In Marquise’s essay, “How a Gay, Homeless Teen Became His High School’s Valedictorian” http://www.good.is/posts/how-a-gay-homeless-teen-became-his-high-school-..., the author portrayed the difficult adversities that he experienced throughout his entire life. He explains how hard it was getting into college as a gay young man, and how his own aunt discriminated against his sexuality.
In Lisa Eadicicco’s article, “15 Technologies of Today We’ll Still Be Using In 2030”, from nbcnews.com, the author lists fifteen types of technology that the world will still use even in the future.
When we consider the issue of technology, some might question: “Will we be able to drive to our houses by cars that fly?” or “Will we have holograms for communications like in the movies?” Eadicicco’s article addresses these questions because she herself had been wondering about our future of technology.
Members Representing Israel: Tamanna, Rahnuma, and Jessenia
Tamanna: Good morning, everyone. Ladies and gentleman. My name is Ayala Bacher (Tamanna) and my fellow partners are Aviv Joffe (Jessenia), and Hadar Jakobs (Rahnuma). We are diplomats representing the country Israel and are very grateful that we are here today to share current events on the conflicts of the Gaza strip and Jerusalem.
In my opinion i think that no mayor should be going on this long running our state when especially a lot of people disagree and don't view what he views.For example i have recently herd that for the recent snow storm that has happened here in New York City it was about 5inch tall and in these circumstances the New York board of ed is supposed to close schools down but mayor bloomberg has decided to keep it open to get back at the New York board of ed for denying his command. Which was to extend school throughout summer due to the terrifying and havoc form named "Sandy".
What are my plans for traveling? How am I supposed to prepare myself for my 8 month journey across Europe? These are a few questions I have to consider when thinking about my trip to Europe.
The way children grow up and their opinions about life are seriously affected by what they learn from people around and what happen to them during their lives. In the past, poverty and the discrimination against people of different races were very serious problems in society.
Ray Lewis’ Future
Have you wondered what would it be like to predict our own future? I have spent the last few weeks trying to answer this question. I think that it would be interesting to find out if we could predict our own futures.
All immigrants come to America for many reasons all tied up to the American dream. Achieving this dream isn't easy . Lots of immigrants struggle in achieving this. In the book Children of The River the protagonist, Sundara, did achieve the american dream. Sundara wanted to be able to survive the war , get a good education and she wanted to be able to help her family earn a living. Just like any immigrant Sundara came to America with many goals and also had hopes to achieve them .
I finished reading Divergent this week. This book is the story of Beatrice, who lives in a utopian society. That’s what it looks like at first glance, but its not so simple. The society is split into five different factions, Amity, Candor, Erudite, Dauntless, and Abegnation. All with different priorities on emotions or ways of life.
So here I am again. This time the assignment was to find an article or something that was connected to my topic, but the catch was that it had to be said by or be about a famous person. Now me, being as optimistic and sarcastic as ever, thought that this would be close to impossible. Not that it would be hard to find a famous person that is depressed or that famous people don’t get depressed, but that the only people that would talk about their depression would be the news or the paparazzi going into their personal life.
So as uncomfortable a topic as this is, it was a question that I put on an assignment for this class and I really don’t feel like having to research a new topic or taking the time to change the question. In hindsight I really should have thought really hard about what I picked even if I wasn’t positive that it was going to go on the internet. But hey, I’ve already gone this far, so I might as well finish what I started.
There are many new medical breakthroughs such as a success full face transplant in 2011, a women surviving a gunshot to the head. and HIV researchers found a way to lower an infected person's chance of transmitting the virus to sexual partners by 96 percent.. There are also many predictions coming about new vaccines. This article talks about predictions about the future for medical advancements. One prediction is that medicine gets closer to treating cancer with vaccines. Another perdiction talks about health insurance and how it will be easier for legislative to choose.
What is success to me? Will I ever have a good job and become successful? This is a question I think about every day. But what is even the definition of “success”?
I read this article on oil, and if it is nearing its end. From the article I learned, the EIA projects that the reserves of oil, natural gas, coal, and uranium will be gone in 56 years. Also gas prices have quadrupled since 2003, on Monday I noticed gas was at $2.61 a gallon for regular, and by the end of the week it had gone up over 40 cents to $3.05 a gallon. Governments are not doing any kind of conservation programs to stretch out supplies. Private auto companies, though are trying to transition to alternative fuel vehicles slowly.
This interests me because i'm not sure if i'm able to accomplish my goals. I am sure i can but there is always the doubt that i might not be able to. Also things change about a person every so often my goals could change from now to even a year. Im still not sure on what my goals are but i have some ideas.
In the present day we see robots that can work aside men occasionally at most, but this number will drastically change in the future. The change of unskilled workers to robots will bring a lot of new questionable things to society. The more and more robots in our workforce the less jobs there will be for people, but as estimated by many this will just open the door to more specific jobs such as ballerinas, athletes, and mathematicians. Society as we know it will change, but it is up to opinion and prediction whether this change will be better or worse.
What really will happen when the world ends? It’s such an interesting topic to me because i want to know so much. There are endless possibilities of how and what will happen. There are so many theories like, zombies apocalypse, or jesus coming to the Earth. No one really knows what will happen. Thats what is so interesting to me, no one in the world can predict it. We all just wait and we will never know, when or how it will happen.
What really will happen when the world ends? It’s such an interesting topic to me because i want to know so much. There are endless possibilities of how and what will happen. There are so many theories like, zombies apocalypse, or jesus coming to the Earth. No one really knows what will happen. Thats what is so interesting to me, no one in the world can predict it. We all just wait and we will never know, when or how it will happen.
On January 9th, Matt Miller wrote for the Washington Post an article titled "The robots are coming". His article was based around the idea of robots possibly taking some low-wage, and eventually maybe even quite a few high-wage, jobs in the near future.
In Adam Cohen's opinion piece, "Will Self-Driving Cars Change the Rules of the Road?", from TIME magazine, the author is trying to make a point on should the self- driving car be legal? And if so what laws will have to be changed? And if it were to get in an accidentshould the driver or car manufacture be the one to blame? All of these are what insurance companies and the government worry about, but then again it could be one of the greatest things created.
In looking for sources for robotics of the future through twitter and blogs it was hard to rummage through all of the irrelevant stuff, but what I found was well worth it. I found two articles about robots taking our jobs in the future. This was really interesting and intriguing. A lot of economists previously said that any technological advancements that drive growth are good for everyone; however, now it is seen that if robots start taking laborious jobs it will be very difficult and projections have up to 70% of our current existing jobs will be replaced by automation.
Many may be questioning where apple could go next; or the limited innovation due to Steve Job’s death. With the new iphone, ipod 5 out, stocks for Apple have risen. The lack of Jobs doesn't seem to serve as a problem for the company. When Jobs left Apple however for health reasons, the company hit a fork in the road as chief operations Cook took over as CEO. Although since the change, Apple’s shares have risen 79 percent and doesn’t look like it could slow any time soon.
I think that texting can be an issue if I allow it to reach that point. I don't text nearly as much as some of my friends, but I do think it is a great way of communicating. There are many situations when I can't answer a phone call, but I can answer a text message. I don't think that texting keeps you from regular face to face conversations, I actually believe that texting initiates it. When I text my friends the conversation usually results in them coming over my house, or me going to theirs. Texting can also link me to people who I don't see quite as often.
In this article, http://personal.crocodoc.com/ApaB0SM Mitch Albom writes about his worries and concerns about losing contact and human connection through texting. He also talks about his experiences with his own mother when he wanted her to get an email.
In this article, http://personal.crocodoc.com/ApaB0SM Mitch Albom writes about how he is concerned about teenagers these days cannot communicate without texting and have lost the ability to communicate with each other directly through voice. They have in his opinion, "Losing human connections." He thinks that "...[W]e are losing something precious." He exemplifies this by belittling "text language." He says that we are losing face to face communications that help us understand sincerity.
