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In her article, "Entertainment anti-racism. Multicultural Television Drama, Identification and Perceptions of Ethnic Threat" Floris Muller attempts to show that non-stereotypical televisions shows are one of the keys to help stop the shows that do have the racism and prejudice remarks. She does this by giving facts as well as statistics to help support her argument. She intends to stop the racism so that this world can be better treated and so that we can get along. Her intended audience are young readers who plan on stopping racism on the television. MÜLLER, FLORIS. "Entertaining Anti-Racism. Multicultural Television Drama, Identification And Perceptions Of Ethnic Threat." Communications: The European Journal Of Communication Research 34.3 (2009): 239-256. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 15 Apr. 2012.

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In his article “ Network News and Racial Beliefs: Exploring the Connection Between National Television News Exposure and Stereotypical Perceptions of African Americans”, Travis L. Dixon attempts to show that there are two major conclusions to the studies that have been dedicated to investigations of race and crime imagery featured on local television news programs. He does this by using statistics to help support his argument. He discusses the different stereotypes that are used on public television to help the producers with their movies. His intended audience is readers who have the same problem that he does with the racial stereotypical nonsense. Dixon, Travis L. “Network News and Racial Beliefs: Exploring the Connection Between National Television News Exposure and Stereotypical Perceptions of African Americans.” Journal of Communication. 58.3. (July 9, 2008): 321-337. Print.

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Dana E Mastro talks about how Latinos are the ethnic minority that makes up 12.5 percent of the US. She talks about how people use derogatory terms to describe Latinos about their race and their self esteem. This allows Latinos to make the retaliation and call Whites' and other races that may possibly be racist names so that they can get the feeling that Latinos are being exposed to. Even tho Latinos make up the biggest percent of the US, they only make up 3-4 percent of characters on prime time television. She states that this has been going on for about five decades.

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In her article, Exposure to Television Portrayals of Latinos" The Implications of Aversive Racism and Social Identity Theory" Dana E. Mastro attempts to show that racism about Latinos should not be exposed to the media due to the fact that Latinos are the ethnic minority in the Inited States that makes up 12.5 percent of the population. She plans on lowering the racism aspect of television by showing the emotional side of things. She supports this by showing statistics about all races in the US. Her intended audience are young readers who have friends or relatives who are being racist in any way.

Thesis

When you hear racial comments on television what do you think? Well when I here racist comments on television I get fired up because I have been in a situation where racism has almost made me do something that could have gone bad. The world would be such a better place if racism was not around. After all the United states is a "melting pot." The United states is made up of ethnic groups from all around the world. For example, Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the world which makes up 12.5 percent of the population.

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In the article, "Multicultural education and racism: The case of Arab-Australian students in contemporary Australia" Anna Trembath talks about the different issues that are happening in Australia through the racist aspect. It is stated that there are many journalists in college who are writing about arab-speaking people are taking over the schools in Australia. over 50 percent of the students in the schools, in a particular area, are Arab-speaking. The Arab-speaking people show their social and educational experiences as well.

In his book, “The Effects of Racism and Racial Discrimination on Minority Business Development: The Case of Black Manufactures in Chicago’s Ethnic Beauty Aids Industry, Robert Mark Silverman tends to show the structure of black’s businesses and how they are ran. The business that he talks about in his book is about Chicago’s ethnic beauty aids industry. He says about the ways the business is shaped due to racism and racial discrimination in the mainstream society. Silverman says,” On balance, there is little documentation of the historical development of large-scale black manufactures enterprises. The lack of such an analysis severely limits our understanding of the relationship between business development in the black community and institutions in mainstream society.” He starts giving facts about the past around the 1990s. He states how it formed earlier than in present times such as the Great Depression as well as the Civil rights Movement. He gives the history of when whites took away land from the blacks which made them angry and allowed then to shape their businesses the way that they did. He also focuses on black entrepreneurship as well as black manufactures. Silverman says, “In the past, many scholars considered large-scale black-owned enterprises anomalies, and they characterized the black business community as being dominated be a number of small, relatively marginal, enterprises.”

