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I believe that people do not deserve the right to erase their past memories. It is in their own hands what they produce and share with the virtual world. By no means should one person be able to erase a certain part of their past or memories that was once a mistake. Mistakes would never be learned from if people could take back what they did or ever said. If people could be picked and chose what memories disappear, the internet would a display a false persona of themselves. I am not saying that everyone should not have a right to their own privacy, because that is not true. Everyone needs privacy, but when it's under your control then its public. I am sure most people have posted something, uploaded a picture, even said something that was somewhat a mistake. Anything that you put on the internet is now public knowledge and deeply embedded somewhere else. It is crucial that people have to be more aware of their actions and then once said and shown, it's known. People should be held accountable for anything that was under their own control.

I feel that the court rooms actions and way of executing their cases is extremely unethical. The lawyer has no right to publicly shame the client no matter how wrong they are in their defense. Public shaming stems off of people judging each other for their actions. In the court room their should never be bias and every decision made should be from your true gut. Lawyers should always be fair and equal and publicly shaming one side is taking a stance. The only purpose to publicly shaming individuals is to reiterate their shame.

Ayn Rand

One aspect that I find confusing and questionable in Ayn Rand's excerpt of Racism is when she goes on to insult white Southerners and African Americans who expected quotas. She confidently preaches about racism and then she claims that "Needless to say, if that "'civil rights"' bill is passed, it will be the worst breach of property rights in the sorry record of American history in respect to that subject”(134). If a fight against racism is going to be continued, it should then be through social ostracism, boycotts, or exclusion. Nothing should be biased and it should be in the hands of the people. 

Research Questions
1. How can parents act differently to minimize the effects of divorce?
2. How can the University of Wisconsin encourage healthy food options?
3. What is the impact that studying abroad has on students?

Chapters 7 8 9

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Zisser and Murray

The strategy that I think is the most useful to peer review and going over my own work is constantly re-writing and editing that Murray mentioned in his essay. Usually most people will drag through a lengthy paper and feel the need to print and submit right away. Sometimes, they don't even want to reread it and make changes, I for one have that issue. This is a huge problem for writers or any person because they are focused only on the end result. Writing is a process with stages of editing and writing becomes more compact, straight to the point, and more advanced during the revision process. However, I disagree with Zisser's claim that clutter needs to be taken out entirely in all papers. Sometimes it is best to use short and compact words that get straight into the point. Other times, it is necessary to include more sophisticated words that are not just because of a thesaurus machine. There are words that explain a whole idea or meaning that need to be included. One never wants to have an excess amount of words, but including more advanced words is not always harmful.

  The title of Chapter 6 in Jon Ronson's book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" is called "Doing Somthing Good". The basis of this chapter stems from the actions of three different people. This chapter begins with Hank and his friend at a conference for technology developers. Adria Richards overheard a disturbing joke being told by Hank during the conference. Although it didn't have to do with her, she still found it offensive and inappropriate. Her only way to reveal this was to snap a picture of the two of them and release it on her twitter page. As a result, Hank was fired from his job. For being publicly shamed, he immediately writes an apology and also shares his life story to receive some remorse. Surprisingly, Adria is the one being targeted for releasing this publicly and she is fired in the end with the help of the group 4chan. Following, a member of 4chan named Mercedes Haefer gets in contact with Jon Ronson to go over the situation that occurred. Mercedes began to talk about how Adria was exposed and is receiving major consequences. In the end of the day, Adria is left unemployed when Hank is immediately offered a job. Going back to the ironic title, "Doing Something Good," these people believe they are doing the right and moral thing by exposing each other and making them pay for their actions, but really they are just digging more problems.

            In Chapter 6, I found it extremely strange how Adria slyly and shadily took that picture. Even if she took the picture, why did she feel the need to expose it? What did she think was going to happen and how did she not see that what she was doing was bad? Also, Chapter 5 was revolved around why people get so worked up and paranoid in crowds. I was very confused on how the Stanford Prison Experiment was relevant to this research of the crowds. I did not make a clear connection between the two whether it was a major point that I missed or not.