Essay 4 Proposal

Jacqueline Martin

April 15^th 2014

Professor Nicole Williams

English 102

Essay #4 Proposal

I plan to research how dependent young adults are on their cell pones apposed to how older adults were at their age. I realize that I will need to touch up my thesis. I plan to interview young adults my age as well as some older adults. I will compare and contrast the data I find to put together a well throughout reach paper.

            I chose this topic because I wanted to research something that I found interesting. I would like to see the data I collect because I wonder is I personally am to dependent on my cellphone. I have come to realize that if it’s not in my hand it is constantly in reaching distance. I wonder how many other young adults are facing the same “addiction.” I find myself wondering what young adults did before cellphones. It is mind-blowing to me that at one point in time cellphones did not exist, or they were used strictly for phone calls. Now a days cellphones are used for so much more than just calling, all social media is assessable twenty four hours a day.

            The key topics that I plan to researcher are things such as when cellphones, texting, and smart phones originated, what types of communication was primarily used before cellphones. I hope to interview five young adults and five older adults. I want to ask them a variety of question. I will ask the young adults questions such as how often a day they are on their phones, and what they use it for mainly. I will ask the older adults to think back to their teenage years and answer the questions as if they were that age. I want to compare the time difference.

Everything Bad Is Good For You: Games

This is a post that I missed from April first. The reading is is written by Steven Johnson, and his point of view on video games in society today. Right away Johnson shows gives specific exampled to his reader on why games aren't as horrible for you as some people may think. Johnson bring up the point that to watch certain television shows today you have to be able to make inferences, track shifting social relationships, and that to do all of these tasks the viewer has to pay attention. This instantly made me realize that Johnson is right. Theres a lot more to watching television show than jut sitting down and looking at the screen. A viewer has to remember characters, and their roles in show. For a series a view may need to use previous knowledge from a different episode. As I continued to read i learned that Johnson has many more of these excellent examples. He brings up the point that a video game would improve a child hand eye coordination more than holding a book would. I liked this example because it is counter arguing that all video games are bad for you. Overall Johnson made a really good argument. He shifted my opinion.