Precis article 1

In the article “ The Effect of Racism and Racial Discrimination on Minority Business Development: The Case of Black Manufactures in Chicago’s Ethnic Beauty Aids Industry” Robert Mark Silverman intends to show that the business strategies of black manufactures in Chicago’s ethnic beauty aids industry have been shaped by racism and racial discrimination in mainstream society from the industry’s inception to the contemporary period. He does this by stating facts about the past in the 1990s. His intended audience is young students so they grow up knowing that they don’t have to be racist like a portion of the United States. Silverman, Robert M. “The Effect of Racism and Racial Discrimination on Minority Business Development: The Case of Black Manufactures in Chicago’s Ethnic Beauty Aids Industry.” Journal of Social History Vol. 31 No. 3 (1998): 571-597. JSTOR. Web. 5 April 2012

racism brainstorm

1. Business 2. sports 3. serving in restaurants 4. movies 5. entertainment 6. schools 7. law 8.friendship 9. economy 10. government 11. health insurance 12. job opportunities 13. hospitals

bibliography for five scholarly articles

Currie, Cheryl L. “Animal Cruelty by Children Exposed to Domestic Violence.” Child Abuse and Neglect 30 (2006): 425-435. Print In the article “Animal Cruelty by Children Exposed to Domestic Violence” by Cheryl L Curie, she determines whether if children exposed to domestic violence were significantly more likely to be cruel to animals than children exposed to violence. She supports her claim by using stats and comparing mothers that exposed their children to violence to mothers that did not expose their children to violence. Her purpose is to show mothers that they hold the key to stopping animal abuse by first starting and fixing their parent skills. The intended audience of this article is mothers who need to change. Merz-Perez, Linda., and Heide, Kathleen M. “Animal cruelty: Pathway to Violence against People.” Altamira Press (2004) In the book “Pathway to violence against People” by Linda Merz-Perez and Kathleen M. Heide, they tend to show that children are just like older men in prison that do the same thing when reach the age. They show their point by stating cases about children abusing animals. This is their main focus and their purpose is to show people that not everyone has to be cruel to animals, that they should be gentle animal lovers. The intended audience is people who have been abusing animals and need to stop. Wax, Douglas E. “Enuresis, Fire Setting, and Animal Cruelty.” Child Psychiatry and Human Development 4.3 Spring 1974 152-156. Print In the article “Enuresis, Fire Setting, and Animal Cruelty” by Douglas E. Wax, he tends to emphasize upon primary prevention efforts involving early identification and intervention with vulnerable children who run high risk of serious adolescent and adult delinquency. He supports his claim by having statistics and testing children that may have these problems. His purpose is to help out the children who may be having these problems throughout the United States. His intended audience is parents who allow this to happen to their children. Gleyzer, Roman. “Animal Cruelty and Psychiatric Disorders.” Regular Article 30. November 2, 2002: 257-265. Print. In the article “Animal Cruelty and Psychiatric Disorders” by Roman Gleyzer he tends to show that people who have antisocial personality disorders tend to abuse animals. He supports this by having stats throughout experiment. His purpose is to show that not all kids should be abusing animals just because they are having issues. His intended audience is mothers who need to make sure that their kids do not abuse animals. United Poultry Concerns. “Chickens Deserve Compassionate Care.” All-Creatures.org. Nov. 1, 2011 In the article “Chickens Deserve Compassionate Care.” by the United Poultry Concerns, they tend to show how much veterinary care chickens should get and how good the quality. The do this by giving pathos on how chickens get treated. Their purpose is to get chicken holders to be more careful on how they treat their animals. Their intended audience is chicken holders who need to learn on how important it is to treat a chicken.

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What percent of the United States are animal lovers? There have been many incidents were animals are used to fight in order to get money. How human like is that? What people do not understand is that animals are living creatures as well and have feelings just like humans do. Where does the thought come from to be cruel to animals? I am a high believer of seeing is doing. This means that not just any random person is going to do something just to do it, chances are people are getting exposed to abusing animals from their parents or even friends. As time goes by, this gets passed on from generation to generation. I tend to prove that animal cruelty is a problem by using logos, pathos, ethos.

