The Cyber Anti-Bullying Campaign

By: Morgan, Brian, and Joseph

Our mission is to combat the destructive nature of bullying in the Cyber world by providing compliments to those who have simply had a bad day and deserve kindness. We pledge that we will do everything in our power to make facebook and the rest of the World Wide Web a place where everyone, from bloggers to surfers, will not have to fear their comments and posts being cut down by those who wish they were clever enough to have written it in the first place. People who do not have anything pleasant to say and would instead rather be hateful have no business in being a part of the group. We are not trying to exclude anyone from joining for that in itself would be hateful.

Do you date like a man? Or a woman?

Ivory, Soto, Torres

According to Myreah Moore in her book Date Like a Man women need to stop dating just trying to find a husband and start dating more like men and have more fun dating. In her book she explains why and how men are the “Master Daters” and why women should take their techniques and use them against them. Men are ahead in the dating game for several reasons; they love themselves, they are confident at any age, they are independent, the list goes on. The point is, women are always thinking about where it’s going and what they are doing wrong and right. In her book Moore explains that in order to beat men at their own game women have to understand how they think and operate. Men and women are completely different and so are their ideas about love and relationships, this is how so many people end up heart-broken and alone.

Of course this is taken from a generalized point of view of the way women date. Not all women date like that, but a majority do. This is why Moore wrote this hoping to make that number go down. Her goal is to make women love themselves just as much as men do and also to help the majority of women that are not as independent become independent. Moore aims to give women the confidence in dating that they lack.

Now let’s take dating from a guys point of view:

As the only guy in my blog group I'm the only input on the subject of dating from the male point of view. When I get a date as any guy I'm looking for a good time. That's all I see first dates as, a way to have fun and see if it’s something I would like to pursue, if not I move on. However if a second date does happen there are certain things I start to look for, the most important is what would my mother think of her. The rest I usually judge later on. But for me I see dating as a way to figure out what I would want in a wife. I'm not looking for a wife right now obviously but dating is a way to see what criteria you would want in your spouse. Guys do date differently though most guys like to chase the girl but only for a certain time after a while it gets old and we give up. That brings me to the crazy obsessive girl also known as the clinger. The clinger is every guy's worst nightmare, at first sign of a clingy girl it’s time to cut and run. I don't know why but a lot of girls tend to be this way some worse than others.

Of course people are different there are a select few that date completely different. Maybe there are women out there that date like men, and maybe there are men out there that tend to have their dating style like that of a woman. It all depends on the person. But you can’t help but take what Moore said in her book and realize that most of it is true. As stereotypical as it is it could most definitely come in handy as well as help the women out there struggling with their dating. Maybe women do need to stop being so serious about their dates and start having fun and be more confident in themselves. Or maybe men need to get more serious and stop losing the arrogance that most tend to have. Or maybe we will never find a solution to this and this is just the way things will always be.

Brandon Jaworowski Jessica Kamp "The WAR on Big Tobacco"

Ous was assigned to finding an alternative way to solve and issue in society. We think we came up with a pretty good one which attends to the Big tobacco companies and all te people they kill each year by having them smoke and using other tobacco products. I have one idea and it is quite simple. We always talk aobut how we are at war with big tobacco companies and that they are winning and just keep doing what they do and kill more and more each year. Well how about instead of just going to war with big tobacco we go to "WAR" with big tobacco companies. We are talking aobut pretty much declaring war on big tobacco and all of there companies factories and workers. That can end the total discussion about what to do with them. We could simply tell them were going to war and have them get prepared because we can't just go in and attack them now that would be slaughter we need to give them an equal and fair oppurtunity. So we saw give them one month to prepare then it is fair game. We would just send our troops to watch over there buildings and whenever they move we strike. Our we could make it less open and kidnap one of their workers and just disguise our own to go in and be secret agent. He could easily plant some explosives around the buildings and they wouldn't stand a chance. We could take them out in no time. There are other ways we could easily send a couple fighter jets to just bomb their buildings and watch them crumb. We can watch as they try to fight back or honestly give up and end this war that is killing millions of people every year. Their products are KILLING people, we have to end it. we would gladly sacrifice their lives for all of the ones we would save from killing them. Or hopefully they just give up and no blood shed has to happen and they can just surrender and stop production. We hace devised multiple ways to end their tyranny. We can not have them continue what they do, it is killing mothers, fathers, grandparents, grandmothers, sisters, brothers and killing teens. We have to end them! A simple boycott/ isolation would go a long way to, if we just camped outside their buildings and waited till they ran out of supplies they would have to make a simple choice starve or die because we wont let supplies in and they would have to run out sooner or later. These people are already ahead in the battle killing millions every year. It is about time we turn the tables on them and slowly take them out month by month and end their corruption!

