E110 Section 105

Rhetorical Analysis Assignment Description

Due by midnight (submitted to Canvas for grading), Tuesday, February 20

Assignment Justification

As an exercise in demonstrating your critical thinking and writing skills this assignment…

Blog Post 2

Now more then ever social media and politics are interwoven. Our current president, Donald Trump, seems to have a Twitter finger, tweeting whatever comes to his mind. This has lead to debate on how much politicians should use social media. There is more to social media then tweeting and posting whatever…

Happiness of Headphones; an Argumentative piece countering the Anti-Headphone movement

Virginia Heffernan explores the epidemic that is hearing loss due to headphones. She does a very good job explaining her case with many reputable sources. She also goes through and…

Blog Post #4

Artificial Intelligence has many benefits and drawbacks. It can advance society to new heights with its support for manufacturers and inventors. It also becomes too much like human life and the theories that AI will take over start to become closer to truth than fear. A robot has recently been developed…

Blog Post #5

Right from the start, Jane McGonigal answers the “so what?” question. She says that gaming currently takes up 3 billion hours a week. She follows that up saying that it is not enough. We need to take up 21 billion hours a week to solve world issues like poverty, world hunger, obesity and more. People in…

Activism in a Digital Age

All three authors, Gladwell, Stephen and Walton present ideas on how social media has affected social change. They share arguments on how the introduction of globalized social media has changed activism for the better, but also acknowledge that it inhibits activism in multiple ways…

The Evolution of the Human Mind

Modern day technology is becoming more prevalent in our everyday lives. So much so that is getting to a point where one must adapt or be left behind. Technology even has an impact on the way we think.

Throughout all three articles the authors exclaim the situation of Americans in the 1960s. They were totally mistreated just because of their skin color and it has affected the history of the world ever since. According the authors the spread of protests against these prejudice people took forever to burst onto the scene. At the time there was no…

Blog Post 4

Everytime I hear of artificial intelligence, commonly referred to as AI, I always think of either The Terminator movies, or Wall-E. Whether it is the extreme of cyborgs and AI trying to wipe the earth of all humans, or people becoming lazy and depending on AI to do everything for them, I am always…