December 3-9 #3

Something that I wished the book elaborated on was the emotions and how it affects reasoning. I'm very interested in how words can affect the way we think and behave. I learned a little bit in psychology, but we did not learn how to use it in a good argument. I want to know how to use emotions and what kind of words and reasoning to make people believe in my arguments. If I knew more, I could be able to use it in my everyday life. I think it would be helpful in any situation where I will need to convince people. The only problem is learning how to use emotions to reason with people can also lead to a lot of manipulation. It would be bad to use emotions for wrong reasons. I feel like a lot of people who are good at lying are good at reading emotions and understands how to use it. I want to learn how people use these emotions to get us to believe them or buy things. I would be able to tell when someone might just be trying to trick me.

December 3 - 9 #2

My favorite part of this class is that it was online. I like online classes because it saves me time for other classes and I am able to use time that could have been taken up by this class for other work, whether it be school work or actually work. I also like the required comments on other blogs. It lets us see what other people think about the topics of the week and it's nice to find someone who we can relate to or argue with. It's nice to see other point of views.
Something that I did not like was the group project. I liked the last group project because it was fun to see other people debate on the best person for the job, but it is so hard to find a time where everyone was available. It was very difficult to meet up with everyone. I don't think we were ever able to meet up as a whole group. I think for next semester, a good way to fix that is to match groups according to their schedule that can be given to the professor in the beginning of the semester.

December 3-9 #1

I have learned the steps of  making a proper argument. I didn't know anything about premises and and how to structure a proper argument. I can identify a good argument and a not good one. I also noticed that the news cover certain stories to keep their viewers interested. I didn't realize that the news do a lot of stories that makes us feel certain emotions because we tend to empathize with people.
I also noticed that marketing is a lot harder than it really is. Like commercials for specific people. I remember that in high school, one class of mine looked at the different McDonald sites the company provides that is geared towards different ethnicity. I thought it was strange but if they want to get as much money as possible,  I guess it isn't impossible. The placement for objects in the store is also a very interesting marketing strategy.

Ch 12: #3

The concept that I like this week is Scientific Method. When I hear it, I think back to high school and all the labs I did from Biology and Chemistry. I remember learning about it and how I thought it was very tedious. I didn't really understand the point in doing all those steps in my labs for science, but the steps make sense and is helpful in any situation. It is a good way to see if facts are only opinions and assumptions or could it be a theory. When a hypothesis is correct, then it can be considered a theory. The steps are not hard either. The steps of the scientific method can be followed for anything. I used to think it was only for science class but we can do it about everyday life. If think a neighborhood is a bad place to move in to, I can use the scientific method to figure out if the neighborhood is really safe to live in or not.

Ch 12 #2

There was a time I was sitting in a restaurant by the window at night. There was a game going on so the bar right next to the restaurant was packed with people inside and out. My friend and I were observing the people outside the window, trying to assume what they were up to. Some people were so drunk, they had to sit down and there were girls being hit on or maybe they were friends with those people. I'm not sure. There is only person I did incorrect assume about. There was a guy that was hunched over the seat of a bike and it looked like he had some sort of tool. I thought he was trying to steal the seat of the bike, but when he straighten up, the seat was still on the bike so I wasn't sure what happen. I then see him turn on a light on the seat that wasn't there before. I told my friend he was trying to steal that seat but we realized that he was only putting a bike light onto the seat post.

Ch 12 #1

On one site, my horoscope says "Your social life will be in full swing today, with invitations and group activities almost showered upon you. It's a shame you won't be able to take advantage of every activity, but at least make a point of catching up in the near future." 
I don't think it is true today. I did not get invitations and only got one email that is related to a group activity. I did not really talk to that many people today. Sometimes I feel like some horoscopes apply to me, but today, this doesn't. I think this could apply to make people because it is so vague, but some people might think this is really sad when it's wrong. I could think that other Cancer's are having lots of invitations to things and I could wonder why I'm not getting any. What if i slept in all day or didn't have internet for people to contact me. Well, maybe many people might have tried to contact me and it didn't get through. It could have showered me without me knowing. I never really believe in daily horoscopes because they never seemed to apply to me but I think the overall traits about my sign applies sometimes. 

Ch 11 #3

A concept that was in the Boss textbook that caught my eye was the one about the news. I didn't really realize until recently because of this class and my History class. We were talking about politics and the media. I learned that the news like to report disasters, violence and gossip because that is what people are interested in. Even though there are more important things that the people could be informed about, the news over look it because some actor is dating someone and it's a scandal or something. My history teacher said that if the news are not making money, than it is not important because that is what the bosses want. They want money. The way to get money is to affect another's emotions. Most people empathize with other people so when sad stories show up between your show as a commercial for the news, the person would most likely stay on the channel after the show to watch whatever sad story the news has to tell. The news doesn't show the more interesting stories first though. They want their news to be watched all the way through so the most important ones are always near the end or the last one.