In depth analysis

Must adhere to any and all direcions given. Teacher is very specfic and very strict. Ive included the “Alter” pdf provided by the instructor so please use this for the analysis about technology. It is the simplest of all of them, Teacher instructions below.

1. Summarize article by Alter, Jacoby or Richard Rothstein’s article “The Color of Law: Racial Zoning” (I believe that I accidentally “forgot” to put the author’s name. Of course, enterprising students would simply have googled it and FOUND THAT information. However, if you did not go that far, that is Jacoby’s larger point in her article about “Middlebrow” Culture which is ABOUT how lazy and how little we want to learn.)

2. Create a thesis that makes an argument or offers analysis of one of the articles. THAT THESIS will REFLECT HOW you APPLY what you learned to SOMETHING YOU HAVE RESEARCHED (how do you now USE what you have LEANRED to UNDERSTAND something about society or people or culture). This is a thesis written by one of your peers (I have permission to use) “Many people don’t understand the consequences and how bad addictive technology can affect our lives on a daily basis.” I read this thesis and ask myself two questions of clarification: A) What are the consequences? B) How it can affect our lives? After discussing with the student, ONE (of a possible 3 supporting arguments) is that an addiction to technology affects people’s sleeping habits. People are now sleeping less and less each day. The CONSEQUENCES of sleeping so little is that people are more agitated, angry, dissatisfied, they even have bad eating habits and have gained wait as a RESULT of this lack of sleep which is AFFECTED by their ADDICTION TO TECHNOLOGY. Now, I would then FIND and CITE the RESEARCH I did that PROVED THE ABOVE. So, I will have done the TWO THINGS REQUIRED: i) Applied the article I read and ii) cited my information. By the way, we came up (as we discussed in our conference) with more examples. Another example was about how informal students were when they speak to and address professors. I have seen an increase in the lack of formality the last few years. Students who write “hey” when addressing me, or call “Ms” instead of “Dr.” or students who YELL in ALL CAPS as if that means anything to me. Or, students who misspell words throughout the entire email or students who don’t use correct punctuation or capitalize sentences etc. My point? It’s all so casual, with a disregard for etiquette and that is what we have lost as a society (oh man, that is a paper idea) as a RESULT of our addiction to technology. We NO longer KNOW how to talk to people and we don’t care to learn. By “we”, “I” don’t mean “me”.

3. In other words, you do RESEARCH and FIND a way to APPLY what you learned. For example, in the article about racial zoning, you can find 1 or MORE examples that SHOW HOW racial zoning affects INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITIES, and MORE (whatever the more here is).

4. You then QUOTE and CITE BOTH the article you used AND the information you found (citations make it easy for “me” to go “find” the article or website or book that you used, if “I” want to do more research. It gives me the easy information “I” need to find that piece.

5. In the end, the question is simply this…did you learn something (Jacoby’s article is about this) from the articles you read? And, can you now APPLY what you have learned to what is happening in society?