way youth communicate with one another, and after decades of development it has ultimately led to touchscreen mobile phones which are known as ‘smart phones’. The versatility and convenience of mobile phones has revolutionised lives of all ages, surging across generations of X, Y and Z. However, despite mobile phone technology advancing to the stage where enough is never enough, constantly changing the way people live, learn, work and think. In addition, there is a massive social change between both generation X and generation Z, because of a vastly different methods in communicating via telephone, languages that are distributed, teenage behavior and relationships with others. In addition, Mrs. Nguyen part of the generation X, growing up in Vietnam, was interviewed to explore her youth and her thoughts on mobile phones.

In this rhetorical narrative I explain a time when I successfully communicated, and had a rhetorical success. My story starts off at the beginning with an exciting start to get the reader interested, and then goes into detail about one of the characters after the beginning of the story. Although the story is structured in almost chronological order it goes off on some tangents to explain the background of some characters. The story takes a deeper look into people’s reactions and the consequences associated with those reactions. As the story gets deeper and deeper it starts to get away from the action that takes place in the beginning, and starts to become more about the thoughts of the narrator as he prepares for his consequences. The story

In “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” written by, the Psychology Doctor, Jean M. Twenge, she presents the results produced after twenty-five years of research (Twenge para3). Her research was carried out to understand the new generation and explain how it differs to the previous generations (Twenge para9). Although her style is indeed formal, she utilized a heavy amount of credentials, logos, emotional appeal and a factual tone, to enforces her appeal on the parents of the kids of this new generation. Furthermore, she underlays her stand on the topic throughout her analysis, rather than having a direct approach and states actual percentages to compare previous generations to the new one, which leads to a sense of validity. It is not until the very end, that she finally states her stand in a more direct sense, since she has now gained the trust of her audience.

However, more and more people began the transition over to smart phones. By my sophomore year, almost everyone had chosen his or her side, IPhone or Samsung. After noticing this shift in interest, I started asking, or begging, my parents for a Samsung Galaxy just like what my best friend at the time had gotten for her birthday not too long before. After months of “asking,” it was Christmas time and I had pretty much given up all hope for the new device and was feeling so content with my Samsung Intensity II slider phone that I kind of even forgot about my obsession with the new, trendy phones. This is why I was taken so of guard when my fingers raced under the folds of the festive wrapping paper to have my eyes rest on a starch-white box with raised, black letters that read “Samsung Galaxy S4” in a neatly bonded, yet delicate font. Inside was a flat, black screen, much larger than what I was used to at the time, surrounded by a deep blue outline. The simple and unexpected moments like this make you eager for what’s to come. In this case, what was to come was a completely new way of communication that a whole generation got to discover

Technology is everywhere, from in the hands of the average person to a multi-million dollar company. As the touch screen device is a creation of this millennium, fear accompanies it in the eyes of many. In her article “The Touch-Screen Generation,” Hanna Rosin argues that parents are no exception, watching their children being drawn into the world of what they believe to be over-stimulation and attention zombies. Of course, people always fear the unknown. In a world that is no longer tied down by physical possibilities, the abstract world of technology must become another natural part of childhood along with forest adventures and storybook tales, no matter how unnatural it may feel.

My greatest opportunity for improvement in Constructive Responses would be; Reflective Thinking. This is a behavior learning in progress. This seems to be my biggest opportunity in the communication area. My interpretation of Reflective Thinking is digressing after the situation and wondering what I could have done differently for a different outcome. When I am having a discussion with another I tend to listen to respond. I need to listen to absorb and take in the information. At times I have a hasty unplanned response and that is interpreted incorrectly by the other person.

Little did I know that as an adult I would grow up to play that silly, annoying and pointless game of telephone. Although, this time it was not among five friends on the playground. The adult version was a giant, Costco-sized, City-wide version of the game.

This essay compares and contrasts the use of the mobile phone for Generation Z with the use of the telephone for the youth of the late Baby Boomers. It compares the behaviour, treatment of the elderly and communication skills of both generations in their use of the phone. The mobile phone has radically changed the experience of adolescence compared to previous generations (Chris, 2015). This report will examine the differences between Generation Z and the Baby Boomer use of the telephone and mobile phone. As part of this research Daryl Phillips was interviewed. He was born in 1963 in the last few years of the Baby Boomer generation. He had one telephone mounted on the wall of his parent’s kitchen, which he rarely ever used.

The author uses an anecdote about how his children think the Kindle is a "book" to show that children of today will have a different worldview than previous generations. Technology is changing their attitudes, behaviors, and outlooks. There will even be smaller generation gaps between children who would otherwise be of the same generation, because the technology is changing rapidly. If a new tool comes out, the older kids will not be as familiar with it, and so, they will be like "old fogies." Even three or four years is enough to separate a "generation" of users of technology. Teenagers are more likely than persons in their 20s to send instant messages and use video games. Children born in the 1980s are called the Net Generation, whereas children born in the 1990s and the 2000s are called the iGeneration. The iGeneration spends less time on the phone and watches less television than the Net Generation.

Over the past 20 years technology has changed greatly. We have seen the evolution of the computer and also the cell phone. The cell phone went from something that people purchased strictly for emergencies, to something that we depend on daily. In fact there are many people who have grown an addiction to their phone. They cannot leave the house without their smartphone or tablet. Their phone overpowers them and they cannot live without it. Phones now have apps on them and can tell you very important information at the push of a button. All ages of people feel a need to tell people where and what they are doing through social media. Also, there are now phones that are hands free. They give you data that used to be unattainable to the average human being without a computer or encyclopedia. The technology we now deal with on a daily basis is dangerous, yet it intrigues us as human beings. Computers are now portable and getting

First of all, we don’t spend our time using technology the whole day. Although we spend more time using our phones and playing our games, we still go outside, play sports, and get active. Our generation is always criticized and told that we use too much technology. We do use technology way more than they did, but it doesn’t mean that it is the only way we pass our time. We love our phones because it has become one of our pastimes, but