IPad: Better Than Technology

Introduction

I. Attention Catcher: I won my IPad in April at a school function.

II. Listener Relevance Link: Everyone should have an IPad because it is a very good investment

III. Speaker Credibility: I use my IPad for various different things everyday since I got it last April

IV. Thesis Statement: IPads are amazing tools to use for a variety of different things

V. Preview: To show you this let me explain some amazing things that the IPad can do, like the fact that you can read books, play and download fun apps, and get on the Internet.

 

Body

I. First Main Point: The IPad makes reading a lot easier

Listener Relevance Link:

A. Subpoint: The IPad makes reading easier

1. Sub-Subpoint: Not as many bugs as the Kindle

2. Sub-Subpoint: Carry more books with less weight and less room

B. Subpoint: More accessible

1. Sub-Subpoint: Download books in less than one minute

2. Sub-Subpoint: Buy books from anywhere on the inter net easily

C. Subpoint:Never lose your place

1. Sub-Subpoint: Automatic bookmark even if you turn off the IPad

2. Sub-Subpoint: Don't actually have to have a bookmark or ruin the book to keep your place

Transition: Now that you know why an IPad is better than a kindle and a regular book let me tell you why it is better than a computer

 

II.Third Main Point The Internet is better on an IPad than on a computer

Listener Relevance Link:

A.Subpoint: Easier than using a computer

1.Sub-Subpoint: Faster to unlock an IPad than load a computer up

2.Sub-Subpoint: Easier to get to from an IPad

B.Subpoint: Faster than a computer

1.Sub-Subpoint: Internet works a lot faster on an IPad

C. Subpoint: Lighter and smaller than most computers

1. Sub-Subpoint: Easier to carry

2. Sub-Subpoint: Easier to get out of a holder

Transition: Since you can now see why the IPad is the best tool for the Internet and reading let me tell you about another cool think that it does.

 

III.Second Main Point: Apps

Listener Relevance Link:

A.Subpoint: Awesome games

1.Sub-Subpoint: All kinds of games all different kinds of people like to play

B.Subpoint: Easy to download

1.Sub-Subpoint: App store is easy to find

2.Sub-Subpoint: You can download them as long as you have Internet access

C. Subpoint: Good if you have spare time

1. Sub-Subpoint: Can be a way to get through long car rides

2. Sub-Subpoint: Can also be used if little kids are around and you need to keep the occupied.

Transition: IPads are obviously amazing tools that can do a lot of different things.

Conclusion

I. Restatement of Thesis: IPads are capable of doing a lot of different and cool things.

II. Summary of Main Points: Run better and are easier to use than real books and Kindles. Apps are fun and easy to use. The Internet is a lot easier to use and get to from an IPad instead of a computer.

III. Clincher: I hope that you know realize what a good investment an IPad can be.

Overview of Speech

IPad:

I. Reading
       a. Less glitchy than a Kindle
       b. More accessible than an actual book
       c. Never lose your place
II. Apps
       a. Awesome games
       b. Easy to download
       c. Good if you have spare time
III. Internet
       a. Easier than loading a computer
       b. Faster than a computer 
       c. Light and smaller than a computer

Final Essay

I don't really think of myself as having a super big "identity" on Facebook. I mostly use it when I want people to know that I don't just sit around and read all the time. I always think about what I am about to post and if I am okay with what people see. I actually didn't even want a Facebook until my boyfriend at the time convinced me to get one in March of 2009. And that wouldn't even have been possible if Mark Zuckerberg had not created the site.
 

Facebook first started as thefacebook. Mark Zuckerberg created the site, which quickly spread across Harvard. It soon spread to other colleges, like Yale and Stanford. He was joined by his friends Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, who helped him to expand the site. They soon dropped out of Harvard to try and make their site even more popular. They bought the domain Facebook.com for a supposedly $200,000. Ever since then people have been debating whether or not  Facebook will be good for today's youth.

 

http://mashable.com/2006/08/25/facebook-profile/

 

Most people think that facebook has only negative effects on people. The average number of friends for a person is about 175 people. If the person is a teenager or if their profile is really colorful, that number gets larger. This can cause a person to have problems communicating with people that they are friends with on facebook. Also, if teenagers check their facebook more than once in a fifteen minute period that they are supposed to be studying, they have lower test scores than people who didn't. But that is not the whole picture
 

Although facebook can have its negative effects, there are some positive ones. For someone who is extremely shy, like me, it can help for them to be able to talk to people online. This will hopefully help with their social connections in real life. It can also make some of their friends feel better about themselves. When you make a positive comment on your friends profile, it makes them feel better which helps with their self esteem. Which is part of the reason I did end up joining Facebook.

