Sock Monkey: Article Analysis

The article “The Case for Fitting In” compares to my idea of conformity because I think that it means how you change your opinion due to social pressure. My idea of conformity relates to the article because it was talking about how when people were in a group and someone said the wrong answer they usually went with it. “Each subject saw 18 sets of lines, and the group answer was wrong for 12 of them” this proves that most of the time people went with the group rather than going with their personal opinion. I think that the article really compares with my definition of conformity because I think that it causes you to change your opinion and sometimes causes you to choose wrong answers. I also strongly think that the article agrees with me because

Justin Ruoff is an American Football Conference (AFC) North analyst for Today’s Pigskin, a football-specific news website. He creates opinion-based articles on AFC North football teams and individual players. He also communicates with editors and his supervisor via email to discuss article ideas. His job can be particularly stressful because he must deliver insightful and clear articles on strict deadlines.

Cuebed wrote an article on July 21, 2017 about how free parking and parking minimums make living on big cities much more expensive. The article showed how it is a waste of space to have so much parking and there are more effective and faster ways to move around without a car. The article also showed an example of this with mexico city and how they cut down on parking spaces.

c. The author uses literature as he cites other literary works, websites, and research findings from other authors in order to support his main points throughout the text. In addition, the text’s citation style is APA in-text citation as Waisanen uses research findings, words defined by other authors, and examples of video clips from the Onion News Network to compare, support, and define his thesis and central idea of his paper. This is shown throughout the text; for instance, an example of research findings is on page 510 where Waisanen states the researcher findings of Achter (2008) on “… understanding and comprehending new parodies such as The Onion yet there is still much work to reveal the parody that is portrayed and illustrated to news

The critique in the article by The Onion is revolved around marketing techniques such as outrageous claims that advertisers make in an attempt to convince their audience to buy their product. This critique is made using a sarcastic tone and caricatures of the characters commonly seen in commercials. Not only are caricatures and hyperboles used but also a use of overly scholarly language to make the product out to be much more than it’s worth.

In Hans Taparia and Pamela Koch’s New York Times online article “A Seismic Shift in How People Eat,” posted on November 6, 2015, the current struggle that big food companies are experiencing in relation to increased consumer awareness is discussed. Prompting this article is the overwhelming movement to healthy eating by the general populace and the havoc it is wreaking on corporate companies. Highly popular among health enthusiasts of all ages, the topic of this paper appeals to a wide audience. Although easily missed at first due to the beautiful flow and structure of the paper, the opinions and claims by Taparia and Koch are primarily based in logos where facts and statistics are quoted, and a fair amount of pathos where vivid imagery is utilized to paint a picture of the scenario for the reader. Differing slightly from the normal presentation, the ethos of the paper is not so much enforced through personal titles or anecdotes, but rather through the combination of presenting the ideas and facts clearly and persuasively, all adding to the author’s credibility. When the paper comes to a conclusion, the reader is left with a solid understanding of how big food companies are finally being forced to share their dirty secrets and clean up their act in order to compete with the small scale, organic based companies and the jeopardy they are facing unless they change their ways drastically.

As my analysis has pointed out, the NBC news article is more neutral in presenting the selection of people interviewed included, factual information and rhetorical appeals using pathos while the Fox news article focuses on preserving their bias views on Dylann Roof’s sentencing and biasedly focused on including distracting information, victim’s testimony only and using rhetorical appeals. I chose Fox news as my more bias source because in the past Fox has been the subject of several controversies and allegations of bias reporting. In contrast, NBC news has been mentioned as a more neutral source in reporting news and remaining impartial in reporting. Based on the bias I uncovered in the Fox news article, I can merely see the comparison within

In this paper I will be discussing the debate between pro Wikipedia’s Dwight Reed, and Rachel R. Wright, and con Wikipedia’s Nicole Irwin, Michelle Douglas, and Ivy Leigh. During the debate between Learning Team B members we debated over different points of views regarding Wikipedia as a reliable source.

In the Ted Talk this week, Rebecca Onie, discusses how Healthcare could be altered to instead work towards creating long lasting impacts towards the road to health rather than simply alleviating illness. To be able to do this we must first understand why are some patients unhealthier than others and what do we need to change in our current health care to implement healthy practices.

The author is writing this article to tell Americans that most schools give out awards for just showing up and avoiding the problem of having parents complain because their child did not receive an award. He thinks that it is ridiculous. He’s writing to the audience of school children and their parents. He tries to persuade his audience by explaining that trophies are better earned than given. It will promote higher self-esteem. Yes, I do agree with the author’s point of view for a few reasons. If a student earns good grades and the whole class gets an award they will feel that no matter what their grades are they can receive an award. So, they will stop earning good grades. In order to receive an award you should have to put in hard work and

Wikipedia gives three contents for sock monkeys. The origins, sock monkeys today, and sock monkey festivals.

We have reached the halfway point for our classes. It is amazing how quickly time gets going once homework starts coming due. This week we are discussing unreliability in our research sources. This is an extremely important topic because one bad piece of information in your paper can lead to a loss of credibility. The first topic for our forum this week is why Wikipedia is an unreliable and unaccepted source. Plan and simple, anyone can go on a Wikipedia page and change the information to whatever they want. I have known this for a long time. I was very fortunate to have a college professor who informed our class that the idea of Wikipedia is letting anyone post material about anything they want. This includes changing text

In an ever changing world we have seen the number and complexity of languages become reduced. In a Wall Street Journal article entitled What the World Will Speak in 2115, John H. McWhorter advocates for the world to see these changes as necessary and a way for communication worldwide to become more efficient and simplified. McWhorter shows how language has been streamlined for centuries as a way for citizens to adapt rather than viewed as an extinction of culture. Modern English is likely to become the dominant language worldwide but more so for the fact that it can be easily learned and is open to transformation with the times. Despite the fears of a world where lingual diversity is reduced, McWhorter suggests that there will still be variation to promote culture and communication with people from all backgrounds will be easier. The following is a summary and analysis of McWhorter’s main points describing the simplification of language. Following the summary of main points will be a hypothetical situation in what the world language could consist of 100 years from now.

The top 1 percent have whatever they desire and what money can buy but read Stiglitz article they want more authority. The top 1 percent are basically running our government and many people don’t care. Stiglitz argue that if inequality continues to grow, the opportunity for the poor to get rich will drop. After reading this article, I realize that many of government officials in office will do whatever it takes to be re-elected. Let say you get elected and win. The people that will help you (mostly likely the top 1 percent) will provide the money. The top 1 percent basically has the power to control the people and with that they can do whatever they choose too.

In her article, Murley (2010) presents different reasons to use Wikipedia to teach students how to evaluate and edit articles. She believes that she has found Wikipedia to be a valuable source to find a link or reference to answer questions.