The Addictive Virus Analysis
Have you ever been consumed by something that nothing in life really matters except what you are doing? Well I have, and when I read the "Addictive Virus", I felt as though I could relate this topic to me. When Graaf spoke about the concept of how people are consumed by this so called virus, no matter what the circumstance, the people will do whatever it takes. I feel as though I fit that category, and are consumed by these evil powers of this growing problem in today's modern lifestyle. In Graaf's short information section about this issue, he speaks about the problems dealing with shopping, Graaf says "they're buying far too much stuff and for all the wrong reasons"(71). He sees a growing trend within shoppers. This trend being that of buying and not really liking it. Basically, people are just trying to impress the people around them. Someday this habit will catch up to that person when they least expect it; all because they were just trying to impress another person or trying
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Therefore, I placed the controller down on the floor and turned off the console. It was a sign of relief. As I sit down here and put my feelings into this paper about addictiveness, I can only relate it to so many more things. Like all the times in High School when I procrastinated much of my school work because I could. I' am working on this habit of mine and trying to conquer it, but I have some sense of feeling of what these people that Graaf spoke about in his words in the "Addictive Virus", the people that can't get enough and always have to have bigger and larger things. Just like in today's ever growing fast food restaurants, Graaf says that "Plates of food become platters, Biggie burgers become Dino-Burgers, and boxes of popcorn become buckets"(73-74). That is what us Americans want though bigger and larger, and nothing else
Therefore, I placed the controller down on the floor and turned off the console. It was a sign of relief. As I sit down here and put my feelings into this paper about addictiveness, I can only relate it to so many more things. Like all the times in High School when I procrastinated much of my school work because I could. I' am working on this habit of mine and trying to conquer it, but I have some sense of feeling of what these people that Graaf spoke about in his words in the "Addictive Virus", the people that can't get enough and always have to have bigger and larger things. Just like in today's ever growing fast food restaurants, Graaf says that "Plates of food become platters, Biggie burgers become Dino-Burgers, and boxes of popcorn become buckets"(73-74). That is what us Americans want though bigger and larger, and nothing else