Animal Cruelty

What percent of the United States are animal lovers? There have been many incidents were animals are used to fight in order to get money. How human like is that? What people do not understand is that animals are living creatures as well and have feelings just like humans do. Where does the thought come from to be cruelty to animals? I am a high believer of seeing is doing. This means that not just any random person is going to do something just to do it, chances are people are getting exposed to abusing animals from their parents or even friends. As time goes by, this gets passed on from generation to generation. Abusing animals is something that younger children or adolescence tend to do. In doing this, many of their actions lead them into committing crimes when reaching the adult stage of their lives. Two thirds of the people reported the animal cruelty is a way to make the time go faster by just having fun with it. Where one fifth of the people do it out of anger, aggression, or even imitation. This greatly affects people such as real animal lovers, veterinarians (people who went to school for a long period of time just to help out animals that have been in these situations), and finally, it affects the animal itself. There have been people who have tried to prevent the entire animal abuse that has been going on which happens to be the government. The government has made laws in order to protect the animals being abused, but they are not strictly enforced like they should be. The reason for this is because if they were then no animal would get being tortured at this time. If the problem is not stopped in the future then the animal abuse that people are doing will get passed down from generation to generation and will continue to happen until someone steps up and fights against the animal cruelty! In my eyes, someone should go out and do something about all of the animal abuse that is going on not only in the United States but also other countries all over the world. The reason I believe this is because what if some people forced people to fight one another just for the fun of it. If people threatened to kill someone just to get the kicks out of them fighting just for fun. It is the same concept with humans as it is with animals. This does not just go for the fighting, it is also considered cruelty if the owner does not feed the animal they are supposed to be taking care of. Abusing an animal is a crime that people are meant to get punished for. The bad thing is that animals cannot even defend themselves. So how cruel is that? At least with humans, if they were getting abused they have the chance to go tell the police or even defend themselves where as the animal cannot go to an animal cop to help them from getting abused. That is a totally unfair situation where many animals caretakers should be considering before they do something that might sent them to jail or even prison.

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According to the article by Alexia Wellbelove, sharks should be protected no hunted because Australians are using our rivers and oceans for more and more recreational and commercial activities.  she supports this by giving stats about us being more likely stung by a bee or drowning rather than being attacked by a shark. she intends to show the audience that we should not blame the shark for all of the attacks because humans are the ones who are provoking them.  the intended audience are readers who are blaming sharks for the attacks that have been happening
http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2011/02/22/3145484.htm

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in the article "Two Decades of Shark Research" by Perry W. Gilbert, he states that shark attacks happened since world war two due to the fact of bloody bodies that were shot from planes landed in ocean waters which allowed sharks to move in.  he supports this by stating that scientists have gotten together just to research why sharks act the way they do.  he is trying to inform the reader that sharks attacks have been happening since way back then.  the intended audience are students attaining knowledge about sharks and their attacks.
BioScience © 1977 University of California Press and American Institute of Biological Sciences

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In the Book "Shark attacks: Terrifying True Accounts of Shark Attacks Worldwide" by Alex MacCormick, he states that shark attacks are usually occurring no more than five feet into the water which forces him to ask the question, how safe is it to be in shallow waters?  Is it safer to surf or bath in the ocean waters.  He gives many incidents of sharks attacking humans if its in shallow waters to deep waters.  he tries to show the reader that sometimes being in the ocean, no matter how deep it may be, it might not be safe.  the intended audience are readers who are learning about the ocean waters who want to go swim or surf.
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=gigj5_-x0i0C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Sharks+Attacks+Humans+at+fault&ots=HQn_34bkVB&sig=eaOyeDBZSGk6Pdcwp8CEz0F9bOo#v=onepage&q=Sharks%20Attacks%20Humans%20at%20fault&f=false

