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Friday, September 18, 2015
wk6 - SEVEN – quotation sandwich
From The Shallows, chapter “Seven: The Juggler’s Brain,” create a “quotation sandwich”: locate a pertinent quote, build a “frame” around it, and “blend” the author’s words with your own. While being fair and accurate, use the quote, but bend it to your purpose; use it for your “I say”—yes / no / okay, but.
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Peter Cote
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English 1003
22 Sept. 2015
Chapter 7 Quotation Sandwich
Nicholas Carr went to Dartmouth College and Harvard University. He has worked for the Harvard Business Review as an executive editor. According to Nicholas Carr, the writer who has written for New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and Wired, he states that “If the slow progression of words across printed pages dampened our craving to be inundated by mental stimulation, the Net indulges it” (118). In a way I agree with Carr stating that words across a printed page dampen the mind’s feeling of overwhelming stimulation, but I also disagree with this because reading online can have the same effect just more distractions. People may think that reading online is an easier more exciting way to read a book, but the book being online does not make it more exciting, it is the abundance of the distraction. Books may cause readers to lose track or be bored, but online books do this as well because the reader pays more attention to the ads and other distractions than the words themselves. Sure the internet causes our brain to be more excited, but it does not make our brain more excited to read the book, the excitement is from the distractions.
Anna Newton
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English 1003
22 September 2015
Chapter 7 Sandwich Quote
Nicholas Carr writes about the advancing and dependency of technology and culture. He believes that the Internet along with everything that comes with it is changing the way we live, and think. In his book, “The Shallows,” Carr writes, “When it comes to supplying the mind with the stuff of thought, more can be less.” (130). I agree with this statement. Having too many opinions in your mind can just start to be confusing instead of helpful. Hyperlinks are a great example of this, where on the internet when researching, links will keep popping up, and the more times you redirect your path, the more off topic you get.
Breanna Roper
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English 1003
22 September 2015
In today's society, internet and technology has become so potent that it is almost become somewhat of a puppet master, as it is slowly gaining control of our thoughts and the way that we process information. As we indulge ourselves on the devices that are readily available at our fingertips, we seem to lose our intellect, ability to think deeply, and ability to interact with others. Nicholas Carr informs his readers, "In a 2005 interview, Michael Merzenich ruminated on the Internet's power to cause not just modest alterations but fundamental changes in our mental makeup" (119). This is of great significance to me because I have personally experienced the temptation of the internet and how it consumes your thoughts. When we are without these devices, we crave them, which is not how it should be, they should just help us to complete research more conveniently. Unfortunately, internet constantly being available to us is causing us to stop using our minds to ponder on ideas and comprehend deeply what these ideas mean.
Gabrielle Tallman
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ENG 1003
22 September 2015
In his book, "The Shallows," Nicholas Carr explains how the internet affects our brain. He makes several very intellectual statements about the human's brain, its plasticity, and even quotes quite a few psychologists and their mind-boggling experiments. Finally, in the chapter title, "The Juggler's Brain", the author claims that, "With the exception of alphabets and number systems, the Net may well be the single most powerful mind-altering technology that has ever come into general use." (116) He backs up this statement with the fact that the Net delivers the repetitive and intensive stimuli that tend to result in alterations in brain circuits. I agree that the Net is interactive and addictive because of my own observations during regular use.
Aidan Bish
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SWU English 1003
22 September 2015
“Sandwich” of Quotation from Shallows Chapter 7
Nicholas Carr is a writer and researcher deeply concerned with the unintentional effects of Internet usage. Overall, his text “The Shallows” studies the relationship between advances in major technologies and patterns of thought. He argues that books shaped a pattern of deep creative thinking that stimulates the brain and encourages healthy thought. However, “the Net seizes our attention only to scatter it”. Carr’s point is that the internet is formatted in a way that rewards shallow, insubstantial thought. I highly agree with this assertion. Internet use has been proven to overwhelm the working memory in the brain and leaves unconscious thought inactive. We are engaged, but continue to move from place to place. Although it stimulates our brain quickly and entirely, it does not allow it to complete cycles of contemplation and over time degrades its ability to do so.
