...Our society is in a permanent, evolving world of revolution, seeking beyond what is natural into what is material. William Wordsworth and Marshall Jones recognized this change of passion in different periods of time. “The world is too much with us” and “Touchscreen” share the simplest of truths as each unveils the bitter reality of society’s focus. Although, while both hold onto aspects of the forgotten nature and the costly progression of human nature, their differences remain to be on their emphasis of the human relationship, whether it be with nature or other people. In addition, these two works of art ultimately contrast in their attitude of whether humanity is still considered hopeless. The cover of nature in this world is now tarnished by technology and all things absent of nature. Both poets understood the implications of when nature would soon be forgotten. In “The world is too much with us,” Wordsworth proclaims that “We have given our hearts away,” to the culture of materialistic wanting by “Getting and spending.” So if the world is too much with us, then that coincides with what...
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...It has showed me that many times, we rely on technology too much. Dependence on technology erodes community. Online and offline, when it comes to computers, phones and other such devices, you have created the potential for major distraction and danger. Distraction in the sense that one can spend too much time or too much energy trying to better yourself (often against others) through the technology you have. If you are focusing on how to help others, not on how many more gigabytes you can download with a certain machine, you can be a society that prides practical support for each, over personal security in any virtual world. Danger in the sense that not everything you can encounter through technology is going to be of use to your well-being and/or, by extension, others. Take any of the pornography, alcohol or drug industries. Previously these had a much more limited influence. Now you can access them simply through a click. Community requires effort, and if you want your society to improve itself, it should have to put in an effort to help one another. Using these tools together, and not letting yourselves get sidetracked by their other purposes help you to be independent. You also want to stop society abusing itself because it can. Technological devices can be useful, but from a spiritual perspective, one has to take care of how they are used for everyone to benefit. We are getting too sucked in to the technical world. People today use technology for a lot more than they realize...
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...Cell Phone Usage in Today’s World In today’s world, many people think cell phones are starting to become a problem. People of all ages, especially teens, can’t even go anywhere without their phones anymore. They are constantly on them, checking people’s tweets on Twitter and texting back all of their friends. When people can’t even hold conversations with who is in front of them because they’re too busy on their phones, that’s when it becomes a problem, but cell phones can really help us out, too. With all the apps on phones now, we can find out where the nearest restaurant is, look up phone numbers to a retail store, and find out where you’re going with a built in G.P.S. Today, in Africa, the use of mobile phones has increased greatly, especially in Nigeria, which is Africa’s largest telecoms market. It has close to 100 million mobile phone lines. Cell phones are helping people all over the African continent. They are helping people with their banking, and many of them are using their phones to pay for and buy things now. With all the recent uprisings in Africa, mobile phones have made it easy for the world to see. Almost all phones have cameras on them now. Where reporters can’t be, a cell phone can, and that video can be uploaded to the internet almost instantly. Not even in Africa, but almost everywhere, people use their phone cameras to capture stunning video. Years before, people could only see what the news reporters captured, but now nearly everyone you walk by has...
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...were slower. “I can’t keep everything in my head.” he says. This doesn’t surprise me seeing as people are consuming 12 hours of technology every day, compared with less than half of that back in 1960 according to the article, “Attached to Technology and Paying the Price”. This is getting out of control. So because of this epidemic I believe my school should participate in the national “Shut Down Your Screen Week” because we are always distracted, we aren’t concentrating, and there’s just too much multi tasking....
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...ARE WE TOO DEPENDENT ON TECHNOLOGY? Introduction Today, when were driving our cars, following a GPS, and talking on the phone we can wondered if we are too dependent on technology. It feels that recently, more and more people have become less connected with the real world and more connected with 'cyberspace'. Today, less people sit down to lunch and have a conversation without an interruption from a Smartphone buzzing on the table. Hardly anyone can go a day without posting a status on Facebook or sending out tweets or even constantly messaging their friends. While this all is very convenient and enjoyable, it makes us wonder…What would it be like if we all put down our phones and computers for a week and really lived life, a life outside of the confines of a cyber world. Maybe if we did this, we would be able to hold a conversation face to face without the risk of feeling uncomfortable. We wouldn’t have to wait for the delay of technology to keep us feeling secure in replies. Maybe, we wouldn’t all hide behind the mask of “a profile”. Maybe more people would be genuine and more honorable. We are all fans of technology and how much easier it makes life, however, we do feel that if individuals were less dependent on it, we would live a much more ‘real’ world. Our purpose it to expose the true colors of technology, in order to answer the question; are we too dependent of technology? Motivation The motivation factor which made us decide on the topic of this thesis is...
