In Class Writing #9

The audience is people who may be looking for a job because the author talks about how employers view social networking profiles of the applicants for the job they are offering. She is responding in the article to the fact that a percentage of employers are using social networking sites to determine whether or not an applicant will get the job.  She uses the results from a survey and quotes from three different attorney to support the fact that using the sites for this purpose is bad. The author uses ethos in the article by giving it credibility. She does so by using the attorneys’ quotes and reports from Financial Week and New York Daily News. I could use this article as a source for a paper because it uses several different sources that are credible.

In Class Writing #8

Individual

1.  Harry Potter books

2. Twilight Saga

3. Star Wars

4. Mona Lisa

5. Glee

Group

1.     Harry Potter

2.     Twilight

3.     Party Rock Anthem – LMFAO

4.     Star Wars

5.     Mona Lisa

Citations

1. Rowling, Joanne K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. N.p.: Scholastic
Press, n.d. Print.

2. Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight . N.p.: Little, Brown and Co., 2005. Print.

3.  LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem Ft. Lauren Bennett, GoonRock - YouTube. Perf. Redfoo and Sky Blu. YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Youtube, 8 Mar. 2011. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8>.

4. "StarWars.com | The Movies." StarWars.com | Home. Lucusfilm Ltd., 2011. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. <http://www.starwars.com/explore/the-movies/>.

5. Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

In Class Writing #7

In the video, Glenn Beck was comparing video games to real life.  He talked about soldiers had to train 75 years ago to shoot more easily by shooting paper targets because shooting humans does not come naturally. He was saying that a new video game called Grand Theft Auto was available for kids to play and it was really inappropriate and supposedly entertaining.

In the video game, Grand Theft Auto, Beck argued that killing people was really not entertaining. Back in WWI, soldiers had to train to be able to shoot other people more easily. So he questioned why the video game was considered entertaining because the soldiers were uncomfortable shooting other people and people kill other people in the video game like it’s not important at all. He used an example from the game where the character you play in the game could beat women to death and cut cops in half with chainsaws.

Glenn Beck talks about how violent video games are now. He uses the new video game, Grand Theft Auto, as his source and takes scenes and parts of the game and uses them as examples. He basically argues that the video game is bad. He doesn’t really back it up with sources either. He just uses examples from a single video game.

In Class Writing #6

I have barely any experience with downloading music online. I do know, though, that many people do not pay for their music. They download it illegally through certain websites and they know back ways around paying for it. I read an article recently and a few people commented on it and gave the specifics of how expensive it is for a band to release a song. So much time and money goes into just one song. Some people believe that music should just be free, but others believe it should just be like it is. It’s not like the music is expensive if you know the right place to get it. Most of the songs’ profit has a percentage that goes straight to the band, which can be a considerable amount, but only if people buy their songs.

The article I read was entitled, “The Age of Music Piracy is over”. The point the author was trying to make was that so many people nowadays illegally download music and basically, it’s free. This in turn is basically changing the way the music industry is working.

Crawford - Blog Post #6

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I chose to make a fake Facebook profile for Simba from the movie, The Lion King. The whole profile was basically made just to be funny.

Crawford - In Class Writing #5

Almost all of the posts are in Korean so I can’t read them. But, that tells me she is Korean. A lot of her friends post on her wall just to see how she’s doing and to catch up. In her information section, I can tell that she goes to Virginia Tech and where she went to high school, but she does not have a whole lot about herself on there which in most cases is a good thing.

The advertisements are trying to sell something and most of the time it’s shoes that is in the ads. In them, there are usually pictures of interesting-looking shoes that would grab a person’s attention. There are ads for ticket giveaways and ads about TV shows as well. Under the ads, there is usually a caption that points out one or more of your friends that like that specific page to persuade you to like it as well. My guess is all of the shoe advertisements showed up on her page because she may shop for shoes online or look at them. But sometimes, people accidently click on an ad, which adds the product the ad is selling to the supposed interests that the person using the computer has built up over time. So she may or may not actually have an interest in shoes.