Living Without Technology

Neil Postman’s essay “Virtual Students, Digital Classroom” opens the eyes to so many when it comes down to technology. I can personally say that I broadened my view about how serious and how much is really placed into technology today in the twenty-first century. Of course I agree with postman without a shout of a doubt that technology does and from the looks of it continue to play a major role in the classroom of today’s students.

Only because we now live in a society that we use technology in just about everything we do without realizing it because we have come so adapt to using in. Which comes right in to what postman was saying in so many words that technology becomes a god. Often times this type of behavior is going on and many people are probably even unaware that they are making it seem as if technology is their god!

I can remember many of times being told by older family members that we have it (as a generation) so easy and much better than they did. Being that they had to use type writers and often times had retype the same page of a paper three or four times a night because of a mechanical mess up with the eraser.

Which draws me to the conclusion that its good to appreciate technology, but its important that we don’t worship technology is the aspect that we can’t live without it! Because if push came to shove and technology became outlawed we would learn how to live without the devices that make our day-to-day life much more easier even though it probably would seem to be impossible. Which poses me to ask the question if technology was to be outlawed to only a minimum today how would you adjust to the change?

Women Are Not By Themselves

In the essay “There Is No Unmarked Woman” by Deborah Tannen she thoroughly discusses how women are marked. Although what stuck out the most to me in the essay is how she speaks as though men aren’t marked.

Whether it is by choice or not men are marked in many ways. Many times it is by ethnicity or just by their social class. Not to mention men that struggle with what they want to be male or female. Men are also marked just like women when it comes down to their style of dress.

Especially when trying to impress someone, like a young lady or perhaps her parents. A man just can’t appear any kind of way because your first impression is the one that matters the most. Only because a woman isn't going to be interested in a man that can't take care of himself which is oftentimes demonstrated in the way that he dresses. I will say that many women don’t care about how they are dressed. So it is possible for a woman to get dressed and to go on about her business to me it’s a choice of morals.