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Blog Post #8

My ARP paper is about the Creative Class and how important this class is to new development in local economic regions. To write about this subject in a Commonplace setting, I believe I will have to explain how the creative class is again important, but other than that, also explaining how imperative it is to accept the different lifestyles and diversity of this class. The Creative Class includes a wide variety of culture; gays, artists, and much more. The people in this class are very creative to say the least, and like to express themselves in a very unorthodox but very professional manner. Tattoos, piercings, colorful hair, and designing their own clothes is just a window to see into the minds of these innovative geniuses. Getting past the looks, if you were a little judgmental, not saying you are, shows our future brains takes risks and don't really care what others think because they're risk takers and like to push the envelope. Also, explaining what life would be like without the creative class and giving perspective to the audience, life would be a lot more ordinary.

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Domestic violence Against Women

This topic is a relevant topic because so many families in USA are affect by this kind of violence in their home. So many research has been done on this kind of issue and many scholars come up with solution, but yet domestic violence still exist even more than before. In my opinion this topic is a good topic because this kind of situation has an influence on everyone’s life in different ways. Some may be a victim to violence years ago or still is in an abusive situation. Others may know individual who has experienced or is experiencing violence. Some of the audience may tired of abusive relationship of their neighbor. This paper will give information on how to help those individual in danger by this kind of violence. I think this paper will give an insight about children and our communities’ affection by domestic violence. This will change the perception of the society against child with some kind of odd behavior because of parents fight. Instead it will initiate the reader to help those children who are the victim of the violence. So, to meet the essential target, how the paper appears to readers is what really matter. This topic should be presented in persuasive manner. To do so, the narrative should include relevant statistics and research papers that would be the evidence to the general idea. Moreover, I will approach my paper in an organized fashion; this will help me stay in control. This will allow my readers to stay focus so that they finish the reading the paper and take action to give a hand to those affected by domestic violence.

Blog #7

This is a difficult paper to write. Bringing everything together in a smooth transaction is one of the harder things I find to do. Although I think I've done alright so far with what I have, and this is my first writing class since high school. I believe that this paper would be better in a couple ways. One would be if I had more education thus far. Not saying that it plays a big role, I feel just a little bit amateur. Two would be understanding the material a bit more and being more analytical with a not so much opinionated voice which is hard for me to keep in check. All in all i think that I did an okay job, however, I always self criticize to the extreme.

blog post #7

This class helped me to improve my writing skill in many ways. I learned how to complicate the idea. Free writing is new technic I learned from this class. Before I try to write a good paper once which results in bad paper most time but now this new technics that I got from this class makes it easy for me to write a good paper. My bad attitude against writing completely changed. Now I think I can generate idea and complicate it. Blog post, comment on blog post and other gives me a chance to share new thoughts and to read classmates thought. In general this quarter is three hundred sixty turn from negative attitude of to positive about writing. For me that is the complete turn from non sense to credible value. Plan, then write a best way that I am comfortable with to complicate my paper. Before I feel pressure deep into my heart when I think about planning but now I plan before I start writing without feeling fear.

My first plan to extend my five page paper to eight page is to target at the comment my teacher gave me. Developing complicated thesis statement and topic sentence. The last technic I think to complicate the paper I will adda more evidence that increase the tension in my paper. The other very challenged me is to come up with the topic that could get attention of my reader. Topic is the first thing the readers in counter with before body of the paper so it should be better or more attractive to reader.

It looks like the comedy is funny, but this comedy show have a great message for those who can understand it. In this movie, the families are fighting on an issue. What the family doesn’t realize is the effect that it has on there kid. The wife was complaining that her kids are not listening her. In my opinion, they are not listening to her because the mother is not being responsible. When parents do not take the responsibilities for their children as an adult, children will take control in thing they do. There are three things I point out in the movie that contained irresponsible action. The first thing would be the irresponsibility of the husband. The husband is not working for his family to provide the families need as well as helping around the house chores. This is an indication to the audience that this family is going through. The second message that is included in this episode was the children’s behavior outside their home. The history teacher was discussing about child. Children who tend to have problems at home will often affect how they perform in school. When child’s mother is presented with her the child’s problem she does not want to admit the problem. Instead she argues that the problem the teacher rise is not right. At this point she is showing that the problem the child has is unsolvable without a corporation from the parents. In my opinion, the mother knows that her husband is not providing what is needed for their children while she’s away working in the factory. The third most relevant point that the comedy has was about social class. It shows how working class struggles to sustain their life.

