Annotated Bibliography

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http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cpb.2007.0008?journalCode=cpb



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    This paper describes a survey taken by children and their parents. 1,211 final year kids of primary schools and all levels of secondary schools and their parents filled out this questionnaire. After all of the results were concluded, it showed that 16% percent of youngsters have participated in cyberbullying using the internet and texting. A percent 23% of the children have been victims of cyberbulling. Cyberbullying takes place mostly at home according to this article. Children tend to react to the cyberbullying by just ignoring it or begin to cyberbully another student. According to the study, parents who recognize the cyberbullying either underestimate what is going on, or become very strict and set social interaction standards between their children and other people. This article will help me with my reasearch paper because it gives me an in-depth look at the cyberbullying amongst schools. This article gives me a great surve example about my topic, and even gives a small look at the parents' reactions to cyberbullying.

Out With the Old and In With the New

After reading pages 459-468, "Everything Bad is Good for You:Games", I have come to an opinion and have agreed with the last two pages of this essay. Obviously in today's world technology is being used more than it has ever been used before. Not many people can survive throughout the day with their cell phones, ipods, televisions, etc. With all this new technology, there is no time to read books anymore. In the beginning of this essay, the author describes how people say that video games are ruining the childrens' brains and turning them into zombies. People say that video games promote violence and other negative influences towards children and that children should be reading books. Who says book do not have violence in them? Just because a book does not have a television screen inside it does not mean the book can promote violence or other negative influences with words. Even when children go to school they see that technology is used more than books. In my high school, Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School, every class had a smartboard and each lesson was taught through the computer. Today, schools have things called ebooks, which are books that are downloaded on the computer so children do not have to lug heavy textbooks home to do homework. By putting the book online, this is promoting technology use as now the student is using his or her computer to complete homework. Now why can't a child learn from a video game? Not all games are violent and negative. Let's say that a child has bought a basketball game. By playing the basketball game, the child could learn new basketball moves and new basketball jumpshots. I am not saying a child cannot learn from a book, but with all the technology a child has available to him or her today, no one has time to read a book. Just by using google a child could find any research he needs for an essay instead of spending hours in the library looking through books for information. In my opinion, books are not boring, nobody just has time for them anymore with the modern technology available today.

A good and bad interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gww2vrIhjeU

This is an example of a good and bad job interview. The first interview is between the woman interviewer and the girl who is being interviewed for the job. This is a bad interview because the girl being interviewed does not make much eye contact, and shows little respect, for example, she does not shake the woman's hand on the way out. Also, the girl takes a cell phone call during the interview and puts her resume on the back of the job application. She shows disrespect and that she is not interested when she takes the phone call, and also shows disrespect when she leans in her chair and plays with her hair showing bad body mechanics. The second interview of this clip is a good interview. This interview is between the same woman interviewer and now a boy who is interested in the job opening. This is a good interview because the boy makes eye contact with the interviewer basically the whol interview, answers the question with full, detailed information, and is prepared with a clean resume. Also shows full respect with good body mechanics by sitting up straight, and by having no distractions during the interview.

Jon Stewart Pages 125-129

In pages 125 through 129 in our academic textbook actor, Jon Stewart, gives a speech at a graduation at his alma mater college. Jon Stewart speaks about how the graduates are now entering the new world. He also speaks about how they now have to pay for luxuries such as insurance, mortgages or rent, more bills, and how the econonmy is very tough especially graduating college in debt. Mr. Stewart then goes on to say how this graduating class, or our generation, is going to change the world. I agree with this small passage in this textbook. If we put our minds to something we can accompish it if we really work at it. By handling our funds intelligently, we will survive in this economy and be able to pay off our debts from college, if any. Working hard in school, taking notes, and paying attention to your professor will prepare you for receiving a financially stable occupation. Just because other people have failed does not mean we have too. If our generation gives that extra push, we will always be better than that other person.

Class Evaluation

So far my second semester of college is going relatively well. As for my english 102 course, I think I am prepared for it thanks to english 101. Even though english 102 seems it is going to be a little more hands on than english 101, for example, my first essay includes a digital essay, but I believe that makes the class more into the course and enthusiastic about class. Also, the teacher seems very interactive and is not afraid to help the students which makes the transition much easier. It should be a very good semester. As for my other classes, elementary statistics, history of architecure, introdution to American politics, and police communities, they are also going well so far as I am gaining new knowledge about the history and current events of our country which I am very interested in. I hope all goes well for all of my other fellow students.

Facebook

The text that I read and analyzed from our academic book "remix" was a story about a college professor who put a little to much information on her facebook page which was found by a student who tried to sign up for one of her class. What I analyzed from this story was that people show their real identity when they are on facebook. On facebook we are not scared to write on our facebook what really interests us and what we have fun doing. We are not scared to post pictures of the people whom we really love and spend time with. We show our own personalities when we talk to people online as you are not looking that other person in the face. However, in real life some people do not show their true identity. Some people might change their views on things or may speak differently of someone else just to fit in with the people they are hanging out with in real life. For some people it is hard to show who they really are when they are talking face to face with someone rather than talking to someone online. In this story, the college professor puts on facebook that she is bi-sexual and that she does not mind drinking beer. As a college professor she should not be putting that on facebook, but that is her real identity. However, when she is in the classroom, she is supposed to be looked at as a person who does not cooperate with this sort of stuff because she is a teacher. I felt that this story supported my opinion of saying that we have two different identities, one on facebook and one in real life.