Debate rebuttal

As I was reading over Victor's blog about how he thinks Faceook is harmful, I came over a point he made that actually contradicts his point.

" I admit that Facebook and Youtube helps me once in a while when i need to communicate with a friend or watch a video demonstration. Whenever i forget to write down a homework assignment or forget the instructions for it, Facebook easily connects me live feedback..."

Now here, I agree with Victor, hence I think that Facebook is helpful. Based on my personal experience, I get on Facebook at least twice a week to ask my classmates for help on an assignment. Besides that fact, Facebook also helps us remember all of our friends on facebook birthdays. At least according to Nicholas Carson.

Facebook makes it easy, without using up minutes on cellphones, to communicate long distance with friends and family members. You can also share hundreds of photos with them very easily without waiting hours to send them via email.
Another quote I got from Victor's blog is,

"I think that Facebook has a lot of unnecessary things like games and groups that are just plain distractions for someone who is trying to just get in, get an answers, and leave."

Now when Victor says, just get in, get an answer, and leave, I am not quite sure what he means. What does that have to do with anything? I have to disagree with him when he mentions that groups are plain distractions. They actually help people greatly in the real world. Jessica Lee points out the fact that,

"Pages Allow Marketers to Publish to the Stream
Pages Allow Marketers to Engage Fans with Rich Media
Pages Let Marketers Analyze How Fans are Interacting with the Insights Dashboard
Pages Let Marketers Increase SEO."

Just the other day, my friend invited me join his group on Facebook promoting his parent's Japanese Restaurant. That is a great way to get the word out about their buisness especially when there is almost a third of the U.S. using Facebook. Moreover, I believe Facebook is very helpful to everyone.

Color of Purple Quickwrite

Celie's letters to God tell me that she trusts God with her deepest secrets. This doesn't necessarily mean that she believes in God because she never puts her letters in the form of a prayer or anything like that, she just writes to him. Another reason would be that she writes to God in fear. 

"You better not ever tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy."(pg.1)

Her father told her this and this is probably the only reason why she writes to God, because she is afraid of him. Since her mom died shortly after that, she probably thinks he's going to kill her now if she tells anyone else. But in her letters, she shows no sign of hatred for anyone or writes anything mean, so far. She is a very sweet, innocent, and harmless person. She doesn't ever hurt anybody yet she takes multiple beatings and threats from others. For example, at a point in the story she calmly explains what a little twelve year old boy(demon) did to her.

"He pick up a rock and laid my head open. The blood run all down..."(pg.12)

She didn't do one thing back to him and all his dad, her husband, said was don't do that. Now I don't know about you but that just makes me straight up mad. But the point is Celie wouldn't hurt a fly and she doesn't mean harm to no one.

Her letters also show us that she has good intentions. She's always thinking about her sister and how she can do for her. Nettie is Celie's world.

"All I thought about was Nettie. How she could come to me if I marry him and he be so love struck with her I could figure out a way for us to run away."(pg.9)

Celie is willing to marry someone she doesn't even love just so she can save her little sister and get her safe. She is willing to change her entire life for Nettie because she doesn't want her to end up like her with her awful father abusing and molesting Nettie too. Celie has good intentions and puts others before herself all the time. 

Debate Opening Statement

If you are a child actor in a show marketed for young audiences, you are expected to serve as a role model for people their age. First of all, most of the children watching the show admire you, want to be just like you, and will do everything they see do because they think it's okay. Second of all, parents expect highly of the child actor their children are watching and if they do one thing wrong the parents will go crazy because it is influences their children to do wrong things. 


If you make the decision to be an entertainer on a children's show, you cannot be caught in the news smoking a bong and getting high like this very famous young child actress, with millions of fans did recently. The things that children/teenagers see on TV influences and affects their behavior in real life. For instance, if a child admires someone like Batman and he/she sees Batman doing bad things, they are going to think it's okay because their role model is doing it and do it themselves. 


From personal experience, when I was smaller, I loved Raven Symone and the Cheetah Girls. I used to try to dress like them and act like them because I wanted to be them. If I saw Raven Symone doing mean things to someone, I would've did it too because I adored her I tried to do everything she did. So if she did something I thought it was okay. But luckily she was a great role model for kids and didn't do any bad things that got leaked out into the media. Anyways, child actors are highly expected to set a good example for younger kids.


If a child actor does something wrong parents are going to freak out and completely flip out about it to protect their children. Once again, Miley Cyrus got into more trouble with her new video where she is seen rolling around in a bed in her underwear. I found an article with a parent's response and I think that Miley Cyrus is trying to break away from Disney a little too soon. Although her hit show "Hannah Montana"  has ended, her fans still adore her and look up to her. She should lay low before she tries to break in to her "sexy" adult stage. I mean she's only 17. 


