Project 5 topic/media

*Was absent during this class period*

My essay talked about whether or not it is worth the time and money to send children to college. I argued that it was beneficial to work towards receiving a college degree because of the numerous benefits and advantages you receive after college. For this project I am either going to create a cartoon that exaggerates the student debt that students receive after college or create a website that will include arguments from different experts that are for a college education and against it. I'll also add pictures of cartoons that satirize college debt and add in graphs that show different percentages on employment and student debt. Lastly, I am going to look for any videos from the news that discuss college price rises and if it is still worth getting a degree.

We Robots

While I agree with Turkle's thoughts about how we are a technology driven society now, I disagree with her reasoning for why we are and what this has turned us into. For example, I agree that instead of writing letters we send emails or update social media, but I disagree that we do these things to ignore socializing. I think the reason we chose technology over original means of conversation is because it is simply more convenient and faster in a sense. Why send a letter that will take a few days to arrive when you can just send a text or email that gets there in seconds. This is also why I agree with her point about how society either views technology as a Utopia or Dystopia, there is never a in between perspective that just views it as a new asset in our life. My generation has grown up in a very technologically advanced world, and I personally don't view it as a Utopia or Dystopia but just as a new tool available to me, which is what Turkle points out in the final paragraph.

comics

Political comics are often found in the newspaper week after week discussing the weekly events that are going on in the political world. Authors often use comics to express their political ideas but in a more secretive manner. I found a few examples of political comics that were published several years ago during election time. I also found a more recent example of a comic artist trying to convey a message about how much President Obama borrows from the treasury and how much debt he is putting us in. The comic features Obama carry several metal buckets labeled "Insurance, Health Care, Banks, Autos" and he is running towards a cow that is deathly skinny looking and the cow has a label on its stomach saying U.S treasury. This comic is expressing the rising debt our country is gaining from too much borrowing with Obama's policies.
Many political comics express ideas that either support or mock the political leaders such as the President, senate, and House of Representatives. Comics were also used in the World War days to express patriotism and to get people to support their country in the war.
Comics have many uses and can often be a comical way of expressing a serious subject