 

http://ktrapp.hubpages.com/hub/Teens-and-Facebook

 

When I first joined facebook, it was a way to talk to my boyfriend more. When we did break up, I used it to help me cope with it. I ended up almost completely abandoning it for about one month. The only things on my page were what my friends and family would put on there. I only got back on when I found my current boyfriend on Myspace, and was actually okay with seeing what my ex had decided to post. This made it a lot easier to talk to my friends and let people know what I was doing and how I was feeling. This was not all that I did.

On occasion I would for some reason decide to play one of the many facebook games. I would get addicted to it for about a month or so, then suddenly decide that it was stupid and not worth my time. This first started with Farmville. I would always watch my mom play it so I decided I would give it a shot. There was no point in it really but it helped to pass the time when I didn't really have a whole lot to do. The only bad thing was that once your farm got so big you couldn't really do anything unless you had gas, which cost actual money. Which I was not really willing to pay so I would go on to the next game.

There was a lot of other games I ended up playing to, Bejewled Blitz, Farkle, Cafe World, and a few others that are no longer even on Facebook, but the one that I played the longest was Gardens of Time. It was pretty much a try and find this type of game, and I was really good at it. I could get to where I could finish some levels in under five seconds! But you always had to buy things for your garden, and it required energy to be able to do one level. I got to level 24 before I decided to quite the game. It was the last Facebook that I have played.

 

Once I got done with my game faze, I didn't really do a whole lot with Facebook until just recently. I would only get on about once a week to check and see what my friends were up to, although if it was anything really interesting my mom would always tell me about it. Sometimes I would also just see what kind of organizations my friends were liking and some of them that I also liked I would follow them as well. I would sometimes update my status to something like "Going to Alabama to hang out with my sister :)" or something like that but most of the time I didn't like to put what I was doing. Every once in a while, someone would get a random shot of me with other people and tag me in it, although I don't much take pictures they somehow still got me in it. The only pictures I normally let anyone take is of me with my boyfriend, but we normally only take pictures during prom so I don't really have very many of those.



Just more recently have I allowed more people to take my picture with them. I figured if I let them take the picture maybe I won't look as dumb as I normally do in pictures. My friends have been uploading pictures of me and them all together and tagging me in them. I don't actually mind as much as I used to and now it actually looks like a I have a social life instead of just sitting around by myself all the time. Even though I do let my friends upload stuff of me, I still won't upload any pictures of myself, I'm just too picky about what pictures I like to do that. But other than the pictures changing I still almost never change my status. I might still put something about how or what I'm doing but that is still pretty rare. Now I only do about one or two things while on my Facebook.

 

One of the main things that I do with facebook now is just use the video chat function to talk to my boyfriend. It's been the only thing really keeping me sane these first couple of weeks of school. We chat about twice a day and sometimes three or four times, depending on my schedule and how long we talk. I also I.M. some of my friends that are still back in Taylor County, but most of the time no one is really on. I don't really think of myself as having a very big digital life, but I guess that just by being on facebook I have acquired somewhat of one just by the pictures that everyone posts that I am in.

Essay

I don't really think of myself as having a super big "identity" on facebook. I mostly use it when I want people to know that I don't just sit around and read all the time. I always think about what I am about to post and if I am okay with what people see. I actually didn't even want a facebook until my boyfriend at the time convinced me to get one in March of 2009.

Facebook first started as thefacebook. Mark Zuckerberg created the site, which quickly spread across Harvard. It soon spread to other colleges, like Yale and Stanford. He was joined by his friends Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, who helped him to expand the site. They soon dropped out of Harvard to try and make their site even more popular. They bought the domain facebook.com for a supposedly $200,000.

Most people think that facebook has only negative effects on people. The average number of friends for a person is about 175 people. If the person is a teenager or if their profile is really colorful, that number gets larger. This can cause a person to have problems communicating with people that they are friends with on facebook. Also, if teenagers check their facebook more than once in a fifteen minute period that they are supposed to be studying, they have lower test scores than people who didn't.

Although facebook can have its negative effects, there are some positive ones. For someone who is extremely shy, like me, it can help for them to be able to talk to people online. This will hopefully help with their social connections in real life. It can also make some of their friends feel better about themselves. When you make a positive comment on your friends profile, it makes them feel better which helps with their self esteem.

 

When I first joined facebook, it was a way to talk to my boyfriend more. When we did break up, I used it to help me cope with it. I ended up almost completely abandoning it for about one month. The only things on my page were what my friends and family would put on there. I only got back on when I found my current boyfriend on myspace, and was actually okay with seeing what my ex had decided to post. This made it a lot easier to talk to my friends and let people know what I was doing and how I was feeling.
 
