Editing Wikipedia – College Student Alcoholism
On a previous assignment when we had to find a page on our public issue from Wikipedia, I failed to find any pages with any kind of substantial amount of text or information that was useful on my subject. So…
Cognitive Surplus and College Alcoholism
I really enjoyed reading the first chapter of “Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus”, because it really applied to my public issue, College Alcoholism. I never knew about the Gin phenomena that occurred in London in the 1720s, so it was…
Infographics and their visual appeal
Out of the links that professor Vee shared with us, the first one, titled “The world as 100 people”, really stuck out to me the most. Here there was a pie chart broken into different sections for categories such…
The Ideal Blog Post
For this assignment i read the blog posts, “Is ‘Eat Real Food’ Unthinkable”, and “Ebola Front -Line Doctors at Breaking Point”. The first blog post was about the department of agriculture passing their report on how Americans should eat. The…
The Old Mountaineer
Jimmy Weekley, a 70 year old man is the only one still living on Pigeonroost Hollow, a West Virginia mountain top rich in coal reserves. Arch Coal bough out every one of Jimmy’s neighbors except for him. Over all the…
Rhetorical Velocity Of Twitter
For the last few weeks i have been trying to raise awareness on the problems with the over consumption of alcohol, specifically among college students. The groups a choose to follow for this assignment were news sources, drinking problem twitter…
Starvation in Africia
Africa is the world’s poorest continent, and also the one with the scarcest food and water resources. This extremely disturbing photo was taken by Kevin Carter, who won a Pulitzer prize for this photo. To capture this photo of the child…
Update on Research on Alcoholism Amongst College Students
In my continued research on alcoholism amongst college students, my main issue has been trying to get the best clear definition of the term alcoholism or alcoholic. It has been a challenged because many people have different ideas in their…
Response to Prof. Post: Steven Colbert and ISIS
Steven Colbert, is well-known comedian on Comedy Central, who hosts his show the Colbert Report. Here Steven Colbert talks about an issue i am already familiar with from the topic i did last week on ISIS. By poking fun at…
ISIS, a potential long term threat
The ISIS terrorist group was a long time in the making, as new information suggests from the West Point Counter-Terrorist Column. As many people may know, the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq left a power gap open to…
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