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Solitude: A Thing of the Past

In today’s technological world, it is very rare to be completely out of contact from the world. Just about anyone you can think of is available via phone or email in one way or another. Years before this communication technology …

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Technology Impacts Interaction: Virtual vs. Physical

With the advanced technology in today’s society there are many different routes one can take to connect or interact with one another. This can vary from Facebook, Twitter, Skype, and even virtual worlds! In such a virtual environment, many inquiries …

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Relationships: Virtual Life vs. Real Life

Today’s society relies on the internet to do more tasks than one would expect. This can include anything from navigation from one place to another, finding recipes for dinner, or even chatting with a stranger on a dating site. It …

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Automation: Growing Across the Globe

When I think about automation in the work force, I immediately think of robots taking over the world. The question is, will this actually happen? No one knows the definitive answer to this, but if our technology continues to grow …

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Limitless Information: Diminishing Our Knowledge?

With the world wide web and its endless information available to us at any given time, some may believe that today’s younger generations should be more intelligent than those who did not have this technological library available to them. We …

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Advertising: Online Saturation

Sometimes it seems as though advertising is engulfing society these days. Well, it is. You cannot drive one mile or make three clicks on your computer without being exposed to advertising of one sort or another. As of 2010, online …

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Censorship: Too Much or Too Little for Society to Handle?

Photo censorship is a sensitive subject. Many people have different views on what should and should not be shown in newspapers and online. There have been many instances in which the public as well as the peers of those being …

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Technology: The Need for Improvement

Is it possible that all of today’s technology is going to waste? Though some uses of technology are more or less significant than others, there are most certainly changes that can be made to improve the use of our technological …

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Not Everything is News Worthy

The world which we live in is always changing. it seems as though news media is changing for the worse due to its “market-minded” drive in today’s society. There have been so many time segments of change that occurred with …

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Journalism: An Everchanging Industry

With the internet, just about anything you could ever want to know is available to you in just seconds. This seems incredibly convenient, especially when it comes to research, but who knows if what you may find on Google is …

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