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Dog food advertisers often use personification and factual claims to support their positions. The most common arguments include that their brand is healthier for your dog and will allow them to live longer. Pedigree took a different approach with a recent ad and presented the importance of relationships between a dog and their owner. The ad displays a lonely man on the beach in one image, and the same image on the right side but with the inclusion of a dog. This Pedigree ad uses the man and the…

Statement of Purpose / UCSD / Computer Vision / Ph. D. Sung-Pil Paek [Introduction] This statement applies for admission to the Ph.D. program in Department of Computer Science and Engineering of UCSD, specifically, to continue my study in computer vision as a subfield. I indeed am interested in recognizing, identifying, and detecting the real world through computers in particular with visual information. Based on an understanding of our surroundings of life, I always enjoy replacing the…

Reviewing one’s strengths and weaknesses is something that I feel like is a necessary evil throughout one’s lifetime. Yet it’s not something that I feel comes easily to many people. To take a good hard look at yourself and decide what you’re good at and what you’re not can be difficult. It seems as if when you think you’re good at a certain task, another person tells you that you’re not all that good at it at all. On the flipside though, usually people who think they’re terrible at a task are…

“Unfilmable” Watchmen In 2009, Zack Snyder filmed the first and only adaption of what was considered to be an “unfilmable” (Van Ness 172) graphic novel: Alan Moore’s Watchmen. Moore was a firm believer in the fact that it was a story unable to be transferred over from a comic to another medium – the story was meant to stay in the medium it was designed for. The graphic novel allows for a complex, metatextual narrative structure to be employed to tell such the story of Watchmen that is filled…

In 2002, The American Council of the Blind sued the United States Government for discrimination because the size and feel of American banknotes are identical regardless of their face value. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in 2008 (The American Council of the Blind v. Paulson). The case struck me when I first heard it, and I am still fascinated by it. It sparked an epiphany in terms of my own creativity; it’s dangerous to follow repetitive routine blindly. I discovered my passion for…

time — almost dating back to the late 1800’s. Many see these books as merely a form of entertainment; however, they are more significant than that. Comics and graphic novels reflect the American societal values of the time through their main characters, the character’s struggles and the character’s adversaries. The fact that comics and graphic novels contain the social ideology of the time and are entertaining, makes them a good learning aid for social studies. Comic books often contained…

My chosen major is Computer Science with a business concentration. I have always had an affinity for computers. It seems like on some level they speak to me and I wanted to learn how to speak back in their language. I also am a pretty big gamer and learning how to write and design games is something I have wanted to learn since I was about thirteen years old. Another reason I want to major in computer science is the ongoing proliferation of Internet connected devices and devices with single chip…

For thousands of years, human has been using different ways to communicate and express their thoughts and feelings. There are three primary methods of communication: verbal, written and body language. From the very beginning, human form incoherent words, draw symbols to communicate with each other. Nowadays, with the help of modern technology, there are more ways to communicate than hundreds years ago. The information conveyed through communication can include facts, ideas, concepts,…

Lesson 6 Case Studies Kayoung Oh International American University BUS 530: Management Information System Matthew Keogh February 15, 2015 Assignment on Week 6 A tablet PC platform emerges to compete with the PC as a business system. Apple opens its iPhone software to developers, and then opens an Apps store on iTunes where business users can download hundreds of applications to support collaboration, location, based services, and communication with colleagues. 1. Introduction / Overview…

According to Julianna Stancamoiano (2013) visuals, help learners grasp a concept because it allows the learner to “see” what they are learning. There are many ways to incorporate visuals in the classroom, you can use physical cues, pictures, image, graphics, and charts. These things will help the student visualize information. Ortiz and Grimes from Annenberg Learner (2016)(have stated that: “when students create a symbolic visual representation, they build higher-level…