One evening earlier this year, I needed to print a few pages for an assignment, but my computer printer was malfunctioning in my dorm room. I couldn 't believe this was happening to me. I just had a long stressful day and now this. My roommate noticed that I was frustrated and was fussing with the printer. He asked me what’s wrong and I explained the situation. He suggested that I went upstairs to use the printers on the 9th floor computer lab in South Quad. I have never been up there before so I decided to go give it a try. It happened to be 11pm at night and I thought there was going to be no one up there this late, but I was wrong. Surprisingly, there were actually a lot of people in there for being late at night. What could they be possibly doing at this time of night? Most of the students were doing some sort of homework, whether it was engineering coding or writing a paper. The remaining students were streaming some sort of show on an online television provider, most likely watching Netflix. I thought to myself, are there always people up here? Why wouldn 't they be doing this work on a private computer, such as a laptop, where no one can see what I’m doing? I grabbed my papers that I had printed then precede back down to my dorm room.
The following morning after my 10am lecture in Angel Hall, I noticed that the larger cyber station called the ‘Fishbowl’ was filled with students on the computers. Almost all of the computer stations were filled with students who
According to The Houghton Mifflin dictionary, night is defined as “the period between sunset and sunrise, especially, the hours of darkness” (p.887). Everything terrible happens at night. Every death, every tragedy, anything for that matter, happens at night. The significance that Elie Wiesel was trying to imply about night was a form of darkness. Darkness, as in danger. Darkness as in loneliness; loneliness as in sadness; sadness as in death. The symbol of death is expressed by the main character of the novel, Eliezer. Eliezer might not have died, but he experiences darkness, darkness of the soul, and loss of faith.
Elie’s father died of dysentery, starvation, and exhaustion in Buchenwald, only weeks before the liberating army came to the gates of the camp. After the liberation, Elie described how their first act as free men was to throw themselves upon the provisions for such were the inhumane savages they had become.
In response to the article “Attention Students: Put Your Laptops Away”, my opinion on the
In particular, Yardi claimed that using chatrooms “may be helpful for some students while others are better off not using it, depending on the personal experience of each individual student (322).” She does recognized that using backchannels in class can cause for distractions from the lesson to off-topic conversations due to “continuous partial attention.” In addition, another issue would be introverted students may not want to partake in the chatrooms. Nevertheless, these problems can be avoided by measures should be taken. Students that are not using the chatrooms appropriately should face penalties and to make timid students more comfortable with sharing their views, students should have
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography that depicts his lasting experience with the Holocaust. The book is written in Eliezer’s perspective and recounts his remarkable story. The memoir exhibits three prominent themes: father and son relationship, loss of faith, and inurement.
To obtain answers to the concerns previously listed, an 8 week study of students in an online class was conducted. This study consisted of monitoring online communication and classroom activity among students with different backgrounds with geographical location and age being two of the main contributing factors.
In the beginning of the bible, the world was dark. Then God created light in order to make it brighter. However, when the God is not here to protect the light, Night overtook. It is a time of darkness. It is also a place where people cannot see and help each other. Because of the faith in God, the darkness, hopeless of Night, and the period of Night, Elle Wiesel’s famous short novel is called “Night”, which is very significant for Elle Wiesel as well as the Jews during World War II.
In this information age, most people have access to multiple high-tech devices and they start to become dependent on those devices. Cathy Davidson, a famous American scholar and university professor at Duke University, proposed some new ideas of technology to change people’s lives from the perspective of education. In her article “Project Classroom Makeover”, she argues how the information age has created a new model for education which further change how students learn as well as how instructors teach. The participatory model, she promotes is described as a “student-led curiosity, whose object was not a bunk of white plastics, but the very nature of interactivity, crowdsourcing, customizing and inspired inquiry-driven problem solving” (54).
How many times have historical events been forgotten? Night, which was written by Elie Wiesel, describes the life of a twelve-year-old during his time in the concentration camps in Poland. When Elie and his family get transported to Auschwitz, he is quickly separated from his mother and sister, which will be the last time he sees them. He is able to stay with his father, but they go through a lot of starving and abuse to stay alive. As Elie and his father are transported from camp to camp, the hope of surviving is getting closer thanks to allied soldiers. Unfortunately, Elie’s father dies months before they can be recused due to starvation and dysentery. Elie is one of the few people to be able to live through the Holocaust, but his experience there has left him with many unforgettable scenes. The Holocaust is a time that should never be forgotten because it is a
Human nature can be analyzed through feelings, characteristics, and behavior. Humans are capable of expressing different emotions such as hate, frustration, remorse, happiness and other emotions depending on the situation they are encountering.Various aspects of human nature can be observed through many forms of media. Often times humans are portrayed in a negative way, however there are certain cases where they are portrayed positively, like in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. Evil acts, discrimination towards others, and perseverance for survival, are all apart of human nature.
Comparison of I Am Malala and Night While reading I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Night by Elie Wiesel, some similarities in their experiences were noticed. For instance, both main characters had laws set in place in their countries that dictated their daily lives. In Yousafzai’s case, “the code of purda” required women to fully cover themselves in public by draping scarves over their faces and robes ensure no skin was being shown. The set of laws that affected Wiesel in Night were the Nuremberg laws. These laws forbade the marriage of Germans and Jews along with other Anti Semitic ideals.
“After that, I had no other name” When Eliezer has his number engraved onto his left arm, he feels a loss of identity. This also contributes to the change in character.
“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost dramatizes the conflict that the speaker experiences with the outside world, which has rejected him, or perhaps which he has rejected. The poem is composed of fourteen lines and seven sentences, all of which begin with “I have.” Frost’s first and last line, “I have been one acquainted with the night,” emphasizes what it means for the speaker to be “acquainted with the night” (line 1; 14). The speaker describes his walk in the night as journey, in which he has “walked out of rain—and back in rain” and “outwalked the furthest city light” (line 2-3). Through the depiction of the changing weather conditions, Frost signifies the passage of time, perhaps indicating that the narrator has been on his journey for a lengthy period of time and has traveled through many cities. Furthermore, the imagery of the rain at night creates a forlorn atmosphere in the poem.
A good point is that the internet has enabled students to enroll or study academic subjects from a distance .In other word, they could contact their lecturer and
The present era has progressed not only in terms of education but also in the department of information technology. People usually resort into using technology for a faster way of communication, to progress in work and in education. Some colleges and universities have implemented the different kinds of technology for purposes of developing a student’s skills and abilities. “Technology is seen in several forms from the simple functions of a calculator used in mathematics to the most complicated computers and technological gadgets” (Flannagan L.J., pg. 07). However, alongside the positive advantages of technology and advanced computer system, there is also a negative side or disadvantages causing problems that need to be solved. While the “ideal goal for educators is to implement technology in the classroom and see definite positive affects on student achievement” (Flannagan L.J., pg. 09). We are living in a world filled with high tech gadgets in the current time like ipads, social media such as twitter, facebook, tumbr and google.