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In the by Thomas B. Allen, "Shark Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance" he states that shark's most known meals are seals where surfers that are invading the waters of sharks look as if they where seals which makes sharks attack.  He gives different examples of different shark attacks to help support his argument.  he intends to show the reader why sharks attack humans, not just for the fun of it.  his intended audience is readers learning about sharks, such as myself.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=O8qJf3QnEZ4C&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=Sharks+Attacks+Humans+at+fault&ots=porSpcua9F&sig=zwRu_k24eTIVv-2UNfyDe9GRyyw#v=onepage&q=Sharks%20Attacks%20Humans%20at%20fault&f=false

Precis four

In the article "the Mystery of Five Shark Attacks this week: Humans at Fault" they debate on wether shark attacks were caused by humans or a change in climate the resulted in warmer.  They give stats as well as facts about all the shark attacks that have occurred in the year of 2011.  They try to persuade the reader that humans can possibly be the ones who are provoking the sharks which causes them to attack.  the intended audience is young readers who are attaining knowledge about sharks.
International Business Times. "The Mystery of Five Shark Attacks This Week: Humans at Fault? © Copyright 2012

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In the article "Great White Shark Attacks: Defanging the Myths" The National Geographic Channel states that there is good and bad news regarding great white shark attacks where the good news is that sharks generally do not like to eat people but the bad news is that sharks are animals that are curious that want to explore and go taste on unfamiliar objects that catch their eye.  They help support this by giving stats about there being 108 unprovoked shark attacks where only eight of those were fatal.  They are trying to inform the reader that being attacked by a sharks is very rare to happen.  the intended audience are people who are visiting the ocean some point in their life.
National Geographic Channel. "Great White Shark Attacks: Defanging the Myths". © 1996

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In the article "Swimming with the Sharks: perspectives on professional risk taking" by Julie McGowan, she states how risky swimming with sharks are even if it is in the professional field.  She supports her article by showing all of the different leaders that have taken risks in order to be successful.  She intending to show how successful one can be by taking risks even if they are the most dangerous risks.  Her intended audience is individuals who are barely entering the professional field.
McGowan, Julie J. "Swimming With The Sharks: Perspectives On Professional Risk Taking."Journal Of The Medical Library Association 95.1 (2007): 104-113. Academic Search Premier. Web. 14 Feb. 2012.

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In the article "Mortality and Management of 96 Shark Attacks and Development of a Shark Bite Severity Scoring System" by Lawrence Lotfenberg and five others, they go into detail about the attacks and harm that sharks bring as well as scoring the injury on a scale so that they understand the injury so they can be treated much carefully as well as at a faster pace.  They help support their article by giving statistics on injuries that have occurred  in the past based on the scale level and of how bad the injury was. They are writing this article in order to give people another view of how injuries from a shark attack are rated.  The intended audience of this article is anyone who does not have much knowledge about shark attacks.
LAWRENCE LOTFENBERG, et al. "Mortality And Management Of 96 Shark Attacks And Development Of A Shark Bite Severity Scoring System." American Surgeon 76.1 (2010): 101-106. Academic Search Premier. Web. 14 Feb. 2012.

chapter seven precis

In "Putting Good Reasons into Action"Faigley and Selzer state that one of the first steps in writing a successful paper is to find a purpose for writing the chosen argument.  They give examples of topics that can be written about to help writers be on their way of writing.  the purpose of the authors is to help young writers write a successful well written argument by organizing them correctly.  the intended audience is young writers who have little experience and are willing to learn.

chapter four precis

In the book "Good Reasoning" in chapter four, Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer clearly state that the thesis can make or break you paper due to the fact of it being a well written paper that is not to broad for any audience that may be possibly reading it.  According to these two writers, finding a topic for your argument can be a hard part in the process of writing a paper depending if the writer is focused, open to the reader's perspective, and keeping his own interests in mind.  Their purpose is to show students how to properly construct a paper for it to be a strong well written argument for the intended readers.  the audience they are trying to reach is young writers who are beginning to write such as late high school or early college.

