...Article Reflection It has been debated that children that grow up in different countries or places where the dialect, or the way they speak is different than the customary school English have more difficulty with reading acquisition. These children have been taught dialects such as African American Vernacular English (AAVE). The dialect of African American Vernacular English is very similar to that of school English except for a few differences. Some of these differences include the reduction of final consonants. For example, /mos/ vs /most/ for the word most. Another example is the use of stops or labiodental fricatives where school English has interdental fricatives such as (/dis/ vs. /ðis/ for this, /bof/ or /bot/ vs. /boθ/ for both) are acceptable in AAVE but are not acceptable in school English. To test this hypothesis, sentence imitation and reading skills of 217 urban African American boys and girls in kindergarten through second grade from the ages of 5 to 8 were selected from low-performing schools in low-income communities in three U.S. cities. The cities consisted of, Cleveland, Ohio; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Washington, D.C. The children that were chosen in each grade were scattered and random pertaining to their imitations of school English sentences which included phonological and grammatical forms that are used in African American Vernacular English but not in school English. The experiment consisted of several different tools that helped the researchers test...
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...Drug Testing: The Aid to Improving Our Welfare System By: Jennifer, Jacob, Kelsey, Mattie, and Devin Introduction Attention-getting remarks: Every single one of us in this class will one day have a job, and with that job we will be required to pay taxes. Have you ever thought about where the taxes we pay goes to and whether or not it’s going towards a helpful and productive cause? Thesis: Today we will break down the pros and cons of enforcing welfare recipients to be drug tested. Preview: Our group will inform you all about what welfare actually is, as well as reasons as to why some people believe it is a violation of their rights to be drug tested in order to receive welfare. More importantly, you will hear the opposing side of this issue, which is in favor of drug testing, along with reasons we believe it will benefit the welfare system. (First let’s get a better understanding of what welfare actually is.) Body I. Usually when one hears the word welfare, he thinks of public assistance. A. According to the welfare info website, welfare can also be characterized as a financial assistance to needy individuals, which is supplied through the taxes paid by the working society. (welfareinfo) 1. It also improves the quality of life and standards of living for the poor. II. Now that we all understand what welfare is, let’s look at the pros and cons of enforcing drug testing to receive this assistance. A. As said by Florida’s Governor Rick...
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...Course Syllabus |Course: CMST 102: |[pic] | |Intro to Mass Communication | | |Instructor: Jason F. Lind | | |Phone: 360.416.7965 | | |Email: Jason.Lind@skagit.edu | | |Meetings: Online using Canvas | | |(https://canvas.instructure.com/) | | |Textbook: Baran, S. J. (2012). Introduction to | | |mass communication: Media literacy | | |and culture (7th ed.). Boston: ...
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...CMST Interview Evaulation Peter Interview 1: Peter began the interview in a unique way compared to the other interviewers. After I told him what major I was, he asked me the most interesting class I have taken at LSU. I thought that was a unique way to get to know a little about me without simply asking me, "Tell me something about yourself." Peter never used any closed questions during the interview. I believe he did that because he wanted to get the most information out of me in the allotted time we had to speak with each other. I think the lack of closed questions was effective since we only had a few minutes to speak and a bunch of closed questions would have given peter little to work with when choosing his partners. As I explained before, Peter only used open-ended questions, and it was effective in getting high quantities of information about me. He used questions like, "Are you a leader or a follower, and explain why." I replied that I was more of a follower because I have great communication skills that allow me to increase group cohesion and optimize group output. Another open question he asked was, “Tell me about your strengths.” I replied by saying that some of my strengths are my social skills, determination, and my reliability. He was pleased with my group of strengths. Peter ended the interview by letting me know he would strongly think about picking me as a partner. I think it effective by letting me know how I did immediately. We were cut off by the timer,...
