Plan to Advocate

I am advocating a pacifist style of life, to further the human race in an attempt to achieve peace. The topic I chose to present as a modern issue is the Long War, on a personal, ecomonical and politcal level; I would like to understand what we really are doing in Iraq. Understanding what we are occupying the country for, may lead to a better understanding on the steps we can take to bring the oppression to an end.
The primary target audience are the students registered for my Composition 106 class. The reason students are the most important target is that they are the future of our Country; we can not only bring this war to an end, but also prevent future massacres from occuring. If my project can affect half of the class, the hope is that a "pay-it-forward" chain will occur, and a greater population will be affected and educated. Also, with an election in the coming, a more educated audience will have a greater effect on deciding which candidate will lead the country most successfully.
I plan on presenting my personal story attatched to the war, as I was born in the midst of the original Gulf War, and my life has been effected in a irreversible manner, may it be for better or worse. I also would like to present the economical repurcussions that have occured because of the war, and how that directly relates to our economical collapse as of late. Finally, I would like to show the political background of the war, and discover the true reasons for invading a country, while we claim to be "maintaining the safety of our nation."
I do not want to dictate to the class whether the war is necessarry or not, I would just like to provide the class with the tools to decide for themselves whether we should change any policies our government has initiated.

While creating my Onenote Notebook, I decided to take a screen shot of my work. A Onenote Notebook is a digital notebook, containing seperate folders and seperate binders for all of your subjects. This recreates all the simplicity of a binder, without the madness of clutter. In this digital workspace, everything is clear, and defined. Things can be tagged, or easily serached for by simply pressing find ( Ctrl+F ) and searching for words that are scattered throughout the notebook. In a world where everything has become digitilized, Onenote is a step in the right direction, it seems. The only flaw to digital composing, is you lose the ability to write your notes exactly the way you want them, some of them must become more "organized' but in a sense, less legible to the writer, who has been taking notes a specific way for years on years. Overall, the Onenote Notebook is a time saver, and a great way to keep things organized.

Activity 1!

4c.) There may be no limit number of tags that are available, but a few that came to my mind for the first tagging image are: "Grand Theft Auto parody video game Rockstar busytown."
6.) After searching through three websites, altavista.com, google.com, and yahoo.com I discovered differences and prefences amidst the three. The Google logo is the most beneficial and productive logo. It seperates itself from yahoo and altavista by removing the clutter and links that surround it, andmoves them to the top left of the screen. The least preffered website, AltaVista, takes a very nuetral stand. While Google remains simple, the yahoo homepage is a breeding ground for links, allowing for sites that you may never have seen, to come to light. Alta Vista, neutral as possible, possesses a mixture of clutter and emptiness to allow very a very uneasy feeling. My favorite website between the three is Google, and my least favorite is Alta vista.
13. There are many things to be wary of when dealing with the credibility of websites across the internet. In my years of inter-cyber travelspace travel, I've found a few key things to help keep me aware of the credibility of the sites I may be gazing upon. The first, and most important piece of advice would be, don't ever trust a site on the internet. Everything posted online has been created by somebody, so rather you don't have to believe everything you read on the internet. A second piece of advice, to validate the sites you believe are credible, would be to find facts, and search a multitude of sites in the same topic, to verify these facts across many channels. A third piece of advice, is stay away from peer-to-peer forums for facts. Sites that have no regulation on the information involved can lead you far away from the truth.

Paper for Plastic???

In awe of not having some composition, demanded by higher authorities, I present you with this explanation of my blog's title. I came across an incredible emotion while walking the path of an empty chicago avenue; I held two pieces of paper marked twenty, that could get me a good dinner and a spot at the hippest hookah lounge in Chicago, Samah's. Those two papers had the capability to take me to my hotels, or buy me a ticket to an after-party to Chicago's great Lollapalooza. That paper backed by, well, nothing. No gold, no jackpot at the end of the rainbow. Two simple papers that society has deemed valuable, can buy me most things plastic, and I'm not quite sure how that works.

Paper for plastic?