The Fakebook Generation Summary

Essentially, Amy, upon hearing that Robert and his family were visiting for Christmas dinner, worried what “Robert would think of… [her] shabby Chinese Christmas… What would he think of [her] noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners… What terrible disappointment would he feel upon seeing not a roasted turkey and sweet potatoes but Chinese food” (Tan 353). The way Amy fretted about Robert being disappointed with her cultural differences gives you an image of Amy’s personality: Insecure, vain and embarrassed by her culture. Also, Amy describes her culture as if it were a bad thing, and describing the American culture as a good and proper thing: She did not want to fit into her Chinese culture, but instead Robert’s American culture. Through the use of indirect characterization, the author shows the reader that trying to fit in never really works.

In 1984, the people are not aloud to look at one another with affection and in Pleasantville , holding hands is considered to be inappropriate. When the couple was at the dinner, Skip made a comment about some couples are " holding hands already", after hearing this jennifer is shocked and takes him to lovers lane where she teaches him about sex. By jenniffer doing this, it causes all the other teenagers to do the same. Similar to this, in 1984 sex is not allowed and neither is love. When Julia tells Winston she loves him, he is scared.

Daum writes of a character who can’t escape her internet world. The diction and imagery pulls readers in and makes them realize that hiding on a computer isn’t healthy nor will it give a person happiness. If too much time is spent online then reality will never be satisfying and expectations will always be let down. Daum wants people to leave the internet world before they get sucked in like her

From the beginning, before Isabel’s parents saw her, she desperately hoped her parents would “be too busy arguing to glance up here” because “Mum [would] be asking Dad where he put the car park ticket and he [would] get flustered because he [would have] just dropped it into a bin by mistake”. When her first hope is crushed as her dad notices her right after readers are left to wonder about the clumsiness of her father and Isabel’s guess about the situation between her parents. This creates anticipation among readers as they are forced to continue the story in order to find out whether Isabel is correct about her father. Being an already established comedic situation through de Botton’s use of other device, readers expect irony, a previously used device as well as a common device used for comedic effect but their expectations are upset when Isabel proves to be right about her parents, specifically the actions of her father. Once the anticipation has built up at the end, readers are provided comedic relief with the result different from the previously used irony.

Shortly after Mr. Haly’s death, Eliza writes to her dear friend, Lucy Freeman, about the latest events in her life. Lucy then warns Eliza of the dangers associated with a woman who portrays coquettish behavior. Eliza feels that Lucy has written her a “moral lecture” but dismisses her warning shortly after. (Foster 109) Eliza continues to disregard any warnings she has received from her friends and continues to act in a manner that is undesirable for women in the seventeenth century.

In the passage written by Amy Tan the author uses adjectives and feelings to reveal that an embarrassing experience in her youth changed her prospective on her heritage by showing her she needs to always be reminded of her heritage. One of Amy’s emotions in this passage is she feels embarrassed that her Chinese family that came over would get up to get their while the American would wait patiently for the food to be passed. One thing that made Amy embarrassed was when her dad took the fish cheek and said “Amy your favorite.” Another emotion was she was scared that the boy wouldn’t like their Chinese food or wouldn’t like there Chinese Christmas. But Amy’s fear was realized because the ministers family didn’t eat a lot nor did they talk.

As the viewer can take note, Frank continues to be extremely flirtatious with Mrs. Warren and thus tries to make her give in to temptation. Tracing back to Act II, Mrs. Warren regrets the decision on ever kissing Frank because she knows of the incest taboo which strikes Mrs. Warren with a realization of her moral standing in society. On the other hand, Frank knows of Mrs. Warren’s past by listening to Rev. Samuel talk about the letters he wrote to Mrs. Warren, which later speculates why Frank is acting so flirtatious. Since Frank is seen as a do-nothing penniless man, he has to try his hardest to find a woman who has money and will show him love. That is why Frank acts disgusted behind Mrs. Warren’s back; he acts distasted because Frank knows

There 's a shadowy discern at the cease of Antoinette 's avenue. Aislinn 's friend is hinting that she knew Aislinn became in risk. And the entirety they discover approximately Aislinn takes her in addition from the easy, passive doll she regarded to be. Antoinette knows the harassment has became her paranoid, but she can not inform virtually how an

This pattern is included in this scene just to baffle the audience, and also shows how anyone of higher classes viewed the servants as sneaky and evil simply because many people treated the servants without respect and this is how they would get their vengeance. Lastly, Contrasting Worlds is displayed when the Nurse takes money from Romeo to be quiet about their situation and hide it from Juliet (page 810, 171-174). If the Nurse was making more money and wasn’t only a servant, she would not have been as easily convinced to take the money from Romeo because she’d have her own and it would be of no

By posting a tweet that read, "#WhyIStayed You had Pizza.” DiGiorno diverted attention from a tweet intended to draw attention to domestic abuse and act as an online forum for women who survived abusive relationships. According to DiGIorno’s this was due to the lack of understanding the context of the hashtag on the part of the person controlling the company’s account and purely unintentional. This and similar occurrences lead to the ethical question, “Should a user of social media be held accountable and/or pay the consequences for misuse (due to lack of knowledge or research) of a hashtag?” Using a hashtag for the opposite purpose from the authors original intent is considered hashtag high jacking.

It also mentions that “about 6% of teenagers have confessed that they have been exposed by their partners by putting embarrassing pictures of them online.” This means they decided whether or not to upload the explicit picture of themselves. They knew the consequences of their decision and chose to go down the wrong path. The female can also be put to blame, because she could have found a way to prevent it. The attacker is wrong in doing what he was doing, but the victim is just as guilty as he

In Kate Dailey 's article, “Friends with Benefits: Do Facebook Friends Provide the Same Support as Those in Real Life?” Dailey compares real life friends to friends who people acquire on social media. She makes the argument that social media serves as an amplification, but not an alternative, to a “real life” social life. Dailey took this topic into her own hands by conducting polls on her personal Facebook page to get the opinions of her so-called friends on whether Facebook friends show the same support as real life friends. From these polls, Dailey came to the conclusion that though Facebook did not create friends, it provided people with virtual acquaintances.

The author combines a serious nature with a sarcastic tone to both prove her argument and demean the underlying story. The serious tone is most noticeable whenever she discusses group polarization. It is easily understood that she believes the internet is causing problems by creating a new form of group polarization known as cyber polarization. However, when the author addresses the story of President Obama, she brings back a sarcastic tone indicating her support of our leader. She intended this sarcasm to subtly say that those who believed the stories about President Obama were uniformed extremist.

This essay is an analysis of an article with an interview with Professor Elizabeth Currid-Halkett’s about her attitude towards social media. The article was written by Jessica Stillman, on December 14, 2010. Elizabeth Currid-Halkett’s attitude towards social media becomes quite clear right after the first question asked by the interviewer. She very directly says that studies have shown that younger people have become more narcissistic, which she explains that social media is the cause of this change. Facebook has become the center of the reason, becoming a big social blogging site, that encourages their users to share their indifferent life to all their “friends”.

In Peggy Orenstein's “I Tweet, Therefore I Am” she explains that social media is taking over our lives and pulling us further apart. She argues that we lose our identity on social media because we worry about how others see us. Although Orenstein describes the negative effects of social media, not all technology and media accounts affect us in this way. Social media and technology is causing us to lose physical and personal connections with humans. Social media “encourages self-promotion over self-awareness”