Sexting is an issue.....maybe.

Tangie "Two Names" Lambert and Christina Horn

Sexting is an issue…..maybe.

Sexting has become a strong issue in the United States lately and has caused ginormous problems. Children being teased, taunted and hurt, and killing themselves and what not….sad. So I propose a solution to the shock that teenagers get while opening their cellular device and seeing a naked body of a student classmate. My proposal is that upon enrollment in to a high or middle school you take a nude picture of your child and on the first day of school it will be mass produced and given to every student to minimize shock. Brilliant I know and it will reduce all issued that sexting has caused!  Why be embarrassed these days about your body? Back in Woodstock they willingly showed it and was one with each other and showed what their parents gave them to feel at peace. We have an issue people…we can either (A) Walk around nude...it saves recourses and  supplies comfort…(B) Submit nude photos on our facebook’s and allow the world to see!!....or (C) we submit to this modest proposal which will address a number of issues. :0)

Campaign Week

By Jessica Kamp and Brandon Jaworowski  As the time for political elections comes closer, campaign ads litter the local tv channels. In the majority of these ads, politicians use all types of ways to persuade voters to vote for them. Yet most of the time, they don't follow ethical guidelines for their argument. In order to be ethical, arguments should present both positive and negative aspects, use typical events rather than extraordinary events, use qualified sources of evidence, use evidence in the right context, and not use weird or obscure statistics. In one of David Vitter's campaign ad, he accuses his opponent of favoring illegal immigration and shows some evidence of the way he favors this. He shows people throwing a big welcome party for illegal immigrants when they cross the border. This party is supposedly thrown by his opponent. He then tells viewers of the way that his opponent voted on bills about illegal immigrants. He ends the ad by saying that he does not support illegal immigrants. If he is elected, he won't support them.  In his ad, Vitter does not provide support for his claim that his opponent favored illegal immigration. He does not give a credible source which makes his argument weaker. Also, he exaggerates the context of his argument. Just because his opponent supports illegal immigration, that does not mean he would throw them a welcome party. Basically, Vitter does not follow the ethical guidelines for arguments and weakens his appeal.

The Ethics of Politics

By Morgan, Brian, and Joseph
When we watch political ads we want to know about issues that matter, not who can sling more mud. Our group viewed two different ads that were examined for ethical evidence. The two ads are Racism in America - Dan Fanelli Political Ad and Whitman: "Why I came to California" .

In Dan Fanelli's Ad the ethical sense of the ad is severely lacking. It begins with two Middle Eastern men speaking in an Arabic Dialect discussing how the United States legal system will protect them if they are captured. As the two continue to talk Dan Fanelli comes into frame and begins explaining how he will keep men like this "out of the courtrooms." He then classifies a tied up man who is wearing a Keffiyeh, Arabian headware, and has a bomb strapped to his chest as a "terrorist." The Ad is quite stereotypical and racist. He says that all terrorists are middle-aged Middle Eastern males and that Caucasians cannot be terrorists. There are no facts in the ad either, just the opinion and perspective of a congressmen. His perspective and what he believes does not line up with main stream political thought. He has no proof that all terrorists are Arbanian. The ad is implying that if we make sure no Middle Easternian indviduals are allowed on airplanes that we will be able to fly safe.

The second ad is also a political ad but promotes the candidate in a different way. It begins with Jerry Brown's opponent Meg Whitman saying how California was better 30 years ago. The Ad continues by saying that Jerry Brown was governor 30 years ago and it tells what he did during his governorship. The ad presents facts and information about the economic status of California 30 years ago. It is not ethical for skewing the truth in Meg Whitman's statement and makes it look like that even she would vote for Jerry Brown. The revelancy of California's economic status 30 years ago is not that important to its current status.

Democrat Daisy TV ad for 1964 Presidential Campaign - Soto, Torres, Ivory

The Democrat Daisy ad begins with a little girl picking flowers and counting the pedals as she pulls them off one by one. A deep intense male voice starts counting down and an atomic bomb explodes and “Vote for President Johnson on November 3” comes on the screen. This ad uses pathos appeal to help try and persuade the viewer to vote for Johnson if they want to live in a safe country. The ad implies that if Johnson isn’t elected that our country would be at risk of getting bombed. This ad is unethical because he uses a child to try and scare parents and other adults to vote for him. In the ad it says “We must love each other or we must die” meaning that if we don’t come together our country will not survive. He isn’t truthful about it, an explosion can happen to any president out there. By voting for him there is a chance he could stop an atomic bomb from going off, but he isn’t the only one who can do it. He has no evidence to prove that he could indeed stop an atomic bomb from going off.