Liv Castro 1450

Here is my final presentation !

The internet can be incredibly helpful, but also incredibly dangerous. The internet is constantly watching your every move. If you do anything on the internet, there is a record of it somewhere. What you watch, search, buy; it’s all being monitored and saved. For example, if you buy a shirt on a website, the record of you buying that shirt is saved and other shirt companies can see that and target you to buy their product through ads. These ads pop up on random websites like facebook, not just clothing websites. Nothing is private information, even if it says it is.  After watching the TED Talk videos, I feel scared. I do not like the fact that the internet knows and keeps track of everything that I do. It’s not that I’m doing anything bad, it’s just creepy. The first TED Talk really scared me when he talked about a company that tracks and records people's faces. Anybody has access to this information and can do whatever they want with it. It’s also scary to think about how

According to Merriam Webster , a whistleblower is “an employee who brings wrongdoing by an employer or other employees to the attention of a government or law enforcement agency and who is commonly vested by statute with rights and remedies for retaliation.” In other words a whistleblower is someone from inside the company that alerts the public about neglect, abuse or corruption going on inside the company. There are a few things that a whistleblower needs to consider before speaking out. The first thing that you need to consider is the following question; is speaking out really in the public's best interests? Next, you need to consider which is more important; loyalty to the company or loyalty to the public. You also need to consider your personal consequences such as your reputation and your job. Then you need to consider is the following question; will real change take place? If you finally go through with it you have to be very specific with your facts. You need to specif

The Smith Mundt Act , also known as the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, was the authorization for propaganda activities conducted by the U.S. Department of State only for foreign audiences. This act was proposed by Carl E. Mundt in January 1945, but was not passed until 3 years later in 1948 by President Truman. This act is sometimes called "public diplomacy". Public Diplomacy defined as any government-sponsored effort aimed at communicating directly with foreign publics to establish a dialogue that supports the government’s strategic objectives.  64 years later the Smith Mundt Act was amended and transformed in 2012. This idea was introduced by Congressman Mac Thornberry. It gave the State Department, Secretary of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors, permission to use propaganda for foreign audiences as well as in the United States. Propaganda is defined as “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or

Nowadays almost everyone has some sort of social media and some sort of online footprint, whether it be email, Twitter or Snapchat. But at what cost do we use these websites and apps? Personally I have a pretty large online footprint. Name a website or app and I probably have an account. I think part of the reason that I have such a large online footprint is because of the culture surrounding social media. It’s almost necessary that people nowadays have at least one social media account. I have multiple. I do not have a personal website yet, but I am in the process of making one so that future employers can see the projects that I’ve worked on.  The most common social media sites that I use are Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. I use Instagram to post pictures that I take at events such as formals or on vacations. I use snapchat to talk to my friends and send them funny pictures or videos. I use Twitter to see what is happening in the world around me, but I almost never post in

Snapchat is one of the most popular forms of social media that is used today. But what makes it so popular? Will it be popular forever? S napchat officially launched in September 2011. At this point in time, the app only allowed you to send pictures back and forth to your friends. The catch was that the picture could only be seen for a maximum of ten seconds. This is what made it so popular because this idea had never been done before. In fact it was so popular that it gained 10 million active users in exactly one year and one month. Exactly a year later Snapchat introduced the idea of “Stories”. A Snapchat story is a photo or video that someone posts to the story section of the app, which is visible to all your friends not just one person. This made Snapchat even more popular because no other app used this idea yet. In May 2015 Snapchat reached 100 million daily users. In fact 36% of Americans age 18-29 had a Snapchat account in the beginning of 2016. Snapchat also has features th

Out of the eight values of free expression, I think that Stable Change, also known as Safety Valve, is the most important. Stable Change is the idea that in society, people will be more stable if they are allowed to vent. In fact, people are less likely to resort to violence if they can vent.  I know for me personally, venting is very helpful. When I was in high school I used to hold all my emotions in and it took a huge toll on my mental and physical health. The first time that I vented, I did it to a trusted friend and it really helped. I felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders because I don't have told hold the weight of a particular problem. I’m not a naturally violent person, but venting still allows for me to get out my emotions in a safe and nonviolent way.  According to Psychology Today , there are 3 reasons why venting is good for you. The first reason is that it is better for you to express your emotions rather than keeping your emotions bottled up inside. K