This week we had 3 readings that covered a wide range of topics. The readings we were assigned included a passage from Praxis that gave us stories about animal cruelty, how the web is changing our world, how scientific studies are often misrepresented by the common media, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I have a dream speech, televising executions, slavery, and the expansiveness of space and what we are doing to reach it. The other readings we were assigned were about finding the argument, and a child’s right to voice their opinion in the classroom. The readings I will be focusing on will be the stories about animal cruelty, and social media from Praxis.
The first story in in the praxis book, which is written about the issue of animal cruelty is a passage that emotionally appeals to the reader, the intention of this story was twofold, firstly to make us more aware of the horrible testing that large cosmetic companies are performing on animals to make sure that their products are safe. This article attempts to raise the point that the testing on animals cant be accurate on humans, and that testing on animals is unethical, especially in the case there they are testing a common compound that has been shown to not be particularly harmful to animals in prior testing. This article stuck a cord with me, I am an animal lover and I was unaware as the extent of harm that animals were going through when they were submitted to product testing, and frankly it appalled me. The world we live in is ever changing and there is no need to be cruel and inhumane to animals, especially when there is a long list of chemicals that have already been deemed safe for human use. While we must audit the environment around us, we must also make sure we treat lightly through that environment if we decide to make a less than optimal decision.
The second story in the praxis book is the story about how our world is changing thanks to the web. This article informed us that while the web, and specifically social media on the web has the ability to unite us and to spread the work better about all things. The bad thing about being able to share and show off everything on social media is that once something is put up, there is no taking it down, and anyone anywhere ever after the date it was originally was put up can see it. This has a heavy implication on the common young adult who spends their day waging social media wars and debating hot button topics, this forces us to be cognizant that what we are posting is not something that we will just see one time, but something that our employers will see, and the legal system still hasn’t worked out all the kinks in this. I think due to this there will eventually come a day when we no longer use social media, and we use more actual face to face, not so easily recordable means of communication so that we can be free to both speak our minds, and to know that no employer will ever turn us away because of a mistake we made years ago.
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