BEHIND THE IGNITE TALKS

As I was listening to people talk about their big question, I was really interested in one especially since what she said is pretty much true, in my opinion. I was talking with Yennifer Castro, and her big question really made me think. We were talking about how we were made to do things differently and how in our daily lives all we do is the same thing we did the day before and the day before that. “We are really becoming into robots”- Yennifer Castro.

DARK PATTERNS

The practice of these dark patterns are not real cool if you ask me. For the online sites to lie and use timers to make us feel pressured in buying something because it going to be “sold out” soon is not nice. I have had a few experiences about shopping online, especially when shopping on Fashion Nova. Some will say that there is a discount available for only a certain time, lets say two hours. I will check again after two hours have passed, and it’ll still say that there is two hours left on the discount, so after a few more times that I bought stuff, I realized that the timers were only put to make us believe that they were going to run out of it soon. 

I'M IGNITED

Big questions that I was interested in :

- How do stickers work? 

I was interested in the question because to be honest, even though its a simple question, its one that a lot a of people maybe wonder about but just never ask. 

- Is life real or just an hallucination? 

I also wonder this because sometimes I’ll be sitting in class and I will wonder if I am really in class or just living this endless dream. 

- Is everyone related because of Adam and Eve ?

This one really got my attention since I have heard of this before but I am not sure whether to believe it or not.

THE BIG QUESTION

At first I wasn’t sure if I was still interested in my big question that I had at the beginning of the year. As the semester went by, I realized that I was still very interested in my big question. I really want to find out/ figure out why humans take most to everything that they have for granted. For example, the earth. We were given the earth and all its natural resources to use, not to waste or harm others. This is why my big question is : Why do humans not care and take for granted what is given to us?

HOPEPUNK

HOPEPUNK: To stand up and fight for what you believe in
To stand up for other people
Shows themes of violence, amorality, and despair

Authors think that HOPEPUNK matters because it is another way to share a topic without them thinking about how controversial it can be. The genre allows for people to stand up and defend what they think is true, which is why the word “hope” is part of the word HOPEPUNK. This is also important because it shows how many people are afraid to be themselves because they don’t want to start and conflict.

ARGUE THIS

BIG QUESTION: WHY DO HUMANS NOT CARE AND TAKE FOR GRANTED WHAT IS GIVEN TO US?

MAJOR PREMISES:  

We were given planet earth to live and care for it, not to destroy it and trash it. I am asking this because I see how people just throw their trash on the floor and expect others to clean it up for them. 

MINOR PREMISES:

People can’t seem to accept that we, humans, are taking planet earth for granted since they think that “oh its just a small pice of trash, it can’t be that harmful.” 

CONCLUSION: 

Therefore, humans take for granted what is given to us, instead of appreciating it. 

LAST CENTURY’S WRITING STYLES

• SYLLOGISM: SIMPLEST FORM OF LOGICAL ARGUMENT 
• COMPOSED OF TWO GIVEN OR ASSUMED PROPOSITION
• THEREFORE IS CLUE IN SAYING THAT YOUR CONCLUSION IS COMING UP 
•  EVALUATE TO SEE IF THEY ARE TRUE AND VALID 
• TRUE: FACTUALLY RELIABLE IN THE WORLD  
• VALIDITY : DOES THE CONCLUSION FOLLOW FROM THE PREMISES
• DO THE CONCLUSION SUPPORT THE PREMISES 
•  SYLLOGISM IS EXAMPLE OD DEDUCTIVE REASONING 
• DEDUCTIVE REASONING: PROCESS OF REASONING FROM ONE OR MORE STATEMENTS
• NATURALIST: RAW, EXAGGERATED FORCES ACTING ON INDIVIDUAL
• REALISM: LITERALLY KEEPING IT REAL 
• MODERNISM: LOOK AT INTERNET DIFFERENTLY 
• NOW SEEN AS NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE INFLUENCE 
• BEFORE WW1 TECHNOLOGY WAS GOING TO SOLVE AND MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER 
• LIMINAL: NOT QUITE WHAT WE USED TO BE BUT NOT QUITE YET WHAT WE ARE TO BECOME 
•  THE MODERNIST BROKE RULES 