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...WITH REGARD TO THEMATIC PRE-OCCUPATION, DICTION, SETTING AND PLOT, ASSESS THOMAS HARDY “TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES AND MORAL”. THOMAS HARDY- TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (NON-AFRICAN) Pre-Occupation Thomas hardy first in his career became an apprentice to John Hicks. A Dorchester Architect for several years, his practice architecture in Dorchester, he also simultaneously studied Greek and Latin. It was during this period that he began written poetry. In 1862, Hardy moved to London ad worked as a Architect for Arthur Bloomfield. He continued to write poetry but was unsuccessful in getting it published. In 1871, his first novel, Desperate Remedies, was published, and a year later, under the greenwood tree was published DICTION Diction entails the use of words or language style use in the poetry. The style use in this poetry is narrative technique employed by the writer is the third person or omnipresent, through this technique the writer is able to present the various, no matter where they occur. • Imagery Bird: Image of bird recall throughout the novel evoking their traditional spiritual associative with higher Realm of transcendence. • Biblical Allusion The book of Genesis: the genesis story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is evoked repeatedly throughout Tess of the d’urbervilles, giving the novel a broader metaphysical dimension. • Symbols Prince: When Tess dozes off in the wagon and loses control, the resulting death of the Durbey field horse, price...
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...Arguments about Computer dependency Since their invention, people far and wide have become increasingly dependent on computers. Computers have found their way into just about every aspect of our lives, and in most cases, they make things easier for us [4] . They allow us to work from home, socialize with our friends and family who live too far away to visit, and they provide an ever-welcome stress relief when we come home from school or work and just want to have some fun. But as we increasingly rely on computers to get through the day, the question begs to be asked: have we become too dependent on computers? Despite the many benefits of computers, there are also a number of arguments against them, one of which is the negative effect some believe they are having on children's education. Illiteracy is a growing issue, and many say that computers are to blame. In the past few years, many teachers have taken to shuffling their students off to a computer to type out short, quick assignments that could easily be written out by hand. While this isn't much of an issue for older students, it is an issue for the younger students who are just learning to read and write. Regardless of how much we're coming to rely on computers, printing and handwriting are a necessary skill to have. But typing out assignments has an effect on more than just the ability to print4. It can also negatively impact their spelling and grammar. While most programs now have spell- and grammar-check, they...
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...the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contri- butions to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, awarded from the National Council of Teachers of English. Dr. Schor holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. in Economics from Wesleyan University. Why Do We Consume So Much? by Dr. Juliet B. Schor “Why do we consume so much?” Observers of consumption have answered this question in many ways. Because it’s our human nature. Because ads tell us to. Because we can’t help ourselves. Because our economic system needs us to. Because we are trapped in a fruitless dynamic of desire, acquisition, and disappointment. Because he who dies with the most toys wins. Just because we can. These answers are inadequate. But I believe we can find more satisfying ones by a critical application of both economic and sociological theory, which will not only help to explain why we consume the way we do, but also how we might start to live differently. But before proceeding I need to clarify two points. Whom do I mean by “we”? And what do I mean by “so much”? The “we” is straightforward. I do not mean the “global” we. Indeed, the “global” we hardly consumes so much. Rather economic globalization, militarization, corruption, the...
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...Miles 4/24/13 The Medium is the Massage In our world of social media and technology the individual is overly involved in others affairs, this allows for the person to form an altered identity to portray to their audience, and breaks down the barriers of privacy. This lack of privacy has created a movement in our daily lives, a movement in which technology and social media has molded our environment to the point where it has ultimately become our environment. We have unknowingly created a global village in which the individual is put on display and where we as a human race have become overly connected, and overly critical. It is shaping the way in which we perceive ourselves, and the rest of the world. “Too many people know too much about each other. Our new environment compels commitment and participation. We have become irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other” (McLuhan 24). Every day, during lunch I cant help but glance up from my plate of food and notice the mass amounts of people checking their phones. It has been shown that the average person checks their phone every six and a half minutes, and can check their phone up to 150 times a day! (Spencer 2013). The cell phone has developed so rapidly over the past ten years that we are now able to look and talk to a significant other face to face through a screen. We no longer send letters in the mail, or send a postcard “Because of electric speed, we can no longer wait and see. George Washington once remarked...
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...Don`t Kill Us Technology! In life things are constantly changing around us like technology, the people around us and how old we are. However, some things like the lessons learned in short stories like The Pedestrian and There Will Come Soft Rains both by Ray Bradbury will never go out of date. In The Pedestrian a man named Leonard Mead is out for a walk in the year 2053. He is only the only person outside walking, everyone else is inside watching tv, a police car notices this and pull him over because it looks suspicious. The car then proceeds to ask him questions and ends up taking him to The Psychiatric Center for Regressive Tendencies. In There Will Come Soft Rains the year 2026 and all humans are dead because of a nuclear war. However, an automated house lives on and continues to function, but one day a fiery tree falls on the house destroying it. Both these stories have an important message about technology and how it could negatively affect our lives. This important moral is especially relevant to today's world because of all the new technology we have. In The Pedestrian the reader can feel Leonard Mead`s loneliness and sadness as he is walking...
