May 2012
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Possible Ideas for Project 2
What types of writing will be expected as a Doctor?
As an officer in the US army, what standards of writing would be expected of me?
What level of writing will be expected of me as a Doctor?
As a medical researcher what format of writing will I need to develop skills in?
What types of technology must I be literate in as an officer in the US army?
What level of writing is expected as an...
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A Working Thesis
Though considered by the US government a system of interconnected thieves and crooks, at the base of peer-to-peer filesharing community there is a system of interconnectedness has been created has and continues to create more cosmopolitan world that ushers us into the age of globalization.
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Memeing as an Artifact
In the article Are LOLCats Making Us Smart? Rebecca Rosen critiques the cultural artifacts of memes. She proposes that memes are a new form of communication that bring groups together by a laughter. She analyzes a particular group of meme fans called casual users and the effects of their meme watching. She proposes that for each meme there is a group affected. She uses examples such as the Antoine...
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The Culture behind the Instagram Effect
In Clive Thompson’s article on the Instagram Effect Clive gives a survey of how the Instagram application has contributed to this new photo-communication culture that has been seen over the last two decades. This culture can be seen all over the place; Facebook, Twitter and even here on tumblr. It really puts the phrase “a picture’s worth a 1000 words” to the test. This...
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Revisiting Culture
When you think about culture, you think about yourself and where you come from. Though this has become the more modernly accepted definition of culture as seen in much of today’s music, with anthropology we realize a more cosmopolitan viewpoint. Instead of seeing culture as well-defined subgroups within the United States itself, we observe the cultural as the beliefs, artifacts, language and...
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My Question
When I first read about this project, something that instantly stuck out to me was the provided definition of Artifact. The definition posed an artifact as something simply created by man, something unnatural. While this sat parallel to my definition of an artifact I as an ancient history enthusiast; being something of historical significance. This brings my question to which should I pick, what...
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Introduction
My name is Thomas Matthew Davis, but you can call me Tom. My major is Human Biology and I am from Adrian, Michigan. When I think about writing I think about communication through utilization of the Latin alphabet. A formation of lines and curves that mean so much more to the human mind. A type of communication that is silent and forever standing, that does not require use of vibrations nor vocal...
