http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/05/health/main591325.shtml
http://www.nber.org/aginghealth/2009no1/w14721.html
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Bonding over Mascot Response
The author most likely started with the research question about the new statues built. Joe Lapointe probably didn’t know what the statues represented, and wanted to know why those specific ones were built. When researching, he found all the history behind the statues. The history is a major reason why they were probably built. He explored the history, why they were built, and how people feel about them, which eventually leads to his purpose of explaining the college names and Indian tribes conflict. N.C.A.A. deemed eighteen universities for their Indian tribe names as hostile or abusive. The Indian groups must approve the institutions use of their names. Florida’s name has been approved by the Seminole Tribe. A new history course was started that lets the students learn about the Seminoles. From the students’ points of view, they seem happy and proud to say they’re the Seminoles. The research that Lapointe does definitely contributes to his purpose, because the information about the statues leads up to the college and Indian tribes conflict.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Is Google Making Us Stupid Response
I believe that Google may be making us stupid, but it’s making us lazier than anything else. First, Carr starts off with saying he can sense that’s he’s becoming more stupid, because his concentration on reading starts to shift after only three pages. He says he finds it difficult to really immerse himself in the reading. I would definitely agree with his statement. When I’m reading something on the Internet, I often skim it quickly rather than actually read the article in depth, because reading it would take too long, and because I become sidetracked very easily. When reading an article I have to read, but not particularly want to read, I tend to start reading, then check Facebook, skim the article more, then check my email, and eventually finish skimming the article. He even found research that supports the fact that people “bounce” from site to site.
Carr argues that the Internet is even taking over other technologies, such as maps, clocks, calculators, telephones, radios, and television. I would disagree with that statement, because that’s not the Internet taking over, that’s computers in general. I agree though, that the Internet has definitely started to become more like the media, with advertisements before videos, and flashy advertisements on the sides of web pages. Google is making us lazy because we have the world’s information right at our fingertips, and we don’t need to find meaning in anything anymore. It basically requires us not to think, even though we have the capability of finding deeper meaning in the reading that we were assigned. Instead of finding the meaning, we’d rather be lazy and just type the question into Google to find the answer. First, Google makes us lazy, and then it makes us stupid.
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