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Prompt 8: Using a New Technology

The technology I want to talk about is from my childhood that I still play today and that is the Playstation2 I had. I got the Playstation2 when I was a young child in grade school. I remember getting that system and just playing as many video games that I could before I would be forced to do homework by my parents. This Playstation2 was a videogame system that was very popular when it came out and had so many games that were enjoyable to play. The Playstation2 still to this day has a spot in my life. It has a spot because some days I just go and turn the system on and play games for hours and for weeks without going to one of the newer game systems like the XBOX ONE. Even the Playstation2 had a part in my siblings lives by them playing their video games they had for the system. We had to buy another Playstation2 because there was so much arguing over whose turn it was to play or he has been playing to long between my brothers and I. So for Christmas one year my parents got me a television and a Playstation2 all to myself, while my two brothers had to split the other Playstation2. Lastly my cousin is really into video games so he is one of the reasons that my brothers and I are into video games as well and love playing them because a peer of ours taught us about them.

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prompt 9 free space

After a lot of researching i have finally decided what my final research paper was going to be over. I am going to write my paper over what workouts are most effective and best for the success of baseball players. I have found out a lot as i have been researching this topic in order to complete the annotated bibliography. One thing that I have found out is the fact that baseball players should spend a great amount of time doing core workouts. This includes abs and also back areas. This can help bat speed and it can greatly help arms strength as well. It helps arm strength because of the fact that it strengthens your back which then allows you to use your back and your whole body as you are throwing. This really interested me and i was reading it i noticed it makes complete sense. Another that I learned is the fact that Olympic lifts and heavy weight lifting is not too great for a baseball player and also a baseball players health. This heavy lifting can hurt ones flexibility. This then affects there baseball swing and makes the swing tight. When one swings they need to be relaxed and also needs to be calm and loose. This is the same for throwing as well. Also these heavy and Olympic lifts are not good for ones joints. Baseball players are hard on their joints and especially on their elbows. With this being said, baseball players need their joints to be as relaxed and fresh as possibly.

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Prompt 9: Using a New Technology

Technology is something that our generation eventually comes in contact at a young age. It seems that children are getting phones earlier and earlier. A technology that was a big part of my pre-teen years was AOL chat rooms. During my sixth grade in school, everyone in my grade started getting on AOL chat rooms and talking to people in our grade. Even though a lot of people in my grade had cell phones, I was only allowed to have a cell phone when I graduated from eighth grade. I was actually the last kid in my grade to get a phone and had to use our landline at our house. Using the AOL chat rooms was basically my way to text and keep in touch with people in my grade. I distinctly remember I could only get on AOL when I finished my homework. Sometimes I couldn’t get on because we had one family computer and I have three siblings. It was a constant battle to get computer time at my house. I would chat back and forth with my friends for hours. I felt especially mature when I would chat a boy in my class on AOL. Chatting on AOL also opened the door to cyberbullying, which I experienced and I think everyone can relate to. I have a memory of a girl in my class yelling at me in this chat room because I didn’t sit with her at lunch. Having a space where kids can talk about anything they want gives them freedom, but it also opens a door to bullying. This girl could chat me multiple times and I couldn’t do anything to stop her. Once seventh grade hit, a majority of my class had cell phones and would actually text instead of AOL chat. Although it seems sad that I didn’t have a phone at a young age, I’m glad that I didn’t. I got to hold onto my innocence and remain a child for a little longer than other kids. Instead of being occupied by a cell phone, I played outside with my neighbors and watched television. AOL chat rooms were a fun part of being a teenager and I find it funny that kids in 2015 would never message each other in chat rooms or e-mail back and forth like I used to. 

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Prompt 8: Using a new technology

I remember using a desktop computer for the first time ever. I used it for the first time ever when i was about 4 years old or so. The first thing i did on it was I began to click and play around with the keyboard when the computer was not even turned on yet. I thought it was the coolest thing how the buttons clicked whenever i pushed down on them. I would type my name and also phrases into the computer over and over again I was having a lot of fun because I was so young and playing with the n  keyboard for the first time ever. After i was doing this, my dad turned on the computer and opened a Microsoft word document or some type of document that I could type on. I was messing around with it and i thought it was the coolest thing that as soon as I pressed a key the letter that I pressed would magically appear on the screen the absolute second that i pressed it. I kept typing my name into the computer over and over again. I did this until I could finally type it while looking at the screen and not staring down at the keyboard.

The next thing i did was move the mouse around. It moved to wherever I wanted it to on the screen and I could click on anything I wanted to whenever I pressed down on the mouse. I thought it was magic because i had never experienced this in my whole life up to this point. 

