Vocabulary
Pervasive: Existing or spreading everywhere.
Trivial: Unimportant; of little value.
Tattling on each other:
Tell something bad that another person has done.
Mislead: Make someone believe something that is not
true.
Veneer: A cover that hides the way someone or
something really is.
Relentless: Continuing without stopping or losing
strength.
Finely honed: Sharpened; perfected.
Conceal: Hide something carefully.
Preoccupation: The condition of thinking about only one
thing.
Intrusive: Affecting someone´s private life in an
annoying way.
Erosion: The gradual reduction or wearing down of
something.
Inflated: Exaggerated; overly important.
Essay
#1 – Technology Addiction
First it is important to define the concept of addiction, the dictionary
of the Royal Spanish Academy says: Addiction is a habit who is mastered by
excessive use or addiction to certain games, drugs or activities that impair
their physical and mental capacity. So addiction to technology is only one of
many forms of addiction that people have.
Addiction to technology is detected when there is excessive and
uncontrolled used of cellular, video games, internet and social networks, which
negatively impacts other areas of the life of the person. Furthermore, when the
person cannot use them, they feel anxious, tense and indecisive.
As with any addiction, the technology can greatly affect interpersonal
relationships. For example, it can prevent people from maintain friendships or
relationships with others.
Also, it can physically affect depending on the person acquiring
technology, including computers, laptops, tablets, phones, sight deteriorate
generates hand injuries, even back injuries. All these technology tools are shaping our interpersonal relationships.
The problem is occurring in most cases. For example, it happens in
students and teenagers, that rely heavily on technological resources in tasks, in
college and university work, in social networks, among others. This creates
isolation between societies. This is because these people turn away from the
group experience, these people keep little contact with people, causing
loneliness and low self-esteem.
Statistics indicate that 27% of students in USA, say their laptop is the
most important item in their backpack (from http://edudemic.com/2011/08), this
data shows that people is fully linked to technology and creates a huge
dependency between these artifacts.
The 46% say they´d be more likely to read an assignment if it was in
digital format (from http://edudemic.com), another example of the great dependency on
technology, although it helps greatly, but causes deeply rooted in man,
carrying other consequences for those who fail to channel assertively using
technology.
But the most common these days is the excessive use of the smartphones.
Shadya Gandur is a good example of addiction created by phones. She lies upside
down with his feet toward the back of the bed to reach the outlet and to sleep
with his Black Berry in hand, while the device is powered.
The psychiatrist Alejandro Ortiz reveals that there is an addiction to
BlackBerry cell phone. By the time the user depends on phones to interact with
people, they start to isolate that means they have an addiction to the device.
The addict gives preference and privilege to virtual contact rather than
personal contact. This shows, according to him, isolation from the real world,
a key symptom of addiction. (From http://www.usergioarboleda.edu.co). Another example of excessive use of technology
could be surfing the internet for
hours.
Finally, the first thing a person with an addiction must do, in this
case the technology, is first identify and accept the problem, and then seek
professional help from a psychologist or psychiatrist specialized in addictions
and behavioral disorders.
The best solution is prevention, which is achieved by being informed
about the issues that may generate abuse of new technologies. But, once
immersed in a serious addiction, we definitely recommend the help of a
specialist to provide the strategies needed to solve it. Or maybe addicts can receive
therapy.
References
Dunn, Jeff. (2011). Students
Addicted To Technology: The Good and Bad News.
Essay
#2 – Medias Influence on the people
The media is a weapon that produces some negative things in the people.
I think that media produces a very bad influence in the people around the
world, because their reports, advertising, news, articles learn a lot of
private situations of the people, specially from celebrities, Examples of this
situation we mention news on stars homosexuals, drugs in Hollywood, intimate
relationships outside marriage, alcohol abuse, divorces between stars;
information that people want to read, see and hear, news that only seek to
destroy families, to the stars. We all want to know everything that is
embarrassing ... especially when it comes from known stars of show business.
But not everything is negative, media informed some situations positive
of the people, of the rock and Hollywood stars, but this is not the main reason
of the media, they want and try to find private information to show at the rest
of the world. Positive news can be mentioned: worldwide sports information,
weather, business, health, personal cares, education and technology.
On the other hand, the movie called: “The Social Network”, teach us how
the Internet as a part of the media´s influences, try to keep closer the
people, how friends, couples and families are very close each other wherever
they are. But specially in the
University students, is a tool to find a lot of fun, friendship, be nice with
other people.
Of course, I am a user of Facebook, and I find a lot of friends and
family that I can´t see, but with Facebook, can talk wherever we are. Facebook
is a good tool or application created for all of us, around the world, is one
of the best inventions of the century.
Finally, some diseases or affections that can be result of the media´s
influence in people are: headaches, depression, loss of sleep, stress,
accidents or suicides (why not…!). I believe that media´s influence more than
showing positive things is concerned about the personal lives of the stars
(movies, singers, sports) and see them fall from grace to show the world ...
And make privacy a fun story to others.
References
Yeomans, Matthew. (2012). How social media will drive meaningful
sustainable action. Retrieve from http://socialmediainfluence.com/2012/10/16/how-social-media-will-drive-meaningful-sustainable-action/.
Grammar
Modals – Degrees of certainty. Use modal verbs
to express different degrees of certainty about the present, the past, and the
future. The modal you use shows how strongly you believe something is true or
not true.
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