The title of the article makes you think of how are we stupid using gooing. Carr capture his audience attention using an allusion from Stanley Kubrick movie 2001, A Space Odyssey. He made his point from the movie with the Supercomputer HAL plead. Gaping any reader who has watch A Space Odyssey or interested in any supercomputer stuff to his article. He highlight the fact that a computer could think for you.
Over the past few years, we colonists have been getting more and more annoyed with the English King and want to form our own country. Over the last few years, the king of England has treated the colonists very unfairly. The first reason why we should secede is because of the Sugar Act. During this event, we were forced to buy sugar and molasses from England. Then, the king heavily taxed us for buying these goods.
This quote shows that Dimmesdale was more wrong to hide this fact to maintain his role in society than he was for being a coward and not admitting his action because he thought it was wrong. By Dimmesdale
Within Is Google Making Us Stupid? By Nicholas Carr, the rhetorical devices that Carr uses allows for deep meaning to develop in the text. It also evokes emotions within the reader which makes him or her question if the internet is actually making him or her stupid. Carr also uses the different devices to persuade the audiences that the internet is actually more harm than beneficial. By using the devices he is able to make the reader rethink what he or she has thought before and question his or her thoughts.
In other words, the internet makes us stupid, and that issue makes me worry about our future knowledge. For ethos, Carr tells that he could not focus
Nicholas Carr makes claims about his own ideas supported by evidence from experts before providing his own rhetorical interpretation for his readers to consider. The question "Is Google Making Us Stupid" is posed by Nicholas Carr to determine whether our use of the internet has an impact on how our brains process written material. In order to connect with his audience, Carr employs ethos as a rhetorical strategy. He argues through the concept of ethos that the internet has produced a society where people are more concerned with getting quick information than setting aside time to read and relize an article.
They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would bounce out to another site. The author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid’’is Nicholas Carr. The purpose is to prove that the Internet is changing the way people think and how they spend their time on the Internet. Carr’s article is for adults who depend on the Internet for research and information are the main readers. Nicholas Carr uses pathos to show his argument that the Internet is changing how we spend our time with the Internet.
Ronald Regan Who said, “They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
"... you could commit a sin by doing wrong, a sin of commission, but you could also commit a sin by ignoring wrong in front of you..." What Monninger
This quote is powerful because it claims that humans are mind over matter. Whatever you think will be, will be. Author and Rhodes scholar Wes Moore was reassured in military school that he should be respected, so he respected himself. The other Wes was constantly being told he was a delinquent, and so he acted like one. Wes also claims that humans “will do what others expect of [them], agreeing with Horace’s statement that how humans live life comes from what expectations are projected on them (Moore 126).
Is Google Making Us Stupid? In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” Nicholas Carr observes that people are beginning to have trouble reading for long periods of time. Carr explains that he is beginning to wonder what the internet is doing to our brains and he states that even he does not think the way that he used to. The author explains that he is also having trouble reading because he has begun to lose his concentration while reading long books or articles.
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” This quote by Winston Churchill creates a pause for us to understand, the only way to succeed is to fail. When you are given multiple responsibilities you will fail at one point, but failing will help you understand what went wrong and how can you prevent it from occurring again! The first excerpt, “Making Driving a Federal Matter”, Laine Picker gives a general explanation on the restrictions on receiving and having a driver’s license.
Rhetorical Analysis In the article “Is Google Making us Stupid?”, author Nicholas Carr expresses his idea that the internet is taking over society and our thinking process. Google is affecting our abilities to read books, longer articles, and even older writings. Carr believes that we have become so accustomed to the ways of the internet, and we are relying on Google 's ability to sort through the details for us so we don 't have to, in order to get the information we find necessary more efficiently. He finds that this process has become almost too handy, and that it is corrupting us from becoming better educated.
He continues his speech by suggesting that education should be more educational and teachers should motivate their students more. He uses Senator Ted Kennedy’s evidence-- “... office released a paper not long ago claiming that prior to compulsory education the state literacy rate was 98 percent and after it the figure never again climbed above 91 percent, where it stands in 1990”. He uses this statement in order to establish a purpose that if people trust Senator Ted then people are willing to trust him. Making the audience feel that they can trust
For example, Postman shares that there are “winners and losers” in the world of technology and this is where the main problem lies (pg.3). The winners are those who benefit from being in the world of technology and get rich off of it such as reporters, individuals gaining careers on television and as entertainers who will do anything to continue to promote this technology. While the losers are those who is looking for change in society by looking up to them without realizing the winners do not reveal the truth because it will be “economically unwise to reveal the price to be paid for technological change” (pg.4). He then states at the end of this paragraph that “the blessing and deficits of a new technology are not distributed equally.” Along with this contradiction, he goes on and shares how we have become a world who depends on these new technologies by sharing examples on how things were made with good intentions when the project was beginning, but had a negative outcome at the end.
