Flynn Effect and Sleeper Curve

Steven Johnson's Everything Bad is Good for You in part two of the book he talks about how the Flynn Effect related to the Sleeper Curve. The Flynn Effect is about the average IQ rising. People today say that playing video games and watching t.v. lower your average IQ because some people don't realize that you can actually use your brain for that type of stuff. Also with technology advancing these days we use it more and more to help educated ourselves. I agrees with Johnson these two are related to each other.
People who watch a lot of t.v. or play video games are probably raising their IQ, you don't really think about it but your using different sides of your brain to help. For example when you play a video game your using your hand eye coordination. An example for watching t.v. is say you are watching an episode of CSI, your using your brain to help put the pieces together to solve who the murderer is. Technology and all the smart phones we have out today help us use different side of our brain which will help us raise our IQ.

A Modest Proposal

After reading Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, I have to say it was a very unique essay. He presents a lot of irony. The one peice that stood out the most was in the opening paragraph. He says " These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livehood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants, who, as they grow up, either turn thieves of want to work, or leave their dear native country to fight for the Prestender in Spain, or sell themeselves to the Barbados." (355) Right off the bat he is saying how bad it is to have a baby because they cause the mothers not to be able to work, and in the when they are all grown up  they will turn their backs on their country and will the enemy. Thats when he starts to go into voluntary abortion, while he's talking about abortion he goes into how the mothers should kill the babies and eat them. Its a very gross concept that he gives but either way the mothers are killing their baby or babies if they get an abortion.