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Partner up with someone (or two) near you. Reread "Touchscreen and notice the wordplay.  Highlight examples.  Note that some are multiple meaning words, others are homophones. Think of as many as you can!

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Tech related word (and meaning): Click (as in mouse click)

Non-tech related word (and meaning): Clique (as in exclusive social group)

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If you considered "Touchscreen" as an argument with an implied claim, how would you summarize the claim?

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Independently: How is Jones’s word choice related to his overall claim? Please write a 2-3 sentence response to the prompt.  Use at least one example from the text to support your response. The sample below is meant to help or inspire, but you do not need to mimic it.  Please be sure to use RAV verbs as well.

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Ms. Barfield, Period One

In the spoken word poem “Touchscreen,” Marshall Davis Jones emphasizes _____________ through wordplay. For example, when Jones states, “____________ ,” he suggests that ________________________.

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His claim is that technology is ruining lives and taking over, and that we should be caring more about the real world.

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His claim is that the people in our world are too connected to our devices that we forget to look up. We are so connected through the digital world that we have forgotten how to truly connect. More connectivity has in fact made us less connected.

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His claim is that people are too engaged with their technology and virtual worlds that they are disconnected from the real world.

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the claim of the poem is that technology makes us lonely rather than driving connection, because you don't get any real fulfillment from mindless clicks.

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The claim that "Touchscreen" makes is that electronic devices are taking over. In almost every aspects of our life.

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His claim is that technology has become too dominant and we often times forget to look up and connect to the outside world. More and more are we becoming invested into social media, and soon it will be too late.

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His claim is that nowadays virtually everyone is connecting to each other through technology. He reminds us to look up from our screens every so often and to connect to people in the real world.

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Marshall Jones's claim is that technology is so quickly becoming a big part of connection between people. Being so connected through our screen is making us less connected overall.

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A claim that is implied by "Touchscreen" is that digital interaction has replaced real-world connection; it lacks in quality of relationships, but it certainly creates a large quantity of superficial ones.

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His claim is that we as humans have replaced human interaction with technology. We are trying to fulfill something we need as a species with artificial love until we are satisfied with the result that we might never fully achieve.

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I would summarize his claim is that people are so connected to technology that they don't interact with the real world.

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His claims seems to be That as humans we have become very digital. we aren't involved in our own lives and would much rather spend times with our phones. We don't interact with others as much as we once did because we are so lost in our own digital presence.

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His claim is that the very technology we use to connect to other is stopping us from making a true connection with people and nature.

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His claim is that people have become too attached to technology, and we have become disconnected from the real world.

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His claim is that everything in our world has began to revolve around technology. People are so addicted and connected to their devices, but they forget to connect with our world and with the people around them. Its like technology is our new home, and reality has become a forge in concept.

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The claim in this poetry is that technology has become our new home. People are so attached to technology that we forget that there is a whole world outside. Human connections through technology have destroyed human connections in real life.

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The claim that "Touchscreen" makes is that electronic devices are taking over. In almost every aspect of our lives.

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His claim is that technology is becoming too much of a part of our lives and taking up our lives. We aren't connected to others in the real world by staying connected online.

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His claim is that technology is becoming too much of a part of our lives and taking up our lives. We aren't connected to others in the real world by staying connected online.

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sprint: run very fast

Sprint: technology store

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iTouch (media player)

I touch (come into contact with)

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"Someone slipped a disc" In their back, or into a computer or DVD player.

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Non-tech related: blackberries (a black fruit that you can pick off bushes)

Tech related: Blackberries (a type of phone that was popular years ago)

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Tech-related words-

Apple (Apple the phones/tech brand)

Tweet (saying something on Twitter, birds chirps)

Sprint (run, tech store

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I touch (as in I touch something)

iTouch (iPod touch)

Blackberries (as in the fruit)

Blackberries (as in the device)

Tweeting (as in the sound birds make)

Tweeting (posting on twitter)

I chat (as in I talk)

iChat (as in mocking "iPhone")

Macintosh (as in the apple/fruit)

Macintosh (as in the computer)

Resolution (as in a fix to a problem)

Resolution (as in visual quality of a screen)

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Makenna and Kadence

Apple (as in the fruit)

Apple (the company and their products)

blackberries (the fruit)

Blackberries (the phone)

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Homophones- Char and Katie

-Apple- The apple you eat, the Apple Store

-Tweet- Bird noses, saying something online

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Tweeting, We used tweeting as tweeting has the definition of a bird tweetin/ Making noise aswell and the opposite meaning saying posting a message on twitter. The Word Web works aswell as the literal meaning saying is what a spider swindles making a cobweb or circular pattern full of string. Whilst the virtual meaning is a vast series of data on the internet.

