Friday, November 22, 2013
A traitor's life
Many citizens, including myself were shocked when we they first found out about the NSA leaks. I at first lost a lot of trust and respect for my government. But wait once I really thought about it. What is the NSA looking for… They are not interested in our personal lives. No one gives a crap about joe shmos big promotion. We are just a bunch of fish in a ocean. The NSA is looking for terrorists domestic and foreign. They are looking for people who are going to attack America on it's own soil. I would fork up some of my privacy rights for my safety. People are just blowing this out of proportion because it is another excuse to blame the government for their problems. Snowden made public that he was the one leaking the information to the public in a interview with Greenwald. Once this was public the hunt for snowmen began and then the newspapers were told to destroy their evidence and David Miranda was held in Heathrow airport for violating certain laws. Do I think Snowden is a traitor yes because all he has done thrown this country into an upheaval.
Monday, November 18, 2013
annotated bibliography
My digital story mainly focuses on the affects of social media on high school students losing scholarships.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/01/23/catholic-high-school-football-star-expelled-loses-scholarship-over-racist-sexual-tweets/
The article tells the story how a football star lost his scholarship to a prestigious school. Not only did he lose his scholarship he was also let go from his school because of his tweets. This will be evidence of how dangerous tweets are.
http://www.stack.com/2011/11/21/high-school-social-media-mistakes/
This article talks about the mistakes that you can make that will make you vulnerable to losing your scholarship. This article I will use when at the end of the story I will talk about ways to protect you and be careful.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/20/caitlin-ortiz-molloy-coll_n_880837.html
This scholarship talks about how simply putting rap lyrics on a Facebook post can damage your chances of losing your scholarship. This is similar to Andrew Coonfare because he did something similar.
http://www.fastweb.com/financial-aid/articles/3478-some-scholarship-sponsors-review-the-online-presence-of-finalists-when-selecting-winners
This articles talks about how before giving out scholarships organizations will check social media. They check social media to see if the contestant is worthy or not. This is the factor that did not allow Andrew Coonfare to get the scholarship.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Friday, November 8, 2013
Digital story proposal
Jacob Hedley
Dr. Shut-in
November 8 2013
Digital story proposal
My digital story
relates to something that happened to my friend in real life. A friend of mine
lost the opportunity to be in the honors program at prestigious school. This
story affects many students in the world go through the same problem. This
relates to what we have learned in class and what we have discussed all year.
When we had a speaker come in and discuss with us and tells us about people
losing their jobs because of their social media posts.
Situation: Student gets into a
prestigious college and then loses scholarship because of inappropriate tweets.
Theme: Be careful what you display
on the Internet. Because what you display on the Internet can come back to haunt
you.
Outline:
The
student named Andrew Coonfare will have straight A’s all through college and
receive and 36 on his ACT. Andrew will be involved on the hockey team and will
be the captain. He will have everything going perfectly on in his life. He will
have a great family. He will apply to many schools and will get accepted and be
given many scholarships. Once he has been given scholarships he will be given a
reviewable by the collages. Hey will go through all of his Facebook and then
all of his twitter. Once they go to his twitter they will realize that is not
as well rounded as they thought he was. They will soon realize that he posts
most inapporipate tweets. The bias repots he would receive would make him
bankrupt for life. All of his tweets are derogatory to anyone and are
completely repulsive. They will eventually decided to reject him and not give
him a scholarship. His fiends and family will be disappointed and he will be
drowned in school debt.
To
tell this story I will make a new blogger account and blog to this to the
public so that they will know Andrew Coonfare mistakes. Once they know his
mistakes the ball will be in their court to avoid the mistakes. I have strong
experience with blogger because of our web logs. I think this will be the most
successful way for me to do this project because I know I would struggle with
making a website.
I choose this website because it had examples of why people
got fired.
