Christina Sarkissian
Public v. Private Sphere
The article "Sporting Sphere in the Liminal Sphere: "Tactics" and Facebook, talks about Public and Private Sphere. In the article, public...
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Christina Sarkissian
Libraries as the Space Between Us
This article is about how the library is currently being used. The library used to be a place where people would go to get books and do...
Christina Sarkissian
Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere
This article “Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere” by Jeffrey S. Juris, talks about the differences between social media, public space, and...
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GLOBAL CRISIS:
“The Global Financial Crisis” chapter is about the economy in the United States between 2008-2009 sicne the great depression. What is a financial crisis you might ask? Well a financial crisis is when a company goes into deep money problems, such as when they lose a lot of money to someone this can be intentional and unintentional.In this chapter, it explains the causes of a global financial crisis meaning a financial crisis that happens in the world. It claims that there has been sixty financial crisis since the seventeenth century. The chapter also covers other topics such as deregulation of financial markets, financial innovations, executive compensation, speculation, foreclosures, decline in manufacturing and trade, and global power shift. Also the responses that the world had to this crisis such as America, Europe, and China. The chapter explains how the financial crisis is an integral component of capitalism. The financial crisis has messed up the global trade in the world, and it has also caused high unemployment rates. In this chapter, there was a table for growth of foreign banks in the United States and the number were crazy.As the book claims, “Overall, the financial crisis has diminished support for financial liberalization and strengthened the role of governments around the world in economic affairs.” This quote explains what the financial crisis has done and how it has affected the world, and how it has helped strengthen the government in economic affairs around the world.
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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
“Environmental Issues” in chapter 10 is talking about how global warming is the most important topic in the world. They have written the statistics that this has caused more than 30,000 deaths and around 125 billion dollars of losses in the economy. This is an issue that can not be stopped at the moment, there are so many political views on this which plays a big role in society. Some of these environmental issues are biodiversity, which is the number of people on earth that are ecosystem friendly. Endangered species and wildfire protection, which is species that are in danger because of the weather.Deforestation, is when they harm the forest such as what happened in the Amazon rainforest in Australia. It also talks about ocean resources such as fishing and how it harms the ocean and the sea creatures that live in it. Ocean pollution is also a main problem in the world because companies are dumping a lot of waste into the ocean which is causing the animals to die.Global warming and climate change are the main topics in this chapter. These topics are debatable and can be viewed with many political standards. Every political party has something different to say about this crisis.In my opinion, global warming and climate change is a very important topic and it should be viewed more seriously in this world.
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HOW TO MAKE AN EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT
In the chapter “Making an Effective Argument” by Jack Selzer and Lester Faigley talks about all the reasons on how to make a subject or an essay arguable and effective. There are many types of essays such as Argumentative which you have to argue your point to your readers by giving them counter arguments also. There is also a Persuasive essay which is when you have to persuade your readers on your topic that you have chosen or it has been given to you. In order to have great essays, you have to make your claim and thesis very strong, in order to do that you need to be able to do a lot of research on your topic so it is possible for you to write an essay which can be read easily. The article in this book states that you have to appeal to the readers emotions in an effective way, in order to do that you can provide images and graphs to help the readers understand and visualize it better. The authors give us tips on how to write essays on effective arguments for a college level. Writing essays generally matters on the topic and the format of the essays, just like there are many types of essays, there are also many formats. Overall, when you want to write an essay you need a strong claim and thesis to have a great and effective argument.
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GLOBAL TERRORISM
“Global Terrorism” that talks about all the different types of terrorism such as religious, domestic, state, and globally. The article first started off by talking about the main definition of terrorism, then it went deeply into how the word terrorism or terrorist is misused a lot. Especially now in this century, it is difficult to explain it since it has been in many aspects of the present day. This article also gave examples of everything it talked about like an example that really spoke out to m was that people use terrorism as a way to change society and for political reasons. Terrorism is something that puts this constant fear into people and it is a constant worry for them. Terrorism happens by causing chaos and making a distraction by doing terrible things to people's lives. No one really knows the main reason on and what cause for terrosism to happen and what is the main cause for it. It may be because of the government or the financial issues of society, another main part of this is putting all of the pressure on the government and seeing how the government acts and does to this situation. The whole point of the article was to get people's attention about this topic and it is to make people be more cautious about this topic. Overall, this article taught me more about global terrosism and it made me have a different look on it.
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF CULTURES
In this article called "Manifestation of Culture in Website Design" by Inhwa Kim and Jasna Kuljis talks about the impact it has on expanding cultural boundaries and politics and the importance it has on a global scale. The article gives many statistics on this topic from 2009 on internet usage and talking in different languages. The author gives us detailed examples of different web designs from different cultures and how they are all different from each other. It also mentioned how different researchers used Hofstede's popular model. The article gives us a closer look at how different cultures spread their message in different ways. It was never brought to my attention that different cultures and countries' websites look different than the United States, I always thought all websites would be similar in their own way of whatever the topic or the reason to the website is. Overall, this article explained to us how different cultures' websites are different with very few similarities. People should definitely check out different websites and learn more about this.
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TESTING DRAFTS
In a chapter called “Testing Drafts for Usability and Persuasiveness” it talks about how it is going to help you write your well thought out essay by giving you tips and tricks on what you can do the final draft without any errors.This chapter has multiple topics such as helping guide your analyzation to gathering ideas and to your draft. In this chapter it talks about different types of tests such as draft testing and regular testing, there are people called “test readers'' that help with your draft and correct your mistakes. “Test readers” are like peer editors that make improvements on your draft. That way you know that it is written from another point of view and your peers can say their own opinions about your essay to make it without any errors. By doing this you can make sure that your thoughts are clear and you are getting your point across. It is also mentioned that you want a test reader to understand what you are writing about; For example if you are writing about financial issues or work struggles you can someone that is old enough to understand and have a deeper connection unlike a 13 year old teenager reading your essay. By making someone who is going to understand your topic read your essay is going to make you get a better perspective of what they are trying to say and they will give getter tips on perfecting your essay. There are also varieties of test readers, one of them being persuasiveness which is extremely important in a persuasive essay because you want to make a point and make them rethink their opinion of a certain subject/topic before reading your essay. Another type of test is a location test which gives you questions to make sure that you are talking about all of those questions in your essay. Overall, this chapter taught me how to perfect my essays.
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