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.

Powell, T. (2011, April 2). (J. Reis, Interviewer)

Stahr, B. (2011). Text Message Reference Service: Five Years Later. The Reference Librarian , 9-19.

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If you are worried about your technology being outdated, tune in to the story ahead.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

Copy Edit the World #2

1. Access Magazine, March 2011- Front cover

Comedienne Anjelah Johnson

This should be--Comedian Anjelah Johnson

2. Access Magazine, March 2011- Page 3

Our cover girl, comedienne and actress Anjelah Johnson, grew up in San Jose and recently moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career.

This should be--Our cover girl, comedian and actress Anjelah Johnson, grew up in San Jose and recently moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career.

3. Access Magazine, March 2011- Page 3

Filmmakers will unveiled more than 170 films during the festival, which ran from March 2 to 12.

This should be--Filmmakers unveiled more than 170 films during the festival, which ran from March 2 to 12.

4. Access Magazine, March 2011- Page 3

This level of local collaboration has developed Cinequest's identity, says Hussey.

This should have quotations--"This level of collaboration has developed Cinequest's identity," says Hussey.

5. Access Magazine, March 2011- Page 7

The true colors of a comedienne

This should be--The true colors of a comedian

6. Access Magazine, March 2011- Page 7

During the pilot-audition season in Los Angeles, the comedienne and actress opened up to Feature Editor Jennifer Elias and writer Lidia Gonzalez.

This should be--During the pilot-audtion season in Los Angeles, the comedian and actress opened up to Feature Editor Jennifer Elias and writer Lidia Gonzalez.

7. Access Magazine, March 2011- Page 8

And Johnson's famous Vietnamese manicurist character, Tammy, was born on Myspace -- The start of what Johnson jokes as a cult-following.

This should be lower case--And Johnson's famous Vietnamese manicurist character, Tammy, was born on Myspace -- the start of what Johnson jokes as a cult-following.

8. Access Magazine, March 2011- Page 8

Her younger brother Kenneth, she says, was her inspira-tion for her MAD TV character, Bon Qui Qui.

This should be together and have a comma after brother--Her younger brother, Kenneth, she says, was her inspiration for her MAD TV character, Bon Qui Qui.

9. Access Magazine, March 2011-Page 8

I believe Bon Qui Qui is also one of those -- A lot of people act the way she acts, and a lot of the time Bon Qui Qui will say things that we only wish we could.

This should be lower case and not have a comma before and--I believe Bon Qui Qui is also one of those -- a lot of people act the way she acts and a lot of the time Bon Qui Qui will says things that we only wish we could.

10. Access Magazine, March 2011-Page 8

This year the young actress will be tying-the-knot with fiance, Manwell Reyes, at an undis-closed location in the Bay Area.

This should not have a hyphen--This year the young actress will be tying-the-knot with fiance, Manwell Reyes, at an undisclosed location in the Bay Area.

11. Access Magazine, March 2011-Page 8

Ironically, Johnson will spend the evening of April Fool's Day performing at the Im-prov Comedy Club in San Jose where a portion of proceeds will be donated to the Lincoln High performing arts program.

This should not have a hyphen--Ironically, Johnson will spend the evening of April Fool's Day performing at the Improv Comedy Club in San Jose where a portion of proceeds will be donated to the Lincoln High performing arts program.

12. Access Magazine, March 2011-Page 10

... members Dominic "Goldenchyld" Cueto, Nick Ngo, Ryan "DJ Replay" Buendia, Germel "G-Wrex" Boado, Paolo "Cutso" Bello, and Aaron "Squareweezy" Aquino are a group of guys who have shared roots in turntablism and friendship since the early 1990s.

This should not have a comma before and--... members Dominic "Goldenchyld" Cueto, Nick Ngo, Ryan "DJ Replay" Buendia, Germel "G-Wrex" Boado, Paolo "Cutso" Bello and Aaron "Squareweezy" Aquino are a group of guys who have shared roots in turntablism and friendship since the early 1990s.

13. Access Magazine, March 2011-Page 10

While they can be heard at venues throughout the Bay Area, the group also marked its territory in New York, Miami, and the Philippines.

This should not have a comma before and--While they can be heard at venues throughout the Bay Area, the group also marked its territory in New York, Miami and the Philippines.

14. Access Magazine, March 2011-Page 10

The group's distinct sound is a concoction of soul, breaks, booty bass, and dirty south blended with rock, pop and '80s.

This should not have a comma before and--The group's distinct sound is a concoction of soul, breaks, booty bass and dirty south blended with rock, pop and '80s.

