In his essay “Is google making us stupid” Nicholas Carr explains how the internet has helped us to gather vast amounts of information very quick‚ but also how it has affected our attention span when the time comes to read long pieces of texts. Carr also feels that our brains are constantly getting rewired due to the amount of time we spend online has caused him to lose concentration when he is reading. Besides‚ make it easier to find information and rewiring our brains the internet has changed the
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country of Canada. Emily Carr was born to British immigrant parents on the thirteenth of December‚ 1871. She grew up alongside nine siblings in the town of Victoria‚ British Columbia. As a child she often drew pictures but was not overly exuberant about it. Her true passion for art began when she was orphaned as a teenager. Her desire to create art and express herself were probably fueled by the raw emotion caused by the deaths of her parents. At the age of nineteen Carr moved to San Francisco
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SUMMARY Karen Smith in her article “Has Africa got anything to say” wanted to basically address the rising criticism of how the developing world and in particular Africa has been neglected in International Relations theory. She attempts to go beyond the criticism by addressing concerns of how the developing world can make contributions which are potentially vital in enriching people’s understanding of IR. She highlights how the existent Western knowledge is seen in many parts of the globe in a superior
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Carr’s own words give the gist of his work: “The essential point . . . is that the ethics of business are game ethics‚ different from the ethics of religion. . . ” He is not suggesting that there are two moral/ethical codes to which a businessperson owes allegiance. He simply noticed that folks in business often seem to operate under one set of moral principles at home and another in the business world. The business world appears‚ on the whole‚ much less moral than the world of home and church
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two essays differ in circumstances‚ both authors analyze neurological effect to explore their topic. Mate claims that drug addiction is the result of chemical and emotional vulnerability due to a lack of healthy life experiences at a young age. While Carr claims that the more people rely on digital media‚ the more their own intelligence becomes artificial. Mate article is written for The Globe and Mail‚ a national newspaper which is targeted towards Canadians. Mate explores how Canadians understand
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E. H. Carr and the Thesis of What is History? Edward Carr begins What is History? By saying what he thinks history is not…by being negative. In Carr’s words‚ what history is not‚ or should not be‚ is a way of constructing historical accounts that are obsessed with both the facts and the documents which are said to contain them. Carr believes that by doing this the profoundly important shaping power of the historian will surely be downplayed.1 Carr goes on to
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books and journals. Reading books has become almost obsolete. The attention span of a person reading a book is that of a goldfish‚ two seconds. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” author Nicholas Carr said “Immersing myself in a book used to be easy. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages”(Carr‚ n.pag). Reading short stories‚ headlines‚ and blogs on the Internet has changed the way we read. When on the Internet it is so easy just to read short stories‚ or emails‚ because they
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Assignment #1: "IT Doesn’t Matter" by Nicholas Carr Nicholas Carr wrote an article entitled IT Doesn’t Matter at first; it reads controversial and needs full of interpretations for the readers. As we read the entire story‚ the author might have a different interpretation of IT and probably points out that we really don’t need IT too much‚ the companies should not spend too much on IT and not more for strategic advantage. Carr said that having IT may delivered the business at risk; instead of
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benefiting him largely as a writer (Carr‚ 589). While enjoying this positive influence of the Net‚ however‚ he brings up a side effect of the Internet which is hardly ever mentioned:
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Making Us Stupid‚ the author‚ Nicholas Carr suggests that the Internet affects how human beings process literary works. He begins to illustrate this point by using a scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey where the man purposely disassembles HAL‚ the supercomputer‚ in order to disconnect its ability to think for itself. Carr personifies HAL‚ and describes how it could feel its brain being taken away as the man stripped it of its memory circuits. Carr compares the sensation that the supercomputer
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