http://www.sri.com/policy/csted/reports/sandt/it/Kulik_IT_in_colleges_and_universities.pdf

http://www.sri.com/policy/csted/reports/sandt/it/Kulik_IT_in_colleges_and_universities.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/opinion/the-university-of-wherever.html?_r=1&sq=technology%20in%20colleges&st=Search&scp=4&pagewanted=print

Blog#11

Teens' Excessive Use of Texting, Social Media Linked to Risky Behavior. Annals Of The American Psychotherapy Association [serial online]. Winter2010 2010;13(4):8. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 1, 2011.

Is just one of the many articles i found in the library's database on my research paper about teens Texting habits.

This article looks at the contentions between the over use of popular technology and risky behavior seen in teens today. It is very relevant to my paper because it is directly on the same topic as mine and is more research and facts on my topic.

Blog#10

When writing my paper i believe i will find more then enough information to support my opinion that the amount that teens text is not the cause for other Major negative behavior problems. Most of the articles and my argument its self with use logos (logic) to make my point. I feel that most young people will agree with me that the problems most kids have are not cause by texting it is just simply another action in its self

Texting

Article 1-
1. I find the use of technology amazing but the fact that people still do not know how to do so and be polite or respectful at the same time.
2. Yes that some etiquette still apples with changing times 
3.many articles have been written in newspapers or done in college studys on this
4.yes i believe i could write a full paper on this topic easily.

Article 2-
1.i feel that blaming how much a young person texts for other negative choices this person makes is not only ridiculous but just looking for a easy escape-goat for the actions this kids are choosing to do.
2. yes i could argue that texting is a separate action then the bad behaviors seen in teenagers and should not be seen as a cause.
3.there are thousands of studys done on teenagers behaviors and papers and articles looking at how so much technology is affecting young people.
4.yes

I choose to right my paper on the opinion that the amount of texting a teenager does might lead to thier bad behaviors. i feel this is beyond crazy and i will try and prove that.

Battle of the colleges

Our colleges were Ohio University Chillicothe and Paul Smiths College in New York.  Ouc is much more formal atmosphere with more class room centered study where PSC is more outdoors and interactive learning. Both are very small town schools and show pictures of their small campuses. But PSC is mainly a resort setting to theirs while Ouc is in the center of Chillicothe and has a urban setting.

Blog#8

I am completely behind the images and ideals the  "more then just dolls?" page promotes. The ideal that we grow up believing in order to be a popular and successful woman we must look like barbie is in my opinion insane no one is that perfect and the majority of us aren't even close. While yes i grew up with a million and one barbie dolls i can see where a young lady with a different mind set or lower, shaky self esteem might believe in order to get what she dreams of you have to be a size zero and this issues should get more attention to maybe stop this negative trend like eating disorders and depression in girls. Also yes i defiantly believe this problem is still going on today in the U.S you can see it in high schools across the country where every poster selling something has the perfect size 2 on it further grinding the ideal in to young girls. Just this past month a post has gone around facebook about this every growing problem.
 

A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was "This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?"

The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way:

"Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.
They entertain like crazy with dolphins and eat lots of prawns. They swim all day and travel to fantastic places like Patagonia, the Barents Sea or the coral reefs of Polynesia.
They sing incredibly well and sometimes even are on cds. They are impressive and dearly loved animals, which everyone defend and admires.

Mermaids do not exist.

But if they existed, they would line up to see a psychologist because of a problem of split personality: woman or fish?
They would have no sex life and could not bear children.
Yes, they would be lovely, but lonely and sad.
And, who wants a girl that smells like fish by his side?

Without a doubt, I'd rather be a whale.

At a time when the media tells us that only thin is beautiful, I prefer to eat ice cream with my kids, to have dinner with my husband, to eat and drink and have fun with my friends.

We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn't enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.
We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.
Every time I see my curves in the mirror, I tell myself: "How amazing am I ?! "

Ad 1

This is a good example of Ethos because they choose to use a famous skinny actress to be the athority on how to lose weight and look lovelier for an add for AYDS Vitamin Candy.  

Negative.

