Research Paper

How have cell phones change us socially?

Cell phones have changed this society in ways you can’t believe. If you own a cell phone, you are one of the most fortunate people alive. It gives you the power to find all of the information you need at any time of the day. But, their are problems with the use of cellphones. Instead of being able to talk to someone one on one, you are sending a message from miles away telling someone to "come pick you up". When sending a message you can easily get confused with the attitude someone is presenting. It leads to drama, which will often cause a fight and nothing but trouble. 

If you go out with someone these days they are on their phones 24/7. Their are some pros and cons about this, but mostly cons. It has changed some people to become "socially awkward" as some would say. Back when cell phones were not invented, the only way to communicate with someone is through a letter or talking to them in person. The pros in having a cell phone can make saving and spending money easier. You can purchase anything through an online source such as, shirts, pants, shoes, basketball, Ext. You can also deposit a check with just a click of a button.

Face to face communication by children or even young teens is being squashed out by social networking sites. Specialist have found that 37% of the social networking teens have sent more messages through Twitter and Facebook than having a direct conversation with a new friend or family member. Good communication skills is almost required in today's world, because when we are adults and applying for jobs, we wont have the proper communication and therefore no job!

      According to Pew Research Center, “As technology continues to improve, the use of cell phones continues to change drastically. The increase over the last ten years has been incredible and the way we use our phones to stay connected and informed continues to change.” This statement is very true, the more people buy or use cell phones changes the way of life really. No more looking up a word in the dictionary or going to the library to find a book. Everything you need is just a click away. 

     Some people might find it hard to believe that there was once a time when cell phones weren’t around. Myself, i could not even imagine what it was like! Honestly, i am on my phone at least 50-75 times a day. I know that sounds like a lot but in reality its almost not enough. With what i do, i need it by my side all day. Its like a necessity, without your phone you are lost in today's generation. You might as well be secluded from society!

   Even though a Cell phone is a great thing to society they can also be very addictive. Just like drugs or alcohol, if you use it once you are most likely to use it again. For instance, the nicotine in cigarettes have hooked people and made them believe, without that they wouldn't be able to survive. It goes the same for a phone, without the twitter or Instagram app i could almost guarantee people would lose interest. 

    Cell phones in schools have made a huge difference in many different ways. For example, if your math or English teacher didn't know the answer to a question or an equation, all they would have to do is look it up and boom the answer is there in a blink of an eye. But on the other hand kids in the classroom use it towards their advantage by messaging in class or looking up silly videos that don't relate to the topic at all. This is why school systems have banned phones in the classroom. 

  

The fault in our stars

   The meaning of the line from Julius Caesars play expresses that it is our fault if we 

Thanatopsis

1. "Thana" means death, and "opsis" means sight. The poem is about life and death. Life is the Opsis or the sight when opening up into  a new life. 

2. A "Shroud" is a cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial, while a "pall" is a cloth spread over a coffin or tomb. A narrow house is long but wide and a sepulcher is a small room or monument. These words impact the poem by "Shroud" and "pall" meaning death.

3. I believe this poem is about death In the beginnig of the poem until you get to the end and feel like you have been comforted by the bright sunshine looking down on you. 

4. The tone In the first part of the poem has a dark evil Image to it. Whenever you get to line 30 the poem turns from dark and evil to a comforting image and giving us a sign of relief. 

5. An elegy is a poem that has serious tone and typically a grief or sorrow toward the dead. The conventions of an elegy is when the poem shifts into a comfortable setting and gives a warm feeling inside. 

6. The elements of the poem that are like a painting is the love and compassion for nature. 

7. This poem is a historical piece because of the words and phrases it uses through out the poem. It shows romance by creating a tone of death and love towards nature and it is a Calvinist poem because the role play of god and how he controls nature. 

15 Definitions

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1) Prodding- To poke or jab with or as if with something pointed.

2) Condemnation- Strong censure, disapprobation or reproof.

