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Does Technology Make us Feel Lonely? Technology is there wherever you go in the world, whether it’d be the computer in your living room or the cell phone in your pocket. In fact, as of November 6 2016, it was estimated that 95% of all Americans have some kind of cellphone and 77% have a smartphone (pewinternet.org). But the real question is: does all this technology lead us to stray away from our friends and make us feel more lonely? Some might be led to believe so, with how many people are so dependant

The template/sample can be found in the appendix, as well as all the results summarized by Google Form. 20 people took the survey in a lapse time of 5 days between October 12 and October 17. The survey suggested that half of the surveyed had a Bachelor’s degree and 75% of them are single, never married. Most of them (65%) had between 18 and 24 year old and took the survey via social media. The other category mostly represented (20%) was between 45 and 54 year old and took the survey sent my email

Composition I 13 April 2017 Why Go to College? In the following two articles, “7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Go To College and 4 Things To Do Instead” from the Huffpost Business by Michael Price and “The Rising Cost of Not Going to College” by the Pew Research Center, have varied relations and differences stated within each of them. There are important points to consider about making the choice if college is necessary for one’s future or not. They also talk about what positions people are put in if they

for teens and young adults to express themselves. Firstly, negative effects of social media are less common than parents think. More than 70% of US teens use applications or social platforms on their phones, often daily according to a Pew Research Center report (Pew). Social media allows teens to have control over their lives, and according to this statistic, the majority are. Many teens are affected by the examples people lead on social media. Using apps and such can help a teen’s self-esteem, boost

Christine Fair and Bryan Shepherd’s research note explores the different aspects upon demand for terrorism (also known as support) to address empirical lacunae in exploring detailed demographic and psychographic variables among fourteen countries with predominantly Muslim populations or with large Muslim minorities in 2002. Whereas many of previous research focused upon the supply of terrorist work force and the shared characteristics of terrorists, the present research note represents a quantitative

Fitch. Website Content & Coverage The website I chose was Pew Research Center. In Pew Research Center is a web page were the audience is directed for general public. The information in the article was secondary. One of the things that I liked about this article is that the information that was provided has diverse statistics and

Introduction Society is always changing on what should and should not be accepted in a community or family. However as much as many may disagree on cohabitation before marriage couples are opting for this option due to many reasons, for most living with someone before being married gives them the opportunity to see if they are really willing to spend the rest of their lives with such person. This will give them the opportunity to learn from each other and if they are fit in such relationship. In

Reading comprehension is an essential skill for reasoning and for functioning well in everyday life. The SAT is a test that measures these skills and it is a crucial part of high school students to be admitted into post-secondary schools. A test of this magnitude combined with the increasing competition in college admissions should have test scores increasing as each year passes, but instead, a reverse trend is occurring. The average reading scores have decreased in the last four decades, having

issues. Obsessive use of technology socially isolates us and destroys our social skills. The first effect of excessive time with technology and media is social isolation. As published in the New York Times article “Antisocial Networking”, the Pew Research Center found that half of American teenagers — defined in the study as ages 12 through 17 — send 50 or more text messages a day and that one third send more than 100 a day. Two thirds of the texters surveyed by the center’s Internet and American Life

smartphones and a lot of the smartphone users have social media where they can connect with their friends and family and even get a chance to meet new people online. It is claimed that being on social media is people's favorite thing to do digitally (Pew Research Center). Online