Search Questions

The Effects of Internet on social evolution.

The Internet in our daily lives.

What is after the Internet .

The Open Web

In searching through the open web on Wikipedia, I found the search words I used for the deep web search garnered different results. I was somewhat surprised. I think on the deep web I expected a more technical response like the one on Wikipedia. I do like reading about the protocols of the internet. I liked being able to understand the jargon but felt the deep web had a more interesting aspect.













Wikipedia contributors. "Email." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 25 Jan. 2013. Web. 28 Jan. 2013.

Research Article

 I decided to do some research on the Internet since I am enrolled in Computing classes at Clark College. Previously, I came across the Internet protocol written for the original networking now in place. I had enjoyed that protocol immensely. I decided to refine my search toward the use of email. I feel that email was instrumental in bringing the world together.
  The keywords I began with are Internet, protocols, and email  using the search engine in the Gale Reference Library at Clark.
 I settled on  an article from the Encyclopedia of Social Networks. I had suspected that the early protocols and uses for email on the Internet would shed light on the direction the network took. It came to light that there were mailing lists that came about due to a man named Steve Walker.
 Mr. Walker was a manager for ARPANET, our infant Internet that was used for military and scholarly purposes. "In his June 7, 1975, e-mail, Walker advocated a social use of mailing lists for informal dialogue. In parallel with official experimentation and debate, a number of leisure-related mailing lists, such as SF-Lovers, Human-Nets, and Wine-Tasters, were created for the discussion of topics popular with the scientific and military population of ARPANET".
He felt the people using these mailing lists might benefit by using the Internet to further their interests. This was the first form of Internet social networking. Social networking is not a new concept. Since the beginning of time humans have been socializing. Our current craze of sending out updates on the minutia of mundane living is extreme. I think the founders of the Internet had an idea of what they were doing but no idea how deeply electronic social interactions would effect every aspect of our lives.

Source Citation   (MLA 7^th Edition)

"Contents." Encyclopedia of Social Networks. Ed. George A. Barnett. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2011. [v]. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 27 Jan. 2013.

Document URL
http://0-go.galegroup.com.oswald.clark.edu/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX1959500005&v=2.1&u=clark_integrated&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w

Which Article to Use

In following the directions for this assignment I found there is a pesky habit that still lives in me.
  As a young student I would use the encyclopedias in our house for research. I did say our house mind you. The man who sold those books to Dad was certain they would make us all intelligent masterful children to be proud of. Mom did not agree. Dad spent all of that money and paid extra for the yearly update volume to counter Mom's argument they would be out of date too soon.
  When I finally could read, I used to love reading those books. They had everything in them. My problem was that I could not stop at my subject. I would look up an entry and read it. But I never could stop. I would see the title of the next entry and read that. Then the next. I had such a hard time getting the paper done. Now in my defense I do know a lot of information about a variety of issues.
  However, I didn't know I still did that. There I was doing this assignment and I found myself not just looking at one article but many. And I had a hard time stopping, then discovered I didn't want to write about anything I had read.
 I found the deep and open web to be important to research. I think if the subject gets more technical of intricate searching the deep web would be better. Also if you were going to write something weighty. We tend to use the open internet everyday for things like phone numbers and maps.

Unit 2:Plagiarism

Safe Practices: An Exercise

Summary: There are few intellectual offenses more serious than plagiarism in academic and professional contexts. This resource offers advice on how to avoid plagiarism in your work.

Contributors:Karl Stolley, Allen Brizee, Joshua M. Paiz

Last Edited: 2010-04-21 07:50:43

Read over each of the following passages, and respond on your own or as a class as to whether or not it uses citations accurately. If it doesn't, what would you do to improve the passage so it's properly cited?

1.       Last summer, my family and I traveled to Chicago, which was quite different from the rural area I grew up in. We saw the dinosaur Sue at the Field Museum, and ate pizza at Gino's East.

This does not need a citation. In this instance people are just talking about where they had been in a city.

2.       Americans want to create a more perfect union; they also want to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for everybody.

This should be cited as it is part of a national document.

3. I find it ridiculous that 57% of high school students think their teachers assign too much homework.

Numbers 4, 5, and 6 all refer to the following passage from Martin Luther King's "Letter from the Birmingham Jail":

You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.

  This should be cited due to the direct quoting involved.

3.       Martin Luther King was certain that nobody would want to be contented with a surfacy type of social analysis that concerns itself only with effects and doesn't deal with root causes.

  This should be cited even though it presents as an opinion in a paraphrased form taken from a work.

4.       Martin Luther King wrote that the city of Birmingham's "white power structure" left African-Americans there "no alternative" but to demonstrate ("Letter from the Birmingham Jail" para. 5).

This is cited using quotes for the direct words and location of the piece in paragraph 5.

5.       In "Letter from the Birmingham Jail," King writes to fellow clergy saying that although they "deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham, your statement fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations."

Definitely cite this is a direct quote listing the title and author.

6.       My friend Kara told me that she loves living so close to the ocean.

Do not quote this is casual conversation.

7.       Americans are guaranteed the right to freely gather for peaceful meetings.

This is a statement of common knowledge. No citation paraphrasing a national document.

This is a tricky assignment for me. With so many ways to cite works for different applications it does get a bit mixed up. I don’t think I ever get it right without looking in the Hacker to find the right way to write a paper. I count myself lucky I haven’t taken but one class that wasn't MLA in formatting the required paper. The best strategy for me would be to sit down in the end of a paper with someone else to review my citation and see if it is correct. I struggled with this in my English. There is no excuse and never have I tried to slide anything by any teacher, I just really have to take the time because I always felt like a puppy peeing in the house and never getting it right.

Using a citation engine or having a knowledgeable person review my citation is the only recourse for me.

First Week

  It is the first week of school and I am finally finished taking all of the tests required of me. I really just got done with my Cisco exam and scored a high B. I was not looking forward to this tests due to the last Cisco class I had I studied hard on that information and got two tests with a C and one with a D. Never in my history as a college student Have I done so poorly.
  I sometimes think that it is because I was doing pre-med classes that were very easy for me and I felt that studying was fun or interesting or maybe just easy. Other times I just felt that Maybe I am not as smart as I thought.
 I really think I am smart enough to so these classes and just need to study. All of these kids are so demanding and I like to do things for them or make sure they get to the places they need to go. And of course the dishes and laundry. Real life is so mundane.

In the end here I sit digesting the day and it is one in the morning. I need to have the girl to church by ten for choir so I must go now. I think I shall read myself to sleep with customer service chapter 2.Interesting stuff and it feels easy so maybe that is why I like it. It might be interesting to find out if it is the ease of a class that I get good grades in or several other factors...I think I see a place for an evaluation of my perspective on courses versus grades achieved. Hummm.

Well!

   I am now very excited to have this space as my own. I never wanted a blog or thought about one, but now feel like my new room is ready to sleep in on the night you move into a new place. I had to click around to find a few things but the advantage I have over my contemporaries is that I will click rather than wonder what or where a function is.
   I think a whole world might have just opened for me. I always get tired of writing. I hate the way my writing will change styles from day to day or when moods change. I never had the discipline to stick with a note book to the end. And did I mention spell check? Love this stuff.
  I am looking forward to maintaining this more than my face book. I feel like I really only read and comment on others new, and I do truly enjoy that. This just might be a tad more for me personally.