3) Pallor- paleness

4) Ameliorate- make better

5) Poppet- Doll 

6) Avidly- Eagerly 

7) Base- Low; mean

8) Deference- Courteous regard or respect.

9) Theology- The study of religion.

10) Quail- Cringe from 

11) Cringe- To shrink, bend, or crouch, especially in fear or servility; cower.

12) Gingerly- cautiously

13) Abomination- something that causes great horror or disgust.

14) Blasphemy- Sinful act or remark. 

15) Ordained- To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions.

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1) Rankle- To continue to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment within the mind.

2) Naive- Having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality.

3) marauded- To roam or go around in quest of plunder; make a raid for booty.

4) Heathen- An unconverted individual of a people that do not acknowledge the God of the Bible.

5) Autocracy- Government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others.

6) Ideology- The body of doctrine, myth, belief.

7) Topple- To fall forward, as from having too heavy a top.

8) Paradox- A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

9) Grievances- A wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress.

10) Remiss- Negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business.

11) Embittered- To make bitter.

12) Accusations- A charge of wrongdoing; imputation of guilt or blame.

13) Junctures- A point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances.

14) Clamored- A loud uproar, as from a crowd of people.

15) Intimations- The act of intimating, or making known indirectly.

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Definitions: Trey Burton 

1) Fused- a tube, cord, or the like, filled or saturated with combustible matter, for igniting an explosive.

2) Unmellowed- not soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.

3) Somber- gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted.

4) Ordinances- an authoritative rule or law.

5) lye- a highly concentrated, aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide.

6) Snobbery- snobbish character, conduct, trait, or act.

7) Parishioners- one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.

8) Reverend- pertaining to or characteristic of the clergy.

9) Homage-  respect or reverence paid or rendered.

10) magistrates- a civil officer charged with the administration of the law.

11) insoluble- incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.

12) manifestation- a public demonstration, as for political effect.

13) paradox- a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

14) repression- the act of repressing; state of being repressed.

15) strikingly- attractive; impressive: a scene of striking beauty.

Web-quest: Salem Witch Trials

1. At first I was a little startled to read about this location. So much darkness and lies that the community of Salem  had. everyone seemed to know what was going on, but didn't want to speak. I, in that case, felt scared of the act of witchcraft. The thought of being involved in the acts and duties of Satan just isn't a normal thing to do. A few weeks before the incident I felt angry and would let that anger out on the merchants. I was low in my mind, so I tried to turn to God, but the thought of God lightly faded away. this is where I made the biggest mistake of my life. I ended up stabbing someone by letting Satan control me.

2. The difference in The Crucible is that the two main characters are Mr. Proctor and Mrs. Proctor. In the witch trials it involves 25 people.

3. Caporael's theory is why the the Salem trials took place. The theory makes a really good argument and makes sense. Before the Salem trials the had incidents going on. people where poisoning each other. this led to horrible hangings and unexplained death. It did something to there minds.

4. The similarities of the McCarthyism and the Salem witch trials are that the public had a  pressured a lot of the people and a unjust accusation. In millers decription the people on the spotlight where pressured hard by the public. during the McCarthyism trial, people would blame others, to take of pressure they had off of themselves. 

5 In the "red scare" people didn't know what was the reason of those unexplained incidents. they would put the blame on people to make it  believable and to actually record them to close a particular file. 

6. during each of the events, their was a great hysteria that rose from problems in the society. In the '' human rights '' article and in the Salem witch trials along with the  holocaust, many people died from being afraid of ''something''; however, in the red scare and the internment of the Japanese camps, people were not killed and stood up for there rights for the citizens. 

 7  George Santayana quote defined if we cannot learn from the mistakes in the Salem witch trial then eventually there will be more cases but in different occasions and forms. learning from history gives us the knowledge to understand the mistakes that happened in the passed. We can look back to study and figure out ways to prevent similar occasions. I thinks its a pretty successful because it gives the readers accurate  knowledge about the bad incidents in the 1600s 

   

8 I think the holocaust is a perfect example because Hitler needed someone to blame about the Germans financial crisis. In this case the Jews were the one to blame.

