Voting is a tricky issue, and voter's reasons for voting aren't what they should be. Voting for Obama just because he is black or for Romney just because he is Mormon doesn't help the country. Voting should be based on similarity to personal beliefs. Religion, race, or party should not be the sole reason for electing a candidate.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Thursday, January 5, 2012
The Externalization of Memory
"The advent of the Internet, with sophisticated algorithmic search engines, has made accessing information as easy as lifting a finger. No longer do we have to make costly efforts to find the things we want. We can “Google” the old classmate, find articles online, or look up the actor who was on the tip of our tongue. The results of four studies suggest that when faced with difficult questions, people are primed to think about computers and that when people expect to have future access to information, they have lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it. The Internet has become a primary form of external or transactive memory, where information is stored collectively outside ourselves" (sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/776).
Sunday, January 1, 2012
11 things that occurred to me on New Years Eve
I've been sitting in Utah with my family for New Years and have realized a few things.
Contrast of Ignorance and Intelligence In Of Mice And Men
Loren Jewkes
Myers/ Period 5 College Prep
Critical Analysis #2
5 January 2011
Myers/ Period 5 College Prep
Critical Analysis #2
5 January 2011
Contrast of Ignorance and Intelligence
A reasoning mind is the most important attribute any person can have; without it societies crumble and cease to exist. Reason is a discussed theme in Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck. The book is set in the West on a farm during the Great Depression. The two main characters, Lennie and George, are living in California and working as hired hands. However, they are two different kinds of workers, as Lennie has a slow mind while George has one that is fast. Comparison of Lennie’s ignorance and inability to reason, with George’s intelligence and ability to reason creates contrast between the characters.
A Rhetorical Analysis of Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Speech
Loren Jewkes
Myers/ Period 5 College Prep
Rhetorical Analysis #2
7 December 2011
Steve Jobs is successful even though he is not a college graduate, and has an unstable and unorthodox beginning to his life. He uses his background to play upon his rhetorical strategies in his Stanford commencement address. While speaking to the new Stanford graduates, Jobs uses love and loss as universal emotions common to all humans. He aims to convince the grads to use their intuition and follow their hearts to become happy. He also uses repetitive structures and speaks on adversity as a means for growth. Jobs relates emotional and structurally repetitive life experiences to encourage the Stanford graduates to pursue their passions.
Myers/ Period 5 College Prep
Rhetorical Analysis #2
7 December 2011
A Rhetorical Analysis of Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Speech
Steve Jobs is successful even though he is not a college graduate, and has an unstable and unorthodox beginning to his life. He uses his background to play upon his rhetorical strategies in his Stanford commencement address. While speaking to the new Stanford graduates, Jobs uses love and loss as universal emotions common to all humans. He aims to convince the grads to use their intuition and follow their hearts to become happy. He also uses repetitive structures and speaks on adversity as a means for growth. Jobs relates emotional and structurally repetitive life experiences to encourage the Stanford graduates to pursue their passions.
A Critical Analysis of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
Loren Jewkes
Myers
College Prep
22 November 2011
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows” (Orwell 81). Rationalization and using logic to dispel lies is the foundation of freedom. The sanctity of the mind and of the individual require freedom from the lies of an untruthful past and present. Only what the collective knows is important when it is in power; without the ability to freely think and believe, it no longer matters what the individual knows. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four showcases an oppressive government’s struggles with human unorthodoxy through his use of detailed descriptions of the human mind’s thoughts.
Myers
College Prep
22 November 2011
A Critical Analysis of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows” (Orwell 81). Rationalization and using logic to dispel lies is the foundation of freedom. The sanctity of the mind and of the individual require freedom from the lies of an untruthful past and present. Only what the collective knows is important when it is in power; without the ability to freely think and believe, it no longer matters what the individual knows. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four showcases an oppressive government’s struggles with human unorthodoxy through his use of detailed descriptions of the human mind’s thoughts.
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