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Facebook (social media platform)

Books face me (Facing a book)

Pick and store blackberries (as in picking blackberries from a bush)

Run to the sprint store to pick up blackberries (Go to the tech store to buy Blackberries)

Tweeting (from a bird)

Tweeting posting on twitter)

Apple picking (picking apples from a tree)

Apple picking (picking Apple products)

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Tech related word:

Apple - A technology company / brand

Tweeting - Posting or saying something on the app Twitter

Sprint - A technology store / company

Non-tech related word:

Apple - A red fruit that is eaten

Tweeting - A bird chirping / making a noise

Sprint - A very fast run

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tweet: birds chirping

tweet: Twitter mesages

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tech related words:

iTouch (phone without number)

sprint (brand)

E-motion (tech term)

Blackberries (online app)

Tweeting( the app)

Non-tech related word:

I touch (touching something)

sprint (run)

Emotion (feelings)

Blackberries (fruit)

Tweeting (birds chirping)

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1: When he says "are more people that 'Like' me" we can think of it as people liking him as a person or like in the physical sense of like but what he actually means is like on the social media platforms.

2: When he says "if Im an amateur person as long as I have a 'pro' file" he uses pro as in comparing pro to amateur like a professional but what he really means is that you need a profile as in a social media platform.

3: When he says "My problems can be resolved with a 1600 by 1700 resolution" what we think of resolution is the pixel number on the screen. He really is talking about the solution to the problem he referred to.

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Tweet (electronic): a post on Twitter

Tweet (literal): a sound that birds make

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In his poem, Marshall Davis asserts that the digital world is consuming us and making us less human through his use of colorful, emphatic word choice. An example of this would be that "if Im an amateur person as long as I have a 'pro' file" he uses pro as in comparing pro to amateur like a professional but what he really means is that you need a profile as in a social media platform. This use of word choice strengthens his claims throughout the poem by providing an image for the audience to imagine how their choices are actively making them less human.

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The word choice Jones uses heavily relates to his claim that technology is taking over the world in his poem, "Touchscreen." He uses wordplay of technology terms and highlights how much the world changed since technology became significant in our lives. An example is iTouch and I touch, one means to come in contact with, and the other meaning the old Apple product. The difference between these two is that one meaning is actually connecting with the outside world, while the other is simply used to distract someone from the outside world. Another example is "I face Facebook more than books face me, hoping to book face-to-faces."

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Marshall Davis Jones emphasizes, that technology is taking over the world through word play. For example when Jones states, " My world is so digital that I have forgotten what that feels like;" he suggests that this world is so digital that people forget what being touched feels like.

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In the spoken word poem "Touchscreen", Marshall Davis jones emphasizes technology takeover through wordplay. For example, when Jones states. "The way we connect to disconnect power on", he suggests that we as a society lack genuine connections due to the connections we have formed online. The word play in this line talks about how when we connect through technology, we are disconnecting in life.

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In the spoken word poem "Touchscreen," Marshall Davis Jones emphasizes the effect that technology is having on people, and how it is causing people to become disconnected from the real world through wordplay. For example, when Jones states, "I can't hear the sound of mother nature speaking over all this tweeting," he suggests how people are too consumed by their technology that they miss out on connections happening around them in the real world. The author uses the word "tweeting" which can mean a bird chirping or in this case, a post on Twitter, to emphasize how distracting social media can be for people from the outside world.

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The claim that Marshall Davis Jones is implying is that we are to connected with virtual reality and our devices.

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"Touchscreen," Marshall Davis Jones emphasizes the change in how things used to be and how they are now through wordplay. For example when Jones states, "I face Facebook more than books face me," he suggests that there is more electronic exposure now, in comparison to the amount of books that were read in the past. More and more people are spending time scrolling on social media aimlessly. Less people are spending time doing productive things like reading. In saying this, Jones highlights the negative change that electronics have had.

