Possible intro to essay

Drugs such as marijuana, amphetamines, and psychedelics burst on the scene during the 1960’s, and the new generation embraced the new hallucinogens. These new drugs spread like an epidemic, forcing our government to develop new laws and agencies in order to combat the plague. In 1973, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was developed to enforce federal drug laws. Soon after, cocaine and crack appeared.
In order to combat the outbreak of these drugs, companies such as TRUTH and Drug Free America were formed. With the intention to lower and usage of drugs mainly in todays youth, these companies send out activists and knowledgeable people on the subject to go to schools and talk about drugs, their usage, their influence, and the inevitable road they force their users to take. Besides sending people to schools and such places, these companies, also have many interesting and shocking ads that depict outcomes and affects of drug usage, or give statistics of drug users, in shocking but clever ways.
One such image that was produced by Drug Free America is the Your Brains on Drug commercial. The commercial is about 25 seconds long and is easy to follow. It depicts someone holding an egg over a frying pan and saying ,”This is your brain”, and then showing us the egg. Then they crack the egg and place its contents onto the sizzling pan and the per son says,”This is your brain on drugs,” and then it blacks out. Short, shocking, and to the point, but is it effective. All of there ads clearly convey or give a smart metaphor to what drugs can do to the human body and the consequences they cause in the users life. However, besides being clever and witty, do the ads carry out there over all mission of reducing the amount of drug users, and the more targeted area of young adults.

Rough Outline

I. Intro
a. Shocking drug facts
b. Intro to anti-drug companies

II. History
a. Intro to drugs
b. drug affects
c. history of anti-drug campaigns
d. types of commericals/ads used.

III. Description of picture
a. When it came out
b. reason
c. effectiveness

IV. Over all effectiveness
a. Surveys on ppl influence by ads
b. popularity of ads

Arguments

Argument:

Illegval drug use is contributed for over 33,000 deaths per year.In a list that includes heart disease, and cancer, illegal drugs are listed as one of the top 15 causes of death in the world. To combat such horrible statistics, companies such as "TRUTH" and "Drug Free America,have sprouted and are commited to reducing the death and usage of drugs. These companies use a variety of techniques such as live presentations, commercials, and advertisements to convey their message of the harmful affects and outcomes of drug usage.

Coutner Argument:

However, there are those who speculate that kids and adults choose the way they live their life and the road they take is something that cannot be changed. One chooses to start doing drugs and can if they they want to, stop just as fast as they started. Attempts by anti-drug companies do not deter drug users, just simply give them a challenge to not be a statistic.

Refuation of Counter-Argument


And they are right, people do feel as though they control their life, they control their own future. The ads don't try to force drug users to change, but give them another path to take by showing drug users what their grm future is filled with, black lungs, addiction, jail, and a horrible life.

Scholarly websites for paper

1. http://libguides.miami.edu/advertising

the UM library resource. I'd like to talk to Sarah Cantrell the librarian assigned to this section to see if there are other depictions of the effects of drugs that came out in the 1980's and to see if there is any information on the impact of those advertisements.

2. http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/96/12/2154

This websites article is entittled,"Effect of Televised, Tobacco Company–Funded Smoking Prevention Advertising on Youth Smoking-Related Beliefs, Intentions, and Behavior ". It explains some results collected from televised preventions for tobacco and i want to use that to strengthen my argument.

3. http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=180281
Using the Media in Drugs Prevention

4. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Q3zWeIU78MwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=media+in+drug+prevention+&ots=FvbRbFtqtY&sig=qt9xPD8m2fqcZSEARjbs6XABU1Y#PPP1,M1

Mass media and drug prevention. this source is a pretty long panflit that talks about drug prevention in mass media and gives results, tests, and findings in the related field

Comment on herald Article

I enjoyed reading this article because it was on something we're doing. It makes me feel like a pioneer on this new style of learning and witting. I think that Dr. Sterling has a point when he said that abbreviations like GR8 don't really bother him, its something he just points out in papers. i don't know how they may eventually become standard like he says though, that would be kinda weird to have a 40% abbreviated paper. And he does make a point when he says writers (those using facebook,myspace, and texting) just need to realize who there audience is and write accordingly. I would abbreviate for my friends but not for a paper i'm turning in.

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Academic Blogs

http://www.blogscholar.com/

is an academic blog website. You can choose to add to or talk about a wide variety of topics from science to politics to Art. After reading a couple blogs i can see it is a pretty academic or atleast informative blog website. I couldn't find any instances were random people write about random things like their hair in the morning or their favorite toothpaste. Everything is catagorized and informative.

Pictures I'm interested in

are located on pages;515,532,520,483,430-431,360-376. anyone else think these are interesting or if there not at all...?

First Two paragraphs and ROUGH outline. (comments are strongly appreciated)

Vision is an ability acquired at birth, and it is from this point in time until death that man tries to surpass what can be seen to what could be seen. An example of man trying to extend its vision capabilities is video games. Publicly marketed in the late 20th century, video “games” where first widely used as combat and flight simulators for the military and its personal to try to cut back on losses. However, when this new technology reached the publics hands it grew at an exponential rate, and now allows for gamers to be who or what ever they choose to be, see, or feel.
The first games published were of basic components and easy to understand, games such as PONG and Space Invaders become the only thing on children’s and young adults Christmas list, it was a world wide phenomenon. Slowly but surely the games just as there players grew, wanting more and subsequently giving more. Newer, more interactive games with an increased difficulty began to rush the market. Games such as Mario and Madden with there new gaming style and A.I. randomization changed the face of gaming forever.