9. I find it interesting that the cases in the 1600s where and could be corrupted and people really could not do anything about it.   

1) Edward is trying to persuade the audience to act in a more holy manner and less sinful actions.
2) Edwards purpose of natural men is the the typical man back in that time period, that believe in God yet still sins.
3)In the first paragraph Edwards use of "abate" is to define his purpose of saying everybody is born a sinner.
4) This use of repetition is to make a point a stronger way. This repetition is very effective in his oral speech, because he uses a lot of exaggerated imagery.
5) They use appositives to create vivid imagery.
6) The purpose is to create a more emotional impact on the audience, to try to persuade the audiences answer.
7) He uses not willingly in every sentence to exaggerate his point. he uses the semicolons to emphasize each point of the statements.
8) Gods wrath is always ready for a person who sins. In this text the use of imagery is used to help understatement the power of god.
9) In the text Edwards says that God is holding us over a fiery pit and if we sin he will drop us in it. Edwards tells his audience we need to be better followers of God.
10) Edwards uses ethos to pathos. He uses more emotion in his sermons to his audience rather than logos. His visions of god are very different from today and may seem illogical to use but may be logical to them.
11). The tone stays the same throughout the speech. We the people aren't worthy of being on earth and we are basically gods toys to play with. He keeps the tone of us on the verge of death. He claims that we are hanging over a fiery pit and one wrong move will send us to hell this idea of a horrible death also remains throughout the sermon.
12)When Edwards says he wants to be "heard" instead of "read", he means he wants the people that are reading his stories to fully understand them and are able comprehend it.
13. His text is persuasive by giving dark scary details and visions of horror if they don't live by gods ways. This makes the audience fear their life on a constant basis and engulf themselves into the sermon.

14) The people who fainted were so surprised at what he had to say about their faith and what would happen to you if you sinned. 

    In the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" the author gives the women a suspicion that the wallpaper is a symbol for something, and she must figure it out. In the beginning of the story the women is sane and gentle. By the end she goes completely insane and in need of great help. John, her husband is a physician, which is a family doctor. With his bright mind he decides to put his wife into a room all by herself for a countless number of hours. How would you feel if you were put into a room all by yourself for days? I would go completely insane within the first hour, just thinking about it makes my stomach turn upside down.

     Symbolism is a term that is used for representing ideas or qualities. In this particular story the symbolism is shown through the yellow wallpaper. It is used to give the women hope to find an escape route or medicine to cure her illness. In my point of view I believe this was a plan that her husband John set up. He wanted her to become insane. It just doesn't make sense to me, why would you trap someone in a room for a long time and not expect someone to go crazy. but to get better.

    As we discussed in class,freedom is the theme or topic of this story. John restricts her freedom by locking his wife into a small room with no where to go. Freedom is also the reason of her insanity, without freedom she becomes insane and desperate just like any other person would. It's all a mind game to me. By putting her in a room with just a bed, I would think outside the box to and try to figure something out by using everything I could, such as "The Yellow Wallpaper".

   Like I said before as the story comes to an end, the people around her begin to realize that she is insane and helpless. From biting a corner of her bed off to trying to figure out who she is by piecing together a picture. I would say she is crazy.

My name Is Trey Burton. I was born in Charlotte, NC and currently attend Newton Conover High School as a Junior. I like traveling and playing sports. My favorite place to go while traveling is California, it's a lot warmer than North Carolina especially in the Winter and I like to be around a lot of people in a big city. I basically play every sport, but my main interest is golf. Last year I was apart of the Newton Conover golf team who won the 2A State Championship in Pinehurst, NC. It means a lot to me in many ways. It taught me to work hard for everything you do and never give up. It will eventually pay off in the end.