Mark Zuckerberg

The article I wrote my essay on, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” argues the effects of social media sites and how it has caused people to separate farther apart instead of coming together. The author believes “We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society.” (pg.3). I think that the article gives several statistical analysis to show the reader that the current society is slowly…

and computer programmer, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. He was born on 1984 in White Plains, New York. He is the founder of Facebook and also known as the youngest multibillionaire of the world in 2012. He is a successful person and made a great website to convenient the public. I admire Mark Zuckerberg and set him as my role model because he is intelligent, never…

When the Netflix adaptation of Jay Asher’s 2007 novel ’13 Reasons Why’ was first released on March of 2017, it instantly became a “binge watch” hit (Schrobsdorff). The show centered around Clay Jensen, a college student who received 13 tapes narrated by his friend Hannah Baker. In those tapes she explains the different reasons as to why she had taken her own life, the driving force behind the entire show. The reasons featured a lot of issues relevant to today’s society such as rape, bullying,…

Introduction Recently I have read an online article called, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” written by Jean M. Twenge. As the title portrays, the article is about technology’s impact on the younger generation. Twenge states, “I’ve been researching generational differences for 25 years, starting when I was a 22-year-old doctoral student in psychology” (Twenge). She goes on in the article to state her opinion about smartphones and to support it in a variety of ways. Quoting and…

Tanuja Albert 12J Movie Review: ‘The Internship’ Year Released: 2013 Director: Shawn Levy Cast Character Vince Vaughn Billy McMahon Owen Wilson Nick Campbell Rose Byrne Dana Aasif Mandvi Mr Chetty Josh Brener Lyle Dylan O’Brien Stuart Tiya Sircar Neha Tobit Raphael Yo-yo Santos Max Minghella Graham Hawtrey Summary of Storyline “The Internship”, is a movie about two men, Billy McMahon (played by Vince Vaugh) and Nick Campbell (played by Owen Wilson) and their experience as interns at Google.…

“THE BILLIONAIRE (2011)” THE REVIEWS In this story, there is a guy name Top Aitthiphat Kulapopngvanich who had facing difficulty to become young entrepreneur. At the age of 16 he dropped out from school due to incapability to catch up his studies because he plays online game too often. He became an arm dealer sells his online game weapons to his online-gamers and earned extra income. He learned how to make money with his hobbies. Soon after, as it is an illegal thing to do online, his online…

The main protagonist in Bringing Down the House, Kevin Lewis, is your typical MIT grad student. This ethnic man finished at MIT with straight A's, he obtained an electrical engineer major, and he covered all the premed requisites. How much better could a 20 year old's resume get? In the first chapter of this novel Kevin is characterized as being shy, edgy, and genius. He was at the casino and as he sat at the poker table, he "tried to hide his trembling hands" (Mezrich, 2003, 1). The mannerisms…

Mark Zuckerberg Supports Obama on Immigration Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s lobbying group FWD.us filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court along with other tech leaders, supporting the executive actions taken by President Barack Obama in November 2014. The President’s actions will confer new rights upon a certain category of undocumented immigrants living here. However, those actions were blocked after a case was filed against it by Texas and other Republican-led American states. The Supreme…

After conducting my interviews, I was not surprised at the results that I gathered. Almost all of my participants were united on their positionality towards Greek Life and could agree, to some extent, that Greek Life does receive an unfair amount of negative publicity in the media. In order to come to the conclusion that the Greek community receives a lot of negative publicity, I needed evidence from both my interviews and external sources. I was able to gather opinions from each of my…

connected to the internet? That is 2.7 billion people. Internet.org is a project Mark Zuckerberg, along with six other software and electronics companies, is working on to bring the other four billion on-board (Rusli). The intention is to bring aid to less developed countries by giving them free basic Internet services, such as weather, news, health information, and of course, Facebook. According to Mark Zuckerberg, the objective is to make the world more open and connected. “I believe it…