Research Topic

For my research topic i have decided to use the movie the notebook to write about Alzheimer. I think that Alzheimer is a very tragic occurrence and is a topic that really intrests me because i know that it is very common and know that one day one of my loved ones or myself will suffer from this. This movie was actually a very sentimental love story that shows hope for a better tomorrow. By writting about the notebook i know i will be entertained while learning because that is one of my favorite movies.

Is google making us stupid?

I have always been a fan of technology. It is the hope of our future. Thanks to technology we have found many cures for diseases and have made life more practicle. A technological advancement that has changed the world of literature is google. To me me google is very influential and i consider it to be a time savior. Yes the articles we read are smaller than actual books but if you realize the book has context that is irrelevant to the facts that we want to find. nicholas char is saying how because of google it is more likely for your concentration to be distrcted but in reality i think that on the contrary, google helps you focus on what is really importat. It helps answer questions automatically with the click of a button. It is not that we are getting lazy but because google is so much more efficient in providing information that we can finish a task in a matter of hours instead of days. I dont think that you are getting less educated when reading google. Google is there to give you the opportunity to search millions of sites that have valuable information. It is HOW you use google which is the determining factor of whether you are stupid or not. What people dont realize is that it is an individuals responsiblity to take the time out to search all of these sites on google. For portion of popups that carr talks about i have one thing to say. There is something called pop-up control! The concentration is all dependent on an individuals dedication to studying. If you are the type of lazy person that does not take into account that google has many advantages than its you who is making yourself stupid. Not google.

Blog assignment 1

Hello! My name is Yacquelin Nava and this will be my blog for the rest of the semester. I am new to this site as many of you guys are, so please excuse my lack of creativity. To start off i would like to state that I am more of a scientific person than humanitarian. For this semester I enrolled in liberal arts humanities because i was very interested in human behavior and understanding the basic principals of why people act a certain way. This mentality will help me in the future because even though i want to change my major to radiology, or aerospace mechanic i want to have the minor of humanities.
I believe that philosophers and writers are very influential to one another. Its a great idea as a writer to have a thesis statement based on a philosophical question because there are many thinking views which people can relate to. The writers or philosophers can have a change of thoughts on the different ideas that they have. Maybe they can agree or disagree with one another which is a great way to be more open minded and see different perspectives.
In reality I believe that today we are based more on scientific thoughts than on anything else because technology is so advanced that people don't rely on anything else. I hope to learn in this cluster the different views of various people.Whether it be in philosophy, psychology or writing i want to know so much more on different views so that i can can side with a topic knowing these different ideas.
In conclusion i am more of a technical person. I love to study about the structure of mechanics and different types of systems, using schematics to troubleshoot or finding a problem. Even though i am more into technical studies i chose this cluster so that i wouldn't be ignorant to different ideas.