Samuel Slater Samuel Slater was born in Belper‚ Derbyshire‚ England on June 9‚ 1768. He became involved in the textile industry at the age 14. Samuel Slater worked in the industry for 8 years‚ which is why he is an English-American industrialist. Mr. Slater is known as the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution”‚ a phrase brought up by Andrew Jackson. He also was known as “Father of the American Factory System” and “Slater the Traitor” (In the UK) because he brought the British textile
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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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Gladstone and Josh Neufeld’s article entitled The Influencing Machine (2011) and Nicholas Carr’s article entitled Is Google Making Us Stupid? (2008)‚ each author examines how technology affects the way we communicate with others and the way we think. Turkle writes about how we are choosing our phones over people and losing out on face-to-face communication‚ Gladstone and Neufeld discuss echo chambers and how we can easily block out thoughts we don’t like‚ and Carr talks about how skim reading on the
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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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Jack Capossela Prof. Drogy Sherry Turkle Summary Jack Capossela Cover Letter Sherry Turkle’s piece states that society and the way kids grow up is changing as a result of increased technological use. Rites of passage that used to exist are now forgone or postponed as these children are “tethered” to their devices and their parents. They’ve become dependent on these devices to assist in finding out who they are as people‚ and some are unable to figure out who they are because they always have connections
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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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