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Video Blog: Blog III and IV

Video

For this blog, you are to design a video or write about one you would like to make.  You may use any means possible to do this (your phone, Camstudio, Windows Movie Maker, etc). If you do a video, you need to briefly mention who the three different readers of it would be.  If you are doing a write up, you must do one paragraph of summary for your video, and one paragraph describing the different readers.  Unfortunately, I did not have time to make a video; however,  we will go over previous student examples.  Good luck!

Blog II: FALL 2014

Get a Job

You are now in college, and soon you intend be living your dreams.  For this assignment,  you are to think about your chosen career.  First, consider what qualifications (degrees, certifications, and experience) you need to get your job.  Next consider the amount of you money you will make and decide if it supports the lifestyle you want.    Then in two paragraphs, discuss how you will go about your achieving your career.

Broken down simply, here is what you are to do:

(1)Pick your chosen career and write about it

(2)Discuss what qualifications you need to achieve that career

(3)Then discuss your salary and decide if that will be enough to support your lifestyle.

(4) Lastly, say why this career is for you.

GMO

After five years,  Jones and his team developed a new super soy bean (Proto-Synsoy).  The seeds repel insects and grow twice as fast as non-modified soy beans.  After signing a five million dollar contract, Jones buys a lab and continues his experiments.  

Several Frankenstein experiments later,  Jones creates the tangamato, a tomato crossed with a tangerine.  Surprisingly, the fruit proves quite delicious, and a large corporation buys the genetic code to Jones' tangmato. 

At first, Jones thinks the buyers intend on feeding the starving people in third-world countries.  After all, just one tangamato provides the same vitamins and nutrients as one 8 oz. glass of V-8.  However,  the buyer reveals his real tangamato plans.

Jones strokes his chin before pushing his glasses against his nose.  He never knew why he did it.  For some reason, he felt the gesture brought out a masculine studiousness repressed by his gangly features.  He cleared his voice in attempt to get a deeper pitch: "So, are you going to feed the less fortunate in third-world countries with my new fruit."

A slight smirk streaked across the buyer's face.  "Feed the less fortunate?  Hell, no, Jones.  Christ, they are used to living with their ribs poking out. Feeding them would change the evolution of things, and soon they would get used to more.  Why kill efficiency by overloading engines that run on almost nothing."

Jones felt a sudden surge of hot blood fill his face.  He sucked in a little air with his nostrils before speaking.  "So, if you're not going to feed the hungry, what are your plans."

The business man leaned back in his leather chair.  The sun from the window revealed its brown shininess. 

"What does it matter what I do with tangamatos, Jones?  You got your money, and signed the contract.  Now take your ideals and starving people with you on the way out and close the door."

"Cameron, wait, " Jones blurted out, jolting from his chair.  "I need to know.  I developed tangamatos for a  specific purpose in mind."

"Yes, I know.  You made it so someone could buy it.  I bought it.  There is nothing more to discuss."

Yes, there is," Jones pleaded, wailing his thin, rubber-band arms.  "Cameron, I cannot sleep at night if you I willingly sold the genes for evil purposes."

"Evil purposes? Jesus, Jones.  Have you gone crazy? It's a tangerine crossed with a tomato.  What evil could a lab-made fruit unleash on a fool's world?  But I can tell you are a egg-head sleaze with a deluded sense of principles guided by an indoctrinated moral compass instilled in you by weak ivory-tower men who live their lives in a text-book fantasy.  So, allow me to straighten you out by giving you a slap of reality."

"I demand to know, Cameron!" Jones yelled, slamming his fist on the desk.

The businessman remained perfectly still as Jones meekly placed his hurting hand in comforting squeeze of his left.

"You see.  Let that hurting hand be a lesson, Jones.  You can't go slamming your pitiful causes in a world where it and its people are made of rock.   If anything, your little ethical hissy fit shows the inability to face your weakness."

"My weakness?"

Yes, you're human like the rest of us.  And you tried fooling yourself into thinking you made this stupid fruit for something other than self-interest and profit."

"Cameron,  I made this fruit to..."

The businessman raised his open palm, stopping Jones from talking.  "How many buyers did you have, Jones?"

Jones lowered his eyes and continued to hold his hand.  "Three," he muttered.

The businessman nodded. "Of the three, who gave you the best deal."

"Cameron, I only chose you because..."

"Who offered you the most money, Jones?"

"You did."

"Yes, and there's the reality, Jones.  Let the pain in your little hand remind you that goodness is weak and selfishness is strong."

Jones rubbed his hand.  His eyes dropped to floor.

"Well, I can tell I've inflicted a wound on your big, virtuous ego.  So, to help you better deal with the sting, I'll tell you what I am to do with your GMO."

"What will you do?"

A grin appeared on the businessman's face.  "I am not going to do anything with it Jones.  I am going to sit on it in hopes that someone will buy from it me.  And most likely, that person will sit on it until someone buys it from him, and so on and so forth."

"So, the world will never see my fruit?"

"Probably not.  At least not in our lifetime."

"Cameron, how can you do that?"

"It's easy.  It's mine.  I bought it, so I will do as I please with it.  Now, it may help a lot of people or it may not, but the fact is I decide its use, and, at this point, I am not going to do anything with it."

Jones became really still.  He wanted to push his glasses against his nose, but stopped himself. 

