Week 5 Discussion Post 19 Document

When it comes to the news and how I hear about what is going on in the world, I get

most of it from either social media (I am the type to scroll through twitter in my free

time), and from my parents/grandparents who keep up with it on the daily basis. I

will be honest, I do not watch the news on tv much unless it is on in the background

while I am at work, and I do not keep up with the little things on my own – only the

stories that are big enough to make it from my parents to me or make a big enough

presence on social media to get my attention which cues me to look into it. When it

comes to me analyzing it, it is already pretty sorted through by the time I hear about

it because like I said I typically only hear about it if it is a story who gets the

specifically speaking is to participate in voting. The first time I was able to vote was

in 2016, I was freshly 18 and a senior in high school. I was able to learn a lot of what

was going on in the government at that point in school because they made a big

deal of it for their seniors who were preparing to vote. They encouraged doing your

own research because it would be easy to ask your parents and go with what they

were voting for. That sounded like a great idea, but they did not teach the research

process and how you can tell whether your research path is credible. This year will

be my second time voting and I feel much more prepared because not only have I

matured an immense amount in the last 4 years, I also know how to critically think

and determine the accreditation of the sources I am studying in order to be

immediately trigger the emotional side of me simply by putting a dog on the screen.

Another thing the ASPCA does to keep you engaged is put a sad slow song in the

back ground of their emotion triggering images of animals in bad situations. On top

of that, they are typically long commercials – they do not try to get right to the point

in 30 seconds, they have you holding on for 4 minutes and you are crying by the end

of it, wanting to donate money to them.

My favorite concept from this course to learn about was the fallacies. I have studied

them a small bit before in a philosophy course I took in the past but going even more

in depth was intriguing. It is interesting to me how much we as consumers are

basically strategically played by these companies in order to gain our loyalty and buy