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Online Quizzes

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So the holidays are coming up and many people tend to be drawn to online quizzes. So I decided that whoever reads this blog today should enjoy this quiz ! It is interesting how you can find just about anything on the internet and how websites like "Buzzfeed" allow you to collaborate with them. For example, you take their quiz, and through the answers you choose, they follow with an end result. No end result can be given without someone answering each question on the quiz. So it is interesting to think of collaboration in that way. In this case, you collaborate with "Buzzfeed" to see which Christmas song you are! The internet has just about everything and with everything comes entertainment and collaboration. So enjoy! Here is where I got this image

Wikipedia and it's Value

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Since high school, we have always been told the Wikipedia is not a source that is credible enough to cite in scholarly papers. Yet, when you search topics on Google typically the first thing that comes up is a page on Wikipedia that has the information that you are searching for. Majority of information on Wikipedia is cited and the sources they are obtained from are provided on the page. Yet, people do not find this to be credible enough to use in scholarly works. I find that very interesting and also somewhat outdated. Wikipedia has become far more efficent in staying on top of what is posted and by whom it is posted by. The false information that people post is almost immediately taken down. This website conducted their own research and came up wit the fact that "95% of the information" on Wikipedia they looked up was actually accurate. This being said, I like Wikipedia because people are always forced to cite where they obtained their information, yet they can bring up t...

Pepsi Ad - The Controversy

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Here is where I got this picture Today in class we discussed meme's and ad's that went viral and brought up an immense amount of attention. The attention for the Pepsi Ad specifically, came back pretty negative and many people were not pleased with this ad whatsoever. This ad went wrong in many ways and it makes me, and plenty of other people, wonder why no one creating the ad realized the issues they were creating. The company tried to mock what seemed to be "similar" to a black lives matter movement. They knew that was relevant in the country right now, yet what they did was romanticise the protests to make them seem like they were one big happy party almost, instead of what they actually are. That being that they are heartfelt and those protesting are definitely not happy, which is the point of them protesting. The point of the protests is the issue with police brutality and how people of color are treated differently in this country than "white people....