The Impact of the Computer on Writing
In 1999 my family purchased their very first computer. A few days after, we were connected to the World Wide Web. All of my friends had been online for years prior so it was a big deal to finally have it. Since then, the way that I communicate has changed drastically. Everything from the way that I talk to my friends to the way that I pay my bills is now done online, instead of the traditional way. The internet has offered so much change to society. Some people are still without it, and as I think about it, I wonder how they are surviving. It seems that most everything I do is related to this machine in some way. I e-mail, pay my bills, instant message, buy material items, research, keep an online journal, and I even take classes on the web. Without it I would be a mess.
Upon coming into college, I finally had access to high speed internet. By any standards it was awesome. It caused me to increase my use of the World Wide Web dramatically. I could not get enough of it. It was not long at all before AOL instant messenger was the newest addiction of my life. The thought of being able to talk to many people at once and so quickly was amazing. I was able to keep in touch with my friends who had moved across the country without having to pay a long distance bill. Who would complain at all the conveniences that it had to offer. With this program I was also introduced to a new way of writing. Let’s state the fact that people are lazy. When using any sort of instant messaging system there is a way to abbreviate everything. An example of this would be typing ‘ttyl’ instead of typing out ‘talk to you later.’ Another example would be simply putting ‘u’ meaning ‘you.’ There are so many of these shortened ways.
These changes in writing also show up in e-mail. People seem to be very inclined to use the abbreviated ways of writing certain words or phrases when writing out e-mails. This is more in informal types of mail. I personally do not mind it to a point, but when it is used extensively it can be annoying and distractive. Also, much of the time, even the most basic of punctuation is forgotten or just not used.
The paper will discuss minicases on ‘The White-Collar Union Organizer’ and ‘The Frustrated Labor Historians’ by Arthur A. Sloane and Fred Witney (2010), to understand the issues unions undergo in the marketplace. There is no predetermined statistical number reported of union memberships in this country. However, “the United Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) excludes almost 2 million U.S wages and salary employees, over half of whom are employed in the public sector, who are represented at their workplaces by a union but are not union members. Not being required to join a union as a condition of continued employment, these employees have for a variety of reasons chosen not to do so. Nor do the BLS estimates include union members who are currently unemployed” (Sloane & Witney, 2010, p.5). Given this important information, the examination of these minicases will provide answers to the problems unions face in organizational settings.
The labor union movement over the years has shaped the way individuals work and live for both the nicest and unpleasant. Some would think the unions influence has created a power struggle between management and union leaders. In today’s time, some citizens insist the existence of unions are a must to aid in employee freedom, while others view the labor unions as just another problem in the line of progress. The purpose of labor unions was for employed workers to come together and collectively agree on fundamental workplace objectives. The rise of the union came about after the Civil War- responding to the industrial economy. Surprisingly at the least unions became popular within the 1930-50’s and began to slowly decrease, starting in the 1960’s on to today. Although, the popularity of labor unions has decreased, its importance remains to be evident with politics, journalism, auto, and the public education industries. The objective of this paper is to shine light upon labor unions, taking a closer look at the disputed issues of union ethics, concerns of union diversity, and the opposing viewpoints of labor unions.
Beginning in the late 1700’s and growing rapidly even today, labor unions form the backbone for the American workforce and continue to fight for the common interests of workers around the country. As we look at the history of these unions, we see powerful individuals such as Terrence Powderly, Samuel Gompers, and Eugene Debs rise up as leaders in a newfound movement that protected the rights of the common worker and ensured better wages, more reasonable hours, and safer working conditions for those people (History). The rise of these labor unions also warranted new legislation that would protect against child labor in factories and give health benefits to workers who were either retired or injured, but everyone was not on board with the idea of foundations working to protect the interests of the common worker. Conflict with their industries lead to many strikes across the country in the coal, steel, and railroad industries, and several of these would ultimately end up leading to bloodshed. However, the existence of labor unions in the United States and their influence on their respective industries still resonates today, and many of our modern ideals that we have today carry over from what these labor unions fought for during through the Industrial Revolution.
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The author notes that technology would affect the way people use their language in a matter of using abbreviations when texting. He also noted that messaging causes poor spelling and laziness when typing simple words on the phone. Teenagers have been creating abbreviated words since texting became popular; but abbreviated words have been around way before mobile phones were released. Crystal states, “people have been initializing common phrases for ages” (902), and
Since my entire thesis for this paper is about how a star is born, I guess the first thing I should start out with is by telling you exactly what a star is. Stars are self-luminous gaseous spheres. They shine by generating their own energy and radiating it off into space. The stars' fuel for energy generation is the stuff they are made of --hydrogen, helium, carbon, etc. -- which they burn by converting these elements into heavier elements. Nuclear fusion occurs, which is when the nuclei of atoms fuse into nuclei of heavier atoms.
O'Hara, S. Paul. "Labor Unions." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Vol. 3. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. 72-75. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 26 Oct. 2012.
