Final Post

This course has taught me many things that have helped me in my daily life in making my decisions. I learned about propaganda and how media never gets the full story of any incident. They cut information out of stories to make them more interesting. This usually happens when a sports team of the area loses they would find some type of excuse to make the people that watch the news feel better. I also learned how the government is able to do what ever they want. Like put drones up in the sky and supposedly only spy when there’s any crime being done. The truth is that they can use the drones any time they want if they think you may be a suspect of any crime.

New skills that I learned in this class would be determining media bias. I also learned how to organize my writing and always add lots of facts to support my beliefs. Writing the weekly blog helped me to improve my organization with my writing. I also learned how to always see the opposing side of a argument and how it improves your argument because you can counter arguments. Reading articles from The Week helped me see both sides of the arguments and to never take a side without seeing all the facts.

I learned many things about my self especially with politics. I learned that I always chose the side of the person who seemed nice I never looked for facts I always believed anything they said. Since I took this class now I’m actually wise with politics I know what’s going on when I see the news and I’m always interested. Before I wouldn't care even though those decisions that the president makes will affect me in the future. I also learned that I’m a good writer only with subjects or discussion that I’m interested in and if I’m not interested my argument would be weak.

I would change only a few things and it would be adding pictures to the blogs because at time I would forget to add the pictures to the blog. Also I didn’t like the discussion board only because I didn’t like responding to other peoples answers because I wasn’t sure if they would get offended or get mad because I went against their answer. Also some better topics would have made the class experience better for me because some of the topics weren’t interesting to me. Other than those things, I loved the class.

A skill that I learn from this course that I will carry on into my education would be always staying in touch with the news and what goes on with the government changes.

My favorite Topic was Eye on the Sky the Rise of the Drones because I found it so interesting that the government is taking that step. It made me wonder all the problems those drones would bring with them if the wrong person had control of them. If the government saw you as a suspect they can put a drone to show your ever move. It would affect all of us and our privacy.