15. Access Magazine, March 2011-Page 8

Together the diversity of San Jose and the cutthroat mentality from the "City of Angels" has brought Johnson fame, happiness and a fiance she never thought possible, as a teenager.

This should not have a comma after possible--Together the diversity of San Jose and the cutthroat mentality from the "City of Angels" has brought Johnson fame, happiness and a fiance she never thought possible as a teenager.

Feature Topic Ideas

1. Women in Consumer Electronics Industry

Perceived effects of being a minority on promotion and pay

2. Gluten Free and Celiac's Disease

The new no carb diet which for some is not voluntary

3. Diabetes

The effects of diabetes on individuals with family members that have it

4. Sports Safety

How different leagues handle sports safety

5. Mobile computing

Its affect on regular computer sales and usage

NPR Interview Analysis

Fresh Air host, Terry Gross, seems to have done his research on “The Daily Show” host, Jon Stewart.

The questions he asks begin with basic interview questions about his show, what he does and how he started his career.

Gross points out the political nature of Stewart’s show and questions how he is able to lighten the mood and make politics into comedy.

At some point in the interview they even discuss Stewart’s bar mitzvah and the type of music that was played.

It seems as though Gross had a strategy, a simple one—have a conversation, have only a few questions that MUST be asked and go with the flow.

The flow of the interview is very much that, but with points here and there that the interview was intended to cover.

Every once in a while they would discuss the rally and politics, but more than anything, they seemed to be having a “getting to know you” conversation.

One of the best things I can take away from this interview is that mastering the skill of leaving work at work and genuinely taking personal time, is a skill that I am not the only one trying to master.

The evasive answers were handled in a manner that was neither harassing nor forcing an answer, in what seemed to be an attempt to keep a good relationship between the two.

Gross and Stewart had the relationship of an interviewer and interviewee, but they made it a conversation instead of a question and answer period, which is what I believe a good interview should be.

The biggest thing I am taking away from this interview, is that a good interview is one in which both the interviewer and the interviewee are engaged, comfortable, not pushing buttons, pushing boundaries and having a good, honest conversation.

Conversation is a great way to get people talking and to keep people talking and hopefully if they are comfortable enough, they will forget they are being interviewed and may be more likely to share details that they otherwise would not.

Have a small amount of questions in mind that you want to ask, allow the interviewee to veer off track, but bring them back nicely, control the interview and make it a conversation.

In My Humble Opinion

Charlie Sheen will be staring in TLC’s latest television documentary, “Charlie Sheen: On the Brink.”

In my humble opinion, this is the biggest load of crap to come across television since “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”

Sheen is a drug addicted celebrity and the public is saying that this behavior is okay by following him on twitter, watching his USTREAM videos and, soon tuning into his TLC channel documentary.

Everyone wants to say what bad things he has done and make fun of how crazy it is, but it is like when a baby does something bad, but you laugh because it’s cute and so the baby does it again to get a reaction out of you.

Sheen is that baby and the public needs to start acting like his parents and stop laughing, because it’s not cute anymore.

Sheen is probably the only person in the world, to be arrested with a brick of cocaine—which I looked up and that is equivalent to one kilo or 2.2 pounds—and insist that at home rehab was the best thing for him.

After all of the things he has done to jeopardize his celebrity, his job, and his life, you would think that he would be a little more self-centered, but he WAS considerate enough to “demand” that the cast and crew be paid through the remaining episodes of the now canceled “Two and a Half Men” season.

His “generosity” is negated by the fact that the shows remaining episodes and seasons are only canceled because Sheen could not keep the cocaine or the prostitutes out of his bedroom.

I can only imagine how TLC will be portraying Sheen in this so-called documentary that will be featuring MacKenzie Phillips discussing how she dealt with drugs and her recovery.

The show is also supposed to be examining the relationships with the women in his life—I wonder if this will also include the prostitutes caught in the hotel room when he has a psychotic break.

Hmmm.

I will say this, we all criticize, laugh and poke fun of Sheen because he cannot seem to get his sh*t straight, but at the end of the day we are still laughing at that baby and until we stop laughing, he is going to keep doing what he is doing and making money for it.

In my humble opinion, I’m winning!

Blog #5 Mystery Character

As part of a traditional Italian American family growing up in Staten Island, New York, it was difficult to not become the “mama’s boy” that I am proud to be. I graduated from the State University of New York and now I enjoy spending at much time as possible at the shore. I love making people laugh and a good prank war is always a good time.

I have an accent that is native to small, smoggy area of the east coast. I love going out and spending time with my seven closest friends. I love to party and go out. I’m a pretty chill guy until it is time to go out and I have to put my t-shirt on. Once I am out, I love bringing the ladies home to see my pad and sometimes they even stay the night.

