Category: Technology

  • High-Tech Invention

    Choose one high-tech invention that you have used, and write an inductive essay that praises or condemns it. First freewrite on your subject for at least five minutes – automatically, never letting your pencil or keyboard stop – then look over what you have produced in order to learn your point of view. Now, take…

  • Simplify, simplify

    The American author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, who left town life for his cabin by Walden Pond, wrote, “Our life is frittered away by detail. … Simplify, simplify.” In your opinion, has technology simplified or complicated our lives? Defend you answer with personal examples.

  • Technophobe

    Are you a technophobe? Or do you rejoice in high technology? Defend your answers with examples.

  • The way families interact

    How is technology changing the way families interact? Consider entertainment, transportation, social media, etc.