#6 : Experience with blogging

I never knew blogging before until it was introduced in my English 101 class last semester by professor Chris. I really enjoyed it last semester. It's not that I didn't take blogging seriously this semester, I just didn't put enough time to it. I took a lot of classes this semester. I fell behind in some blogs. Blogging actually helps improving your writing skills and let's you share your ideas with other readers and have an impact on them.

                                            

Blogging is also an efficient way to engage students in conversation with each other, and it makes students who are unwilling to speak up in class feel more comfortable writing their thoughts and responding to the thoughts of others in a blog or comment format.  Using blogs allows students with different learning styles to interact with the class.

I have no suggestion to professor Chris because using blogs in class is a good idea, although its a lot of writing, I can't complain since this is a writing class. I think he made an excellent job giving students engaging topics, and giving enough time for blogs grading. Its a nice technique and you should continue doing it with the coming students. I wish you all the best and good luck in your future classes. It was a good experience being in your class.

#5 Media

In the modern day, the role of media can never be overvalued. from morning to night the human mind is exposed to it.There are various forms of media but the most popular ones are print media and audio-visual media. All news papers, magazines and printed advertisements from the print media while films, radio and televisions are included in audio-visual media. In a modern society the media do not work independently because it is dominated by powerful, selfish and greedy businessmen and politicians who wish to fill human mind with stuff suitable to their mean ends.

The role of media is vital in communication of messages and information. In the present time, people are alert and wish to know what is going around the world. Besides, media is useful in communicating messages also, perhaps its best potential is exposed by the businessmen. Commercial advertising simply depends on media. From shop to shop, everything demands publicity. The market of commercial advertising is so rich that viewers at home enjoy entertaining programs and films free of cost only with the condition that commercial breaks are introduced during them.

Sometimes the media is being misused. It is being employed for spreading misinformation and confusion. Even advertising is not honest. They only show you what they want you to see. For example, when a new medicine comes out, they tell you how its going to make you good and healthy, but after three for four months, we hear that commercial with the low tone "Have you or a loved one ever taken the drug ......., please pay attention because you may be...." and it goes on. I will be like that's not what they said about that drug before. They just don't care about the drug, they care about their profits.

AE#4 : Evils of the Economic Systems

Capitalism: A love a story. A film by Michael Moore that criticizes the economic system in America. I'm not bothered about statistics and numbers, but when 1% of the population of a country not only own 90% of the wealth but also can use that wealth to directly control that country, then there is a problem there. Capitalism is a destructive cycle of borrowing, buying selling, debt and borrowing again. What is infuriating about this film was the treatment of the people at the bottom end of the economic spectrum. The film shows two families being a evicted. The message of both is delivered with a sledge hammer. Bankers are tossing out onto the streets of America poor innocent families who are victims of circumstances not of their making. The reason is just because the economic crisis caused by bankers has made it impossible for families to make the payments on those subprime loans they were tricked into taking by those same bankers. Moore suggests a solution that all society needs to do, is, strike, rally, and vote against the industries responsible for depriving them of what is considered basic American rights. Its not that his opinions are invalid or inspiring, they are, but are they enough? Moore didn't suggest how easy or difficult his solution would be. He also mentions that democracy is the solution. This solution is kind of absurd. How can we replace capitalism with democracy? Replacing an economic system with a political system is not a solution. Is democracy going to produce computers and automobiles? It just won't. The footage of the laid-off employees of the tool factory in Illinoi victory after a long battle with financial powerhouse Bank of America brings something to the table. If a factory of working-class citizens can stick it to corporate America, maybe the good guys can win in the end.