Virtual Iraq

"Virtual Iraq" by Sue Halpern is about a soldier thats returning from Iraq where he was stationed where he underwent a lot of significance events that when he returned he started suffering from a disease called PTSD which its defined as a isadebilitation disease the encompasses every aspect of your life.This is an ongoing disease that's been increasing with returning war soldiers. Halpern talks about a virtual theroputic technique which helps people with these disease to get rid of those fears. Halpern states that "Strictly speaking, using virtual reality to threat combat-related PTSD is not new. In 1997, more than twenty years after the Vietnam war ended, researches in atlanta unveiled virtual vietnam."The way this method works is that soldiers are put in a virtual world where slowly the therapist through a computer begins to add event or situations that a soldier may expect to be in; the treatment can take weeks which in the end people would actually see improvements.

"High Tech Trash"

In Chris Carroll's "High Tech Trash" article talks about how all of our old electronics like computers, laptops,dvd players, vhs players, ipods etc. well pretty much everything that is digital and metal; are being piled up and shipped to all of the poor countries in this case she talks about Accra,Ghana. The reason why we are shipping all these high tech trash is because shipping cost less than disposing of these items ourselves. Piling up high tech trash in one place and esposing it to rain, to the sun and other substance can be dangerous an sometime hazardous due to all the chemicals that is producing which can cause illnesses or diseases to the people in that area. As Carroll states "Chocking, I pull my shirt over my nose and approach a boy of about fifteen, his thin frame wreathed in smoke. Karim says he has been tendin such fires for two years" she describes how strong the smell of high tech trash combined can produce. Also how Accra people such as children go into the piles of high tech trash looking for copper and also gold wires or anything that could be of value to them they take it and sell it to gain profit out of them. Is like one of the well know quotes which says "One mans thrash is another masn treasure" which for them is a blessing to have such technology.

Toulmin Model- - Is Google Making Us Stupid?

In Nicholas Carr's article "Is google making us stupid?" he states that the way we used to think is different specially when reading. Before most of us used to go hours and hours reading a book or an article; it is totally different now."That's rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages.I get fidgety,losethe thread, begin looking for something else to do." as for myself i do the same thing i start reading a book and get distracted or start to look for somethin else todo after the first to pages i read, like going online searching something else or reading my email or going into my social site. Another interesting point that he makes is that "for me as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many and the been widely described and duly applauded." I agree with because there is a lot of information on the web that we could learn from. It also makes it simpler to read something in just minutes like an article or a newspaper which are free online than having to go to a store and purchasing thos items an spend more time doing so then reading.
What is really interesting about this article and still haven't figured out is that why would Carr write an article about google if he is not going to be talking about google at all he basically just talks about the web itself.

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Is Google Making Us Stupid? i dont think that's the question we should be asking ourselves. We should be asking this question: Is it really making us stupid? or is it just another way of getting more information or more knowledge?. Well what i think is that is just a better way of getting information that we ourselves will take a long time to find in say books or articles by going to the library and researching that information.Nowadays we just click on a hyperlink will help us look for that information without going through all that trouble. it might seem as we have gotten lazier by doing that but lets face it most of us do not like going through all that hassle of getting information, headaches after headaches trying to find it and there is a possibility that you might not find it. So why go through all that trouble now that there's a easier more reliable way of finding the information that you want faster.