Perry Patetic's Fast-Moving Society

Although, this family may be in the same room, they are not together mentally or emotionally. Relationships are built by interacting with one another in a meaningful way. In this article, there is no mention of anyone talking about their day, the struggles they may be having at work or school. Instead, they are projecting their digital world onto each other through brief blips of conversation, which really doesn’t serve to build a deep relationship.My idea of quality time involves members of the family actually talking to and interacting with one another, but maybe that’s less of a given than I think. Our concept about what constitutes quality family time have evolved over the years.

The document “The Social Influence of the Automobile” was written in June of 1922 by Allen D. Albert. In this article Albert is saying that since the creation of automobiles the life has shifted for the better. “…almost without a pause in our thinking have we adjusted our lives to these factors new since yesterday”1 while automobiles brought a drastic change in life as it was, people adjusted to it quickly. In 1920’s cars were available to the general public at an affordable price, therefor offering the public a better, faster way of getting from place to place. Most importantly according to the document cars brought a change in the social aspects of life. With the help of a car travel times were decreased. Cities were now in reaching distance.

Getting the family together for the holidays may be a little harder when they are 1000 miles apart. Perry Patetic in his passage, claims that it is too easy to move away from the friends and family of our past, this creates a loss in friendship and or relationships. Patetic supports his argument by first explaining why people are able to move so far away. He continues by comparing the differences between a close relationship to a long distance relationship. The authors purpose is to point-out the struggle of a long distance relationship in order to change one’s opinion on the topic. The author displays a sincere tone for the newer generation.

In the article “Family Ties: 6 Ways to Stay Close Through the Years and Across the Miles” by Beverly Dillard, it talks about different ways to connect to family member. In paragraph two, she stated “Family. God created it as a built-in support system.” She also said, “We all need that connection, that feeling of security and belonging.” Beverly gives idea on how to keep family circle tight because she thinks that today’s society has tried to diminish the importance of family

The author, Leonard Pitts, Jr., laments over how technology is a detriment to the traditional family structure and writes an editorial regarding this issue. He powerfully achieves his purpose by using aloneness words and an oxymoron.

The article by Tasia Falcon it states, “Society has improved significantly since the 1960s with new, advanced technologies , such as cell phones and computers with internet” (Tasia Falcon). “People can keep in touch and meet new people easier and faster than 50 years ago. Now we have technology where we can do almost anything with the touch of a few buttons” (Tasia Falcon). This proves that people could find new friends and new places more faster in just a few clicks of a button. Additionally, the newer technology can keep the people more protected.

(78) Indeed, the transportation developments in the novel make commute and logistics more efficient and convenient. These technological advances, however, produce negative impacts on society’s identities. They isolate people by allowing them to potentially travel further apart from each other. Isolation consequently produces less social interaction, where people are exposed to fewer chances expressing their identities to the society. People’s identity becomes a scarification of the more and more solid, yet more conservative line between private and public space. Meanwhile, in Feed, the aggressive progress in information technology is also a significant factor that contributes to identity isolation. As mentioned in part two of the novel, when Titus’ parents visits him at the hospital, a moment of awkwardness is invoked when he is trying to talk to his father in person:

The book talks about how internet can deepen friendships, using social media to become more aware of a friend’s day to day life. (Berger, 204, p. 551-552). Social media helps most friendships, I always loved seeing the pictures my friends would post while we were apart as it almost allowed me to be with them or sometimes my friends would post pictures of us together just to say they missed me. As my friends and I have graduated high school and entered college, we may not see eachother very much within a year. Social media is one thing that allows us to always keep in touch. We may not see eachother everyday like before but things like snapchat allow us to stay in touch. Technology really has been able to form and improve friendships. Along with keeping in touch, social media also helped me reconnect with friends Id lost contact with. My senior year of high school one of my friends from second grade reached out to me via social media. We met up one day and out friendship rekindled, I gained another valuable friendship because of social media. According to the book the fear of internet causing isolation is false, if anything internet users seem to have more friends than nonusers (Berger,

This consists of talking to each other whether its over the phone or in person, but communication is needed to understand what is going on in their lives. Family relationships are only sustained by communication. Communication is the most important impact on family relationships because it ties the family together and prevents family from falling apart. In the book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, the character Chris leaves his family

Accordingly, the cost of transportation is directly linked to one’s income, impacting poorer families such as my father’s, who just came to America. This limits their ability to explore, run errands, and meet new people. Not having the ability to travel is a huge inconvenience because it is a constraint on their personal growth.

The automobile created a more mobile society, broke down the stability of family life and the traditional morality. There were so many changes in family life, especially in young adults. People were now able to go out, and travel farther than they have been able to go before. Now families did not have to live in the city, they can live in suburbs and travel to work. They were able to get out of the bad neighborhoods in the city and into a better home to raise a family. Young adults wanted to get away from the farm life, and the automobile offered that escape. These people were now able to start their own life and not take on what their family’s traditions

The automobile has changed city life by speeding up the expansion of population into the suburbs. The suburban trend is emphasized by the fact that highway transportation encourages business and industry to move outward to places where land is cheaper, where access by car and truck is easier than in crowded cities, and where space is available for their one or two story structures. Better roads were constructed, which further increased travel throughout the nation. The trend is most noticeable in the United States but is rapidly appearing elsewhere in the world ( The Impact of the Automobile on the 20th Century). Also,The social effects of the automobile were as great as well. Freedom of choice encouraged many family vacations to places where they could not go in past centuries. Urban dwellers had the opportunity to rediscover new landscapes, just as rural dwellers were able to shop in towns and cities. Teenagers gained more independence and confidence with driving freedom (The Age of The

Do you remember ever meeting someone you’ve feel in love with at first sight? Or have you ever had a family member move out of state? Did you wonder if you would ever see them again, or if there was a way to get in touch with them? Today it is possible to find someone and reconnect with simply knowing their name. With the help of the internet connecting with people has become easier than ever before. But are we really connecting? Although technology has reconnected people together in some ways, experienced generations believe that it has driven humanity farther apart, but there wrong.

With an increase in urbanization, more people are moving to the industrial cities in pursuit of alternative lifestyle and jobs. Life in city and suburbs can be compared and contrasted with various aspects in mind since they share quite some details in as much as they are vastly different. Firstly, the transportation is more accessible in the city as compared to the suburb where there are no apt transport networks as compared to the city, among the transport mode in the city are subways, busses, trams and ferries. These provide easy, fast and cheap means of getting around in the city in as much as the streets are crowded. This is in contrast to the suburbs since owning a car is mandatory since such public transport systems are not available. When the costs of insurance, fuel expenses and time of commuting are added up then transport in suburbs is seen to be expensive when compared to that in the city. The easy transport in the city does not come all rosy since the city is also flooded with traffic jams due to congestion and this can render transport slow. This is contrast with suburb life where there is no traffic and hence with no congestion traveling in suburbs is more peaceful (Boulter, 2005).

In the play, the writer set the scene by focusing on a casual conversation between a father and his daughter. By not focusing on one subject exhibited the uneasiness of their relationship. Each topic of conversation is in reference to someone else. Showing their inability to communicate with each other. Children require a great deal of one on one interaction from parents to keep the lines of communication open. With technology as the main form of communicating today, it has replaced the personal conversation between family members. Resulting in a wider communication gap between parents and children.