Directions: Write your context paragraph, which should give some background about your topic for the benefit of your audience. Think about how you want your audience to come into this conversation (what are some pieces of the conversation that you needed or wanted to know before you began to think, feel and believe what you do about your topic?), and use your sources to illuminate the conversation for your audience.
Initial post due before class on Monday, March 10th.
Reply: find a classmate whose post has no responses. Imagine that you are the intended audience. Is there anything else you would want to know about the topic before moving forward in the essay? Ask a question of your classmate that will get him/her to think about what you want to know. If you feel that your classmate was effective in his/her contextual evidence, say why. Be detailed and succinct.
Reply due before midnight on Friday, March 14th.
According to The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the definition of a juvenile boot camp is a facility that is geared for nonviolent offenders sentenced to a phase of six months or less (Bilchik, 2006). The program goal includes a regimented schedule that stresses discipline and physical training. The goal of the juvenile boot camp system is to keep juveniles from re-offending to offer them counseling and education as well. By deferring a young offender’s sentence to one of these facilities, it is hoped that self- esteem and confidence can be rebuilt and the young offender can be reintegrated back into society while trying to reduce recidivism.
ReplyDeleteIm eager to see what else comes from this essay due to the fact that thy have made movies about this process. Grid Iron Gang being one of them. so well done
DeleteEver since Carl Jung defined and popularized the terms extroversion and introversion those have become at least one of the ways of how people define themselves as personality types. To refresh an introvert is not necessarily a person who is shy, they just gain energy from inward stimulation. On the other hand an extrovert is someone who is very outward with their actions and craves the ability to provide their personal input to others. It has come to recent attention that the struggle between these two types said by Susan Cain is that Introverts’ whisper of power and knowledge lingers in the shadows of a loud extroverted world. She explains that this is not to say extroverts and introverts should be totally separated. On the contrary Susan’s solution to this dilemma is to come together, so that extroverts will benefit from this as well. She suggested that if we allow a little more wiggle room for introverts to express themselves freely then in theory we will be open to new and adventurous solutions to the problems and difficulties that society faces.
ReplyDeleteThis was very interesting to read. Im such an introvert and somedays its exhausting to exist in a world filled with extroverts!
DeleteWhen one feels the government is withholding the truth or the details of a tragedy, discomfort begins to transpire. Naturally, one feels the problem needs to be resolved and begins to start looking for solutions. When the answers do not seem sensible it drives an individual to seek other explanations (Thresher-Andrews, 2013). Scientist Paul Whalen, studies a part of the brain called the "amygdala". The Amygdala jump-starts the rest of the brain into analytical overdrive-prompting repeated reassessments of information in an attempt to create a coherent and understandable narrative, to understand what happens when one feels a moment of powerlessness and uncertainty (Koerth-Baker, 2014).
ReplyDeleteYou're doing a paper on conspiracy theories right? I like how this paragraph explains the science that goes on "behind" it. I didn't know that was even possible so explaining that is pretty awesome. Jus' saying.
DeleteYes the paper is on conspiracy theories, sorry I should have put that in my post.... Thanks for the post,
DeleteBiographical sources about, the founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, is few and far between as there are no official biographies of him and it is literally impossible to separate the superstition from the facts (Morgan 5). However, it is safe to say that a vast majority of the historical sources available to historians agree that Siddhartha was born in the 6th century BCE to a noble family, in what is present day Nepal. As son of a nobleman, he was raised to be a king with all of the finest luxuries in the world available to him, totally sheltered from life’s suffering and pain. Yet, after finally being exposed to the misery and agony in the world, he threw away his noble right by dedicating his life to solving the problem of suffering by becoming an ascetic, and eventually reaching “nirvana”, thus becoming the Buddha (Aich 165).
ReplyDeleteI like your paragraph, though I would like to know what made Siddhartha become the Buddha, what did he see that was so bad?
DeleteMentally ill patients have throughout time been cast aside by society to places far removed from civilized populations. There are records of experimentations and tortures done to these isolated individuals. Thoughts of demon possessions and raving madness lead so called doctors to preform trepanning, drilling holes into the skull. Though today mentally ill patients are not tortured in such ways, they are still abused by society and cast out. There are far more mentally ill people in todays United States prison system than there are in the in the actual mental health facilities. “There are three times as many men and women with mental illness in U.S. prisons as in mental health hospitals.” (Human Rights Watch). In the prisons mentally impaired offenders are often mistreated by the prisons staff and rules. They are subjected to abuse and misunderstood still by society.
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ReplyDeleteWith a society based around technology and the internet, its difficult for many people not to notice that todays culture is focused on self interest and entitlment. According to several authors, personality disorders relating to the cultural entitlement is narcissism. Narcissism has started to increase rapidly, and many authors are suggesting the reason behind the increase correlates with the accessibility to the interent and more specifically the use of social media media networks such as Facebook, Twitter and You Tube.
You did a real good job organizing your statements and having evidence to back up your claim. It sounds like an impressive read yet interesting enough to have anyone be able to connect with the subject.
