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    Use of Electronics in Class Should high school students be allowed to use personal laptops and phones in class? Using electronics starting at a young age will teach children’s brains to become highly dependent upon them for everything. When our brains become dependent upon electronics, it makes everyday activities more difficult to complete without them. The use of laptops and phones should not begin until the age of ten or later. Therefore, by the time one reaches the high school level one’s

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    information on the internet than to read through a long book. This also takes away time for reading, playing outside, hanging out with other people. It is important to learn all the benefits and the harm the internet causes, so people can decide to keep using it as often, or we can reduce the usage and start gathering information through books and newspapers. There are some people think that the internet is good, and there are some people that think the internet is bad. The internet has more negative

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    Death And Grief Ethics

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    focusing on blogs and social media sites (DeGroot & Carmack, 2012, 2013), online grief forums (Hastings, Hoover, & As evidenced by the dates of these articles, communication research exploring the intersections of death or grief and computer-mediated communication is a recent phenomenon. The newness of this line of research presents its own challenges, especially regarding the ethics of studying death and grief online. The challenge of researching communication about death and grief is compounded

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    Generational Differences: The Use Of the Internet Everyone is doing it: surfing the net. Every generation nowadays is using the Internet for some reason or another. Kids, sometimes for play; students for school work; and adults in the workforce are using the net for business related topics or to plan their next vacation; seniors are using it to keep in touch with their grandchildren. If you aren’t using the net, then you are obviously not in tune with the Real World. There have been

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    self creators. But this raises a question: if technology can do all this to change the way we think for the better, might it not similarly work for ill? According to Nicholas Carr, author of “The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember” (2010), the internet is such a technology. It may appear as a

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    Cyp 3.3 Assignment 2

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    picture of safeguarding issues more research would be beneficial. However, as stated by EUKGO (2014) not all contact young people have with people not already known to them is bad.so by restricting a child’s use of communication sites could result in lost opportunities for children and young people to socialise. Therefore, as suggested by Byron, (2014) approaching on-line risks the same as offline risks will take into consideration the bigger picture of how the internet affects the child when they are

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    the way of the future, the Internet. Businesses local, regional, and national have quickly embraced the Internet as an inexpensive means of advertising to reach a larger target audience. The Internet has become the one of the most effective ways advertise, and sell goods and services. The Internet can simply be defined as a network of networks which produces a "new medium of worldwide

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    Nicholas Carr

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    taught in a new way thanks to the amount of time people spend on the Internet. He believes that the neural circuitry of the brain is beginning to be shaped by the Internet, rather than by the books people read, the way it was shaped in the past. This provides the reasoning as to why Carr thinks that Internet may be making the population stupid. Carr begins his essay by introducing readers to the idea that, although the Internet can be quite helpful, it may be the leading cause in the lack of concentration

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    The Internet was introduced to human society in 1950s. With the changes internet brought, it has become a controversial source over the past few years. The internet is a mechanical machine used for information spreading, a tool between people for interaction, and collaboration regardless of one’s geography. Like everything, the internet comes with bad and good; however, the benefits should be seen in light of the detrimental. Internet has become an indispensable part of everyday entertainment. According

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    Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is a piece that will open the eyes of any internet user. He explains his own issues with lack of focus when reading long novels and says it is a product of the interweb’s shaping. As Google becomes more and more part of our daily lives, it is having a negative effect on our information processes and interpretations. In effect, its current use is preventing us from retaining information and to be able to think, comprehend, and be inquisitive

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