On occasion I would for some reason decide to play one of the many facebook games. I would get addicted to it for about a month or so, then suddenly decide that it was stupid and not worth my time. This first started with farmville. I would always watch my mom play it so I decided I would give it a shot. There was no point in it really but it helped to pass the time when I didn't really have a whole lot to do. The only bad thing was that once your farm got so big you couldn't really do anything unless you had gas, which cost actual money.
 
There was a lot of other games I ended up playing to, bejewled blitz, farkle, cafe world, and a few others that are no longer even on facebook, but the one that I played the longest was Gardens of Time. It was pretty much a try and find this type of game, and I was really good at it. I could get to where I could finish some levels in under five seconds! But you always had to buy things for your garden, and it required energy to be able to do one level. I got to level 24 before I decided to quite the game. It was the last facebook that I have played.
 
 

 
Once I got done with my game faze, I didn't really do a whole lot with facebook until just recently. I would only get on about once a week to check and see what my friends were up to, although if it was anything really interesting my mom would always tell me about it. I would sometimes update my status to something like "Going to Alabama to hang out with my sister :)" or something like that but most of the time I didn't like to put what I was doing. Every once in a while, someone would get a random shot of me with other people and tag me in it, although I don't much take pictures they somehow still got me in it. The only pictures I normally let anyone take is of me with my boyfriend, but we normally only take pictures during prom so I don't really have very many of those.
 

 



Just more recently have I allowed more people to take my picture with them. I figured if I let them take the picture maybe I won't look as dumb as I normally do in pictures. My friends have been uploading pictures of me and them all together and tagging me in them. I don't actually mind as much as I used to and now it actually looks like a I have a social life instead of just sitting around by myself all the time. But other than the pictures changing I still almost never change my status. I might still put something about how or what I'm doing but that is still pretty rare.

 

The main thing that I do with facebook now is just use the video chat function to talk to my boyfriend. It's been the only thing really keeping me sane these first couple of weeks of school. We chat about twice a day and sometimes three or four times, depending on my schedule and how long we talk. I also I.M. some of my friends that are still back in Taylor County, but most of the time no one is really on. I don't really think of myself as having a very big digital life, but I guess that just by being on facebook I have acquired somewhat of one just by the pictures that everyone posts that I am in.

Is Google Making us Stupid

No, google is not making us stupid, we are doing that ourselves by allowing ourselves to be easily distracted. If we would just mute the computer while we are trying to read something none of the noises from the computer can really distract us and the ads are just colorful, if you can't concentrate on the black and white words that your own fault not really google's fault. Plus the fact that someone is having a hard time reading like they used to might just be because they are less interested in what they are reading compared to what they used to.

I know this because I use google all the time. I use it to look up random facts, the definitions of words in things that I'm reading, and to do research whenever I have a paper due for a class. I am actually reading better than ever with the help of google. I now know the meaning to more words and can actually concentrate on things that I'm reading on the computer a lot easier. This may just be because I have a little harder time reading things than most people, but I don't think that is the case.
 
I think that people just want instant gratification when they are reading. Instead of reading a long article, they choose to just scrim the first couple of paragraphs. This is not going to help them with anything. Google is not trying to make us stupider, it is trying to help us become smarter, by reading what other people think and allowing us to analyze the things we read, but instead people are trying to just skim and not getting the full educational benefits of what the author is really trying to say.

The Rhetorical Situation

First off I want to say that the author was very helpful for me to understand exactly what rhetoric. He also explained what exactly he meant by a rhetorical situation. Although some things at the beginning were kind of hard to understand once it was at the end he had explained some of the things a lot better so the beginning did not seem so difficult to grasp. One of the things that he did that helped the reader to understand exactly what he was saying was giving a specific example that almost everyone would know about, like when he was talking about how the Gettysburg address would not be a rhetoric if it was given today just because the response would not be appropriate for today's time, but was very appropriate when it was given. He also gave less known about examples like the one about the fishermen in the story, it may be more well known then I think but I've never heard of it.
When he first gave the definition of a rhetorical situation I didn't really get exactly what he was saying. After reading the whole thing I think I understand it a lot better. What he was trying to say was that a rhetorical situation can only arise when their is an urgency for a real situation that can only be changed by discourse and has an audience that can be changed. I think that if he had put the definition like that then it would have been a lot easier to understand and more people would have gotten what exactly he was trying to explain.
Even though his definition is a little hard to explain he does a very good job at explaining himself. I think that the way he started the essay was very interesting. It allows the reader to kind of understand what he is going to try and explain in the essay without coming out and saying it, which would have made the paper a lot shorter than what it was. He also does a very good job of explaining each part of a rhetorical situation.

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