Christmas Carol Research Paper

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The sound of Christmas carols is heard from the living room, the smell of food floats through the house, the children are staring blankly at the television as their parents glare at their cellphones. Christmas should be a time for family not technology. Although technology is important, because the more technology progresses the more diseases are cured, more people reunited, and more information acquired, it has allowed people to contact one another anytime whenever they want; however, it’s not only a positive thing. Technology has isolated people in many ways. They have less time to communicate with others and see the real world. People are becoming screened and development in children is affected. Technology is causing people to lose their social skills, affecting their thinking, but most importantly it is made them withdrawn from their friends, families, and people around them.

Many people believe that technology has opened up many new doors for us. Since, it has
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Family should be inseparable connected by the strongest bond, blood. They are the closest relationships we hold, but it seems people are floating apart from those closest to them. At family parties and gatherings everyone separates themselves from the people surrounding them and instead stare at the screens in their hands. There is no more playing catch or tag with your cousins or siblings. Young kids and teenagers are glued to their Xboxes, iPad, PlayStation, and computers. The latest version of Fifa is more important than bonding with their dying grandparents. This problem has also affected adults. Checking their iphones for emails from work or even the latest statuses on facebook has interrupted family affairs and left conversation blank and meaningless. The advances in cell phones, social media, and video games are separating humans from their own kind, and instead connecting us with machinery, technology and