Is Google Making Us Stupid? By Nicholas Carr Adapted from The Atlantic Monthly July 2008 “Dave‚ stop. Stop Dave. Will you stop‚ Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001:A Space Odyssey. Dave Bowman‚ having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine‚ is calmly‚ coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial brain. “Dave‚ my brain is going‚” HAL says forlornly. “I can
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UCWR 110 September 8‚ 2014 Essay 1: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” summary and response Summary: In the article of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and has some negative effects on our lives. In the article of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”‚ Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and has some negative effects on our lives. The article begins with that the Internet is the excellent resource
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Freshly elected president Donald Trump‚ with his CIA briefing‚ expressed his support for the entire CIA‚ and other ideas that he believes in retaining for the CIA. Donald Trump shows an overwhelming source of support for the CIA and a strong sense of importance for their actions. Trump begins his speech by expressing his support for the CIA. He talks about how “This is my first stop”(pg 1 para 1). He also emphasizes how important they are by pointing out that he had other places he could have gone
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Propaganda is information used to promote or publicize a particular political cause‚ usually biased or misleading. Donald Trump uses some strategies to attack candidates at a personal level and not a professional level. The three most common propagandist tactics used by Donald Trump in any presidential debate are name-calling‚ card stacking‚ and glittering generalities. One technique Trump is most known for using is the name-calling technique. Name-calling is when negatively charged names that are thrown
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Clinton has been content in recent weeks to sit back and let Trump be the news‚ letting him make his own bold claims and be the focal point of the campaign. But the roles were switched on Thursday. During the speech in Reno‚ Nev.‚ Clinton went all out. And she almost seemed to take a page out of Trump’s playbook. She used bold claims to paint a dark picture of a Trump who isn’t just an unwitting bigot‚ but rather someone intentionally advocating racist policies in the United States. And not only
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current Republican candidate‚ Donald J. Trump. In this picture‚ it displays Trump as an overweight model walking down a runway with many onlookers gazing upon him. Trump is drawn the attire of a beauty pageant contestant‚ which includes: a dress‚ high heels‚ earrings‚ crown‚ and sash. Trump is also holding a bouquet of flowers in his right arm‚ while in his left arm‚ Trump is holding up his crown. In the cartoon‚ Trump also appears to have a sad facial expression. Trump has his eyes closed‚ while tears
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It is no surprise that trump has started to make orders towards Obama previous healthcare as he said would during his campaign. Trumps intentions are to replace Obamacare with a new healthcare system that will provide insurance for everyone but even republican senators are confused on the non-specific executive order (Nagesh). With trumps vacuous order‚ he has also aimed for abortion rights. President Trump has formed an executive order that does not allow clinics
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2016 Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were running for President of United States. Hillary Clinton has been in the politics for a long time. She was the first U.S senate in 2001. From 2009 to 2013 she was the U.S secretary of the state. Hillary was the first lady to be nominated to become the president for a political party. On the other hand‚ Trump
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secretary from 2009 to 2013. In 2015 Hillary Clinton announced that she will be running for president for the second time. She is now the first woman to be the presidential candidate for the major parties(Bio.com). Donald Trump was born in 1946‚ in Queens‚ New York.In 1971 Trump became involved
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Donald Trump’s Presidential speeches. Donald Trump is currently campaigning for the American 2016 President election in the United States. His first campaign as President was in the year of 2000‚ with two victories of Reform Party primaries (Wikipedia). Trump became well-known for his hatred towards illegal immigration and free trade agreements‚ in addition‚ to his free trade view on foreign policies. (Wikipedia). Trump owns his own company called The Trump Organization‚ he is the President and the
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