Entry #6
I had no experience with blogging when I entered into Eng-102. I had no idea what to aspect and what to write in my blog, but I figured that ideas started coming as I started writing. Now that I am at the end of this semester and I see everything that went just the way I it was supposed to go, I can definitely say that I had a growth in my knowledge in some aspects of blogs by reading other students blogs, and understanding other voices and tones. I understand the Rhetoric aspect of blogs much more than I ever did. I did not like blogging, but after a couple of weeks I started liking it more and more, and now I find it useful. I took the aspect of blogs seriously because I thought about my grade and my surroundings that are going to read or watch what I post. I find blogging useful in some aspect, because I have learned many new things through this aspect of Media. I can make one suggestion to Chris about the blogs: keep on doing the same thing you did until now, I find it good and nice. Thank you Chris for teaching us how to create blogs and I am really happy that I had you as my ENG-102 teacher.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Assigned Entry #5
As we have all been discussing the power of media in class and doing research about it I began to realize an interesting fact that the more information you absorb about the world, the more capable you are of understanding its complexities. Knowledge you have acquired provides a foundation for more complicated thinking later. I started being more critical by asking myself many questions that I believe help people understand critical thinking way better. The questions that we should all ask ourselves in order to criticize media in an open minded thinking are:
-What are the issues and the conclusions?
-What are the reasons?
-Which words or phrases are ambiguous?
-What are the value and descriptive assumptions?
-Are there any fallacies in the reasoning?
- If they give you evidence, ask how good is the evidence?
-Are there rival causes?
-If you see statistics ask yourself if the statistics are deceptive.
-Ask yourself if there is any information that is omitted.
-What reasonable conclusions are possible?
Critical thinking relies heavily on being able to listen with respect to what others have to say.
Those questions are questions that I personally ask myself when ever I view or hear the news. Mass Media has a huge impact in our lives, it modulates the way we view our surroundings if we are not selective in our hearing and viewing it will impact you thinking. I am a logically person, and any information that makes sense it will have some kind of impact on the way I look at it.
As we have all been discussing the power of media in class and doing research about it I began to realize an interesting fact that the more information you absorb about the world, the more capable you are of understanding its complexities. Knowledge you have acquired provides a foundation for more complicated thinking later. I started being more critical by asking myself many questions that I believe help people understand critical thinking way better. The questions that we should all ask ourselves in order to criticize media in an open minded thinking are:
-What are the issues and the conclusions?
-What are the reasons?
-Which words or phrases are ambiguous?
-What are the value and descriptive assumptions?
-Are there any fallacies in the reasoning?
- If they give you evidence, ask how good is the evidence?
-Are there rival causes?
-If you see statistics ask yourself if the statistics are deceptive.
-Ask yourself if there is any information that is omitted.
-What reasonable conclusions are possible?
Critical thinking relies heavily on being able to listen with respect to what others have to say.
Those questions are questions that I personally ask myself when ever I view or hear the news. Mass Media has a huge impact in our lives, it modulates the way we view our surroundings if we are not selective in our hearing and viewing it will impact you thinking. I am a logically person, and any information that makes sense it will have some kind of impact on the way I look at it.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Entry #4
How Does The Bible Compare to Other Ancient Books?
With regards to the Old testament, the Jewish copyists of the Hebrew Scriptures had to follow strict rules:
- Each copy had to be written in a certain number of columns of 30 letters width and with a certain number of lines to each column. Each copy had to be made from a certified original.
- Every letter was copied one at a time from the original. They could not even write one letter from memory.
- The distance between each letter was measured by a single hair or thread.
- Every letter on every page and book was counted against the original. The number of times each letter occurred in the book was counted and compared against the original.
- If one of these rules (and many others) were broken, the entire copy was destroyed.
What about the New Testament you ask? There are two important factors involved in determining the reliability of a historical document: The number of manuscript copies still around and, the time between when it was first written and the oldest copy still in existence.
Let's compare the New Testament with some other writings of olden days. The New Testament was written over a time period of 60 years. We have over 24,000 copies and some of the copies we have are only 25 years removed from the originals! Caesar's work, The Gallic Wars, was written over a 56 year period. We have 10 copies, the closest to the original is 1,000 years removed. We have 643 copies of Homer's Iliad and there is a 500 year span between the original and oldest existing copy.
