Work Cited

I forgot to print a work cited page, I realize it may be too late, but I did want to make sure that I have it for you to access if needed.

Work Cited

Lopes, J. (2011, April 12). (J. Reis, Interviewer)

Ortega, M. (2011, Aprill 15). (J. Reis, Interviewer)

Peters, T. A. (2011). Left to Their Own Devices: The Future of Reference Services on Personal, Portable Information, Communication, and Entertainment Devices . The Reference Librarian , 88-97.

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Broadcast

Broadcast Recording

Living Like the Jetson's

Script

If you are worried about your technology being outdated, tune in to the story ahead.

WHEN THE JETSON’S AIRED DECADES AGO, THEIR WORLD SEEMED IMPOSSIBLY FAR AWAY, YET WE STAND TODAY CLOSER THAN MANY THOUGHT POSSIBLE.

IT TOOK FILM YEARS TO ADD SOUND.

IT TOOK TELEVISION DECADES TO GET COLOR.

YET IN LESS THAN TEN YEARS, COMPUTERS HAVE GONE FROM GIANT MONSTROSITIES THAT SAT ON DESKS AND TABLETOPS TO HANDHELD DEVICES THAT ALLOW INSTANT ACCESS TO MILLIONS OF PLACES AND PEOPLE WITH THE TOUCH BUTTON THAT ISN’T THERE.

TODAY, LIBRARIES ARE USING TECHNOLOGY TO REACH OUT TO STUDENTS 24 HOURS A DAY WITHOUT STEPPING FOOT INTO THE LIBRARY, STUDENTS TAKE NOTES ON TABLET COMPUTERS AND NEVER LET THEIR CELL PHONES OUT OF THEIR HANDS LONG ENOUGH TO PAY ATTENTION IN CLASS.

SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR EVERYONE THAT IS EAGER TO GET THE LATEST iPAD THAT APPLE RECENTLY RELEASED?

THIS MEANS THAT IN THE LAST DECADE TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED SO FREQUENTLY THAT NEW COMPUTER MODELS ARE RELEASED EVERY SIX MONTHS, NEW SMART PHONES ARE RELEASED MONTHLY AND, THE LATEST CRAZE, TABLETS, ARE BEING RELEASED BY A NEW MANUFACTURER WHAT SEEMS LIKE, EVERY WEEK.

DO NOT WORRY ABOUT WHEN THE NEXT PRODUCT IS COMING AND JUST BUY WHAT YOU WANT NOW BECAUSE IF YOU ARE WAITING FOR THE LATEST AND GREATEST, IT IS HERE.

DO NOT WAIT.

IF YOU CONTINUE WAIT, YOU WILL BE WAITING FOREVER BECAUSE TECHNOLOGY IS ALWAYS CHANGING, IT IS NOT SLOWING DOWN AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, YOU WILL BE IN A FLYING CAR WITH GEORGE JETSON, READYING YOURSELF FOR A DAY OFFICE WITH MR. SPACELY.

In My Humble Opinion # 2

President Obama has been reminded every day since his election as president why this country may not have been ready for a Black president, but why it was time to force one on them.

In order to become president of the United States it is required that you were born in the United States.

During the previous election, Senator McCann proved that it is possible to have been born on a United States Air Force Base in another country and still be eligible to run.

Obama, who was born in Hawaii, continues to fight for his right to be president.

At this point, the argument is so ill conceived that birtherists are arguing his birth certificates legitimacy based on the fact that his birth certificate listed him as "African" instead of "Negro" which, in 1961, was apparently the more popular term.

This entire argument is quite possibly bu!!sh**.

People are asking for his birth certificate so that they can find flaws, but if you look at anyone's too closely of course you will find flaws.

You find flaws because hospitals get lazy, because someone decided to take a short cut or maybe because the person filling it out missed something, but that doesn't and, most importantly, shouldn't take away from its legitimacy.

I learned in a race and ethnicity class that there are close to 900 hate groups in our country and that California, Texas and Florida are leading the way in the amount of groups they have.

To me, the questioning of Obama's right to be president is less about questioning where is was born and more about empowering those hate groups to have, in their eyes, a legitimate reason to believe that a Black man should not be the president of our country.

All of this drama proves that this country may not have been ready for a Black president, but it also proves that it was time for a strong man to stand up and prove that he cannot be broken.

Obama, in my opinion, may not be the best president this country has every seen, and by far not the worst, but he is one of the strongest to date.

Every day he wakes up knowing that every decision he makes will be criticized and it will be criticized not only because of the decision itself, but also because he is Black.

Knowing that every decision, good or bad, is overshadowed by the color of my skin, mine happens to be tan, is daunting.

So what do you do when nothing seems to matter but whether or not your skin color is light enough to be make decisions for this country?

The answer, I think, is simple--you do it anyway.

Nothing makes ignorant people more angry than complying with their requests and going about your day as if they mean nothing to you, whether they tear apart at your insides or not.

I am one that likes to go against the grain and do things that aggravate people that are ignorant to our changing times.

It is because of this that I would love to see Obama re-elected in 2012 and maybe another person of color after that or maybe even a woman, who will need to be just as strong.

The ideal presidential candidate, for me, would be a woman of color so she can really send all the ignorant, racist, sexist dullards in the country completely off their rocker.

Word of the Week #10

1. Fräulein

2. MLB Proposal

3. And yet that actually happened on Friday night as the fräulein above made sure to place all 10 of her digits on her very earnest offer.