Roseanne

It’s great to see a working class family with a sense of humor to ease the struggles of making ends meet. Trying to hold a family together with lower income jobs isn’t an easy task, especially with 3 children. I also see Roseanne has come to terms with the ways things are, she realizes that things may not change and that’s why she uses humor to cope with it all. Other characters try to look to deep into things and Roseanne just brushes it off. I believe she knows the value of family and how it works in the working class world. The dad, Dan, also uses humor to escape responsibility. Although this family uses a lot of comedy, they also seem under educated, but street smart and quick witted. Even when things get into a slightly heated moment, one of the children cut their fingers, and both parents stop fighting and tend to the child like they weren’t arguing at all. They realize, that there are more important things to worry about.

Bank of America. you should be ashamed!

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I received this email and video link from Michael Whitney from Change.org, it’s about Bank of America’s CEO adding a $5 debit card fee per month to the customers card. Really? I mean it, Really? You’re already making a ton of money off of these people and now you’re charging them more? COME ON! We as Americans are having a hard enough time everyday trying to pay bills, feed our children, or taking care of ourselves for that matter. Why does Bank Of America feel it necessary to charge $60 a year for a service that should be free as a customer? So what? Well, I guess if Bank of America wants to charge someone, it should be customers with more than $100,000 in their account, not $600. Look at what happened with Netflix recently, they hiked up their rates to customers on certain services. Guess what happened next? Yep, you guessed it, the customers left, I being a Netflix customer that didn’t leave, but my rate didn’t raise, received an apology via email and that they were going back to the normal rates. I think companies in America should start seeing the trend going on, raising prices = losing customers. What happened to companies being loyal to their customers? Doing whatever it takes to keep them? I guess in failing economy nowadays, companies like Bank Of America are feeling the pinch of having to cut costs and laying off employees, but what made your company successful in the first place? Customers maybe? Yeah, think about that Banks before humanity starts putting their money underneath the mattress again.

The Social Use of Social Media - A Blogpost by Group 3

The blog site Soshable.com has it right. Everything we know about television and advertising has changed, thanks to social networking giants like Facebook and Twitter. Even television has been revolutionized, thanks to video technologies such as YouTube, Hulu, and Netflix. Now you can hear of - or even witness - current events before they have a chance at making it to the cable news channels. So, we have finally removed the shackles of the corporate media conglomerates, right? Wrong. Businesses have just found a new way to control their audiences: convince people that they want to promote a brand image (ever seen a viral product video?).

As described throughout Soshable, we now have online communities which segment into their own particular demographics, and this, in turn, gives businesses easy-to-target audiences. More than ever before, social networking has become a means rather than an ends, and that means is called capitalism. However, J.D. Rucker - the primary, strategic voice behind Soshable - explains to businesses that social networking is not just about the numbers, it’s also about the people. And, he goes on to describe the importance of looking at how people are using social media. If it wasn’t for the fact that Rucker has a vested interest in social media, his thoughts might almost seem to be trying to benefit the online community (altruistic, even).

But, this does not mean that social media is entirely superficial. From bridging generational gaps to assisting human rights protests, social media enables a broader spectrum of content to reach a growing number of people. And, as such, social networking, is just like any other powerful entity - it can be used for freedom or for control.

Q & A

Questions:

1. Overall, do you find social media helpful or harmful to society?
• Does Shoshable seem to support or negate your position?
2. Do you think there are “wrong ways” to use social networking?
• Why?
• What are some ways J.D. Rucker might consider as “wrong” for social networking?
3. Do you think online media creates new social classes, or do online social classes merely reflect “real life”?
• Which social classes does Soshable discuss?
• Which social classes does Soshable create?

Answers:
Your answers are the answers.

Blog post #5

In today’s society we have developed in may different ways, especially in technology. Technology plays a tremendous role in our daily lives, one which involves robots. In many pharmacy’s today there are robots that can do the jobs of pharmacy technicians. They are capable of counting and delivering the right quantity of medication that have to be ready for patient. Robots are capable of doing what humans have develop and do things ordered by humans. Even though robots are a great thing to have, they can never think as humans. Humans have the great mind that is capable of developing many advanced things; such as computers, television, phones, airplane and so many more. Robots are the products of humans so I don’t think they can be reversed. The disadvantage of advance technology is the increase of dependability of humans on these technology. An example would be the operation of airline pilots. The airline technician depends on the computer who manage them to get to their destination. Through time, these educated pilots get adapted to the computer system and forget their own skill that is requires to manage the flight.

