negative effect on your life? Jean M. Twenge’s essay, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” gives multiple reasons why smartphones cause negative effects on teen lives: behavior, communication with parents, depression, less sleep, cyberbullying, and suicide. Twenge proves the negative effects through personal interviews with young teens, studies showing the changes in dating, mental health, and the amount of hours you sleep at night. Twenge opens her essay about smartphones with a narrative--a conversation
different perspective. It is told by a girl, a young adult, who is responsible and decided not to drink at a party so she could drive home. On her way home, the girl was in an automobile accident and killed by a drunk driver who attended the same party. The video is an effective way to show that drunk driving not only affects the drunk driver, but many innocent bystanders too. This is something that more people
In her autobiographical, narrative/essay “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self,” Alice Walker uses a childhood accident that left her disfigured and blind in one eye to take the readers on, a profound journey of her physical and psychological ups and downs. Walker is a well-known Pulitzer Prize winning African-American novelist and poet, although her accomplishments came with many struggles. Walker lets the readers in on her struggles she faced growing up, “Something inside me cringes, and gets
paying attention to their own feelings. In the movie Point Break, you will see characters communicating with each other very differently with one another. From Deborah Tannen’s essay on Sex Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard For Men and Women To Talk To Each Other?, sometimes the points she makes and the research in her essay is seen in the movie with certain characters but not on all of them. Cross-cultural communication is one of the reasons as to why they communicate very differently. Men and
Anmol Singh Singh 1 Ms. Gregori IB English 1/Period 3 9 October 2014 The Great Gatsby Essay Imagine living in a time period where the only thing women are worthy for are giving birth and taking care of children. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘great American novel’ takes on a different approach on women than modern times and the women in the novel create a different perspective as Fitzgerald identifies women as not only objects of mere pleasure, but also as women of
An eighth-grade girl is given an essay, a science gizmo, and a packet of math. This girl is also an athlete and after school every day she has a game or practice. By the time she gets home she is tired, stressed, hungry and cranky while asking about math problems that haven't been explained. This girl is also invited to walk to the park, but has to decline, for she is banished to her room fully submerged beneath piles of homework. Because it’s stress inducing, time consuming, and according to research
knowing her grandmother, her choice was to disrespect her and not help her. The author also says, “My father decides that he should stay home with my mother and that I should escort la abuela to church. He tells me this on Saturday night as I’m getting ready to go out to the mall with my friends” (Ortiz-Cofer para. 4). This excerpt demonstrates that Connie already didn’t want to go to church with Abuela because she had “better” things to do. As a result, she thought Abuela was going to embarrass
shows how powerful art can be when it holds emotion, and meaning to the owner. If the painting had not been of my grandpa, but a picture of someone else, it would have been out of the house straight away. Espinosa’s drawing holds meaning to many because her art targets the struggle people have. Whether it be the mask that girls put on each day to cover themselves, or the prediction of impending doom for the future. Some might even think that this piece relates to people who have bipolar disorder because
Tuttle Hansen, is “so ingrained . . . that in an anthology of writing from the women’s liberation movement . . . essays on ‘family’ are prefaced with this disclaimer: ‘We are not against love, against men and women living together, against having children. What we are against is the role women play once they become wives and mothers’” (5; qtd. in Hansen 5). However, this idea did not come out of nothing. Nowadays, many who claim to be feminists often associate motherhood with weakness, submission, and
At our summer Kairos training meeting, our leader told us about how she was stressed out for the majority of the past year. She realized her all the stress that was building up inside of her was due to the fact that she had not cried in a while. It was not until she shared this story that I realized I have not cried in a long time. For me crying was a burden, or something to avoid because I usually was the one being cried on not the other way around. But something happened, actually a lot of things