...life very easy. It is now easier to access information of different times within a short period. However, the effect of Google has led to a lot of controversies. Is Google really making us stupid or clever. This question requires a lot of insight and analysis in order to answer it. Some people say that Google makes us to be stupid while others are of the contrasting idea. Each side has given substantial evidence supporting their idea. Nevertheless, Google is of much benefit rather than making us stupid. Some professions argue that it has its own disadvantages and hence makes us stupid. One of this is that Google makes people lazy and hence stupid. Google provides all the required information to people and thus an individual is only required to press and find the answer (Sparrow et al, 2011). This is seen to...
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...Stupid is as stupid does. “My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think.” (Carr, Nicholas “Is Google making us stupid?”) I have asked myself the question “Is Google making us stupid?” (Carr) a dozen times while trying to write this paper. For me, we are only as stupid as we give ourselves credit for, Google or no Google. When I think of all the things that I would love to know, I don’t blame the Internet, Google or the amazing strides that technology has taken over the decades for my inherent stupidity on certain matters. I blame myself, for not taking the time or using the resources that are amazing displayed to me through libraries, computers or the people who hold the knowledge within them. Google is not making us stupid, it’s just another thing that we can blame for our stupidity. Scientifically there may be valid points to Carr’s essay in regards to how people process information today compared to ages ago. Carr begins his essay...
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...Essay 1: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” summary and response Summary: In the article of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and has some negative effects on our lives. In the article of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and has some negative effects on our lives. The article begins with that the Internet is the excellent resource where we can find whatever we want for everything, and we are becoming more and more dependent on it in the field of writing, reading and so on. Afterwards, Carr claims that it has a large distraction on our mind, and we even cannot concentrate on a long reading material. As he said, technology is becoming more important than people. In the end, he also tells us that Google is trying to invent an artificial brain to replace our "slow" brains that we already have. In the article of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and has some negative effects on our lives. He views the idea that the Internet is an obstacle for individuals to think deeply, and it is rebuilding our mind and memory. As Carr said, nowadays, it is so difficult for him to focus on a long paper; instead, he always spends a lot of time on the Internet. In the past, the writers like him should stay in the library to study for several days, but now, because of the Internet, it just...
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...Mytech LLC | Marketing Plan Proposal | Stupid Boy Comic Book | | | 1/15/2016 | Stupid Boy Marketing Plan – Initial First Draft | Stupid Boy Marketing Plan 1. Identify the correct target market 2.1. The current target market is simply too young to fully grasp the meaning of the comic. Stupid boy is a philosophical lesson to teach which is good however a 4 year old will simply not have interest in getting such a book. 2.2. 4 – 8 year olds are also more engaged if the content has good visuals, bright colours and easy messages thus the new target group should be from 7 – 12 year olds. 2.3. Through direct marketing get to the group by cold selling to preschools, kindergartens, primary schools, local churches, monastery’s, teachers forums and offer incentives listed below. Be aggressive to drive sales. 2. Get creative with your merchandising even when using different locations to sell your book. 3.4. Make banners of characters using your current workforce, with the character and the company’s name/logo and get an advantageous spot in the other retailers to attract attraction to your book e.g. the centre spot by the entrance with higher customer traffic. 3.5. Seal and cover your book so that customers are not able to read the comic book. 3.6. At EduMall, have a reading corner with bean bags and some chairs, decorate it, get a mascot who can also go to the other retailing outlets and get customers immediately...
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...institutions in the recent decades. Being well educated does not always mean that you know everything all the time. If that was the case, we would all be perfect. I feel that everyone has a bit of ignorance in them. To define ignorance so no one will be offended; it is the lack of knowledge: lack of knowledge or education, unawareness: unawareness of something, often of something important. Synonyms are the state of unawareness, inexperience, illiteracy, unfamiliarity, obliviousness, witlessness. Now if you look at this, I don’t know how to fly a plane so therefore I am ignorant to that fact but it definitely does not mean that I am not well educated. Some people would argue the ignorant factor asuming that this is a way of calling them stupid. Like it says in the "What does it mean to be well educated story", the husband talks about how his wife is very knowledgable when it comes to medicine and anthropology; she freezes up when you ask her what eight times seven is. (Kohn, 2003). So does this make the wife ignorant? Or is she well educated in her field of study? From grade school to high school we focus on several different subjects, such as reading writing, mathematics and sciences. These subjects are whats required to graduate. A certain amount of these subject are needed to go on to college. Once the required classes are aquired most persons move on to...
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...Google Making Us Stupid” he proposes the idea that advancing technology is rewiring the circuitry of the human brain thus changing reading patterns as well as thinking behavior. Rather than plunging deep into a book, Carr is implying that more and more people are becoming prone to skimming over readings due to the convenience technology provides. Not only does Car begin to notice the changes within his own reading skills, but as he speaks with his literary type friends Carr realizes that they are also facing the same struggles as him (Carr 573). If those who are reading lengthy books and studying literature are beginning to see the cognitive affects the Internet is inflicting upon them then who is to say that it is not...
