Narrative Constructed Response

Fallows appears to have written this editorial based on her examination of a change that has a occurred in our society, and a wonder of how this change affects the people, specifically the children, involved. In the year 2013, when this editorial was written, according to the PewResearch Center, cell phone usage among adults was at 91% up from 65% in 2004. In the same year, other articles emerged about the negative affects of cell phone usage among adults when around children. One article, published in The Guardian, stated that “parents should stop checking their mobiles and listen to their children when they are talking to them.” Fallows opens her editorial with an observation she has when walking through her neighborhood with her grandson. She notices that the adults she sees are not talking with their children but talking on the phone or texting.

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.

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.”

With the development of the telephone that was connected to a dialer via cable to wireless transmitted mobile phones. Reflecting on how she communicated in her youthful days, Mrs. Nguyen stated, “If we wanted to meet up somewhere, we would go to each other homes or meet at school and plan there, there were no such things as phones.” It is obvious to see that social change has taken place between generation X and Z. As the youth of generation Z are very reliant on mobile phones, found from the age of 13-17, 73% of teenagers obtain or are granted access to a smartphone and whereas 12% either choose not to have one or do

    (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.

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.

Similar to the light bulb, the cell phone began as a modest product with a modest purpose, and underwent multiple, complex revisions to result in the current models manufactured today. If one examines the cell phone’s impact on our culture, it is evident that it has had both a positive and a negative impact on society. Without a doubt, the largest positive impact has been its ability to make day-to-day life less complicated, and ultimately, easier. Among a never-ending list of examples are: the ability to set reminders for appointments, meetings and important dates, an endless array of how-to and

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

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.

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.

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

The first mobile phones, due to its “smaller” size, would still be considered very large in today’s world. Many of the early cell phones were considered “car phones” because they were shaped like a brick and could not fit into one's pocket. The first cell phone was called the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x and was commercially available in 1983. The cellular technology to call these phones was analog frequencies. In the early 2000’s, cell phones became smaller is size and the software got faster. The introduction of the Blackberry popularized the use of the technology allowing more and more people to be involved. Cell phones became popular with the introduction of text messaging, short messages that can be sent to another person. Texting has become an easier and quicker form of communicating with others. Teenagers and children grew to love this feature as a main form of communication. They took on this mainly because it is very private and did not have to be loud in a situation that was not appropriate. “Today’s teens will carry the technology with them as a part of their repertoire of communication possibilities. Where older generations, when

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.

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.