Thursday, November 17, 2011

A Creator's Responsibilities

1. Can you remember when you last copied, downloaded, or shared some type of creative work? What was the creative work? no i dont remeber but if i did i know i didnt use them in a bad attentions.

2. Can you think of a time when you used someone else’s work in something you made? yeah but not copied the exact work just to use to help me how to give me an idea how the work must be done.



1. Can you think of an example of piracy or plagiarism?
Whenever you download music illegaly or burn a copy of a DVD

2. What are Henry’s rights as a creator?
That he thinks that he is ok to use someone else work or that he have done websites,that he thinks he created alot of videos from other videos thinking he had done his own.

3. What are Henry’s responsibilities in using other people’s creative work?
That he do not have to copy the same work as the other's creators and that he has to be responsible.

4. Henry says that pirating material is stealing, no matter how it’s done. What are examples of pirating? Why should you avoid it?
because it can be copies from theaters saying that hey are real ehrn their not and that could lead you in to troulble i guess.

5. Henry likes to make mash-ups and remixes and put them online. What does he need to do to make this “fair use” just to make sure that he make them real not fake say that he did them when he really didnt just to get credit.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Week 4 Critical Reading Passage

deffintions!!!!!!

perceive - 1.Become aware or conscious of (something) come to realize or understand.

impact - The action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another: "cause injury on impact".

structure - The arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex.

1) Do you think social networking sites have made a positive or negative impact on your life and our society? not in my life but probably in our society in the way that people may found out such as things that no one would it imagen such as curuel and in pripporiate things that it it may hurt other people.

2) How have social networking sites changed the structure of social relationships?

3) As of 2011, it is legal for colleges and businesses to view the social networking profiles of applicants. Do you think that is a violation of their privacy?

Monday, November 7, 2011

Q2, Week 4 Vocabulary Definitions & Cloze Reading

deffintions!!!

context - 1.The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed

equate - 1.Consider (one thing) to be the same as or equivalent to another: "customers equate their name with quality".

evaluate - Form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess

cloning became a hot topic when Dolly the Sheep was cloned from an identical sheep in 1997. Cloning basically 1) _equate_________ to creating a genetic twin. There is no evidence that human cloning has occurred yet, but it is believed that scientists have the ability to do so. Most countries have 2) __evaluate________ the pros and cons of human cloning and limited or outlawed it. If you look at this in a different 3) ____equate______, there are human clones among us right now. They are identical twins, created naturally, not in a lab.

Supporters of human cloning say that it could help couples who are struggling with conceiving a baby. More importantly, many people say that human cloning could be used to save lives by cloning a diseased liver or heart or to replace a body part like an arm. In this 4) ___evaluate_______, human cloning may not be such a bad thing.

Opponents of human cloning say that people are “playing God” and they
5) __equate________ that with going against many people’s religious beliefs. Some people fear that scientists could create “superhumans” that would be bred as super-soldiers or super-athletes which would make it impossible for non-cloned humans to compete with them.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Q2, Week 3 - T-Chart & Paragraph

Do violent video games contribute to youth violence?

yes in the way that violent game contribute you to your youth vionenct is that it give you ideas of how to become more sico mental in the streets of damaging things that are not yours becoming more of a troublemaker another way is that it influence you to get into gange activities also in how your behavior will change wich it will lead you to have problems with the law.
and i also think that it wont contribute you your youth violence if your mnot too into video games and if your more a lil bit meature you wont lets that take over your mentality.