I worked at a t-shirt store a couple of summers ago and spent some time in an ice cream shop last summer, but found my way back to selling t-shirts. In my spare time I go to the gym, I do laundry and spend some time at the tanning salon and not always in that order.

I love traveling—I recently went to Miami and am planning a trip to Italy with some of my friends.

For all of you that are reading this, if you are a hot girl, come through and try not to step on any grenades on your way.

Lead Writing

1. Reverend Lead

Orders by the Vatican forced the editor of the Catholic magazine, America, to resign because of articles he published that were critical of the pope.

2. Students Drunk

Alleged alcohol consumption is believed to be the cause for the destruction of on-campus housing at Pacific Coast College over the weekend.

A Fly on the Wall

When you close your eyes and breathe in deep a sense of calm and serenity can be felt. Sitting where you are feels like nothing else in the world matters. Upon taking another breath, the cool chill of the wind strikes you and a shiver runs through your body. The sun is out but is not warming this morning.

When you open your eyes, you realize that the world is not as beautiful as it feels or smells when you cannot see it. The smell of cigarettes hits you and the chatter of conversation around the bench where you sit takes you out of that serene state. As you look around, hundreds of students are walking from one class to another, talking with friends, listening to music and some just walking quietly.

When you first sat down, classes were not out and peace existed on the calm of the campus bench. In a matter of minutes, the campus is flooded with students chatting, wheels of scooters and skateboards on the sidewalk, and people on cell phones obnoxiously speaking as if everyone around them is part of their conversation.

As students pass by bits of music from headphones playing too loud can be heard. Conversations about what happened over the weekend and how work is a pain overshadow the calm that once was.

The sun is allowing what little grass there is on campus to shine and glimmer. If it weren't for the chill in the air and the breeze blowing one might think that it is Spring time. Sadly it is not, it is another school day and class will begin soon. You must let go of your spot on the bench, break away from the hope of peace coming soon, and find your place in the crowd of students and make your way to class.

My Favorite Writing

My Favorite Writing

Title: The 50th Law

Author: 50 Cent and Robert Greene

Page: 69

Date of Publication: 2009

The piece that I chose is an introduction to the book's third chapter about opportunism. It is a brief paragraph that describes why we should take each situation for what it is and come from it a better person.

My family is not the easiest to be around--they torment, they ridicule and they make my entire life about them. Everything that I have done in my life up until now has been about them and why I am doing things for myself instead of for them. With every day that passes I am learning that at this point in my life, it is okay for my life to be about me, but more importantly, I am learning that everything that has happened before today has helped me become the person that I am today.

This passage helps me see that not only is it okay for my life to be about me, but in order to be the best me I can be, I NEED to take each situation, each circumstance and each interaction for what it is, find the good in it and grow. That is all I can expect from myself and at the end of the day, it is all anyone can expect of me.

What makes good writing for me is inspiration and feeling. Good writing is about what emotions the writer invokes of the reader and this passage speaks to me and my situation more than most other things I read, which for me, makes it good writing.

Word of the Week #8

1. Dichotomous

2. Baumann, D., Henry, J., James, J., Jeffries, V., Rivaux, S. L., Sheets, J., et al. (2008). The Intersection of Race, Poverty, and Risk: Understanding the Decision to Provide Services to Clients and to Remove Children. Child Welfare League of America

3. Logistic regression analysis allows for examination of potential predictors (e.g., race, risk, income) of a dichotomous outcome (e.g., whether to close a case or act on it, whether to provide FBSS or remove).

4. Adjective - divided or dividing into parts (dictionary.com)

5. The dichotomous voting results reflected attitudes toward current and potential political parties.

Word of the Week #7

1. Elided

2. Rothenberg, P. (Ed.) (2006). Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues. New York: Worth Publishers

3. Women are further elided through a popular and revealing analogy between 'women' and the colonised.

4. Verb - To omit (a vowel, consonant or syllable) in pronunciation; to surpress, omit ignore or pass over

5. Some individuals would prefer to elide the holocaust from our history books because they believe that it did not actually happen.

Word of the Week #6

1. Dichotomy

2. The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics by Nina Rosenstand

Rosenstand, N. (2009). The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics. San Diego: McGrawHill.

3. And if you claim that "it is my way or the highway," then you are bifurcating--you are creating a false dichotomy (unless, of course, we're really talking about a situation with no third possibility, such as being pregnant--you can't be a little bit pregnant; it's either/or).

4. Noun - separation of different or contradictory things, a separation into two divisions that differ widely from or contradict each other

5. The classroom had become a dichotomy during the debate on raising the legal drinking age.

Word of the Week #5

1. Bifurcating

2. The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics by Nina Rosenstand
Rosenstand, N. (2009). The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics. San Diego: McGrawHill.

