After reading this article I was very shocked by how many of these new disorders have been discovered as well as how many people might have them. I also found a few of them very relateable. One in particular was called the phantom ring. The phantom ring, also called ringxiety or fauxcellarm, is when a person thinks their phone is ringing or they have gotten a text when in fact they haven't. In a study of 320 adults 2/3 of them reported experiencing a phantom ringing. For me this does not only happen with my phone. Every once and a while I can hear my mom yelling for me when shes not even home or in the middle of the night. Whenever I try to analyze it to see if it was real or not it just sounds like something I said in my head but heard out loud for some reason. Sometimes it really freaks me out. I have also heard a phantom ring on other peoples phones. Like when my brothers or my moms phone is sitting right next to me I feel like I heard it vibrate like they got a text and when I check it there is no notification.
Many of these disorders seem like they could be easily fixed but in this day and age there are many cases that have gone to the extreme. Today we found out that Steve Jobs, the creator of Apple, doesn't even have an IPad in his house. For now it looks like things can only get worse and my only question now is how are we going to deal with the rapid expanding age of technology.
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Image Source (One of my favorite Disney characters) While I found most both of these articles long, boring, and confusing, They did bring up a good class discussion on how schools could help their students be more active. Lets face it, we are all sitting all the time, and based on the second article its aging us. In school, activities in gym are limited and I am NOT looking forward to taking it. But what if we had more options? What if we had more choice in what we do? There are so many other ways to stay active and keep from aging that is not offered in gym. There's swimming, cycling, hiking, walking, ice/rollerskating, even trampolines. If schools were to offer more of this, I think we would have much happier and healthier students. Taking a day to go outside and walk on trails on a nice day instead of running in a circle inside a gym. Instead of going to see a movie for a field trip, go to a trampoline park. If being active is seen as fun, not hard and boring, kids will love it!! They won't even realize how much good they are doing for themselves.
In this article the author, Noel Murray, says, "It's not to knock any of theses shows to say that they don't take place in a much more quotidian world. Realism is hardly a prerequisite for great entertainment. Besides, in many of the cases above the characters and stories express the truth in other ways." He is explaining that while these TV shows do not show the realism and struggles of the common american, they do show struggles of everyday life in other ways.
I felt that this passage really hurt Murray's argument of the lack of acknowledgement to the average american in television. He starts out by looking back into history up to now and tells us how these television shows do not promote the idea of the average person whatsoever, then goes on to tell us that these shows show it in other ways and gives examples of shows that have a great example of realism. It made the artical seem very confusing and felt almost like it was arguing for both sides when it wasn't meant to be. Personally I do not agree with Murray on this topic. People watch television and even movies to escape reality into the worlds of their favorite characters. They don't always want to watch the hardships and struggles that they are going through illustrated by an actor of actress on screen. Not to say that we shouldn't have this type of realistic television, believe me I enjoy the occasional comedy like The Middle, but I think that we need to have the balance of realism and fantasy. The developing technology of voice recognition is astounding, but I feel like there are many questions in the safety and privacy of this new technology. If you didn't know these devices record your conversations with it and use the information it collects to use later in order to better suite your needs. Such as if you order pizza from the same place every week on the same day, it remembers. But what if it was recording when you didn't want it to? Many of these devices such as Amazons Alexa are always "listening" for there "wake word". The question is after you are done talking to them do they ever stop "listening"? Another thing is that as these company's are competing with each other there are more and more of these AI assistants are being made which is making it hard to get away from them. This is giving company's more opportunities to gain incite on your personal habits. This all could be dangerous to the privacy if users.
I think it would be better to hear all viewpoints when hearing about a topic, no matter what kind of speech it is. There are many examples in our world where we hear both or many sides of one story. For example in court we always hear what everyone has to say in order to prove someone guilty or innocent. Also many children's books have been re-written in other points of view, such as how the villain felt during the story. I also think that free speech is free speech no matter what is being said. Whenever anyone says anything controversial people always say "freedom of speech" no matter what they said, but the second someone they don't like says something like that they call hate speech and shut them down. I see that happen a lot nowadays. Many people talk the talk but once they're called out for it, They hide in their little corner denying they said anything.
When I was younger (as in 4th/5th grade) I had a really hard time finding books I liked. They all seemed to be the same, cookie-cutter, boring books with the same words and the same old story. This was a struggle for me until about sixth grade. By then we were finally allowed to read real books, not the boring baby stuff from the old library. I never really liked to read until I read The Hunger Games. I had finally found a book I actually loved. Since then I have been reading ton's of books, but I still don't feel like i'm reading enough. It can be hard to remember to read and that's something i'm going to try and work on. As of now I have two books I have started but haven't finished, one book i'm still reading, and another book I want to read but don't have yet.
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