Precis – Mode Project Part 1
The Conversation:
In the narrative essay, “The Conversation,” author Wendy Lesser conveys how her experiences with e-mailing changed her life. Lesser defines her view of e-mail by narrating on her stay in London and reflecting on her intimate connection to her CompuServe e-mail device to communicate with her friends, peers, husband, and family. Her purpose is to expose the modernization of e-mails in society in order to make her readers aware of the relationship people create with technology through the revolutionary fascinations the technology is capable of. Lesser establishes a colloquial tone with her audience of people who have experienced the same attachment to a piece of technology as she had with the CompuServe device.
The Keyboard:
William Zinsser, in his process analysis essay, “The Keyboard,” demonstrates how to use a keyboard, a piece of technology many people know how to use. Zinsser scrutinizes the keyboard by analyzing several of the keyboard's keys including the four cursor keys, the DELETE key, the BACKSPACE key, and the ENTER key. Zinsser's purpose was to describe how various tasks or assignments people are competent of using can be made convoluted to others in order to help the readers understand how encountering certain mysteries lead to enlightenment. Zinsser establishes an instructive tone with an audience who is inexperienced with computers.
The Golden Spike:
In the compare and contrast essay, “The Golden Spike,” Vanderbilt University graduate John Steele Gordon conveys the similarities and difference between the Internet and railroads through the impact each invention made. Gordon contrasts these two inventions by summarizing the history of railroad, followed by the descript...
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...y. Kadi's purpose is to expose false assumptions people make about the Internet in order to share her opinion of how the Internet actually impacts people. Kadi establishes a skeptical tone with the people who are optimistically bias towards networking.
Looking for Community on the Internet:
In Evan I. Schwartz's persuasion and argument essay, “Looking for Community on the Internet,” the topic of cyberspace being a “surrogate community” to a real life community is debated on. Schwartz proposes the beneficial and flawed features of an online community to reach his finalized conclusion. Schwartz's purpose is to address the legitimacy of an online community in order to create an argument for a topic that raises significance for the Internet. Schwartz establishes a reverent tone towards his topic for his audience that may support or oppose the Internet community theory.
I am always a little nervous and hesitant when I begin writing an essay. Ever since I was little I was an honor roll student, passed all my tests, was placed in honors and AP classes, and eventually graduated a year early from high school. I used to be so confident when I would begin writing a paper, I could finish it within a couple minutes. During junior year of high school, I began taking duel credit classes. I was passing all the classes so far until I reached English 111. It was an 8-week course and I started to get overwhelmed. All throughout the course I was having a little bit of trouble on the essays. I would still receive a passing grade, but it wasn’t an A. I began becoming a little discouraged and didn’t understand what was going
Both passages concern the same topic, the Okefenokee Swamp. Yet, through the use of various techniques, the depictions of the swamp are entirely different. While Passage 1 relies on simplicity and admiration to publicize the swamp, Passage 2 uses explicitness and disgust to emphasize the discomfort the swamp brings to visitors.
As capitalism runs its course and develops new technologies, society is left to pick up the pieces and figure out where these new technologies will lead them. Ever since I learned to use the Internet as a child, I have become accustomed to seeing more and more fascinating technology developments that have changed the way I communicated as the years went by. Now that the Internet has infiltrated more aspects of human life, it has become necessary to reflect on how this critical juncture will continue to affect our society. In Digital Disconnect, Robert McChesney provides an analysis of the arguments that the celebrants and skeptics used to express their views of the Internet. McChesney then moves past these arguments to explain how the PEC plays a key role in determining the direction that the Internet is heading towards. By assessing McChesney’s views, I hope to develop my own interpretation of the Internet’s impact on society.
As consumers we are exposed to a number of texts on a daily basis, these texts can be anything from movie posters to books to DVD covers, from these, assumptions are made as to what the product, movie or book is about. Throughout this essay, Magnolia will undergo a textual analysis; more specifically this essay will provide the most likely interpretation of the text from the audiences view. The concepts of semiotics, framing and genre will be used throughout to help in the discussion and “investigation into how meaning is created and communicated” (Fruend 2013).
In “The bane of the Internet” the new increased frequency in communication that email provides, has generated a dependent relationship between the older and younger sibling. At the beginning of the story, when the siblings communicated via
Question 1 – The reason of the price of free-range eggs is expected to rise.
