Dear Mr. Bratt: Some people consider sex, drugs, violence, and strong language as inappropriate. Others could care less about what they see on the Web. Others don’t even think twice about sex crimes in the newspaper or hearing someone cuss their mother out on TV. Some couldn’t be any more neutral about the inappropriateness of their information sources. Others so strongly that they censor this material so they can no longer view it.
A lot of them are really unreliable sources, such as a website that was used to explain wiener’s sex scandle, called “The Dirty.” The founder of this website is Nik Richie, who makes money off of other people's gossip. The dictionary definition of gossip is: “casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true.” Therefore, “The Dirty” is an unreliable source since these rumors were never confirmed to being true, and news should only be showing facts. From what we observed, PIX news doesn’t cite a lot of their information, instead they justify it with other people’s opinions and/or specialists, such as a political analyst, Basll Smikle, who analyzed Weiner’s wife and her behavior and spoke about how important is was for her to stand besides her husband for political support, in order to help Weiner in his race. Overall there really aren’t any sources because there is no need for any sources because there is no real news/facts to give out. There’s no way to provide a source for a Daughter and Father dance/fake wedding.
The article starts with Stephanie’s description of one particularly bad day she experienced and how the events of that day made her feel pressured to lie. After describing her 4 lies, then ticking off the reasoning’s for them; she then goes on to say that she does not feel guilty for lying and why. It leaves the reader wondering if there is no guilt felt why then the explanations? Why not just say “I lied. Here is when, how and how many times.” In the very next paragraph the author starts by saying “We lie, we all do.
Facebook is the gun that enables us to fire virtual bullets at all of the people that we despise, but every so often we take a shell in return. This shell can put a ripple in our psychological state which has us asking ourselves, I am I as happy as my friends ? “ The real danger with Facebook is not that it allows us to isolate ourselves, but that by mixing our appetite for isolation with our vanity, it threatens to alter the very nature of solitude” (Marche) . People should have their moments of solitude in this crazy stressful life; Sadly facebook acts as a weapon that destroy our much needed seclusion. In today’s generation having a face book ties you to being part of the pop culture phenomenon, without having one you receive the feeling that you are missing out on the virtual connection.
In this way, internet censorship becomes a convenient tool for officials, and this is destroying our country. Internet censorship may mislead people. All human beings are equal and they have the right to know what is happening in the world. Without knowing the outside world, Chinese people cannot figure out our weaknesses. People may laugh at North Korea for their blind hero worship towards their leader.
The narrator also persists that social media creates oblivion within the minds of this generation and that they have lost the ability to judge what is right from what is wrong. The use of slang in “the smut, smitty, slide, skip-skap, skally-whap, you know, whore, slut...” creates a light and casual tone representing the lack of understanding of the seriousness of the situation. Because social media expands their audience, it reduces the seriousness of the situation causing confusion amongst the audience of what is right or wrong. The use of the words ‘guess’ and ‘something’ represents the uncertainty and faded line between what’s wrong and what’s right. Because it started out as something positive, a way of staying
Kendra Lawrence English 102 June 19, 2013 No Justification for Lying to your Nation In all areas of life there are times we accept lies and other times we are disgusted by them. Telling a lie isn't always a bad thing. A lie for self-serving purposes, like gains that were not earned, deserved, lies to keep yourself out of trouble, lies to put others in situations detrimental to them, are unjustified lies. Not telling the truth for unselfish reasons, for the sole purposes of helping, inspiring, giving others hope, preventing harm to others, is called a white lie. According to Wikipedia, “white lies are minor lies which could be considered to be harmless, or even beneficial, in the long term.
Many researchers, including Nicholas Carr, believe that the internet and technology are causing fewer and fewer people to read. In Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” he states that technology negatively affects our minds, especially the younger generations. Patrick Kingsley also supports the notion that the internet and technology are hurting us in his article, “The Art of Slow Reading.” While many people refuse to believe this lack of reading results directly from the internet and technology, Carr uses an alluring metaphor of a scuba diver and a jet skier to make his claim whereas Kingsley challenges us to simply slow down. Carr’s metaphor explains this apparent change the best, “Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski” (Carr 1).
Consider this example: “I believe that computers should be banned due to the risk they pose to all mankind in the potential for an electronic anti-human revolt.” This sentence is phrased as a personal opinion rather than an authoritative statement. Most readers, however, expect a paper to present an authoritative and factually supported thesis, not a mere opinion. In general, this use of I should be avoided. Second-Person Pronouns - You There is nothing inherently wrong with addressing the reader as you in a formal paper. However, for most readers, you carries a tremendous sense of informality, and in a sentence that gives advice or demands action, it may seem outright aggressive.
Some of them are encouraged by friends and ridiculously thinking they won’t get caught. Such misunderstandings are acting as a catalyst of cyberbullying and even worsen it. As for criticism, people always criticize others, motivated by self- centering and unpleasantly pressed destructive emotions. People have an overly high sense of self protecting and seek for conformity. Nowadays, people mainly uphold negative thinking and seldom appreciate others.