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Prompt 8: Using A New Technology

I chose something a bit different to talk about for this post. I want to talk about my first time experience with my Heelys. Let me tell you that this new creation was the bomb back in the day. In 4th grade you would see everyone rolling around on their shoes to get to class. Heelys were a brand of tennis shoe which allowed the consumer to insert a small wheel in the heel. To get these to work, one would have to either run or walk fast on their toes, then instantaneously switch over to their heels. It would require a balanced position and, with the right amount of force, could send you sliding for about 20-30+ feet. I had a fresh pair that were considered cool looking during my 4th grade year. Not only was it a competition between students to see who could roll the longest without getting in trouble, but the looks of the shoe was a competition as well. All the girls wanted my limited edition style but I was the only one at school who rocked them. One problem, I never learned to use my heelys. The position was impossible for me to get to and I guess my previous fear with falling in roller skates took over. Boy did it kill me that I couldn’t show off my ability to use those beauties. I won’t forget them though. To this day I can’t get on almost anything with wheels. Not even a scooter or skateboard. I got lucky with my bike, which took years to get rid of the kids wheels, but I got it. I won’t forget this experience with a new technology because it was a complete fail. Usually we learn new things like driving or using a laptop, but this was something that never got to sink in.

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Prompt 8: Using New Technology

I remember the first day I saw and used a desktop computer so vividly, it seems like it was yesterday. At my elementary school, our class would always walk past this room that was always dark, but you could always see a glimmering blue light within it. Children in preschool and kindergarten were not allowed inside. If you were caught you would get a note home, so no one ever dared to enter. For two years I waited to see what was behind that door causing that blue light of wonder. When that day finally came, and I was able to use a computer, I was immediately joyful. It was like being able to ride in the front seat of the car and experiencing a different view of world, for me it was the virtual world. At the time we didn’t have computers with a graphical interface, so we had to type in commands to do work. So, for hours I would spend time learning and typing in commands to see where it would take me. I was so obsessed my mom bought me a cheap computer when I was in middle school. On that laptop, I taught myself how to code, and create games and mobile phone applications. Till this day, I occasionally think about that day I finally was able to use a computer in elementary school. It felt like finally getting permission to get a cookie from the cookie jar.

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Prompt 7: Topics

The main three potential research topics I was thinking about were drunk drivers, texting and driving, and something pertaining to alcohol whether it be what it contains and the effects on the body or the rules enforced on college campuses. These topics were in my mind because I have had some experience or information received on the topic.

Starting with drunk drivers. I feel I have a connection with this topic. I know many people who went out for drinks and stupidly drove home drunk instead of carpooling with someone more sober or calling someone to get them. I also had an accident after prom earlier this year. It wasn’t my drivers fault, it was the opposing woman in the other cars’ fault. She hit our car and when we called the police they didn’t do anything to the woman for causing the accident. They let the woman go when they had her call someone to pick her up. I think this was a poor move on the policemen’s end so it would have a lot of connections for me to make on the topic. I would be able to research statistics on drunk drivers in the U.S. The more difficult part of this topic would be researching the police departments’ rules for situations like this.

Texting and driving was another potential topic that I think I like a little more. I know too many people who text and drive and many people who get into accidents for it. It’ll be a little difficult to find reliable articles on the topic but I can use the Taylor library’s research database to find more in depth information. I like this topic because technology is evolving so much people think that they absolutely need it and it shows that even for a mere drive, people can’t put their phone down. I also think my argument would lead into me talking about the advancing in car models with built-in Bluetooth to connect with phones and hands free calling within cars.

On the other hand, alcohol is everywhere. It’s so valid to say that many people and young people on college campuses have drank alcohol at least once but certain campuses are stricter on their rules. All campuses are strict for underage drinking but many don’t even let the people of age indulge on campus. On Fontbonne’s campus I feel that they have so many resources and seminars talking about drinking on campus. The one’s I have attended have been very informative because they aren’t blind to the fact that it will happen, so they tell you how to be safe about it. This is a good argument but it’ll be difficult to try to talk about every single campus, so I would more than likely compare and contrast two or three different campuses and take a side. I also think what is used to made alcohol is very essential because it’s not very good ingredients and the side effects aren’t any better. The different side effects depend on the person but in the end it’s not a good outlook.

I really think all of these topics have potential but they all have their own difficulties that will put some stress in the process of finding valid information to form together.

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Prompt 8: Using a New Technology

I remember the first time I drove a car; I was about 12. It was my dad’s wife and she wanted me to start driving young but up until now I still don’t drive all the time and still have some difficulties with certain things pertaining driving. When I got behind the wheel obviously I was nervous but when I started I thought I was doing well. My first comment was saying that it felt like a video game and she said “yeah, well in this game you only get one life.” Her saying that for some reason has stuck with me and made me be pretty nervous when driving. I caught on pretty fast, with turns and all but now I have a slight difficulty for some reason with turning in driving that I’m working on. This is significant to me because I’m still trying to figure it out and I blame it on not driving that often. I feel that I’m a good driver but could be better. Now in current years, I drive periodically but I still don’t have a license or my own car. People try to say that I can’t drive a car because I’ve never controlled anything which I don’t think is true. They try to compare it to the fact that I can’t ride a bike, which is quite sad but I don’t think I have to ride a bike to drive a car, they’re totally different. I’ve tried multiple times to learn but in a car you don’t have to keep the car from tilting over you have to control it with your feet, your senses and using the other things in the car. This is a technology that really anyone uses when it comes to transportation and I’m still figuring out how to use it but after I start being able to turn more efficiently and parallel park I’ll be taking my test for my driver’s license. I refuse to go for a fourth time to get my permit renewed.