Samples of My Work
Midterm 3 Reflection:
I have decided to reflect on my Midterm Assignment #3. When I first reviewed the workload for last week’s assignments I was very unsure if I was going to be able to get it all done. It all looked very overwhelming, especially this assignment because you were required to use information you collected on the assignments before it. I admit I was intimidated by this assignment but I was motivated to get it all done. I think this assignment really helped to push me to get the other assignments done in order because I normally like to do my assignments out of order. I also liked that you had to use information from previous assignments to really bring this assignment together. It was almost like I was reviewing the other assignments and making a few short summaries on important points. It was a good learning experience because I also learned how to write a memorandum. This assignment was also important in getting me to practice my Chicago citations more, which I collected from the other assignments. My learning goals for my next assignment are to get started on a series of assignments right away and do them all closely to each other so that it’s easier to remember what I did in the assignment before it. I will also make sure to save all my work because some one of the assignments I only saved half finished so I had to go back and review the actual articles.
I have decided to reflect on my Midterm Assignment #3. When I first reviewed the workload for last week’s assignments I was very unsure if I was going to be able to get it all done. It all looked very overwhelming, especially this assignment because you were required to use information you collected on the assignments before it. I admit I was intimidated by this assignment but I was motivated to get it all done. I think this assignment really helped to push me to get the other assignments done in order because I normally like to do my assignments out of order. I also liked that you had to use information from previous assignments to really bring this assignment together. It was almost like I was reviewing the other assignments and making a few short summaries on important points. It was a good learning experience because I also learned how to write a memorandum. This assignment was also important in getting me to practice my Chicago citations more, which I collected from the other assignments. My learning goals for my next assignment are to get started on a series of assignments right away and do them all closely to each other so that it’s easier to remember what I did in the assignment before it. I will also make sure to save all my work because some one of the assignments I only saved half finished so I had to go back and review the actual articles.
In the News: Privacy
I believe privacy should be a natural right to all beings, I understand the security issues that comes along with not monitoring devices, and the risk we take with “what could be prevented” but even if we have these “records” could we really prevent a disaster from occurring? For example we warned Hiroshima of the bombing to come, and they stayed stagnate in there homes. Japan warned us of the events to come now known as pearl harbor they’d had given us multiple warnings, warning us of an attack on U.S soil and we shrugged it off, never taking them serious in there threats and what happened was the first attack on American soil that swept us by surprise. So do you believe accounts of every little phone call, photo, and conversation online on hard drives could really stop an attack? I feel we must be real and understand the people need their privacy, attacks are inevitable, and we cannot control every aspect.
To explore more topics of why privacy is important for the people in the digital era, subject matters such as identity theft, and companies acquiring more information then they really should from patrons who use there services. I don't believe they need my photos just because I wanted to check a definition. I also believe we should have a choice in what big business can collect from us on the inter web. In fact, “About 91 percent of those surveyed by the Pew Research Center last year said they felt people had lost control of how personal information is collected and used by companies.”1
We are continuously given bills filled with loopholes, such as the white houses recently released “draft bill” which is vague in description and some what of a riddle you need to crack to understand. President Obama claims privacy on the internet is something modern America needs why cant he work with his administration to create a bill that is clear and easily understandable, and not like an encrypted file? Does government really believe we are entitled to privacy online? Do they really believe having every beings info and everyone’s input to the internet on file a game changer in not only homeland security but attacks from foreign agencies? I believe these are questions we should really be asking ourselves, don't you?
1"The President’s Weak Privacy Proposal." The New York Times. March 5, 2015. Accessed May 1, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/opinion/the-presidents-weak-privacy-proposal.html
2012 Media Campaigns
Technological advancements have caused a drastic change in the way campaigns are run today, especially for the 2012 election. Politicians used to rely mostly on face-to-face contact with their supporters, but now there has been a rise in the use of social media accounts like twitter to gain popularity. Going door to door is still a useful tactic but posting online will help spread information on your campaign all across the world in the matter of hours. According to the article 8 Big Social Media Takeaways from the 2012 Election Campaign, by Alex Kantrowitz, after Obama gave his “Romnesia” speech, his supporters tagged many of their social media posts with “#Romnesia” and were able to get 565,000 YouTube views. In How Campaigns Amass Your Personal Information to Deliver Tailored Political Ads, they talk about how campaigns are going as far as using our personal data collected from our internet browsers to try and target us for support in the elections. The company that collects are data, Aristotle, sells our information to both the Romney and Obama campaigns and they have been doing this for many years.
How Campaigns Amass Your Personal Information to Deliver Tailored Political Ads.
