Group Work- Baila: The first episode of “Millennial” is all about the narrator’s experience living on her own after graduating college. It is kind of like a reality check for some people, explaining that a successful career does not always happen right away. She talks a lot about finding a place to live that is …
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The Giant Pool of Money Podcast Response
I would have to say I am more a fan of fashion than I am of mortgages. However, I surprisingly found “The Giant Pool of Money” Podcast by NPR and This American Life easier to listen to and more organized than the previous podcast. Not only were the voices soothing and clear, but they had …
The Fate of the Belt Buckle
Notes: Combatting Dead Ends At the beginning, she doesn’t really know where to start Research solves the dead end After the first witness, she had to find out why all the chef stuff was on the buckle She combatted this by searching Hans Jordi in food blogs After she knew he was a chef, she …
Fast Fashion Podcast versus Rebecca Onion’s Article
In the podcast by Stuff Your Mom Never Told You, two women are discussing fast fashion, a human’s desire to shop, the consequences of shopping at certain stores and what consumers should do about the problem. They talk about the growth of disposable fashion and what this means for capitalism. However, their thesis isn’t entirely …
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Secrets of the Suburbs
Adam is responding to the myth that Suburban life is absolutely perfect. He uses research to prove that in reality it can be unsafe and impractical. One way that he accomplishes this is by using statistics to bust this myth. He said that a Swedish research study concluded that people are more likely to die …
The Knowledge of Ignorance
As Michael Newman says in his article, “How to Read a Book,” the background information plays a big part in the overall rhetoric of a text. The content of David Dunning’s work “We Are All Confident Idiots” starts before one even reads the article. It is crucial to know about the author, the publication and …
A Loss of Language
50 years ago if you told an English professor that the english language would be becoming obsolete in the near future, they would have laughed in your face. And with the amount of information in the current college student’s pocket, wouldn’t you think that the intelligence would keep growing instead of going backwards? The laptops, …
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