Plagiarism

  "The Wrongs of Internet Plagiarism: The Quick Arguments" by Brook Sadler, talks about how plagiarism not a good thing for students no matter if they earned a better grade or not.  Russel Hunt, on the article, "Four Reasons to Be Happy about Internet Plagiarism," believes plagiarism is okay because some students just need that extra boost to pass and it helps the awareness of the subject. In my opinion, I believe that Sadly made a better argument because her reasons all point to the righteousness of what we are stating about the subject. It's only fair to gice credit when needed and to get the grade by what you deserve on your original work. I would not want someone using my ideas and getting praised for it. Sadler also pointed out that it just go against acedemic rules. Some student worked hard for their grade, they shouldn't be doing all that work for nothing. Those who slack and get the good grade because of cheating should be punished.

Misrepresentation of Scientific Findings

One concept I found interesting in chapter 11 was the one that went on about how some scientific findings are reported false. Usually when on the television news, my family automatically believes it is 100% true. But as a current college student, I know to check sources first before believing something since we're always taught to have legitimate sources provided in our essay assignments. In this section, there are many great examples of how reporters can just add a statement whether if it's true or not just so they can grab some attention. I personally think this is not the right way to gain followers or fans. It's like they're playing with other's emotions. This sections also talked about how assumptions from other sources are turned into facts for the reporters which is not fair. We go to the media for what's really happening in the world it shouldn't be playing mind games.

Media Experience

Still living with my parents I get unlimited access to the television and internet. It is like the first things turn on when I get home and the last thing I turn off. I would say that a lot of people around my age do the samething because every one of friends relax like this too from a long day of school. Because a majority of the people I know, including old family members, have facebook, I get a majority of news about how they're doing, what's going on with their lives and even what goes on with the world. For example, through Facebook I was able to be notified by shootings at school and what places to avoid. All of my friends were posting how astonished they are and praying for everyone. The media is powerful. Sometimes it can be so powerful false accusations may seem real which is why I always look up the internet for more research for accuracy. The media is like a needed social network of connections for various ways.

Advertisements

An interesting topic I found most fascinating was the part about advertisements. Working in retail, I only knew the advertising of television and my retail jobs. I am consistently advertise for my store by showing the new arrivals of shoes and the awesome promotions going on. For television shows, they show the sponsers and how or what the products works or does. I did not know that advertisements can give wrong information to get people to be aware of it or buy it. For example, I looked up this weight loss supplement that I was going to buy. But reading reviews, the results were the same as if you were to workout without it. We have to be able to realize that finding out on our own the true product or promotion is the best way to go about advertisements. By doing this, we can eliminate the fallacies and weal arguments for our benefit.

Food Argument

Wootan and Liodice both try to back up their claims about the government regulation of advertising about food and young children. They both do a great job with their supporting arguments. Wootan is taking a stance on how particular advertising will just make kids even more fat. So by advertising only healthy foods unlike Mcdonals commercials, for example, kids will start wanting the healthy foods all the time. On the other hand, Liodice believes this concept is crazy. She wants advertisements to have a freedom of whatver they want to advertise. These companies worked to get their marketing strategy within television and other popular ways to get noticed. I believe that kids are getting obese with the junk food commercials but it's the parents we have to regulate. They're the ones that provide for their children, not the kids going out on their own. They wouldn't even have transportation access or money to get the junk food. So I firmly believe liodice's position is valid and strong.

Being a Consumer

I have only worked in retail so I know all the tactics for bringing customers in and persuading them to buy something. The way that my managers have always taught me was to build a relationship with the customer so that they will come back and buy something all the time. Most of the time when I shop I don't fall for the deals that are not really good deals and the posters and signs that say the deals. I tend to ignore them and just find whatever looks nice and if it's in my price range I'll get it whether it's on sale or not. But I have found that I can fall for the worker's trap when they approach me with a deal that will last only for a while and when they actually show me what they think I would wear. For example, "Hello, just to let you know our buy one get one free promo is for only today. Let me show you some great tops I think you would like." This is an effective tactic to say the promotions in a comfortable manner and being like a personal shopper to them. A bad tactic would be to constantly hover over the consumer. I have done this before and the resuts were that the consumer walked away from the store instead of staying and buying something. You don't want to scare the consumer away.

False memories &Direct experiences

The section in this chapter that interested me the most was direct experience and false memories. We do remember the major events occurred during our lifetime. I do remember them as if they happened just recenty even though it might have really happened more than 10 years ago. However, they can be pretty vague and I can say that there have been a few times where I might have changed in my mind what really happened. It's almost like I wanted to change it because it was a better memory. This can throw off the truth when it is really needed. I believe that the police is always going through these kind of discrepencies just because witnesses can be in trauma. The example in the book of people giving inaccurate with the answer of the question was a great example for people experiencing a memory that was not wanted. The false memory syndrome was astonighing to me just because I never knew a case like this was ever named. I'm pretty fortunate to have this considering I would want to actually have lived the memory that I have came up with.