Editing a Child Obesity Wikipedia Page
I noticed throughout my exploration of various child obesity related Wikipedia sites that none of them had very recent statistics about the percentage of obese children in the US. The most common recent statistics seemed to have been from 2008…
Cognitive Surplus and Child Obesity
Cognitive surplus is the phenomenon now occurring in the United States when Americans have extra time on their hands due to increased technology. Sometimes people use this extra time for activities such as watching TV for hours and hours. However,…
Infographics: A Simplistic Way To Relay Information
Out of all the infographics provided I found “The World as 100 People” to be the most compelling. I think that dividing the world into categories and simplifying the population to 100 people makes the information easy to absorb. The 100…
Marriage and Child Obesity
Mona Chalabi’s blog post entitled “Dear Mona, Does Living Together Before Marriage Increase the Risk of Divorce?” answers this question sent into her by a man named Dave. In the beginning of the post she uses a conversational approach. She…
Sisters Bonded by Blood
The audio story I listened to was about two sisters, Kai Leigh Harriott and Aja David. When Kai was three and Aja was fourteen, Kai was shot in the back. Now, Kai is fourteen and she has been paralyzed from…
Rhetorical Velocity in Child Obesity Tweets
When searching for tweets with the highest rhetorical velocity, there seemed to be a reoccurring trend on all of the accounts that I looked at. Pictures had more retweets and favorites than just tweets that featured text. The tweets that…
Where You Lay Your Head is Not Always a Bed
This ad focuses on a very prevalent public issue, homelessness. According to www.nationalhomeless.org, the number of homeless people in the United States is rising due to the recent foreclosure crisis. The audience of this ad could be people who view it…
Update: Child Obesity Research
Due to the fact that child obesity rates have doubled in the past three decades, there are many resources regarding information on the topic. Statistics, figures, and facts are not hard to find at all. What is hard to find…
My Friend’s Place: Taking Advantage of the Publicity
On August 24, 2014 the 31st annual MTV Video Music Awards were held in California. The most prestigious award given away that night was to Miley Cyrus for Video of the Year. Miley accepted her award in a way that…
How Tough is Tough Enough?
On July 24, 2015 the NFL issued a two-game suspension for Ray Rice. Rice, a running back for the Baltimore Ravens, was caught via an elevator surveillance camera assaulting his then-fiancé. First the video showed Rice punching her in the…
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