Case Name: Anthony Douglas Elonis, Petitioner, v. United States., No. 13-983 (2014) Factual History: Anthony Douglas Elonis actively uses Facebook, a social networking Web site. After seven years of marriage, Elonis’s wife left him and took their two young children with her. Elonis changed his user name on Facebook to a fake name. He posted a threating photo of one of his co-workers and himself on Halloween. After his co-worker’s found out about the photo, Elonis posted a status threating to kill multiple friends and co-workers.…
“The love of my life” by Sheryl Strayed I would like to start the discussion with the introduction of the author, Sheryl Strayed. Sheryl was born in Pennsylvania in 1968, where she only spent first 5 years of her life, after that the family moved to Minnesota. This is where Sheryl got her education, got married, and resided; until her mother's death from lung cancer in 1991 turned her whole life upside down. This was a pivotal moment, when her life old shattered; so she had to burn all the bridges, and reinvent herself. This was Sheryl's moment of genesis.…
When a person imagines love, they think of a romance filled with activities such as hugging, kissing, and being together. However, for some people they are looking for their special someone online in a virtual world where they can only view a custom avatar and talk though a headset. MMORPG games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life has open a wave of online relationships with people looking for love in these fantasy worlds, despite the fact they may already be in a relationship in the real world. In the text “Lying, Cheating, and Virtual Relationships” by Dr. Cynthia Jones, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, she explains about the pro’s, con’s, and controversies of online relationships. Online relationships may…
Our society wants everything in little bite size pieces. The next two chapters cover two important topics responsible for destroying the American family. Family Dysfunction and Denial. As parents, it is our job, not the schools to teach the moral codes of conduct called humanity, kindness, empathy and self-respect, character and resilience. Chris, Before you begin reading this chapter, please take a moment, and answer these three questions.…
In the article, “Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet,” Amanda Hess suggests that women are harassed online due to gender, the lack of an immediate threat, as well as outdated laws. 72.5% of all people harassed on the Internet are women (Hess 194). Hess is a reputable journalist that is virtually harassed because she is a woman sharing her opinion on various topics. Men consistently bash women online, like Hess, to reinforce the unwritten law in society that women and their opinions don’t matter. ‘It’s a lot easier for the person who made the threat---and the person who is investigating the threat---to believe that what is happening on the Internet isn’t real’ (Hess 199).…
Imagine what it would be like over a hundred years ago to trust someone, then to know they were secretly talking about you behind your back. Imagine that even though you've known your significant other better than anyone, you got pulled Into a trap that leaves you in disbelief that they’d even cheat on you. Imagine what would happen when you find out after they pour these infectious words into your ear and then all of a sudden your anger starts to fizz up, so you go to confront them, only to find out that they kind of don’t really think critically; so they bring up your work , when all you want to do is question about the fidelity in the relationship. Imagine that after awhile , you end up falling to an epileptic seizure due to you letting your emotional state take over…
I believe from reading the college paper case study, and the University of the People’s Academic integrity and Code of Conduct Statements; that plagiarism is a very serious offense. Even if you did not purposely write another persons research in to your paper with out proper citation. In the college paper case study, both Reggie and Arnie, both decided to try and cheat the system by going online and finding an essay so they wouldn’t actually have to put in the time and work to make their own essays for their class homework. By cheating and copying another persons work off the internet, they plagiarized that persons work. They did not even put in the effort to do proper citation of that other persons work in their essays.…
The author uses her knowledge of the topic to further her own argument against it, and to ultimately scare her readers. Whether they are the older generations who did not grow up with the internet, or the younger generations that are unaware of the effects of their browsing history. Andrews knows her target audience and how to tailor her words to them, similar to news agencies choosing what to report to each user based on their history. This “weblining” that she discusses in her essay, she is guilty of herself (334). She rattles off buzzwords that, to a layperson, sound quite intimidating.…
In Amanda Hess’s essay “Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet”, the reader is presented with various firsthand accounts of cyber harassment that women have experienced over social media and even through their personal emails. Some of these messages are terrible enough to make anybody want to turn off their laptop and never go on the internet again, but for some people this is not possible as they rely on the internet for their jobs. Even when the police are notified of sexual assault threats and death threats, no action is taken. After experiencing a horrifying message directed towards herself, Hess decides to share her story as well as the experiences of other women.…
In a world where technology has overtaken society, people have found it much easier to commit crimes. We've all heard of websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Ebay, and possibly the most talked about for being so dangerous, Craigslist. These are websites where people can interact with one another, but sometimes it may just so happen that you do not know who you're truly talking to. What or who is hiding behind a computer screen on the other side may just be your worst nightmare. Philip Markoff, an aspiring medical student was dubbed the Craigslist killer in 2009 for committing robberies and even killing one of his victims.…
In our society abiding by rules is the foundation of daily life. According to the article, “School Cheating Scandal Test a Town’s Values,” published by the New York Times and written by Jodi Wilgoren, the contrary can be said. What started out as a decade long tradition of collecting and analyzing leaves for a sophomore botany project soon turned into a “plagiarism scandal that [would] riven [the] tight-knit community” (200) encompassing Piper High. Mrs. Pelton, the biology teacher, discovered one-fourth of the completed projects were “laced with lifted material” (201).…
Cheating with Nonprescription Pills Cheating can be described on many different levels. Many college students consider cheating on a test a victimless crime; however, the person cheating is actually the victim because they are affecting their learning abilities. In college, cheating can get a person expelled or maybe even jail time depending on what they did. In David Alpert’s article “Change Honor Codes to Include Abuse of Nonprescription Drugs”, he states that many college students resort to drugs, like Adderall and Ritalin which are used to help people with ADHD focus, to give their test scores a boost.…
Our society often glorifies toxic, and abusive behaviours when it comes to romantic relationships. Specifically within media, male characters are often put on pedestals for doing things that are actually quite harmful. In Susie Kretschmer's, And Summer Is Gone her main character David extremely awful towards his childhood friend Amy. His unhealthy actions towards her, are never seen as such though, instead David’s actions are romanticized by both the author and the reader. Despite his clearly poor treatment of her, Amy is the one demonized, simplily for living her life the way she wishes and differently than David would.…
Johnny Depp, OJ Simpson, Chris Brown. What do these high-profile celebrities have in common? Being arrested for domestic violence. Even though we are overwhelmed with news stories about DV cases famous people were involved in, the public is still unaware that domestic violence is an epidemic and it’s deeply rooted in our culture. Slide 2:…
In M.Fawcett’s essay, Google Never Forgets: A Cautionary Tale, the author warns the readers to be extra careful of what you decide to post on the Internet. The Internet creates the digital equivalent of an unauthorized biography to record your thoughts, life experiences, as well as your embarrassing stories. With the strong search engine, Google records everything you put on the web including many years before. Having an online existence comes with many implications. There are types of services, media, social networks and details that can create an individual’s online existence.…