I always heard that Twitter is a great website and that everyone is using it these days. I agree with one of those comments. I feel that everyone is using Twitter and that's great but I just don't like the fact that anyone can look at my profile no matter if I want them to or not. Twitter is a great way to meet new people and to stay in touch with people that you don't get to see very much. However, I would much rather use Facebook to keep in touch with people that I am close to.
When I first started using Twitter I wasn't for sure exactly how to work everything. I didn't really understand much besides to post a tweet and then you follow people. I didn't really understand much more than that. I didn't really like the fact that when somebody says something specifically to you it doesn't appear as a notification or something new that is on your profile like it does on Facebook. I also don't exaclty get why there is a leave preview option. I mean if you are going to look at somebodies profile you want to just be able to click on it. I didn't understand that part of Twitter right away. Here is a link to a guide to Twitter that I found to be helpful in understanding the Twitter options. http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
Over the past two weeks of using Twitter has been nothing too harmful but I don't think I would want to keep my account. I don't think I get the whole point of Twitter anyway. Plus I just don't like the fact that anybody in the world that has a Twitter account can look at what I'm doing or look at my pictures. Another reason why I am probably not going to keep my account is because nobody that I want to keep in touch with has a Twitter account. Here is a link to my Twitter account: http://twitter.com/alexbedwards.
A way that I could benefit from using Twitter if I would keep my account would be that I could make new friendships with people here at Iowa State and I also get informed of different events that are going on at Iowa State. Twitter is an ok form of social media. However, I would much rather use facebook or something else.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Diversity Event- abUSed
I went to the diversity event about the film called abUSed by Luis Argueta. This is a film about the Postville Raid on the towns meat packing plant. I chose to go to this event because in my hometown there is a meat packing plant that employes many imigrants. I thought this would be very interesting to watch. In fact it was very interesting and it makes you stop and think what if this were to happen to my town. What would people be saying and what would they think?
The film showed what excatly happend and how the people felt. Things that seemed very shocking to me were that the workers were sent to the National Cattle Congress and were processed through an assembly line of government workers trying to evict them and send them back to where they came from. This is awful that the workers were treated like the cattle or other animals that they worked with everyday. Children were seperated from their parents and only some mothers were able to go back and care for their children. However, they were forced to wear ankle detectors that would not allow them to go outside of the state or even their town. The mothers had to charge their ankle devices for two hours a day so this meant this was time away from their children.
Another thing that surprised me was that the government found that thirty one of the workers were sexualy assulted during work and eleven of the workers were working underage. At the end of all of this it turned out that the manager of the meat packing plant was charged with twenty seven years in jail for eighty seven acounts of working a minor.
I really got my eyes opened up to what the world can really be like and how exactly imigrants can be treated. I don't know honestly how my town would act if this would happen to our local meat packing plant Tyson. I just know that my hometown would be really dead because nobody would be there. I really believe that everyone needs to watch the video abUSed to get a view of what can happen to a meat packing plant even though it may just be in Iowa.
The film showed what excatly happend and how the people felt. Things that seemed very shocking to me were that the workers were sent to the National Cattle Congress and were processed through an assembly line of government workers trying to evict them and send them back to where they came from. This is awful that the workers were treated like the cattle or other animals that they worked with everyday. Children were seperated from their parents and only some mothers were able to go back and care for their children. However, they were forced to wear ankle detectors that would not allow them to go outside of the state or even their town. The mothers had to charge their ankle devices for two hours a day so this meant this was time away from their children.
Another thing that surprised me was that the government found that thirty one of the workers were sexualy assulted during work and eleven of the workers were working underage. At the end of all of this it turned out that the manager of the meat packing plant was charged with twenty seven years in jail for eighty seven acounts of working a minor.
I really got my eyes opened up to what the world can really be like and how exactly imigrants can be treated. I don't know honestly how my town would act if this would happen to our local meat packing plant Tyson. I just know that my hometown would be really dead because nobody would be there. I really believe that everyone needs to watch the video abUSed to get a view of what can happen to a meat packing plant even though it may just be in Iowa.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Me at my best
Everyone has their times when they feel like they did something really well or that they are on top of the world. It is a time when people are proud of them for whatever they have done or accomplished. This moment may not be something that you have won an award with but it can be a time when you feel that you accomplished something for yourself.
In my life a time when I have felt this way was when I won junior beef showmanship at my county fair. I remember it clearly and it just seems like it happened not too long ago. It was my first time showing cattle and I was really nervous but I knew what I was doing and everyone had told me that I was doing really well that day. So when it came time for showmanship I was feeling confident but yet I was still scared. I remember when the judge came to talk to me. He put his arm around my shoulder and just asked me questions about myself. After waiting for him to get done talking to everyone he grabbed the microphone and talked a little bit about each of us. Then he said he was going to shake the winners hand. This is when I got really nervous but sure enough the judge walked right over to me and shook my hand.
I was so happy that I had won and I knew that all of my family and friends were very proud of me because this was my first year of showing. Looking back I remember how excited I was and how my heart was racing a hundred miles an hour. The year after that I won intermediate showmanship and three years after that I won senior showmanship. So I had started showing in fourth grade and I had won all three showmanship levels by the time I was an eighth grader and this was something that was not very common at our fair.
Looking back now I wish that I could have still shown in the showmanship competition but since I had won the senior showmanship I was done. Winning showmanship may not seem like a big deal to someone that doesn't show any animal but for people that do you probably know what I'm talking about. You get a feeling that you have succeeded because it has something that you won personally. It's not something that your calf could win for you. This to me is something that I will always cherish and think that I was at my best during those times.
In my life a time when I have felt this way was when I won junior beef showmanship at my county fair. I remember it clearly and it just seems like it happened not too long ago. It was my first time showing cattle and I was really nervous but I knew what I was doing and everyone had told me that I was doing really well that day. So when it came time for showmanship I was feeling confident but yet I was still scared. I remember when the judge came to talk to me. He put his arm around my shoulder and just asked me questions about myself. After waiting for him to get done talking to everyone he grabbed the microphone and talked a little bit about each of us. Then he said he was going to shake the winners hand. This is when I got really nervous but sure enough the judge walked right over to me and shook my hand.
I was so happy that I had won and I knew that all of my family and friends were very proud of me because this was my first year of showing. Looking back I remember how excited I was and how my heart was racing a hundred miles an hour. The year after that I won intermediate showmanship and three years after that I won senior showmanship. So I had started showing in fourth grade and I had won all three showmanship levels by the time I was an eighth grader and this was something that was not very common at our fair.
Looking back now I wish that I could have still shown in the showmanship competition but since I had won the senior showmanship I was done. Winning showmanship may not seem like a big deal to someone that doesn't show any animal but for people that do you probably know what I'm talking about. You get a feeling that you have succeeded because it has something that you won personally. It's not something that your calf could win for you. This to me is something that I will always cherish and think that I was at my best during those times.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Beloit College Mindset List
Some of these things they were talking about I didn't even know what they were talking about. I agree that email is too slow, calling someone or texting them would be way faster. I also agree that very few people know how to write cursive because it is getting to where the teachers aren't teaching students how to write in cursive. Walmart does sell handguns. I have never heard of anyone getting married in space but I think that would be pretty cool. I have also never tried setting my toothpaste on the cap I always just throw it in the drawer. I have never tried to get my parents to get divorced and I don't see why kids would want that. I think there were some far fetched things in this article.
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