Saturday, March 29, 2014

Blog 3 hype

According to the article " I know the truth so don't me with facts" by the author Jeffry Kluger, people are easily influenced by rumors and lies. The university of Ohio State researchers show how false beliefs are [I don't know what you mean here] and what it take free people from them [what it takes to free people from them--those are the words from the reading; you are copying] R.Kelly Garrett an Erik Nisbet professor of  communication at Ohio state university asked 750 people of they believed on of the rumors about the Islamic cultural central and wonder if the truth would change their mind. They arrived at two conclusions 1.) that people are easily fooled in what they believed with sickness and inflammatory quotes, which affects an individual even when evidence has shown that the allegation were wrong, and 2.) that people tend to stick to their beliefs even when they learn the truth. No one likes to tell that they are wrong.

Garrett and Nisbet made valid key pointers that I do agree with. After the 9/11 terrorists attack, many Americans came up with the false belief that all worshipers of the Islamic culture are terrorists. For example, after the first few years of the attack we isolated the Arabic. Rumors concluded that even the Arabic that lived in Americans previous were apart of the attack. To take precautions the government started to group Arabic all together in one place and put them in concentration camps. Another example, " Americans started to use violence because of the rumors and the quotes, that America the land of the free became the land of self- destruction. The actions were justified as wrongful right, we were doing to another race/religion based on rumors. Instead of directing toward the individuals or the group who contributed to the attack, we targeted each and everyone that resembles the terrorists. Some perspective has changed their mind over time, but many still believed that the Islamic culture believers can not be trusted. Are we in the right do and have these wrongfully acquisitions against the Islamic culture because of rumors.[this second part is not an example, but a series of arguments]

In conclusion, humans have been deceived by rumors and lies. Researchers at the university of Ohio state said how false beliefs are and what it take to free people from them. Garrett and Nisbett recruited 750 people who reportedly believed one of the rumors they proposed. The two conclusions were 1.) people beliefs can be manipulated with pictures and quotes and 2.) fewer people were willing to reverse their positions regardless of the evidence. [this is a) too close to the original; mostly a summary of what you have said before; check the packet for how to write a different kind of conclusion]

1 comment:

Doctor X said...

You have the general idea of what to do, lovetobake. Now we need to work on

1. Less echoing the reading in the summary.

2. More development, which means a thesis with at least two reasons so you can have at least two body paragraphs with an example each.