COM101

COMMUNICATION CORE CONCEPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: 1.  Who do you think are the documentarians' audience?  Who do you think they wanted to hear the message from the film? Support your answer with a specific example (scenes, quotes, information) from the movie. Answer: The documentarians' main audience were the consumers buying coffee and who consume coffee on a daily basis and they wanted to hear the message from the person who knew the living conditions of the coffee farmers in Ethiopia.  In a scene, where TADESSE MESKELA, manager of Oromia Coffee farmers co-operative union visits a supermarket in London and asks one of the staff members there to show him Ethiopian coffee to which the staff member acts surprised as he did not where exactly the Ethiopian coffee was kept in the coffee aisle there. So TADESSE tries to search for that coffee himself and after a lot of searching he finally finds a Ethiopian coffee- Mocha Sidamo which was hidden in one of the shelf ...

Grades are not everything The current grading system just takes the free will out of education We are often told by our parents and teachers from time to time that in order be successful in life, we need to get good grades. To get a good Job, we need good grades and to earn more than our peers, we need to get good grades. Such is the state of our current education system. The pressure of getting good grades starts right from our childhood and goes on till we graduate which invariably has a negative effect both physically and mentally on children. In pursuit of getting good grades, students often indulge in cheating and unhealthy behavior which defeats the whole purpose of getting a good grade, which is learning and free will. Grading students, from A to F, has become synonymous with education itself. The structure of the current grading system is believed to be the biggest culprit in America’s long, steady decline in education (Thomsen, 2013). According to a study conduct...

Annotated Bibliography COM 101- Communication Across Contexts Credible sources to save General Education Subjects General Education helps strengthening the higher education system which is evidently demonstrated in various articles. Tongam, N. (2014, February 24) The Importance of Understanding the General Education in strengthening the Higher Education System. Retrieved from IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc, 2014 https://search-proquest-com.libaccess.senecacollege.ca/docview/1700391510?rfr_id=info%3Axri%2Fsid%3Aprimo In the ‘Importance of Understanding the General Education’, Tongam (2014) states that the system of Modern education has produced reliable scientist and technocrats but has not spawned graduates with the integrity of mature personalities. He feels General Education is the implementation of the concept as a reaction to the tendency of modern society in idolizing the products of technology and tend to ignore human values due to the product of m...

Formative Assessment: Conducting Research Article: “Young princesses in the classroom: Children learning to be human in a Gendered world” Author: Jule, Allyson Assessment: Finding a credible source to support Allyson jule’s argument (thesis) Summary:             Princess culture does lead to body issues among young girls. According to the article, IS ‘DISNEY PRINCESS CULTURE’ A BAD INFLUENCE ON YOUNG GIRLS? (States News Service, 2016) concerns have been expressed that “Princess culture” could lead to body esteem issues in young girls, as Disney Princess tend to be slim, pretty and often with an improbably small waist (States News Service, 2016, p.1). Researchers from National health services of the United Kingdom, have talked to both parents and children to assess what types of influences exposure princess culture may have and they found a link between young girls watching more princess media, identifying with princesses, and playi...

Assignment 3: Online Lesson Plan task 3- Summary Writing Instructions For this assignment, you will write on a Word document a summary paragraph of 10-12 well structured and grammatically correct sentences of the article "The Temin Effect." Use what you have learned from Shaun and the sample summary.  Summary: David Epstein’s “The Temin Effect” article, talks about the interview with the biologist Howard Temin conducted by one of the M.G. many years ago. In this article, he talks about Howard Temin’s work on the discovery of “reverse transcriptase-the class of enzymes of capable of creating DNA from a RNA template” which won him a Nobel Prize and made him an unforgettable figure. David then talks about Howard’s high school days in which his valedictory address was about the hydrogen bomb and how his bar mitzvah money was donated to a refugee camp as he was raised by activist parents in Philadelphia. Further in this article, David also talks about his interv...

Assignment 2: Online Lesson Plan task 2- Paraphrasing Instructions Using what you have learned from Shaun's streaming class, practice paraphrasing the passage below from "The Temin Effect."  "Temin’s intellectual forebears, the actual, heretical Renaissance men, provide proof of concept. Where his contemporaries looked at the moon and saw a perfectly smooth, divine sphere, Galileo recognized shades of dark and light for what they were: mountains and craters. Why? He was trained as an artist and was well practiced at depicting 3-dimensional figures in various light conditions" (Epstein &  Gladwell, 2018, p.2) "Temin’s intellectual forebears, the actual, heretical Renaissance men, provide proof of concept. While his contemporaries looked at the moon and saw a perfectly smooth, divine sphere, Galileo observed shades of dark and light for what they were: mountains and craters, due to his training as an artist and practice at depicting 3 ...