But I think everyone expects child actor to set good examples for their viewers and be responsible role models.

Free post: Rumors, rumors, and more rumors...

Okay so lately I have heard lots of things floating about the Internet. First of all, apparently Facebook is being shut down March 15th which apparently is false. Secondly, I guess a new zodiac sign was added or one was taken away, I don't know. And lastly, Justin Bieber is supposed to be coming out with a movie.

If Facebook shuts down, that would be like taking away my teenage life. I mean yeah Facebook is very distracting, addicting, causes major procrastination, makes cyber bullying 1000 times easier, and has lots of spam that gives computer's viruses, but it's a great way to kill time and interact with your friends! It also let's you communicate and reconnect with friends from years back in your past. I spend at least 2 hours on Facebook a day, on average. Shutting it down would be a very stupid thing, especially since it's at it's peak right now and the owner is like a billionaire. So that would be really stupid, bit supposedly it's just a rumor.

Secondly, everybody on Facebook is freaking out and tripping balls because apparently their zodiac signs have all of a sudden changed. I'm a Libra so I guess I would be either a Virgo or a Scorpio now. But then I heard something else that these changes only counted for children born this year, which makes a little more sense. But don't you think it's kind of retarded and would just confuse people if a zodiac sign was added/removed. I mean we have WAY bigger issues than changing signs now. Like wtf? WE are fighting a pointless war & our troop are dying while we are worried about our Zodiac sign changing. Are you kidding me? But supposedly it's just a rumor.

And last but not least, Justin Bieber. I forgot who I heard this from, probably one of my Bieber fever friends, but apparently he is coming out with a movie. What it could possibly be about, I do not know. But I believe Never Say Never is the title of it. I know one thing, I will NOT be seeing it because that is just making someone only like 2 years older than me 100 times richer than me. So no, you can expect me to not be in the theatre watching that. But supposedly, for now, it's just a rumor.

Response post: one fourteen twenty-eleven

Today in class, we had a discussion on what are spirits or what is the spirit. Many people had very different opinions and it evolved into an in-class debate. Mr. Sutherland had to stop us because everybody had something to say about this topic. While I was looking through blogs, I came across one that pointed out the discussion about spirits in particular from Meriam's blog,

"From our class disscussion, many people reffered to the spirits as ghosts of people who died but didn't pass on. Others said that spirits could be in a sense a respect for the dead or things that are alive but dont move."

Some people might say that spirits don't exist at all and that all the things you see on TV is fake. Well I know that you shouldn't believe everything you see on TV, but once you've experienced it first hand for yourself, then I'm sure it won't be easy to say they don't exist. I am Christian so I don't really believe in "spirits" as far as paranormal activity, but I do believe in "the spirit" which is considered to be the Holy Ghost and also angels. I have grown up in the church and when you see what it's like to get the Holy Ghost and experience it up close in real life, it is a truly amazing thing. Also, someone else brought up a point that ghosts are just lost souls. If there are ghosts, I don't think they are just lost souls, they are people who died and can't move on to another life because there's something on Earth they can't let go of and have come back to claim or try to hold on to something that was theirs. I don't really believe in the whole paranormal activity hype because it's not anything to play with. Like if we were meant to come in contact with the "other world" then it wouldn't be so hard to connect with it. But since we are physical human beings and not spirits, I think we should just stay in our place and not mess with restless souls.

Elite Colleges Debate

After reading and brainstorming on these seven debates, I think the most persuasive was "What you do vs. Where you go" by Martha O'Connell. There were many strong points in this response, such as that successful people like Steven Jobs, Steven Spielberg, and Bill Gates dropped out of college! And Oprah Winfrey was an alumna at Tennessee State. She had efficient research and links to them to back up her points, and an engaging introduction paragraph. Her debate was easy to read, short and straight to the point. Unlike "Merit and Race" by Luis Fuentes-Rohwer.
I feel that his debate was crowded with big words that made it hard to read and fully understand the topic he was presenting. There were also lots of points he made that we obviously already knew and some that were confusing. Such as,

"Attendance at elite colleges and universities has a positive effect on the likelihood that a student will graduate; on future earnings;...and better health."

I mean of course going to elite colleges will look very good on a job application and most likely get you a high paid job, but most of us already know this. I don't see how going to an elite college will make your health better. Aren't they more stressful because you're surrounded with overachievers that you have to try and outshine? But Rohwer also made a kind of not-so-smart point concerning minority students.

"... minority applicants should think long and hard before turning down admission to elite institutions."

This opinion is true, but considering the fact that most minority students can't afford elite institutions, it would be very hard to go to Harvard, Yale, etc. without being on a scholarship or ending up with a lifetime debt in loans. It's easier said than done and the reason elite schools don't have many minority students is not because they turn down admission, it's because most of them can't afford it!