Thursday, October 25, 2012
Thursday, October 18, 2012
blog 8
Places to watch the ASU football games
1. Dorm
2. Sun Devil Stadium
3. Buffalo wild Wings
4. Vista Del Sol Theater
Criteria
Food / Concessions available
Home Team Spirit
Price of admission
Visibility of the game
Research
Yelp.com
Buffalowildwings.com
Direct tv.com (channels to view in dorms)
asustudenttickets.com
Thursday, October 11, 2012
sources blog
In chapter twelve you learn how to look
for reliable sources and how to narrow down a search to find criteria that you
actually need for your paper or whatever you need the research for. When you
look for a source online make sure you look for reliable sources that are
actually written by a person who has research and isn’t just posting their
opinion. For example in high school I had to write a report on martin Luther
king and if you search martin Luther king jr on Google one of the first results
will be a website written by a white supremacist group. Therefore the website
is not a reliable source. To narrow down your searches when using online
sources you can use “” and it will look for specific texts online that have
that phrase or word in it. Let’s say you want to find out how skateboards are
made. You would look up “skateboard blueprints” or maybe “skateboard designs”
and that should narrow down your sources quite a bit. You can also take the
phrase apart and look up maybe the “trucks” of the board or maybe the
“bearings” that go inside the wheels. Other sources that are out there are the
library databases so if we stick with this idea of a skateboard you may want to
search “history of the skateboard” then there will be a selection of articles
that are all reliable and will have some association with the history of the
skateboard. It can also show you more articles that have to do with your topic.
If you continue to search your topic try to stay away from Wikipedia or blogs
because the information on those can be extremely unreliable and can really
ruin your entire project if you put false info into it. And don’t be afraid to
actually open a book and actually look at the index of an encyclopedia and
actually find a source that is definitely reliable because it would be a text
source that was published and is actually in a library. text sources are
probably the most reliable and most helpful sources and will never steer you
wrong of you want to really have reliable sources that you can always come back
to the old fashioned book it will always help you out. And please don’t make the same mistake I once
made take note of all your sources you will need to go back to them later and
may even need them in the future.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
heroes
Heroes Blog
Within the last couple days me and my
roommates have gotten back into the old TV series heroes. There are four
seasons on Netflix and in two days we finished the first fourteen episodes in
season one. There’s something about a TV show where normal people like you and
me can all of the sudden do extraordinary things. The show follows the lives of
these young people in society and they all have a destiny to save the world.
The show follows them throughout their struggles and it shows them all coming
together in the strangest ways. In season one every hero doesn’t know there
powers yet and it shows them really trying to use these powers to all come
together to save the world. And of course every hero has its opposite a
villain. In this case we have a man named Sylar who aims to steal every hero’s
power by cutting their heads off and somehow consuming their brains and having
their power forever. That’s the underlying villain but also there is a secret
organization whose main goal is to find these special people who can do these
spectacular things and he takes them and tries to make them use that for good.
Or so that’s all we really learn from the first season. This show is really
trippy and it’s pretty addictive and it really kind of makes you wish you could
do some of these crazy things. Shows like this are what define generations of
TV. This show came out in 2006 and it was all the rage every person on Monday
nights would be watching it and every day at school people would be talking
about all of it. The show makes people want to be a part of something like a
hero organization. It is possible that this show got people to get involved in
actually saving the world even though like through community service or through
other help the world kind of organizations. Heroes has three other seasons that
have come out after this season but sadly every season after the first has only
gotten worse. This show did change the way people view heroes there not all in
spandex and in comic books this show brings the hero into all of us it shows
that there all around us and that people have their own special powers maybe
not flight maybe not being able to read minds but it is true that we are all
heroes to someone else and that is really what this show teaches us. Every
person has a power and can really truly make a difference in the world in one
way or another.
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