4. Noun - an unmarried woman; traditionally used in respect to an unmarried German woman

5. The fräulein woman embarrassed herself by asking Johnny Depp for his hand in marriage in front of a large crowd when everyone but her knew that he was already married.

Japanese Internment

Giving up your entire life is something that no person can imagine, but in the spring of 1942, Japanese-American citizens living in the Western United States, experienced just this.

The United States government issued an executive order for all citizens of Japanese descent, whether they had ever been to Japan or not, to pack up their things and prepare to move.

The governments reasoning for the “evacuation” was to keep Japanese-American citizens safe, but it is now believed to have been an act of fear that these individuals would attack the US in support of their mother country.

The government set up 10 camps in the Western United States for this “evacuation” but failed to provide more than a tent with Army cot.

The government had hopes that the individuals living in these camps would create their own self-sufficient system on these lands, but when provided with no running water and arid soil cultivation was next to impossible.

The camps were considered temporary by the government, but ended up as the home of thousands of Japanese-Americans for close to a year.

These temporary camps were set up in horse stables covered by tents with partitions separating families and dormitories for bachelors.

There was no running water or place for cooking.

By no means were these Nazi death camps, lives were not taken in mass, but that does not and should not take away from what was taken from these citizens.

The US government took their homes, their belongings and, what may be most important, their rights as citizens in this country.

When it was all over, they gave them nothing back but the freedom that never should have been taken from them, for their protection or not.

In 1988, the US government offered each surviving individual taken from their homes and placed in these temporary homes $20,000 compensation for what they had gone through 40 years prior, but it would seem as though this offering was too little too late to make amends for their suffering.

With the events of the 20^th century and the marked tragedy of 9/11, the idea of another “evacuation” occurring in the US is probable.

People constantly live in fear and although the US government may not be able to create another mass “evacuation,” other US citizens living in fear are capable of ostracizing minorities and making them feel so unwelcome in their own homes that they force them to move.

Preventing another Japanese Internment Camp era would appear to be an easy task, but with a society that strives on fear of the unknown, fear and contempt of strangers will over override the ability to do the right thing with an open mind and open heart.

Destruction of Families

The Japanese Internment Memorial brought out more emotion than I thought that it would have.

I am not of Japanese descent, but I am of Chinese descent and knowing that this very easily could have happened to my grandparents was a painful thought.

Two vignettes stood out the most to me and it has been difficult to choose one, however, I chose to focus on the vignette where the family is preparing to move.



The pain in the little girl's eyes as her father throws her doll in the fire because they are only allowed to take so many items, the fear in the mother's body language as she shields her eyes from the torture of her family falling apart, the young girl in the background refusing her father's consoling hand and the overall sense of fear and destruction of family that is felt in this vignette is heart wrenching.

I can see myself being that little girl that clings to her father as he destroys the happiness of her childhood and involuntarily takes away the joy in her life.

These are not happy thoughts, as I imagine that it was not a happy time in anyone's life.

I never knew that a memorial existed for this horrible event in our history, but after having seen it, the images that I saw will remain ingrained in my memory to remind me of what happened to others and what I hope never happens to anyone again.

Feature Story Prep

Is the tablet killing the computer?

Facts:

- Home office revenue is up an estimated one percent for FY11 compared to previous year’s reports of three percent growth domestically and eight percent growth internationally, according to the Best Buy, Inc. annual reports

- Tablet sales have doubled since 2010

- Asus, a pc manufacturer, originally predicted a three percent growth in sales for Q1, but recently revised that to estimate a 10 percent decrease

- EReader sales are up 116% YoY

- iPad has 78% of tablet market share

- December 2010, Amazon announced that the Kindle 3, their version of EReader, is the best selling product in their history

- Kindles sold more in 73 days of 2010 holiday season than in all of 2009

- CEO of Acer, a pc manufacturer, recently quit.

Contacts:

Amir Masood

Apple Genius

Apple Store – Oakridge

(408) 832-4801

He has hands on experience with Apple products, and with the iPad being the tablet with the largest market share and, what I would consider the most brand loyal consumers, he is a great source for how the sale of iPads are affecting sales of Mac computers.

Aaron Langone

Customer Solutions Manager

Best Buy – Blossom Hill

(408)979-1591

As a manager responsible for the sales and profitability of the store, Aaron has worked with the company for almost a decade. His roots are in home office and he has hands on experience with the trends and fads of the computer world and if this tablet fad will phase out computers.

John North

District Customer Solutions Manager

Best Buy – District 62

(925) 726-1522

As a district manager with the company he can help provide me with insight on a larger scale than just one location. He works with the entire South Bay Area and parts of the North Bay Area.

Joseph Lopes

Sales Specialist

Fry’s Electronics – Concord

(925) 852-0300

As a sales specialist at an electronics store he specializes in car electronics and has seen first hand how some new tablets are able to connect into consumers cars and how this can change the world of computing, as we know it.

Outline:

Introduction – lead. Brief explanation of how the tablet is killing the pc. Brief explanation of why this matters. Brief explanation of how it affects readers.

Body – What is a tablet? What are its features and why is it so popular? What is a pc? What are its features, why did it originally become popular and why is it losing popularity? What are the numbers showing? Is it a trend or is it just going to evolve more?

Conclusion – remind reader of everything previously read. Reminder of why they should care and how it affects them. Closing statement.

Possible Sidebars:

Different Tablets – manufacturers, prices, differentiating features

Different PCs – manufacturers, prices, differentiating features

Different EReaders – manufacturers, prices, differentiating features