Response Material

Here is a compiled list of my favorite responses of mine to my peers blog post's.

The first one is my favorite

My response to

You think this is bad wait until...Oh crap it's now

from the blog

The Adventures of Arista's Dad

Wow, you did a really great job with this review and response. I can tell that there was some careful though processes in which you laid out your information about other countries and there wayward decisions. 

Democratic nations are entity's in which can be very hard to control financially. Its my opinion that financially they can be similar to a kid with money that has been told not to spend it because it belongs to someone else. Really? You expect them not to spend that money. 

A lot of the time, due to the non-clarity of governmental decisions and of those you are campaigning investors will be weary of the government entity's. However it should also be disclosed that sometimes that non-clarity is present because of investors. Who's really in control? Whats their plan? 

I am particularly not excited about the election. Both administrations scare me. I think they all have something to hide and they all have their own agenda's outside of that they pose for the voters and supporters. 

I would say the only thing that needs to be worked here is your grammar. Take the last paragraph for instance. I feel that there should be a comma after, "All told." Then you say,"lp's says." Is there multiple people saying something? Then lastly, if they are saying something or your quoting them citation needs to be used. Those are just things I caught wright away.

Overall, I love the response it was very good.

My response to
Me no dumb, me have computor technology!

from the blog

College Work

My response to
Attack Of the Ipod

from the blog

The Unfinished Works of Mitrovitch

My response to
ACCESS DENIED!!!!

from the blog

The Lane Adventures of Liz

My response to

The Uprising of Social Media

from the blog

LANE PREPPER

My response to
Naieve Eyes

from the blog

The SMITHsonian Podium

My response to

If You’re Not Outraged, You’re Not Paying Attention

from the blog

Legends of Lane

Lies Embed Our Lives with Fatigue

"Oh my life, the lies I have been faced with in my time.  Oh the lies I have told.  And all the pain it causes everybody.  There is no such thing as a harmless lie."

In reflection to Stephanie Ericsson's, "The Ways We Lie" ...

In what ways does cataloging these lies make you a better critical thinker?  What is your overall view of lying?

         I have always tried to be as receptive as possible when a person speaks to me.  I don't necessarily pick apart a person's rhetoric as knowledge to consume, or reflect upon, but to analyze.  Is what their saying the truth?  In the essay, "The Ways We Lie" by Stephanie Ericsson, lies are broken down into different categories.  They are all forms of deception, whether it's to ourselves or to others is always to be determined.  It is my opinion that the three most powerful lies she mentions are white, deflective, and dismissive lies.  When I say powerful, I do not speak of the power that they can possibly hold in their use over another person but of their damaging and destructive influence on all, including those telling or wielding the lies. 

           To a certain extent the categorization of lies that Ericsson did in her essay should help those who have been lied to differentiate and reason as to why they were lied to.  It helps to understand a general purpose that someone had in telling their lie (or lies, to our occasional dismay).  Trying to understand as to why someone has lied could help to discern an important part of someone (maybe a suppressed felling in which they hide from themselves) and ascertain their reasoning behind such said lie.  Not that understanding would necessarily make their lying acceptable.  This particular statement makes me ponder, are their acceptable lies?

              Going back to my mention of the white, deflective, and dismissive lies that I thought were most capable of deception and damage, lets analyze just how damaging they can be.  First there are white lies, "oh the innocent little lies we most impulsively make."  Ericsson, gives an example of a lady who lied to the bank about nailing a check and then lied to her husband about her fictitiously good day when she found out about his bad day.  Though we may think that, "Well she was just protecting herself and her husband."  To an extent, yes, that is true; but, what about the other possible outcomes that could have come from telling the truth?  

Suppose that she did tell the truth.  Isn't it a possibility that her bank could have extended her check deadline if she had tried to reason with them?  We do not know her history with the bank but it's a possibility.  Isn't it also possible that her husband would have happily comforted her in her time of need instead of floundering?  I do think these are definite possibilities.  However, neither her nor us will ever know.  To make things worse, her little white lie turned out to be more than she thought.  By disregarding the truth of the bank to her husband she was deflective.  It is more than likely that he will find out eventually if he didn't already know.  And by completely blowing off how crummy her day was she was dismissive of herself, a very damaging aspect of human behavior.  For when we deny the truth we deny ourselves the reality of the world and merely sweep it under the rug.  How is one to help other's when we can't help ourselves?

"Help me help you and let's all stop lying to each other."