Despite originating more than two centuries and half a world apart, the steam engine and the Internet followed similar paths throughout their conception, development, and execution. In 1712, the first successful steam engine was built; it was bulky, inefficient, and partially hand operated. Two hundred fifty-three years later, the first major network connection was made, using slow, dedicated phone lines to carry information across the country from expensive, complicated computers in Massachusetts to their counterparts in California. Although these innovations were advanced for their time, their usefulness was limited by the scope of their execution. Fast forwarding to 1820, steam engines now used superheated, high pressure steam in order to yield more power in a smaller space, resulting in their widespread use in trains, boats, and cars. The engines operated under 13 times more pressure, using new technology to avoid explosions (CITE 3). Similarly by 1973, networking and networks had advanced at a frenzied pace. People now sent emails to people across the country and then heard the voices of those same people from terminals from universities and companies (CITE 2). The rapid pace of these improvements, coupled with their accessibility, resulted in two designs that profoundly changed the world view of people and businesses. These two designs are not only similar in their origins and historical progressions; they are also akin in the effect of their widespread use. Since their inceptions, they have both had extensive impacts on the world around them. Following the inventions of the steam engine and the Internet, the world was thrust into periods that are characterized as having “a succession of breakthrough inventions" and “a commo...
The overall view of this essay is whether cyberspace should be accepted or not. This is like another form of a community except in a virtual form. This type of community could be intentional and involuntary because people can get attached by accident or change because that’s what they see around them. The author of the essay said his community was built unexpected. Change is going to happen to happen regardless, and the author shows that. In the beginning, he was like no cyberspace, and then he found this website and was entertained. Cyberspace is a community that people like.
In Michael Heim’s essay “The Cyber Space Dialectic”, he discusses how our culture is going through an ontological shift fashioned by the Internet. Heim articulates his theory of what dialectic is and how this ontological shift is creating a new dialectic. The Internet is the main place today where people from all over the world exchange and communicate their ideas and feelings. The Internet is a new community in itself. The ontological shift into the cyberspace times will change the way we think, and the way we act; it will change our overall sense of being. These change that Heim calls an “ontological shift” has brought on questions about changing society. These are similar to the questions that Peter Drucker and Benjamin Barber brought up when they discussed about creating a new society. Will society benefit from this new society in which its central being is cyberspace? This is a serious question since we are living in the phase that is changing into the cyber world now. How will this change affect this new technologically inclined society?
The Midwest: land of TV news anchors, housewives, and dreary, never-ending fields. In her memoir “The Horizontal World”, Debra Marquart uses interesting rhetorical techniques to detail this vast, distinctly uninteresting plain. By using unusual figurative language, outside examples to solidify her points, and a geometric extended metaphor, she paints a picture of perhaps the most boring place on Earth.
In a world that is fast-paced and everything seems to be on the fast lane, it is no surprise that the traditional way of communication has suddenly been beclouded by the power of technology. With the speed of light, a lot can easily be done; many individuals across the globe can now easily interact with one another through instant messaging, text messaging, email, and other faster means. Nonetheless, there are people who still reckon with the hoary way of communicating. In her essay “In Praise of a Snail’s Pace”, Ellen Goodman, the author, depicts a world system that has derailed from the old and decent way of doing things into a “world of hyperactive technology” (52). This has captivated the majority of people into neglecting the slow but graceful way of
Before taking Composition I, I thought of myself as a very strong writer. Throughout all of my high school courses I always excelled at any writing assignment that I was given. I was a master of the five-paragraph essay and MLA format and did not think there was anything else I needed to learn, but I was blatantly wrong. Going into the first day of Composition I, I was nervous because I had heard that it was a time consuming class, but I was still confident in my own abilities. English had never been my best or favorite subject, but I always scored high on my essays even though I was missing large portions of how to effectively write an essay. I really struggled with elaborating all of my points and articulating what I was trying to say without
I have had to write many essays in all of my classes in the last year. My ethics paper in human services, self-reflection paper in psychology, and research paper in biology are the 3 that stood out the most to me. I used slightly different approaches for each of these essays since they were all different types of papers, but I did use a lot of similar tools and strategies to complete them, some in which I learned in my English classes.
...ace of community in the age of digital communication technologies. As a result, it is the person, rather than issues associated with the change in physical environment (e.g., urbanization, migration), becomes the new focus of the community research in the information age from a sociological standpoint. For example, what motivates individuals to join virtual communities? In what frequency and capacity do individuals interact with multiple social groups? And to maintain what kind of social relations? These are some of the emerging questions that community scholars will soon have to answer. It is for this reason that the study of community must move beyond the realm of sociology and incorporate perspectives from psychology in order to obtain a more compete picture of what has, and what has not, changed as a result of the networked environment at the individual level.
In our society, there has been a revolution which competes that of the industrial revolution. It is called technological revolution. At the top of the technological revolution is what we call, the Internet. In the following report we will be discussing about what the internet is about in general and how it might be in the future, why it is necessary in our everyday lives, and why has it become so important to everyone (i.e. companies, individuals ).