I think the article “is Facebook making us lonely?” is a well written article. Stephen starts off with an example of a woman dying and connects it to the social network because her computer was left on. I think him starting off with this was a good choice as it captured the mind of his readers, pushing us to read more. Also this article had all the right references which show that the writer did his research before putting it out there. He explains Facebook gives us the sense of actually having
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“Truth, that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality.” As seen here truth is easily defined in eleven words, but when faced with the task to do so as an individual, it proves to be quite daunting. To try to whittle down such a meaningful word to just eleven words to describe it seems ambiguous and takes away from the reality and just puts it into facts, stating itself, the truth. Understanding how truth plays a large role in war and compares to it, brings a larger perception of war to
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In Orientation by Daniel Orozco, a person is showing around a new working during his orientation around the business he was just hired at. He is informing the new working of all the information he will need to be successful in working at the business. He was also informing the new co-worker of personal information that shouldn’t be told on his first day of work or shared to begin with at all. The story “Orientation” through satire shows alienation of traditional office work in the real world. A Satire
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are open to confronting the truth and admitting they were wrong. This realization occurs after they have engineered a false actuality for themselves. Gene Forrester creates his own reality of his enemy in the novel, A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Due to his insecurity, Gene believes Finny is his enemy but in reality, he is fighting a battle against himself. As a result, he admits to his own flaws and learns he has defeated his true enemy, himself. Gene assumes that his rival is Finny, making
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In the articles, "Are These Stories True? (Nope)" written by Kristen Lewis and "The Story That Got Away" written by Debby Waldman, they give reasons as to why fake news can sometimes be appealing. For example, in the article "Are These Stories True? (Nope)" written by Kristen Lewis, it explains how fake news sellers use big headlines and click bait to attract users to their website. The articles states that websites "put out made-up stories with sensational headlines to lure people into clicking
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The Reality of Imagination Reality. Imagination. As taught in school, the two terms are antonyms of each other as they occupy the domains of the physical world and the physics-defying, almost magical realm respectively. From the differentiation of the two settings arise idioms such as the lyrics from hip-hop giant Eminem in his single “Lose Yourself: ‘Snap back into reality!’” However, as much as dictionaries, and even physicians, can differentiate between the two words, imagination and reality
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What exactly is the truth? What is true and how do we determine this? Although these questions offer great similarity, they are two completely different questions. In order to determine what is true, we must evaluate what is considered the truth. Absolute statements are often relative to context such as language, setting, culture, and belief, however, although absolute facts might exist in theory, do we really have access to them? I believe that Absolute occurence is indeed irrelevant, just because
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Cole Schneider Beth Barnes UC1000 Mastering the University Experience September 23, 2017 Career Research Project Have you ever heard of John Holland? John Holland was an American Psychologist during the 1900’s who created a theory that stated, “most people are one of six personality types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, or conventional.” The first one realistic meaning that you enjoy working with your hands. Realistic people can build
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However, I believe that Street’s claim that either realism is false or we are unjustified in our moral beliefs is unsound. Firstly, I wish to show that some moral beliefs are independent from the influences of evolution. From there, it does not necessarily follow from her argument that if moral beliefs are influenced by evolution and have no link with independent moral truths, realism is false and we are unjustified in our moral beliefs. In the ancient Greek society, it was common for males to
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If you have ever watched the news in the past year, I’m sure you have heard Donald Trump utter the famous word “Fake News.” Whether you are a fan of our new president or not, it seems undeniable that fake news is truly a real occurrence in our society. The article named “Fix the Algorithm” written to for the Daily Aztec, the SDSU school newspaper, attacks this issue by talking about the effects fake news in our world, with a specific concentration around the computer programmed algorithms that
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