Hunt VS. Sadler

In the article “Internet Plagiarism Among College Students" Brook J. Sadler and Russell Hunt discuss the act of plagiarizing with college students. Sadler argues that plagiarism is very bad and it can hurt the student, professors, and other students in the class. She sees plagiarism as a very detrimental thing that is dishonest that really undermines a student’s education. Also she believes that professors are hurt by plagiarism because it causes them to not work as hard to teach the students what they need to know.

On the other hand Hunt is arguing that, plagiarism is not a bad thing and instead of trying to stop it students should have easier access to plagiarism. He says that it actually helps students because it lets them get information out without being hindered. He also says that there is an advantage for professors because it helps teach the students.

While I do not think that plagiarism is morally right I do in fact believe that Hunt does have a better argument. He presents his argument in a better way, he breaks his argument up into sections without making it repetitive. Also he looks into the counter argument and engages with it.   

Media and World Views

In today’s world the media is all around us. There are advertisements everywhere we look there are news broadcasts on every type of technological medium. Media is what controls today’s world. It pushes one candidate up for presidential elections, and it even influences people as to what toothpaste to buy from week to week.

Media does not only influence what we do and what we buy, it also grooms us from a certain age to think and hold certain values close to us. Like for instance in today’s children’s cartoons and movies there are always those hidden moral messages in the end of the show or movie. An example of this is in the movie, “Finding Nemo” the end message is to never give up. While this is not directly stated it is implied throughout the movie. It is moral media types of programming like this that give children the start off that makes them listen to the media.

Misleading Language

   While it is true that companies are not allowed to directly deceive you, in other words do false advertise, they can mislead you with language. These misleading types of languages are examples of rhetorical devices. Rhetorical devices are uses of language that, in a sense make fun of or take a play on a person’s lack of knowledge of something.

   An example of a rhetorical device is sarcasm. Sarcasm is used by companies to falsely make their product seem more appealing by possibly making it seem like it is the cool thing to get the product by making fun of or putting down another person that may seem nerdy. An example of this is in commercials of like body spray where there is an attractive guy who uses a spray and gets the girl and then the shy guy gets left behind because he doesn’t use the spray. Misleading language is an effective way of advertising by playing of a person’s emotions.      

Children’s Food Advertising

When it comes to the arguments that Margo G. Wootan and Robert Liodice I believe that Wootan has made the best argument. In her argument she seems to address the problem much more effectively than Liodice does. She begins by explaining everything including the problem solutions and the Guidelines set for the food companies. Then after all of her explanations she goes on to using very effective charts and lists to further effectively convey her point. Also throughout her argument she makes lists that help give people clarity and not have them question if something is included. I like it when authors do this because it makes what they are saying seem more valid and it also makes them seem like they are more knowledgeable in the subject that they are discussing because they know all of the additional things they don’t just say etcetera they actually list the rest.

Marketing Strategies

I work in retail so I am more exposed and aware than people who have never been in retail of the different marketing strategies used. In the store I work there are multiple different ways of making people buy things. One of the most recent things that the company has tried to do is to reset the whole store, so that everything has moved from where it was before, this increases sales because moving everything caused customers to have to walk all around the store, aisle by aisle to find the products that they normally buy.  

                Another way of attracting customers and enticing them to buy more is making sales. However they are not just normal sales they are the buy so many then get each for some slightly reduced price. this makes people buy more and people want to in order to lower the price slightly. Another sale tactic is to do the, well an example of it is to do a 10 for $10 sale. Most people don’t realize that in most places you don’t have to buy the amount that it says like for the 10 for $10 this just means that they are all one dollar.

                A good way of avoiding these sales gimmicks is to learn them and pay attention to the amount that sales are over time and to see if you are getting a good deal. And if you are not sure if there are indeed these types of sales, ask the people working there. Also there are even apps nowadays that let you scan something and it tells you where the best price is to get it.

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

A self-fulfilling prophecy is as defined in our reading as “when out exaggerated or distorted expectations reinforce actions that actually bring about the expected even event.” In other words, people can effect the outcome of a situation by reacting in a certain way. One situation where this happens is when a person believes in a certain religion. This is that type of citation because people who believe in gods only believe in them because they have the belief system that makes them believe. Also as the text has explained another type of self-fulfilling prophecy is the stock market crash. People believed that the market may crash and by pulling all their money out of it they actually caused it to crash.

Self-fulfilling prophecies are when people believe something will happen and by doing something they cause it to happen. This happens to people in their everyday life and some don’t even know it like for me I thought that I would be late to work and instead of leaving as soon as I thought that I left later than I would have if I didn’t think that I would have been late. In the end I figured out that I really wouldn’t have been late if I had not assumed that I would have in the first place this makes my prophecy a self-fulfilling prophecy.

UFOs

In the article “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Condor argues that UFOs may exist and that there should be a public agency researching the different UFO citing individually. Hynek argues in “The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry”, UFOs pose a very real aspect that should be open to a more rigorous and serious studies. Paynter argues in “Physical Evidence and Unidentified Flying Objects” that the scientific community should more seriously investigate UFO citing. I believe that Paynter makes the best argument overall, this is because he refutes both Hynek and also Condor’s arguments which only helps to make his argument better and stronger. Also in Condor’s argument he does not ever truly use conclusive evidence to support his findings. Hynek also does not really argue his subject matter very well having holes in his reasoning and not coming up with a true conclusion. Overall Paynter does the best at arguing and he goes over other peoples arguments which reinforces his argument making sure that he doe not have any holes in it.