"And Now a Word from Their Cool College Sponsors" By: Kate Zernike

In this article "And Now a Word From Their Cool College Sponsor" By: Kate Zernike she goes on to explain how two young college students become successful from being sponsored. These two young men are being paid to walk around their campus and bascially sell their sponsors product. While getting paid. She believes that a youth marketing a product has a better chance on selling the product then any other ordinary seller. For example if i was walking around campus and i saw a t-shirt or sweartshirt that a few guys were wearing, of a specific product i wouldtake interest in what the t-shirt or sweatshirt said and look further into it. Many young college students today follow peoples trends. Students see something on campus and become intrigued and want to know more about it. The way those companies sponsored these young students was a really smart idea because displaying their product on campus will definitly have a better inpact on their company. They will definitly be bringing in more money. Once students see something that gotta have it also.

"Salespeak" By: Roy F. Fox

In this article "Salespeak" by Roy F. Fox he begins his article with giving a scenario. The scenario consists of facts in our world today that may be a big part of our future life. It may become our next generation. In Fox's scenario he goes on to talk about a specific teen "pepsi" and her individual life. This scenario is just an example of the companies taking over our world today. Fox is just stressing that if we keep supporting these major companies that we are today they are going to begin to buy us out. Then what do we do? In today's world, i can honestly say we have advertisments all around us full of companies etc. They way they make their money is advertising there product for us to buy. And what are we doing? We're giving in and buying them. By Fox naming this character after a product was ust another example of how our world can be taken over by these major companies. I'm not saying that these major companies are bad and we shouldn't buy from them. I'm simply saying we should stop and think before we do anything in our society today because we as one nation aren't necessarily a trustworthy nation so we should watch our back and eachothers backs.

"Meet My 5.000 New Best Pals" By: Janet Kornblum

In Janet Kornblum's essay, "Meet My 5,000 New Best Pals" she talks about how many friends different teenagers have on Facebook and Myspace. Today facebook and myspace are an everyday routine for most teenagers. Facebook was desgined for college students to search and meet new friends from their own personal colleges but over the past few years facebook is used throughout the world with children from all differnt ages. Personally facebook is part of my everyday life, i wake up check facebook before i can start the day. I believe facebook has become a major phenomenon amoung us teenagers today in te United States but can also have its disadvantages too. Since anybody can have access to facebook you have to be careful on who you add and who you don't. In this article, Janet Kornblum discusses how many people have a few amount of freiends or alot and if having a lot means your more popular or what. After reading how different teenagers judge others by how many friends they really bothered me. Because i believe it doesn't matter how many friends someone has; if i don't recognize or know the person and he/she seems shady i won't accept him/her as a friends. I think everybody should start thinking about that because in our society today we are having trouble with pedifilies on the internet and there is a good chance someone could stalk you out on facebook. So just think about the different possibilities to keep you yourself safe and remember the number of friends listed on your profile page doesn't mean how cool or popular you are.

"Supernatural Girls" By: Kathleen Sweeney

In this article, "Supernatural Girls" by Kathleen Sweeney she goes on to explain how women in our society are growing to be more popular as power figures in our society today. Women have always been seen as being in distressed or not being able to fend for themselves. But after reading this article you can see how the media has portrayed women in a more independent and dominant way. Take for example, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Buffy; a blond, head cheerleader who had the power of a ninja really kicked butt throught out the serious. This tv show became the new hit, people from all over the world was watching how Michelle Gellar could kick peoples butt's even men's. Another example, would be Hermoine Granger, who was the main women character of Harry Potter's books and movies. Harry Potter became an all time hit once out in the theatres involving Hermoine who was the brains of the operation. Hermoine was Harry's best girl friend who always knew how to get Harry and Ron (both boys) out of trouble. She was unique character because she was a women dominating over the men. Throught out the centuries we as a society began to look at women in a whle new perspective. Today there are many women starring in movies, tv shows, etc. who are trully kicking some butt. Thats a great impression we can set for us today, to show men that we don't mess around.

