Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Supremacy Crimes need to go!!


In the article “Supremacy Crime,” the author really looks at generalizations of these crimes such as who the killers are and what are their motives. Her thesis is a good argument of how we judge certain people with certain crimes like the supremacy crimes. Her argument was that teens in schools all over the U.S plan to kill or bomb their classmates or school because of being bullied or humiliated. The other part was that for adults the people that usually do the supremacy crimes are white males of the middle class because of their addiction to superiority. I know her argument was very strong and to me mostly correct with the fact that those are the people that do these supremacy crimes, and that society needs to look at these crimes and figure out a way to reduce the number of murders and rapes per day and per year. This article is very believable because of the crimes we hear about all the time on the news. Some people would judge other races and say that those are the people that commit most crimes, but in realization it makes sense that the white male does do the most superiority providing crimes to make himself feel powerful. The other does prove her points very well. Throughout the article for every change of subject the author used specific examples of supremacy crime with the names of the killers meeting the descriptions giving by herself. The strategies mostly used in this article that worked best were provided the examples of the killers and what they had done. The article really spoke out about supremacy crimes that continue to happen every day and that there needs to be changes to decrease the crime rate.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Threat to our own privacy on Facebook


The article “On Facebook, Biggest Threat to Your Private Data May Be You” was a great argument for this person to bring up in the newspaper. I think that the article definitely is working the argument through many different aspects such as the attitude and facts of what people express making their private lives known to friends. The author of this article starts off with much attitude about how Facebook cannot be very private if you open yourself up to that situation. For one example, if you do not know the person or haven’t been in contact with them for a very long time you should reject them because you never truly know who someone is through cyberspace.
This article is very believable in the sense that people use Facebook every day and share the most private feelings or information about where they are going, but they may be sharing it with the public or even people that they have become friends with that they do not know very well at all.
The author throughout the article proves her point to be true more and more. When she goes into detail about “terms of service,” she is right about Facebook basically owning us especially because most people do not actually read all of that information. With that part of the signing up for Facebook, there could be anything written in there that people just automatically agree with just to sign up with the program faster, so her point is very valid about a Facebook user not actually knowing their own privacy issues.
The different strategies used throughout were starting off with a strong attitude, opinions about if we are our own threat, and being able to distinguish between our public and private selves. This article was a very strong written one that really made the argument valid about us being our own threat to privacy.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

freestyle of why the music industry hates guitar hero

The music industry hates guitar hero and other music games that they say has taken money from them in the past. People in the music industry want it to stop, but the games being stopped would only hurt them in the end.  I think that the music games could increase business in the music industry if the CEO and publishers use it to their advantage. The music industry does not need to complain about the game makers; instead it should work with them to sell more products. This topic of how the music industry feels about game makers of music is interesting and could use more details to explain about the situation. I thought before reading the story that the music industry would be upset about losing money, so my thought was right. I just do not understand that if they are so upset why they would not just talk to the makers and make a business deal with them. Better money could be made for the music industry by labels and titles. Even if the license is a small price at first, it will help turn it into a big income in the end. In doing so the music industry could introduce new artists or bring back older ones. The music industry could make money off of the artists and the games as well so that they would get a win in the situation. I learned a little about how the music industry feels, but I am interested in knowing more to fully understand what the games are doing to make the industry hate them.