Nov 11th-18th Question 3

One aspect of this chapter that I vound very interesting was the idea of the Scientific Method. Though the scientific method is not something new to me it is one of the easiest to explain. The boss text best described the scientific method as “ Involving the identification of a problem and the rigorous, systematic of observation and experimentation in testing an explanation for the problem.” The scientific method in the book is explained to be along the same lines as the three levels of thinking. Experience, interpretation, and analysis. The scientific method also has 5 methods in which it follows which are: Identifying the problem, develop and initial hypotheses, gather additional information and refine the hypotheses, test the hypothesis, and evaluate the hypothesis on the basis of testing or experimental results.  These methods are basically used to conduct experiments and be able to use a method everytime to make sure you are conducting an experiment correctly.

-Mike Ross the Boss

November 11th-18th Question #2

Well, the most recent time I could think of when I got an observation reversed real quick, was when I was playing a video game. We were playing a match of two versus two in the game World of Warcraft, and I was playing a healer class to keep my friend alive, and at the beginning of the match the other team flew out of the gates and came and killed my character (theskip), being the negative Nancy I am, left the match thinking we would lose. But my friend (Punerbro) ended up one shotting the opposing teams mage (Magician) by using the Swifty one shot macro then fought a long battle to secure the victory for our team. Scientific knowledge plays a course in this game by first off having the battle be a 2v1 when I left, giving our team the clear disadvantage, but that all turned when my friend one shot the other character making it a 1v1, giving us an equal chance as them to win the game!

-Mike Ross the Boss

Nov 11th - Nov 18th

Be careful not to fall prey to your own idealism today, Aquarius. While this is one of your most admirable qualities, as it contributes to your romantic, creative nature, too much of anything can be harmful. It's important to see things as they are, despite how much you may wish them to be different. The real world doesn't always go hand in hand with your ideal place. If something feels off, it probably is. Trust your instincts.

When reading this horoscope of the day it is hard to truly believe if such thing can be true or not, but one thing that I noticed about this horoscope is how broad it is in the terminology it uses. I for one personally do not believe in horoscopes, since they can’t really base a whole person’s life off of the fact of what month they were born in. I feel that horoscopes are more of just something for people to relate to by using broad terms, and I believe that is one of the reasons it makes horoscopes falsible. The way they explain horoscopes lets people basically make them what they want to hear. Just like the idea of going to a palm reader, they use such broad ideas that people can make what they hear relate to them. There are several types of services that are based off such ideas and using broad terms to make people believe what is going on and I feel its more of a way to extort money from a customer than actually being true.

-Mike Ross

Nov 4th-11th Question 3

One of the concepts from this week that interested me was the segment about the mass media.  In America, almost every house hold owns a television and if they don’t own a tv, there is some type of electronical device that keeps them connected to the mass media. I am not one of the Americans that spend endless hours watching t.v. so I do not get to see as many commercials as the rest of America. When I hear the term mass media I usually relate it to the television and the internet since they are the main sources that people get their information from.  But with new technology with cell phones people are getting more access from the mass media. From your cellphones alone you can access many of the social media websites such as facebook and twitter. And with the mass media there is also a second form of media called Niche media which is focused on the form of communication geared to narrowly defined audience. Mass media has a huge impact on the world today, and with  the impact it makes on the society it is important to understand the medias tactics.

-Mike Ross

Nov 4-11th Question 2

While attending San Jose State University, I have had to go through many different types of processes to prove to teachers that there is no plagiarized work being used, such as using desire2learn and turnitin.com. In chapter 11 two professors Ressel Hunt and Brook J. Sadles discuss the issue of plagiarism and seeing if it is beneficial for student or harming them. Sadles believes that plagiarism only holds students back from their full potential and in the end their education is not worth as much as someone who did their own work. On the other hand Hunt promotes the idea of plagiarism. He thinks that if students are at least citing the sources, they should be able to use whoever work or other ideas that were given to them. I personally don’t even believe it is plagiarism if they cite these sources because they are giving correct credit to the people that deserve it. I personally agree with Hunt on the fact that people should be able to use others ideas if they at least give the credit to the people that deserve it.

-Mike Ross

Nov 4-11 Question 1

With technology advancing every year, it is hard for an individual to not be affected by the ideas and believes of the media. Smart phones have enabled people to be able to keep up on all the latest political, economic, and of course the gossip that is happening at almost all times. Personally, as someone who does not own a smart phone the only way I get to see the media is through watching the news (solemnly) or through the internet. I keep up on almost all the new political news, and while the media try’s to force ideas into my head to vote a certain I always use my own judgments to make the final decision. But mainly, I try to keep myself away from the highly Democratic and Republican channels such as Fox(Republican) and CNN(Democratic) to avoid the bias information that they may pertain due to their background. While watching the election at work they had the fox channel on and I was getting frustrated by the information they were portraying because I knew it was not true from research that I had done within the last week. The media has a strong hold on the people these days, and we are being affected by it all the time even if we may not know.

-Mike Ross

Nov 4th Question 3

This chapter of the book was very easy to read since it was a business related chapter and since I am a business major it kept my interest throughout the whole chapter. The part of the chapter that interested me the most was how advertising affects the media and how important it is to the success of a business. The three main purposes of advertising are first off to inform the consumers about a product or services, secondly to create product awareness and lastly to motivate customers demand for a certain product. Advertisements are used throughout the media to try to persuade people to buy their products or at least get them interested to do further research on the product. Companies but a large amount of money into there advertising team because it is one of the most important factors when it comes to a company. If your advertising team is weak it will be hard to get your product out on the market and get it known.

-mike ross

oct 28- nov 4th question 2

Robert Liodice and Margo G.Wootan have different positions on whether the government should have regulations on food commercial or not. Wootan supports regulations on food commercials because he finds the commercials to promote unhealthy eating and is leading to the increase in child obesity. He feels that the government would help control these factors by limiting the marketing strategies that such company as McDonalds could use. On the other hand, Liodice does not support the fact of government being able to regulate commercials. He believes that controlling commercials by manufactures violates the first amendment, which is the right of freedom of speech. I believe that Liodice has a better argument purely based on the fact that his argument is based upon an idea that is placed in the U.S. constitution. Wootan ideas are basically yet factual, based on his opinion that if the government is allowed to put restrictions on the marketing that it will decrease child obesity which may not always be the case.

Oct 28-4 Nov Question #1

Avoiding advertisements in the world today is basically impossible, you see them when your driving, walking, on the internet, basically anywhere you go there is some type of advertisements. They could range from a simple flier to a plane flying over the top of you with a banner attached.  Within the past week I have ran into several types of advertising and the one that I found most effective was an even that Microsoft was having to promote their new game Halo 4. Over this weekend Microsoft put together an event where they streamed gameplay of their game almost constantly on a website known to most of the gaming community twitch.tv. Microsoft paid twitch to have their game on the front page as well as having a little popup on the site at all times that you could click on to redirect you to the halo 4 stream. I am not interested in Halo very much but just because they were on the front page I checked out the game for 30 min to an hour and it interested to do further research on the game. One advertising method I found not very effective was I believe it is a scion commercial where they have hamsters driving a car. I find it ridiculous and not very funny which is what I believe they were going for. It makes the car company look a bit childish.

-          Mike Ross