"Leading a Double Life" By: Irene Sege

In this article, "Leading a Double Life" by Irene Sege, she goes on to talk about the phenomonon of Second Life, a website which is a virtual game in which users can start careers, go to school, earn money, have relationships, and even committ crimes. You can play almost anything in this virtual game that could happen in real life. Second Life is a website where users create animated cartoon avatars to represent themselves. Irene then gives us examples of users and what they imagine their life would be in this virtual game. She uses a man named Jeff Lipsky, a ordinary looking white 35 year old, t-shirt and jeans kinda guy. But when Jeff plays Second Life he becomes Filthy Fluno, a bearded, wide-bodied, fang-toothed, black gallery owner. So that just goes to show you that when playing this virtual game, you can design yourself into anybody who could ever imagine being. This virtual game has become such a big time hit that even other companies have joined in. For example, Millions of Us; helps companies esablish a presence in Second Life. In my opinion, i think Second Life is a great thing not only for children but for adults also. I believe this virtual game can become even more successful because people will continue to take interest into setting up there own character and playing a second life anyway they want to. I think it could even help people realize what they want to do in the "real life." We have seen this game become very successful and i can only see it advancing in our future with different aspects adding to the game; making more users wanting to play even more.

Response to Gerhardt's "The Rules of Attribution"

In "The Rules of Attribution" by Deborah R. Gerhardt, Gerhardt emphasizes how plagiarism is abused and wronge. The main point Gerhardt is trying to make is that plagiarism is everywhere in our world today, our elders should be the ones to be able to teach us the rules of writing, so we as students can go out into the world and not be tempted to commiting plagiarism because we would know that it is wronge. She gives an example about a smart women by the name Ms. Viswanathan whom she claims did not deliberatly plagiarize but evidence claims she has. Ms. Vismwanathan was accused of plagiarism after evidence proved she read two of Megan McCafferty's books and her passagers were very much similiar to Ms. McCafferty's. Ms. Vismwanathan was never taught the rules and aspects of writing so Gerhardt claims it really wasn't her faught. If she was taught the rules, this problem wold have never came about because she would have never plagiarized. The bottom line Gerhardt stresses is to teach our young people about plagiarism because it is a very serious issue in our world today. For example Gerhardt states " It is very unfortunate to see a promising young writer taken out of the game because she did not understand the rules." I believe as a student we are tempted to plagierize everyday. We have to write papers almost everyday and whoes to say those lazy students aren't just going to copy and paste from the internet and be down in less then an hour. Now i see how plagerism is delt with in our everyday lives of students but can alse agree it is wronge and its something we should stay away from. Gerhardt also states that the internet is a very easy way to plagerize now and days because of how our technology as explanded. It is so easy to just copy and paste and be done your paper. There are differences between intentional and unintentional plagiarism. And its good to ask yourself: was this intentional or not before you hand in your paper.

"Cultural Renaissance or Cultural Divide?" By: Bill Ivey and Steven J. Tepper

After reading this article, what Ivey and Tepper meant by the "Professionalization and nationalization of culture in the United States", as society created technology, it progressed and became more complex and correct. Over time as the technology become more correct, it became increasingly popular century by century. For instance The Metropolitan Opera and Museum of Fine Arts was founded in the late 19th century, by the 20th century it became increasingly popular and still continues to grow popularity to this day because of its reputation. Our everyday lives have changed tremendously. Today, our media has become highly advanced to things like on demand, which you can rent or watch a tv show at any time of the day to centuries ago not even having a tv to watch. Our advancement over the years has been so amazing that it actually has made people lazy. When Charles Leadbeater talks about "Pro-Am Revolution" i believe he is saying that people who are not professionals contribute to the community just as much as professionals have done. Those who are ordinary people have became the people who make it big, like celebrities, athletes and such. It is fair to say that amateurs are talented people who produce smart work. As a college student i can honestly say that now and days our lives are so much easier then the lives of teens my age years ago. We as students live in a time that is pretty sweet. We have our own laptops, cell phones, ipod's and etc. that back then teens wouldn't imagine of having. Trendiness in our world today is a big part of our everyday lives, many people want to have the coolest brand named clothes, the most expensive shoes. Our culture can also be pretty intense sometimes also, teens are always trying to live up to other teens, and to fit in, which can be dangerous sometimes. Popular Cultural is something i never thought i would ever get into but after thinking about this i can say that our culture is pretty amazing now and days.