In Class Writing #9 - Zerofsky

Ø  The audience of this article are the users on facebook who don’t read the privacy policies or are concerned with the privacy policies.

Ø  The author is writing this article to deal with the issue of third party organizations buying information from facebook.  The author does not support facebook and the third party organizations.

Ø  The author of this article used a source from a website called alhumoftheday.com.  This source claims that the CIA secretly funded facebook in order to get information from people.  The author seems to agree with the statements made by this website but does not full on support them.  The author just recognizes the fact that they are thought provoking.  The only other source that the author most likely used, but does not explicitly say is facebook itself.

Ø  The article uses ethos to evoke an ethical sense into the reader, because the authors main point in the article is utility vs. policy.  The author argues the fact at whether the revolutionary interactions available to people now versus whether there are no more morals and people are solely driven by money. 

In Class Writing #88- Zerofsky

My top 5:

            Rocket Power

            Toy story

            Smash mouth

            Star wars saga

            Call of duty

 

Group Top 5

Call of Duty Modern Warfare. Infinity Ward. 2007. Video Game.

-Star Wars. Dir. George Lucas. Perf. Ewan McGregor, , Natalie Portman. Lucas Arts, 2005. Film.

-Rocket Power. Nickolodeon: 1999. Television.

-"Puss Gets ths Boot." Tom and Jerry. 1940. Television.

-Toy Story. Dir. John Lasseter. Perf. Tom Hanks. Tim Allen. Disney Pixar, 1995. Film.

In Class Writing #7 - Zerofsky

Summary:

Glen Beck blames pop culture for the social problems in America. Specifically video games have increasingly made this worse.  Anybody can experience what was meant for the military for only sixty dollars.  This can be seen in Grand Theft Auto IV.

Paraphrase: 

The military invented the video game to make it easier for soldiers to kill.  In society today kids can participate in the same acts of violence through video games.  Most of the problems in society today are caused by the influence of pop culture. 

Analysis:

In the video of Glen Beck warning parents about video games,  he makes some interesting points about them and their effect on society.  For instance he claims that the amount of homicides has increased since the release of video games.  Although this may play some role in the increase, I don’t believe that it is the main reason. Just because someone is playing a video game where the main theme of the game is killing doesn’t mean they are going to change into the “Rambo” like killing machine.  Most people have the moral values and the common sense to realize that real life and video games are two complete different entities. 

Zerofsky - Blog Post #8

http://www.myfakewall.com/w/Mr.+Potato+Head

The celebrity I picked to make a fake wall for is Mr. Potato Head.  I was attempting to be funny, but I don't know if I accomplished that at all.  

In Class Writing #5 - Zerofsky

1)  From looking at Corey's Facebook page, I can tell that he is in the core of cadets here at Virginia Tech.  Along with his passion for rock music with bands such as "The Beatles" "Dave Mathews Band" and "OAR".  Also, I now know that Corey is in a relationship from the many pictures of him and his girlfriend. Also after browsing many of Corey's pictures, I can tell he lives a very active lifestyle.  
2)From what I have found Corey has done a good job at displaying who he is, because other people that have posted on his wall and commented on his pictures have been related to his interests and him in general.  For instance on his wall, there are multiple posts from his girlfriend along with pictures of him as a cadet.  So at just a quick glance, I can start to understand what he values as a person.
3)The ads that were displayed on his Facebook profile were fore snowboarding and driving.  In one of Corey's pictures he is on a ski lift, and in other pictures he is participating in many other extreme sports. The ad about driving uses pathos by describing a beautiful mountain top that you could drive to while promoting a driving tour.  The other ad about skiing was promoting the products at a ski shop. The ad used logos by asking the question "skiing this winter?"  For someone who is an avid skier this would be a no brainer of a question with a logical answer of yes!
4)The ad for skiing seems more relevant than the ad for driving. This is because in many of Corey's pictures he is participating in hiking, skiing, hang gliding and numerous other adventurous activities.  Therefore ads would be tailored toward the adventurous side and for Corey this meant skiing. The driving was not as obvious to see the relevance the only way I could think to connect the driving ad to Corey is that maybe since he seems like an outdoors person he might want to take a drive to a mountain top.  Also the maintain top was in Pennsylvania and Corey is from New Jersey, so generally speaking it could be close to him.