Respond substantively in a way that furthers the conversation. For example, you might discuss other similar areas in which you have noticed the media creating or responding to bias. You might comment on to what degree we control our media and to what degree it controls us. You might comment on the example they have chosen and contribute to the points they are making. You might comment further on the value of consuming a wide variety of high quality of media sources. 6 sentences or more.

Mainstream media can be a very scary place simply because of its massive influence on people. Many individuals live and breath by what they hear on the media, mainly their favorite TV news source. This, I believe, is a a mistake because the media has its own biases and agendas that many people fail to acknowledge. It is entirely normal to consume media sources that agree with your existing personal beliefs, which is not inherently bad; however, leads to a myriad of fallacies.

One in particular is the bandwagon fallacy, this fallacy simply strengthens certain beliefs in people because “everyone else believes it, so it must be true.” There are a magnitude of fallacies present in mainstream media and the majority of consumers ignore them because they operate mainly on emotion rather than logical reasoning. In this right, the media seems to actually control us rather than the other way around. We take what we hear, file it for later, and hold it as evidence for our beliefs. When, in fact, we should pick apart what we hear on the media and come to logical conclusions; not based on emotion, but on solid reasoning.

Two forum posts, 500 words each with works cited. Two topics: International Relations (International Organizations) and Anthropology.

Forum Topic International Relations:

In 1994, Mearsheimer wrote an influential article in which he argued that only realism explains the international system and dismissed other approaches to international institutions. After reading the lesson notes and all of the assigned articles from this week, please compose a post that addresses each of the three points below.

• Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of Mearsheimer’s perspective on international institutions,
• Evaluate the counterarguments offered by Pevehouse and Russett (2006), and Ruggie (1982), and
• Assess how relevant the realist paradigm is for making sense of international institutions and international regimes today.

Forum Topic Anthropology:

Forum Question: Describe the ethical issues that anthropologists experience when studying human subjects.

Assignment:

Topic: The members of your team are the co-directors of training in the Human Resources department of SunBright, Inc., a technology firm in Rockville, Maryland. Your boss, Zelma Silverman, director of Human Resources, is concerned that so many of the firm’s 2000 white-collar employees use their computers for hours each day but still do not know how to touch-keyboard. He believes the hunt-and-peck method is inefficient and increases the possibility of making errors when inputting data, thus lowering reliability.

Identify and evaluate three to five keyboarding software programs that meet these criteria, and write a formal report recommending the best one to Ms. Finkelstein. Justify your choice using primary and secondary research (at least 3 print articles and 2 World Wide Web sources).

Your primary audience will be Ms. Silverman. Your secondary audience will be your instructor and classmates.

Please view this PowerPoint that covers the material from the first half of chapter 4. Then submit a short paper in which you state the difference between macro and micro sociology and also state three things you learned from the PowerPoint. This assignment is worth 10 points and must be completed by end of class time today 1:45pm.