New Technologies and Outsourcing

I figured at some point something like this would come out. Different online things have been closer and closer to just writing essays for students. I think this is a terrible thing to do. Yes, essay do take a lot of work but thats why you are in school, to learn. It requires work, time, and effort and students should be able to suck it up and do it even if they have very busy lives.

In a more professional sense it can also be kind of nerve wrecking. If you think about it, these people who are supposed to be professionals some day are not doing the research required to complete a course to recieve their degree. What if it is a doctor who is supposed to research a certain disease and they end up handing it off to a stranger? The doctor won't know something important that they are supposed to.

Media and Social Structure

I never noticed how media played such an influence in how people treat other people or how we were socially structured until a couple years ago. When I started taking classes about the media, my eyes have been opened to the idea that the media has a lot to do with how we view everything around us, including people. Things like movies have developed stereotypes by making black or hispanic people act a certain way. The news basically tells us what to think and what to be afraid of in the world without giving us the full truth behind it. With all the gatekeeping we really do not know what is going on in the world and that is a scary thought.

When it comes to social status, things like tv, magazines, and movies have the biggest influence. In the media, the popular people are usually the best looking and the most influential in big companies are also usually very good looking. This idea then gets placed into the heads of everyone that sees it whether they realize they believe it or not.