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In the article “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” Jean M. Twenge she argues that a generation has been taken over by smartphones. I agree with Twenge's theories, but I feel that she was over-exaggerating when she states that teenagers are on a "mental-health crisis". Smartphones differ with everyone some people know how to manage their time and still have a social life, but others are certainly more comfortable online than out partying as stated in the article. She is a professor of psychology who research's generational differences, work values, life goals, and also speed of development. She had been researching generational differences for more than twenty-five years. It all started when she was twenty-two years old and a

Jean M. Twenge despises smartphones! That is the initial reaction to the title of her article “Have Smartphones Destroyed A generation?” . This will be an analysis of the effectiveness of the article written by Jean M. Twenge about the effects of smartphone usage on younger generations. With modern reliance growing more heavily on smartphones and younger generations being born with these devices around them, Twenge has gathered information pertaining to this new generational adaption that began to show signs around 2012. “Around 2012, I noticed abrupt shifts in teen behaviors and emotional states. The gentle slopes of the line graphs became steep mountains and sheer cliffs, and many of the distinctive characteristics of the Millennial

In her article, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”, Jean Twenge discusses how the new generation of teenagers are becoming highly dependent on their smartphones and need them alongside them at any given point in time. Twenge calls this new generation born between the late 1990s and early teens “iGen” after a recent survey found that majority of teenagers owned an iPhone. She argues that with every new generation, new habits form, both good and bad. The technological developments that have occurred in the last ten years Twenge argues are not a bad thing, it is how the “iGen” teenagers are becoming reliant on their phones and using them to avoid social interactions. They would choose to stay home alone in their rooms and talk to their friends virtually on social media versus actually leaving the house and doing something face-to-face with their friends. Twenge argues that if teenagers decide to leave the house, phones still have a strong presence, often not leaving the hands of its owner for longer than a couple minutes with social media like Snapchat and Instagram tagging along. Twenge worries that the strong dependency on smartphones and increasing rates of obsession with social media are a couple of the largest contributors to the rise of depression and suicide among the teenagers of “iGen”.

In her article “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”, Jean M. Twenge discusses the effects on “generation i” with rising smartphone and social media usage. In the article, she provides multiple statistics to support her claims on what’s happening with the “i generation”, and generations past through social media use. She concludes that while smartphones have some positive social impact on the generation (like lower teen pregnancy rates), there has been real damage to the generation as well. I have concluded that, our generation has been more negatively impacted through smartphone usage than positively impacted. This is a strong point to make but, through my own experiences and, after reading Twenge’s article I find myself thinking about what smartphones have done to us as a growing generation. I have witnessed firsthand numerous downsides to having a smartphone that Twenge reports on.

Smartphones have made enormous impacts on the entire planet, some of those impacts were good, others were not. Many adults today see smartphones as something that has crippled teenagers around the world, while the younger generation thinks otherwise. In my opinion, smartphones have done more harm than people realize. Smartphones could be harming children in their abilities to obtain a proper education and to make proper decisions.

Good Evening Everyone! I am McCall Radavich with USA Today. Although I am currently located in New York, I was born and raised in Arizona. At a very young age, I found my passion in writing and photography. I have literally been writing my story for as long as I can remember. When it came time for college, I chose one of the best journalism schools in the United States, the University of Iowa. I started small, taking pictures for the school’s newspaper, The Daily Iowan. I soon worked my way up to being an Opinions Writer, then a Metro Reporter, and finally my senior year, an editor. After graduating with a double major in journalism and geography in 2005, I got a yearlong internship with National Geographic. You know how you look back on moments of your life and think, that’s when it all changed? Well, that was it for me. That was my moment, the year I found myself. Writing isn’t an easy thing. Actually, I would say writing is the hardest thing a person can do, putting your self on display for any and all to see. Writing is the truth, and the truth hurts. I had always thought that was what I did when I wrote, tell the truth, but that wasn’t the case. I hadn’t learned how to write without boundaries until that summer, when I had no other option. I hadn’t known how to write like everything was on the line, because I had never had anything to lose. Now, it’s the only way I write. It is the only way I can. When my year was up, I didn’t know what to do with

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

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.

