In “Youthful Indiscretions: Should Colleges Protect Social Network Users from Themselves and Others?” Dana Fleming presents an essay concerning the safety of social networking sites and how Universities can deal and prevent problems. This article is targeted towards school administrators, faculty, and a social networking user audience who will either agree or disagree with her statement. I believe Fleming presents an excellent, substantial case for why she reasons the way she does. Fleming gives a sound, logical argument according to Toulmin’s Schema. This essay has an evident enthymeme, which has a claim and reasons why she believes in that way. Toulmin refers to this as “grounds." The enthymeme seen throughout Fleming 's essay is that there should be more control of social media sites such as Facebook, YouTube, and Myspace because of the dangers they are known to cause for young people. The author 's warrant is supported by enough "backing". Fleming made sure to cover all of her bases against her argument including several rebuttals. In Youthful Indiscretions, Dana Fleming presents a very convincing backing with the following phrase: “The dangers of online social networking transcends disciplinary actions and reputational harm. A 17-year-old Rhode Island girl was reportedly drugged and raped by three she …show more content…
This sentence is crucial to prove the dangers of social media which is Fleming 's main purpose in the grounds. This young man perhaps did not mean any harm from this comment, but how would his potential employers know that. I believe this student most likely regretted posting this comment at a time when he was not thinking correctly. Just like this ruined his career, many young people could have prevented many problems by simply being more careful with their social media
The article ‘Web of Risks’ by Brad Stone, is about how young adults misuse social media and there are consequences. Cameron Walker, a sophomore at Fisher College had organized a petition dedicated to getting a campus security guard fired and put it on Facebook. Marc Zuckerberg designed Facebook in 2003 and it is a well-known website used worldwide. On the Facebook page Walker wrote that the security guard harassed students and needed to be eliminated. His plan backfired due to his use of wording and it came off threatening so he was expelled. Social media is looked at as a way to express yourself. Different social networks are used such as Facebook, Bebo, and Myspace. On these sites sometimes personal life is published,
...gle network (443.) Some schools use material from Myspace and Facebook in their judicial proceedings while others turn a blind eye to the site (442.) Through the ineffective use of rhetorical tools and the cognizant arrangement of this essay, Fleming fails to manage the distance between herself and the audience with the flow and fluency of the article. She also does not establish her credibility and portray her scholarly credit through her citations of literature and quotations from experts. Fleming also does not present the audience with two analogies enabling them to make logical conclusions.
I enjoyed this article because I agreed beforehand with the points that the author made. It was also important that the author began and ended the article with some of the positive points about using Facebook, so that a reader who might be a fan of the site does not regard the article as an attack on Facebook, but rather a guide to the safer use of social media.
Reading Chapter 11, “Genders and Sexualities,” written by Carrie Hintz was to construct and enact alternatives for these two traditional categories. Data is clearly indicated that sexual material is some of the most controversial content in literature. Children’s literature that is involved with adolescent’s childhood are key battlegrounds for attitudes about gender and sexuality. The significance of gender and sexuality in children’s literature is the persistent investment in what is perceived to be the innocence of children. Innocence is defined in part by children’s enforced ignorance of sexual matters. According to James Kincaid, “Youth and innocence are two of the most eroticized constructions of the past two centuries. Innocence was that
Fleming begins her argument by paralleling the transformative properties of the invention of the telephone years ago to social networks today (Fleming). But, Fleming states that “students’ online identities and friendships come at a price, as job recruiters, school administrators, law enforcement officers and sexual predators sign on and start searching” (Fleming). Social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook are frequented favorites, especially by college students. These sites have become so popular that “friending” a person is now a dictionary verb. However, Fleming believes that students are not as cautious as they should be. In fact, “thirty percent of students report accepting ‘friend’ reques...
In the case described in Document D,a student named J.S. was suspended for creating a Myspace profile which ...
