Wired to Another World
So a duck walks into a convenient store and says, “Hey you got any gwapes?” Annoyed the clerk responds “No we don’t have any grapes.” The next day the duck comes back into the store and asks the clerk, “Hey you got any gwapes?” The clerk replies, “ Didn’t I tell you yesterday we don’t have no grapes! You come back in here asking for grapes and I’ll staple you beak shut, got it?” So the next day the duck walks into the convenient store and says. “ Hey you got any staples?” The clerk replies, “No, no staples”. So the duck asks, “Well than you got any gwapes?” (“All Work and No Play Makes Eddy Go Crazy 2/15/03).
I heard this joke from Wahoo, a person I met on an online community for the television show Friends. I had requested that anyone with any jokes leave them in my thread because I needed a good laugh to relieve my stress from school. I was requested to join a online “community” by my writing professor and then decide if it truly was a community. Webster’s dictionary defines community as “ a unified body of individuals…an interacting population of various kinds of individuals” (233). Although many people dismiss online communities as silly and a waste of time, they actually provide many average people with a place to socialize at the end of the day or retreat to on a work-break when everyone else they know is busy.
I chose the Friends online forum because I enjoy the show and watch it every week. I figured that it would be easy for me to connect with people and start conversations. Unfortunately, I was mistaken. When I visited the site I noticed that the majority of the topics had little or nothing to do with Friends. Simply put, it was people talking about cars, movies, love lives, and any other subject on someone’s mind. I found this interesting since this was a forum dedicated to a television show. But it did remind me of how people would act if they attended an automobile convention, for example. Although automobiles are the main topic, people would diverge and speak of other issues. Of course there where topics pertaining to the show, however most of the conversation where so precise that often times I couldn’t remember the exact episode they were speaking of.
In “The Social Networks”, Neal Gabler discusses on the many issues that the invention of television and social media has had on the society nowadays. In his writing, he explains in more detail how television series and social networks have change the way humans interact with other humans, friends, and family members. Gabler points out on how the typical setting for a group of friends is shown in a TV’s show, using examples such as “Friends”, “Seinfeld”, and “Glee”, of how connected all the characters are in a show. He begins by stressing how is very hard to find relationship in the real world like they have in television series. Also, discuss the negative part of how having a lot of friends on social media doesn’t mean anything, he just says
Sadly, people are becoming socially awkward as “social media behavior involves communicating with many remote persons even when one may be physically alone,” making it incapable of having a true physical friendship (Vatel 2). For some, communication does not exist without the shield of a laptop computer and an internet connection. To truly know someone is not the brief exchange of a few instant messages that may or may not be truthful or sincere. Today, engaging in a social outing, coming together for a casual gathering or even a simple brunch to get to know one another has become taboo. As a result, earning truth to the statement, “it’s possible to build friendship online, but more often we need to integrate online engagement with offline interaction,” pointing to the importance of social assembly, given the fact that the benefit of face to face contact has been casually discarded (Xinran 209). Unfortunately, the modern attraction in being a friend today has become the ability to add or delete friends with the right click of a notion and without any thought of
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...racy skills to function as adults, and we have a responsibility to our students to help them acquire those skills. We need to improve our weak characteristics of our campus and continue to use our strengths to develop new programs that will benefit our students’ abilities. If given the chance to improve my campus’s literacy programs, I would do whatever it took to make it a success and I would use multiple resources to find answers to questions that I could not answer. I would bring all these things together to make an after school literacy program a success.