Topic: Video Games

I. Intro
A. Human need to expand vision
B. First break of video games
C. Early implementations

II Early History
A. Simulators
B. Simplicity (Pacman/ Pong)
C. Evolution

III Revolution Begins
A. Sport Games
B. Car games
C. Vision expands
D. CD’s enhance quality
E. New gaming system

IV. 21st Century is pulls the trigger
A. Technology brings new gaming age
B. New 3-D games
C. First person shooters
D. RPG
E. Suspicions and Anti groups form
F. Xbox live

V. Concerns
A. Gaming aspects are to real
B. Ratings are placed
C. Accusations of gaming influence on violence
D. Online interaction unsuitable for kids

VI. Graphics
A. Weapons match those of real life
B. War games introduce gore to gaming
C. GTA opens the doors for Anit-Gaming Org.

VII. Different aspects and human involvement in games
A. Creating your own character
B. What one does now influences what happens in game
C. Games like “Bully” allow you to be or do whatever you want.
D. GTA and Metal Gear Solid lead the killing trend in games
E. Sports games and management option.
F. Create a player mode allows you to live and influence the life of you character.
VII. Conclusion
A. Games as an entirety evolution.
B. Affects
C. Review on vision
D. Final thought

COMMENTS ARE STRONGLY APPRECIATED!!!!!!

Paragraphing

>The introduction is the broad beginning of the paper that answers three important questions:

What is this?
Why am I reading it?
What do you want me to do?

In your body paragraphs you should discuss the inquiry process you used to research you topic. Such as, introduce your sources, important information you found, why its dependable and important. Always stay on your topic, focus and relate back to your topic statement
In you conclusion you should restate the original problem, some of its causes, people involved, and state any questions you still have after researching.

Anjela's Interview

So Anjela's writting about TELESCOPES.

She's going to research the history of telescopes, how they originated, who created it, and the general history of telescopes. She is also gong to discuss the parts and over workings of telescopes.
She also wants to focus on advancements and over uses and impacts of the telescope. For example, we talked about the Hubble telescope and its ability to take pictures of stars and moons hundreds of miles away. Also, she is going to include the impact that the telescope has had on the general public, how telescope kits are now being swold to intrigue the younger generations with space. She seems very interested and knowledgable int he subject and seems to be on her way in the paper.

Soldier, pilot, astranaut, and a football player, all are very interesting and succesful careers.However, you cannot do them all in one lifetime,until now. Video games allow owners to become,see, and experience virtualy anythying they want, you can become an athlete, experience a gun fight, or see other planets.

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150 word project brainstorm

So we have to write about how we try to extend our limitations of sight beyond human eye in an attempt to accumulate knowledge that wouldn’t be otherwise available. So when I see and think of this prompt, I go to old times, how did they first come to believe or imagine that there were such things as bacteria, blood cells, algae, plant cells, thing of that nature. I also think of fish finders, radar, microscopes, and a variety of medical tools. I also want to talk about why we try to push our limits and boundaries, and make new doors to open. Also, I think of chemistry and particles and atoms. Then besides looking at small things we can also examine telescopes, the whole universe and galaxy concept. Not only are we intrigued by the small but also by the large. We make space stations and Hubble telescopes to see beyond the naked eye and into uncharted universe.

Global Warming Effects

Time didn't allow me to go to Graceland to see the glaciers melting so i just took a pickture of an ice cube melting to represent that...... Imagination...

Outside temperatures have resulted in me lowering my thermustat. The electric bill sucks......

Warmer waters and warmer air temperatures from global warming have cause heave downpours in my area, causing water damage.

Joel Sternfeld Picture (page 24 Exercise)

What do I notice first about his photograph?

When i opened to the page he first thing that grabbed my attention was the picture of this God like figure that had been painted onto the bottom right of this wall.

Initial observations.

At first glance you see he writing on the wall,"When you take someones life you forfeit your own". Besides the quote itself what really got my attention wre the hand prints around the word "own". it drew my attention to the work. in the picture you also see alot of flowers and memorial objects infron fo the building next to what seems o me an orange cone. I think this cone marks the spor of where someones life was probably taken, hence the term on the wall.

Structure, point of view, metaphore in image.

I think the overall frontal view of the building makes it seem like we are actually there looking at it, adding a sort of fear in us. Like we can see that, its not in sum wierd arial angle or painting that we can't actually fo to and see it. and the use of red is very prominent. It stands out, red being the color for anger, hatred, blood, violence.

Terms from Scott McClouds "Show And Tell" (694-718)

Scott Mclouds Show And Tell introduced me to a new canvas or plain of words and terms to describe writting, pictures and their relationship amongst one another. Such as :

Word Specific- combinations, where pictures illustrate,but add to a complete text

Picture Specific- is what youw old find in most comics like "Pow" or "Bang". is when the words do little more than just adding sound effects to a vissually told sequence

Duo-Specific- is when words and images send essentially the same message

Additive- occurs where an image amplifies or elaborates on words or vice versa.

Parallel- Occfurs when words and images seem to follow very different paths, as if they don't belong together at all, theres no connection

Montage- occurs when words act as parts of the the entire picture, such as replacing someones face for the letter "O" in a word.

Inter Dependent- occurs when the words seem to be needed in the image to convery and idea that if they weren't together would not be conveyed.

Thoughts

I think McClouds way of writting and depicting his thoughts and theorieson writing is a unique and very informative method. As you read you have pictures to relate the text too which makes it seem easier, shorter, and pass faster. It made me feel like i was actually reading a comic, not doing homework. This is the type of reading we should be dong EVERYDAY, fast, short, easy. lol. c u guys in class.