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...Melbrooksjew 10/28/2014 Argumentative Essay “Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking- perhaps even a new sense of self”(Carr, P.g 2). The article “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the internet is doing to our brains”, is an interesting article written by critically acclaimed author Nicholas Carr. Nicholas Carr speaks upon how the internet is losing one's ability to concentrate on large physical texts or regular literature, and trading this ability for quick, to the point, internet articles and information. But this trade off is considering as without the ability to concentrate on literature, ones ability to critically analyze and have deep, thought provoking thoughts on what the person has read is suffered immensely. The main thesis that Nicholas Carr demonstrates throughout the article is “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy in a Jet Ski.” ( Carr. P.g 1). Nicholas Carr’s thesis explains that before we were all introduced and influenced by the internet, we were able to understand the physical text in front of us. We were able to have deep, critical thoughts that almost felt like an adventure. But now, do to the Internets speed and wealth of information, we don’t...
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...Throughout many different generations, technology has slowly taken over our lives. The goal was to make life easier for human beings, which led to the invention of Google. Nicholas Carr wrote an article called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” to explain how he feels about the Internet ruining his everyday life. In the article, Carr talks about how he cannot focus and eventually gets fidgety while reading a book. He continues on to say how no matter what, his life is surrounded by the internet and blames the Internet for not being able to read text as well, but then says that the Internet is actually a huge lifesaver. While using different rhetorical devices, Nicholas Carr argues that accessing information through Google has caused people to no longer keep focus while trying to read text. With the use of pathos, logos, and ethos Carr is able to make is point clear to the reader. In order to instill fear into the reader, Carr demonstrates pathos when saying, “The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive” (325). Using the comparison of the human brain and a computer causes fear to take over the reader. With Carr saying the brain is outdated, the reader assumes that the brain is being taking over by the computer,...
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...Moore Dr. Minton ENGL 1101/ F October 7, 2014 Google May Just Be Making Us Stupid The ability to perform research in just about every aspect of society. Thanks to modern technology a great deal of this research is readily available and right at our fingertips. In the world today many people have begun to rely on google as a primary means of finding this information. Because of this, it is thought that google may be “Making Us Stupid”. The article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr provides a quite reasonable argument to support this idea. “My mind isn’t going-so far as I can tell-but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think.” (24), is a statement made by car concerning the effects of the internet on his own brain. This is to imply that due to abundant use of the internet for research purposes, it had started to have subtle effects on his thought process. The area he most noticed this change was in his ability to focus when reading. This was attributed the fact that as a writer, he used the internet quite frequently and abundantly for research. Before the internet came to be his saving grace, he would have had to rely on the archaic relics known as books and other forms of media to perform his research. Just due to the nature of this beast, it sometimes required hours of grueling page turning, which in addition to expanding one’s mind can also cause paper cuts. According to Carr, He is not the only one suffering with this...
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...view on Barrack Obama. He states that Obama is stupid, even more stupid than Sarah Palin. Ted gives his points and reason to why he felts that Obama is a bad president. The thesis is sentence five of the article. This is the Thesis because it tells the viewer what he is going to talk about. In this case it tells the reader that Obama is dumb. This is what the whole paper is about, Obama being a dumb president. This article is aimed toward younger to middle aged, left wing people that watch CNN and care about politics. He wanted Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to work over the holidays. With that being said younger people work more over the holidays than old. Older people are off during the holidays because in older generations stores were closed on holidays and it’s been in recent generation that stores have been open during the holidays so that people had to work. Then he talks about being at least 30 to understand the joke he makes in part 10 of the article. To understand the joke u had to be 30 which is middle aged. The article is aim toward left-wing people because Ted Rall is a left-wing Democrat and he’s arguing that Obama should be more liberal than what he already is. This article wants people that like to listen to politics and watch CNN to read this because this tells how Ted Rall feels about President Obama. A lot of people have to work over the holidays. But in older generations the only people at work were medical people and the police. But today...
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...The Wonders and Wonder Falls of the Internet After multiples readings of Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, I found that he is writing from his own person experiences as well as what he deliberates, contemplates, and gets from other significant opinions and/or research. He has a major point that he makes very clear in his text. There are also several indented points that Carr points out. I want to point out that some of the statements made by Carr went through my thoughts as it was exactly what I was having trouble with, myself. He states in the beginning of his text that he starts to notice that rather than actually reading, we begin to speed-read over text. I find his statement somewhat true being it is what I found myself doing the first time I read Carr’s text. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” clearly expresses that the internet is not only distraction to our minds but that it could be allowing us to depend upon the internet more than classic research. Carr used many examples that allowed his claim to stand tall. He referred to the watch, the television, email, the steam engine, and many other modern technologies but Google and the internet being his key points. Carr is writing this essay as persuasive but informative. “If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them with “content”, we will sacrifice something important not only in our selves but in our culture.” (Carr) The text also displays sub-claims that I found to be interesting. He believes that even though...