Busily sitting trying to finish my assignment for English, I start to get distracted by all the commotion around me in the poorly lit student cafe. A way to loud study group next to me is discussing all the terrible parts to the war in Baghdad when half of them weren't even paying attention and were more concerned with the online game they were wasting their time with. The noise of fingers frantically typing papers at the last minute or updating their Facebook statuses, as if everyone wanted to know their every thought, is really all i can hear. Out of the corner of my eye, I notice the frustrated students coming in only to turn around when they see no more free computers. I wonder if they notice the lazy girl by the wall paying more attention to her fingernails then the computer she is hogging? If all that wasn't enough, my train of thought is once again lost when all I can hear is the loud music coming from the head phones of a student who will surely be deaf by the time he's thirty. As I try to focus once more, Stacy notices that we are, of course, late and now I have to rush off to my long English class, only half done with my boring work as always.

Postive.

When sitting at the center table in the warm cafe, surrounded by the smell of vanilla flavored espresso filled Starbucks coffee, I began to notice the groups of chipper students studying together next to me who were all equally sharing thier ideals openly talking to one another. While others on the computers around me were filling their free time by catching up with old friends and family on Facebook. The boy sitting in front of me was joyfully bobbing his head to his favorite song playing in his new head phones. In walks Mr. Morrows to get a nice warm coffee to help keep him warm on this beautiful fall day. I start to look out my windows at the leaves changing and coloring the campus in wonderful deep shades of oranges and reds, while excited girls off to learn another lesson that will them succeed in their dreams.

Part2- Introduction

Introduction-

The political cartoons we have chosen look at the opinion of who are to blame for the economic slump this country are currently facing, both cartoons point to the governments avoidance of the problem making the problems worse. Sense around 2007 the economy in the United States has been on a downward path cause jobs to disappear larger numbers in unemployment and a greater national debt over all. There has been many efforts made to solve this problem but over all there are more opinions for the people to be blamed. In this paper i will look at the beginnings to this problem, the efforts made so far and the where the problem stands today.  

Part1- Thesis

Thesis- The political cartoons we have chosen look at the opinion of who are to blame for the economic slump this country are currently facing, Both cartoons point to the governments avoidance of the problem making the problems worse.

Cartoon Blog#2

Topic:  The economy

Story:  Obama and Biden are in a broken down bus which represents the economy.  They are aimed in the wrong direction but they aren't moving.

Audience:  The cartoon was produced in the U.S. during the recent economic slump.  The image first appeared in the Columbia Daily Tribune which is a daily news paper.  The comic can be described as liberal because he is promoting political changes.  It speaks to the audience by appealing to their emotions through laughter.

Author:  John Darkow has been a professional cartoonist for over 20 years. His cartoons have been published in newspapers, magazines and books in several countries. Most of his cartoons involve the current economic situation.  He publishes his works in Columbia, Missouri. Darkow also works as a professional water-colorist.

Argument:  The message about the issue is that government is at a stand-still with improving the economy.   The irony in the cartoon is that the president and vice president are trying to get to "easy street" but are pointed in the wrong direction and not moving.

Composition:  The cartoon is a single frame.

Word and Image:  The cartoon relies mainly on the image.  The text suggests that the president doesn't care about the economy but the humor in the picture is the main priority.

Imagery:  The artist places the president and the vice president in a broken down bus with no wheels sitting on cinder blocks to represent how bad the economy is.  The bus is realistic but Obama and Biden's facial features are exaggerated using caricatures to make them look more clueless and goofy.  The artist includes the illusion that the economy will not be fixed because the state of the bus.

Tone:  The comic is primarily comic to encourage readers to think that the government and the president is clueless when it comes to the economy.

Character and setting:  The cartoon is mainly based on the scene and surroundings of the people. there are two character's , obama which is portrayed as a middle aged, African American male.  Biden is portrayed as a late in life, white, male.  Both men are real people.

Cultural resonance:  The comic explicitly refers to president Obama and vice president Biden. The economy is symbolized as a broken down bus.  The cartoon speaks to a wide audience because many people have been effected by the slumping economy.  The broken down bus representing the economy is the main rhetorical strategy.  Obama driving the bus makes people believe that he is the cause of this.

Cartoon blog#1

Topic: The Econmy
Story: The government official is trying to distract the audience from the real issues of the economy.

Audience: In the United States and during the upset with the government. It was first posted in the Washington Examiner by Nate Beeler. It shows how people in the U.S. feel that the government is just distracting them from the serious problems facing our country.

