American History 7 March 2013 The Positive Effects of Social Media In the winter of 2004‚ a networking site based out of Harvard University known as Facebook‚ launched. Drawing from its predecessors‚ such as MySpace‚ the site made social media relevant to the masses. This began the era of Social Media. Two years later‚ another social networking site‚ Twitter‚ came onto the virtual scene‚ bringing with it more than 500 million users in just over five years. With social media phenomena gaining
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Harmful effects of video games Video game addiction In his moving biography‚ Unplugged: My Journey into the Dark World of Video Game Addiction‚ Ryan Van Cleave describes the way that a violent online game‚ World of Warcraft‚ dominated his life to such an extent that he was unable to function normally and was driven to the verge of suicide. Video game addiction is now taken so seriously by psychologists and psychiatrists that it was recently considered for inclusion in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic
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The Crusades were a series of military campaigns that were fueled by religious views and the need for power by rivaling kingdoms. They were necessary for the political and cultural survival of Western Europe due to the positive consequences it had on education. The spread of knowledge from kingdom to kingdom due to societies working together for a common cause‚ and being introduced to it while in the invaded kingdoms‚ lead to the advancement of technology and medicine. New trade routes and crusaders
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THE DEHUMANISING EFFECTS OF THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION 1.0 The computer revolution Computer evolution had already passed its infancy from its introduction to the wide-reaching utilisation of the society today as the much-heralded ‘personal computer’ or simply PC led the revolutionary process by virtue of its prominence and visibility in the daily existence of humankind‚the application of computer goes above and beyond the convenience of storing and displaying data for practical use. Instead it now
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With many flaws in this new revolution‚ does however‚ also come some positive impacts. Our time is a time of evolving‚ learning new things to share with the world‚ which the industrial revolution allows. We are learning from clocks that the spinning wheel could make cotton fibers. We use the water wheel to produce energy and as long as we have a supply of cotton our factories could grow bigger. We look at the dark side of things but in the time of the bad we have goods like making a social progress
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standardized tests classified the student‚ now standardized tests would classify the school. With more emphasis on testing in schools‚ the numerical scores of test such as the SAT became more important in education. Next‚ new technology such as computers and scanners‚ were invented‚ making grading all automatic. In 1965 the Elementary and Secondary Education Act‚ this opens testing to the lower grade levels. The 21st century standardized testing is part of every student’s schooling. In 2001 No Child
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The Effect of Extreme Dependency on Computers Technology has swept the planet in the past 50 years with computer cellphones GPS’s and other such devices the help us in everyday life. It is an important thing to people‚ especially the people who run organizations‚ and industry. Almost anything you know is run or made by computers. Cars and jets were designed on computers‚ traffic signals are run by computers‚ most medical equipment use computers and space exploration was started
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Business opportunities for companies Businesses in New South Wales won A$1bn worth of contracts from the Sydney games and an additional A$300mn was generated by local business. Over 55‚000 people received employment related training. If London hosted the Olympic games‚ thousands of UK firms could be involved in supplying everything from construction to manufacturing‚ catering to merchandise. (http://www.sportengland.org/2012_uk.htm) Boost to tourism The tourist industry won’t just boom during the
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Thesis statement: Computer Hacking satisfies obsession for forbidden information and exploitation of skills. I. General Consideration Hacking has been around for more than a century. At first‚ the term “hacker” was a positive term for a person with a mastery of computers who could push programs beyond what they were designed to do. But because of the exploitation of these knowledge and the obsession to forbidden information‚ it soon became a threat to computer technology. The
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The Effects of Computers and Television on Children These days televisions and computers are all around us. They can be accessed by children at school and in most homes. The effects of these on our children can be positive or negative depending on how they are used. There are four areas of development that are affected by children’s home computer use: physical‚ cognitive and academic‚ social and relationships‚ and reality perception. Some studies have shown that children who spend more time on
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