Describe your overall ability to pay attention when it comes to school work (<100 words)
On a scale of 1 – 10, indicate how addicted you are to you phones
8
Well, I think my ability to may attention is somewhere at 80% during a class. The remaining 20% I took off because I need to take small breaks each 15-20 minutes to stretch Mt arms and legs. I always want to check are my wallet, ear buds with me. If they are with me I want to check is everything inside. Some kind form of paranoia
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While reading “My Distraction Sickness” please note how long it takes you to get through the piece (Google says it’s a 45 min read); also, count the number of times you get distracted (for whatever reason) and tally them at the end.
Two times, 35 mins
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Describe the tone of all three articles, how do they differ? (<100 words)
Distraction sickness, speaks like in his experience and personal opinion style. Distracted student mind absolutely informative one, just pure science. When I read Anderson’s worksheet I had a feeling like a grandpa speaks with the grandchildren
What are Sam Anderson’s primary arguments in defense of distraction? (see part III of In Defense of Distraction) Do you find them convincing? Why or why not (<150 words)
That distraction isn’t an absolutely bad thing. The ability to distract, is an ability to absorb more information. It’s in a nature of a human being to absorb and absorb more information. The distraction is a soil for creativity because due to this it makes you more open minded and you can find inspiration in many different areas.
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After reading all three articles, what are your thoughts on this “epidemic of distraction”? (<50 words)
Too much yelling about it. People of 50s where yelling that hippies of 60s are going to ruin the society. Nothing changed. Our grandparents where yelling on our parents that they are playing into PC instead of reading books. Society survived.
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Please annotate “My Distraction Sickness” – highlight at least three instances for each of the following rhetoric concepts:
● Invention:
1)think about, he was a homesitting guy for decade having his, and he got lung problems. I think that Invention of internet addiction disease cases, that’s an invention of him)
2)translation of Bible. Before it Rome had a monopoly in religion, because Latin was a nature language for them, so they sent people everywhere saying what Pope wanted. After translation Bible became free for everyone which weakened Rome for sure.
3) He compares the desire for being online with addiction, showing it as a disease.
● Style :
1)First 3 pages he speaks how his life was going into hell, and then he says “I WILL CHANGE!”, common style to begin a story
2)no counter argument, he says only that you need to get rid of addiction towards phones, connection, etc.
3)Author uses his experience of addiction to kinda show that he is a reliable source.
● Memory:
1)Basically the whole story is a self-analysis where he portraits his failures and how he overcomes them
● Pathos:
1)when he speaks of how many iPhone ppl were having 10 years ago and today. Well it’s actually exaggeration, 10 years ago world was different as well, and usa doesn’t have such giant population, so like another 30-40 percent is something normal. You know cars in a beginning where would commonly described as devil-machines by countryman, now living outside nyc and having no car is something almost impossible.
2)when he speaks about meditation. Well, first of meditation, it just a way to bring your mind something from distraction, but driving you away from it doesn’t make you supernatural. Have you heard that any Buddhist invented something revolutionary? And meditation was never an invention of Buddhism in fact. Why when everyone talks about meditation they think about Buddha. Hey, Buddha was a Hindu follower before he started his journey, so it’s Hindu thing.
● 3)when he says that we became dependent from internet just to survive. He brings GPS into it. So he is going to find a route in Manhattan by on moss on tree bark.just because we made our life easily doesn’t Ean we became less autonomous. You know, syone age ppl invented the wheel(or whoever it was) but that doesn’t Mena that they became less autonomous. It’s a nature of humans to adopt the world for our needs.
● Ethos:
1)well he is part of internet development culture of 00-10 which started the sociality of internet. Youtube, blogs, Tumblr etc., became popular due to such people. And now he wants to get rid of his addiction from this culture.
2)he got damaged from internet so he now argues only toward “distraction is bad”. No counter argument. Pretty much the whole text is his one sided opinion.
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