Social Media Survey Summ

Social Media Survey

              This survey shows three elements of social media uses by comparing males and females, including the Sites or Apps, the frequency and the reasons behind them. Males in general seem to use apps just for chatting; for example, What's App and WeChat while females are more interested in sharing pictures and watching their idols in Apps like Instagram and Facebook. Males check social media less then females. Both sides consider it as a daily life activity, but females enter social media several times a day when males mostly do it in their free time. We all use social media to connect with friends and families. However, one reason of girls that they enjoy seeing fashion and news. On the other side of the coin, males find it interesting to make new friends through social networking Apps. Even though this summary of the survey may show that females are different from males in the three aspects, most of them share the same answers especially the frequency of the use and their reasons.

PED's

                People have used drugs to boost power in order to have an advantage in sports competition. Even thought some believe that it's fine to take PED's (Performance Enhancing Drugs), it should be banned because it destroys the sport spirit in three major ways.

                 One of the most common reasons why athletes should not take the drugs is because it is bad for their health. The PED's are made with chemicals that have an effect on them including excessive hair, aggressive behavior, in addition to a risk of heart and liver disease. The costs of health to take such things are not worth considering; therefore, athletes should be very careful on trying these kinds of drugs.

                In addition to health problems, PED's make the field of competition unfair for those who have not taken it. Sports should be based on talents abilities, not fighting to win at all costs. Winning can not be bought and buy athletes. "A victory on the athletic field should be a triumph for the athlete, not the feat of a high-priced chemist working in a laboratory"(Catlin D 2012). Athletes have to show their abilities and skills the deserve titles.

              Since athletes have used PED's for a time, people now concern ones who take drugs. This makes people be careful on loving and cheering for their favorite athletes. For that reason, athletes may have lost their reputations because of other athletes using drugs; therefore, PED's must be completely banned on the athletic fields.

References :

• Catlin,Dr.D (Aug 7, 2012) "Testing Levels the Playing Field" Room for Debate : New York Times               Online 

• Bradbury, J.C. (Aug 8, 2012) "Fine The Dirty, Reward The Clean" Room for Debate : New York                  Times Online

Is That Man Crazy ?

          The man did see the unicorn, but his wife did not believe him. After he insisted, his wife called the psychiatrist to see him. She told the psychiatrist that he saw a unicorn but he said : "No, a unicorn is a mythic beast". He said the exact same words she told him when he talked about the unicorn. He was pretending it to show that his wife is the crazy one to the officer, just like how she did to him.

Cellphone Etiquette

Answers of  "Is Cellphone Etiquette Dead?"

1. The important use of cellphones has a harmful effect on relationships by inappropriate use

2. The Author is against using cell phones and he wrote this article to persuade people from inappropriate use of cellphones; for example in (Para1) mentions "I was miffed".

3. It caused people to enjoy the technology in smartphones and be addicted to it.

4. • Duke's Grill throw people's food away if they use their cellphones.
    • Eva Restaurant gives 5% discount in exchange of surrendering your cellphone.
    • Perry's Deli banned the use of cellphone.

5. A person must excuse himself if he has to use the phone.

6. The statistic shows that people don't use their cellphones only for business, but all of the time.

7. The author ended the article with  a question to show that people can leave their cellphones entirely, but they are being addicted

8. I. Hook
    II.Examples and statistics
    III.Examples of businesses that made rules against cellphones
    IIII. What is more important, people or cellphones ?
    V. Ways of behaving the use of cellphones
    VI.People overdo it, and they become rude
    VII.We can stop using cellphones entirely

Response to Q.1

          Generally, short movies have short dialogues, but it's not the best way to view a point. Scenes that happen in the movie express feelings of characters. When the audience see a person in the movie, they can understand their feeling just from the look on the face or how they react. For example, when children were playing with water, Vincenté was frightened when he the water splashed on him. By that, we can tell that Vincenté had a bad experience of water as he's an environmental refugee. Same idea happened when he was washing hi hands and he lost attraction on water. In addition, Vincenté broke ice two times. This shows that he hates ice because it melted and a tsunami washed away his family. Dialogues may not always be the best way to explain stories, but actions and face expressions can connect to the watcher emotionally.

Dean Kamen Summ

In the article “Segway Creator Unveils His Next Act”, Eric Shonfeld highlights the two innovations invented by Dean Kamen. He concerned about a huge problem in the developing countries including the shortage of water and electricity. For that reason, he created two machines to fight this issue. His first invention was the power generator. It runs on animal waste to work; in addition, it has a power that is about 1 kilowatt. Kamen’s next invention was the water-cleaning machine which he called, the Slingshot. He created it with care to make it very simple to use. The slingshot works by putting any dirty water inside and vaporizing it into steam; then, ditching the dirt. Kamen wanted to demonstrate his ideas into the real world; for that reason, he joined forces with the biggest cell phone company in Bangladesh in order to create 3 entrepreneurs: one to collect cow dung as an energy source, another one to sell out lightbulbs, and the last one to share the electricity among the villagers.

Dean Kamen mentioned a point about the value of one kilowatt. He believes that if this amount of electricity is used wisely, villagers can work at night. This is important, because by using a specific technique we can consume more value of the electricity we have. For a better future, people should carefully use the sources they control to maintain greater effect.