An Elon English 110 Project
Joe Gonzalez Humans are very controlling beings. We like to attain as much information as we can and know everything there is to know about our environment. We are complex organisms, and want to maintain control of our environment. This intrinsic need is what drives us to make various connections between events that may seem […]
Read More →Many people and today’s world would agree social media can become a distraction in everyday life. Today, a large number of people above the age of 12 have a smart phone or tablet with internet access. Many of those people have at least one social media account and access it very frequently. With this being […]
Read More →Taylor Paradoski Social media is harmful to today’s younger people because of its pairing with cyberbullying and other dangers online. Teenagers will check their apps every hour of the day to make sure they are “caught up on the latest gossip”, and in some ways researchers have retrieved enough data to correctly label social media […]
Read More →College athletes balance a lot of work in college. There is a lot of pressure to be part of a large college athletic team and to keep up with the work in the classroom. Athletes in major Division I programs perform for millions of fans and, in many cases, bring in millions of dollars […]
Read More →Individuals within our society find themselves attracted to conspiracy theories due to such individuals feeling a lack of control throughout their own personal lives, these individuals use skepticism to create patterns and connect the dots within everyday issues and current events within society. The conspiracies that tend to attract the most media attention are […]
Read More →Social media is harmful because young people can have a distorted sense of how they should look and act due to the unrealistic standards that are propagated and promoted on the platform. In recent years celebrities, models, and athletes have become active on every platform of social media. These public […]
Read More →Relationships are can never be completely honest. Through experience I have come to realize that people subconsciously put themselves before others in life, not because they utterly want to but because it’s human nature. A study done in the psychology departments of The University of California by Dr. Bella DePaulo indicated that, “the higher the […]
Read More →The recognition of patterns in our daily lives is what gives humans the evolutionary advantage over all other animals on earth. From birth, humans are able to recognize patterns involved in feeding, sleeping, and activity. This pattern recognition allows us to make out potential dangers in situations. The ability to make out figures and objects […]
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In a survey we conducted among 100 college-aged young people, 77% percent use social media during class, 36% percent feel some sort of anxiety when they can’t use their phones for a prolonged amount of time, and 72% use social media more than twenty times a day. With the creation of MySpace in 2003, social […]
Read More →Diversity is one big boiling pot of people from different cultures and backgrounds. A humongous pot of different languages, styles, and attitudes, of everything- nothing or no one is the same. That’s amazing, do you realize that everyone is different in their own way? No culture is the same, some are similar or share similar […]
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