Education is also influenced by technology. In todays society, one thing that has developed over time is taking an on-line class. In my opinion, this is taking the traditional way of teaching. Taking classes on-line can block the real interaction with your professor as well as your classmate. Taking on-line classes maybe a convenient utility that is offered in most colleges today, but this is making our generation lazy.

blog post #4

The source I found is very useful work of art. This picture have very detail within it to teach society how violence affect women. The core message of the image is to expose domestic violence against woman. The purpose of the picture can be known by looking at visible scene of woman’s face. The image try to teach the community to save woman’s at risk of this violence. The picture appeared in a way that people see the importance of it. This work of art, lets the audience know the adventure the woman faced. From this picture I want to know more about the domestic violence, and how community can be hurt by this kind of violence. The picture focus on women only but does this violence affect other household members? I want to go in depth to know how women can be helped to speak out their emotion. why women chose to be silent to this problem?

Moving Forward to a Time of Job Replacement

Personally, I find the series Time of Eve quite interesting.  Why do I find it interesting?  Well, inside the relatively short series (it's only six episodes), there's a lot going on.  A futuristic Japan has been presented.  And, as androids become more and more like their human counterparts, androids are capable of replacing many roles normally held by humans.  In order to combat this trend of human replacement, an ethics commitee has been formed in order to propagate messages indicating that too much android appreciation leads one to be an "android holic".  ...Yup, that pretty much sums up the key reasoning behind why I find the series so interesting.  However, do all these detail mean?  That's where I'm hoping secondary sources will help me.

In regard to androids replacing human roles, I intend to search "effects of mechanization to factory workers".  From personal stories such as that of Mike Lefevre (Terkel 319) to overviews of the robotic processes now popular at car manufactures such as Ford, I believe there to be a number of interesting details to be pulled.  Further, what happens if there is too much mechanization; or, more pointedly, what happens if jobs are moved from social class to another?

As mentioned earlier, "Android Holic" is seen as a trending phrase in the media of Time of Eve.  This phrase, along with numerous other propaganda movements held by the Ethics Comitee, show strong resemblances to present-day protests regarding outsourcing work to foreigners.  At least, this is a belief of mine - one that I will be exploring through further research.

When it comes down to it, I am really curious to see what assumptions Time of Eve is making toward human job replacement - a real trend that is happening in the present day. Further, I am excited to see how and why there might exist a campaign that promotes avoiding a particular entity to perform labor.

What do I need to know?

I believe that there are many angles to view from when trying to analyze my source, The Jetsons “Family Fallout”. One angle is from the Jetsons’ point of view. They are a futuristic middle class family who seem happy with everything that they have going for them, even though they have some financial struggles. The Jetsons being a lower class than Mr. Spacely, and him trying to use that against them on television. Mr. Spacely believes because they are a lower class than him, that they won’t be as smart, and in turn, lose the game. The Jetsons want to win the money from the show to help with their finances. Also, the Jetsons’ have no idea they will be competing against the Spacelys’ until the start of the game show. Mr. Spacely uses the game show also to promote his business, using network television for social marketing. I think I need to know more about why he wants to use The Jetsons for personal gain, and why George subjects himself to be treated like a disposable employee from his boss. Then again why does anyone? To stay employed, right? Why wouldn’t Mr. Spacely use George more efficiently, maybe use him in a different way, a better way, to help his company succeed. So, Mr. Spacely who is upper class is using a middle class family to show his competitor Mr. Cogswell (also upper class) that he is a smarter, stronger competitor.

- What other companies or employers have you heard of that have used employees/people for personal gain?

- Does being in a certain class make you less/more valuable?

Post 2

The primary source is an article called “China, U.S. teach each other some lessons” written by Mitchell Landsberg in the Los Angeles Times on the April 08,2007. (http://articles.latimes.com/2007/apr/08/world/fg-school8)

It talks about the difference between Chinese and American education and explains the advantage and disadvantage of each education by interviewing some Chinese teachers and scholars. In this article, it also discussed that the educators in the United States want to learn the Chinese teaching method in Math and science. On the other hand, the government of China hope students can learn how to divergent thinking and have more innovative ideals. "In many ways, China and the United States represent the Yin and Yang of international education." Although these two education look like complementary, actually they can't integrate into the society because different core ideas between American and Chinese education.In the United States, it pays more attention to the students' feelings and makes students to excite their imaginations and inspire their minds. But for Chinese students, parents and teachers always regard the grades as the most important thing and parents hope their children to get the best high school or best universities. In my experience, maybe Chinese education teaches students as “exam machines”. So, I think it is the reason why more and more Chinese students choose to study aboard and do the things they really want to do instead of staying at school for 12 hours a day, taking continual classes, and doing excessive homework.

