What stuck with me after reading this is the fact that mass media is completely taken over now. The mass media completely controls the news we get today. This is why we have so much fake news. It seems like they can truly post anything about anyone nowadays. The worst part is people believe it without doing their research. It has become worse than back then because there are so many news sources now. Even twitter accounts that aren’t big news outlets like CNN or NBC can tweet something out and get a lot of attention. This what leads to people spreading rumors. And others sources like TMZ doing whatever they want to get whatever news they want. They ruin people’s privacy as well and no one really stops them. News reporters have leading titles as well and also differences between white news articles and colored news articles. The title is completely different when the bad guy is a colored person but when it’s a white person they saturate it to shine light on him and that he wasn’t a bad guy. This has been going on for years and it isn’t going to stop anytime soon. This is a great example of how money changes everything on the internet. Money overpowers all.

What stuck with me in this article was the anxiety that “fake news” brings. It is ridiculous on what people will post these days. What’s even worse is what people will believe. I love how ridiculous it is when people believe things on social media platforms but don’t do their research and start telling everything and their mothers about it. I know so many people that do that and it drives me insane. These are the people that believe everything they see on Twitter and retweet it which causes more panic for other people. A benefit for having immigrant parents is having different sources of news from different countries. Especially what happened with Kim Jung Un and his fake death recently, the Korean news have been notifying the Korea about the situation calmly and correctly while the US has been blowing up the news with the confirmation of his death which brings panic to everyone. The worst is the Twitter culture. They will take anything and run with it. The amount of memes that were made of Kim Jung Un the second that news came out was insane. Obviously if he was gone it would bring some light into the whole North Korea thing but you shouldn’t be too quick to believe anything.

What stuck with me when reading through How to Do Nothing was the quote “Look back in memory and consider… How many have robbed you of life when you were not aware of what you were losing, how much was taken up in useless sorrow, in foolish joy, in greedy desire, in the allurements of society, how little of yourself was left to you; you will perceive that you are dying before your season!” I have felt this way plenty of times. When you waste time and sulk in something you can’t even change. It seems like the end of the world but what can you really do? This stuck with me because I could really have done something productive or something that was going to actually benefit me but instead I just sat there wasting my time. Wasting away my life. Or even being happy over something foolish. You can’t help yourself but it just makes you laugh. Then you’re left there like an idiot when you come down from the high. Every feeling like that is useless and worthless. Kind of a depressing thought but something that needs to be thought of so I don’t ever make that mistake again.

For my research question, I would like to ask how Coronavirus has affected our economy. I want to know what has happened to the stock market overall within categories of businesses and which industries have actually might have benefitted because of this epidemic. I would also like to research which industries have been impacted the most. I feel the best way to answer these questions is read article on Wall Street Journal and CNBC to get a better feel on how the economy is adapting to this virus. Also, I feel like talking to people that are being affected by this and how they are handling it within their business would be beneficial to know during this research. I need to talk to people that run their own businesses, employees of a business and if they are treated differently or if anything within their everyday work lives have shifted, and people that own a share of a business to see how they are being affected by the virus. I know these are the right people to interview because it has affected by dad and he owns a business as well. He imports and exports and most of his clients are in Asia and Europe and those are the counties that are being affected most by the coronavirus so business has not been good. After hearing about his personal struggles, I know how people are struggling in that field of work. Also, because this virus is affecting everyone, I can pretty much interview anyone in the 3 categories I’ve listed above and get a response out of them. The DOW plummeting 1400 points is a sign that every market is being affected. I could collect hard evidence and documents on the market that would help me understand more on what is going on. My questions would: “how has coronavirus affected your business?”, “how fast did the business either go good or back for you?”, “has there been any benefits?”, “how do you plan on going on with your business in the future?”, “how has the market plummeting affect you personally and your business as a whole?”

