Monday, February 2, 2015
Writing Proposal
In order to write a paper that is worth reading, it's best to pick a subject that speaks to you. Seeing that I have a sibling that has been a large influence in my life, I'm going to research how people with siblings feel about each other. I'll likely ask fellow classmates a certain set of questions and write about what they say. This should be good.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Millennium Wage
Poverty is a problem here in America too. Many people who make minimum
wage can barely afford and apartment and other basic necessities like a fridge
or a microwave. Imagine having a child or another person living with you when
you can barely provide for yourself.
Having a minimum wage of $7.65 isn’t the problem, the problem is
that a lot of companies are trying to increase their profit margins to an
extent that the people that make minimum wage can no longer afford a lot of things.
More people need to be able to purchase basic things than can right now and it
starts with the distributors.
Multigenre Multigenre
Identical Twins
The most interesting thing that I read of the multigenre topics
was about identical twins. I found this to be exceptionally interesting because
of my enrollment in genetics class and it is very interesting to hear about how
a set of twins deal with their identicalness when it comes to things such as
weddings and birthday parties. Perhaps I will use the idea of talking about
someone that shares the same birthday as myself and how that has affected me,
seeing as I don’t have an identical twin, this would be the closest thing to
it.
Monday, January 19, 2015
Grammar and Punctuation Definitely Matter
A Word, Please:
The writer of this article talks about how many linguists believe that the likes of Twitter, is causing many languages to suffer at the feet of 140 characters. They then go over how they recently visited a real-estate website and found a few, although minor, grammatical errors. Before doing so; however, they commit one in the second paragraph, if you consider the one-sentence fragment to be a paragraph.
They go over using hyphenation at the appropriate time and when to spell out a number rather than using its roman numeral counterpart (any number 10 or below in-case you were wondering). Overall, the idea behind this post is solid, making fun of a less-than-competent website developer that probably made minimum wage while making the website while not giving the websites actual URL in order to keep the post some-what classy. It also makes sense that this post is on a webpage that needs questionable-at-best companies to advertise on it in order to stay afloat. Correspond this with the fact that the post itself has errors makes it laughable and a fun read.
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| What I expected to see when I chose this article |
3 People That Started Something
1.) Mike Nemeth
Mike was inspired by his own life when he had his first daughter. He follows the idea of one-for-one with his book sales. For each book that is sold, another is given to a child that may not have a book to read. These books are often entertaining for not only the child to listen to / learn from while their parents read them, but also for the parent that is reading them too. This is due to Mike having the ability to write about normally copy-written things such as NCAA happenings. The idea behind making the books fun for the parents that are reading them is that it is more likely that they will read fun books to their children rather than not reading the typically boring ones. Enticing parents to read to their children this way allows the child to expand their vocabulary and can lead to a brighter future for them.
2.) Mark Slagle & Alex Cox
Mark and Alex want to fight malnutrition, a daunting task in and of itself. Unlike Mike, they got their idea from working at another non-for-profit business. The theme of one-for-one seems to be a recurring one here as well. Every time they sell a packet of all natural peanut butter, they give away a sort-of nutrition pack to a kid in need. This is a little different from the TOMS original model seeing as the item they are giving away isn't the exact same item that they are selling, although it does involve peanut butter. They measure their success by how many people they help, not what they earn. Many of the other stories do not talk about how they measure success but this seems to be a large goal of theirs and so they talk about it quite frequently.
3.) Steven Duque
Steven, like Mark, took his idea from a real life problem he was having. While living in college, Steven often needed refills on basic things such as soap and toothpaste after his night classes had finished and stores had closed. To get his machines into schools, he offers at least a 10% margin of all sales to go back to any school that has a machine. The entire idea here is to make the life of a college student a little less stressful. On top of giving back to hosting schools, Momba is also partnered with, Opportunity Works, an organization that empowers people with disabilities to get jobs back packaging Momba products.
Mike was inspired by his own life when he had his first daughter. He follows the idea of one-for-one with his book sales. For each book that is sold, another is given to a child that may not have a book to read. These books are often entertaining for not only the child to listen to / learn from while their parents read them, but also for the parent that is reading them too. This is due to Mike having the ability to write about normally copy-written things such as NCAA happenings. The idea behind making the books fun for the parents that are reading them is that it is more likely that they will read fun books to their children rather than not reading the typically boring ones. Enticing parents to read to their children this way allows the child to expand their vocabulary and can lead to a brighter future for them.
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| One of 3 books written by Mike Nemeth |
2.) Mark Slagle & Alex Cox
Mark and Alex want to fight malnutrition, a daunting task in and of itself. Unlike Mike, they got their idea from working at another non-for-profit business. The theme of one-for-one seems to be a recurring one here as well. Every time they sell a packet of all natural peanut butter, they give away a sort-of nutrition pack to a kid in need. This is a little different from the TOMS original model seeing as the item they are giving away isn't the exact same item that they are selling, although it does involve peanut butter. They measure their success by how many people they help, not what they earn. Many of the other stories do not talk about how they measure success but this seems to be a large goal of theirs and so they talk about it quite frequently.
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| Mark and Alex's Good Spread Company Logo |
3.) Steven Duque
Steven, like Mark, took his idea from a real life problem he was having. While living in college, Steven often needed refills on basic things such as soap and toothpaste after his night classes had finished and stores had closed. To get his machines into schools, he offers at least a 10% margin of all sales to go back to any school that has a machine. The entire idea here is to make the life of a college student a little less stressful. On top of giving back to hosting schools, Momba is also partnered with, Opportunity Works, an organization that empowers people with disabilities to get jobs back packaging Momba products.
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| Steven next to one of his Momba Machines |
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