Personally, I don’t think technology has had a negative impact on my life. For the most part I just use my phone for communicating with people which, in my opinion, has made my life better. When I sit on my phone and try to play games to keep myself occupied, I find observing my surroundings … [Read more…]
In “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” Jean Twenge makes her claim very clear: “the experiences [teens today] have every day are radically different from those of the generation that came of age a few years before them,” (3) and those changes in experiences are due to the advancing technology. This quote and idea remind me … [Read more…]
“In Defense of Distraction” by Sam Anderson has many different claims along the way but eventually reveals the overall claim that there is a balance of distraction that is crucial to a successful life. To complicate his argument, Anderson also proves it necessary to pull apart the negative impacts of technological distractions, which I find … [Read more…]
In Sam Anderson’s piece “In Defense of Distraction,” Anderson’s main claim seems to be “… the problem of attention has migrated right into the center of our cultural attention.” In translation, the lack of attention people are providing has not only begun affecting the individual but almost the entire human population collectively. However, as you … [Read more…]
Social change is something that has been happening in our country at an exponential rate recently. Younger generations are seeing the importance of change in the world, specifically changing old policies that no longer apply to our modern world. For example, the legalization on equal marriage rights has kickstarted a movement of social change for … [Read more…]
In Epstein’s writing, she discusses how Uganda is much more socially cohesive than South Africa. She noticed how people were very close because they were not shying away from difficult or shameful conversations. Throughout the article, Epstein explores the change in their community due to their open conversations. The rate of infection had already begun … [Read more…]
Martha Hall tells her story through a mix of words and art. But there’s something different in the way Hall shares her books versus most other authors, though I would refer to Hall as more of a creator or artist than an author. She uses a mix of different colors, shapes, words, and structures of … [Read more…]
In this article Epstein touches on various different topics surrounding AIDS, one of which being that there tends to be a social stigma about AIDS. This idea reminded me of Anne Hallward’s Ted Talk on telling our silenced stories in which she explains how telling our stories in which she explains how telling our stories … [Read more…]
In this Ted Talk, Hallward discusses the effects of shame and telling our silenced stories in order to achieve widespread social change. Throughout the presentation, Hallward repeats the same idea of “[W]hen we speak of what is most personal, it’s the most universal” meaning that people are able to connect to those types of stories … [Read more…]