This proves how credible the Bible is as a historical document.
How Does The Bible Compare to Other Ancient Books?
With regards to the Old testament, the Jewish copyists of the Hebrew Scriptures had to follow strict rules:
- Each copy had to be written in a certain number of columns of 30 letters width and with a certain number of lines to each column. Each copy had to be made from a certified original.
- Every letter was copied one at a time from the original. They could not even write one letter from memory.
- The distance between each letter was measured by a single hair or thread.
- Every letter on every page and book was counted against the original. The number of times each letter occurred in the book was counted and compared against the original.
- If one of these rules (and many others) were broken, the entire copy was destroyed.
What about the New Testament you ask? There are two important factors involved in determining the reliability of a historical document: The number of manuscript copies still around and, the time between when it was first written and the oldest copy still in existence.
Let's compare the New Testament with some other writings of olden days. The New Testament was written over a time period of 60 years. We have over 24,000 copies and some of the copies we have are only 25 years removed from the originals! Caesar's work, The Gallic Wars, was written over a 56 year period. We have 10 copies, the closest to the original is 1,000 years removed. We have 643 copies of Homer's Iliad and there is a 500 year span between the original and oldest existing copy.
This proves how credible the Bible is as a historical document.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Nevertheless, slipping past the guards at night and digging under the fence, Bob and Larry continued their adventure. Just south of the mountain, they found what they believe may have been the battlefield of Rephidim (Exodus 17:1, 8; 19:2; Numbers 33:14, 15), a dozen football fields in size.
They also found a large altar made up of extremely large, stacked boulders. On one of them they found pictographs of cattle, not sheep native to Arabia. These pictographs resembled the Apis bulls of Egypt. Could this have been the altar for the Golden Calf? (Cf. Exodus 32.)
As one reaches the higher elevations of Jabal al Lawz, the ground turns black, dark like obsidian; the rocks look almost like coal. (Yet when they're broken, they were actually granite.) They were not volcanic; they appeared as if scorched from above (Exodus 19:18). They even found an unusually large crevice in which a man could hide (Exodus 33:22?). They also found an old stream bed; "the brook that descended out of the mount" (Deuteronomy 9:21?).
At the base of the mount, they also found two huge rocks-perhaps 60 ft. long-wedged together, with a flat stone in the middle; possibly the altar of the Bible? (Exodus 20:24-26). Nearby, they also found the remains of the 12 pillars, all in a row, each one about 18 ft. in diameter, spaced 5 ft. apart (Exodus 24:4). Around the mountain, about 400 yards distant, they also found what appeared to be the boundary markers, the bounds set by Moses at the base of the mountain (Exodus 19:12, 21-23).
Needless to say, Bob and Larry are convinced that Jabal al Lawz is, indeed, the long-sought Mount Sinai of the Bible
Entry #3
From my personal experience, I believe that it is an awesome idea to add more half of the time courses as long as the school doesn't change the full courses. It will help many of students that have to go too school for a longer period. I personally will like to finish school as soon as possible and I believe that any young student that has to go to school for a major that takes more than 4 years would want to finish faster. As long as the school doesn't change courses and lives the option to the students to chose what they want to do it will be great. Some students have already planed their career and if some of the courses change than that might change their plans and make them get a bachelor degree instead of an associates. I believe it is a great idea, and I personally want to benefit from such classes.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Entry # 2
In my personal experience, I think that in order to be a good writer, people need to be good listeners to the opinions of the public. Also by reading many different kinds of magazines, newspapers, and books, the reader can become more knowledge'd about a specific topic, and more open minded to many different opinions. Even if a person does not agree to what someone may say, at least he can stand an a point and can prepare himself for a quick wishful response that can make a person look like he knows what he is talking about. It is really important to know the audience that will be interested in your writing. It is important to place yourself in the shoes of the opposite person and think what the other person would think about your response to a certain idea or question. Based on the knowledge of the specific topic form a wise question that the other person never thought about and give him an answer that would be backed up by evidence and prof. Remember it is always important to know that if you speak from your mind you will only touch a mind, if you speak from your heart you will touch a hart, and if you speak from your soul you will touch a soul.
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