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Bring the Perfect Dish to Your Next Potluck: Spinach Pasta Casserole with Pesto & Double Cheese

When a party, get-together, potluck or even a large family calls for food, some dishes just don’t cut it. If your looking for the ultimate dish that will entice your friends and family, then I have the perfect recipe for …

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Four Tips To Stay On Top Of School This Semester and Excel

Weather it’s your freshman year or senior year of college, it’s possible to get overwhelmed and maybe even lost in school. We tend to lose focus if we have a long weekend with friends, going home for the weekend, or …

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New ‘Star Wars’ Merchandise Launched on ‘Force Friday’ Creates Excitement For Fans

A collection of new “Star Wars” merchandise debuted this past Friday, September 4, nicknamed “Force Friday”. It was encouraged by the Star Wars franchise to have retailers such as Amazon, Disney Stores and Parks, Target, Toys R Us, and Walmart …

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Review of the Class and How Technology Allowed Me to take this Course

This is my last blog of the year! I have to admit I thought I would hate doing these blogs, but I actually really liked them. They allowed me to write about what I read in the book and I …

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Dating and Relationships are Becoming All Online

Online dating is not something that is a foreign concept anymore. There are so many online dating websites, for example, eharmony.com. There are commercials everywhere promoting these sites as well. A television show was even created about people that met …

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The Proteus Effect and Stereotypes

The goal of the Proteus Effect is to test the extent to which the “feeling” of character with a certain appearance shapes player behavior. This is a common problem in society. Many people that do not have the stereotypical attractive …

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Technology Does Not Let Anyone Be Alone Anymore

People are afraid of being alone. Technology now allows people always to be connected with others. Being connected can have so many different meanings too. For example, someone could be on the phone, texting, or even stalking someone on Facebook. …

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Computers are Pervasive; Should we be Concerned?

After reading the article Automation on the Job, two specific sentences stuck out to me. They said, “As predicted, computers guide machine tools and run assembly lines, but that’s a minor part of their role in society. The computer …

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Google is Not Making Us Stupid

Google is not making us stupid. I completely do not think Google is harming us in any way. In fact, I think Google is making us smarter because we not only get the information in a matter of seconds, but …

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Is Technology Change Good or Bad?

In Article 1, Postman states that the fourth idea about the things we need to know about technological change is “Technological change is not additive; it is ecological.” I agree with this pretty much completely. When a big technology is …

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