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साल 2020 Has Technology Helped Connect People or Isolate Them?
I sometimes hear people complaining that technology isolates them, and — depending on the ferocity of their
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The Life Changing Bicycle आया मझ एक खयाल technology is bringing us closer together or creating distance between us but I couldn't disagree more with
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I chased him through narrow alleys and dirt roads until क 2020 का साल, technology isolating us. I see technology as part of the solution, rather than the problem. But there's more to
I saw him stop at a shack and get off my bicycle. He then बीत रहा ह कतना बहाल | technology than helping individuals connect. Sometimes it's about forming new communities.
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entered the shack; I saw this as my one opportunity to Virtual reality is an even more immersive medium that facilitates exploration of environments beyond the
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take back what's mine. I snuck up to the shack and confines of one's home. VRChat harnesses that experience with an emphasis on community. Netflix Party and

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hopped on my bicycle and prepared to leave. ु Discord are two more tools that have been facilitating virtual connections. Netflix Party, which is a Google
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As I made my way over to the counter I glanced outside Chrome extension, allows you to watch Netflix movies and television shows with friends in another room, city or
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to check if my bicycle was still there. I was unable to see country. On Discord, you can livestream video game sessions with your peers. These social connections are so
it; I ran out in a hurry and saw an old man darting off on सबकछ हो गया बंद, powerful that people who were looking to just fill time emerge with actual friendships. It's yet another example of
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my bicycle. I began chasing him. The thought of my जीवन क ग त हो गयी मंद | technology helping to connect people. Such claims are also supported via a study by the Pew Internet and
strict father and how he would punish me when he ब च क कलकार खो गयी ह, ै American Life Project, issued in
found out that my bicycle was stolen in front of my eyes November 2009, notes that “the extent of social isolation in America is not as high as has been reported through
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acted as fuel for my body and made me run faster. prior research.” It states the number of Americans who are truly isolated is unchanged or minimally changed
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Last week I went to the market on my bicycle to buy since 1985. Rather, the more pronounced social change is that Internet and mobile phone users have larger and

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some books for school. I parked my bicycle outside the more diverse core networks.
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shop but did not care to put a lock on it because I lived य क जानती हँ , इस बात को मानती हँ, ू As I sit here behind my computer, I feel more connected than I ever would have, had computers and the internet

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in a fairly theft-free area. I requested the shopkeeper to क मन य को अपना कम पड़ा, never been born. I interact with more people on a daily basis — online and in person — than I ever could have in
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give me some notebooks. He brought out a stack of क चेहरा छपाने क लए उसक मख पर मा क चढ़ा | yester years. Blaming technology for isolation may simply be making it a scapegoat for something that would have
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notebooks and directed me towards the counter where happened anyway. People isolate themselves, regardless of what's available to them. From the 1981 AT&T
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I had to pay. Before I was able to put my feet on the slogan “Reach out and touch someone” to Twitter's “What's happening?” these tools have promised to improve
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pedals, the man came out of the shack and broke down our quality of life. It's more than bringing people together to socialize; it's about fostering change majority of
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when he saw me. which I see as good.
अभी भी कर रहा ह जानवर पर अ याचार |
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I asked him why he was crying and he shakily explained Aastha Kumar - XI C
to me that he was a daily wage labourer and earned ए मख मानव, यह समझ त या कर रहा ह, ै
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money by collecting old newspapers and selling them to अपने ह पतन क ओर बढ़ रहा ह, ै
the recycling plant. Previously, he had to walk to each बंद कर यह हाहाकार, नह तो एक समय ऐसा आएगा Dear heart, why are you afraid?
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house individually to collect newspapers. This limited क तझ तारणहार भी बचा नह पाएगा | A caterpillar too afraid to stray,
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his income and he was unable to support his family. He Will never be able to fly away.
Shruti Nema - XII B
stole my bicycle out of desperation and in an effort to A night that is afraid to end,
increase his income. Shall never see the light of the Sun.
I decided to let him keep my bicycle. He hugged me A bud that does not let go,
when I informed him about my decision and gave me Shall never be able to bloom and glow.
his word that he would return it one day. The walk back And if a glacier refuses to melt,
home was long and time-consuming, but it was all How will the riverside crops be fed?
worth it. The thought of my father didn't scare me
The whole world changes every single day,
anymore as I knew that I had just changed someone's
It proves that there is nothing to be afraid of,
life.
If you do it the right way.
Aarsh Duhlani - X A
So dear heart, why are you afraid?
Just take a deep breath, do not sway,
And let the winds of change,
Whisk you away. Aarav Modha - X C
Aarushi Jain - XI A Ashima Ranyal - XII B
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