Most people attribute the changes in society of the last 10-15 years to the Internet. In doing so they fail to give enough credit to cell phones and other portable communication devices.
Such technological devices have "fractured" society not by driving wedges between people, but
by allowing people to drive wedges between themselves.
Before cell phones and other portable communication devices, people could not
communicate at a distance as freely as they do today. Friends who chose to go to different
colleges would communicate through letters and infrequent phone calls. Upon arriving at
college, they found that they could not rely on old friends to be there all the time, and because
of this, they attempted to make new friends. Today, these same people do not have to seek out
new friends because they can communicate instantly with old friends across great distances
through phone calls and text messages. As a result, they meet fewer new people and spend
less time outside of the world in which they feel comfortable.
The fractures that we see in today's society are a direct result of this kind of change.
Technology gives people the option of not exploring the worlds that exist outside of their daily
lives, interests, and closest friends. Far too many people choose that option.

5. Which sentence from the article above best supports the idea that technology can be harmful?
A. "Upon arriving at college, they found that they could not rely on old friends to be there all the
time, and because of this, they attempted to make new friends."
B. "Before cell phones and other portable communication devices, people could not communicate
at a distance as freely as they do today."
C. "Today, these same people do not have to seek out new friends because they can communicate
instantly with old friends across great distances through phone calls and text messages."
D. "These devices have 'fractured' society not by driving wedges between people, but by allowing
people to drive wedges between themselves."

Adapt the speech you delivered in lesson 2 to an audience of professionals, teachers, and parents. the audience expects a more formal delivery. your listeners also expect you to use media such as images and audio to make your speech more convincing and easier to understand. your assignment should include the following elements: -at least four sources to back up your ideas -media elements to illustrate your ideas -changes to both the style and content of the speech to make it more appropriate to the audience -citations that follow mla guidelines as you revise your presentation, research and cite at least four sources. at least two of these sources must provide supporting evidence, such as charts and graphs or quotes from newspapers or other credible sources. the other two sources can provide material to grab the audience's attention — for example, photos that your audience visualize what you're talking about or music that sets the mood. you can also create original images, but these will not count as sources. here are some types of media that you may use to either show evidence or move the audience: quotes tables, charts, and graphs images video audio (including music) mix up the types of media you use so that no medium is used more than twice. take care that all your sources contribute to your speech in an obvious way. they should either back up what you're saying or make your ideas easier for your audience to understand logically or emotionally. avoid visual aids that are off topic or confusing. ask yourself these questions as you revise: am i still fulfilling the requirements of the speech i gave in lesson 2? is my speech still about a theme in franklin roosevelt's four freedoms speech? do i connect that theme to my own life and to a current issue? are my sources credible and relevant? will they convince an audience of parents, teachers, and professionals? do my media elements enhance my speech? do they set the mood, explain something difficult, or offer convincing proof? do i avoid media elements that are more distracting than ? did i cite my sources according to mla guidelines? did i check my works-cited page against sample works-cited pages to make sure it's correct?

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed

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