1. Modern Technology and Communication
As Ellen DeGeneres puts it in her essay "This is How We Live," "Phones have gone through such an evolution. ... In "Pearls before Breakfast: Joshua Bell on the Subway", Gene Weingarten notes that although one of the best musicians in the world was playing violin for free from the Metro at the L'Enfant Plaza station, most people didn't notice him because they were preoccupied and had other things on their minds: "Some who were on cellphones spoke louder as they passed [him], to compete with that infernal racket" (486). ... In "Stalking Celebriti...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate