Blog Assignment #6

In the Arak Anthology page 33, Megan Ramirez wrote the essay, “The Publication of Your Personal Profile”, which is about publishing private information on the Internet through social networking. The author explains about how she would wait until her class will be done for the day and go home to start up socializing through the internet by entering a social networking websites called “Myspace” and “Facebook”. Throughout her essay, the author describes how the users of those two social networks would greatly affect their reputation because of how they would just reveal their private information online. Researchers that were mention on the essay tells how these social networks are not really that secured at all even if users only allow people they assigned to look at their profile. A quote from one source that the author applies: “from a security standpoint”, the author explaining that if people would want to keep their personal lives private, they should not even use these social networking websites at all. The author believes that it would jeopardize a user’s reputation at work, school and social life if it is use inappropriately. The writer chose this material to show her interest to her peers about public cases relating to her topic of choice. The essay shows a full image and information about the writer’s intentions to give her option about the issue. Readers will be most likely be affected from her writing to their online community and internet usage.

Blog Assignment #5

As you know, Christopher Columbus is famously known to have discovered America. English settlement had established in the next century to seek for so called, “The New World”. American natives or Indian Americans were the people who have been living in the new found continent before the Englishmen discovered the land. The clash between the Indians and the Englishmen’s started after the English adapted to the new environment of the continent, especially when the natives helped them adapt through. Since the English have the technological advances on weapons, they barely struggled from the Indians revolt after the English keep taking their lands and properties. Thousands of Indians died from the English’s massacre. The Europeans were basically the winners of the clash and had written the history about the true source of today’s world. Losers on the other hand were the Indians who struggled to keep their population alive from the colonist’s tyranny against them. Killings and slavery where the major causes of their vast population wipe out. It formed the major crime in the world from it. Once again, the winners’ writing history had written the most violent take over and major discovery of all time. In curiosity, if the losers wrote the history, different discoveries would probably take and civilization would form differently. There would be a most noticeable change throughout the world if it would to occur in the past.