Bias

Bias in The Tipping Point was addressed by citing a study done on a presidential election and it involved news anchors from ABC, CBS, and NBC. Peter Jennings from ABC, showed bias in facial expressions. When he talked about a particular presidential candidate he would smile which is a clear showing of bias and he would also vertically shake his head which shows another means of bias. In a news segment by channel 6 ABC, the news anchor shows bias at the beginning of the segment. The news segment was about solar power and you can see the anchor showing somewhat of a smile in agreement of the solar power. He was also shaking his head in many different directions and his tone of voice also seemed very positive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjxLHrudANE

Fashion

I myself have a slight obsession over fashion. I go on fashion, clothing, and sneaker websites daily and i tend to online window shop constantly. I'm not really sure how i fit into fashion trends. I wouldn't describe myself as a trendsetter and i wouldn't describe myself as following everyone else. I also feel that anyone that says they are not following a fashion trend is false. Whatever someone has worn or wears has probably been a trend in the past or present. Like girls and their owls. Girls are obsessed with owls at the moment for some reason.  I guess you could say I'm kind of in the middle? I like to look at current fashion trends but not try and follow them. I like to look good and make it my own. I'm into street wear underground brands that no one really knows about here in south jersey but I'm all for that hipster look that the store Urban Outfitter has. I try to meet in the middle and make my style my own and express myself through what i wear.

My Stockton Activities

Since my freshman year at Stockton, I have yet to join any activities on campus. My fall semester, I did not join any clubs or do any activities because I was extremely busy. I had 5 classes, 2 labs, and I had no time in my schedule to fit in clubs or activities. Right now, during my spring semester, I haven't joined any clubs or activities for the same reason as my fall semester. I have 2 labs, 4 classes, and again, i don't have any time in my schedule. I hope to be able to engage in activities on campus in the near future.

My Conference

I'm not really sure what to say about how my first multi-draft conference went. I basically talked about how my paper was going and how it was set up and i guess she liked it? She didn't really say anything else about it so i figured that i was on the right track. I think it was hard for her give me a proper conference since i didn't have a physical copy of my multi-draft. I'll remember to do that sometime. I don't really know what else to say. I guess my conference went all right? If i had a physical copy of my draft I'm sure that my conference would have went very well.

President's 2012 Budget Reveals Conflicted Priorities on Immigration

President's 2012 Budget on Immigration

Reading this blog entry made me realize that our government isn't really taking immigration seriously in regards to making it better for immigrants. The administration is giving much money to custody operations, border fencing, programs to identify immigrants in jail but the government is not giving much to programs that could reshape the immigration system. I feel that our government is helping the negative side of immigration but not the positive side of it. I don't understand why our government does these kinds of things.

Border Patrol

I thought that this article was a very good read. It made me think about immigration in our society today and what's being done to control it. I didn't really realize the extremities of what is being done until reading this article. Silko's predicament is a pretty unreasonable one. The border patrolmen took it a bit too far with the whole situation. Their treatment was unfair and unjust. The border patrolmen take their authority a bit too far and it's scary to think that they could just kill you or attack you in an instant, like in the case of Michael Elmer that Silko mentioned. A lot of the things border patrolmen have done are horrible and they seem to be extremely racist. Although this was being done to help problems with border crossing and immigration, the border patrolmen took it too far. I also agree with what Silko had to say about how there is no use and borders haven't worked. At this point in time, I don't think borders will work. Sure border patrolmen could help with immigration problem but I feel that they are too vicious to deal with and I don't think a 10 foot high steel wall will help anything either. Immigrants will always find a way to get across.

Mom: A Nurse

My mom is a nurse who works at the Atlantic City Medical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. To be more precise, she is an operating room nurse, which i think is the most difficult out of all the jobs that nurses are eligible to have. My mom helps doctors with operations and she is one of the head leaders to operate the new DaVinci surgery system. I admire my mom for what she does and she is a very hard worker. In regards to whether or not a career becomes a part of a persons identity or not, I feel that it depends on the amount of time you have had that career. It also depends on the person and whether they like their job or not. Overall i feel that it does become a part of a person's identity. It's your job and people will associate you with your career. With my mom I feel that her occupation somewhat has become part of her identity. She's been a nurse since the 1980's and she's worked very hard to be where she is at right now.  Many people know that she is a nurse and people assume she's a nurse because she is Filipino. She uses a lot of her skills to heal our family and she uses things from her career in her everyday life.