The world is too quiet, the sound of the in my ears make me wake up from my dream. I open my eyes and look at the clock, just 8:00 am, why I wake up so early? I walk out from my room, only the sound of birds, and nothing. In this moment, I take my mobile out and trying to call my friend to ask where they gone. But there was not signal, also have the some problem on television and radio. “Sasasa….” The sound from the television, I turn off the television because the sound is too annoying, and start to pack up my things going out find my friends. I drop my phone away and take out the map, watch, flashlight, pens etc. in my bag. I step out of my house. On the empty street, empty houses, this quiet just like I go to another world, am I the only one left in here? I walking on the road because there were no cars, and try to take my phone out, but I forget something, the network had gone, how can use the phone to go to the Google map to find the fastest ways to go to my friends house, so I take out the maps and a pen, try to point where am I and where I need to go, use map for me is very difficult, because in the simple day, if I lost, I just need to click on my phone and it will be auto find out my location. First, I need to go around to find out what is the name of the street, and the number. Lucky, my friend house is not too far, I follow the map and walk about 30 mins, and I arrive. I was knocking on his door, and he opens the door very slowly, because he just wakes up. From his face, he should don't know the network disconnection was happen. After I told him about the happen, he laugh at me, because he know this will happen today, because that was an announcement show on the television, and I was working hard with a assignment yesterday, didn't have time to watch the television. In this time, much people were coming to my friend house. The house become lively, just like back to the 5 years ago, we are still study in the high school, everyone act like a kid, everywhere is laughing, is playing, is joking… That really happy than today life with technology, although technology can be make our life more easy and fast, but make us to lost ourselves.
In this essay “Disconnected Urbanism” by Paul Goldberg that was published in 2016. Goldberg discusses how technology is affecting how people see the world. People all around the world own cell phones, but it seems the longer cell phones have been around the more people start to rely on them and start to depend on them. There was a time when people would get excited to see new things and go on exciting adventures. Cell phones are slowly but surely taking all the excitement away. Although Paul Goldberg mentions how talking on cell phones is an everyday use, he argues that cell phones are making people miss out on the true beauty the world has to offer.
The night was tempestuous and my emotions were subtle, like the flame upon a torch. They blew out at the same time that my sense of tranquility dispersed, as if the winds had simply come and gone. The shrill scream of a young girl ricocheted off the walls and for a few brief seconds, it was the only sound that I could hear. It was then that the waves of turmoil commenced to crash upon me. It seemed as though every last one of my senses were succumbed to disperse from my reach completely. As everything blurred, I could just barely make out the slam of a door from somewhere alongside me and soon, the only thing that was left in its place was an ominous silence.
...e red lady blows a light, grayish puff of smoke in my direction and my eyes begin to twitch. My two brown eyelids flutter awake, and I slowly become aware of my surroundings. It is a late night in the city, and I can hear the streetlight buzzing above me. I roll onto my stomach and find the little girl in the same state as I had earlier, coughing incessantly. My stomach growls, and the car tires circle rhythmically on the warm, wet pavement. I awake from one nightmare, and continue to combat the real struggles in my life.
When I close my door, no sounds come to my room; its as if the whole world went mute. Once I become aware of this silence, I simply lay down and stare at the ceiling. While this is happening, millions of thoughts are going through my head. Most of these thoughts are situations that I am struggling with and finding it difficult to find a solution for them. For example, a situation where most people can relate to at this age is the lost over someone that you had a relationship with.
Annotated Bibliography Research question: Should YouTube be more aware and restrictive of the content being uploaded on the site? Balakrishnan, Janarthanan, and Mark D. Griffiths. "Social Media Addiction: What is the Role of Content in YouTube?" Journal of Behavioral Addictions, vol. 6, no. 3, 2017, p. 364+. Academic OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com.proxy.chemeketa.edu:2048/apps/doc/A509894501/AONE?u=oregon_chemeke&sid=AONE&xid=87501f0c.
I swung my arm aiming for my alarm clock but ended up knocking my nightstand over. " Dang it" I said unhappily as I put my feet on the floor protected by my fuzzy pink socks. I hand a fun and terrifying experience in my sleep a few days ago. I discovered me and my 5 friends could dream walk but only in abandoned places which is creepy because I really strongly dislike the dark and also I really hate spooky paranormal things. It gives me the spokes. I decided I should write in my journal about my dreams because I could feel and remember every little detail of those eerie places from the sound of the water rushing from the flooding to the crickets humming in the overgrown shrubbery.