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...Abusing Technology in the World Today When you were little did you ever just sit around and think about the future? Flying cars, holographic keyboards, computer watches, and robots that can clean your house, well this day has arrived. The utilization of technology in today’s world is unimaginable. The way society uses technology today could have never been done in the past. We have iPhone’s that have conversations with us, automatic doors, and scooters that move by balancing your weight. But the question that the world wants to know is, do we rely too much on technology, and what happens if technology falls short of the success we think it has? When discussing more about this thought, has technology helped us in this world? For example, the business world. People like to imagine that the business world has been raised to a higher degree with technology in today’s society but some think it has been destroyed. Now companies do not have many workers anymore because they are operated by automation. Automation that operates ten time faster than one worker. This helps companies to improve their estimate of expected income against other companies and become on top of success. The reason why technology helps to produce and deliver a great quantity or amount of product so that they beat all of the competition in the business world. Technology has been passed on and improved throughout the years have gone for human needs. But we take so much for granted that we don’t even know what...
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...Sometimes the simplest words can have the deepest meaning. In the poem “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost, two separate elements are used as symbols for different behaviors in the world. Just by reading the poem, Frost portrays that the world will either burn or be iced over, however there is much more than just the obvious behind his words. The first element, fire, which “Some say the world will end in” (1), symbolizes the burning desire of humans or their passion. Our desires may not seem harmful, until they make us greedy enough to do things, such as use up all of our needed, natural resources. Nothing can stop our constant desire for things, no matter what it is; fire can be a disaster that can’t be stopped either. Once our burning passions...
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...the United States. For many Americans wilderness stands as the last remaining place where civilization, that all too human disease, has not fully infected the earth. It is an island in the polluted sea of urban-industrial modernity, the one place we can turn for escape from our own too-muchness. Seen in this way, wilderness presents itself as the best antidote to our human selves, a refuge we must somehow recover if we hope to save the planet. As Henry David Thoreau once famously declared, “In Wildness is the preservation of the World.“’ But is it? The more one knows of its peculiar history, the more one realizes that wilderness is not quite what it seems. Far from being the one place on earth that stands apart from humanity, it is quite profoundly a human creation-indeed, the creation of very particular human cultures at very particular moments in human history. It is not a pristine sanctuary where the last remnant of an untouched, endangered, but still transcendent nature can for at least a little while longer be encountered without the contaminating taint of civilization. Instead, it is a product of that civilization, and could hardly be contaminated by the very stuff of which it is made. Wilderness hides its unnaturalness behind a mask that is all the more beguiling because it seems so natural. As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflec- 69 70 / UNCOMMON GROUND tion of...
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...apple and persuaded Adam as well. This is how mankind became aware of right from wrong, they became vulnerable to temptation by worldly things, and they started to questions Gods very existence. And Man was cursed to the ground and work for their fruits; women were cursed pain during child birth and to always be submissive to their husbands. It’s easy to see now how after years and years after Adam and Eve there is so much corruption. My world view is that mankind has fallen for worldly things not remerging where they came from. Woman now marries Woman. Men marry men. God’s purpose for Adam and Eve was to populate the world with children and build families that would Praise God and be pure. Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground. Adam and Eve then gave birth to Cain and Abel. Cain and Abel were tested on their love for God and Cain was too greedy he offers God a portion of his crops one day as...
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...Values In Today’s Society February 16, 2014 Wallace told Whiskey Island, a literary magazine, in 1993, “This is the generation that has an inheritance of absolutely nothing as far as meaningful moral values.” The generation of today is a different generation than many of us have known. Many people these days just care about themselves and the good of them as individuals. It came up in my class’s discussion about success and how we are supposed to strive towards success. Granted this is true, there is a limit to how much we should be striving towards “success” though. Success to many people is good job, good money, and good car. Success is not measured by how much we obtain, but rather how we decide to use what has been given to us. When people are too focused on success in today’s society, there are rarely moral values because individuals are more focused on themselves versus what is important in life. There are too many people in the world today just looking for free handouts and, when you look at it that way, it really is all about them. Me, me, me is what our society focuses on way too often; what is going to help ME, what is going to make ME more money, what can I do to build ME up more, and you get the picture. As Williams put it in his article “Is Gen Y Becoming the New ‘Lost Generation’,” “it is clear that Generation Y has a very different set of values for work and life in general, compared to the Baby Boomers.” He said in his article that a professor named Paul...
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