Diversity in the US (and It's Role in Politics)
America has become so diverse mostly due to immigration. During the Industrial Revolution, people traveled from all over to come to America to find new opportunities for their families. Since then, population has spread mostly to the suburbs instead of big cities. As mentioned in Suburbs and Diversity, people from places like China, Pakistan, and Africa are now replacing many of the European immigrants. The smaller towns that were dominantly white are now being filled with people from more diverse ethnic backgrounds. In Ethnic Influx, they bring up the point that some classes are taught bilingual to account for the fact that many students don't speak English, especially within the Hispanic community. Racial barriers in the suburbs are being broken down while many professional companies are willing to hire the best people from around the world. This can ultimately affect the political structure of the U.S. because it can mean that more people from different ethnic backgrounds can become more involved in politics and try to do more work in support of their people. For example, they could try to lower the strictness of immigration laws and make sure there are better laws for equal pay and no discrimination.
I believe privacy should be a natural right to all beings, I understand the security issues that comes along with not monitoring devices, and the risk we take with “what could be prevented” but even if we have these “records” could we really prevent a disaster from occurring? For example we warned Hiroshima of the bombing to come, and they stayed stagnate in there homes. Japan warned us of the events to come now known as pearl harbor they’d had given us multiple warnings, warning us of an attack on U.S soil and we shrugged it off, never taking them serious in there threats and what happened was the first attack on American soil that swept us by surprise. So do you believe accounts of every little phone call, photo, and conversation online on hard drives could really stop an attack? I feel we must be real and understand the people need their privacy, attacks are inevitable, and we cannot control every aspect.
To explore more topics of why privacy is important for the people in the digital era, subject matters such as identity theft, and companies acquiring more information then they really should from patrons who use there services. I don't believe they need my photos just because I wanted to check a definition. I also believe we should have a choice in what big business can collect from us on the inter web. In fact, “About 91 percent of those surveyed by the Pew Research Center last year said they felt people had lost control of how personal information is collected and used by companies.”1
We are continuously given bills filled with loopholes, such as the white houses recently released “draft bill” which is vague in description and some what of a riddle you need to crack to understand. President Obama claims privacy on the internet is something modern America needs why cant he work with his administration to create a bill that is clear and easily understandable, and not like an encrypted file? Does government really believe we are entitled to privacy online? Do they really believe having every beings info and everyone’s input to the internet on file a game changer in not only homeland security but attacks from foreign agencies? I believe these are questions we should really be asking ourselves, don't you?
1"The President’s Weak Privacy Proposal." The New York Times. March 5, 2015. Accessed May 1, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/opinion/the-presidents-weak-privacy-proposal.html
2012 Media Campaigns
Technological advancements have caused a drastic change in the way campaigns are run today, especially for the 2012 election. Politicians used to rely mostly on face-to-face contact with their supporters, but now there has been a rise in the use of social media accounts like twitter to gain popularity. Going door to door is still a useful tactic but posting online will help spread information on your campaign all across the world in the matter of hours. According to the article 8 Big Social Media Takeaways from the 2012 Election Campaign, by Alex Kantrowitz, after Obama gave his “Romnesia” speech, his supporters tagged many of their social media posts with “#Romnesia” and were able to get 565,000 YouTube views. In How Campaigns Amass Your Personal Information to Deliver Tailored Political Ads, they talk about how campaigns are going as far as using our personal data collected from our internet browsers to try and target us for support in the elections. The company that collects are data, Aristotle, sells our information to both the Romney and Obama campaigns and they have been doing this for many years.
How Campaigns Amass Your Personal Information to Deliver Tailored Political Ads.
Diversity in the US (and It's Role in Politics)
America has become so diverse mostly due to immigration. During the Industrial Revolution, people traveled from all over to come to America to find new opportunities for their families. Since then, population has spread mostly to the suburbs instead of big cities. As mentioned in Suburbs and Diversity, people from places like China, Pakistan, and Africa are now replacing many of the European immigrants. The smaller towns that were dominantly white are now being filled with people from more diverse ethnic backgrounds. In Ethnic Influx, they bring up the point that some classes are taught bilingual to account for the fact that many students don't speak English, especially within the Hispanic community. Racial barriers in the suburbs are being broken down while many professional companies are willing to hire the best people from around the world. This can ultimately affect the political structure of the U.S. because it can mean that more people from different ethnic backgrounds can become more involved in politics and try to do more work in support of their people. For example, they could try to lower the strictness of immigration laws and make sure there are better laws for equal pay and no discrimination.