3 Articles, Article Summary - 11/9/09

The MySpace Generation that was printed on December 12, 2005 in Business Week, the facts about how big social networking sites have grown in the past years. They also describe how social networking is more in tune for the teenage crowd. They try to convey the idea that these social networking sites are the new gateway to advertise new music to middle to upper class teenagers.

Raloff’s article, Researchers Probe Cell-Phone Effects, “She reviews research studies that show the effects of cell-phone usage on the human ear and brain. Contrary to popular opinion, she notes that, in some people, cell-phone waves seem to improve rather than harm mental functioning.

Dyson’s article, Cyberspace: If You Don’t Love It, Leave It, describes the “virtual real estate” of the internet. She discusses the long debated question, should the government control what sites people can and cannot go to? Also the idea of freedom, you can be who you want to be without worrying about criticism from your neighbor. She supports the idea that people can choose what want to look at on the internet and it should stay that way. It is one of the only frontiers that are not censored by the government.

3 Topics - 11/6/09

Affects of new technology on the way they interact with tomorrow’s society
-"Researchers Probe Cell Phone Effects"
-"The Myspace Generation"
-"Cyberspace: If You Don’t Love It, Leave It"

The power of the spoken word
-"Hate Radio"
-"This Eminem May Melt Your Ears"
-"Fairy Tales and Modern Stories"

Influence of rap music
-"Hate Radio"
-"The Eminem May Melt Your Ears"
-"Music"

Group Presentation - 10/30/09

In this I think that the assignment is for me to prepare information on the topic "Creative Arts and the American Spirit" for a conference for a panel session. basically, in this unit we will be writing as if we were a professor's assistant, in which we have to help gather and sythesize important information on the given topic.we will be synthesizing literature for the creative arts and the american spirit.

Basically, you will need to spend a lot of time investigating in your field to get a specific topic worthy of your professor's standards.

Reading the source for this essay will help up focus on our topic and also serve as the objects of your synthesis. For this project we will be expected to understand and apply strategies for locating academically respectable source, for judging their credibility. we will be reading additional text book selection that rainforce source attribution strategies for accurat MLA citation. In the unit 4 essay consult the quick reference guide to MLA documentation in your course hand book- A Writers Resource. That section will provide answers to most of the questions we will have relevent to citing sources for this assignment.

The most important principle to overview in the Unit 4 essay is to not make this literature review a plain summary. The synthesis or literature review should require you to forward a thesis and cover all the material we have learned in the previous units. In the essay you will intemperate what the authors question of the issue will be, and evaluate their attitude towards it.