3. And if you claim that "it is my way or the highway," then you are bifurcating--you are creating a false dichotomy (unless, of course, we're really talking about a situation with no third possiblity, such as being pregnant--you can't be a little bit pregnant; it's either/or).

4. trasitive and intransitive verb/adjective - divide in two, to be split or branched off into two parts, or split something into two parts.

5. When discussing politics in class, the teacher noticed that the class was bifurcating, those pro-choice and those pro-life.

Word of the Week #4

1. Tacit

2. The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics by Nina Rosenstand

Rosenstand, N. (2009). The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics. San Diego: McGrawHill

3. Wrong, because we also have civil codes of ethics, such as rules for employees in a workplace, politicians in local government, and students on a campus, and because we have a tacit understanding of moral expectations among professionals, among friends, and among family members.

4. Adjective - understood or implied without being stated openly

5. My employees at work have a tacit understanding that they need to correct their mistakes before I find out about them so they don't get in trouble.

Word of the Week #3

1. Repugnant

2. The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics by Nina Rosenstand

Rosenstand, N. (2009). The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics. San Diego: McGrawHill

3. A form of "moral grammar" is hardwired into our brain, and even children recognize that there is a difference between something being just a matter of cultural choice, and something being morally repugnant.

4. Adjective - distasteful, objectionable, or offensive

5. My sister made a repugnant comment that made me cringe.

Word of the Week #2

1. Banality

2. The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics by Nina Rosenstand

Rosenstand, N. (2009). The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics. San Diego: McGrawHill.

3. The conclusion reached by Ardent and published in her book Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is that the German public who had an inkling of what was going on and the Nazis who were actively engaged in the Endlosung, or the "Final Solution," were not evil in the sense that they (or most of them) deliberately sought to gain personal advantage by causing pain and suffering to others.

4. Adjective - devoid of freshness or originality (banal)

5. The banality of the speeches my managers give at meetings makes everyone fall asleep.

Super Bowl Ad

My Favorite Super Bowl Ad

I have always loved watching the Super Bowl, some years it is more for the commercials than the game, as I am a San Francisco 49ers fan and they have had some what of an off decade.

I can watch this commercial over and over for a few reasons. As an avid fan of rock, paper, scissors for settling arguments the commercial is relatable to a large audience, almost everyone has played the game at some point. It also is simple and entertaining, which is what all Super Bowl commercials should be. It does not try to complicate its message or story line, it has a simple message and gets it across well.

Word of the Week #1

1. Laurels

2. This word was found in a news article on the San Francisco Giants website (http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110130&content_id=16535000&vkey=news_sf&c_id=sf)

3. "Call it resting on one's laurels, or call it wisely refraining from fixing what ain't broke."

4. Noun - honor won, as for achievement in a field or activity (I am glad I chose this word, I assumed it was a synonym for morals or beliefs)

5. Little Johnnie's basketball team had never been beaten, he was resting on their laurels to carry them through this tournament.

All About Me

I do not speak to my immediate family. My mother and my sister could be considered two peas in a pod. They are in love with every man that comes their way, they are dependent on them for attention, and ask everything of others but give nothing in return. I am the exact opposite of that. I wish things were different with my mother and sister, but recently I have discovered that they are not going to change, so I have to. I have to understand that there is nothing wrong with me for wanting to be independent and successful--ON MY OWN, WITHOUT A MAN! So, that is exactly what I am going to do and it is why I am here today.

This is my second time at San Jose State. The attended two years ago, thought I graduated and found out after graduation that there were errors in my transcript. After a long process of reapplying to school, here I am. I could not be happier to finally be back in school, figuring out my future and hopefully this time around finding out a lot more about myself.

I am a Public Relations major with a minor in communications. Until recently, I had no idea what I wanted to do with that. I decided on public relations by looking at a drop down menu of major options, having no real idea of what it is. My second semester into the program I fell in love, but I still had no idea what I was going to do with it. I am an avid sports fan. My dream job is to be the Director of Communications for the San Francisco Giants.

As a writer my biggest weakness is editing. I auto correct in my head and sometimes miss small errors. Being aware of this opportunity helps me slow down when editing and even read out loud so I have minimal errors (hopefully). My biggest strength is my ability to write for an audience and relate to them.

I have no favorite color, if I was forced to choose, I would select the color I wear most often which would be white. I love to cook and spend time with friends. I live with my grandparents right now and my grandma does most of the cooking, so I must say, eating her food is one of my favorite things to do.