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In the article, “What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains”, by Nicholas Carr, he seems to be making the argument that while the internet is a helpful thing it is affecting our attention spans and how we process things. In the article Carr cites some of the many helpful things that the internet has given to us. This includes anything from banking to booking trips or even reading a book. However in this article Carr also explains how many of his author friends and he himself are noticing that they

become popular, the brain adapted by thinking faster. In addition, less and less teenagers enjoy reading lengthy novels, because they are used to the fast-paced browsing done on the internet. In the article, “Is Google Making us Stoopid?” author Nicholas Carr presents evidence to prove the internet has changed the way humans think. In the article, Carr discusses the ways in which the internet has changed thinking. He begins with his personal experience he has noticed. His friends and he noticed

uncertainty tends to reflect all the uncertainty in the minds of the consumers, managers as well as the policymakers about the possible futures. Therefore in this journal, the author Nicholas Bloom is able to justify how history, the current trend of economic uncertainties and uncertainty effects during recession periods. Nicholas associates these changes in behaviors that uncertainty induces ponders in the appropriate design of a countervailing economic policy. According to Frank Knight, who was an economic

Go West, Young People! And East! By: Nicholas Kristof inspired students to learn a second or third language. He makes the argument that all young people need to learn a second or third language, the language Kristof mentions is spanish. “All young americans should learn spanish” (P3). His stand for this is most retiring elderly people are going to move to these other countries like Mexico, Costa Rica, and Peru. His argument also is that learning a second language is good for the brain. Kristof mentioned

Nicholas Carr, a technology, culture and economics writer, examines the impact technological innervation has on the way people act and think on a daily basis. His recent difficulties concentrating while reading books and lengthy articles has led him to believe that his time spent online may be contributing to his lacking concentration and contemplation skills. By prefacing his argument with anecdotes from his friends and acquaintances, he is convinced that a new type of reading and interpreting is

Nicholas Carr’s essay, Is Google Making Us Stoopid?, makes the assumption that technology is deterring are cognitive skills, specifically reading skills. The more we’re introduced to advanced technologies the lazier we become mentally. Carr goes even farther to suggest that he has been affected as well, “my mind isn’t going…but it’s changing…I’m not thinking the way I used to think.” (510) Yet and still, technology has given us many advances over the years. From the typewriter to the printing press

There has been a ton of turmoil about the internet. A controversial issue on whether the internet is more helpful or hurtful to the human brain. On one hand, Nicholas Carr argues that technology may be weakening human abilities for deeper reading, an old fashion type of learning. Carr believes that relying on computers will cause humans intelligent to decline. On the other end, there’s Clive Thompson. Thompson presents computers as a digital tool that assists people in their everyday life. Providing

Authors can manipulate literary elements to their benefit in order to successfully convey their ideas. Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times journalist, utilizes this technique in his article, “Where Sweatshops Are A Dream”. Literary elements can be used in written pieces to persuade the readers to alter their perspective to match the author’s. Imagery is a literary element that is adopted into Kristof’s argument to enrich his article and to be informative in proving that sweatshops can be favorable

Nicholas Carr, posed the question, “Is Google making us stupid”, and asks his readers to give it some thought. The article made suggestions such as the internet changing the way the mind works and that the internet has negative consequences on the human brain. Carr wants everyone to be cautious of the internet because of the many different ways it has affected and will continue to affect the way we think. When I think about this article, I can see the many different tactics Carr used, such as fact

Fifty years ago, pen and paper were the main tools used to communicate. Thirty years later, computers became more prevalent and individuals began using computers more regularly. Today, computers, tablets, and iPhones have become almost a necessity due to the various jobs and schools that require their usage for communicating or turning in assignments. Most people in the United States could agree that they use technology on a daily basis however, compared to fifty years ago, this was obviously not