300 words limit Part A: Provide an example of a time when you found that your ideas were in conflict with someone else’s, and analyze how you handled that situation. Part B: Describe and examine a conversation that you had with another person that inspired you to shift your ideas on an issue. Conflicts within a group are not necessarily harmful since diverse opinions provide more perspectives of thinking. This is a lesson I have learned while I was in Technological Innovative Club. As the co-president of the club, I have distinctly different vision of how the club should evolve in the future from the other president, Michael. I personally believe that the club should be available to everyone and it is a great way for students to learn about …show more content…
Instead of the “one way or the other” thinking, we came to an agreement to a different approach to the problem. We talked to each member of the club and divided them into two groups, one in favor of my idea and the other one in favor of Michael’s. Then I lead my group to publicize the club while Michael lead his group to promote technology in school. Surprisingly, the departmentalization does not make our club divided, instead, we become part of a positive feedback loop: my team promotes technology and Michael’s team help those in need. Students who received help will promote our club and so …show more content…
As people applaud for the convenience smart devices have brought them, a recent study showed that the average attention span of a human has significantly decreased over the past few decades. From thirty minutes to five minutes, humans are having increasingly hardy times to concentrate and advertisement is the priority cause. “Ads have dominated most of our internet. They are ubiquitous yet inevitable. They pop up while you are reading the news, shopping online or even watching a TV show and there is nothing we could do about it,” says Jack Yang, a computer scientist at University of Wisconsin- Madison, “they are distracting but we just cannot suppress the temptation of clicking it.” As algorithms for advertisement develop rapidly, websites have the ability to predict what ads the visitors might simply like from the content they had viewed and post them to spots where the visitors can notice. Despite great effort from programmers who try to design applications to block them, ads can always sneak their ways around and present themselves to the web viewers. “I remember thirty years ago, there was barely any ad to distract me when I was visiting websites and it was very productive back then,” says Michael, who has been a internet user for almost half a century, “but now I couldn’t even focus on a single task for more than few