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...Essay 2: Summarizing a Study that Tested the EPPM Through the use of fear appeals, the purpose of the study, “Preventing the Spread Of Genital Warts”, is to decrease the spread of genital warts. The authors of the study used the EPPM, as a guide to understand why fear appeal campaigns tend to not work in certain public health issues. The purpose of this study relates to the EPPM because genital warts are a public health risk. By testing five hypotheses, supporting facts were found that predicted when and under what specific conditions fear appeal campaigns worked, more specifically genital warts. Considering that genital warts has been seen to cause more severe health implications for women, only females were asked to participate in the study. A total of 219 college females participated in the study. Women for the first three conditions, or hypotheses, were recruited through campus activities or from intro classes on campus. All women were approached in person and asked to be a part of an STD prevention study; In turn, if the individual agreed, they were given 1 of 3 randomly selected packets, containing a cover letter describing the study, a blank envelope, and either packet 1, 2, or 3. Packet 1 contained both the fear appeal message and a questionnaire; packet 2 contained only the fear appeal message; and packet 3 contained only a questionnaire. Students who received packet 1 and 2 were asked to read their message carefully while underlining important passages; and...
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...Dollar Shave Club University of Maryland, University College CMST 301 01/31/2016 Introduction & Synopsis In The New York Time article written by Dahl titled “ Riding the momentum create by a cheeky video” the author presents a founder of a Dollar Shave Club company which is based in Santa Monica, California. The company sells shaving razors to man based on a monthly subscription. Michael Dubin was the founder and he used digital media to achieve a goal of getting more customers but also to get investments from big companies. The prices range from a $1 to $9 a month based on what type of razor blade customer chooses. The idea of selling razor via subscription came to the owner Michael Dubin because he have heard of many man complain of the prices of razors in stores. At the begging of launching his business, he spent months driving down San Diego to connect with bloggers to spread the word. However, it was difficult and he decided to make a video to tell the story of buying a razor via subscription. After launching his video on YouTube it has been seen almost 10 million times. In the first 48 hours of launching the video, he had 12,000 orders placed. After the launch of the video the business kept growing, Dubin struck a deal with many investors, which helped him, grow the company. Today the business is valued at $615 million, what started, as a video ad now is multi million-dollar company. With the use of digital media, Dubin was able to...
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...CMST 192 2:00-3:15 pm - Dr. Fischer Chapter 5 Reflection Listening skills are a very important for each and every person to have. Without them, how is one able to understand another? We are all guilty of poor listening at some point, especially in this generation because of all the technology we have access to. Cell phones are one of the biggest distractions to listening that I have seen. A lot of times you will see students sitting on their phones during the middle of a lecture or even sitting on their phones at a dinner table rather than listening to what the people around them have to say. Other examples of reasons for poor listening are things like the effort a person is willing to put in, being overloaded with too much information at once, not knowing enough about the topic prior, just listening to respond and not actually taking what the person is saying into consideration or simply just not having respect for a person who may be speaking. There are many ways that a person can help themselves become a better listener such as reducing noise, putting in the effort to listen, stay focused on the conversation, try to have prior knowledge, avoid distractions and be respectful! I personally am someone who is very easily distracted by my phone during classes and that is something I am trying to work on because as soon as I put it away I will get so much more out of the classes I am taking. Noise doesn’t just have to be physical, it can be psychological which is what distracts...
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...Marshall Pearce CMST 1061 Written Exercise PRINT AD This advertisement if for Alison Cascio. She’s attempting to maintain her spot on the Metro Council. There are fallacies and transparent rhetorical strategies in this ad. A fallacy is false cause. It claims she has “worked successfully” to improve neighborhoods, implement Smart Growth strategies, and solve day-to-day Metro Council issues. This indicates that she had an extremely integral goal in completing these tasks. While she may have done some work in these areas, it is most likely that she embellished some of her work to make it seem as though these achievements are solely attributed to her. She used some positive effects and pointed their causes directly to her. Also, behavioral change attempts are evident. She uses the “expert” strategy with phrases like, “Someone with a track record of success,” and “She’s experienced.” She is trying to tell people that she knows what she’s doing and to trust her. She also tries to upgrade her ethos by claiming many endorsements. This list of supporters is her attempt to gain support because people already support these organizations. Her credibility is upgraded because she is backed by these clubs. Emotional appeal is also present. She says, “Our tax dollars are too precious to be wasted.” She is using attracting emotional appeal. Cascio wants people to read this line and hear precious, and become sympathetic and therefore, supportive of her. This advertisement is...
