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topics: politics, technology, economy. Fall 2010; education, sports, jobs, games, volunteerism, define an abstract term, what is happiness?, great book, celebrity culture, medical issues, bullying, parenting issues, Group One RR KH SR AH---Celebrity Culture: intro rr 1. sr affect us 2. above the law 3. ah media over attention con all Group Two KL MW LH BG---Parenting issues: intro lh 1. kl discipline 2. bg prepared to parent 3. mw morals. ethics. wrong vs right con all Rubric: 5 paragraphs Define terms Quotations Stats Figurative Devices 1 metaphor 1 alliteration 1 allusion Transitions Reference APA style 6 Sentence Patterns

A recession, global warming, and the age of social networking has shaped our nation to what it is today. Ten years ago, we wouldn't have been able to picture our nation how it is today. Who knows how our nation is going to look in the next ten years? As American citizens we have to be prepared for our future. We believe in the next ten years our technology will be more advanced, our environment will be changed, and our economy will be stabilized.

To begin, technology has become the center of our world. Advances in technology have grown exponentially, and will continue to into the future. In today's world a little piece of technology is in almost everyones pocket: cell phones, iPods, smart phones, PDAs, portable games systems. Face-to-face communication has diminished greatly. In ten years, computers are going to phase out face-to-face interaction. Most communication will be done through phones, computers, and unknown items that have yet to be created. Longer lives will be achieved due to advances in the medical field. Additionally, we believe all humans will have chips in their brains and robots will be integrated into our daily lives.

​ ​At the same time, our environment is always changing, due to global warming. In todays world, pollution and human waste have caused our environmental habitats to suffer greatly. In ten years, global warming will have changed the face of this planet drastically: melted glaciers, larger oceans, animal extinction, climate change.[|grants pass high school marching band 2009]