The term essay

The definition essay is described as the evaluation of a term, which will be, processed and discussed. The main arguments and terms will be further utilized by firstly evaluating it in the introduction. The paragraph should include why you are discussing the term or argument; it is also important to conclude a thesis. After the introduction, the second paragraph comes in place, which is called the body. The body must include a topic sentence, which debates the argument, and this sentence must have a supporting sentence to back up the argument. Lastly comes the conclusion, which sums up all the arguments with a concluding sentence.

Global Warming

global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century, and it’s projected continuation. Measurements indicate that the global temperature of the Earth’s near-surface has increased by 1 degree in the past century. This warming trend appeared during a period when human activities started to increase causing higher standards of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. If action is not to be taken today the greenhouse gases will continue to increase resulting in a continuining threat to our future

Lecture 10

Today’s lecture focusses on virtual philosophy. People getting engaged with games such as mario cart. Playback on full recall shows Ralti stepping forward as the tech slides out of nowhere. Difference between reality and virtual reality such as the matrix. The process of virtual reality is when things are added to e.g wikipedia and becomes real information. Virtual reality is a system that enables one or more users to move or react in a computer simulated environment.

Slaves in ancient Rome

Slavery emerged in ancient Rome and Egypt as a result of expansion. As the ancient civilizations grew larger, slaves became a necessity to support the economy. Although many people were born into slavery or became slaves through abandonment, the majority of this class were captured from all over Europe, Africa and the Middle East. These civilians were captured in their villages by slave traders and pirates and then sold to slave owners. Prisoners of war, caught by the Roman or Egyptian army, were also put to slavery and many slaves were sold and bought in the slaves markets.

Government bodies, religious organizations and the wealthy civilian class all owned and bought slaves. Although most slaves worked in farms, workshops, homes, and a few slaves were used as teachers, though this was uncommon as most slaves were uneducated. Home slaves cooked, cleaned, served food, and washed clothes. Slaves also did their mistress hair, took messages, lit fires and looked after gardens. The slaves that performed tasks such as mining, laboring and building monuments were usually criminals or prisoners of war. Slaves were also put in small workshops making leather, silver, goods, pots, pans, and in ancient Egypt the slaves had to build temples.

How to use Discription, analysis, and critique in an academic essay.

Description is a statement that represents a coherent meaning in the construction of an argumentative academic essay. Description includes examples of how something smells, looks, feels, tastes, or sounds. The description in an argumentative essay is important to describe a place, person, memory, experience and an object. What has been perceived or experienced is usually the main focus of the description in an argumentative essay. For example, when describing a cat. The physical appearance and the way the cat interacts with people or objects will be analyzed and maybe discussed in the construction of an argumentative academic essay.

Although not only cats are important for analysis in the construction of an argumentative academic essay. The analysis is important to ensure that there is a clear connection between particular points and arguments put forward in the clear construction of the academic essay. In the analysis of the argumentative essay, it is significant to evaluate evidence with the sources used. Analysis in a controversial academic essay is the process of breaking a complex topic into smaller parts to gain a crucial understanding of the argument.

However when breaking down a complex topic, into various parts, gaining knowledge of the argument, it does not go without the construction of the critique. The purpose of clearly developing a construction of an argumentative essay is by critical thinking. The level of critique gives the reader how well the academic essay is presented and the definition originally derived from the Greek term kritik, meaning, “disgusting judgement”.

lecture 7

Today’s lecture explores free culture, free society, and creative commons. Theme of community, collaboration and choice.

The internet is a giant copying machine then the law has to configure it.

Creative commons is a set of licences they have come up with. Creative commons is a way of sharing creative films, writings, music and other creative concepts. Creative commons allows you to have own laws under which creative concept is established.

This lecture alo discussed how Richard M. Stallman started the free software foundation. Stallmann named this freedom zero, freedom one, freedom two, and freedom 3. This was bad for company’s as this was a cheap system to share softwares.

Last Weekend

A summary after reading a primary source about the black plague in Florence:

The source evaluates how signficant the black plague was as healty servants tried to aid the ill but died of the same sickness. The black plague had such an effect that all the animals died from the same sickness and people did not know what to do but flee from this signifcant virus. The people that died in Florence suffered from symptons such as a bubo in the groin, a small swelling under the armpit, sudden fevers, spitting blood and saliva. The city became deserted and there was nothing to do but carry the dead to their graves.

Lecture 6

Lecture six mainly focussed on consumption and production. In consumption there is the big screen and the small screen. in the big screen the technology utilized is 1. Cinema 2. Telivision 3. computer These technology’s is the primary way to consume media. In the small screen 1. Fixed media players publicy and privatly. 2. Personal media players such as I-Pod and mobile phones.

what are the qualitative differences between the regular IM program and a 3D environment? And What is different about the kinds of socialising that happens in these spaces? Does the 3D aspect make much difference?

The 3D enviornment takes you a step further as you can not only talk in the particular 3D program through text, you also can express emotion with the visual 3D aspect. For example in a game called Guild Wars. This 3D virtual reality gives the user the opportunity to explore, shop and meet people amongst many other weird ways of interacting in this powerful experience. Guild Wars gives you a character to walk amongst others virtually and to communicate with them with a 3D experience. . There are signficant educational advantages with this form of communication which makes it a fun experience and having some form of activity to stimulate or challenge the individual. As for creating a new profile or image for your own character, this can give a false sense of utopia and have an addictive effect, resulting in the individual prefering the 3D virtual world.

Lecture 5

Lecture 5 explores the new media and internet studies. This lecture discusses how you use technology culturally and socially. The different communities such as the virtual communities and individual indentity.
How you present yourself in the media and that you could be anyone behind the computer screen. The internet was not that popular in the early 1990’s but now internet has taken over many lives. As the internet became so big businesses started making profit by utilizing online service. Such as, social media, what we do on the internet.