Endless Obsession Read Online
Hebe Newnam
What do you think? Does Internet news go too far in constantly adding to these stories? Are online media, message boards and blogs partly to blame for blowing this type of story out of proportion? What makes you feel compelled (or not compelled) to follow this type of news? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Jennifer Woodard Maderazo is the associate editor of PBS MediaShift. She is a San Francisco-based writer, blogger and marketer, who covers Latino marketing at Latin-Know and Latino cultural issues at VivirLatino.
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Labyrinth is the first novel in the Aeon Legion series and my debut book. This is not my first attempt at a book. My hard drive is a vast graveyard of chapter ones. However, it did not take long for me to realize that this one would be different.
Now I needed a worthy adversary. I joked that I should avoid obvious cliches like time traveling Nazis and such. Then that sparked an idea. What would those Nazis think if they could see the future? What would they do if they saw just how poisonous their legacy would be? My second character, Hanns Speer, crystallized in my mind. He was just as determined as Terra, if very misguided.
With my protagonist and antagonist concepts established I began scrounging up ideas for an interesting setting. Thankfully my nearly endless obsession for world-building provided a secret world of time travel. Everything was in place. There was just one problem.
Despite the difficultly along the way, I learned one very important thing about storytelling, the most important thing is for the reader to care about the characters. This is why this story made it to the page. Because Terra Mason and Hanns Speer made me care about them.
Outside of our perception exists the Edge of Time, a place where all time blends together. Building a time machine to access the Edge of Time is actually not that complicated. Yet as time travel became common place, the side effects of changing history soon threatened to erase all of humanity.
Faced with the end of history, Saturn City, the most powerful civilization to master time travel, founded the Aeon Legion. The Aeon Legion is a force like no other. Possessing unrivaled singularity technology, the Aeon Legion polices time travel and strives to prevent the alteration of history. To protect time, the Aeon Legion keeps time travel a secret, erasing the memories of most who discover it while swearing the rest to secrecy.
The Aeon Legion seeks the greatest soldiers and warriors from the most bloody, war-torn eras in history. Those they deem worthy gain a chance to compete in the toughest training program ever designed at the Aveum Academy. The harsh physical and academic requirements of the Aveum Academy ensure that only the best humanity has to offer stand any chance of completing the training. Yet even that is not enough. The Legion needs more than just soldiers. The Aeon Legion needs heroes.
Digital technology has revolutionised the ways we navigate through life. We are living in an ever-connected world that has fuelled a perpetual quest for knowledge acquisition. An entire generation has now grown up with the Internet and Emma Gannon is one of these individuals. Writing in an autobiographical style, the author, born in 1989, shares her account of living and working under a digital spotlight.
Ctrl Alt Delete: How I Grew Up Online is written from the perspective of a young British woman living in the internet age, with a good integration of facts and figures to support her arguments. The book is both a personal memoir and a piece of discourse that encourages debate. As a fellow British-born millennial with an affinity to Twitter, I found the book very relatable. From becoming a professional at airbrushed selfies to forming a digital identity through social networking sites, the forthright and matter-of-fact way in which Emma delivers anecdotes from her life makes the book highly engaging from the start. Such personal insight enables the reader to feel more connected to the author. Most of all, I appreciated how the author finds a balance between discussing the risks of technology and highlighting the opportunities it can present to future generations.
Digital technology enables us to manipulate how we are perceived and the way in which we perceive others, and has an impact on our self-esteem, sense of worth and relationships with those around us. To illustrate these points, the author recounts the particular impact of online communications in her romantic encounters:
To conclude, Ctrl Alt Delete: How I Grew Up Online provides confirmation that we are living in an increasingly connected and digitised world. A holistic understanding of the online environment will, ultimately, help direct future policy. In turn, this will help us to address current challenges and capitalise upon the many opportunities afforded by digital technologies.
I needed a positive approach to video games, to screen time in general, a term meaning any time spent in front of a screen: games, movies, or movies of other kids playing games. The following strategies worked.
Limits are the key. Start with your attitude: approach video games as one of many options in the vast tool bag containing cool things your kids get to do, rather than the evil monster that will take over your life.
Do you start slamming cabinet doors when your kid has been using a screen for more than a half hour? Do you begin to pace the halls after forty-five minutes? Look for signs of edginess, like mindless snacking.
Some kids (and their parents) love elaborate systems like this. Similar to a star chart, grids can be made, boxes checked. Negotiators love hashing out how much screen time is earned from each chore. Consider keeping track with different colored ink for different tasks.
This tip comes directly from the research of Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, and The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age.
The outdoors is the polar opposite of the intense, narrow, hunched-over focus of a video game. The abundant feeling of the whole body in a vast world contrasts nicely with the handheld, 2-D device. Without any lecturing or rules, nature is an invitation to be physical, human and real.
Christy Stillwell holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers. Besides mothering, she has worked as an adjunct professor, a writing tutor, a textbook editor and a bookstore clerk. Her poetry collection about motherhood, Amnesia, was published in 2008 from Finishing Line Press. Her debut novel, The Wolf Tone, is also about motherhood from many different angles. The novel won the 2017 Elixir Press Fiction Award and will be released in January 2019. Find her online at christystillwell.com
Id rather have my children be online learning and socializing than be in front of a television for hours watching real wives of whatever or kardashian crap. For close to a century now we have spent 7 hrs a day being hypnotized by bad news ,bad programming and our kids play online talking with others and its supposeably bad.
I dont think either is good excessively. Everything in moderation is the key here.
As a family, and as a young individual we want to foster creativity and activity in the outside world in addition to technology. There is a great big world out there to explore and experience in person. I think that balance is all the parents here are trying to achieve.
We had friends who strongly disapproved, but gaming was something the two of them enjoyed doing together. It was valuable, quality time. We made a decision for our family to allow for it, so our son grew up gaming with his daddy.
My son asserted that the type of games he plays require longer time frames to get anywhere and chose to play less frequently but in longer bursts of time. Three times a week he sets a timer and respects the timer. It works well.
If my children were to sneak on any device then that game would be gone from our house forever. If it continued to happen video games might be gone forever from our house. I delete any game that causes issues such as arguing or getting overly upset while playing.
Hello
Looking for some help my son is 15 and addicted to his x box 1
I have tried time limits but he goes over today I found him on it at 3 in the morning after asking him to be off at 10:30 last night. He is an Honor roll student and takes all honor classes does band plays soccer. I took away his remote because this was the last straw anyone else gone through something like this.?
You said yourself he is an honor role student and plays sports. Clearly he was doing just fine with video games, and taking it away might cause him to lose motivation in school, or even cause him to quite sports. Life will be dull, and no one will be happy.
We were sick of the fighting and wanted to include them in the process and give them control. So I quickly make some coins on my 3d printer and we made a hand written contract that the kids had input on. Each coin is worth X amount of time and they choose when to use it. (within a window of time). And when they are done with the coins they are done with screens. The contract is on the frig encase they forget what they agreed to!
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