Who Belongs Where?

While I have a few primary source in mind, my first choice of analysis is the anime series Time of Eve. The series, as a whole, is only six episodes in length, but I will be focusing upon the first, 15-minute episode, entitled “Akiko.” Directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura in 2008, Time of Eve, was originally aired over the timespan of a year, providing a strong emphasis to each individual episode and its associated story.

Essentially, Time of Eve takes place in a futuristic Japan, and androids have become so common place that a number of cultural dilemmas, regarding the relationship between humans and androids, have begun to arise. Although androids continue to faithfully follow the Three Laws of Robotics, the governmental Ethics Committee has begun to run public media describing the dangers of giving androids too much responsibility.

The Ethics Committee's campaigns, and certainly the series as a whole, are chocked full of interesting messages. One televised ad, for instance, visualizes a red, ripe tomato being picked by a mechanical hand. As the tomato is picked, a collection of small gears and wires protrude outward, followed by text displaying “Would you eat a tomato created by machines?” The first appearance of this ad is soon followed by scenes showing robots performing jobs that, in the present day, may be considered manual labor, performed by humans (for example, construction work). However, despite the apparent usefulness of androids in the Time of Eve, the news media are quite judgmental towards people who care too much about their robotic servants – calling such people “android-holics”.

These observations, however, are just a small selection of the material presented. I believe there are a large number of parallels which may be drawn, regarding realms varying from international labor and domestic products to the civil rights movements of various social classes.

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Primary source summary

The primary source that I have chosen to go in thoroughly, is an image that I found on the google search. The image was obtained by Filip Spagnoli and posted on google image on September 12, 2009. The image was taken to explain how much violence affect women. This image is very meaningful and well captured. A squeezed and wrinkled the paper of frame is shown and a reflection of a woman is what the image explains. From looking at the picture I can see that it is very detailed piece of art. The way it’s described is clear and shows artistic exposure. This image grabbed my attention and from looking at it, I feel like I can wonder beyond its manifestation. Black and gray color is the notable difference of the image. This can signify the sadness and fear that following the woman. Some part of the image is darker than the rest. Each section of the woman’s face and body is divided by the damaged and wrinkled paper. A squeezed and wrinkled paper of the frame shows a challenge that the woman is facing in her life. Looking at the image I can see that she is depressed. Her eyes are distorted and on the left edge of the frame there is deep cut. From viewing her eye, I can see that her future is dark. Her mouth is closed that signify her silence. why she is silent to her problem? What keep her silent?

Jet-son!!!!! You're FIRED!! Post#2

The Jetsons episode “Family Fallout” is a source that I might use...Every episode George Jetson gets fired and rehired by his boss Mr. Spacely. It’s interesting in the fact that George Jetson, whether he realizes it or not, has job security. Mr. Spacely knows that George Jetson is Trust worthy and loyal. Mr. Spacely is just hot-headed and greedy, so whenever he fires George he realizes that he’s really too important and valuable to let go. The Jetsons was produced and directed by William Hannah and Joseph Barbera in the early 60’s and then again in the early 80’s. It depicts an American lifestyle in the year 2062. A work week is 3 hrs a day, 3 days a week. (Wouldn’t that be nice), State of the Art machinery help with all the hard labor, and its funny when they break down to see the “oh my goodness, I’m going to have to do the work myself now! Oh no!” The episode “Family Fallout” is a funny one. To sum it up quick, it’s a battle between George Jetson(middle class) and Mr. Spacely(Upper Class and Georges’ Boss) in a game show called Family Fallout. The Jetson family, being a lower class than the Spacelys, ends up winning the game because they answer the trivia questions correctly and therefore win the grand prize. George can pick between two prizes, the Galactic Scale grand prize or the special prize hidden behind door number two. George picks the prize hidden, it ends up being a super duper food machine that his wife absolutely loves. Because he picks this prize, the other prize is given to Spacelys’. Ironically, it’s a lifetime supply of Cogwells Cogs, Mr. Spacelys’ biggest competitor. This should be interesting to notice all the political hoop-blah that goes on.

One in-particular quote Mr. Spacely says about George Jetson is "George Jetson is the perfect employee. He's trustworthy, loyal, and most of all...killable!"