CONNECTING THE DOTS

My initial reaction to the paper was not knowing what to do it on. And also that I didn't want to do it at first. But I realized I would have to just power through it. Then I realized I could incorporate my interest in psychology into the research paper. After I realized this it seems as if the paper would be easier. It would be easier in the way that I would be able to have a legitimate interest in the paper. And not be forced to do a paper that I wasn't interested in.

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I don't think the boy should've been killed. But I do see why the police fired upon him. I don't know and nobody will ever know the thought process of the boy before the incident. And nobody will ever know the thought process of the policemen. I just don't know how the boy didn't expect something like that to happen. It's as if he was oblivious to the whole situation and it seemed as if he didn't care. This event shouldn't have happened,but it did.

Vocab. No.2 part 2

1)Hyperbolic-of related to a hyperbola.
2)Consent-permission for something to happen or agreement to something.
   He needed consent in order to go on with the case.
3)Doctrine-a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a certain group.
   The doctrine of predestination.
4)Hunch-a feeling or guess based on intuition rather than known facts.
   She was acting on a complete hunch.
5)Predominant-present as the strongest or main element.
   Its predominant color is unknown.
6)Discretion-the quality of behaving or speaking in such way so you can avoid causing offense.
   People sometimes must rely on there own discretion.
7)Provision-the action of providing or supplying something for use.
   New contracts for the provision of new services.
8)Seizure-the action of capturing something or someone by force.
   The seizure of all of his belongings left him with nothing.
9)Warrant-a legal document issued by a government official; often giving them the right to search or arrest on a person.
   They had a warrant for his arrest.
10)Infraction-a violation or infringement of a law.
     She had many traffic infractions on his driving record

Racial Profiling Lives On

Stop and frisk is a really unnecessary thing and the police are using it in an unfair way. It's all based on how the person who gets stopped and frisk looks. And most people who do get stopped are African Americans or Latinos. So it is racially profiling even though the police force and mayor Bloomberg says it isn't. And it also doesn't help that there probably is a couple or a hand full of cops who are racists and use this law in order to just harass certain races. I don't think this law was thought out before it was implemented and if it was that's just embarrassing.

Vocab No. 9

1)Ultimate-the best achievable or imaginable of its kind.
   The ultimate in luxury cars.
2)Interactive-influencing or having an effect on each other.
   Young children like interactive games.
3)Principle-a fundamental source or basis of something.
   One principle of all plants is water.
4)Guidance-advice or information aimed at resolving a problem or difficulty.
   People try to find guidance through religion.
5)Collaboration-the action of working with someone to produce or create something.
   His collaborated with his friend on his art project.
6)Formative-something that has a profound or lasting effect on someone.
   Everyone goes through their formative years.
7)Summative-relating to a summation or produced by summation.
8)Racism-the belief that all members of each race possesses characteristics or abilities specific to that race.
  Racism is still an issue in society.
9)Intelligence-the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
   A man of great intelligence.

Tools that change the way we think

Technology has always and will always be a double edged sword. It makes learning new things easier and faster. But the longer people rely on technology of any kind the worse it will be in the future. Being to reliant on anything is negative to a certain point. I also don't like how in the article the co-founder of Google Brin said how in the future Google could augment your brain with the knowledge of the world. At first,if this were to happen it would be cool and convenient. But at what point would your thoughts be fazed out. I'd rather rely on my own thoughts and my own memories and understandings of anything. Its a better way for me to learn and I like learning about new things that interest me. I will use technology in order to find things out and learn about new things. That is how we in today's era learn. I just don't like the whole 'augment' part of the article. It would be like if we became more machine than man. Technology is great and I and the rest of society will continue to use it. However, technology of every kind will not be there one day, then what happens.

Filter Bubbles

a) I learned what filter bubbles are and that you only see what google or other companies think you want to see
b) It proves to me that you only see a sliver of what you want to see or a sliver of what you could possibly see
c) Why should anything be filtered in the first place some would call it censorship
d) Using better search engines