Homework
- For EACH SOURCE, find at least one direct quote from the author that you feel really exemplifies the document’s claims or interpretations (really shows what the author is arguing or trying to say). Or, you might want to choose a sentence that you really agree with (or really disagree with) that you want to refer back to later. You don’t need to repeat something you’ve quoted earlier– this is just a place to take note of quotations you feel you may want to use later. Put it in quotes– and don’t forget the page number (if applicable).
- Draft at least one source entry and post on OpenLab by Wed.
- DRAFT of Project 2 Due Monday, Nov. 1st
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Yourbasin. “How Social Media Impacts Children’s Mental Health.” Yourbasin, Yourbasin, 24 Sept. 2020, https://www.yourbasin.com/news/how-social-media-impacts-childrens-mental-health/
This article discusses the negative affects social media has on young children and their mental health. Social media is not only toxic for young kids but is also disturbing their sleep, physical health, and it brings down a child’s confidence. Cyberbullying is extremely common when using social media and kids at the age of 12-15 go through depression, anxiety and negative thoughts due to the disturbing and hurtful things they witness on social media. In the article it states, “Social media can also cause unrealistic views of other people’s lives, which can create some unhealthy comparisons or peer pressure” which proves that from a young age kids start to feel insecure and unsure about their personal life because it may seem not good enough compared to what they see on social media.
Muncy, Julie. “Center Yourself By Playing Video Games.” New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020, p. D7(L). The article is about how video games can be a good way get away from real life. The sentence “When developers simplify the controls, and weave in beautiful music and relaxing visuals, video games can open up spaces for peace and focus, like silent retreats on a screen. They can rest your mind by letting you occupy a new world and reshaping the way you think” is the sentence that best exemplifies Center yourself by playing video games”.
“It’s not just fish, plastic pollution harms the bacteria that help us breathe.” NewsRx Health & Science, 2 June 2019, p. 28. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A586734136/AONE?u=cuny_nytc&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=cd2bdfbf. Accessed 26 Oct. 2021.
This article talks about how air we breathe also gets affected by plastic and pollution. It states, “Ten per cent of the oxygen we breathe comes from just one kind of bacteria in the ocean. Now laboratory tests have shown that these bacteria are susceptible to plastic pollution, according to a study published in Communications Biology.” (Paragraph 1). Not only are we hurting our animals that live on earth like us but it is also hurting the air we breathe in making it bad for us, this is bad because in the long term we might not even have clean air and would have to be outside fully in masks all time. And this is all affected by plastics we might be using in our daily lives.
“Loot Boxes Are A Lucrative Game Of Chance, But Are They Gambling?” All Things Considered, 10 Oct. 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A602684240/OVIC?u=cuny_nytc&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=d0a51bfe. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.
This audio file was providing information on why loot boxes are being seen as controversial. Ben Brock Johnson from NPR news starts by trying to give history on loot boxes and also where it could have originated from, “ You know that little box from the seminal Nintendo game “Super Mario Brothers,” the one with a question mark on it? When busted open, it would give Mario special abilities…” tying loot boxes original concept to the box in mario and then explains loot boxes help in the industrial boom of the video game market “of a nearly 20% growth in the video game industry year over year. Loot boxes are part of that growth and projected to increase to a $50 billion annual business by 2022.” quote from Ben. who brings up that in overwatch a loot box is about the same price as a lottery ticket. The reports brought up of gamers getting addicted and spending thousands on loot boxes and Sen Josh Hawley’s ban of loot box sales to kids and the belgium ban regulations on loot boxes were also brought up as references. Then the talk of opening loot boxes really gambling begins. Ben talks on lawmakers trying set a boundary between skill and chance in these games, reasons why loot boxes wont leaving anytime soon, he brings in Nia Nower, the director of the Center for Gambling Studies at Rutgers University, who talks about her studies on loot boxes and gambling giving percents on people who play video games and open loot boxes, and the amount of those people that have gambling addictions. “Forty-six percent of those who played video games also bought loot boxes, and among the loot box players, they were significantly more likely to also have gambling problems and-or problems with video gaming.”. Electronic arts is brought up for their use of loot boxes in star wars battlefront two where loot boxes were a main part of the game and due to the outcry from fans they ended up having to change around their game to make it less loot box centralled.
Weis, Judith S. “Aquatic Microplastic Research—A Critique and Suggestions for the Future.” Water (Basel) 12.5 (2020): 1475–. Web. In this article, Judith Weis talks about the dangers of microplastics being transferred from one organism to another. In the text, Judith talks about how microplastics can be transferred from prey to predator because animals end up eating another animal that has microplastics in it. Judith S Weis then explains the dangers of microplastics being ingested by stating “If mps just pass through the gut, they are unlikely to do much damage. If they get stuck and clog up the digestive tract, there is the possibility of malnutrition and starvation. However, if they can penetrate through the gut lining and move elsewhere in the body, they are more likely to do damage”. Weis wants the readers to realize microplastics can be very dangerous and even if you are not ingesting a lot at one time the more you feed on other animals the more microplastics may be building up inside your gut which can lead to different negative outcomes. This is an issue that is affecting the food chain as a whole, once one organism ingests plastic the next who feeds will ingest MPs as well.
Two views on the future of American policinghttps://video-alexanderstreet-com.citytech.ezproxy.cuny.edu/watch/two-views-on-the-future-of-american-policing?utm_campaign=Video&utm_medium=MARC&utm_source=aspresolver
The speaker Charlene makes many good points when asked what she would like to see happen to police departments across the country and how they should operate she said that there is a fundamental problem with how much the police are invested in and how much are communities are not invested in the $1.7 billion budget for the police should be reallocated and invested in public education healthcare quality public housing jobs and environment but she also said quite a few things that I strongly disagree with she said that we should remove all essential safety services from police to our community but the police are well trained to handle situations that regular citizens are not familiar with and won’t be able to respond to properly I believe that we need humane police and smart police because when we’re in a crisis we need police and that’s a fact what we need is a partnership between the police and communities to help provide better service and understand situations better. She goes on to state that the police is an institution that does not work anymore but if that was really the case then what about the millions of people that the police help on a.
“in New York City, only a quarter of the system’s 1.1 million public-school children have returned to the classroom for any instruction, while most private-school students are receiving some form of live classroom experience, many of them five days a week.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/nyregion/nyc-remote-learning.html.
this amplifies the authors claim and argument because it shows how much better private school students are faring during the pandemic due to their economic stability while poo students ae floundering because of the lack of financial support provided by their families and schools.