Technology, What is it?

Technology would be the advance of daily activities, they cut down the time it would take for one to accomplish a task, they reduce the amount of energy needed to accomplish a task, they are like the outcome of all logic, creativity, and material that we humans have made from the earth. Today, I guess the most important technologies vary by age, an infant kid might think that a fake mobile phone would be most important because they see their parents having one, but for a average middle school student like us, or even all teenagers might think the computer is the most important piece of technology because they can use it to right all the long essays they need to write for in daily classes such as Humanities. Since, a majority of the population in our world is the adults, I think the most important piece of technology would either be their mobile(a real one), or a laptop, these help communicate with the world around us. The Least important piece of technology for an average child, would be a walk-man possibly, because they use, but quite occasionally they are pushed away with yet another advance in technology, and are off with that new toy, thinking that they'll use someday or another, yet they never do. For average teenager, the least important piece of technology, would be a small fixing tool, not many teenager would found handling or even holding a small fixing tool. For adults it would be the car, adult use a car, but they don't really think about it. While using a car, they're either on their phone or thinking about something else! To Conclude, no matter how big or small your piece of technology, it is still needed quite deeply, in our world today.

Am I a Luddite?

“Do you know what a Luddite is? That’s a person who doesn’t like newfangled contraptions. Contraptions like nuclear submarines armed with Poseidon missiles that have H-bombs in their warheads, and like computers that cheat you out of becoming. Bill Gates says, “Wait till you can see what your computer can become.” But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work—not the damn fool computer.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

I really think that the "damn fool computer" that we use every day can help us not only to civilization, but it is something we use almost everyday. We need a computer everyday, it helps us communicate and even save paper at times, it cuts down the amount of time we would take to accomplish a task, but while using this "damn fool computer," we never really remember that WE have created it, many people even come to believe that technology , and the "damn fool computer" is like a gift from god. God did not give us technology, god gave us the ingredients to make technology, but he left it to us to cook it. And so we did. But the computer isn't the only one that has deeply advanced into our generation, other technology like the "Euphio Project". The Euphio project was an invented,imaginary instrument that buys happiness. To add to my point, on pg 202, on paragraph 3, Lew states, "That's good-happiness by kilowatt, our motto will be "Buy your happiness the same way you buy you light"
To Conclude, I think that we use our computer so much, we always forget that we are the creators of the computer.

Feedback on Q3 and Q4

When we first arrived after the winter break, my goals for the third quarter were to improve my sentence fluency as that was a major let down during my African Research Paper. I really think that I have improved a lot in sentence fluency, before I would have to really be careful at what I was writing and how it was written, but now, it really comes much more naturally, when I read what I have written, it's much more fluent and flowing. Another goal I had for Q3 was to talk a little more during class discussions. Although I haven't improved so much in this goal compared to the old one, I really think I improved a little, as the year has gotten on, I have gradually opened my self up to the class. Knowing that this goal may need some more time, I want to enroll in onto fourth quarter. I am sure, that by the end of this year, I would have reached my goal. Now for Population Project, with this being the largest and "Hardest" projects of the year, I just really want to make sure that I did my best in it , and I did it up to my fullest extent. In the End, if I don't get a good grade, I'll know that I did my very best.

Holy and War an Oxymoron?

Holy and War could never be a word that were put together, they're are just opposites, when someone says holy, they think of peace and something being very sacred, and when someone says war, they think of anger, conflict and violence. They belong to two completely different moods too, a person would only go to a holy place when they want help or when they want to thank god. However, a person only wants to go into war when they want to finish a conflict, or colonize the other side. Also, I have noticed that in almost every religious temple, there is this atmosphere that is very quiet, and soothing. Whereas when in a war( I infer from the movies), that it is very loud, rough and forceful. It is clear that these word are just too different to be put together.

To answer the second question, since almost every religion prevents war, why are the causes of most wars religion? Let me start with how the not every religion reclines from war, Islam, however, promotes war when it is in a deadly position, and I think, deep down almost every religion thinks the same, and why shouldn't they, if your religion is in a state where it might become extinct, you would have to fight back for what you believe is right. Another reason to why most causes of war are religion would be the fact every religion believes in different facts, they get too caught up with the little details that they forget that the overall fact is the same, like in Islam, Shina's and Sunni's, they both believe in the same god, yet the main causes of war in Iraq are the Sunni's and the Shina's. This shows that many religions are forced to fight with one another to save their their religions, or to stick to their facts or beliefs.