Author: Nate Beeler is an award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Washington Examiner. He is from Columbus Ohio originally. He creates cartoons on issues facing America today and publishes them in many different newspapers like the Examiner and USA Today.

Argument: He is arguing that the government needs to stop trying to distract from the real problems and find solutions to the problems facing America. The irony is they are using a children’s cartoon to distract a group of adults.

Composition: This cartoon is a single frame.

Word and image: Both are used because while SpongeBob is on the TV the statement of a "new study...." explains the point and would not be as effective if either were missing. The cartoon it self does take the priority over the text and shows the authors point more.

Imagery: The author uses the well-known children’s cartoon to make the point that the government is distracting the people as if they were children themselves. Yes ,they are realistic he does not choose to change anything about the people and their sounding’s.

Tone: The tone is more comic. It makes the reader feel as if the government themselves are looking at this as a joking matter.

Character and setting: The cartoon features a government official in a press conference on the economic problems facing the US. It also features a TV playing a well-known children’s cartoon. The official is just a middle aged white male employee. He is the one that is supposed to face the people and explain the problems. He is just created to represent an employee of the white house or government. These choices in only showing one real character and just the TV draws your attention to the point that the official is the one with power and he is using that to distract the audience.

Cultural resonance: Our cartoon explicitly refers to the government official. The use of SpongeBob is meant to say the government is treating the people as children. The symbols used would apply to a broad audience because the cartoon is so well known and recognizable. It helps the cartoonist reach many audience’s.

Blog#5

The poems from today’s readings differ from the ones we read be for because in my opinion the are more open to different ways of understanding them. more broad and leave more up to the reader to point out then the speaker themself like " Selected Recent & New Errors" by Dean Young is more of a ramble and can be taken in many different ways. From talking about how a dictionary must feel to there is no proof god isn’t an insect, I believe it is written to just let your mind wonder. The speaker is more confused and unsure about himself because the writing is more jumpy for what he feels about himself.

Blog#4

The main ideal in Chilton's essay is reviewing a political cartoon that was done and published about the drug problem of Mexico. Her argument is that the cartoons while very complex in its own right cannot even begin to bring to light the many cause of the overwhelming drug problem in Mexico and the thousands of deaths that it has caused. In my personal opinion i agree that to over simplify the problem is unfair and does not do all the people that have been killed or affected by this problem justice. To jus blame this scary cartooned man for all the skulls that have piled up is igronent when in reality there are so many people and causes to be named and that share a hand in wreaking the already shaky relationship between the U.S and Mexico. There are always other ways to view the cartoon of course maybe in light of the large figure just simply hitting the party piñata maybe the artist is saying that Mexico its self is not taking this growing problem seriously enough and that the deaths that are piling up are being ignored by their own government. That maybe the big scary man is just too much for anyone to face.   

Back to school

Blog#2

I believe that cartoons are a more dangerous way of political expression. I feel that because we do not fully grasp that we are being swayed in a certain direction or that we are being lead to believe something different about the politian it is describing we are not aware that the cartoon we are reading is changing our minds. This makes it more dangerous because we are not attenonly changing our views in this way. I do not believe in censorship but i feel maybe the cartoons do go too far sometimes. It is always your choice to read them and the creator always has the right to freedom of their own ideals and views. It is just a case of not everyone sees these things in the same way and not everyone will always be happy about what is showed. Trying to censor these cartoons would just cause more of a fight and sense a person's freedom to will always affect another's freedom from that fight would never end. Just look at history this all started in the 50's and it is now 2011 and SpongeBob just might be gay.

Blog#3

  I choose to write about Muck-Clump by Mark Halliday. This poem is about a man's morning with his daughter and wife. He feels like his wife thinks he does not contribute and calls himself driftwood on the sands of time because he doesnt feel aspirated by her. He then starts to go over in his head how he will get back at his wife for correcting the amount of cereal he has poured when his daughter doesnt finish it all and how good he will feel about it. Then when proved wrong again he feels like he must be mature about it because after all he would like to think that is what he is. I feel like the speaker is also trying to show us that how we view ourselves and what we contribute is shaped by what others do like the wife correcting the amount of cereal takes away from the fact the man has tried to help in busy morning. It is very true in my life that if what i do for someone is not taken like i expect i feel like i've not even tried to help at all.

First Blogg

I know what im doing:)