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In the spoken word problem "Touchscreen," Marshall Davis Jones emphasizes that technology and real life are blending into one through wordplay. For example, when Jones states, "I can't hear the sound of mother nature speaking over all this tweeting," he suggests that technology consumes our lives to a point that we can't separate it from the real world. "Tweet" as in bird noise and "tweet" as in post online help defend his point that humans need human interaction, not online friends.

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The usage of homonyms as both tech-related and non-tech related in Marshall Jones' emphasizes the contrast between the technological world's values and the real world's. For example, when he states that "Apple picking has always come at a great cost...iPod iMac iPhone iChat...", Davis contrasts the natural human action of chatting, talking with other humans with conversational intent, with the commercialized iChat, a platform made by Apple with the intent to advertise their platform and make money. He critiques the priority of technological companies on using these platforms to generate profit, via likes, ads, and easily consumable content, over encouraging actual human interaction

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By using wordplay on technological terms, Marshall Davis Jones highlights how much of our world has changed through technology. For example, Jones states "We used to sprint to pick up and store blackberries, now we run to the Sprint Store to pick Blackberries." He uses the double meaning of "blackberry" to emphasize how our values as a society have shifted. The reader is intended to feel nostalgia and frustration at the sharp contrast between playing outside and buying devices.

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In the spoken word poem "Touchscreen," Marshall Davis Jones emphasizes his desire for "touching" to become a physical feeling again through wordplay. For example, when Jones states, "...iTouch and iTouch and iTouch because in a world where there are voices that are only read and laughter is never heard or I'm so desperate to feel," he suggests that the world has become so digital that he is becoming desperate for physical touch again.

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In the spoken word poem "Touchscreen," Marshall Davis Jones emphasizes that screens are taking over for human interactions. He does this by connecting between humans and screens through wordplay. For example, when Jones states," then someone slipped a disc; now we are doubled over at desktops," he suggests that putting a disc in a DVD player is crippling us just like if we slipped a disc in are back.

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In his spoken word poem "Touchscreen", Marshall Davis Jones emphasizes his point that technology has overtaken human interaction through the words he uses. For example, he states "I've uploaded this hug; I hope she gets it." Instead of actually going over to see this person and physically give them a hug, Jones suggests that we have attached ourselves so much to our technology that we can't separate from it to provide others comfort, to physically meet face to face, to simply interact with one another without a screen shoved in our faces.

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In the spoken word poem "Touchscreen," Marshall Davis Jones emphasizes societies addiction to technology through wordplay. For example, when Jones states, "I can't hear the sound of Mother Nature over all this tweeting," This highlights how society as a whole has a problem with this addiction to technology. Along with how "tweeting" is all he can hear and not mother nature, contrasting this wide spread tech issue.

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In the spoken word poem "Touchscreen," Marshall Davis Jones emphasizes that technology is taking over day-to-day life through wordplay. For example, when Jones states, "We used to sprint to pick blackberries; now we run to the sprint store to pick blackberries; it's scary." he suggests that society has become too engaged in technology saying how people used to go out to get blackberries from the store but now people go to the store to buy phones or "blackberries". The double meaning behind the word blackberries helps further prove the difference between how society used to be and how it is today.

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In the spoken word poem "Touchscreen," Marshall Davis emphasizes his point that we have become too connected to our devices, that we have become disconnected from the real world and human interaction through wordplay. For example, when Jones states, "You would think these headphone jacks inject into the flesh the way we connect to disconnect." He is suggesting that we are connected to our devices, by saying that the headphones are connected directly to us, then he said we "connect to disconnect," which means we are connecting to our devices to escape the real world.

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In the poem "Touchscreen", Marshall Jones emphasizes the idea that technology is ruining the way we build relationships with others through wordplay. An example of this is when he states, "It used to be hard to connect when friends formed cliques, but it's even more difficult now that clicks form friends," With this comparison between making friends with online clicks and friend groups forming cliques, he is suggesting that all friends are made online now.

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In the poem, "touchscreen," made and read by Marshall Davis Jones it emphasizes that technology is becoming extremely prominent through wordplay. when Jones states, "I can't hear the sound of Mother Nature speaking over all this tweeting." Through these words he suggests that technology is becoming too loud and consuming us. with the word play of animal sounds compared to the app Twitter. It's become so loud we can't hear the real world over the sound of our own typing.

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Jones is making the claim that screens are taking over the feeling of physical touch in our world, and people need to come back to reality.