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...being created. Whether it’s the new iPhone, tablet, or even inventions like paper towel dispensers. As I looked for another outlet to compare the LCK monologue to, I came across one about bathroom technology by a comedian, Demetri Martin. Martin explains his hatred towards new technology, except his is about bathroom technology. In the LCK monologue, he talks about his hatred towards smartphones and how they are effecting today’s society I feel the claim being made is that many of these new advances serve no purpose and isn’t needed in today’s world. In the LCK monologue, he explains how kids want a smartphone because all their peers have one and they want to look cool in order to not be an outcast (LCK smartphones). Martin also tells a story of how the inventors of technology thought it would be cool to have all these automated devices in public restrooms. Martin does not like the devices because of how complex it is to use them. He believes the devices make people look stupid just trying to get them to work properly.(Martin Bathrooms) In LCK monologue, he believes society has become lazier and we let technology do a lot for us. For example, kids playing video games all day long instead of going outside to play with the neighborhood kids. Since the inventors built the new devices in bathrooms, it makes people look lazy as if they don’t have the ability to flush a toilet, turn on a sink faucet, or get paper towels off a roll. Even though the creations of the automatic bathroom dispensers...
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...1. Inconsistent tense When writing about events in a novel, you must first make the decision whether to use the present or past tense. Generally speaking, either is acceptable, but once you make the choice, you need it be consistent. --Incorrect John decides to go to bed, but then he drank too much coffee and could not fall asleep. He watches television for half an hour, then he finally felt sleepy. --Correct John decided to go to bed, but then he drank too much coffee and could not fall asleep. He watched television for half an hour, then he finally felt sleepy. 2. Plot summaries instead of analysis Although it is often necessary to recount some of the plot to make your point, your paper should not be solely a plot summary. I know what happens in the book, and I assume you do, too. After recounting the relevant part of the plot, make an analytical statement about that passage; show me you have thought about the book. --Incorrect Michiko placed the money she earned prostituting herself into the empty box which was meant for her husband’s ashes. She held the box tightly as a tear ran down her cheek. --Correct Michiko’s act of placing the money she earned prostituting herself in her late husband’s ash-box demonstrates how her recent corruption had replaced a previous life of happiness. 3. Quoting instead of paraphrasing As a rule, you should only quote when either the original author said what he/she said so well that you could simply not say it better OR...
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...Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper Author: Jim Pryor, Princeton University [pic] Philosophical writing is different from the writing you'll be asked to do in other courses. Most of the strategies described below will also serve you well when writing for other courses, but don't automatically assume that they all will. Nor should you assume that every writing guideline you've been given by other teachers is important when you're writing a philosophy paper. Some of those guidelines are routinely violated in good philosophical prose (e.g., see the guidelines on grammar, below). Contents • What Does One Do in a Philosophy Paper? • Three Stages of Writing o Early Stages o Write a Draft o Rewrite, and Keep Rewriting • Minor Points • How You'll Be Graded What Does One Do in a Philosophy Paper? 1. A philosophy paper consists of the reasoned defense of some claim Your paper must offer an argument. It can't consist in the mere report of your opinions, nor in a mere report of the opinions of the philosophers we discuss. You have to defend the claims you make. You have to offer reasons to believe them. So you can't just say: My view is that P. You must say something like: My view is that P. I believe this because... or: I find that the following considerations...provide a convincing argument for P. Similarly, don't just say: Descartes says that Q. Instead...
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...or Dope? This will likely be the most dope paper ever written. Unless of course, the author is a complete dope and does not know how to write. Maybe it will be so bad that the reader will want to use dope to recover from the reading. So which one is it? Dope, dope, or dope? Over the years, many words go through transitions in their usage and meaning. The adjective dope serves as an excellent example of one of these such words. Who really even knows what it means anymore having gone through change after change depending on the era, user and situation as well as many other factors. Based off these various reasons, the word dope has taken on many different meanings over the years ranging from gravy, to stupid, to drugs, and the most recent definition being cool or awesome. As the time period shapes the word and redefines it, users should strive to use the most recent definition to prevent miscommunication. In this specific case, Dope should be redefined as a word to be used synonymously with awesome or cool to describe something as being really neat or impressive. Dope originally held the meaning in 1807 of describing a gravy or other viscous liquid coming from the Dutch word doopen, meaning “to dip.” The first ever official recording of the word in any form of dictionary or written ledger however was not until 1851 and carried a whole new meaning. At this time it was utilized as a form of American slang describing a silly or stupid person according to the Oxford English Dictionary...
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