Behind The Ignite Talks

As I was listening to each of my classmates talk about their "Big Question." The one that had me intrigued and made me realized on "how us human beings are so ungrateful on what we are given to us in life" was Yazmin Santiago. She has a point on our planet. We're granted to live on a planet where there's air for us to breathe and water for not just us but for upcoming generations as well. How are we not going to take care of it for our grand-kid's children to experience the same experiences as us if we don't take act to take care of our world. By doing the supplest thing in life that is to throw away our trash.

Dark Patterns

In my opinion, I think the whole purpose of dark patterns aren't cool for us shoppers. I have experienced my self in the past and still on today. I do understand that all businesses do this to earn more money but again it's pressuring us on buying something since that it'll be sold out soon. For instance, if it's on a website or in stores they'' have discounts available for a certain amount of time for you to shop. Not only are they getting your attention on buying these items but to also feel rushed to get them as well before they're out of stock.

I'm Ignite

• Why are we pressure to go to college?
• Most kids really don't want to go to college since that if they want to pursue in the arts path.
• Why does the brain work how it does?
• Explaining on how our emotions work 
• Ex) a person who is unhappy- has the emotions of happiness
• Free will?
• That goes for animals
• How long can humans destroy the Earth?
• All the pollution that all of us human beings created
• Can the environment at home effect their mentality at school?
• Some kids who don't have a support system at home attend to do more good at school then those who do.
• Why do humans not care about what we are given to us?
• Global warming/ wildfires/ extinction
• Why do we have to appease others?
• As kids we are taught to appease others likes
• Those who don't look worthy about themselves they look for acceptance (exhausting)

Hopepunk

• Hopepunk- sincerely caring about something, anything, requires bravery and strength 
• Isn’t never about submission or acceptance 
• About standing up and fighting for what you believe in
• Standing up for other people
• Why authors think it matters?
• Is to leave a feeling on a word. 
• A narrative message
• A mood and a spirit as a definable literary movement

Argue This

Big Question: What's the point of waking up everyday just to do the same routine as the day before? Were we made as robots?
Major Premises: We're given the life to live to the fullest. Be adventurous, travel, experience new experiences. Live life like it's our last time to do so. The reason why I'm asking this question because we were made to live like there was no tomorrow without feeling that we're robots. Build to do the same things in a daily basis.
Minor Premises: People don't realize that having the privilege to live life is to make the good out of it by having to not fully change your daily day routine but mix some things around so you won't get tired of the same thing all over again.
Conclusion: Furthermore, we as human beings should live a life where we are more spontaneous on how we want our day to turn out.

Last Century's Writing Styles

• Syllogism- simplest form of logical argument
• Ex of Syllogism- of deductive reasoning
• Deductive reasoning- process of reasoning from one or more statements
• Ex) Geometry- all lines have 10 degrees; therefore, this object is a line
• We evaluate them if it's true- it means to fractionally verified in the word
• Validity- Do the premises include the conclusion?
• Naturalist- exaggerated forces acting upon an individual
• Realism- raw; having it be extremely real
• Modernism- to look at the internet differently
• Modernist broke the rules
• Before WWI: technology was to solve/ make everything better
• Liminal- not as what we want it to be but not as what we are to become

Down The Rabbit Hole

• Lucid Dream- ability to realize that it's not a dream
• Capacity- is ability
• Transcending- to go beyond and above
• Steinbeck wrote during the Great Depression, Dust Bowl, Economic Equality, and WWI & WWII
• He was good at federal contradiction
• Inedible- born into us
• Zero stress- death
• Having stress- born and life
• Good is better when you have something to compare with
• Learning about life- messy

Link I followed:

our grounds for hope in the dark

• I decided to follow this link because it's pretty much saying that hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable. Hope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what would happen. Due to these circumstances you may be able to influence the outcomes. It is the belief that what we do matters even though how and when it may impact our personal/ mental self. 

Notes From Today's Lecture

• Ways of taking notes: being able to remember and explain your thinking
• Logical fallacy- is an error (Logical reasoning)
• Ethos (non- verbal)-a credibility from the elements of messenger
• Ex) when you're different from your peers
• Logos Ex) when you're about to enter campus and you forgot your ID. The security guard will not let you walk in without an ID so they hold you accountable/ make you tardy... 
• Pathos- a use of creditably

Observations on "I Have A Dream" speech

• "Withering Justice"- poetic
• signs of diction and syntax- a lot of the audience don't have free education and most of his speech has strong vocabulary; to have an impact and power to the people
• "Racial justice to make justice a reality it would be fatal to our nation"
• Pathos Ex) when Martin Luther King Jr. talks about the amount of deaths/ slavery; the crowd is shouting in the back
• adds a biblical presences of creditably 

Today I Interviewed An Expert

Interviewed Cory Doctorow- an activists, book writer; works with technology

• On how we see the change of technology is not technology itself but the global concept that many companies and businesses erupt

• Pluralism- power is in the hands of many people

• "The environment movement is a great example of how change can be."- James Boyle

• How money is spent in schools:
• Instead of spending it for educational purposes they spend it on censorship in computers

• Bluetooth tracks your phone- can have an open source/ idea for those use in a creepy matter