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In the spoken word poem "Touchscreen" Mashall Davis Jones emphasizes that virtual reality is replacing human connection through wordplay. For example when Jones states, "Where there are voices that are only read and laughter is never heard" he suggests that basic human connection is only achievable through the online world now.

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In the poem "Touchscreen" by Marshall Jones, Jones asserts that the digital world is slowly destroying our lives and disconnecting us from people in the real world. Jones uses many words that have double meanings and figurative language like when he says, "these headphone jacks inject in the flesh." This sentence suggests that the amount of time we spend on technology you would think that it's almost become a part of who we are.

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In the slam poetry poem "Touchscreen," Marshall Davis Jones establishes how technology has replaced our reality through innovative wordplay. For example, when jones states that, "we used to sprint to pick and store blackberries. Now we run to the Sprint Store to pick Blackberries," he suggests that before we used to interact with nature and its fruits but now we obsess over technology and forget about nature. He does this by talking about the fruit, blackberries, and how we replaced it with Blackberries, the phones.

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In "Touchscreen" Jones weaponizes wordplay to emphasize the irony of seeking connection through technology. For example, when Jones states, "I face Facebook more than books face me, hoping to book face-to-faces," he points out that by looking for the connection we crave on social media, we are in fact isolating ourselves from human interaction. The picture he paints with his wordplay illustrates the absurdity of the fact that we choose to spend more time by ourselves staring at a screen instead of other people, then wonder why we don't have strong connections with people like we used to.

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In the spoken word poem "Touchscreen," Marshall Davis Jones emphasizes that technology is overtaking our lives and making us more connected to the virtual world but in turn, less connected with the real world through his use of wordplay. For example, when Jones states, "I can't hear the sound of mother nature speaking over all this tweeting," he is contrasting the real world with the virtual world by using the word "tweeting" which can mean the sound a bird makes or a post on Twitter. He suggests society's real world is combining and the virtual world is dangerously starting to overtake reality.

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With Marshall Davis Jones Wordplay he establishes his claim on how Virtual Reality is becoming our new reality. He highlights his claim. By using homonyms such as "tweeting", In the Real World the definition of tweeting is bird chatter, but in many peoples 2nd world tweeting isnt bird noises but Internet personas posting messages on Twitter, a social media app. Suggesting our World and nature is being replaced with an online reality.

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His claim is that technology has become an addiction for human beings and has occupied our time for real life interactions.

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I think the claim that would be implied would be we are lacking real human interactions and we rely on social media and technology more than ourselves and other people to make social interactions and actually communicate.

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He claims that technology is making us less human. Social interactions are happening more online than in person, consuming us.

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The claim that Jones is trying to make is that technology is distracting people from making connections in the real world and making them focus on connections through a screen.

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His claim is that technology is taking over our lives and we now feel more connected to it than real people.

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His claim is that technology takes away the ability for people to live in real life. He does this by showing examples of people choosing technology over real life.

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His claim is that technology is becoming too powerful and taking people away from the real world.

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His claim is that the connectedness online isn't authentic and makes it harder to actually connect with people instead of going through the motions of surface level interaction.

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His claim is that technology is taking over peoples every day lives and people should escape technology and be apart of the real world.

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His claim is that technology has become grounded within society. He mentions how much we rely on technology to do our tasks for us in our day-to-day life.

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I would say the claim is that people have relied on technology to fill this void of human interaction even though our screens are the reason we lack human interaction. We get so caught up on making new friends on social media, we forget to make new friends in the real world.

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The implied claim is that technology is replacing real life interactions to the point that every aspect of our lives has some form of technology intertwined in it.

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In his poem his is make various claims that technology is taking up too much of our lives and that we are becoming to dependent on what it does for us. He is saying that we are becoming dependent on social media to make friends for us and fill a void that is also caused by social media.

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yes, the central claim would be we are losing touch with reality and instead seeking emotions and connections through a screen.

Sophie Holladay

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The claim that the author is trying to make in "Touchscreen" is that while the world is closer than ever with instant communication to the other side of the world, people are more emotional distant than ever. He makes the point that as the world grows closer, people grow apart.

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I think the claim he was trying to make would be that technology is taking over our lives and we are losing real interactions with every new thing on our phone.

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The claim that is being implied is about the idea that technology and devices have become in place of real life. In society we have more "friends" (followers) online than in real life. We socialize, communicate more through devices.

