7 TIMES

Her tone is like a sincere questionable tone. That makes the reader feel more. The facts are that a 12 year old boy was holding a toy gun and the police confused it with an actual gun. The police told the boy to drop the weapon but he failed to listen and instead turned around pointing the gun at them. They shot hit 7 times, two of which were fatal. There is a difference in information between the blogs posts. Erica's blog fails to mention the polices' motives for shooting the boy after he turned around aiming the gun at them. Erica concludes that the police had no reason to shoot the boy 7 times when only 1 shot is enough for him. Erica gives us that caring tone which makes the reader feel more. Her writing style also impacts the reader. The way she includes the question "why 7 times? " makes the reader think in her perspective. The boy shouldn't have been shot 7 times. Erica's post is a lot more emotional impacting that Javi's. It's because of the tone she used. Javi's post on the other hand is more informational because he wrote it like an article in the newspaper. He even provides a picture of the toy rifle the boy used being compared to a real rifle. After reading Erica's and looking at the picture Javi provides it makes the impact of Erica's post decrease. I honestly thought that it was a toy rifle that can obliviously be seen as a toy and that the police overreacted. Then that change when I saw Javi's picture. The toy rifle actually looks like a real rifle. I can imagine why the police would have mistaken it for the real thing because they look a lot similar.

RACIAL PROFILING LIVES ON

Notes:
•Supreme Court’s interpretation of that provision gives the police frighteningly wide discretion to follow, stop, question, frisk and employ excessive force against African-Americans and Latinos who have shown virtually no indication of wrongdoing

•The officer would be free to chase someone even if he had no reason to believe that they had violated any law

• Officers could argue that a man “looked Mexican,” and therefore believed that he was undocumented and could stop him

•Officers could stop and frisk these individuals for weapons based on the officer’s “reasonable suspicion”

•Supreme Court has made clear that simply being in a “high crime” (which often means a predominantly black or Latino) area can be a factor in determining whether a person is armed and dangerous

•The victory leaves in place a higher body of law, Supreme Court doctrine, that continues to expose African-Americans and Latinos to surveillance, harassment, violence and death

•stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department violate the Constitution

•ruling by Judge Scheindlin, of the Federal District Court in Manhattan, does nothing to disrupt the authority the Supreme Court has given police officers to target African-Americans and Latinos with little or no basis

•the Supreme Court has held that people do not have a right to know that they can say no to an officer’s request to conduct a search

TOOLS THAT CHANGE THE WAY WE THINK

The internet and media can change the way we think because it is easier to find. The internet has a vast pool of information in it whether some of it is true or some of it false. Same thing with the media. We can just turn on the TV on put it on the new channel. Propaganda is on the media and internet so they change the way we think so we can agree with who ever made it. The trick to having all this information at our fingertips is knowing what is credible and what is not. There is good things about this too like for example the generation now is exposed to different things that the older generation wasn't. Computers, internet, smart phones, etc. This allows the newer generation to multitask and get things done quick. It helps educational growth when put to good use. An example would be this blog. I am learning many new things as open the doors of education and internet use. The articles I have read and the posts I have written have been brought together by what makes my opinion where it gets changes sometimes from when I read something or not.

VOCABULARY #9

Ultimate - adj. Being or happening at the end of a process; final
Their ultimate aim was to force his resignation.
Interactive - adj. (Of two people or things) influencing or having an effect on each other
Fully sighted children in interactive play with others with defective vision.
Principle - n. A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning
The basic principles of Christianity.
Guidance - n. Advice or information aimed at resolving a problem or difficulty, especially as  given by someone in authority
He looked to his father for inspiration and guidance.
Collaboration - n. The action of working with someone to produce or create something
He wrote an art and architecture in collaboration with John Benjamin.
Formative - adj. Serving to form something , especially having a profound and lasting influence on person's development
His formative years.
Summative - n. The process of adding things together
The summation of numbers of small pieces of evidence.
Intelligence - n. The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills
An eminent man of great intelligence.
Racism - n. The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races
The isn't as much racism in the US today as there was 40 years ago.

WHAT I SEE IS ALL IN MY HEAD

I noticed the gorilla in the video because I like to use all my vision. I have that peripheral vision. I can pay attention to one thing while slightly paying attention to another like in the video.

FILTER BUBBLES

I already knew this from my experience on the internet. None of this is new for me. This makes people know that they are not in control of what they search for. Everything is personalized which may seem good but down under it's not. Not everybody will be able to get the same information of the internet thanks to these filter bubbles which makes the internet seem redundant. The internet was made to give everybody the same information as the next person and being able to connect to everybody (excluding different government restrictions on internet use). In order to have that intended goal they need to reduce the affect of filter bubbles like have an option to when we want related searches or not. In order to give us that control. In the meantime we can use search engines that do not keep a history to give us a broader view of results.