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How Does Modern Technologies Affect the Personal Perseverance?

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INTRODUCTION

1.1: Introduction

As we can see in this modern world, technologies are significant for the human to carry out their daily life. With technologies, we can travel a thousand miles with just a blink of an eye, talking with a person which lives far away and can get a lot of information within a second. However, technologies somehow give negative effects to the attitudes and characteristic of an individual whom misuse the advantages of technologies.

1.2:Background Info

Technological development takes place by means of evolution. Since the time of the ancient Roman, the thoughts and the cultures of the people are all seems likely toward technology. Technology comes from the word “techne” which is etymologically derived from the Greek word which means a set of rational principles or methods involved in a making of an object, competency of requirement or simply knowledge of methods, principles and arts. The term itself adopted by Philips in 1706 in a book entitled Technology: A Description of the Arts, Especially the Mechanical.

1.3:Definiton of Terms

Modern - Pertaining to the present era, or to a period extending from a not very remote past to the passing time; late or recent, absolutely or relatively; not ancient or remote in time.

Technology - The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives or the scientific method and material used to achieve a commercial or industrial objective.

Personal perseverance- The will to continue an action whether it is difficult or it has no indication of success.

Actually, the words perseverance best defined as persistence. In the other mean, having a robust persistence in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. A successful person is not afraid to do his best to what are small jobs. If all the little jobs are done well, the big ones seem much easier to accomplish. You can't go through life quitting everything, if you're going to achieve anything you've got to stick with it. Failure happens only when you quit and stop trying to reach your goals and purposes in life. A person must always have faith and hope in himself, I also think it has to do with being a good Christian and strongly believe in God.

POINT OF AGREEMENT

1.1: How does Modern technologies affect the personal perseverance?

In what situation, do modern technologies can weaken the human perseverance? First point of the idea is that modern technologies make the world smaller. By just sitting down alone in your room, you can reach a lot of information needed just by typing it on your computer’s keyboard and pressing the ENTER button. By looking at this situation, the individual

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