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I would summerize the claim as the poem "touchscreen" is about how we use our screens to connect with people instead of being with people outisde of the screens. the poem shows the reality of what we signed up for when diving into technology,

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I would summarize Touchscreen and Marshall Jones' claim that the more technology evolves, the less connection users have in person. We are creating connections online through Google searches for followers and clicks rather than actively searching for friends and physical interactions.

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The authors claim is that our obsession and attachment to our devices separates us from real human connections, and this obsession is taking over our lives in is many ways. Human interactions and face to face connections are what we are really missing, but we try to gain satisfaction from our screens.

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His claim is that technology is replacing our human interaction and how we connect with people.

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blackberries-a fruit

blackberries- a type of phone

sprint- running fast

sprint- tech store

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Apple- a company that sells electronics.

Apple- A red fruit

Tweet- A online statement that everyone can see

Tweet- a noise that a bird makes

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tweet - The sound a bird makes

Tweet - The action of uploading to Twitter

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book: piece of literature or we read books

book: make a reservation

tweeting: sounds bird makes

tweeting: post something on twitter

apple: fruit

apple: technology company

blackberry: fruit

blackberry: type of phone

sprint: running fast

sprint: technology store

disconnect: disconnect a phone or piece of technology

disconnect: get away from people

resolution: fixing a problem

resolution: the number of pixels in an image

like: enjoy something

like: liking a post on social media

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like - like a post

like - liking someone in real life

tweeting - bird tweeting

tweeting - posting on twitter

blackberries - fruit

blackberries - an old phone

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e-motion: online motion

emotion: feelings

tweeting: posting on online app twitter

tweeting: birds noises

iTouch: apple device

I touch: I feel something

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tweeting (as in birds chirping and making noise)

tweeting (as in posting on twitter)

apple picking (as in picking apples in nature)

apple picking (as in going to the Apple store to pick a new product that you want)

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He says that humanity "slipped a disk" as in an injury, and now were bent over Infront of screens for hours on end

And it also means to slip as disk, as in using a dvd or blueray.

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resolution - the solve to an issue

resolution - the quality of an image

blackberries - black fruit that grows on bushes

Blackberry - an old smartphone

tweeting - chirp sound from a bird

tweeting - posting on twitter

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Tech: Blackberry (phone)

Non-tech: blackberry (fruit)

Tech: Sprint (store)

Non-tech: sprint (run)

Tech: tweeting (twitter post)

Non-tech: tweeting (bird noise)

Tech: Apple (electronics brand)

Non-tech: apple (fruit)

Tech: iTouch (device)

Non-tech: I touch

Tech: like (reacting to someone's post online)

Non-tech: like (enjoy something)

Tech: tab (website tabs)

Non-tech: (brain "tabs")

Tech: disc (movie or music disc)

Non-tech: disc (body disc)

Tech: profile (online appearance)

Non-tech: profile (physical appearance and personality)

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Sprint: to run

Sprint: a phone carrier

Blackberry: a fruit

Blackberry: a phone

I touch: you touching something

itouch: an apple product, it is a watch

tweeting: bird sound

tweeting: posting on twitter

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"My problems can be resolved with a 1600 by 1700 resolution."

resolution tech meaning: how clear a picture can be seen on a screen

resolution real meaning: solving a problem

"You would need blu-rays to see the white on my teeth."

blu-rays tech meaning: a type of DVD

Real meaning: similar to uv light used to whiten teeth

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cliques ( on computer/ friends)

apple (phone company/ fruit)

blackberry (phone/fruit)

sprint ( run/ store)

tweeting ( on twitter / birds chirping)

I touch ( itouch iPod / I touch something)

disc ( dvd player / injury)

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Tech related word:

Apple- the type of phone

Blackberry- another type of phone

Tweets- a post on Twitter

Sprint- a phone carrier

Slip a disc- using a dvd

itouch- apple device

Non-tech related word:

Apple- fruit

Blackberry- fruit

Tweets- a sound a bird makes

Sprint- running

Slip a disc- getting an injury

I touch- to feel something

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like

tech related meaning: in social media

non-tech related word meaning: affection.

apple picking

tech related meaning: Steve job's company.

non-tech related meaning: picking apples in an orchard.

tweeting

tech related meaning: tweets on twitter (X)

non-tech related meaning: birds chirping

itouch

tech related meaning: smartwatch

non-tech related: physically feeling something

blackberries

tech related meaning: type of phone

non-tech related word: fruit

Wil

Fletcher