How can listening to music made by another cultural group help you to understand their life experience?

While researching The Weavers I learned that many songs from the folk culture deal with world issues/problems. The Weavers were a group who loved to spark controversy any chance they could get with controversial songs such as Goodnight Irene, which is a song about a man who losses his wife and at the end of the song he kills himself. Every member of The Weavers were activists against many different topics, including racism, inequality, and women's suffrage. Many of their songs dealt with these topics so it gives you the feeling that their lives are very complicated because of all the criticism they drew back when they were singing about these issues.

My Powerpoint

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What point I am at for my Persuasive Letter.

My letter is going to be about Marijuana and its dangers. I don't believe marijuana is dangerous and I found an article that says that marijuana is dangerous. My letter will be written to the author of this article. I found some other articles that disproves what this author says about marijuana and I am going to use these articles to help me write this letter.

Persuasive Letter Topic: Marijuana

My persuasive letter topic is marijuana and im going to be arguing on how marijuana has no damaging effects to your health.
Adams, J. (2008, August 18). Damaging Habit? Los Angeles Times, p. 6.

This articles talks about the damaging effects of marijuana. It provides many case studies that try to prove that marijuana is a very dangerous drug, and some scientists even try to prove that marijuana can be more dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes. The article try's to prove that marijuana smoking can cause depression and psychosis. It also try's to explain how marijuana may be one of the most addictive drugs out there.

Kent State Assignment

Centuori, Jeanine. The Residual Landscape of Kent State, May 4th, 1970. Landscape Journal. 1999. The article
talks about how the memorial at Kent State will serve as a site for students to see the government

corruption back in the 60's and 70's. It also goes through the events of that tragic day and gives you a vision

of what it was like to be on the Kent State campus on May 4th, 1970.

I thought the video that was shown in class was very interesting and made me think about a lot of things such as the world we live in now and how people don't protest now like they did back then. I thought it was very informative and I would love to see the rest of that video.

Can you think of a time when you have felt restricted in seeking information or expressing your views or ideas? Did you back up your opinion w/ facts?

In the 12th grade we had a research project to do. My research project was on the blood diamonds in Sierra Leone. My teacher only allowed us to use one online source and six books. I felt I was restricted in seeking information because even though you can get a lot of information out of books, online sources are very helpful and are topic specific. The books I found had like one or two chapters that were relevant to my topic. I told my teacher that only being able to use one online source was ridiculous and she reconsidered and eventually let us have four online sources.

Research Strategy

Can growth hormone supplements help combat aging and reduce weight?

Research Strategy: Boolean Operators - Growth Hormone Supplements and aging and weight
or
Hormone Supplements and combat/fight and aging and weight loss

Synonyms: Weight loss, supplements, growth hormones, combat, fight, dangers.

Books for Healthy Skeptic

Receptor activation by antigens, cytokines, hormones, and growth factors - Stacks - Q11 .N5 v.766

Size matters : how height affects the health, happiness, and success of boys--and the men they b - Stacks - QP84 .H35 2006

The most influential book I have ever read and how it changed my thinking

I have read many books in my lifetime so for me there is more than one influential book. With that being said I will cut this post into two books with the first being Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. This book was one of the most influential books to me because it showed me that there is not really a line you can't cross when writing. Chuck Palahniuk is one of my favorite authors, along with Stephen King and James Patterson. Palahniuk doesn't hold back anything in Rant and this thought me that if you are good at writing creatively don't hold back anything. Much of my writing style comes from Palahniuk. The next book would be Fences by August Wilson. This "book" was more like a play but I read this play in around 2 hours. I couldn't put it down. This was influential to me because it got me into script writing, it didn't really change my thinking though.

Libraries Lost

Okay let me start off by saying Fred White's opinions are a little over the top. He makes libraries sound like the greatest thing in the world and he say's that online resources lead "you farther and farther from your original subject instead of shedding new light on it". I disagree with that. For me online resources help me out a lot. When I am trying to find books in a library for a particular assignment it sometimes get frustrating not knowing where to start looking. However I do agree that when looking through stacks of books in a library you sometimes find a book that you were not necessarily looking for but you found interesting. I think that storing books in metal crates and having "robotic arms" retrieve those books for you is an interesting system. It is a system for the 21st century and I believe it will make it a lot easier to find a specific book you are looking for. I am not saying that every library should inherit this new system, but I am not saying they shouldn't either.

What if?

What if libraries were to disappear off the face of the earth? Would you miss them? Why or why not?

For me libraries are becoming obsolete. Now in the new millennium you can get anything you can get from the library from the internet. However going to the library is a unique experience. In the library you have people that know so much about different books, articles etc...This does not out weight the information you can get from the internet though. Back at home I frequently went to the local library and took out some books, it saved me money because if there wasn't any library I would have had to buy those books in a bookstore or on the internet. So if libraries were to disappear off the face of the earth I wouldn't be devastated but I wouldn't necessarily be happy either.