relation between two articles and radio station

The scholarly article about misconduct relates to the other article as well as the sampling that came on the radio station because they all talk about something that can be seen as illegal.  As in all three of the articles, not everyone thinks they are illegal.  there are some people that believe it is okay because it may "bring a new song" or "it helps people learn"  but i believe that all of the people who believe that it is not illegal, are wrong.  in all three articles dishonesty and stealing are huge factors in all three of the articles.  If you steal other people's work, you are going to continue to steal throughout your lifetime.  same goes for the stealing of the music. once you steal music, you will continue to steal it to make new songs and have new beats.  so being illegal is the reason why all three articles relate in my eyes.  there is nothing right about these three articles.

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In the article, "The Integration of Rational Choice and Self-Efficacy Theories: A Situational Analysis of Student Misconduct" talks about all of the misconduct and academic dishonesty that is going on throughout all schools.  The article states that no one knows if the misconduct will ever come to an end and also that the misconduct in school is leading up to misconduct in the work force meaning that people will not be honest to their bosses or anyone else in that matter.  The intended audience of this article is young adults who are in college as well as students with jobs who have not had misconduct anywhere else because it gives strong examples of what happens in the early work force of why students get fired.

plagiarims and sampling

the radio station that was aired talked about a term called sampling meaning that people take bits and pieces of songs in order to make their music. an example that they gave was the beat. some artist took the beat of one song and put it with another beat from another song to for their song. a topic that came up big was if sampling is illegal. many believe that it shoudnt and is not illegal. Many also belive that artist should be punished and sued for stealing other artists music. it was said that the artist arent the ones that get the credit for the music, the companies that are associated with the artist get all the credit. In the article, it is stated that every year more and more students are plagiaring. there are so many topics online that any student can pick anything and use it for a report or paper that they are writing. whatever is available online is easy access to students for help. many students do cite their references which is the way to not be accused of plagiarism, where others are getting more and more lazy and dont take the extra step in citing. this is a major problem in present times. many fear that plagiarism is never going to end and will continue to grow.

chapter three precis

In the book good reasons, Lester faigley and Jack Selzer demonstrate how important it is to analyze an agrguement correctly. Mapping is one of the ways in the process of analyzing a good argument and understanding its meaning. the two authors show the importance of the whole procces by demonstrating how it is done. the intended audience in this article is for new writers who are barely learning the process in which arguments should be analyzed.

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In the video about video games, the speaker says a lot of interesting facts about video games.  First off she states that the people who play video games combined spend and average of three billion hours of playing time.  She says that when video gamers are playing, they tend to solve video problems faster than when they get a problem of education.  She states that the future is suppose to be made not foreseen.  This is very true because know one can predict what is going to happen to this future, we just have to wait as time passes and take action to change our future.  "everyone's life is based on video games" says the speaker.  over five million people go onto the wiki of world of warcraft which is way more than how many people get on wikipedia.  according to the speaker, people get more friends due to the fact that they beat someone in a video game.  Back in the day, dice where used to play games. so where ever you maybe or what time frame your in, video games where there!

rhetorical precis

In the book "Good Reasons", they attempt to show the author  what an argument actually is and how it is used throughout literature.  They do so by showing the evidence of writers trying to change reader's minds by convincing them of the validity of new ideas or the superiority of a particular course of action.  the purpose of this book is to show readers what an argument is based on as well addressing opposing arguments.  The intended audience of who they are trying to convince is the young and old readers and writers by the way they state and talk about the arguments.

Patriots Have no shot against the Giants! Just Ask Them

I chose this blog because I am a die hard sports fan.  I lived by sports all my life, and as for what the title of this blog says, it is absolutely true.  In my eyes, the ravens deserved the AFC championship.  They played harder than the patriots did.  As for the coach saying that they played their hearts out, I think that is false.  The ravens are the team that played there hearts out that ended with a mistake by the field goal kicker.  I believe that the outcome of this game will show the ravens on top!

http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/the-patriots-have-no-shot-against-the-giants-just-ask-them/#more-96239