Questions about Privacy/Summary

Is there a major difference between privacy in law to peoples everyday rights and what the media is aloud to exploit? What is the best way to protect out privacy online? How do you handle a situation where you feel like your privacy has been breached? Using Gale Virtual Library and Wikipedia were different experiences. While Gales gave very informative papers with my topic word in each paper, Wiki contained a lot of general information. I liked that with gale you could find a lot of very specific information. If I was to do this again I would want to make a specific question or topic on privacy and gale would help with this the best. Both sources were easy to use and contain lots of information.

Privacy Wikipedia

Privacy: Person secluded from information sharing Government, Privacy laws, constitutions, freedom of speech, identiy theft, Advertising, security, clothing, trespassing, Civil, Fourth amendment, Interent privacy, medical privacy, political privacy, fraud Wikipedia though has a lot similarities there are a bunch of different things came up as well. Wikipedia contributors. "Privacy." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 23 Apr. 2013. Web. 28 Apr. 2013.

Privacy GVL

My topic is Privacy. I used Gale Virtual Reference Library to gather my information. Privacy: Sense of something can keep to self not disturbed by others Right to privacy: Entitled to have privacy by ones basic rights, free of unsanctioned intrusion Security: not worry about danger or threat Legislation: Laws Genetics: Freedom from not authorized intrusion Common Law: Rights to privacy Constitutional Law: Privacy is the right to make personal decisions when dealing with intimate matters Internet Privacy: Be aware of how to keep your privacy online Public Privacy: Be aware of what is public and how to keep private Social Psychology of Privacy: What is most important in the persons mind Protecting your Privacy: Recognizing different situations in which you need to protect your privacy Fair Credit Reporting Act: prevent invasion of consumer rights Privacy Act: Makes federal government to use fair ways to collect information Freedom of Information Act: holds limits of information that agencies can release Family Educational Rights: Gives the parents the right to see their child’s school records "Privacy." Gale Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Donna Batten. 3rd ed. Vol. 8. Detroit: Gale, 2010. 109-118.Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 28 Apr. 2013.

Unit 2: Plagiarism

Read over each of the following passages, and respond on your own or as a class as to whether or not it uses citations accurately. If it doesn't, what would you do to improve the passage so it's properly cited? 1. Last summer, my family and I traveled to Chicago, which was quite different from the rural area I grew up in. We saw the dinosaur Sue at the Field Museum, and ate pizza at Gino's East. This person did cite the places correctly because all you need to do is capitalize the names of the places which was done. 2. Americans want to create a more perfect union; they also want to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for everybody. If this is a direct quote it is not cited correctly. It would need quotation marks and then in parenthesis cited the name of the author in it right after the quote is finished. 3. I find it ridiculous that 57% of high school students think their teachers assign too much homework. This is presented as a fact, so the information source should be documented after stating the information. Do not quote the exact information unless you are going to use quotations. Numbers 4, 5, and 6 all refer to the following passage from Martin Luther King's "Letter from the Birmingham Jail": You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative. 4. Martin Luther King was certain that nobody would want to be contented with a feigning type of social analysis that concerns itself only with effects and doesn't deal with root causes. This person did not plagiarize they got the same meaning across using there own words. 5. Martin Luther King wrote that the city of Birmingham's "white power structure" left African-Americans there "no alternative" but to demonstrate ("Letter from the Birmingham Jail" para. 5). I believe this person cited this correctly as well, they state the parts in parenthesis they took directly and then cited where they got those citations and where to find them. 6. In "Letter from the Birmingham Jail," King writes to fellow clergy saying that although they "deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham, your statement fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations." This person did not cite correctly, though they state the document they get the quote from in their statement it is not cited correctly. The person needed to do as the following person did at the end with parenthesis. 7. My friend Kara told me that she loves living so close to the ocean. I think that this is a different sort of citing, she gives credit in the beginning saying that it is her friends opinion and states her name, in something such as this the citing should be fine. 8. Americans are guaranteed the right to freely gather for peaceful meetings. This is a hard one for me. To me this falls into the common knowledge area, therefor should require no more citation. Then again it may make the argument stronger if some statutes were quoted or referred too and then cited. Finally I have had a nice re cap on plagiarism through the iris site. Some important things that always stick out in my head for starters is the rule that anything considered common knowledge does not need to be cited. It is also important to get the correct type of citation depending on the style format you are writing in. Referring to special books to help with those styles is great. You must always acknowledge statistics, charts, graphs and tables that others have made that you use. Saying all of that I plan to avoid plagiarism the biggest way by making sure that I put things into my own words. Other then that I will try to minimally use quotes for this will make it easier. I will also cite my sources when necessary.

My first Blog Post

Yey! My first blog post for class! :) Setting up my blog has been fun and pretty straight forward so far. I notice a big difference between digital work and paper. Digitally I believe it can go farther, and there is a possibility of of faster results. You can also portray digital information on a larger scale than anything written. There is a larger area of marginal error possible when using digital. But not anything that you could not help from happening with proper planning. I do not involve myself in too much social media. I do have a Facebook and I try to check it at least once a day. Some days I do not use it at all, and on great occasion I have been on it longer. It changes so much, and I am so busy that I do not really have enough time to get on all the time.