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
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
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
Roseline Gondo 1-17-18 Mr. Reilly Argumentative essay Racism within colorism Imagine being discriminated against because you had a darker skin tone. Picture people calling you names like “charcoal”, “tart”, “dirt” constantly degrading you because of a simple factor that you couldn't control. Sad but true that colorism still exist in America today. It never stopped, if anything it got worse as people made you choose if you were on #teamlightskin or #teamdarkskin. As if they weren't all
irreverence and rebellion towards her surroundings and complains about how her responsibilities have been shoved upon her all her life. It makes her realise her physical and mental freedom, but also opens her eyes to things not related to writing her essay. And so, she stumbles upon the next stage – she enters the British Museum, where an exhibition on life and death is held. Here, Ellie is overwhelmed by an all-dominating headache, leading her thoughts on the track of death. Her thoughts are primarily
I had a strange dream the night before we met again in September, a dream about you. But you were no longer a campus or a schoolhouse or a classroom. No, you were a person. And you were there, outside my room, waving at me as always with that cute, disarming smile on your face, even as you shivered in the brisk autumn air of the New England evening. I invited you inside. You said you missed me, and I said the same. We spent that night catching up, first talking about you and what you had been up
work was easier to come by. All things considered, the area was teeming with people involved in the sex industry one way or another. Prostitutes took full advantage of the theatre scene, by standing outside the theatres waiting for clients to come out for the intermission, or by mingling with audience members once the show had finished. Things were so saucy that the ‘trouble’ didn’t stop once you entered the theatre. In front of the stage, young men would drink together, eat nuts and mingle with
Essay 3—Research Paper Should prostitution be legalized in China? Karen, WEI MING 2016314060703 As one of the oldest industries in the world, prostitution used to be legal in China (Jin, 2005). After China was liberated, the government strictly banned prostitution yet it is still rampant nowadays. Scholars consider it as a city disease. The city needs large sum of migrant workers to develop, however, they don’t have sufficient economic ability to bring their families to cities and satisfy their