Impact of the Internet (Article)

What is the purpose of the article?

The purpose of this article is to question the audience whether the internet is a boon or detrimental to society.

What was the main point of the article?

The article states both the positive and negative aspects of the rapidly growing internet but it focuses on the consequences and its misunderstandings. He mentions health consequences such as the IAD (Internet Addiction Disorder) identified by a New York Psychiatrist, Dr Ivan Goldberg and misunderstanding of the World Wide Web (WWW).  

What is the authors bias?

 Rob Purdy, the author of "The Internet, Boon or Detriment to society?", is a student in the University of Florida. He was given an assignment in his Interactive Media Lab class to post about the internet. The student's bias is based on what the teachers have taught him in class.  

My Worldview

Prompt: How does family and culture affect your world view?

Basically everything, family and culture plays a significant role in developing ones worldview but I would add another factor which is environment. Of course family and culture is what affects your worldview simply because you were exposed to it ever since you were born but I'd like to point out that environment of your surrounding also greatly affect your worldview. The environment where everyone is surrounded by is most definitely diverse. You can be born into a poor background or a wealthy background or even like many of us, middle class. Even the country we live in plays the role of surrounding environments. If I was born in America I would have a different worldview than those who are born in Japan. With the environment alone the number of unique environments are beyond infinite, thus making a persons worldview vastly diverse. So imagine if you were to add your family and culture with environment, and ask how would it affect your worldview. The answer is simple; everything..

Interview

Interview of five different people explaining what culture and family is to them:

Samiha: A shoulder to lean on
Gan: It's identity
Oak: There both something that can make you happy... always
Jungshi: Big part of the meaning and reason of my life
Priam: My source of contemplation 

The Unsung Heroes

Family

                 "Parents are the unsung heroes of every person that has ever done anything great. Think about the people that you most admire in your life. Do you attribute any of their greatness to the people that raised them? Often, we do not even think about the fact that there were most likely two people who were most influential in making a person who they are. Of course I am referring to his or her parents. If a person is great, remember that greatness is not achieved in a vacuum. There were people who sowed the seeds of greatness." 

                           - Anonymous (Family Friend Poems)

Our parents are the unsung heroes of our lives. They feed us, teach us, care for us, warn us, scold us, and ultimately love us. We owe them everything because through them we have become, what we have become. It is the cycle of life, we are meant to be nurtured by parents and also become one. This poem was posted by an anonymous poet from Family Friend Poems who strongly believed in family importance. It emphasizes that our own parents are the unsung heroes of our lives and that even the greatest of people have parents that most probably made them who they are today. "There were people who sowed the seeds of greatness" Our parents are our everything, they are the unsung heroes of our lives. 

Source: Parent Poems - Poems about Parents http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/family/parent-poems.asp#ixzz2c7rOF8C9 Family Friend Poems 

Family and Culture

Many believe family and culture are intertwined. This is an arguable statement but I believe the truth lies closer to the fact that 'family are intertwined'. 

Families introduce culture to us the very day we are born. It develops our unique behaviours, beliefs, traditions, language, religion and everything else that identifies who we are as a single human being. Generally, cultures differ widely according to the region and history of the specific regions. Culture is also what passes on to the next generations which makes it significant to our identity and character, it defines our identity and character. Even when we, as unique beings, are all different we are, and always will be, sub-categorised by our own culture. We are inevitable from our own culture.

As I emphasized above, culture is what gives us our identity and character but lets look at it in a different perspective. Lets say a child is born into a 

Everything relates to culture for example, the language we speak, the friends we make, the religion we believe, the way we think,