klosterman/gabriel

For my thoughts on the reading from Trip Gabriel I feel that plagiarism is definitely a problem when it comes down to it because it is clearly wrong to take someone else work and try to pass it off as your own. But, not a really huge problem I feel that it does happen more than I know of but I also feel that it just does not happen as much as some people think it does just because so many students now a day’s know what will happen to them if or when they get caught and to take that risk just for a few sentences is not worth it at all in my opinion.  Sarah Wilensky said it best when she said “the main reason it occurs is because students leave high school unprepared for the intellectual rigors of college writing.” I believe that what she said it 100% the truth. I know when I first came out of high school and had a big paper do I was thinking to myself “ o man, I don’t know if I can do this” because I wasn’t sure what I was doing was plagiarism  or not and luckily it was not.

After reading “Ha ha,” he said “Ha ha.” I can understand why Klosterman feels the way he does about laugh tracks that they are old and nothing about them are real. As much as they might sound real it is just a person pressing a button to make the laugh sound and yeah it is real peoples laughter but it might be peoples laughter from 1986 and you can just tell because it sounds old. But most likely when the fake laughter goes off it sometimes helps the views laugh at what just happen or when the view is laughing sometime you do not even hear the laugh track. I can honestly say that I never really thought about a laugh track before I read this article and as I am writing this I am watching “Seinfeld” and everytime the laugh track goes off it is annoying me because I am thinking about of it now and I can totally see why Klosterman does not like laugh tracks!

annotated bibliography

Felson, Marcus, and Rachel Boba. Crime and Everyday Life. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, This book shows us how crime can touch everyone and anyone in both large and small ways. It also shows us how opportunity is one of the key parts for crime to happen, but it explores ways that we can get rid of or reduce crime or criminal behavior by getting rid of this time of opportunity to finish the act. This book encourages students to take a closer look around them and to see all the kind of crime that accurse. The author and co-author in this book use the latest research on criminal behavior in hopes to give students a fresh perspective on crime and how to reduce it. it also has new coverage on bar problems, gangs, and bar hopping and expanded coverage of technology, Internet fraud, identity theft, and other Internet crime that occurs.

Attached to Technology and Paying a Price

After reading Matt Richtel’s article about technology it really opens my eyes to how many people really are obsessed with the internet and all the other electronics in this world. For me I don’t spend much time on the computer just for the fact that I am a college student and have a million other things I have to be doing then just playing on facebook and checking my email. Don’t get me wrong I do have a facebook and I do like to add pictures and talk to people on it but I don’t like it take over my life or school work. Yes, I also check my email a decent amount but that is only because all of my professors send info throw our email. When it comes to the weekend I barely ever go on my computer and rarely check my email.  But as for Mr. Campbell in the article he and his family were completely attached to their electronics and the internet, the family could not even take a vacation without one of them sitting back and playing on the internet or a video game. Throughout the article Mrs. Campbell seemed like she was the only family member that was not addicted to electronics but at the end it says how she let two batches of cookies burn because she was too busy sending text messages and checking her facebook. As for me and text messaging I do text a large amount of my day and I do multitask with doing my work and texting. I never text and drive just for the simple fact that I am not that good of a multitasker.  

getting to know me

My name is Devlyn Valencic, I am 22 years old and I like to party and have a good time with my friends and family. One thing about me that is different from others is that I can NOT whisper at all! And as of right now I am very sick and I do not like it at all, I hate being sick!!