Assignment for 4/15/15

Social media has a negative affect on the general public because it takes away from face to face interactions in everyday encounters.

-Bullying
-Business Communication
-Ability to hold conversation face-to-face with people
-Decreased productivity
-Privacy
-Isolation
-Self esteem
-Addictive

Social media is a young but rapid growing way of communication. Users of social media already know of the many benefits it has to offer but need to be aware of the negative impacts it can have on an individual such as my supporting points.

Toward a policy on Drugs

-Narrow topic
The relationship between crime and illegal drugs



-Person's primary claim (Thesis)
Drug users should not be punished within the justice system because of the illegal drugs they use. Instead in order to save money and space we should deal with the users by putting them in treatment centers.



-Subtopics & sub-points
Intro-
Brought up the concept of what foreign countries are doing about their drug problems. What different approaches can be made for regulation/ solutions.

Body paragraph 1-
Talked about how much it costs to keep people imprisoned. defines punishments, what defines hard vs. "soft" drugs, how it is supposed to work vs. why it doesn't work.

Body paragraph 2-
Talks about legalization as a solution by not regulating the drug trade, the decriminalization of small amounts of drugs and making some drugs available for medical use.

Body paragraph 3-
-Violence and crime within drug users
-Correlation is not causation




-Conclusion
-Talks about all the solutions and how they can potentially reduce the drug epidemic.

Interpreting Thesis

This episode of Bullshit has many claims about college including the social norm that you have to attend college to be successful, colleges advertise diversity, cost of school, and diversity has to do with being brainwashed. The primary claim is that college students are brainwashed by society because all they hear about is job markets, diversity, and what good college will do for them. This episode was focused on the idea of college kids going to school because it was the norm. They used examples like diversity, drinking, and the reasons actual students attended college to back up this claim. The use of interviewing actual college kids was okay because supported their claim that they are brainwashed. Although they used a small sample size not giving it the support they needed to gain enough credibility. Good examples included St.Cloud State University and what they have done to try and create more diversity.

Pop Quiz

Question 1.

Identify some sort of issue/ setting on your narrow topic. Identify articles and authors you are going to analyze.

-Lead up to tentative thesis for final paper

-Sources for consideration

Question 2.

Article by article approach 

First body paragraph- Article 1 summary

-Point 1 (Ethos)

-Point 2 (Pathos)

-Point 3 (Logos)

Article 2 summary

-Point 1

-Point 2

-Point 3

Direct Comparison - Paragraph

First person words

Point By Point Approach

Intro - Same

Point A (Ethos)

-Article 1

-Article 2

Point B (pathos)

-Article 1

-Article 2

Conclusion

-Determine use of sources

-Justification

Question 3.

The conclusion for this paper should focus on evaluating the sources making comparing the credibility and the way they are written wither it is bias or factual. 

Tierney on 622, Hanson on 624

Topics in this short story include immigration, Mexican culture, background information about the character, and his frustration with republicans. The message of the story was to educate to the reader about the life of a Mexican immigrant who came here illegally but married an American citizen. The character strives towards obtaining his citizenship and shows so by explaining his effort put in to provide for his family. He explains to the reader how he has worked his way up to higher paying jobs just like his grandfather who came to america many years before he did. He talks about how he is unable to become a citizen because he had already got deported back to mexico once and was strictly told to not come back. His anger and frustration with the republican side of the government is great because they always shoot down bills that democrats propose to help benefit people like him. He fears that one day he will be deported back to mexico and be separated from his daughter and wife. The purpose of this essay was to prove that not all illegal immigrants are bad people. The writer wants to show the reader that we are all alike and erase stereotypes towards Mexican immigrants. The writer was trying to communicate to audiences that can help him change what is going on.


The short story "Our Brave New World of Immigration" includes topics such as out of sight out of mind, fleeing the scene of a car accident, illegal workers, fake identification, cheap labor, and inexperienced drivers. The message of the story is to prove that the U.S. doesn't have strong enough laws that prevent undocumented workers. This short story was written to help bring attention of the dangers that come along with undocumented workers. This story is indented for people of america, voters, and democrats to read. The writer is very confident about his thoughts, he gives some examples like the car accident and how it caused a major traffic jam, costed the state thousands of dollars,  and how they have not only affected him but others to.

Social Media Breakdown

Whats Involved?

• Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act
• Communication Skills
• Socializing

Who's Involved?

• Users
• Criminals, Terrorists, and Unfriendly Nations
• Advertisers
• Social Media Sites
• World Population

Cause & Effect?

• Cause: Allow business and governments to share cyber threat information without violating privacy laws
• Effect: Obama wants to veto because it would violate consumer privacy

Whats at Stake?

• Information advertisers can get from an individuals online activities 
• Your "likes" or "photos" can be sold to business who want to put their advertisement on your screen based on your interests. 
• Virtual contact Vs. Face to face contact

TED Talk Response

The broad topic of this ted talk is gossip and how it documents our history. The woman who is speaking to us is a professional gossiper and does it for a living. She proves to us that gossip dates back many years ago and it is who we are. The idea that is established is that our successors determine who we were based on our gossip history. She brought up the story of Chris Brown and Rhianna and how Chris beat her up badly. She then brought up the gossip about John Travolta and how he allegedly was having an affair with another man. The point she was trying to make is, who do we want to go down in history as? people who forgave a man for hitting a woman? or even go down in history as someone who forgave someone who would rather have an affair with a man rather than a woman? In the end we should be more careful about who we support, and what they have done in the past because it can tell a lot who we are as people.