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MINUTES OF MEETING SAMPLE

  MINUTES BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING QUARTZ POWER GROUP     Date:                Friday, September 4, 2020 Time:                1:00 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. Location:         Office 28, 4 Wilson Buildings, Paul Street, Edinburgh, Scotland EH10 4BF, United Kingdom   Attendees:                         Marcus Phillips, Managing Director                         Maya Pattinson, Finance Director                         David Wright, Sales and...

Connected, but Alone by Sherry Turkle: REACTION PAPER

     Sherry Turkle, a Sociologist and Psychologist, tries to convince people during her speech on April 4 th year 2012 at TEDTalks, a non-profit organization that spreads ideas through informative and powerful talks, about how technology separates us from the reality of socializing. People are overwhelmed on how quickly technology advances as time moves, as we familiarize and connect ourselves to social networks, we tend to neglect the essential of having face-to-face conversations. Professor Turkle, that works at MIT and a New York Best-selling Author, proclaimed that texting or sending electronic mails is not enough as regards to learning and understanding each other and ourselves. Conversation can really matter for this will teach us to converse with ourselves and to reflect. People, nowadays, do not even know how to start a conversation, we want to be with each other, but we were too focused on our gadgets. In this way, we are getting used to the concept of being “Al...