Today, every aspect of our civilized world is connected. You can call, text, message, chat, and video chat family in New York when you 're visiting Melbourne, or you could be in Bolivia and friend someone on social media that lives in St. Petersburg. The technology that we have today allows us to stay in contact with the rest of the world 24/7. Because of our advanced and technologically connected world, a new issue has arisen in our world of communication and relationships with others. While it is easier to stay in contact and connect with others, an issue of “globalization of superficiality” has come to be a major part of our world and its people. First coined in 2010 by Father Adolfo Nicholas, SJ, the globalization of superficiality is…
identity? Can some just have one identity for the rest of their life? Or are we changing every day? Where does it all come from? Think about it. According to the dictionary identity is " the state or facts of remaining the same one or ones, as under varying aspects or condition( Dictionary.com)." Ones origin is important but globalization tends to come into conflict and changes ones identity. What is globalization? It 's a variety of things shared around the world for a common purpose. All over…
It began in 1972 when WGBH produced one of the nation’s best loved children’s television shows called ZOOM. The aim was children between the ages of 7 and 12 and its claim to fame was that it was a show created by children for children. Viewers could send in ideas for shows and local children served as the cast. WGBH went on to produce many other children’s programs such as Design Squad and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego but it is their animated shows that really interest me. Between the…
These schools that are updated will all contain a computer of some sort for students to use for projects, essays, and research. Along with this, many of these schools include video game programs specifically for learning many subjects, such as the “Jump Start” series and “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?” series, especially for younger students. For some students, learning something new in a course, such a mathematics, science, literature, or history, can be extremely difficult. With…