Masculinity in Christianity

This essay outlines what Sharon Mazer thinks about the 'Power Team' and what they do to try and convert people the chrisitanity. She talks about all of their rituals, what they do to try and show people that by converting they will be 'stronger' than the devil. The power team is a bunch of jacked men that talk about the inhuman strength they have and how they claim to have gotten it by believing in christ. Mazer is trying to say that this is all a whole bunch of marketing and that this whole show is a ploy to get more people enrolled in churches to raise them and the team money. She says this works. Well. They come in a break blocks of ice, concrete, and their final show of faith is breaking out of handcuffs. After this final act they encourage everyone to rush the stage and sign up for the church they are showing off. In the end Mazer says their most powerful act is the non-converters, they feel left out and oblidged to join in the signing. This is where they raise the money. The masculinity portrays the strength they people who sign up will begin to feel. At one point in the essay one of the power team members says that jesus was no little girl, he was a mans man. By saying this they offer up the question of who doesn't want to be a man's man. Who wouldn't want to be stronger by believing in christ? This is how they get the followers and make their money. The whole show was not doing its intended purpose to gain conversion of christianity, but they are just trying to raise money and that is far larger than the amount of people who are actually converted.

ticks

I thought that this story was actually pretty funny. He took a look at OCD from the view of things that would actually happen. Most of the ticks he does are actually things that people that suffer from this disorder would actually do. Not to mention the parents getting the teachers drunk to take their mind off of the werid stuff he was doing in the classroom. Like licking lightswitches or hitting himself in the head with his shoes. This was informational, but at the same time it was humorous, I think that this was a good way to really show what was going on and keep the reader's attention. All in all I think this was a good story to read and it opened my eyes as to what some peopel that suffer woudl actually do.. Good story

My topic

For my topic, the broad overview is this: Technology in the classroom is a negative because of the detrimental effects it has on students brains, skills, and learning capacity. I would really like to answer the question "why" it has these effects. I think that after a while of soul-searching and thinking I have finally come up with a very basic, but solid working thesis.

It is, Using technology in the classroom not only stunts the learning process, but it also ruins a person's attention span and memorization skills. Where as "typical" learning teaches and enforces the learning process.

I know statistically that students that take online classes versus traditional classes in colleges tend to do worse on standardized tests about the subject. I also know that it is proven fact that attention spans have lowered with the use computers and what they can do while sitting in the classroom. I also know that using computers and new technology makes it easier to cheat and hurt people's ability to actually learn, rather than just go through the motions.

I think that I need to find specific examples of how the learning process is stunted after using classroom technology. I also would like to tell everyone exactly what I mean when talking about technology in the classroom, because I do agree that some of it is good.

Some arguments about my paper might be that, it makes school cheaper - it gets information readily available to students with the touch of a few buttons - if you're using iPads interactive work can be done and make the professor/teachers grade load easier - it makes communication better between peers. Stuff like that.

I have 2 books, an Internet site (.gov), and one scholarly peer reviewed article.

Plagairism in Today's world

For this post I decided to look deeper into the article "Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age" by Trip Gabriel.

I found this article particularly amusing because it really makes me mad the people actually plagiarism. It is really easy just to cite where you got the source from. It really is easy it looks just like this (Hemus 1). Even if you find a source that you know fits your research paper exactly you have to know that it is not your own thought. CITE IT.

What bothers me even more is that, most of the universities mentioned in this article are prestigious universities - the colleges with the students regarded as top tier; and they are cheating. That's exactly what plagiarism is...it is cheating - not beating the system or whatever else people say about it. It is taking the easy way out. I feel very strongly that the students that do this have no bright future in store for them.

I know that this is a very strong accusation, but c'mon now. There is nothing more serious than someone cheating their way through college; aka the merge-point from which intellectual students get jobs through in hope to better their future. What does that say about yourself if you cheat to get by? What good will that do you in the workplace?

