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For thousands of years, water has been a vital and imperative substance that managed to shape many civilizations. Humans had settled down near freshwater sources in order to decrease the risk of dehydration. However, as people had become more technologically advanced, many new beverages challenged the popularity of water. Tom Standage divides the world’s history into six popular beverages: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-cola. Drinks have been used throughout history to symbolize the…

Violating Social Norms (or: The Most Uncomfortable Elevator Ride of My Life) Upon completing this assignment, I have come to the conclusion that trying to violate a social norm on purpose is actually difficult and takes calculation, whereas accidentally doing it is so much easier. I chose to model my violation of a social norm off of the famous elevator groupthink experiment from the 1960s that has to do with conformity and ‘peer pressure’. I use to do this when I was a kid with my friends at…

One’s Marriage, The Eye and Faith When texting someone, emojis are straightforward, with a laughing emoji symbolizing laughter and clocks representing a clock. On a heart rate monitor, a flashing heart would symbolize the human heart beating in real time. In short stories however, symbols are more ambiguous. The symbols need more time to be identified and explained to those who do not see them. The symbols in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and…

The terms privacy, consent, and what constitutes as an invasion of privacy seem to, vary from one generation to the next. In today’s culture and climate where a dependency on technology is increasing at a rapid pace. Nearly every individual requires some form of tech or device to complete daily tasks and gain access to information. This in turn allowed for the growth of surveillance to grow beyond merely a tool used for observation. This essay aims at arguing how Warren and Brandeis, the authors…

On the road, you can will see many drivers going beyond the speed limit, these drivers are risking danger to themself and other people on the road. Yet most of them do it anyway, they like how the thrill of the speed makes them feel, making them want to have more power and to excel in speed. This is how some of the many car accidents are created, there are people who are innocent and others who are of fault for the accident. In the book Of Mice And Men, the author Steinbeck uses Curley and…

Dalton Novak Mr. Miles English 1301 10-25-2017 Technology Takeover When was the last time you had to actually research an answer to a question not by using the internet but by book? The answer anyone would give me would most likely be along the lines of, “Man, it has been a while.” Society is becoming so dependent on computers and technology, it is almost to the point where we almost struggle without it. “Scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if…

Ekagra verma Mrs. Kirkland 10th Grade Lit/Comp 4 September 2017 Cyberbullying Effects From many years, the technology around, us has been majorly evolving, we went from horse carriages to cars to self-driving car electric cars. The changes in our technology are so advanced now that we have a large percentage of the world visible or accessible to our eyes. We can communicate, see each other, and share anything with anyone just in seconds. As there are many advantages of the technology we have,…

Chloe Sharp Mrs. Zumberger English 10 27 October 2017 Does Technology Help or Hinder Our Society? Does technology help or hinder our society? Some people may say that it helps, others may say that it hinders, but technology is everywhere in our everyday lives. Wherever you go, technology is there. Some people choose to accept technology, and others choose not to believe in it. Which is okay, but it’s everywhere, so people might as well get used to it. It’s in schools, cars, houses, pockets, and…

Could a person's privacy be violated during sleep? When people want to share videos or pictures with another people, it takes times because they save it in their phone and they may be busy at this moment, so they send it later. A lot of people do not expect that they will express themselves, live in the moment and learn about the world’s events. “Picaboo lets you and your girlfriends send photos for peeks and not keeps!” this sentence contributed to had service that people did not expect it to…

Whenever we want to talk to someone we text them, even if you want to wish them a Happy Birthday or Happy New Year we use our phones. By using technology our way of communication has changed. Instead of talking face to face we use our phones and by that it’s causing us problems. A nonfiction passage by Scott Peck “Life is Difficult” and Sherry Turkle’s “Flight From Conversation” both suggest how life is full of problems and technology diverts our attention from solving these problems and thus…