Archive for February, 2007

Myspace Optimistic and Pessimistic Views

{ February 20, 2007 @ 3:02 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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While I was searching around and looking at blogs, I seemed to keep seeing the same topics about Myspace. I personally use myspace everyday so I thought it would be interesting to see the different views on the use of myspace. Some people had a very optimistic perspective on the use of myspace, and listed all the helpful ways myspace is used. Others took the website and listed out pessimistic ways that myspace is an unpleasant site for the Internet.

 

By reading both the pessimistic and optimistic views, I personally would lean towards the optimistic side. Being a teenager I probably am one of the most socially categorized group in society. Myspace seems to help me get on with my social life, and also helps search out old friends that I can become socially acquainted with again.

Some of the negative comments on myspace had a lot to do with the sexually offenders that get on myspace and trick kids into meeting up with them. My personal opinion is that if your that dumb to meet up with some strange person on the Internet then its your own fault. They do have a way you can make your profile private so that no strangers or no one but your friends can see your profile. Also with friends, you get a message that allows you to deny or accept this person as a friend, so if you are accepting people you don’t know your leaving yourself vulnerable to sexually offenders. Its your own problem.

My Morals

{ February 15, 2007 @ 4:24 pm } · { minister's black veil }
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In the story, by listening to the different groups opinions, I saw a lot of new ways to look at the perspective of the story. When I first read through the story I thought that the moral of the story was going to be that, all of these people were sinners. Since they knew this preacher was a good man and everything, but still they seemed to judge him as something monsterous because of this black veil. Then when we started going through the groups I saw that people were going deeper with saying how not only was this effecting the minister, but also he was doing this to have an effect on the people of the town. I think after we went through the class discussion and learned the true moral of the story, I think that the minister had a great point. His views on life are the true meaning of life, even though it takes time to see this. People do have secrets that are hidden in themselves, and its almost like having a black veil over your face, because people cant see the true you.  I think that this is problematic, because people don’t understand that this is true, and when it is finally apparent that this is actually the truth, it makes people think.

Habits

{ February 2, 2007 @ 4:29 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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When I received my paper back I got a lot of compliments on my supporting paragraphs, which saws that I have enough evidence, and details to support my thoughts. But  I did seem to use the word “this”  A lot to prove my points. Like and “this” states…etc. My conclusion was well put together which in a way to me the conclusion means everything, so im glad that people liked my conclusion. I get the characteristics mixed up sometimes, when dealing with Tom’s characteristics I might include the devil’s too, and then start mixing them up.