    

Communication Key to Egyptian Uprising Summary and a slight opinion

photo taken by: Mahmoud Yakut

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Summary:

The article, "Communication Key to Egyptian Uprising," focuses on the essential role that modern technology played in Egypt's recent overthrow of their oppressive dictatorship.  Written by Hany Rashwan, the essay poses the question, "So why now?"  Rashwan takes a look at the crucial role of the internet in the Egyptian revolution.  In his analysis of this role, Rashwan finds wisdom and relishes on the comment, "If you want to liberate a government, give them the internet,"  spoken in an analysis by Wael Ghonim.  It was from there that Rashwan whole-heartily discovered that the internet supplied the ultimate freedom to individuals everywhere, most importantly those of Egypt.  It can be firmly recognized in the essay that they are for the people, the internet that is; As three large, major internet domains contributed their support in the revolution.  After reflecting on Rashwan's essay I felt that it was a true heart felt narration in support of the Egyptian people.  Or was it the internet that he was supporting?

Opinion:

Though I can tell from reading Rahwan's article that there is plenty of emotional and analytic appeal to the subject of the essay, I find myself questioning.  Am I reading about how wireless communication helped to over throw the Egyptian government or about how great and awesome the internet is?  I feel that if the author of the article, Rashwan, narrated more on the struggles that the Egyptian people went through to keep their limited communications up, running and useful it would follow more in-line with the essays title.  As the article is, "Communication key...," not, "Internet Key..."  Yes, the internet did keep the revolution alive, but I want to know how it was used more specifically.  Besides, if it wasn't for the people using the internet the World Wide Web would of had no place in being mentioned with their revolution. The author did say that he studied many analysis.  I'm sure in his research he would have came across harder evidence to the World Wide Web's  effective and significant use.  Overall, the essay grabbed my attention.  It was well put together and because it grabbed my attention I felt intrigued to find out more.

My summary and response to Les Schubert's article, "Let the Zoo's Elephants Go"

SUMMARY:

In the article, "Let the Zoo's Elephants Go," Les Schubert elucidates that when it comes to elephants, the Smithsonian National Zoo is an embarrassment.

He exposes that in 2000 their zoo was responsible for euthanizing an African elephant that was suffering from advanced arthritis. Now they want to do the same to an Asian that is also suffering from severe arthritis.
Les Schubert shows a deep concern about the elephants and their quandary's.  He displays this in the emotionally charged comments, "...debilitating ailments," "...result of inadequate conditions," and "...repeated in zoo's across the country."
Les who had a 35 year career working with zoo's explains that keeping elephants in tiny, inadequate conditions is leading to their debilitation's.  He makes the argument that zoo's must change their approach on how they keep their elephants and strongly supports his article with facts about the actually needed space elephants require.  He reinforces his argument with an authenticity of knowledge for the subject matter and confesses the reality of how much space they actually have.  Les's essay puts the national zoo's to shame.

Save the Elephants!

taken from http://living-vegan.blogspot.com

RESPONSE:

When I read Schubert's essay about the national zoo's elephant's I can't help but to pity the elephants that the article uses in its rhetoric.  The article mentions that one of the elephants was abducted (taken as the article states), at the age of 7 months.  Elephants age like human-beings in that they can live for 50 years or more.  I can't help but to empathize with the elephants and Schubert's distressful plea.  I know at heart and in an instance that if my daughter was ever abducted I would be devastated (destroyed on the inside more like it). Schubert's essay really made a connection with me in this sense of family being taken away.  Les's article completely gained my respect and my support of freeing all elephant's from America's zoo's debilitating cages.

Welcome to my blog page

Hello all, I'm Matt, welcome to my blogger blog spot.

I just started my second year at lane and have huge aspirations for my life and for the people around me.  That include my friends and my family that I absolutely love.  

I originally enrolled at Lane Community College to receive my A.A.S. degree for Auto Technology along with my A.S.E certification because I love cars and I love working on cars.  I though why not do as I am told by my peers and do what I love so I never have to work.  However, after my first year I realized that with education my future horizon is limitless. 

I have two major loves in my life.  First there is my daughter, Lauren.  She is the most amazing and intelligent little girl.  I couldn't have wished for a more perfect daughter.  She just turned two, i'm expecting some terrible two's but haven't seen any signs of it yet.  I'm afraid it's going to explode on me.  I'm joking of course, shes amazing.  

My second love, of course, is cars and I currently only have one current daily driver project car.  It is my black 96 neon high-line coupe.  Its a work in progress but, it is a good start for what I have planned.  It currently sits on BC Racing Coil-overs and has a 2.4 liter stratus motor with goodies (I won't bother to elaborate any more).  I love this car, handles phenomenally and has a good amount of power.  However, I don't plan on keeping it my real love is in rear wheel drive cars.