The bad idea being proposed by Christopher justice is using texting as a communicative practice. The author believes this is a bad idea because texting is ruining literacy skills. Many people use graphic, abbreviated, and non-conventional languages in text messages, not exercising literary skills correctly. Christopher states that texting is causing students to write poorly and making them lazy. For example, students text abbreviations such as “OMG” instead of “oh my gosh” and this makes them intellectually lazy people. David Crystal, an author, stated that texting and emailing fogs your brain like cannabis, does not influence literacy skills, and deprived children of sleep. Justice agrees with David’s statements. The author also provides many counterclaims. He states that taxing can encourage people to utilize various modes of communication. Some of these modes of communication can be images, music, weblinks, and photographs. I agree with this because it can further enhance the skill of being able to connect certain topics to their personal life. I chose this piece to see if technology was ruining my literary skills. After reading the article I do realize that technology is affecting my grammar. When I’m doing an essay, I tend to use abbreviations. For example, in the personal essay that we just finished doing, I was tempted to use “omg” or “lol”. Then I realized that it’s informal to use in an essay. Christopher justice continues by stating positive correlations between texting and people’s literacy skills. He states that researchers concluded texting often informal style allows the textures to engage in more creative uses of language. I would disagree with this because the way some people text can be creative but I don’t see how a message being informal can help you in your academics. I believe that texting can help with speech because when you’re texting someone it’s meant to sound like you’re talking to that person. Christopher further explains that we shouldn’t see texting as a way to replace literature but to enhance writing skills. In my opinion, we should encourage students to not use the skills they use when they’re texting if it’s informal. Comparing how you text versus how you write in literature can be useful to see the strengths and weaknesses.
Day: May 12, 2021
My Past Year Experience
My Past Year Experience
How was my life before the pandemic? It Was quite busy, working full time and being a part time student. I was struggling to find time for my friends or to build my private life. I was constantly complaining how overwhelmed I was in the city. I was planning to travel abroad to visit my family in June 2020. Normally I would purchase tickets three months ahead, but this time I was expecting my naturalization interview, and I was not sure with my exact dates of travel. Meanwhile, I was taking my anatomy and physiology classes and was thrilled to participate, especially in the lab section. I still recall vividly before the new year I was talking to my mom wishing her a happy new year and she told me, “Khatuna, did you watch the news? There is some kind of dangerous virus in China, and people are collapsing on the streets.” I thought she was exaggerating and didn’t really pay attention to that fact. Unfortunately, China wasn’t able to control the virus, and the whole world was and still is suffering from the pandemic. I have friends and family in Europe, and we were in connection every day. We were sharing our experience of how we are coping with coronavirus. Could anyone ever predict that we will have a pandemic in 21th century? I was only reading books about various pandemics. It sounded to me like a fiction story.
In March 2020 I went grocery shopping, and I was surprised the shelves were empty. I was not able to find a banana. I was devastated and scared. Everyone around looked worried. It looked to me like we were getting ready for the war. I was in the war when I was ten years old, and I recall how food was scarce. What can be more painful and unbearable for humans? When we are not allowed to shake our hands and give hugs to our loved ones. We had to learn how to practice social distance and how to avoid people.
I am working with an elderly couple, and I had to provide everything for them. Once a week I went shopping. I can still recall how I would wash my hair and clothing when I would come back from outside. I was afraid that I could bring a deadly virus, and we could die from it. The first two weeks were extremely difficult, to get used to the idea of lock-down, and fear of death is unbearable. I would say this pandemic had a negative impact on me. I noticed that I was more in a melancholic mood. I didn’t have a day off for two months in a row. I was staying at my job. I was able to take my remote lessons in anatomy and physiology. During the pandemic and the first two months of restrictions, I saved some money, I had a fear of a financial crisis. New York City was empty, I could count people on the Times square. Finally, after lockdown people started to come back to the city. I can still vividly recall my first trip to the Gap after lockdown. I was delighted and pleased to see that soon we may go back to normal life.
