Is it a disastrous decision to use Google in everyday life ? Carr claims that Google is making us stupid. Carr informs us on the ways technology is negatively affecting our brains.Google is trying to invent an artificial brain to replace our brains that we already have. In a world where technology is put first, what will happen to us? This is the perfect point where Diamond’s essay take place. Is Google a problem that we fail to anticipate before it happens ? In his article, Diamond expresses the need for learning from historical events or else it is going to repeat itself.   In Carr’s article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"  the author compares how our mind is changing due to computers to the way peoples minds changed due to clocks and it seems like that we didn’t learn from this historical step into technologie. Also Diamond claims that society tends to ignore a problem if they don’t see anything bad happening currently and that is exactly what is going on with Google today. Finally even though we try to solve the problems caused by Google addiction we may fail in our attempts to do so.

The Ugly Tourist

The Ugly Tourist by Jamaica Kincaid. 

A tourist, Kincaid says, is an ugly person in the eyes of the native. Kincaid reveals a number of reasons for that. A tourist is despised firstly for his spending habit. When a tourist makes a visit to a certain place, he is willing to spend a considerable amount of money and for that reason, the native of that place might not like the tourist because they can't afford the luxury of travelling away from the boring routine of the island.  

To understand the context in which Kinkaid has A Small Place, we should step back in time and remember the atrocities that the British have committed in Antigua. Now a days those same people who treated the native people of the island very badly are back as tourist enjoying the beauty of nature that the Antigua has to offer. When I was reading the essay The Ugly Tourist, I felt that I was an accusatory, and like if I was targeted by Kincaid even though I never went to Antigua and I m not planning to go their soon. Jamaica Kincaid’s The Ugly Tourist strategically addresses the readers as “you” to strengthen her argument. In doing so, she builds a wall between herself and the readers, erasing any false sense of equality. The use of the pronoun "you" gives a special tone to the essay. The essay begins with a short, declarative ideas tied together in an attempt to define what “you” are: “You are not an ugly person all the time; you are not an ugly person ordinarily; you are not an ugly person day to day.  From day to day, you are a nice person.” This is a key sentence in understanding that the target audience of Kincaid is any tourist or future tourist.  

Finally, One thing that I've learned for sure from this essay is that next time I'm travelling I should think about being a better tourist than what Kincaid described in her essay as the ugly tourist. Some example of what can be done to improve the experience as tourist are  getting more involved with the natives. Find a spot in town where everyone seems to gather, like a town square or popular restaurant, and spend the day there. Strike up conversations with people of all ages. Ask questions about the local culture and talk about common interests. 

In the essay “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”, by Peter Singer, the author discusses the importance of donating to charity. Singer’s opinion is that the West should help more poor people overseas. In the west, people consume more than they need while at the same time, children in poor countries die every day. In order to convince the reader to donate money to charity, Singer uses emotional appeals in his essay to convince the reader that his point of view is the right one. Singer accuses people who do not donate money to charity as “morally wrong” and he encouraged the reader to donate money to charity. In this essay Singer refers to the work of Peter Unger to illustrate a situation that makes the reader feel obligated to give charity.  When I was reading the example of Bob and the little kid killed by the train, I felt like trapped. I thought that bob was wrong and should've saved the kid, then I realized that I was wrong too not helping poor children. This argument that Singer uses is very logical, but I don’t think it is a strong one. The way in which Singer set his argument is very smart because every person will judge Bob as a bad person for choosing to save his expensive car instead of the life of a kid, but then the reader will realize that himself don’t do nothing to save other kids who dies everyday out of hunger.  Although he makes a strong emotional appeal, that is where his logic stops. Finally I cannot imagine America, being the economic giant that it is, donating as much money as Singer states in his essay. America’s economy is based on the culture of consumerism, and if Americans stop their habit of getting brand new stuff that they don’t need to save money so that they can help poor countries, well by then I think that Americans will be poor and will need help.