The New Generation In Cormac Mccarthy's No Country For Old Men

Throughout one’s life they are faced with choices and react accordingly to what feels to be the best decision for the moment. The choices one makes are considered morally right, wrong or indifferent each having a different outcome. Each decision has its consequence affecting one thing or another, however making the wrong decision has the most impactful consequence often requiring a timely solution. One must recognize the consequence of actions one commits in order to effectively understand the magnitude of the outcome. In Cormac McCarthy’s novel

As readers follow Sheriff Bell through the duration of the novel he seems to be experiencing a growing existential fatigue. The violence that Sheriff Bell has to experience begins to age him more and more as the novel goes on, and the main reason why this violence is aging him is because he cannot make sense of all of the things that he has to witness. For example, Sheriff Bell had to analyze and look over almost every crime scene that occurred throughout the novel. Sheriff Bell was also the one who had investigate the scene after the death of Moss and the hitchhiker that was with him, and he also had to identify Moss’s body at the morgue. When Bell went to identify Moss’s body he knew that Moss had “[taken] a couple rounds in the face” so

The rise of technology is effortlessly seen in the 21st century generation. It is widely used not only by the millennials but also the elderly. It has been a need for the people these days and already affects their lives making the technology as the present world. Present world in a sense that it becomes a cycle, a part of everyday life and being able to do everything in just a click in a span of seconds.

In contrast, Anton Chigurh represents those in society whose moral codes are influenced solely by their personal beliefs, actions, and experiences, not by commonly accepted standards such as law or religion. Where Ed Tom bases his moral code off of said socially accepted standards, and adjusts his beliefs slightly based on experience, Chigurh’s moral code has no resemblance to what is generally accepted in society. When Carson Wells describes Chigurh to Moss he explains, “He’s a peculiar man. You could even say that he has principles. Principles that transcend money or drugs or anything like that.

Fahrenheit 451 and the Use of Technology Phones, computers, TVs, and the internet dominate modern society. Technology and the lack of books is a very prominent part of the society and the storyline throughout Fahrenheit 451 as well. Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 in the 1950s, but he described many different kinds of futuristic technologies, some of which we even see today. The technology that Bradbury describes in Fahrenheit 451 must have seemed unreasonable to readers in the 1950s, but we have seen that this technology is feasible indeed.

Growing Up Tethered A professor at the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, Sherry Turkle talks about how kids today are attached and somewhat obsessed with technology in her article called “Growing Up Tethered.” Turkle interviews with many different teenagers about the different types of technology they possess and how it impacts their everyday life. She talks a lot about how technology can do away with our privacy and also how people feel the need to be constantly connected.

Older generations tend to believe that young adults, who are thirty years old or younger, are the “dumbest generation” ever. However, these young adults are not actually dumb, they are able to think more critically and deeper which helps them gain more knowledge and become more intelligent. It is invalid to compare the past with the present because in the present, technology and other developments are far more superior.     Many people have shown themselves to be smarter than the older generation due to technological developments, and the increased use of technology. Sharon Begley stated that IQ scores “ have been rising since the 1930s” and these “tests measure not knowledge but pure thinking capacity” (Begley, Source 2).

The generation we belong to, is subjected towards so much distraction because of the impacts of social media. My friends and I are exposed to so much information, we hardly find time to make meaningful contributions to our society. Unlike any other previous generations, especially the generation of the 1920s, when the Rotary Club was in its infancy, today's generation, especially high school students are distracted by the use of social media. In the era of smartphones and social media, every teenager, and in some cases even younger children get involved in conversations on social media apps to seek popularity and chase the 15 minutes of fame.

This naturalistic observation experiment examined if eating alone lead to more device usage than eating in a group. It was hypothesis that individuals eating alone are more likely to use any form of technology opposed to individuals eating with one or more individuals. For the observation there were n = 50 participants (21) female and (29) male. The observation was held in public domains that service food (campus café) and a (food court). The observation in both domains lasted for 3 minutes for each participants.

Technology is everywhere. In people’s homes, public areas, and in teenagers’ hands. Cell phones have become a part of teenagers’ lives and cannot be taken away. As technology evolves, consequently, teenagers feel the need to have the latest phones to “fit in” or feels pressured into having one. Students bring their cell phones everywhere with them, including school where notifications or ringing disrupts in class.

Compared to the technology we possessed before 1980, technology today is significantly more advanced in many ways, enabling communication and learning to continue to grow. The use of technology has increased dramatically in our everyday life, but it seems to be negatively affecting the way Millennials think and process information. Mark Bauerlein, an English professor and researcher, declares that all of those under 30 years of age, also known as the Millennials, constitute the dumbest generation of modern history. Neglecting beneficial opportunities that have been handed to them and instead using them for non-educational purposes as well as solely depending on technology to obtain information are main reasons as to why the generation we live in now holds the title of the dumbest generation. Students today have countless privileges and opportunities compared to those of prior generations.

Theme Essay Kids nowadays are often glued to their phones and miss out on social experiences. They become hard to talk to and often socially awkward around others. This ruins friendships with friends and family. The science fiction short story, “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury clearly portrays this throughout the novel.