Monday, November 4, 2013
web log china
Many people in the United States are not aware of the
censorship issues in china. The Chinese government controls what the citizens
and residents of china are allowed to view and publish on the Internet. Back a
while ago Google was having problems with Chinese sensorship and almost left
the country completely. Now there are individuals and groups blogging about the
injustices in china. These blogs are micro blogs and millions of people follow
and view these blogs. Users have become online celebrities. These blogs have
become a huge headache for the Chinese government. In a government system were
their citizens have little to no rights and do not have the ability to hold the
right of freedom of speech these blogs challenge the Chinese government’s sovereignty.
The Chinese government has caught one of the popular bloggers; Charles Xue was brought
up on the charges of using prostitution, which is illegal in China. The Chinese
government was not able to charge him with the charges of speaking out against
the government. Though catching him will help the Chinese government catch the
Big V.
Monday, October 28, 2013
Blog post Minerals
Many American and
western companies use minerals mined in Africa. Many of these minerals go into
consumer goods that are used every single day by an average citizen. However,
these citizens do not know where and how the minerals are produced. They are
mainly made in mines that are controlled by warlords. These warlords then use
these minerals to sell and to trade for weapons to control their regions. They
enslave many citizens and conquered people. They use children to work in their
mines and to be soldiers in their armies. The warlords do not care one bit
about the people of the region and concisely abuses them.
If there was a law
that outlawed the trade of these minerals could this be put to an end? The SEC
(Securities and Exchange Commission) is now making a law that enforces
companies to show where they got their minerals. Companies are not stopping to
buy these minerals because they will not be allowed to use them. Apple, Motorola,
and Advanced devices are some of the companies that use these minerals. The law
is expected to come into effect this year. The SEC is still drafting a
regulation for this issue. This will cause many companies to lose money but for
the best.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/a-rule-aimed-at-warlords-upends-african-mines-08042011.html
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Social project
Jacob Hedley
Social Action
Project FYS
Dr. Shutkin
Many people buy diamonds are not really
sure where the diamonds originate. These diamonds can come from Russia or from
Africa. The way they come from Africa is usually referred to as “Blood
Diamonds” because the way they are obtained. The way these Diamonds make their
way to western countries are through the illegal trade. The Diamonds are traded
by the warlords, which go to arm dealers. The arm dealers will then sell the
diamonds to third parties. The diamonds are obtained through slavery. When a
warlord conquers a village, he takes the able inhabitants of the village and
forces them to work in the mines. The inhabitants that cannot work in the mines
are killed. Some of the children are forced to serve in the warlord’s army. The
workers are not given breaks and are forced to work until they die. The
warlords are not concerned for their health because another village means more
workers. If a worker is injured they will be killed or have their limbs hacked off
with a machete.
The diamonds fuel the warlords with
money, weapons, and powers. They are the main reason why the warlords have the
ability to fight and to continue to fight. Without the diamonds the warlords
would not be able to obtain the resources necessary for their rebellion. So to
stop the warlords and to stop this injustice all you have to do is stop the
trade of the diamonds. There was bill that was created to stop this. The bill
forced all diamonds to have a receipt and prove where the diamonds came from
and how they were obtained. The bill has yet to pass. A lot of people will have
the diamonds and not even know it. The diamonds are in a lot of consumer
products.
The way I could alert people through this
injustice is through a documentary. The movie “Blood Diamond” was created in
2006 and starred Leonardo DiCaprio. The film takes place in 1990s Sierra Leone
and was about a arms dealer that had a change of heart and found a ruby red
diamond. He helps a man who was forced in the mines to make public the issues
of the blood diamond. The film was a blockbuster hit and was very popular in
the United Sates of America. The film was the first time I was introduced to
the issue. The film was the first time the issue was introduced to a lot of
westerners. Because of the effect the film had on others, and me I have decided
to do a documentary for my social action project. I have experience with video
editing and making movies. I will show clips from the movies and then relate
them to what is actually going on a do voice overs to narrate what I am talking
about. This is the best way to do this project because I think movies and
documentary get the message across better to people. The YouTube video Kony
2012 had a very large impact and made people across the United States alert to
what was going on with the children soldiers. I hope my video will have the
same effect.
Works cited.
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