Mobile phones. A blessing or a curse? Mobile phones have had such a large impact in our modern twenty-first century societies‚ that they have become part and parcel of our daily lives. Nowadays‚ it has become the norm in our towns and villages to see people who are busy tapping on their cell phones. Mobile phones have changed the way people communicate. These devices are carried anywhere people go because they are light and easy to carry around‚ such that everyone is constantly in touch with others
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Oil as Both a Blessing and a Curse in the Middle East As global society enters an era where oil is no longer the dominant source of energy‚ many oil producing countries face a challenge dealing with the loss of what is often their most profitable export. Many nations developed modern infrastructure mainly through oil profits. Years of interference by western countries seeking oil profits greatly influenced the development of governments‚ occasionally for better‚ but usually for worse. While most
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scientific Discovery — Curse Or Blessing New scientific discovery nearly always brings mankind a blessing. Take electricity for example. Since its discovery‚ it has ushered in an era of countless inventions in close connection with it. Nowadays people can read and write by means of lights instead of candles. Fire is another example of discoveries which made human beings survive in ancient times and generates electricity in modern times. Again‚ minerals such as oil or coal discovered by man have long
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‘The Mobile Phone: A Blessing or a Curse’ from the eighteen hundreds to the present day‚ mankind has made many inventions: the television‚ radio‚ digital watches‚ and more recently home computers. Now‚ in the twenty first century a new invention has become one of the most widely used forms of communication in the world today. This of course is the mobile phone. Although available in the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties it did not become as popular as first expected. Mainly due to the fact
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Technology has brought tremendous change in our lives. Scientists are continuously working to develop new technologies to provide more useful products in order to make our lives easier. We get up from the bed hearing the sweet fm alarm‚ brush our teeth with electric brush. In the mean time the oven heats up our breakfast. We eat food‚ check the weather in phone‚ and watch the daily news to know the most recent news. Then we take our laptop and head to our workplace by car. That is how we usually
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I‚ Robot Isaac Asimov The following entry presents criticism on Asimov’s short story collection I‚ Robot (1950). See also‚ Isaac Asimov Criticism and CLC‚ Volumes 3‚ 9‚19‚ and 26. INTRODUCTION The author of nearly five hundred books in a wide variety of fields and genres‚ Asimov is renowned for his ground-breaking science fiction and for his ability to popularize or‚ as he called it‚ "translate" science for the lay reader. In I‚ Robot (1950)—a collection of nine short stories linked by key characters
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Freedom in Libya: Blessing or a Curse? Since the Libyan revolution to overthrow Muammar al-Gaddafi ended in August of 2011‚ the drive for a safer and more democratic state has been met with both optimism and disappointment. The continued ineffectiveness of the General National Congress (GNC) to fill the security vacuum left after Gaddafi’s fall and its inability to secure its porous borders (Wehrey 2013) has help fuel resentment towards it (BBC 2013). Yet‚ it is this lack of effectiveness that
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Mobile phones: A blessing or a curse? It’s been years since someone had to look for spare change in their pocket to make a call out on the street from a pay phone‚ have we forgotten that mobile phones are somehow a blessing? The question here is whether mobile phones are a blessing or a curse. According to the “2013 mobile growth statistics” 91% of all people in the world have mobile phones and 56% own a smart phone‚ also according to mobile growth statistics the average age of owning a mobile
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Privileges of a senior Citizen We all know that a senior citizen is an old version in our generation. They are the person above 60. Since they are old and their body are weak‚ it’s hard for them to eat ‚ exercise ‚ to work and of course to SURVIVE. The old ladies or old men out there are sometimes abandoned by their family. Some leave their houses because they feel that they are not a part of that family. Some are treated not right and some are lost
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Mobile phones have become ubiquitous in our society. In fact‚ telephones have been around for several decades in some form or another tracing back to the invention of telephone way back in 1870s by Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander Graham Bell’s success with the design of telephone came as a direct result of his attempts to improve the telegraph which was the most widely used electronic communication device. The technology began to take shape in the late 1940s‚ when the idea of a mobile phone was
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