Friday, September 28, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Chiat's Views of the internet compared to my own
Chiat says “I believe in technology, for all its weaknesses, will be our savior” (462). Chiat tries to explains that the internet will solve the misleading and single focus of the media. The internet gives society a chance to explain their side of the story. It gives the average Joe of the country a chance to have his voice heard against the big powerful multi media corporations that, like the average Joe, has one spot on the internet to express themselves through a new wavelength of a worldwide publishing company that accepts everyone. It's hard for me as a person to agree or disagree with Chiat's beliefs. His point brings up strong pro's and strong cons. In one way I strongly agree that every person should have the chance to distribute their point of view on something that is very important to them, and on the other hand you know that there are rebels without a cause that are doing nothing but stirring up trouble by putting false and contradiction to the truth. By giving the average Joe this power, raises the risk of idiotic people that put things on the internet that are nothing but false statements. But by the end of the day if I had to pick a side, I'd probably leave it to the professionals of media, as long as they shared of variety of view points that didn't give a narrow minded view of what is going on in the world but what is going on in the world through every view that is available.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
An experience that taught me what good writing is
When i was entering into my junior year english class i was terrified. I had the oh so terrifying Millie Horton. She was known as the toughest class in my academic challenging high school. I was entering her class knowing that she failed 60 % of her class the year before. I thought six out of ten people in my class wouldn't be enjoying their summer at the beach or making some money working, but spending most of their precious summer days looking at a computer screen working on english exercises. Since I enjoyed my Charleston summer more than anything I knew what I had to do. Suck up to Ms. Horton and make sure I got a 68.5( the lowest grade you could get and still pass). Time dragged on slowly the first week of school and it was time for our first essay. Iw orked on it right away and it was time to turn in the paper. I got a 70. Super! I worked on an essay all week, and what do i get... a 70. I went into talk to her about the paper I wrote. She talked to me and explained to me some of my rookie mistakes in writing, it was mostly my wordiness and surprisingly not my grammar. After having time to talk to Ms. Horton, I realized she wasn't the english teaching monster that our school had her out to be but a person that was there for you to help you out. And thats an experience that taught me what good writing was.
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