Final Draft: Slater vs Turkle How can Turkle’s concept of “authenticity” help us see Slater in a new way? Both face-to-face interaction and social networking sites (including Myspace‚ Twitter‚ and Facebook) are forms of staying in contact with friends and family. While Nora from Turkle’s “Alone together” communicates her engagement and wedding date via email to her closest friends and family‚ she could have easily announced it face-to-face‚ at a party or through a Facebook event. While
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Habitat Slaters mostly inhabit moist areas and are commonly found under rocks and logs‚ in leaf litter in forested areas and in the garden. Some species are found in the semiarid regions of inland Australia and several introduced species are common inhabitants of suburban areas commonly living in compost heaps and other moist situations. http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/isopoda.html (19/03/15) Where to find them? Slaters (woodlice) in a native beech forest‚ New Zealand. Terrestrial Isopoda
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Upper Hutt College Year 13 Biology Slater Study Achievement standard: biology 3.1 Introduction to experiment: In this investigation of the ecological niche of the woodlouse‚ I chose to experiment the amount of soil moisture that the slaters tend to prefer. I chose this aspect‚ as moisture is a vital part in the survival of this small creature. Internet sources provided information of the woodlice that shows that they are from crustacean descent and formerly aquatic even though
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Connecting points for Turkle and Gopnik “What changed? That James story helps supply the key. It was trains and telegrams. The railroad ended isolation‚ and packed the metropolis with people whose work was defined by a complicated network of social obligations. “ (Gopnik 157). | “She confined that she would trade in her boyfriend ‘for a sophisticated Japanese robot’ if the robot would produce what she called “caring environment”… I would be happy to produce the illusion that there is somebody
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gives “a price to pay in the development of autonomy” how Turkle explains and also how that ties in to how people communicate as they grow older. Adolescents today have it easy; mom and dad are there just a phone call‚ even a text away. They have lost the experience of looking at the world differently how it should be; to feel the independence and responsibilities of growing up‚ the first experience of real life on their own. Like Turkle says in this quote from ‘The Tethered Adolescents’. “There
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not really imitating humans because they are missing something the most important thing in human society‚ which is sharing emotions. Turkle says “ I am troubled by the idea of seeking intimacy with a machine that has no feelings‚ can have no feelings‚ and is really just a clever collection of “as if” performances‚ behaving as if it cared‚ as if it understood us” (Turkle 267). Robots easily accept any amount of memory and other information that are applied to them by humans. However‚ many people doubt
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Technology: The Monster of Tomorrow Sherry Turkle saw the truth about our society that many are too blind to realize; people are replacing one another with technology. Future generations should be aware of how much they rely on technology. Today’s society relies so much on technology and less on one another that we are living in times that ultimately leaves us “alone together.” We should be fearful for a world satisfied with the “companionship” of a computer versus from another person because mankind
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Imitation and Authenticity Humans can be distinguished in many features from animals. Some might ask what are some unique characteristics that only humans have. While some people believe that the learning differentiates between humans and animals‚ others think that souls and spirits differentiate humans from animals. In “Strange Creatures”‚ Susan Blackmore talks about the idea of imitation and the way that humanity creates “memes” that are a collection of cognitive units of information. Memes
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NO.102/1 Marker Code Student Personal Identification Number (SPIN) South Pacific Form Seven Certificate BIOLOGY 2009 QUESTION and ANSWER BOOKLET Write your Student Personal Identification Number (SPIN) on the top right hand corner of this page and on the fold-out flap on the last page. Answer ALL QUESTIONS. Write your answers in the appropriate spaces provided in this booklet. If you need more space for answers‚ ask the Supervisor for extra paper. Write your SPIN on all extra sheets used and
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Report on the distribution of slaters in different level of soil pH Introduction Slater (woodlouse)‚ Biological name Porcellio scaber‚ is probably the most common species in New Zealand. They belong to the biological class Crustacea. Their size is about 17mm in length. They have rough exoskeleton and usually in dark grey colour. They have 7 pairs of legs‚ each pair is attached to the underneath of each thorax segment. Their body consists into three sections: head‚ thorax and abdomen‚ these are
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