Stars are born in the interstellar clouds of gas and dust called nebulae that are primarily found in the spiral arms of galaxies. These clouds are composed mainly of hydrogen gas but also contain carbon, oxygen and various other elements, but we will see that the carbon and oxygen play a crucial role in star formation so they get special mention. A nebula by itself is not enough to form a star however, and it requires the assistance of some outside force. A close passing star or a shock wave from a supernova or some other event can have just the needed effect. It is the same idea as having a number of marbles on a trampoline and then rolling a larger ball through the middle of them or around the edges. The marbles will conglomerate around the path of the ball, and as more marbles clump together, still more will be attracted. This is essentially what happens during the formation of a star (Stellar Birth, 2004).
Continuous sharing has led to a need to quickly formulate a thought and send it out, grammatical errors and all. This is an issue that has gone on since the start of being able to send messages via online and through text messaging. I’ve come across three authors who share similar and different mindsets when it comes to texting and abbreviated communication. Some of these views offer a positive outlook for social media; they look at social networking sites and think how easily accessible it is to share and love the quickness of it. On the other hand, some look at it as the demise of the English language. Nonetheless, I will show three different viewpoints that, in their own ways, prove something about abbreviated communication. One author is Peggy Orenstein writer of “I Tweet, Therefore I Am”; she is an avid user of the social networking site, Twitter. One day she comes to a realization that what she shares may be unauthentic to whom she in as a person and how, possibly, social media, is blurring the line of her as a person and her persona (146-167). Then we have John Dickerson, who is a supporter of constant sharing on social media. When he loses his trusty journal where he documents everything in his life, he realizes that social media is no different then writing with pen and paper. He explains how he backs capturing something memorable at the moment in “Note To Selfie” (134-789). Lastly is an author who implements both the good and the bad of abbreviated communication in her article. Kris Axman correlates between the new language of teenagers and the reason for degenerate grammar in ‘ “r u online?”: The Evolving Lexicon of Wired Teens’ (134-668). You will see how the abbreviated form of communication is detrimental to the pro...
Word processors have been in use in our country and across the globe for quite some time. Elementary school students, High school Students, as well as College and University students all use them everyday to produce written texts from many different genres. Pens and paper have been forgotten. Has the formal process of writing also been forgotten? Have word processors changed the way people write – permanently (I misspelled that word and fixed it using spell check)?
Technology has brought about argument on whether we are in the illiteracy age or literacy age. Why some researchers believe that the younger generation writes far more than any generation before them because of the so much socializing that takes place online, while others who think that this generation has produce more illiterate people, points to social networking as the cause. They believe that social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and so on has attributed to sloppy writing and careless reading. The use of abbreviation or short slangs like lol, brb has become the other of the day.
I use my laptop every day. I always go on either to do homework, or to talk to my friends, but I wish I didn't have to. E-mail is fast and easy, but I believe it's becoming so impersonal. About a month ago I went out and bought stationery. Now I'm sending a lot more personalized letters than e-mail. It's almost unheard of now to get an actual hand written letter from someone. I think that's sad. Handwritten things are valued more now. No one takes the time to handwrite something to someone else, and when they do, it's a shock. I guess I haven't changed much. I like technology and what it can do, but I still wouldn't mind living without it.
I went to high school in a small town in rural Illinois, and until the age of sixteen, I was able to survive without touching a computer. In fact, the only one I remember seeing on a regular basis was the one in the corner of the public library. Up until my junior year in high school, that computer was just about the loneliest thing in the world. Most of the people in town used a computer for one of two things: word processing or playing video games, and anybody who really had any desire to do either of these owned a computer or had access to one at work.
In today’s world 3 billion humans are on the internet but there are also 4 billion people that are not. In the beginning of my study on the future of the internet, I asked myself this question: is it possible that everyone could be online and globally connected? Then I asked myself how, if everyone is online, the future of the internet change the experience of everyday life? Looking back, the internet is still a relatively new phenomenon as it was first created back in the 1960’s by a computer scientist named J.C.R Licklider. He envisioned a network of computers, called the galactic network, which would allow humans to be able to share information instantly. Overtime this is how the internet developed, as many of these networks that shared all kinds of data starting popping up around the globe. In 1995- fifteen million people were connected, by the year 2000- three hundred and fifty people were connected, by 2005- over 1 billion were connected and right now there are more than 3 billion people are connected to the internet! The growth of the internet has not only been quantitative, it has gone from being unorganized and asocial to being active, alerting us to things of interest, massively social, connecting us with the world and is filled with search engines that can help us reach information of our personal choice. Social networks which connect us with worldly knowledge are also fairly new. For example Facebook was introduced in 2005 and twitter in 2006. I can’t imagine what life would be like without these networks of communication and thinking about them not being there only less than a decade ago seems like ancient times. Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Wikipedia are platforms that allow us to build social communities and...
Up until couple of years ago, I didn’t even know how to get on the Internet. Yes, I heard people bragging about how wonderful Internet was. However, I did not know the amount of information you can get through the Internet. I could not imagine. All I saw was TV size machine. I actually started to browse through the Internet out of frustration. Whenever I asked questions about getting certain information, majority of the people advised me to get on the Internet to get the information. So I started to use Internet. Wow! Have I missed the luxury of using the Internet all these times? Since then, I use Internet to do my assignments or study. I found out that using an Internet saves me time to get information that I needed. Moreover, it gives me the information I was looking for with minimal failure. Now, I rely heavily on Internet to get resources and information. What do I do when people ask me questions? I tell them to get on the Internet.