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Unit 1 Portfolio

Adrián Caballero                                                  Baron Analysis The main author Dennis Baron covers a very interesting topic about technology and how it has affected our lives over the past hundreds of years. Us as humans are always trying to improve ourselves and our communities around us. By this we have to be creative with what we do and invent new things that do not exist yet to make what we already have better. This can either be adding airbags to a car or safety fire equipment to a building. But Barron goes over more controversial stuff such the integration of new technology and how it affected our societies. For example when calculators were implemented into classrooms, teachers would not approve of them since the...

Unit 1 Reflection

                                                             Unit 1 Reflection            In my unit 1 project, I went over the various ways that technology affects us in our everyday lives. It is sometimes crazy to think that we went from being cavemen living like wild animals to the immense advancements that we have and the many more to come. When looking for sources, the biggest thing that I had to search for was the quality of the information given out. I felt that when searching through the texts I found the best I could find online regarding this technological era. We got to choose 3 sources for ourselves and I decided to stick with the one professor Weiner gave us from the author Baron and 2 others that I picked out for myself. My second source was by far my best one as the author directly talks...

Free Writes Unit 1

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I appreciated the free write on 2/1/18 because it made us think about the good things we have about ourselves. Many times as regular human beings, we can be pretty harsh on ourselves and not appreciate the skills and the good things that we have. By doing this, we practice positivity which helps us stay happy, even at bad times in our life. We have to remember that there is always someone that goes through bigger struggles than us and would die to have our lives.

Unit 1 Draft

Adrián Caballero                                                                            Baron Analysis The main author Dennis Baron covers a very interesting topic about technology and how it has affected our lives over the past hundreds of years. Us as humans are always trying to improve ourselves and our communities around us. By this we have to be creative with what we do and invent new things that do not exist yet to make what we already have better. This can either be adding airbags to a car or safety fire equipment to a building. But Barron goes over more controversial stuff such the integration of new ...