Technology

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In today's world, technology is constantly changing from a new paperclip to an improvement in hospital machinery. Technology lets people improve the way they live so that they can preserve their own personal energy and focus on the really important factors in life. Some people focus their energy on making new innovations to improve transportation and the health of people that may save lives and some people focus on making new designs of packaging CDS. Technology is significant in everyone's life because it rapidly changes what is in the market. But, some new innovations of technology are ridiculous because they serve no purpose in helping mankind.

In Ellen DeGeneres' article ,"This is How We Live", describes all the examples of ridiculous innovations of technology, omitting how technology does help mankind, saying that technology is negative for mankind, and basically eliminating all the positive that technology has to offer. © ) . She believes that technology is hurting the people of America because requires hardly any physical activity and it tortures us. For example, when she says, " We just push a button and stand there. Take the car window. Someone decided that having to crank the window down yourself was too hard. ‘I don't want to churn butter, I just want fresh air ' So we got a button to do it." (DeGeneres 588) She also believes that this technology is making Americans so lazy. "We're just so lazy. We used to have breath mints. Now we have breath strips that just dissolve on our tongue. Can we not suck anymore?" (Degeneres 589) Ellen decides to criticize all the new innovations because it is ridiculous that technology must be put in food so that we do not have to have any tongue action in sucking a breath mint.

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...rocess unfold shows that human beings are not as productive as they would like to be with all the modern innovations constantly changing.

In this essay, I attempted to combine two sources and analyze them each by itself first and then combine it at the end. I think I did a good job analyzing and interpreting what Ellen DeGeneres was saying in her article. This essay was more difficult than the other essays for me because it is hard to apply the examples and try to combine two different sources to make a compare and contrast paper make sense.

Works Cited

Latterell, Catherine. "This is How We Live" Remix: reading and composing culture. Ed. Ellen

Degeneres. Boston. Bedford/St. Martin's: 2006.p 588-593

Latterell, Catherine. "Technological Somnambulism." Remix: reading and composing culture. Ed

Langdon Winner. Boston. Bedford/St.Martin's: 2006.p 594-599

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