ENG1101-72 English Composition 1, SP2019

1. Title, Authors – “Hello, Strager”, by Elizabeth W. Dunn and Michael Norton

Main idea – People should feel more free to speak with the other commuters, for get more pleasure from daily commuting routine.

Thesis – People who spoke with the strangers while commuting had more positive experience than those who did not speak to anyone.

2. A Main idea – Speaking with commuters will improve your’s social life.

Thesis – If you meet more new people, you might make new friendships more frequently.

Content I must include – I must refer to the article and use some personal experience to support my thesis.

Content I can include – Maybe an article that I read in the past, about social interactions.

B Main idea – I’ve met best friend from social group that I had not considered I            would ever have.

Thesis – Never judge people, before you speak with them.

Content I must include – History Of how I met my best friend, and how it refers to the article.

Content I can include – Histories of other people that I have heard, which are connected to the topic.

3. Article with additional information’s:

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/08/the-hidden-benefits-of-talking-to-strangers/

Prompt A is an argument assay, where student need to choose a side; agree or disagree with authors. Student need to support his statement with argument from his life or text that he read.

In prompt B is personal essay. Student need to choose an event from his life and describe it. Event must be connected with topic of the prompt.

Prompt B outline:

Why I thought about this social group in this way.

Moment when I met my friend for the first time.

After time spend with him, I’ve understood this particular social group.

A)

The first meaning of the “n-word” is how whites were calling Afro-Americans. This meaning of the “n-word” is a bad one. This word was used by whites to call all black people in US during the slavery time. This word was carried to the present because they are still people that think that Afro-Americans are less people. Second meaning of the “n-word” is when woman is calling her husband or boyfriend. In that case this word plays totally different meaning. Its not bad anymore but its good. For Afro-Americans is they call them self “n-word” its like a pride that they show to each other. This shows that a bad word for one can mean a good for others. They keep calling themselves that because that the part of their history.

B)

In my opinion using “nigger” in her essay is not offensive because she is not applying this word to no one in particular. This word is used as a representation. She is using whole word because it makes sense for her to do it. she is not writing essay about “n-word” meaning but about meaning of the word “nigger”. For me the difference between the “n-word,” “nigger,” and “nigga” is that is used by different people in different situations. The “n-word,” is used as a way of not actually saying the word. On the other hand “nigger,” is a word that been used in the past for calling Afro-Americans and it been carried to the present day but its not as common. Lastly “nigga” is used between Afro-Americans, by saying that they are calling them self “bro” or “homie”. Its their way of saying that.

In the text “Feasts Under the Bridge” we can read “Doxxing. A troll will essentially hack or use cunning to extract personal information including where a target may live, who their spouse or children are, their telephone and email addresses, their workplace, how many nudes they have of themselves, etc and may distribute this sensitive information in another location particularly for public shaming” (Kerr 64). From this quote I learned that there are people that just for they entertainment will expose someone’s private information’s. By doing this person affected by this could loos their job, their life could be in danger because no one knows what person will receive those information’s. Their whole life and career could be ruined. This quote gives whole new idea of what trolling can be. This kind of action is very damaging and reckless.

Normcore is the way of life. In this way people don’t try to be “cool”, if being “cool” is against their character and made them copies of the others members. People do not try to show up and seek for another people attention. In normcore you can do what ever you want, with out devotion oneself to these things, those people can easily fit in to any group, if only it suit for them.

“Normcore moves away from a coolness that relies on differences to a post-authenticity coolness that opts into sameness.

In my opinion “surveillant anxiety” means that people will be always scared that someone can spy on them, and that organizations which are spying on people are scared that they do not have enough data about citizens.

Author refer to the “Youth Mode” normcore because people who follow it are hard to locate in social network. Those people easily fit into groups, and do not show any characteristic.

A) I am transfer student from Europe, at this point of semester I need to practice my grammar and vocabulary. To achieve this, I need to read more books and articles in English. I think that my understanding of texts is on good level but responding to it not so much.

