THE TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD
If I think about the world in general, only one thing can come up to my mind: communication. It’s the most important thing for the communication market. Worldwide companies are dependent on communication over the Internet. All current evidence indicates that our personal and professional lives are becoming much more dependent on the electronic communication tools as we move forward the 21st century.
Most online networking sites that are designed for professional purposes can provide an excellent opportunity for both research in academic centres and industry.
With these examples we can conclude that the new developments in communications have a dramatic effect on political, economic, social, scientific and cultural relations in the world.
Adriana Sequeira, 10ºH
The Internet
The world is in a constant change since the human appearance we have never given up searching and knowing more and more.
The Industrial Revolution was just a new step in this way where we have been walking for years. Every step that we took and that we are taking has a big influence in our professional and personal lives.
The electronic communications are the step that we are taking now. We are moving towards another reality, and every reality has good and bad aspects.
Today, it is really easy to take the wrong step and we should pay attention. Internet is great but it is not wonderland.
Nowadays, almost everyone has an email account or Facebook, Twitter, and it sure makes communication easier, but we should never forget who we are behind the monitor. We shouldn’t forget what is traditional, our souls, who we are and we should take the step with all the security that is needed.
Marta Sousa, 10ºH
TV
Children watch too much TV, and for me that is a great problem. Today children are too dependent on technology, they don’t go out to stay at home watching TV and that for me has more disadvantages than advantages. Children are getting more violent because of what they watch on television, they confuse the television world with real life. They are also getting overweight because they stay long hours in front of the Tv eating and they never do physical exercise.
The only advantage of television is that while they are watching TV they are learning a lot of things, of course depending on the channel they are watching.
Children shouldn’t watch TV more than two hours per day. That’s really bad not just for their intellectual diet but to their health too.
Rita Aires, 10º H
The European Union
I do consider myself a European. At the moment I don’t think I would want to be an American, Asian or African because the world is facing such a crisis that nothing good would come of me being from another country.
I think it is quite important that we belong to the EU, it is good because we can solve bigger problems as a whole than as a part. It is like that saying: “two heads are better than one”, this way everyone can communicate and decide which is the best solution to a problem that may seem unsolvable.
It is also good to be in the EU when you want to travel, there are less boundaries.
The biggest problem, which we are noticing now, is that when the crisis arrives to a country it drags all the other ones down with it, and then it is hard to get to their former glory.
Belonging to the EU is also good when we travel, because most of the countries have the same currency, which means we don’t need to exchange money every time we travel to a neighbour country.
The EU isn’t only flowers but I am happy to be part of such a great event as the European Union.
Luísa Canário, 12ºD
Globalization
Globalization may be described as a generalization of ways of life, habits, values and experiences. We live in an integrated world, without borders, where there is exchange of people, goods and ideas.
Nowadays, our world is surrounded by a lot of corporations that “command” these exchanges and move their goods, services, money, ideas and cultural habits.
With Globalization we have faster economic growth and better living standards, new opportunities and a lot of cultural sharing, but some people consider that Globalization is in fact another word for Americanization, because the US is by far the biggest producer of popular cultural goods that have a nasty influence on worldwide traditions. For example the McDonald’s and Coca-Cola corporations that are spread all over the world and have become famous, everyone consumes their products.
That’s why we may consider that corporations are actors, which play the their own rules, just trying to sell their goods and services.
Ana Catarina Sousa, 12ºD
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