The day it rained chocolate

In the Kingdom of Moana, there was a king that was hated by everybody, because in the past he had been very bad to the people that lived in that Kingdom, but he wanted to change how the people of his Kingdom thought about him, so he though in something that would be very special for him and that could be very special for the people of his  Kingdom, so he called a local wizard, to help him to achieve what he wanted, so he told the wizard “ I want for chocolate to fall from the sky” so the wizard asked him back to assure himself, “ so you want for me to make the sky rain chocolate” the King answered “exactly”, so the wizard started thinking how to make a potion that made the sky rain chocolate, so finally after some weeks, he finished doing the potion that made the sky rain chocolate, so the day came that the sky was going to rain chocolate, so the King called all the people that lived in that Kingdom to see what was going to happened, so he said some words to the people that were there, “ as I have being so bad in the past, today I am going to make al does bad things in great things” so in that moment the wizard started to evaporate the potion, and after 5 minutes, chocolate started falling from the sky, so the people got so happy that made a great party for the king and for what he had done, for the Kingdom 

New technology texts

Written Language	Oral Language
Planned	Instant interaction
Delayed	Tone
Discourse markers	Pitch
Traditional syntax	Loosely constructed sentences

Contractions
Don't
It's
Doesn't
'aint

Elements of context

• Purpose
• Audience
• Topic

Text Messages

• Shorted words
• Phonetic spelling
• letter homophones
• number homophones
• grammaticcal compression

IPad is dominating the market of tablets

IPad started as the only tablet in the market, but this wasn’t for a long period of time, this is because other tablets went in to the market, tablets like Samsung Galaxy tab, Huawei S7, V9, ZTE. These came in with a lot of power in to the market as they were comparable with the IPad. Although people still prefer IPad because of its style, sensibility, applications, games. Etc.

Although there are some differences, IPad is a more structured, easy to use, nice looking, but it also has some things that people don’t like, as it is ITunes, lots of people think that iTunes is very difficult to use, and it is very difficult and demands lots of time to synchronize ITunes with your IPad, IPod ore IPhone, another thing that consumers don’t like about the IPad is that you can’t reallypreograme it as you want.

In the case of the other tablets as it is the galaxy tab, V9, Huawei S7, and the other mentioned before, there are more free to use,  as you are able to change your operating system, there are two most known operating systems for tablets as the ones mentioned before, these are the operating system of windows and Android, between these two the best is android, because of its open source, as you can do whatever you want with it, change configurations, but it also has something bad that fanatics of IPads always criticises that it will never be  able to have the same amount of applications, or as simple as it never will be able to have applications as good as the ones that the IPad has. In the case of windows it is good but not so good as android or the IPad as it has a bad reputation as it has had problems with viruses.

In conclusion IPad is the best seller in the market, because of its characteristics, and because its competitions are not at the same level as this one. IPad is better for people that don’t want to see much the configurations of the tablets, and the other tablets are for people that prefer to have a very personal tablet, programmed as they want,  but not with so many applications. If you want to buy a tablet, you don’t need to buy an IPad, because you can choose between the other tablets that cost the same ore are sometimes cheaper than the IPad, and probably the other tablets better and more useful than the IPad, although the IPad will still be preferred by the people of the twenty first century.

    

Rush Hour on Information Super Highway?

The source of the news is Fox news
In USA tablets, like the Ipad, are using all its bandwidth, this is because there are to many tablets using the internet at the same time, this you can compare it with a traffic jam. The bandwidth of USA was created for laptops only and knows it’s being used by lap tops and tablets.


This story has a few things that I think make it a little bias:
1) The choice of words and the tone of the reporters makes this out to be a disaster, but in reality it is not, it a a problem but not a disaster. a disater would be a nuclear war but not the internet being slow.


2) The story gives the statistic that 50,000,000 tablet PC's are estamated to be sold in the USA in the next year.


3) The peice of news was in the front page when I found it so lots of people will see it. This could mean it could make people angry.

4)The internet is being made faster and larger all the time with new fibre optic cables and faster computers so as long as these continue to be put in place faster than the growth in use of these hand held devices the problem should be containable.

Finally the story is not quite focused on one specific subject as it starts off by saying the we are running out of bandwidth and moves on to the speed of WI-FI and the same problem there.

Hard Times

Activity number 1

 Sissy - Cecilia - Girl number twenty - horse-riding - farrier - veterinary surgeon - ring

 Mr.Gradgrind was known for words like: Cecilia, veterinary surgeon, farrier, and girl number twenty.

Sissy Jupe was known for words like: Sissy, horse-riding and ring

Postmodernism

Questions of reality and being human rise with power at the end os the century. What dies it mean to be a human? How do human beings fit into the vast cosmos?Where to from here? This are some questions that the end of modernism.
To answer this questions we need to look what came before, in the age of modernism.
In the religously way thre was a new religion calles Judeo-Christian, that replaced the traditional beliefs in god.
Also science had developed, as the creation of stem engine, the harnessing of electricity, and darwins evolutionary theory, this changed the social conscieusness of man, with racional foundations.
The postmodernism, is characteristic for diferent reasons,
-The quest for truth is lost cause
-A person's sense od identity is composite
-The languages of our culture
-Realityos created by those who have power
-We should neutralizethe political power inherent in language
Some examples are:
-A different way of looking at life, for example we live with air, before we didn't know what air was, but now we want to know what air is.
-We don't only look at our selfs now but we look at other people, a more worldwide view
Personal Identity
-Sense of uncertainty about how to understand onseself
Education and academincs
We donde really know anything we rather interpret everythin.
Popular Media
-Media, presents a fictional reality, and a reality.
In conclusion, postmodernism influences our lives, as a individual and social level