Throughout the story, the author corporates conflict and character change
In my opinion, I believe that Kelly story was more persuasive, because he used examples on how technology is already taking over in today’s society. He based his story, off how things are today and will be in a couple of years with technology. Kelly used these examples to back up his point of view on technology. Kelly was trying to warn his audience about technology. Reading Kelly story at the beginning, it had me worried a little.
Nicholas Carr, the author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” from The Atlantic, argues that the use of the internet has given people an excuse to become lazy and therefore become stupid. People have become more machine-like since they use the internet for everything. Clive Thompson, author of “Is Google Wrecking Our Memory” from Slate, proposes that people are treating technology like our friend or family and relying on it to remember details for us. Daniel M. Wegner and Adrian F. Ward, authors of “The Internet Has Become the External Hard Drive for Our Memories” from Scientific American, discuss that people turn to the internet for information, storing memories and much more. The Internet has become an easy access point for people all over to get
The novel “The Circle”, written by Dave Eggers, is a powerful technology company. The Circle is being run by Three Wise Men. The company is focusing on improving social media towards the public. The company is showing how technology is a huge effect on the community.
Maya Angelou, a writer, professor, actor, director, singer, civil rights activists, and poet, released “Caged Bird” as a part of her fourth poetry book Shaker Why Don’t You Sing? in 1983. The title references both her critically acclaimed autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “Sympathy”. “Caged Bird” shares many similarities with “Sympathy” as they both contrast the beauty of nature and Earth with the cruelty of life as an encaged bird, desperate to live freely but unable to escape their rigid cell. An allegory to slavery, segregation, and the injustices Black Americans face, Angelou adds to this image, a second bird.