Harmful insults and acts of bullying are no longer restricted to the actual world. Cyber world is now infected with these issues in which technology and private information are instinctively used to constantly harm or bash emotionally hostilities towards a group or one particular individual. Social networks such as Facebook, twitter, and Google plus have been gaining immense popularity in the past years. With the popularity of these sites, the problems of cyber bullying, online sexual predators and accessibility to adult content also continue to grow. The younger generations are becoming more techno-friendly, with electronic devices such as tablets, computers, and cell phones. With this fact younger children are becoming more vulnerable and more likely to be confronted with these problems. These problems and issues of social discriminations are why there needs to be an age restriction or improved rules and provisions in order to prevent this.
In this paper I hope to open a window to the vast and mysterious world of dreaming. To most people, information about dreams isn’t common knowledge. In researching this subject though, I found that everybody has and reacts to dreams, which are vital to your mental health. You will also find how you can affect your dreams and how they affect you.
You’re asleep and falling into a dream, a dream that seems to be blended with reality, details of it so vivid that it seems to be real. First, you’re running freely through a field full of wild flowers with a gentle breeze blowing through your hair and then all of a sudden the sun moves away, dark gray clouds start to cluster together. BOOM! Thunder comes along, suddenly it becomes your worst nightmare with you running away from something, crying, sweating, screaming then BLINK, you open your eyes to see that you are safe in your own bed hugging your pillow and what you just experienced was the works of your mere mind.
Each night, visions inhabit our minds during sleep and vanish with the morning light. These visions, these dreams, are without substance. Often, the waking mind recalls dreams only vaguely, if at all. A complete, separate world seems to exist within each of us; a world that can only be found through sleep, through dreams. What are dreams? Why do some people find nightly reverie in the comfort of their beds, while others dread sleep, terrified of the content of their dreams, and yet others recall no dreams to fear or fancy? Speculations on dreams are common and vastly variant. Some people imagine that their dreams are prophetic, while others insist that dreams are merely random firings of neurons. Perhaps a more encompassing view of dreams is appropriate. Neural firing causes dreams, but the randomness of dreams is questionable, since dreams are often correlated with the immediate emotional state of the dreamer. The theories that are presented here do not completely explain dreams. There are many missing pieces to the puzzle of the mind, and our theories on dreaming still have rather large holes.
Therefore, having explored what are dreams, the history of dreams, the reason for dreaming and different categories of dream, we now understand that everybody dreams despite consciously or subconsciously. In fact, we spend one-third of our lives sleeping. Dreams depend greatly on our imaginations and thoughts and it can be related to reality because this how our brain works. Different people have different dream, as every dream is unique. Psychoanalysts state that the causes of dream are the suppressed desires of a dreamer while some researchers see it as the result of subconscious thoughts and desires. Different people have given different theories about dream but the question is still unanswerable. The reasons and values behind dreams arouse curiosity to many including myself.
There was a very repetitive but somewhat soothing thumping heartbeat going on in the background. After while, it was in harmony with my heartbeat. I found comfort and security; from a soothing voice and darkness/warmth, I was wrapped in. I felt safe and protected by this place. I was able to move around freely but recently the place began to become a cramped. Instinctively, I knew the time was near. I could not fight it any longer. I did not want to leave. I was in a peaceful place.
An endless space of alternating sleepiness, awakening, drifting, silence and darkness were wrapping me few moments ago. “What is happening to me?”, I wondered silently while shocked by my suddenly tilting universe. I tried to react with any movement just to give a signal of life, a scream for help but I simply couldn’t.
Social media has become an extremely powerful and useful tool that enables people in a modern society to effortlessly interact and socialize with each other via the internet; however, there is an extremely dark and little known side of social media: addiction. Social media has the potential to become extremely addictive to its users. The addictive nature of social media may intensely interfere with users daily obligations in the real world, which may make a recovery process necessary in order to quell the powerful addiction.
I got up early that morning due to an improper sleep during the previous night. It was due to the anxiety to start fresh with my new life. I was determined to be the best in whatever it is that I do, so that I would have something to be proud of in the pages of my life. Due to the fear of reaching late during my first day, I reached one hour earlier than necessary and decided to spend some time at KTC (Kelapa gading Trade Center) which is located right beside the University. I was hoping that time would move a lot faster because I wanted to find out about what was going to happen next. But it is a common fact that if we are anxiously waiting for something, time would seem to crawl a lot slower. When it was finally the time to head back to the campus, I hoped for everything to go on smoothly, just as how I expected it. I braced myself and went to meet Sofia, who was responsible for the new students, to inquire about my classroom. After being instructed on which room to go to, I started walking towards the class, the mixture of excitement and nervousness start to fill within me. I started to feel like standard 1 all over again where I was a little kid who didn’,t know where to go. I didn’,t know anyone in the class except for Diksha who is my childhood friend.