E110 Section 105

Research Paper Remix

In Rewriting, Joseph Harris makes the argument that digital platforms have opened up avenues for writers to reach a wider and more diverse group of readers, and that sometimes taking a draft and “remixing” it (often digitally) has the effect of spurring the project forward toward a new…

Research Paper Presentation

This assignment asks you to practice effectively and clearly communicating with an audience orally, as opposed to in writing, by giving a presentation based around your research paper. The presentation should be no more than 5 minutes long (with roughly 2 minutes of questions…

Blog Post #6

Original: Broadway is the cultural hub and center of all theatre. Although Broadway seems like it only concerns people who like “toe-tapping” show tunes, it should concern anyone who enjoys viewing entertainment. Theatre showcases talent, art, music, and lately technology. All things that most people…

Alexandra Reiner

Blog Post 6

April 2018

Initial Paragraph:

Along with discussing the challenges of effectively utilizing technology in the classroom, this article discusses how inconsistently teachers are trained in technology usage. This article…

Rough Draft

Social media has become the most popular electronic entertainment in this day in age since it was released. According to Merriam Webster dictionary the definition of social media is “forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online…

Blog Post 6

Original paragraph from Draft 1: The single largest controversy facing the video game industry is their effect on players’ health. Particularly focused on violent video games and their negative contributions to mental health, there have been myriad studies performed over the past few decades on the…

Blog 6

Original:

Now, however, my perspective has changed greatly, which is ironic because I seem to have less time to put in the work necessary. I have become what I disliked and laughed at when I was younger and did not know as much. But similar to Homer from The Simpsons, I had an epiphany…

Blog Post #6

Original:

The main idea behind the horse’s “frame” is that it allows the rider to have better contact with the horse’s mouth via a steady connection on the reins, which attach to the bit, the metal piece in the mouth. It also relates to stride length; equines put their feet down…

Police Body Cameras

Police misconduct has become a rising issue in the world, it seems that every time you turn around the news is reporting another incident in which a police officer has committed a heinous act of misconduct. To counter this epidemic many people, and police, are swaying toward the use of body…

Blog Post #6: Revise don’t Edit

However, when speaking with other college students on campus, this sleep schedule seems quite favorable compared to some others. It is not unheard of for students to pull all-nighters multiple times a month in order to accomplish the work in their complete the work from…

Blog Post #6 Nick Melfi

ORIGINAL PARAGRAPH:

Throughout the past two decades, technology has become an integral part of many aspects of human life. Whether it be keeping in touch with friends and family throughout the day or the devices that doctors now rely upon to save the lives of…

Blog Pot #6

Different articles focus on different technologies that are being used in secondary education. In an academic research paper focusing on the impact of technology on science education, Zarah Aljuzayri along with his co-authors, quote another author who puts the different devices into separate categories…

Blog Post #6: Revising

In attempts to support my argument I will map out the rest of the paper based on my reasonings for why I took this approach rather than a strictly government or private-approach. For example, I will talk about how benefiting a partnership between NASA and private companies can be towards…

Fore! The technology surrounding the sport of golf is evolving out of bounds every day, and is leading to immense debate among golfers, industry manufacturers and regulators. New adaptations are leading to increased distance for tour players and more control of where they hit each shot. Some researchers argue that while the game is more interesting…

Blog Post #5

For this blog post I chose to examine the Ted Talk by Jane McGonigal. In her talk, I believe she is trying to reach the audience of not only gamers but people who want to make a difference in the world. To answer the question of what the difference would be if she addressed the audience or not; I believe…

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…

Blog Post 5

Tom Bissell’s essay “Extra Lives” describes one man’s addiction to video games, which has been spearheading his indifference towards activities he once found enjoyable. Bissell’s struggle is one experienced by millions of people in our relatively new digital world. Recent reports of experiences like…

Blog Post 5: So what, who cares?

Jane McGonigal in her TED talk segment focuses on the upcoming generation of gamers and what their time online is teaching them in terms of life skills. She is able to answer the questions “so what?” in this video by explaining through statistics the effect significant…

Blog Post #5

In the Chapter “Extra Lives” by Tom Bissel, he describes his experience losing himself in video games, specifically Grand Theft Auto. The entire chapter is a walk through of his time spent exploring the vastness of the virtual world and how it has affected his relationships. Bissel mentions the friends…

Blog Post #5

Jane McGonigal answers the “who cares” question within her TedTalk by stating that the whole audience needs to spend time playing video games. She also answers the “so what” question by explaining how the world has to play 21 billion hours of video games a week total in order to survive on the planet for…

Blog 5

Chapter 9 of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, a book by Tom Bissell, does not appear to answer any “so what?” or “who cares?” question. I suppose because the passage assigned was just an excerpt from a book, which could explain why this section is lacking both of the questions. The title suggests that video…

Blog Post Number 5

Teresa Piccolo

English 110

Blog Post Number 5

In the Ted Talk, the speaker, video game creator Jane McGonigal speaks of how video games could potentially help “save the world.” She tries to persuade the audience that…

Blog Post #5 Alex Morales

In Jane McGonigal’s Ted Talk, “Gaming can make a Better World”, the speaker claims that the usage of more video games by human beings will significantly impact world problems in a beneficial way. A statistic provided by McGonigal states that three billion hours are spent playing…

Blog Post #5

The article, “Extra Lives” by Tom Bissell, describes how video games have overtaken this man’s life. He opens up the article by discussing how he wrote several books and published a mass amount of magazine journalism but that was “Once upon a time” ago. He begins to explain how once upon a time was a…