Wednesday, March 30, 2011
A PLAGUE OF TICS
This story is about a boy who goes through many different types of "tics". He has to touch his nose to everything and kiss everything in order to be satisfied in his mind. If he didn't kiss of touch something it would bother him very much until he did it. He had no parental support on his problems. When his teachers would talk to his mom about it, she would just offer the teacher a drink and make the teacher forget about his problems. His dad wasn't a very big help either. He would yell at him for doing things, and not get him any medical help. His problems got a lot worse over the years, through high school and into college. The thing that helped him stop being so compulsive was when he learned about smoking. Smoking got his mind of the things he had done all his life, and made him better in a way. I liked this story because it was interesting and at sometimes funny.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
1.The main (broad) question i plan to answer in my research paper is How has communication shaped society and influence all the different technological communications advances from the past one hundred years? The way communication is used today is much different then back then and i plan to analyze that.
2.My thesis statement is most likely going to change through the process of this paper but i plan to analyze the communication differences between the present and the past, how communication technology plays a major part in shaping a society, and how media communication shapes us.
3. After putting what i already know, with doing minor research on communication i realized that communication has changed dramatically over the past one hundred years, and this intrigues me because i want to live in the life where none of this technology is around and see what it would be like. There was never any immediate way to communicate with someone with out being face to face before cell phones, and now we can see someones else face right in the palm of your hand. We have come a long way since mailing letters to one another. Now we have televisions to see what exactly is going on in the world, and other things on the television influence people in a major way. The media is huge communication factor that shapes the way view this world. Not only has communication in the form of technology changed, but the way we speak face to face is different because of technology. It is a lot easier to say something to someone over a cell phone or through the computer then it is face to face and that alone has changed society and the way people "talk".
4.I need to find out the route technoloy has taken to get to the point where we are now. I also am going to try and find out how a language works and how the English language has changed because of technology. Also, i would like to find out what ways technological communication has helped our society.
5. Meyrowitz, Joshua. No Sense of Place. New York: Oxford, 1985. Print
Lowery, Shearon A., and Melvin L. DeFleur. Milestones in Mass Communication Research. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 1988. Print
Pearce, W. Barnett. Communication and the Human Condition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1989. 3-31. Print.
Lorimer, Rowland, and Paddy Scannell. "Communication and Society." Mass Communications: a Comparative Introduction. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994. 1-20. Print.
2.My thesis statement is most likely going to change through the process of this paper but i plan to analyze the communication differences between the present and the past, how communication technology plays a major part in shaping a society, and how media communication shapes us.
3. After putting what i already know, with doing minor research on communication i realized that communication has changed dramatically over the past one hundred years, and this intrigues me because i want to live in the life where none of this technology is around and see what it would be like. There was never any immediate way to communicate with someone with out being face to face before cell phones, and now we can see someones else face right in the palm of your hand. We have come a long way since mailing letters to one another. Now we have televisions to see what exactly is going on in the world, and other things on the television influence people in a major way. The media is huge communication factor that shapes the way view this world. Not only has communication in the form of technology changed, but the way we speak face to face is different because of technology. It is a lot easier to say something to someone over a cell phone or through the computer then it is face to face and that alone has changed society and the way people "talk".
4.I need to find out the route technoloy has taken to get to the point where we are now. I also am going to try and find out how a language works and how the English language has changed because of technology. Also, i would like to find out what ways technological communication has helped our society.
5. Meyrowitz, Joshua. No Sense of Place. New York: Oxford, 1985. Print
Lowery, Shearon A., and Melvin L. DeFleur. Milestones in Mass Communication Research. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 1988. Print
Pearce, W. Barnett. Communication and the Human Condition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1989. 3-31. Print.
Lorimer, Rowland, and Paddy Scannell. "Communication and Society." Mass Communications: a Comparative Introduction. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994. 1-20. Print.
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