Society today

As I sat down to dinner this past week, eating out with my family that had come to watch my soccer game, it made me think about all the time that people spend on their phones. Every table around us, people had out their phones and were constantly on them instead of engaging in conversation with the ones who are with them. As I sat there talking with my cousins, it made me appreciate the fact that nobody at our table was on their phone. We all sat there engaging in conversation, sharing stories and laughs all while enjoying each others company. 

Smart phones are seen everywhere you go now and are the primary reason society is changing today. Instead of calling friends, we text them. Instead of watching the news, we are able to easily look it up. The same goes for when students need to do research, we have easy access to computers and phones to easily look up information we need to get instead of going to the library and finding books to help us. As we look back over the past few years, the changes are pretty obvious. When you go out in public its common to see groups together, but all on their phones. You see even the youngest of children carrying around iPhones, kids getting phones as young as possibly 6th grade which was uncommon in previous years. In the end society today is becoming one to be known with technology and all the new creations making a serious change in society today. 

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"Suddenly they saw the great valley below them. Al jammed on the brake and stopped in the middle of the road, and, "Jesus Christ! Look!" he said. The vineyards, the orchards, the great flat valley, green and beautiful, the trees set in rows, and the farm houses. And Pa said "God Almighty!" The distant cities, the little towns in the orchard land, and the morning sun, the golden valley." (Chapter 18, pg. 227)  

In "The Grapes of Wrath" the Joad's were uprooting their lives and making a big move to California. All throughout their drive, they didn't know what to expect when they first arrived in California or what it was going to be like. All along their journey they would hear things about what it was like in California from passing people on the road but when they got the first look at a California valley in Tehachapi, it wasn't anything they were expecting. Throughout their drive they have seen nothing but long stretches of dry land, miles on end of road, and not many land markings, so once they came upon the valley it was all the could do to scramble out of the car to get their first look at California. The color of the orchards, peach trees and the green valley was nothing they have seen and was a start to their new life beginning in California.