B)

“The “Californian ideolgy” as defined in 1995 by Richard Barbook and Andy Cameron helped us trace the motives underlying the internet back to their cold War roots (and the ambivalent hippie culture). Fred Turner’s 2006 classic From Counterculture to Cyberculture did much the same. But the historical perspective is not much use if it cannot explain social media’s contemporary and persistent success since the 1990s. Now, as in the 1970s, the role of ideology in navigating the limits of existing system is all too real. To study ideology is to take a close look at this everyday life, here and now. What remains particularly unexplained is the apparent paradox between the hyper-individualized subject and the herd mentality of the social. What’s wrong with the social? What’s right with it? Positivity is as pervasive in California as it is in the Italian cyberspace scene, which, in a Gramscian move, has embraced the “social network” as a sign within popular culture that the multitude can beat the mainstream in its act of mediation. Italian critics, activists, and artists are not unlike many others in being hyperaware of all the controversies made in Silicon Valley, while remaining mostly positive about the magic potion called social networking.”

Lovink’s point is that current situation in social network id divided in to two main branches: individualized and socialized. Social network is divided in similar way world was divided during Cold War.

Ideology in my opinion is a system of ideas and believes which connects people from different nation, races and social classes.

From the text by Supavich (Fone) Pengnate we can learn “Since the primary intent of clickbait headlines is to generate clicks, the headlines and their content are often misleading, unverified, and seldom corrected. Clickbait headlines that circulate rumors and misinformation have repeatedly posted danger to both public and business sections. For example, in 2008, a fraudulent Internet report claiming that Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, had suffered a serious heart attack was spread throughout social media. The story caused a panic on Wall Street which consequently led to approximately 10 percent drop in Apple’s stock price (Sandoval 2008)” (Pengnate 1).

In the text titled “Measuring Emotional Arousal in Clickbait: Eye-Tracking Approach” we can read “Clickbait headlines can be considered as a tabloid version of online news headlines. However, clickbait headlines are different from news headlines in the way that news headlines generally provide “hard news” content (e.g., politics, crimes, science, and economics) while clickbait headlines often contain “soft news” content (e.g., entertainment, gossip, and fiction)” (Pengnate 2).

Supavich (Fone) Pengnate in the text states that “Few studies in the literature have examined clickbait headlines and their consequences. For example, Chen et al. (2015) examined methods to detect clickbait and provide potential cues for recognizing both textual and non-textual clickbait. Blom and Hansen (2015) investigated techniques used to create and identify clickbait. While the use of clickbait headlines is increasing and can raise serious ethical and financial issues to individuals or organizations, it has received little attention in the IS literature” (Pengnate 2).

In “Measuring Emotional Arousal in Clickbait: Eye-Tracking Approach”, Supavich (Fone) Pengnate points out “According to studies in the psychology literature, the traditional measure of emotional arousal that has widely been used is a semantic differential scale devised by Mehrabian and Russell (1974). The semantic differential scale is a self-reported rating scale that consists of a set of bipolar adjective pairs rated along a Likert scale. Arousal scores are then derived from factor analyses of the measures” (Pengnate 3).

The text titled “Measuring Emotional Arousal in Clickbait: Eye-Tracking Approach” express that “In general, this study provides empirical evidence of arousal evoked by clickbait headlines. The results indicate that pupillary response can be used as an indicator of arousal, specifically at a high level. These results are consistent with previous studies in the journalism literature (e.g., Bradley et al. 2008; Stanners et al. 1979). However, this research extends the existing studies by investigating arousal in a differently type of online news headlines context—clickbait” (Pengnate 7).

This photography is not a selfie. The word selfie has self in it which can be understood as something that you do by yourself. Also, selfie photos don’t have torso of people on it. Most of the time we can see neck and face. People on this picture have scared or surprised facial expression. The cause of that kind of facial expression could be that this picture was taken after funeral because both subject wear black color clothes. As we know, Richard Avedon likes to talk to the subjects during photoshoots so we can assume that the facial expressions are caused by something he talked about. In my opinion Richard Avedon was talking something really tragic or surpassing that cause Duke and Duchess to have faces like that.