Does The Internet Make You Smarter? Brentney Davis Ivy Tech Community College Cover Letter Dear Professor Downton: In my peer responses‚ I noticed a lot of the students said I didn’t have the questions I proposed answered for them so I went back and included that into my final draft. I also made sure to state the article in the introduction that I am summarizing and responding to. Problems I encountered while revising my draft were the compatibility of the computer I was using with the Microsoft
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reality TV to that of a video game. “…the rules aren’t fully established at the outset. You learn as you play” (290). By this video game structural method‚ shows like Survivor and The Apprentice keep the audience more engaged and develop more critical thinking. Johnson concludes the excerpt by finally establishing his argument. “What I am arguing for is a change in the criteria we use to determine what really is cognitive junk food and what is genuinely nourishing” (293). This argument poses a change
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Watching TV Makes You Smarter Steven Johnson’s argument in “Watching TV Makes you Smarter” that television increases intellectual and enhances our cognitive faculties‚ therefore making us smarter Johnson’s states that‚ “For decades‚ we’ve worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a path declining steadily toward lowest-common- denominator standards‚ presumably because the “masses” want dumb‚ simple pleasures and big media companies try to give the masses what they want. But as that
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Are left handed people smarter than right handed people? Being left handed was sometimes stigmatized as an abnormality because very few humans are left handed. Ten percent of the world is made up of left handed people‚ that means there could be about 700 million left handed individuals all around the world. Handedness displays a complex inheritance pattern and involves several genetic factors. Therefore if one or more person in the family is left handed then that gene will pass and give
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“We are being detoured into the land of make-believe” was said by a character on the well-known show CSI Miami by a character named Horatio Caine. On television‚ a crime drama series called CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was created by a man named Anthony Zuiker. This show has become a foundation for what people believe real criminal investigation is meant to be like. This phenomenon is called the CSI Effect. This well known television show has an exaggerated look into the forensics side of the criminal
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Do Grades Really Matter? Do Grades Really Matter? Yes grades does matter; if they didn’t we wouldn’t have half the technology we have now. Just look at Bill Gates‚ in the article it talks about how he dropped out of Harvard University. It doesn’t say he was an average student. It actually states have he sailed through high school with extremely good marks. In the article it says he dropped out of to start a business‚ it doesn’t state whether he was doing bad in University for all we know he just
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How Do People Come To Believe They Were Abducted By Aliens? In the last decades‚ the notion about paranormal‚ aliens‚ extraterrestrial life‚ and federal complots has become fairly common. Since the first well promulgated case of alien abduction in the 1960s (that of Betty and Barney Hill) in North America‚ more than 1‚200 people have reported to the police cases of abduction by some kinds of creatures from the outer space. I don’t believe in any of this‚ so it’s hard for me to understand how someone
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Claus is mentioned is something that will never grow old. Yet as they age‚ the belief will diminish and eventually disappear. There are beliefs though that may continue through adulthood ghosts‚ astrology‚ psychics‚ and countless more. In Why Do People Believe in Ghost by Tiffanie Wen she explores the cultural‚ emotional‚ and scientific reasoning behind believing in ghosts‚ although there are still questions left unanswered and unexplainable. What exactly is a ghost? Well‚ “the word ‘ghost’ in English
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It costs $1.7 billion per year for Standardized testing. Do you think it’s really worth it? We came up with three solutions to solve the problem with standardized testing. The first solution was to have a choice. The second solution was one big project for the whole year. The last solution was have a standardized test but not be timed and have it just be one big test‚ instead of having a whole bunch of small tests. Standardized testing causes
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You may have noticed something missing from WWE in recent weeks. Specifically‚ the word wrestling. The organization‚ which remains the industry leader in professional wrestling‚ changed its name from World Wrestling Entertainment‚ Inc. to simply WWE. Here is the release that WWE put out on April 8. “The new business model of the company better reflects what WWE is all about‚ being a global entertainment company‚” WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon said in a statement. “We will always be loyal
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