Employee Rights and Surveillance

1. The main point of this article is how employee rights are not being practiced and companies such as Walmart of Target. Also companies are starting to act as a dictatorship.
2. The supporting details the author used were the two different stories that related to the main idea.
3. Thankfully at my job I personally have never dealt with unfair surveillance. But at my job there is a strict no cell phone policy which I understand completely but when they catch you with your cell phone they confiscate it and I have noticed that some managers have gone threw employees phones to check there messages. I think that is completely wrong and an invasion of privacy. 

Virginia Tech Massacre Has Altered Campus Mental Health Systems

1. Faculties are speaking up about the student that worry them. Making changes to privacy policies and they are focusing more on campus health. 

2. I think that the changes that are mentioned are good. If more faculty members speak up about kids that are giving them signals to mental problems more incidents might be able to be prevented. I also think that privacy policy changes are good because parents should be able to know what is going on with there child and can help out if the situation gets out of hand.

3. Many faculty hadn't realized that the law applies only to educational records, not observations of classroom behavior, or that it contains numerous exceptions. 

 

campus VIOLENCE

1. The topic is campus violence. And the main idea is preventing violence on campuses. 
2. The author talks about some of the main shootings that have happened over the past years, the Virginia tech shooting were 32 people were killed by a student who then took his own life, the Austin University shooting were 16 students were killed the Columbine High School shooting. After studies they have discovered that tighter security is not effective because people are not taking the campus security seriously, and after an incident happens the security gets really active but then just goes back to its normal ways. So in the end no matter how tight the security gets the shooters will probably still find a way to get what they want.
3. Isolated, low self worth, and someone who does not take criticism well.
4. The security at NYIT is all right. I do notice a lot of security vehicles around campus, but I never see any security guards. I think the main reason the security guards are good for on campus is mainly giving people parking tickets. But if somehow something went wrong I think it would take along time for the guards to head over to the seen because they will first have to drive there and then get out of there car and run over to the seen. 

Dove Beauty commercial

After seeing this video I don’t think that my perception of the media and how they portray women have changed. It just proves the point on how the media portrays women as sex objects who have big eyes and full lips. I am kind of surprised by the video showing how much work they actually have to go through to making these models look the way they do when they have there photo shoots.  I am surprised to see that after all the make up and styling of the hair the model looked like a complete different person, and yet the modeling agency still decided to retouch her photo by giving her bigger eyes and fuller lips. Which deceives women and men into thinking that they are women out there that actually look like this, when in reality not even the model in the picture looks like that. 

Beauty and Body image in the Media

1. The main idea of this article is how the media influences the way that women perceive themselves and how they should look.
2. In the media women are portrayed as young, tall and skinny. Women’s magazines say that if you are skinny enough you start to have it all, a great marriage, loving children and great sex. Advertisers believe that thin models sell more products.
3. The reason that researchers generated a computer model of a Barbie doll was to show us that if a actual human has the same proportions her body would be too narrow to contain more than half a liver and her back would be too weak to support her upper body weight and she would eventually die from malnutrition. 
4. I think that women in the media should be portrayed as the natural beauty that they have. Sadly in this world sex sells pretty much everything. Advertisers think that if they don’t have an incredibly sexy, skinny, young woman there product wont sell at all. I think that the media should have a good mix of all different types of women in different shapes and sizes to show that not everybody needs to be skinny to get ahead in life.  

Cell phones and driving safety

1. Using previewing skills, I new that this passage was going to be about whether driving while on cell phones is worse that driving drunk, because of this was written in big blue letters.  
2. I think that the evidence presented by the author was fact because he wrote about different studies like the driving simulator were it showed that driving while on a cell phone was actually more dangerous then some drunk drivers. 
3. The main idea of the article is that it is actually dangerous to drive while talking on a cell phone, and is more likely to cause a accident then we think.
4. Drunk drivers are more aggressive while driving according the Utah study and people talking on the cell phone tend to be more sluggish.
5. Is and Like were the signal words that helped me locate my answers.
6. Hand-free cell phones are just as dangerous as handheld cell phones because what is distracting to the driver is the fact that you are having a conversation.
7. I think that the cell phone industry really does not have a big position on this subject because they don’t control how we use their cell phones and they don’t tell us how to use them, so they cannot be blamed if we get into an accident while driving and talking on a cell phone. 

Smokers discriminated against

  I think victims who smoke are victims of discrimination. Since they can no longer smoke in there own apartments or condos smokers are forced to have to smoke in there cars or outside. Know even in some bars, smokers are not allowed to smoke, or they have to be completely separated from the non-smokers. So smokers and non-smokers are actually then segregated from each other. Since they are segregated against, it is a act of discrimination. 

Primary Colors

I think that the authors’ purpose for writing the story Primary Colors is to inform us what life is like to have people always judging for the color of your skin or your babies skin. 

    Personally I have dealt with diversity multiple times in my life. The high school that I went to was very small. It was so small that in the graduated class of 2008 I was the only Indian kid, actually in the whole school I was one of two other brown kids. I did not really mind being one of the only brown colored kids in the school. It’s not like all of the colored kids in school hung out together and all of the colored kids stuck together but it was a mix between all of us. I never really thought of myself as any different from any of the other kids because my skin color, frankly because my skin is not that dark anyways.  But I also never really thought of myself as completely equal to all the other kids. So being a minority at my school helped me deal diversity.  

Ahmed's learning portfolio

I found out by taking the learning style quiz, that I am a very visual learner and I like to study in groups.