Shallow Hal Essay Imagine you are participating in a speed-dating program. During your remaining ten minutes of the event‚ you meet two last suitors. The first suitor is short‚ overweight‚ hairy except on his head‚ slight acne marks‚ crooked teeth‚ dresses up as Austin Powers‚ etc. However‚ the first suitor is remarkably sweet. Within the five-minute frame you learn he volunteers to help the elderly and handicap civilians‚ he donates clothes to the less fortunate‚ he works extra side jobs to pay
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smarter than us (so long as she has access to the web) Life has become more complex but we hardly ever notice it because technology/Google has made complexity simpler than ever. In the book‚ The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains‚ which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize‚ Nicholas Carr makes the case that technology is inducing an intellectual decay in our brains. It’s a provocative and even counterintuitive claim but one that he backs up with ample findings from neuro science
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“The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.” “We willingly accept the loss of concentration and focus‚ the division of our attention and the fragmentation of our thoughts‚ in return for the wealth of compelling or at least diverting information we receive.” Addiction is the relentless pull to a substance or an activity that becomes so compulsive it ultimately interferes with everyday life. By that definition‚ nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet. It has
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According to Nickolas Carr‚ a blogger and Pulitzer Prize winner‚ our minds are changing. In‚ Is Google making us stupid?‚ Carr discusses how we‚ as humans‚ have adapted to different thinking skills to were nowadays it is affecting individuals. He first leads by claiming‚ “my mind isn’t going -- so far as I can tell -- but it’s changing”. This leads into him discussing how he no longer feels he can progress into a suitable book without facing numerous difficulties with concentrating. That he seems
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past. What happened? Swiping became easier than turning; backlighting in screens became easier than managing a book light; typing became easier than written annotations. In Alan Carr’s novel‚ The Shallows (2011)‚ he writes‚ "The price we pay to assume technology’s power is alienation‚" (Carr 211). What Carr doesn’t mention is the high taxes we pay in addition to the price of alienation. While it is true that technology is the key to success for many‚ it may also be the key to failure. Technology is
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In answering the question‚ "What is History?" E.H. Carr reasons that history is dependent on the views and opinions of historians. History is "a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts‚ an unending dialogue between the present and the past." His essay examines some interesting points in regards to history and whether much of it is actual truth or simply an interpretation of the facts set before the historian. Carr compares the writings of Acton and Sir George Clark
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Many buildings use deep foundations even though it is expensive and also time consuming. On the other hand‚ shallow foundations are the complete opposite; they are relatively inexpensive and take up less time in building. So why do engineers recommend deep foundations over shallow foundations despite the vast differences that each have? Deep foundations are embedded deep into the ground so that the ground has a better grip on the structure. There are many types of deep foundations‚ one example
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The Shallows Chapters 7 & 8 In chapters seven and eight of the book The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains Nicholas Carr discusses the effects the internet has on our brain‚ and the changes it causes not only in our mind but also in our daily lives. It is becoming apparent with every click of the mouse that the internet is not only changing our minds‚ it’s changing our whole lives and society. Carr seems to have one main purpose in chapter seven‚ to drive home his point
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involve for the future that will come and perhaps our society is not involve enough in developing new technologies rather than being user of technologies‚ which in some strange way of thinking being only user of computer technology is the same point that Carr mention. Perhaps our distraction by our computer technologies is one of the reason we lost our focus‚ may be Carr’s sense is right‚ our brain neural circuitry is changing‚ and
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Shallow Hal When I asked my friends about this movie they all said the same thing that it was about a guy who sees a fat girl as blonde bomb shell. I heard that it was a hysterical movie and has a good message. - Hal’s father is dieing in the hospital and his last words telling Hal to only go after the perfect girls‚ big boos‚ and a nice posterior. In result this traumatizes Hal and he becomes shallow. - Hal gets stuck in an elevator with Tim Robins‚ who starts a conversation with Hal and
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