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...Chelsea Mason March 11, 2010 CMST 10 Jane Elliot held a very interesting experiment for a lesson in discrimination. She divided her class of third graders into brown-eyes and blue-eyes and made certain rules for each group. For one day the blue-eyed children were “more superior” then the brown-eyed children. On the days that the children were part of the less superior part of the class, their thought process wasn’t on track like any other day. During and after this experiment, the children learned how unfair it was to be divided just because of the way that they looked. It made them fight and when they were dived it didn’t matter that they had been friends for a long time. At that time all that mattered was that one was better than the other one. This lesson seemed to have a lasting impact on these children because when they met up later in life they talked about how they were teaching their children not to discriminate, and how they ignored people when they would get looks for talking and hanging out with a black person. It just shaped the way they would think for their lives. If they wouldn’t have been part of this experiment they may not have the same thoughts, but because they got to be up close and personal to segregation and discrimination they got to see what it was really like. When Jane Elliot did this experiment later on with the adults, they seemed to try to stand up a little bit more to her about how she was treating them. She separated the different eye colors...
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...No name, no credit. 2. Table of contents: List of each of the major sections, including references and appendices, and specify the page on which they begin. (-5 points) 3. Executive Summary: Provide a 100-150 word summary of the purpose and outcome of the project. This goes on a separate page that follows the table of content. Bullet points can be highly effective to summarize findings. (-5 points) 4. Body: The structure for the body of the report is described in detail below. 5. References: Whenever you use someone else’s idea or work in developing an argument or providing an explanation, you must cite the author(s). To do otherwise is plagiarism. You can impress yourself, your instructor and client by citing material from CMST 311. (-5 points) 6. Tables and Figures: You may have numerical data or illustrations that you need to present. If so, these things go after the references; tables first, figures second. If it has numbers on it, then it is a table. If it is a graphical illustration, then it is a figure (e.g., pie chart). Number and title each table/figure so that you can easily refer to them in the text of your paper. For example, “As Table 1 shows…” 7. Appendices: This is where all of the materials that you used in your project should go. Add appendices as you need them, organizing them topically. For example, your print message might go in the first, the text of your public presentation in the second one, and the data from your evaluation research...
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...Communication Critique- CMST 110 Student Name: ___________________ Topic: ____________________ INTRODUCTION: 20 POINTS 1. Did you provide an effective attention getter? 0 1 2 3 4 5 2. Did you present your audience with a strong credibility statement? 0 1 2 3 4 5 3. Did you attempt to directly relate your topic to the audience? 0 1 2 3 4 5 4. Did you preview the main points? 0 1 2 3 4 5 BODY: 45 POINTS 1. Was your topic persuasive? Did you try to convince your audience to change an idea, attitude, or belief? Did you attempt to motivate your audience into taking some course of action? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 2. Did you effectively utilize various modes of proof within your argument (i.e. ethos, pathos, logos)? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3. Were your main points well researched with adequate subpoints, sufficient evidence, and offer a variety of research? Did you have a sound case for your argument? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 4. Did you cite at least six sources verbally and effectively? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 5. Were your sources credible? Did you rely too much on personal opinions/knowledge/experience and uncredible sources? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 6. Were your thoughts and ideas well organized and well focused or did you wander with no sense of direction? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Did you use recognizable transitions or did you switch abruptly from one train of thought to another? 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 CONCLUSION: 15 POINTS 1. Did you review your...
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...Kennetra Isler CMST 2060 MWF- 730 Speech Reflection Paper Doing an Informative speech was not an easy task at all but it was worth it after you finished it. This speech included an outline, scholarly sources, and a lot of hard work and preparation. My topic I chose was Internet dating, but I wanted to be a little more detailed and go into the new dating scam called Catfishing. After I finally was sure about my topic I began to search for sources. I actually had a very difficult time finding scholarly sources on Catfishing because since its fairly new there wasn’t any helpful scholarly information out of it. What I had to do was just use sources from Online dating that talked about Catfishing or gave some kind of information about online dating going wrong. After I finally collected all of my sources I began constructing my outline. Outline took me a bit of time because I wanted to get every detail in their right because I would not have time to use or say every detail in my speech. For the outline I followed every step in our Public Speaking book. After I finished my outline I began my speech and started practicing using my attention getter, main points, transitions and ending. With all of this it was quite an experience. I learned from this experience that I need to slow down when I’m speaking and try to choose a topic that I can find a lot of scholarly information on so I can give a better speech. I thought that I projected well even though I was very nervous and I...
