Technology and the Present

1. What is technology?
Technology is, objects being created for people or animals made to make processes quicker.

2. What are the 5 most and 5 least important technologies used today?
The five most important technologies used today are, computers, cell phones, iPods (mp3 players), television, and air conditioners. The five least important technologies today are Smart Boards, hair dryers, light up shoes, automatic sliding doors, and coffee makers.

3. How do you feel about the amount of and use of technology at AES?
I think that the technology at AES is overused because people use it even when not needed. They have the light on even when there is enough coming from the window.

Technology and Kurt Vonnegut

“Do you know what a Luddite is? That’s a person who doesn’t like newfangled contraptions. Contraptions like nuclear submarines armed with Poseidon missiles that have H-bombs in their warheads, and like computers that cheat you out of becoming. Bill Gates says, “Wait till you can see what your computer can become.” But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work—not the damn fool computer.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

I agree with this statement because technology is something that does stuff for you. I do agree that it is helpful and gets work done faster and neater. But, I prefer to hand write everything. And if you think about back in the day when people did not have or even know about computers and they were fine. So, if we did not know about technology, life would be different. And when you say, "I wrote this paper for my Humanities class," technically, you didn't; the computer. It was just your ideas and you pushing the keys, but the computer is the object making it all work. I would not consider myself a Luddite, because computers are helpful, but I say that we could do without them.

Quarter 3 Feedback/ New Goals- Quarter 4

My goals for 3rd quarter were:

• To do my homework the night it was assigned, so I wouldn't have a load the night before.

• To add more detail and voice into my writing pieces. I would be able to know if I improved if I could picture what I was describing very clearly.
  

• To improve my geography skills. I would know if I improved if in TMTU questions.

My goals for Quarter 3 were not exactly met. There were sometime I didn't do my HW on the night it was given. We didn't actually do writing this quarter so I couldn't tell. Also, my geography hasn't improve. I know this because in TMTUs I didn't improve the amount of right answers
My goals for quarter 4 are:

• To make sure I do my homework on the night it's assigned. And if I have a project I should work on it during the course of several days
• To learn how to paraphrase better
• To make my writing pieces more descriptive and add imagery to them

Is Holy War an Oxymoron??

An oxymoron is two words that don’t belong being used together. Why is the phrase “Holy War” an oxymoron? Why is it that so many conflicts in the world today are based upon religious differences yet all major world religions condemn killing?

I think that "Holy War" is an oxymoron the two words, holy and war, just don't go together. I say that war can never be holy it doesn't help anyone in any way shape or form, just destructs our economy and wonderful land. People think that war is the solution to all off of our conflicts with others. Some war world peace, but that can never happen with all this fighting going on. War also ends friendships between countries that may have been on good terms. So many conflicts are about conflicts, because many believe that their religion is the best and feel that it should be spread all over the world.