She starts off her argument with her own personal experience then transitions into an example of a girl she interviewed named Caitlyn. She uses Caitlyn as an example to show that teenagers start posting their everyday lives from a young age. Caitlyn likes to post her blogs, her photos and documentaries about her school on the internet for the world to see. She has the characteristics from the author’s previous argument that she thinks she has an invisible audience on the internet and because of this she posts her daily routine. When Caitlyn took a trip to Manhattan, she posted her pictures and “memories of her time in New York [which] are [now] stored both in her memory, where they will decay, and on her site” (Nussbaum 3). During this argument, the author only uses examples of her personal interviews; she does not have any facts from credible resources. If the author where to include more personal examples of teenagers, it would not give the reader the suspicion on whether or not this is true for all youth. If teenagers thought about the consequences of posting online their daily lives, than many people would not do it. By taking this argument into consideration many people would be more careful about what they post. The online world can be a scary place because pedophiles can now have easy access to photos and teenagers accounts and pretend to be someone they are not. Young adults
The Wife of His Youth is a short story written by Charles Chestnut that highlights the difficulties experienced by the mulattos (people of mixed white and black races) during the 1890’s. One of the biggest difficulties experienced by the protagonist, Mr. Ryder, was deciding which race to closer associate with when it came time for him to select a spouse. Because Mr. Ryder was a mulatto, choosing to marry a darker woman would emphasize his darker qualities and choosing a whiter woman would emphasize his whiter features. Charles Chestnut utilizes the use of poetry in The Wife of His Youth as a means to give the reader insight into what Mr. Ryder is attracted to in Mrs. Dixon, as well as using the poetry to instigate Mr. Ryder’s actions with his former wife. This
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain is her own story that she wrote about during the Great War otherwise known as World War One. The main theme of her story is the struggles that she had to face, whether it dealt with her family, or her personal goals such as attending college or the world that she was surrounded by. On page 17 Brittain stated that "When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans." Another important aspect of Vera's goals was the aspiration and ambition that she had, that aspiration allowed her to move forward in her life.
The meaning of the first stanza is do the things you need to get done because tomorrow the opportunity may not exist. It states this by saying gather rosebuds while you can because that beautiful flower “tomorrow will be dying” (Herrick 385). The next stanza talks about the Sun’s life from dawn to dusk. By describing it’s race against time it is telling a person that there is not much sunlight so make the most of it To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time and Carpe Diem
The multi-award winning documentary ‘Born Into Brothels’, directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, acknowledges the lives of children who have unfortunately been trapped within the Red-Light district of Calcutta, India. This red-light district is recognized by the world as the second-largest red-light district in the world, containing several hundreds of multi-story brothels with an approximated 11,000 ‘sex workers’. Typically, as a high school student of Western Civil origin, I have not been subjected to this kind of raw violence and confronting and cramped living conditions. I recognized that my generalized emotion throughout the entirety of the documentary was sympathy directed toward the children who were outspokenly forced to endure
Choices made as teenagers can impact their lives in either in a negative or positive way. If a teenager begins to make poor decisions, he/she could destroy his or her future personally or professionally. As teenagers become older, the margin for error becomes smaller. In “Beautiful Brains” by David Dobbs, the teenager in the story chose to drive passed the speed limit on a highway, and this decision got him in trouble with the law. It’s these types of choices that can get a person into a serious mess if he or she is not careful. If you choose not to work hard in school, you will receive bad grades. This will impact your GPA and consequently your ability to get into a good college. Therefore bad decisions you make as a teenager, especially as
As older siblings, friends, and cousins were denied position at school and in the work force, we realized that adults and employers had found Facebook. Our uncensored character was on display for future bosses, colleges, etc. and they were there to stay. Instead of references being the test of character for a job, it was the online identity that determined whether or not the application got even a second glance. In light of this revelation, we changed. Our Facebooks no longer reflected our true selves, but rather the person that we thought colleges and employers should see. Much like hiding our dirty laundry from prying eyes in the halls of high school, we could no longer wear our proverbial hearts on our internet sleeves, for the future was at stake. Much like what had once been the Old West, the internet was now connected with railroads—each leading back to the offline person. Tame and orderly.
...e crowd in order to help police in ways they would not be able to without social media. When you share an Amber Alert, you are exerting some sort of internet vigilance. It is also important to be wary of misguided and damaging internet vigilance, which imposes on impartiality and justice. As well as the internet has the ability to help fight crime, the internet has the ability to add to crime through phishing, hacking and social media scams. It is imperative to be aware of the evolution of online crime, in order to avoid it. Lastly, protecting your privacy on the internet is feasible if there is an understanding of the privacy and security of individual social media sites, as well as who has access to your profile. There will always be benefits to using social media to solve crimes, as there will always be deterrents to protecting your own social safety online.
"Social Media in the Workplace Creates New Legal Risks, Contributed by David Barron, Cozen O'Connor." - Bloomberg Law. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2013.