When the Netflix adaptation of Jay Asher’s 2007 novel ’13 Reasons Why’ was first released on March of 2017, it instantly became a “binge watch” hit (Schrobsdorff). The show centered around Clay Jensen, a college student who received 13 tapes narrated by his friend Hannah Baker. In those tapes she explains the different reasons as to why she had taken her own life, the driving force behind the entire show. The reasons featured a lot of issues relevant to today’s society such as rape, bullying,…
Introduction Recently I have read an online article called, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” written by Jean M. Twenge. As the title portrays, the article is about technology’s impact on the younger generation. Twenge states, “I’ve been researching generational differences for 25 years, starting when I was a 22-year-old doctoral student in psychology” (Twenge). She goes on in the article to state her opinion about smartphones and to support it in a variety of ways. Quoting and…
Tanuja Albert 12J Movie Review: ‘The Internship’ Year Released: 2013 Director: Shawn Levy Cast Character Vince Vaughn Billy McMahon Owen Wilson Nick Campbell Rose Byrne Dana Aasif Mandvi Mr Chetty Josh Brener Lyle Dylan O’Brien Stuart Tiya Sircar Neha Tobit Raphael Yo-yo Santos Max Minghella Graham Hawtrey Summary of Storyline “The Internship”, is a movie about two men, Billy McMahon (played by Vince Vaugh) and Nick Campbell (played by Owen Wilson) and their experience as interns at Google.…
of our western culture. As the popularity of social media quickly grew, people like Mark Zuckerberg wanted to take advantage of the opportunity for the betterment of the university he was attending. Zuckerberg presented the idea of a website that would connect students on the Harvard campus to promote activities and raise awareness of happening events. When Harvard refused any connections with Facebook, Zuckerberg continued the site independently, opening it to anyone with access to the World…
Mark Zuckerberg proved his talent in innovation even when he was before college. He started “using computers and writing software in middle school”, and his father also “hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately, but the tutor admitted that it quickly became difficult to stay ahead of his pupil, referring to him as a ‘prodigy’” (“Mark Elliot”, 2016). From the movie, “The Social Network”, it shows that Mark created an MP3 program in high school. This program is called Synapse.…
“THE BILLIONAIRE (2011)” THE REVIEWS In this story, there is a guy name Top Aitthiphat Kulapopngvanich who had facing difficulty to become young entrepreneur. At the age of 16 he dropped out from school due to incapability to catch up his studies because he plays online game too often. He became an arm dealer sells his online game weapons to his online-gamers and earned extra income. He learned how to make money with his hobbies. Soon after, as it is an illegal thing to do online, his online…
1. Mark Zuckerberg is a programmer in Harvard University, he was approached by the Winklevoos brothers with an idea to create a social network within Harvard that allows only students with a certain email extension to be a user, Zuckerberg agreed to help, but instead created his own social network ‘ The Facebook’ with his best friend Edwardo Saverin as its CFO, after the network was created they began expanding into all the different universities, the Winklevoos brothers tried to get him to stop…
The main protagonist in Bringing Down the House, Kevin Lewis, is your typical MIT grad student. This ethnic man finished at MIT with straight A's, he obtained an electrical engineer major, and he covered all the premed requisites. How much better could a 20 year old's resume get? In the first chapter of this novel Kevin is characterized as being shy, edgy, and genius. He was at the casino and as he sat at the poker table, he "tried to hide his trembling hands" (Mezrich, 2003, 1). The mannerisms…
The person who I admire and believe to be an effective leader is Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York on May 14, 1984. He is the co-founder of Facebook, a Computer Programmer, and an Internet Entrepreneur. He designed Facebook in his dorm room while attending Harvard University. During his sophomore year he decided to drop out of college so that he can solely focus on his project of launching which is now known as the social networking site called Facebook…
First, we have to understand what is social network. Social network is a website and it’s main purpose is bring people together to communicate, share ideas and interests or meet new people. This type of sharing data and collaboration is also known as social media. Social media websites contain data that has been made by millions of people from all over the world. Websites like Facebook, Twitter, Google + are very popular because it is easy to use, requires very little effort to build a profile…