Devante Wrenn
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English 1003
22 September 2015
Chapter seven Sandwich
Carr is saying that the Net is a big distraction to us all around the world mainly towards teenagers. He says “The real world recedes as we process the flood of symbols and stimuli coming through our devices” (118). Carr is trying to say that with all this technology we tend to use and depend on it a lot that we are receding from what we know. We aren’t using our knowledge as we use to because now we have computers to do the work for us. You can also say that it is other people’s work that we are doing for ourselves. This is less work for us and now our knowledge starts to recede and we don’t think as much anymore. The Net has become a big distraction for most people in this world and we abuse it. We don’t focus as much because now we have things that pop up and we all like to click on everything that we see. This mainly goes out to the teenagers because we are very social and this fancy technology happened to be a distraction or great for our lives. Carr basically says that it can be a help but we just need to not use the new technology as much and use our brain to do work. The Net is also a help and a bad thing, but we choose how to use it and it shows in our society today.
Carter Groomes
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English 1003
22 September 2015
Quotation Sandwich
In Nicolas Carr’s the Shallows he shows the audience how much attention “The Net” and other technologies take away from us. The Net provides everything we need and makes life so much easier for us. That dwindles down our patience to a point to where we cannot stand to read books anymore. Carr backs up my statement by saying, “The constant distractedness that the Net encourages-the state of being, to borrow another phrase from Eliot’s Four Quartets, “distracted from distraction by distraction”-is very different from the kind of temporary, purposeful diversion of our mind that refreshes our thinking when we’re weighing a decision” (119). Carr provides this text as a great example of what the Internet is doing to our brains. I agree with what Carr states, if our generation can limit the use of The Net I believe it will improve our concentration and patience.
Hunter Hebert
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English 1003
22 September 2015
The Shallows Chapter 7 Sandwich
Throughout his book, The Shallows, Nicholas Carr discusses how the advances in technology have affected our brain. Carr explains and provides examples to argue that the over-usage of internet in technology in today’s society has chipped away at our brain’s natural ability to deeply analyze and process information and stimuli. Carr uses the example of how books once used to stimulate our minds and create a deep thought process in our minds, causing the abilities of our mind to grow stronger with each word read. Now, we are so dependent on the internet that Carr states, “Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.” (119). I am in full agreement with the argument that Carr has presented in his book. In today’s society, we are addicted to constant stimulation that we forget to truly stop and think about what we are looking at. Whether it is an online book or Facebook, we are so easily tempted by the never-ending distractions we face through technology. We, as a society, have abandoned creativity and thought for cat videos on YouTube and celebrity blogs.
Trevor Porter
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English 1003
September 22, 2015
Quotation Sandwhich
Nicholas Carr, throughout his book, The Shallows, is strongly associated with the belief that technology is taking over the way we read and do many of the things in our lives. He believes that technology isn't only helping us but it's controlling us. He displays in a quote from chapter seven, "'As the psychotherapist Michael Hausauer notes, teens and other young adults have a "terrific interest in knowing what's going on in the lives of their peers, coupled with a terrific anxiety of being out of the loop.' If they stop sending messages, they risk becoming invisible."[118] I can understand where he is coming from this, but one thing i have always thought about when technology is being discussed, is that baack before we even had cell phones, people were still connected. They still were, "in the loop". I just don't believe that since this technology is better and faster means we have to use it. There have always been other means of doing so.
Kaylee Young
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English 1003
22 September 2015
Chap. 7- Quotation Sandwich
In “The Shallows,” Nicholas Carr keeps a constant idea that the internet is unintentionally changing our minds in a somewhat non-beneficial manner. He continues to touch on the theory that the internet takes away from peoples own ability to deep read and be creative. According to Carr, “The Net’s cacophony of stimuli short-circuits both conscious and unconscious thought, preventing our minds from thinking either deeply or creatively.” I agree with Carr, the internet has taken away from my ability to deeply read a book or even a medium sized article among the net because my mind has adjusted to the simplicity of the net. Also, creativity is taken away, due to the fact, that people can google any idea they can imagine at the click of a button to save so much time.
Logan Radwanski
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English 1003
22 September 2015
Chapter 7 Quotation Sandwich
Nicholas Carr is a well-accomplished writer having written for the Wall Street journal and the New York Times. He explores in his book The Shallows the use of technology of today such as the Internet and what are the effects of it upon us. “…the Net may well be the single most powerful mind altering technology that have come into general use.” (Carr 116) Carr tell us, the readers, how progressive the Net is and the effects it has on our world today. Giving us all the pros of it and the benefits we get from it with some side effects along with the use of it. But I agree with his statement as there is an even greater “technology” that has been in general use for thousand of years. The brain, we are all born with one (unless special conditions has affected someone) and we use is every single day of our lives even though it doesn’t feel like it at times. It has evolved so greatly through history as it learned to comprehend the alphabet and comprehend all the new technologies that have been introduced throughout time. It’s an overstatement to say the Net is the single best and the brain may not classify as technology but it’s pretty amazing in it’s own way.