I think that if someone is caught plagairizing they should be immediately disciplined to the highest extent - that would sway future students from doing the same thing. Often times though professors and teachers do not even really check for plaigarism. Mine have in the past, even though I can honestly say that I have never had the desire to copy and paste. I know that the grade I get is what I earned...my work...So it makes me work harder to try and do the work myself.

here is a video that hopefully does not portray what people are thinking when they plagairize.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC2ew6qLa8U

(Could not get it to play through the site.)

My Research paper

I think that for my research project I am going to choose to do something along the lines of the negatives that come along with technology in the classrooms.

This is interesting because I could not really think of anything interesting or debatable in the world of accounting. Also, seeing as how we are always updating technology and people are always buying it, there is a boatload of new information available.

This is a current topic that is specifically interesting to college kids, because so many universities around the world have started trying to use iPads or something else of the sort. However, I do strongly feel that technology in the classroom is a negative. It hurts kids more than helps when kids start to read things on the computer screen and give up looking at textbooks. In some cases they don't even have to buy them, they are included online.

Also, when technology is used there are plenty of statistics that prove that attention spans are lowered. This is because of the readily available websites and email addresses to check along with the latest tweet or face book status. Many people are also more prone to using copy and paste when there are millions of choices for a topic available in tenths of a second.

If anyone else has any other ideas for me let me know.

thanks,
Josh

Annotated Bibliography

Nikolai, Loren A., John D. Bazley, and Jefferson P. Jones. Intermediate
Accounting. Mason, OH: Thomson South-Western, 2007. Print.


This is the premier textbook which is relevant to all fields in accounting. It shows the basic fundamentals of journal entries for all types of transactions. It also possesses the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and the rules and processes of internal auditing. It also has many AICPA study questions for the CPA exam. These questions were taken directly off older exams and are of great help to graduating students studying for it. This textbook also shows how to analyze different numbers you have registered for all of the financial statements and what to do with the information.

Your Brain on Computers...Good or Bad?

For this assignment we read "Attached to Technology and Paying the Price," by Matt Richtel, the article talks about a family who is fully attached and borderline addicted to new technology and staying "plugged in."

The father Mr. Campbell is so addicted to techology that he is losing touch with his family. He even complains about not having service for 221 seconds on the train ride into work in San Francisco, honestly, in my opinion that is pathetic. I understand the need to stay connected living in the world we live in today, but there is nothing so important that you can not wait 3 mintues to see.

The article then goes into the scientifics of the brain on "technology."

Just by the way they word it, they make it into an addiction. Which it undoubtably is, I know personally many friends that are addicted to facebook or tweeting (whatever importance that is). The science proves that people now-a-days have ever evolving brains. Also, I can relate to this because 3 years ago my father suffered a massive stroke. Being so close to my dad I went to visit him in the hospital and rehabilitation and heard what all of the doctors had to say about the near future and his brain having to rewire itself. Let me tell you though that this is a very long process, he still does not have his lexicon back anywhere near where it was.

I think that all in all this "need" for technology is hurting our youth. Kids are growing up now in a world where parents are getting them cell phones at ages as young as 7th grade, I did not get mine until Sophomore year and even so I had to pay the bills for it, and still continue to do so. Even in writing, I edited some papers my freshman year in English 101 where people actually used OMG, HAHA, WUT, and mi spelled common words. When I circled them and said "really?," the student said,
"Oh, I guess I added that to my dictionary on my computer."
Really? Why? I don't even know what to say to that.

Again, I know that when people post online they typically use more tone and style, but I think that if people can use it online they can apply it to collegiate papers while still keeping they intellectuality. This is a fine line which I think can be reached, with (to my regret saying this) technology.

JOSH HEMUS

Hello Friends

welll....this is it, my blog. In case you have not taken notice from my title this is Josh Hemus' blog (thats me) and I guess here are some things about me. I like to snowboard, play ice hockey, play COD online, weight lift, and I guess all and all have a great time. Yeah blah blah blah. I guess this is jumping into the blog spot, my first time....All for you professor Justus!