Howard Rheingold, who established the definition of the virtual community, touches on his personal experiences in being deeply involved on an emotional level with people he has never personally met before: “The idea of a community accessible only via my computer sounded cold to me at first, but I learned quickly that people can feel passionately about email and computer conferences. I’ve become one of them. I care about these people that I met through my computer, and I care deeply about the future of the medium that enables us to assemble” (273). He considers these people his “family of invisible friends” (Rheingold 273), a group of individuals that he goes out of his way to connect with on a daily basis. The computer is as advanced as it gets; the internet is still in its beginning stages at this point, and already the founding threads of make up the virtual community are being woven together. Aside from the advent of the home telephone, this is the first time that people don’t have to be face to face with each other in order to interact with purpose. What begins as only a small, tightly-knit community can progress into something exponential and all-encompassing as the age of technology thrives. It is the role of not just one community, but many, to develop their own customs and traditions and
I enjoyed this reading this play because the men in the play were typical men-folk. They put on this persona that they are the most important creatures on Earth. They act as if they were Sherlock Holmes himself when in actuality they are not nearly as vigilant as the female characters. Their high-mighty attitude made the women feel inferior and because of that common feeling they form a bond between the three of them. Through this bond they decided to keep the evidence they found and Mrs. Wright’s secret to themselves. Taking the box with the dead bird was them demonstrating gender loyalty and an act of rebelliousness against a the self-righteous male-dominate...
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An online community is a place where individual users with common interest come together to build relationships with similar people. Recently I was looking through the Yahoo and MSN websites, searching for an interesting community to join. Unfortunately, all of the message boards I was interested in had been inactive for over a year. Online communities must involve growing relationships among active users. Many people believe that online communities are a waste of time and are destroying our current society. Howard Rheingold, an author, argues another point of view (92).
Every child deserves a positive, safe, nurturing, and stimulating learning environment where they will grow academically, socially, emotionally, and physically. My role as an educator is to provide my students with this type of environment as well as an education that will help them succeed academically and become life long learners. It is the responsibility of a literacy educator to provide students with this type of environment, but also to provide instruction that will help students become successful readers and writers. There are numerous programs and philosophies about literacy and reading. Through years of experience and research, one begins to develop their own creative approach on teaching these skills. After looking at different programs and seeing the positive and negatives of each, an integrated and balanced approach of literacy seems to be the best way to teach the differing needs of each student.
According to Webster’s Dictionary, art is “human expression of objects by painting, etc” (10). The words “human experience” adds meaning to art. Artists reveal their inner thoughts and feelings through their work. When we study a painting by Salvador Dali, the strange objects and the surrealist background portrays the eccentricity of the painter. Some ideas cannot be explained verbally. They can only be shown via a medium. We can get across what is in our minds or our hearts by a stroke of a brush, a drop of paint, a row of words, or something else. But to express ourselves, we do not need to limit what we call art.
Art by definition is “the expression or application of creative skill and imagination, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power,” (Hacker, 2011).
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...ed to an objective criterion that fails to capture every art form. Several amendments to Tolstoy’s definition are subsequently necessary. It is my personal view that art can be more suitably defined as an expression of emotion; it is uniquely beautiful depending on the perceiver; it provides pleasure, entertainment, enlightenment, education, appeasement and a variety of other emotions to people, depending solely on a person's experiences and interactions with the art piece. However, it is important that the distinction between regular forms of art and exceptional forms is drawn. Exceptional art is globally recognized by majority of critics and regular art forms comprise of the five imitative arts. The concept of art is unique and provides each person with a differing experience. In the words of the artist Ad Reinhardt, "art is art. Everything is everything else."
Art is one of the most intriguing and exiting forms of human expression. A picture can tell a thousand words and often stir up feelings inside the viewer. Art is all around us.buildings,electronic equipment like a computer, and even automobiles are all a form of art.
Art can be defined in many ways by an individual. One can say that any creative output by a person is considered art. Others contend that art must conform to a societal standard and the basis of the creation should be understood by most intellectual people. For example, some contend that computer-generated images, such as fractals, are not art due to the large role played by a computer. E.O. Wilson states “the exclusive role of the arts is to intensify aesthetic and emotional response. Works of art communicate feeling directly from mind to mind, with no intent to explain why the impact occurs” (218). A simple definition may be that art is the physical expression of the ideals formed by the mind.