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http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/search.php?fulltext=obesity+and+fast+food&action=newsearch&sort=custom%3Asorthitsrank%2Cd

 

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/05/health/main591325.shtml

http://www.nber.org/aginghealth/2009no1/w14721.html

Bonding over Mascot Response

         The author most likely started with the research question about the new statues built.  Joe Lapointe probably didn’t know what the statues represented, and wanted to know why those specific ones were built.  When researching, he found all the history behind the statues.  The history is a major reason why they were probably built.  He explored the history, why they were built, and how people feel about them, which eventually leads to his purpose of explaining the college names and Indian tribes conflict.  N.C.A.A. deemed eighteen universities for their Indian tribe names as hostile or abusive.  The Indian groups must approve the institutions use of their names.  Florida’s name has been approved by the Seminole Tribe.  A new history course was started that lets the students learn about the Seminoles.  From the students’ points of view, they seem happy and proud to say they’re the Seminoles.  The research that Lapointe does definitely contributes to his purpose, because the information about the statues leads up to the college and Indian tribes conflict.

Is Google Making Us Stupid Response

I believe that Google may be making us stupid, but it’s making us lazier than anything else.  First, Carr starts off with saying he can sense that’s he’s becoming more stupid, because his concentration on reading starts to shift after only three pages.  He says he finds it difficult to really immerse himself in the reading.  I would definitely agree with his statement.  When I’m reading something on the Internet, I often skim it quickly rather than actually read the article in depth, because reading it would take too long, and because I become sidetracked very easily.  When reading an article I have to read, but not particularly want to read, I tend to start reading, then check Facebook, skim the article more, then check my email, and eventually finish skimming the article.  He even found research that supports the fact that people “bounce” from site to site. 

            Carr argues that the Internet is even taking over other technologies, such as maps, clocks, calculators, telephones, radios, and television.  I would disagree with that statement, because that’s not the Internet taking over, that’s computers in general.  I agree though, that the Internet has definitely started to become more like the media, with advertisements before videos, and flashy advertisements on the sides of web pages.  Google is making us lazy because we have the world’s information right at our fingertips, and we don’t need to find meaning in anything anymore.  It basically requires us not to think, even though we have the capability of finding deeper meaning in the reading that we were assigned.  Instead of finding the meaning, we’d rather be lazy and just type the question into Google to find the answer.  First, Google makes us lazy, and then it makes us stupid.

Joy - Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

1)   1) I would consider Bill Joy’s primary concern in this article to be about how he doesn’t want the world to have all robots in the future, and no humans.  Robots would eventually take the place of humans with all their technology.  Joy finds this really concerning and potentially dangerous.  Thinking about all of the technology used today for science seems like a good thing, but it could potentially be dangerous with all the new abuses.  Technology is already being used for the bad when any country goes to war, for example all the potential nuclear weapons could be extremely harmful to the human race.  Joy said he himself has worked toward the problem of robots taking over when he did computer work.   He stated that he found it very disturbing to know he had been working toward a larger problem. 

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        2)Joy uses many techniques to set up the problem, and he has a very effective way of going about it.  Joy first points out the problem by using personal anecdotes when he met Ray and John.  He introduces that the idea that robots through the passages that he took from Ray’s book, which was actually written by Kaczynski.  He also takes passages from Moravec.  They’re very good informational views but I found Joy’s own personal life history to be the most effective.   He talks about his love of science, math, and technology.  He states how he started working in technology and how he loved it.  He was even interested in robots and loved how there were ethical humans in the future with robots in Star Trek.  He had never thought about how his advancement in technology was pushing the future even more towards robots.  Joy makes a good use of the logos and ethos in the arguments. 

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             3) I think the issues brought up have taken on more relevance, but I don’t agree that humans will be a sub-race to robots one day.  I believe that our technology is increasing very quickly, but robots aren’t making the technology for us, we’re making our own technology.  We may have insane amounts of technology in the future but they won’t take over the human race.  I do agree that technology creeps up on us fast though; and we don’t even realize how much we’ve accomplished.  I think the relevance of science issues today are probably more relevant than they were then because of all the diseases.  I also think the problem with technology is that it can’t hold up against Mother Nature.  For example, just look at the radiation in Japan from the nuclear reactor plant hurt by the tsunami.  

Today, I watched half of the show "60 Minutes".

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7360240n&tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel
This was about the nuclear reactor plant in Japan, and how the U.S. believes it's more dangerous than the Japanese believe it to be.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7360250n&tag=contentMain;contentAux
This story about about removing "the N-word" from Huckleberry Finn, and replacing it with the word slave.  Censored books have already been sold to some schools.  Some people argue it takes away from the strong meaning of the book; while others believe it's just highlighting how people used to talk.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7360248n&tag=contentMain;contentAux
This section talked about the recent sexual abuses by priests, and how one man talks about changing it.

http://video.foxnews.com/
This was all about Libya and the potential war and how U.S. and England fired missiles at Libyan air defenses.

http://www.philly.com/philly/video/
I watched a bunch of short clips including: Mob madness during march, facebook spam, and the Dementri trial who was accused of racism.

http://www.cnn.com/video/
This was a video titled "Radiation: Facts and Falsehoods"
It talked about how the radiation compares to 3 mile island, and it's not deadly, but can make some of the workers sick.  They're worried that Japan isn't telling the people how truly dangerous it is.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/
I watched a lot of the recommended videos on the side.  Some were about Libya and action that the U.S. could take.  Some of it was about the war in Afghanistan and whether or not it's even worth continuing fighting.