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

• LUCID DREAM: ABILITY TO REALIZE THAT ITS A DREAM 
• CONSECRATING: ABILITY TO MAKE SOMETHING SACRED IF WE LOOK AT THEM IN THE RIGHT WAY 
• CAPACITY: ABILITY 
• IRREDEEMABLE: NOT ABLE TO BE SAVED, IMPROVED OR CORRECTED 
• TRANSCENDENT: TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND 
• JOHN STEINBECK WAS GOOD AT FEDERAL CONTRADICTION 
• DISENFRANCHISED : DEPRIVE SOMEONE OF THE RIGHT TO VOTE 
• GOOD IS ALSO BETTER WHEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO COMPARE IT TO 
• 0 STRESS- BORING, DEATH 
• IN LIFE, LEARNING IS MESSY

Link I followed :

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/18/john-steinbeck-george-albee-friend-breakup-letter/

I decided to follow this link and not the other ones because I have gone through a friend breakup just a few years ago and I remember it like if it was yesterday. I won’t be going into details but it was a hard one and it took me a while to get used to not having that person in my life anymore. 

NOTES FROM TODAY'S LECTURE AND SPEECH

• ETHOS: ELEMENTS OF THE MESSENGER THAT CREATE THE SENSE OF CREDIBILITY 
• MAY BE NON VERBAL OR VERBAL 
• LOGOS: LOGICAL APPEAL OR APPEAL TO REASON 
• FALLACY: AN ERROR 
• PATHOS: VALUES AND BELIEFS  
• MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. SPEECH :
• EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION CAME AS A JOY TO COLORED SLAVES 
• WITHERING INJUSTICE: POETIC, DICTION AND SYNTAX, 
• 100 YEARS LATER THE NEGRO IS STILL NOT FREE 
• DISCRIMINATION 
• NEGRO LIVES ON LONELY ISLAND OF POVERTY IN VAST OCEAN OF IMPROVEMENT 
• AMERICA HAS NOT KEPT THEIR PROMISE OF LIFE LIBERTY AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS FOR BLACK PEOPLE
• NOW IS THE TIME :
• TO MAKE REALLY PROMISES OF DEMOCRACY 
• TO LIFT NATION FROM QUICKSAND OF INJUSTICE AND RACISM TO SOLID ROCK OF BROTHER HOOD 
• 1963 NOT AN END BUT A BEGINNING 
• NO REST OR TRANQUILITY IN AMERICA UNTIL NEGROS AND GRANTED CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS
• "LET US NOT SEEK TO SATISFY OUR THIRST FOR FREEDOM BY DRINKING FROM THE CUP OF BITTERNESS AND HATRED "
•  "WE WILL NOT BE SATISFIED UNTIL JUSTICE ROLES DOWN LIKE WATER AND FLOWS LIKE A RIGHTEOUS STREAM"
• I HAVE A DREAM:
• DREAM WITHIN  THE AMERICAN DREAM 
• ONE DAY NATION WILL RISE WITH EQUALITY FOR EVERYONE 
• SONS OF SLAVES AND SONS OF OWNERS OF SLAVES WILL SIT TOGETHER IN THE TABLE OF BROTHER HOOD 
• WILL NOT BE JUDGED BY THEIR SKIN BUT COLOR OF THEIR CHARACTER 
• LET FREEDOM REIGN 
• PATHOS: SPEAKERS ABILITY TO CONNECT WITH AUDIENCE IN A SENSE OF EMOTION OF PASSION 
• SCREAM AND SHOUTING OF PEOPLE WHEN MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. .TALKED ABOUT DEATH 
• ETHOS: ELEMENTS OF MESSENGER THAT CREATE CREDIBILITY 
•  CHURCH LEADER MORE CREDIBILITY 
• LOGOS: LOGICAL REASONING 

TODAY I INTERVIEWED AN EXPERT

These are some of my notes that I took while Cory was talking:

• number of technology companies have decreased 
• technology companies couldn't buy other technology companies back then, and now its normal
• change isn't just in technology its in everything and its owned by one big company 
• Bluetooth keeps track of you and its creepy 
•  Fatalism: what's going to happen will happen 
• optimism: there is a reason why we are doing it and it'll be okay

WORD CLOUD

- When I was emailing my ten people, I wasn't quite sure if they would all respond to me or understand what I was asking. Some of the people that I asked answered me quickly while others took a few days but in the end, I got answers  from all of them. 
- Since I was sent pictures of what they had written down, I had to type all of it into the box that said "paste or type here". Took me a while to type all of it, but the end result was beautiful. 
- After I clicked the "apply" button, I saw how the words just mixed up and were in all these different colors in a very eye catching way. 
- Some strengths that my tribe reflected on me were : Great, First, Student, Yazmin, and Teacher. I was surprised when one of the words that was repeated was Teacher, since I don't really see myself as a teacher, but hey, maybe its destined for me to become one.