What really stuck with me in Nakamura’s article was “though the act of communicating with the public about racism, sexism, homophobia, and other social justice issues is unpaid, and often results in the poster being harassed, trolled, and threatened on these fora, these authors claim this content adds traffic and value to these platforms by attracting readers and followers. I really do agree with this concept because I feel this is how most people in our society grab attention. There are many examples on Twitter and Instagram that get attention with the shock value and things that really do go against our typical views. Even on social media platforms like Youtube, the videos that start to trend are things that have two sides to it. Half the people would go against it and the other half enjoys the content which sparks arguments in the comments which drive in views and attention which then goes to the Youtube algorithm which helps videos like these end up on the home page for easy access which then leads to more traffic. This is also why I believe Donald Trump go so much attention so quick. What started off as a “oh this must be a joke”, ended up him gaining on this traffic and attention from the views he gave on issues we have today.

I didn’t find this article as entertaining as last week’s since it was a case study but I do agree on a lot of things that were said. I really do agree with the idea when the author said, “As texts become the chief vehicles for economic transactions and the chief grounds for making profits or achieving advantage, they also become potential vehicles for expensive error, impropriety, and even crime. It is not surprising that rules and regulatory agents have a growing presence in the oversight of writing (and its writers).” This quote really did stand out to me because I have experienced this before. I had an internship with College Works Painting where I ran my own branch under the company as a branch manager in Madison. With this internship, I had to market my own business, do my own finances, hire my own works, handle my own customers, and basically everything that comes in running a small business. So when I was writing the contract for an exterior and interior project, I was in a rush because I had to meet with a different client in a few minutes, I accidentally wrote that we would be painting a part of the exterior that the homeowner and I didn’t talk about but since it was on the contract, the homeowner kind of took it to their advantage and said that that’s what they thought was being painted as well. Necessarily, I lost a lot of money and time because it took more paint and labor hours to finish this job because I mistakenly wrote on the contract. Definitely was a vehicle for an expensive error.

Who needs to hear your analysis?

• current NCAA players and aspiring college athletes

What central point are you trying to make in your analysis?

• that D1 athletes should be paid

What problem might your analysis mediate or solve?

Who needs to hear your analysis?

With those things in mind, what specific composition choices did you make in this assignment?

Why did those composition choices achieve your rhetorical goals?

Tolentino uses rhetoric by comparing the speeches of Christine Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh and how Ford’s speech was “unfailingly polite and deferential while being interrogated at length about a traumatic experience. She spoke like a woman who had understood since childhood that survival requires anticipating and accepting the displeasure of men” compared to Kavanaugh’s which was “yelled and wept, behaving like a man whose entitlement had never before been challenged, and who believed that male power outweighs women’s personhood as naturally as a boulder outweighs a pearl”. I do believe that this mediates the exigency.

Option 2:

I once got a passive aggressive note my freshman year of college when my roommate left a note on my desk saying “make sure to take the trash” when we were all moving out. I had to stay a day extra because my flight was the following day and buddy had the audacity to leave a note when I was taking a final and he was packing up to leave. Let’s just say we haven’t talked since and I don’t plan on talking to him again. I rather have someone come up to me and personally tell me what’s upsetting him or her so much instead of leaving pass agg notes.

A specific example that stood out to me about this excerpt was the part of the anonymity of online culture vs. the standardized displays of affection within the workplace. As the article stated that the workplace tends to leave grievances and affection silent, would I prefer a workplace to bring in the culture of standardized displays of affection or the anonymity of online culture? This had me thinking of the important idea of personal life and work life and if it should be separated. People always say don’t bring your personal life to the work environment but I really do feel like that people tend to be more miserable at work when they separate those two because you are literally a robot at the work place if you can’t bring your personalities to it. This also reminded me The Office. There needs to be a balance though unlike Michael who brings too much of his personal life into the workplace and makes everything awkward. And then there is Toby who doesn’t bring anything to the workplace and is quite miserable all the time. I get that people don’t want to build relationships at work and be professional but especially if it’s a 9 to 5, that is 8 hours of straight work which would drive me insane. Even at my job on campus, I talk about my weekends and personal things with my coworkers while also being professional when customers walk in which makes my shifts go by so much faster while having fun.