Blog Prompt # 9

One of the sources i plan to use is about search engines. i hope to get information from it on how search engines came to be found and how they have progressed. An exampole of that type of source is: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=9&hid=106&sid=52a55eab-ae12-4b40-aec2-af0c198871f2%40sessionmgr102. Another source will have information on getting information from books. Also, how that started and progressed. Another source will explain how people had to go to other people to get the infomation they needed.
Most, if not all, of my sources will be scholarly articles from either the library or google scholar.
These sources will help explain my thesis and the point, in which, i will be trying to make.

Blog Prompt #8

Research Questions:

v Does music players bring people together?

v How do music and music players affect people?

v Is having a music player a good thing or bad thing?

Search Terms:

v Music and music players

v Brings people together

v Connects or disconnects

Blog Prompt # 7

Everyone has them nowadays. They can be found at home, at the airport, in a car, even outside. What are they, you ask? Portable music players, such as, CD players, MP3’s, and Ipods. They have grown in quantity and in gigs. They can now have pictures, lyrics, games, Internet. There are different types of accessories. Such as covers, speakers, and headphones. It would seem like everyone has one. Walking down the street or down a school hallway, people have the headphone buds stuck in their ears. The community is affected by this new piece of technology. This subject is important, because music players are vastly found and affect everyone, in one way or another. The subject of if it connects people to others is arguable. Some will say that it brings people together through music, while others say that having the headphones in makes them unapproachable. The music players make people have more things to converse about, which leads to them connecting.

The research that will be used will mostly be observational. There will also be research on the background of music players and the way they have grown. I hope to find articles about how music players connect or disconnect them from others. Also on how a music player can affect the person’s mood.

Portable music players have made a huge impact on society. They started from tapes, to CD players, to MP3 players and Ipods. They have become a trend to have and it is rare to find someone without one. A song on a music player can start of a conversation. It connects people who have the same taste in music and sometimes people who have different.

Blog Prompt #6

Technology affects everyone in different ways. Some in good ways and others in bad ways. Technology has brought cures for different kinds of diseases. It also has made communication a whole lot easier. For instance, earlier on people had to send letters that would take days and sometimes weeks to get to the other person. Now we can call people, send texts, or e-mail them. it is a whole lot faster and more efficient. Technology can bring people together as well as tear them apart. For instance, people can get together through a phone call, but also they can separate through a text. Sometimes technology can hinder relationships. A couple could be in the middle of an argument on the phone and the call could be loss. They could think that the other hung up on them and get madder at him or her.