"In fact, Jones, I'm sure there is someone sitting on the cure to cancer, but, unfortunately, no one has offered the right price."

"I refuse to believe that someone would not part with the cure to cancer at any cost."

"If look throughout our history, pride costs more than most can ever hope to afford.  Just the idea you possess something no one else has makes more esteemed than God.  And, in this cruel, sinking world, owning it gives you that power.  Why would anyone want to give up that power?"

"Recognition; validation" Jones said.

"Recognition and validation are fleeting, Jones.  In fact, that is who you are.  After a span of time, no one will discern the difference between a pear and tangamato.  It's just another fruit on a cart.  Just like the cancer bullet is another cure.  People recall the cure but forget the doctor.

"No, Jones.  You're only upset because you think I robbed you of what was to be taken from you— recognition.   What I have done is give you taste of the future when all consume the fruit but fail to give homage to your brilliance. 

"At least you can rest comfortably knowing your vitamin-filled fruit will maintain its superiority because of its scarcity.  Only a select number of us know it really exists, and that in itself makes it sacred.  In this way, it can only continue to gain value.  My refusal to share it maintains my power."

Jones turned his back and shuffled toward the door.

"If I were you, Jones, I would go spend some money and enjoy the life you made."

The sound of a door opening echoed throughout the room.  

"Hell, make another superfruit,and I'll buy it," the businessman laughed as the door closed behind Jones.

For your first blog,  think about how you would feel if someone took your idea and never used it.  What would you try do?  Steal it back?  Or make a new one.  Write a paragraph and a half response to this prompt.  Good luck!

Blog II: Summer B

For your second blog, you are to make a video or do a write up on a video you would make.  You have complete freedom to make any video you want as long as it is appropriate for class.  (Try to keep things at a PG-13 level with a trace of R.)  Do not forget to remember your audience.

As for length, you should have at least two minutes recorded.  Once you do the video, please list the different readers of your video (Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary, along with the political, ethical, economic, and physical contexts—if any.

Those of you not making a video, you have to write two paragraphs.  The first paragraph explains the video you are making.  The second paragraph should discuss the different readers and PEPE.

Have some fun with this project.  Remember, it is possible to turn this into a money-making opportunity.

Best of luck.

Blog I: Summer B

Blog I: Summer B

            Having been promoted from intern to custodial engineer in a large firm, you spend your days cleaning offices.   You keep thinking about climbing the company ladder; sooner or later, you will ascend to the firm's paramount—an entry position in the mail room.  Striving for comfortable mediocrity never felt so good.  Dreaming and settling for less prevents the pain of not getting something good you want, so you think.

            However, one day, as the late afternoon sun rays slide through the thick blinds, you notice a piece of crumbled paper on the floor.  You restore the document to a readable state.  You notice that it reveals a sinister plot to sell company secrets to a competitor.  Of course, being human, you ponder the possibilities of gaining from this information.  After all, overcoming mediocrity without effort makes success less elusive.  In fact, it's just exchanging one mediocrity for another.

            Still, a pang of morality shoots through your heavy thoughts.   What might be the consequences of your actions?

            You decide to dictate your thoughts and decision to your Smartphone.

            For this first blog post, you are to write what you would say in the message.  After that you are to identify the different readers of your voice over.   Best of luck.

Blog II: Summer A

For your second blog, you are to make a video or do a write up on a video you would make.  You have complete freedom to make any video you want as long as it is appropriate for class.  (Try to keep things at a PG-13 level with a trace of R.)  Do not forget to remember your audience.

As for length, you should have at least two minutes recorded.  Once you do the video, please list the different readers of your video (Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary, along with the political, ethical, economic, and physical contexts—if any.

Those of you not making a video, you have to write two paragraphs.  The first paragraph explains the video you are making.  The second paragraph should discuss the different readers and PEPE.

Have some fun with this project.  Remember, it is possible to turn this into a money-making opportunity.

Best of luck.

Blog I: Summer-A

Our privacy dwindles as we become more advanced.  For your first blog assignment, log into the website Stalk.Info.   The site allows you to enter your name.  Once you enter your name, the site will create an identity on Google.  This identity acts as honey pot for mouse clicks.  After you setup your name, wait a few days to see if get any hits.  The site will provide you with a report of IP addresses that checked your name.

For the second part of the blog, please answer these questions in at least two paragraphs.

(1)Did you anyone Google your name?  If so, name the locations of  your stalkers.

(2)Do you think the ability to track people is good or bad?  For example, Smartphones allow you to track people within your family.  Does this show a lack of trust in our society?

(3)Ultimately, what do you think this has to do with technical writing?  Think about the different readers I discussed in class (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary). 

This is your first post.  You can do it.  Please feel free to ask any questions.  This is due 5/18/2014.

This film assumes a satirical view of today's youth—the millennials.  The characters' heads explode when they think of an idea.   Do you think this film represents a fair assessment of America's youth?  Suppose the creators showed this film in a college.  Do you think this film reaches its intended audience?

           

 For your last blog, critique this film on the following:

            (1) Quality: is it poorly made or good?

          

            (2)Who might be the different readers (viewers)?  Name the primary, secondary, and         tertiary.

             (3)If you were to do the same film, how would you change it.

            This blog counts as two posts (40 points).  This is your final post, so do a good job.