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...Ernesto Mendoza CMST 101 #66703 M/W 11:00am (Fall 2012) Lisa Shiba October 8, 2012 Reaction Paper #1 Socialization is a big part of our lives it goes hand in hand with our self concept. Self concept helps us understand who we are and how we think we look compared to other people. How you view yourself plays a very important role in your life. Although we view ourselves one way our self concept may be distorted. My experience is a very recent one that intrigued me because it made me see how important our self concept is. I realized that individuals can be in a way erased from society if they have no human interaction. I experienced this new feeling when I read Cipher in the Snow, Jean Mizer. In this reading the child of the story is quiet and sad but is looking to fit in. Negativity surrounds the boy as he tries to find a way to be a part of society. In the beginning of the story the boy urges the school bus driver to stop the bus as he is getting out the boy collapses in the snow and dies. Everyone is confused as to why the boy named Cliff Evans collapsed and died, the bus driver said “He never even said he felt bad” (p.49). Self-concept is defined as the relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself. For example when you look in a mirror and the reflection you would see aside from physical, if you saw your emotional state, talents, likes, dislikes, values and so on the reflection you would be seeing would...
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...Alonzo Tacuyan CMST 102 Korolеnko Junе 7, 2016 Social Mеdia Social mеdia is vеry much a two sidеd coin, it has its grеat positivеs, and low nеgativеs. Positivеs, it's hеlpеd mе еxpand my horizons bеyond just school. A lot of my culturе and hobbiеs and prеfеrеncеs arе a dirеct rеsult of thе intеrnеt, and social mеdia. Thе music I listеn to, thе comеdians I likе, TV shows I watch, еtc. Things I do in my sparе timе, I don't think I'd еvеr considеr if I didn't havе thе intеrnеt. Nеgativеs, social mеdia has crеatеd a vеry strangе gеnеration of “awkward tееnagеrs”. A lot of tееnagеrs havе two vеry diffеrеnt pеrsonas. An onlinе onе, and a rеal lifе onе. This is somеthing that I think has changеd about sociеty, and won't еvеr go back. I rеmеmbеr what lifе was likе bеforе I was an avid usеr of thе Intеrnеt, I usеd to watch TV, play outsidе with friеnds, thеn play vidеo gamеs until bеdtimе. Using thе Intеrnеt was a vеry rarе occurrеncе for mе. I look at my youngеr brothеr, and othеr kids his agе (еarly tееns), and thеy havе this strangе thing whеrе thеy act complеtеly diffеrеnt onlinе than thеy do offlinе, in pеrson. Thеy don't rеmеmbеr lifе bеforе thе intеrnеt, and I think that's a big factor. Social mеdia givеs kids a platform to split thеir pеrsonalitiеs into somеthing thеy want to portray. I mеan, why should my youngеr brothеr havе an Instagram account? What doеs hе possibly nееd to sharе? Thе pair of shoеs my dad bought him to show that hе's “stuntin”? I don’t know. Kids arе...
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...Faith Lor CMST&101 Persuasive Speech November 12, 2013 Human Trafficking: Modern Day Slavery Thesis: By raising awareness and being involved in the movement, we can help prevent human trafficking. I. Attention A. Attention Getter: What is human trafficking? According to the Polaris Project, Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery. It is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of forced labor and sex trafficking. B. Credibility: We thought that slavery was abolished in the 19th Century, but we were wrong. It is still happening till this day in 161 countries including the United States. As a matter of fact, it is happening in our own communities without us knowing or even being aware of it. II. Need (Problem) A. Problem: The problem with Human Trafficking is that every year thousands of men, women and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad. They are being exploited for manual and sexual labor against their will. B. Evidence 1. According to the A21 Campaign, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage. Only 1-2% of victims are ever rescued. 2. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states, “After drug dealing, trafficking of humans is tied with arms dealing as the second-largest criminal industry in the world.” 3. According to Not for Sale Campaign, slavery is wrapped...
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