DeleteUntil Franklin D. Roosevelt mandated compulsory education in the early 20th Century, homeschooling was the very common in the United States. Many children came from families that could not afford or did not have access to a quality education; therefore, the children were educated by the older members of the family. After compulsory education was signed into law incidence of homeschooling became quite scarce. In 1973 there were an estimated 13,000 students being educated in a homeschool environment; now as of 2008, there are over 1.9 million students being homeschooled (NHERI). To say that homeschooling is on the rise would be a dreadful understatement. Over the years parents and students alike have become increasingly dissatisfied with the education system in the United States, and have taken matters into their own hands by homeschooling or seeking out one of the many alternative education programs that are offered now such as Montressori, Waldorf, or Unschooling. It seems that the decision to homeschool has produced great benefits for the students especially. These benefits show through in the higher scores on standardized testing like the SAT and ACT (Mason, 2004).
ReplyDeletePageantry has been around since the early 1900s. The topic may seem boring to some, but if you delve into the world of pageantry, it becomes something so much more than nice hair and beautiful evening gowns. Though there isn't concrete evidence that suggests that child pageantry can cause emotional distress in later years, one can deduce from multiple former pageant goers that child pageantry is far from beautiful and some would even say borderline child abuse. It takes away the childhood and forces little girls to grow up too quickly in the name of Grand Supreme and subjecting little girls to the wickedness of pedophiles and even murders (think JonBenet).
ReplyDeleteI agree that child pageantry is far from beautiful, I do not agree with child pageantry at all. I often wonder what the psychological issues would be with not only the children but the parents that place their children in them. I am not sure if you will be speaking about that in your essay but it may strengthen your paper if you find some type of study on the psychological issues. Great job
Delete(I know where I want to go, I'm just still working out the ethos (credibility). I feel like I need a better way or better information that shows myself and the context of what I'm talking about.)
ReplyDeleteAt seven years old in 2001, I already had been dancing jazz for three years. One night, I decided to sit in a corner of my living-room and make up some choreography to whatever music was playing by doing random leg movements on the ground and would call that my own choreography. Then, my second-oldest sister, Jenifer, came in and taught me a move she called the "penny wheel" which is mostly known as a "coffee grinder". This is a move in break-dancing in which a person is crouched down and they sweep one extended leg underneath the other leg that's crouched, and that crouched leg jumps every time the extended leg sweeps underneath. This moment is what I recall as the moment I discovered break-dancing, and furthermore, Hip-Hop. From then on, influenced by what I saw on MTV and VH1* in my early days, I became attracted to the Hip-Hop music, the fashions, the way the people in the culture/music talked, and of course, the elements and feeling of the culture. Today, I'm a Hip-Hop based break-dance teacher, an aspiring deejay, and have made films based on principals enforced in real Hip-Hop culture.
Hip-Hop, a culture started in the United States in the South Bronx of New York City in the early 1970's, is comprised of five primary elements. These elements are break-dancing (i.e: bboying, popping, locking), deejaying (i.e: turntablism, scratching, mixing), graffiti art, emceeing (i.e: 'rhyming' 'rapping' 'beatboxing'), and knowledge. Then it has its branches such as fashion, slang, technology, and genre of the music produced, in which all represent its elements.
Hip-Hop was first created as a means to promote an overall ideal positive lifestyle involving peaceful, unified, and respectful perspectives for everyone in the ghetto neighborhoods and all neighborhoods without these virtues. It also was utilized for self-identification and social status by the Black and Latino youth for the benefit of their own self worth and for the betterment of their communities. This grew into a global force, thanks to the Universal Zulu Nation, and a multi-billion dollar industry over the forty years of its existence. Record companies created record deals for the emcees, and then America's corporations marketed the albums produced along with the related fashions and technologies. This seemed to give Hip-Hop a commoditized look when presented to the public and the artists, rather than fulfilling its positive motives. In Nas's 2006 song and entire album, "Hip-Hop is Dead," he accuses Hip-Hop's mainstream music of being "dead" in the sense that Hip-Hop's true message is no longer in the lyrics promoted in mainstream rap. Rather, these lyrics promote commercialism, materialism, and the degradation of women. This is has been translated to people and artists that Hip-Hop all together is dead. I argue that there is living proof that the true essence of Hip-Hop has been alive since the day it was made.
I really like that you used your personal view on this topic. It gives a more personal twist to what you're saying. I also appreciate your comment regarding the contrast of rap to hip-hop. Keep up the good work !
DeleteWhen most people hear Fasting, they relate it to religion or people starving them. This is the farthest from the truth if done properly and using the proper channels. According to Dr. Michael Mosley there is a system of utilizing fasting to your advantage. I have a small meal about 7AM then have a dinner with my Family at 7PM and drink lots of fluid in between (Michael Mosley GMA interview). He goes on to mention this diet is not for everyone. And he wouldn’t recommend it for young people or infants. If done properly use it will make you healthier overall and speed up you metabolic rate in the mean time.
ReplyDeleteThis was well organized, I really mean it. You have a hook that can reach the audience, or at least me, when you bring up what most people associate the when the word "fasting" is brought up. You then explain that the stereotypes are farthest from the truth, which gives a nice sense of what you are going to be talking about, however, I would argue that its not that far from the truth, but I don't know your research or what you'll present, so this may or may not be an issue. Try avoiding the word "most" too; you may know this already, considering when you posted this. Also, "quotes" when doing saying what someone else said, and context is part of the intro, you probably don't need it, or, you can just present it as a paraphrase. Other than all that, I like your subject and what you said, considering my critiques.
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