In today’s society, smart phones are a part of a student’s average, everyday life. No matter what people are doing, they find time to look at their phone and make a call, read a text, check e-mails, or search something on Google. Even though people find so many uses for them throughout the day, they are a controversial subject to talk about in their use in the classroom. Many schools have policies strictly prohibiting the use of smart phones in school. For schools to ban the use of smart phones is a major mistake. They only look at cell phones as a distraction to students, and don’t understand that this generation is dependent on the technologies of today. What educators need to do is ask themselves

Communication is found in many different forms. These days, many people communicate through a combination of in-person discussions, telephone messages, internet forums, and countless other channels. In “Exploding the Phone” by Phil Lapsley, we explore how people communicated through phones during their introduction into society. More specifically, the author takes us on a journey on how a subset of phone users, called “phone phreaks,” connected with each other through the telephone. These people would get around paying for the phone bill by using various methods such as whistling, playing a flute, and even building sophisticated electronic boxes. Before we began reading the book, we were not expecting to read a story; we were expecting a technical overview of what exactly “exploding a phone” entails, and the text being quite complex. After reading the first chapter, however, we were very surprised at how the author worked to keep the book interesting by mixing some light technical details with important stories of how people exposed the phone networks to their advantage. An example of

I completely disagree with the points the article puts forth. The author says that our generation has been ruined due to our phones. The data and percentages the author gives does not correlate with things I see people do everyday. Personally, my phone is very important to me and I can not go anywhere without. While my phone is important to me, and is a vital part of my everyday communication, it does not in any way at all prohibit me from going and hanging out with friends or leaving my house to socialize. I am not the only one who socializes either. All my friends and people in our school go out to eat after school, go to movies and go to parties and football games. I usually see someone I either recognize or know every time I leave my house.

In “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”, Jean M. Twenge criticizes how smart phones have negatively transformed today´s post-millennial generation by putting them into a mental-health crisis. The author compares her generation when they were teenagers, with the kids of nowadays who spend most of their time in their phones instead of having social interaction. Twenge also states how this post-millennial generation tends to fall into depression, and homicidal rates have risen due to this technological impact. I believe that as the technology advances, the generations that come tend to go backwards in the way they behave in their everyday life.

Through out Christine Rosen’s short essay “Our Cell Phones, Ourselves,” I noticed that she used a lot of facts to back up her point. At the very beginning the words “misanthrope” threw me off, but later learned that is refers to someone who avoids human society. The first handful of paragraphs talk about how the cell phone was first invented and how many people had them to begin with. I think it’s amazing how just in a couple of years the cell phone went from only available to a select few to millions. The number of people going “Wireless” as the essay describes or people getting cellphones is dramatically rising. I found it interesting where Rosen went on to describe how parents in today’s society provide cell phones for their children for

. Before going any further, let us take an example of how I planned to come up with my manuscript and ship it out to the world. You see, I never chose to be a writer; the writing came to me at a very young age, as a form of a response to a calling in my life. Since I was a young boy, writing has always been my passion. Unlike so many others who have victim mentality and run from their pain, I embraced it and began this thing called writing. My book ‘‘Short-term Pain for Long-term Gain’’ would never been created, because it was first conceived in the author's "imagination," from the mere seed of the key idea which was sown by a close friend of mine and classmate, Elizabeth. A circle of support in this book is referred to friends, family and

Software development is one of the highest demands in all over the world. We use software development techniques to solve the problems and to satisfy customers. Agile software development is a conceptual framework for software; it is also a group of software development methods based on iterative development. In 2001, agile software development was created by seventeen people with a desire to find alternative approaches to software development. The most important thing about agile methods are team work, conveying information to the team, face to face conversation, and satisfy the customer. There are various methodologies but I am going to describe the most popular ones.