Social media has caused a vast array of problems for my generation. Although much of social media has been used for good, even people that would normally be nice in person might take advantage of the anonymity of social media to be cruel. Cyberbullying has become a growing problem with the advances of technology and with phones falling into the hands of children younger and younger it leads to more issues. In my middle school we had several different school-wide…
I agree with Lammot in that the first draft is more so about expressing ideas rather than what you’ve actually produced. Lammot explained the importance of revision in her own work and how most of the writers she knows are the same way. The first draft is a place to let your mind roam, you have a topic or maybe the setting in mind but not yet a coherent story to tell. After you get your ideas on paper you…
David Foster Wallace and his commencement speech have many different ideas. David dove deep into his own experiences as an adult and how life would shortly be changing into a routine for the class of 2005 now that they had graduated college. Wallace’s first point is that “A liberal arts education is not so much about filling you up with knowledge as it is about teaching you how to think (Wallace,2).” This relates to me thanks to my education thus…
Bloom’s article I found particularly interesting. Not only was it shorter to fit the attention span of a kid in college it was very well written. His paragraphs were structured very well to flow smoothly and convey his three main points. Empathy is biased and has a very narrow frame, people can only care for themselves and those around them let alone the billions of people in the world. As Bloom stated “spotlights only illuminate what they are pointed at,…
“With Megan’s story in mind and Konnikova’s examples, social media has allowed humans to be hateful and cruel without interacting in person. This makes it much easier for people to bully online and in Megan’s case spread hate.” I believe that my thesis statement is well worded. I refer to both texts and make a clear argument which can be argued for or against. It is a very long sentence but it sounds good and worked well in my paper. …
Megan did have a turn of heart as she aged. She met many people online, one of which was David Abitbol. He was a jewish man from Canada whom the church of Westboro had asked Megan to target. She had tagged him in several posts in hopes of a response for the church but as she began to learn more about abitbol she realized he had good intentions. Abitbol taught her about compassion and caring for others even though he…
College level peer review I found to be very beneficial. Everyone is very advanced and it helps me move forward and make progress on my own work before submission and allows me to revise certain paragraphs or portions of them through a different perspective. For instance in my second paragraph Leah advised that I should elaborate on specific social skills children learn as young adults that Megan did not. Leah also referenced a portion of page six from Chen’s paper…
After: Dunbar’s theory has been put to the test time and time again since it was brought to light but in recent years with social media and the expansions of social networks people have thousands of friends. Unfortunately those that we meet online don’t always maintain a relationship. For the most part online friends make a total of roughly 200 consistent connections before disbanding. This makes it clear that many if not all online friends whom you haven’t met in…
The story of Megan Phelps-Roper written by Adrian Chen was rather strange. It started with a rocky childhood, raised by her mother and father in Topeka Kansas. Her family was very devoted to the Westboro church run by her grandfather Fred Phelps. His ideas of society were very conservative but he viewed America as already being too far gone to conserve. In Freds eyes America was unredeemable after Obama was elected Megan recalled that Fred referred to him as the…
