Green Eggs and Ham

When I was about 3 years of age I picked up a thin red book with a gray, hairy looking man with a funny hat on it holding a green plate with breakfast.  He definitely didn't look like Barney.  It puzzled me... Who was this? Where did he come from?  I then immediately screamed for my mom at the top of my lungs as I usually did during my daycare days.  "Mommy! Who is this?" She smiled at me.  We then sat down on the couch for half an hour and read "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.  Every night for a week I had either my mom or dad (or sometimes both) read me the story over and over again until I fell asleep.  I remember the excitement I felt when I woke up one day to a plate of lime-green colored scrambled eggs.  I ate them all and licked my plate clean though I didn't like eggs at all.  I even took the book to daycare to show all my friends.  My little sister is 5 years younger than me. Her first book was "Green Eggs and Ham" too.  Guess who got to read it to her?

tech•nol•o•gy

...is defined as “the study, development, and application of devices, machines, and techniques for productive processes.” When I hear the word technology, I perceive images of robots, space-age computers, and flashing lights- sort of like the stuff out of IRobot and Surrogates. But aside from science-fiction, the wonders of technology are all around us and play a pivotal role in our society today. The three first items I touch when I wake up every morning- my alarm, light switch, and toothbrush -are all electronic.  Technology is so deeply rooted in our lives in fact, that 75% of today’s generations of young adults (ages 16-24) admit that they could not live with out computers and phones. I myself am no exception; I would eventually go crazy if I lost the ability to check my Facebook profile, text my friends from my cell phone, and was forced to use a Dewey-decimal system to sort through books in a library as opposed to getting a Google search answer in 0.24 seconds. Though technology seems to be a completely essential to our daily lives, is it possible that we can overindulge in the cutting edge of the technical world to the point where it will become so indispensible that we require it as a day-to-day lifeline rather than a convenience?

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