1. Today's technology, what is it teaching us? I have been doing an experiment on online dating, and really trying to find out what guys are looking for as well as if guy's are being honest and saying what they are really interested is the truth. Is online dating really the answer to finding out how to find your true love? As for my own opinion I would argue that online dating today is the same thing as going to the bar and picking up someone.
2. Are Americans becoming to busy trying to keep up with everyday life, while the nations obesity is becoming more and more of a epidemic? Is this a problem because of growing prices due to cost of living, gas, loss of jobs? In my opinion, I believe a lot of these issues are the cause of our growing prices. But again, I feel that family's are also becoming more dependent on fast foods and packed meals since we are always on the go.
3. Religion even today if your bring up that word, people can become automatically offended or they watch you like a hawk to see what you are going to say about it. Funny story, I was out to lunch with a co-worker and she started talking about her church and then asked me what my opinion was. I told her oh, I have been to that church and I feel it is a great church they made it fun and enjoyable. So then another person showed up my friend the co-worker asked this other person the same question, and with her head staring at her book she said where she went and was ready for us to make judgement on her. So my argument is, how is it that religion has been taught for hundreds of years and can still have so much power over us?
Nice start, Richelle! I'm gravitating towards the first two options because I think you make a clearer connection to one of the readings with those. For the first one, I can see you connecting your ideas to either the Facebook in a Crowd essay or to the Google essay (we're not only becoming intellectually shallow, but socially shallow as well). For the second one, I immediately thought that you could connect the obesity problem with Carr's essay (we want "quick wins" for our minds and now our bodies, too!) or to Sullivan's essay (dependancy on convenience, ease of information so much that we forget there is a world out there and that we have a body to move around in it!). Either way, you're on the right track!
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