Your school has been awarded a grant and plans to use the money to purchase smart devices for students. Write an essay in which you argue whether or not this technology purchase will improve students’ lives. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the “Do Smart Devices Improve Student Lives?

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Smart devices for students.

ALthough is very common to find students using their smart devices for personal reasons, students spend most of the time using these devices for entertainment purposes. Not really for academic purposes.

This technology can improve students’ lives. However, if the student is not really committed and is not under the supervision of the school teachers, it is complicated to affirm that the devices are really serving academic purposes.

These devices have the potential to be great learning tools. But teachers have to make a great effort to instill a new academic attitude in the student's behavior. Less entertainment and games; more research and homework.

This is not an easy task. Students are so used to playing games on these devices and to spend most of the time on social media, connecting and chatting with friends.

So schools are facing a major challenge. To change the culture and behavior of students regarding technology. If they can do that, then, we indeed could say that smart devices can be excellent tools to improve learning.

i don't think it's a good idea to threaten anyone at all.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)