Chapter 11 Question # 2

In, “The Wrongs of Internet Plagiarism: The Quick Arguments” by Brook Sadler, he talks about how plagiarism is obviously a bad thing for students, even if they earned a better grade or not. In the article, “Four Reasons to Be Happy about Internet plagiarism”, Russell Hunt believes that plagiarism is an okay thing to do because students need some extra help in order to pass. I feel like Sadler presented the best argument because not only did she give a clear face to why plagiarism shouldn’t happen, but she also talked about why it wasn’t fair, how it betrays others, how it wont benefit you at all and how it wont help you at all in your career. Lastly, Sadler gives a solution to the problem of plagiarism where as Russell Hunt does not.  Hunt barely states any reasons on why plagiarism isn’t bad and how its not helpful in helping a student understand plagiarism. The reasons he pointed out are not really adequate to cover his argument, which is why Sadler has the better argument. 

Chapter 11 Question # 1

Media experiences have reinforced my existing worldviews and values and also have changed and expanded my views in many ways. According to the textbook, ““If we are unaware of the impact media has on our lives and decisions, or if we engage in self-serving bias by fooling ourselves into thinking that the media affects others but not ourselves, we run the risk of being controlled by the media rather than being in control of our own lives” (357). In addition, on page 358, the text talks about how only watching programs that confirm your worldview has a big contribution to confirm bias and narrow-mindedness. The text proposes watching or reading of the same issue or news event on another channel to overcome narrow mindedness and the bias. Personally, I do this exact thing because you can’t just easily rely on one source for your news because even just one simple story can be analyzed in various ways. 

Chapter 10 Question # 3

An advertising strategy that I found to be incredibly interesting was product placement. According to the text, product placement is a strategy in which a real commercial product is used in fictional media, and the presence of the product is the result of an economic exchange between the company and the business that produces the product” (321). Personally, I feel like this is an effective way for companies to advertise something because they don’t even need to use a commercial. Nike is one of the biggest sport apparel company’s around. If someone is watching a running match and the runner is wearing a pair of Nikes and the logo of Nike is clearly shown through the television screen. Then the views watching the race may want to purchase the item, especially if the runner won. This is because they may thing that the person won the race because of the Nike shoes that they wore, so they would purchase the same thing which profits the company because of their strategy. 

Chapter 10 Question # 2

Both Wootan and Liodice have strong standpoints and make really good arguments. In Wootan’s argument, he talks about why the legislation is able to regulate food advertising to children with the support of CSPI. His intentions are good since their goal is to protect our nations children and to keep the healthy, I kind of felt like he was going a little too far. Personally, I feel like it’s the parents duty and responsibility of what their child is consuming. His arguments faced towards what advertisement agencies need to fix or not to provide any facts but to talk about how child obesity exists. Liodice, takes an opposite standpoint of this situation. His argument is based of from many opinion and responses to Wootan’s article. Additionally, he also talks about protecting the first amendments and how he feels like it is wrong that the guidelines are so restricting. When evaluating both arguments of Wootan and Liodice, I would most likely agree with Liodices position because it is more valid and effective.

            

Chapter 10 Question # 1

This past week I feel like I have been a victim to all of the marketing strategies that were mentioned in the text. The text says that marketers come up with strategies to get customers to stay longer than they usually do to buy something they wouldn’t buy if they had been inside and outside the store quickly. According to the textbook, drug stores purposely make customers wait extra time while picking up prescriptions, just so they can make extra purchases. A few days ago I was picking up some antibiotics with my mom for her eye at the local Walgreens. While I was there I bought some hair ties, a notebook, and some pens. This was because I had some time to spare and was walking though the aisles simply browsing and had no intention of buying anything. But when I do that, I tend to buy something saying in my head, “oh I might as well buy it now because I’m going to need it soon anyways…” even though I really don’t need it. Every day I encounter many different marketing strategies and I always give in and buy something, which pretty much shows how effective the strategies really are. The most effective strategy is product placement especially when trying to promote the product. The least effective strategies are the marketing strategies I see in magazines, because if you see something in person it is more desirable and realistic. 

Chapter 4 Question # 3

Self-serving Biases or errors that we make is one of the things I found really helpful to recognize. These biases or errors obstruct our thinking. Some of these, which are important, include; the tendency to exaggerate out strengths, to minimize our weaknesses, to misjudging by overestimating ourselves when comparing us to others, and the misperception that we are in control. Sometimes we believe that we are always in control even though we really aren’t in certain situations. This misperception of control is the same thing when you believe in some superstitious behavior. For example, if sit on your lucky couch, the 49ers will win the game. If people carry the belief that we are in control too far sometime it can mess with out thinking which leads to many bad decisions in our life. Additionally, having the belief that we are in control of situations where we have very little or absolutely no control over can result in posttraumatic stress syndrome or irrational guilt. 

Chapter 4 Question # 2

Edward Codon believes that UFO’s do not exists He concludes that there has been no scientific knowledge gained from the twenty-one year study of UFOS. He also supports his argument by stating that there is proof of the “thing” in the sky being something else but not the UFO, and that the reason we don’t study more about the UFO is because scientists have better progression to make in science rather than of something that doesn’t exist. The second scientist, J. Allen Hynek, believes that there is a possibility that UFO’s exist. The evidence used is the reported sightings of the UFO by people.  Additionally, he believes that to make some progress, we need more data to make the final call. The last scientist Royston Paynter is unsure whether UFO’s are real or unreal. He argues that we should have physical evidence, which supports the belief that UFO’s are real and that aliens are smart enough to not leave evidence, if they were in fact real. I believe that Paynter has the best argument because he actually looks at it from both sides and proves that there is no direct legitimate evidence to prove either side of argument.