Labors of Multitude

In today's society, technology has had an astounding impact on us both beneficially and harmfully. It creates an easier access to information we want to search up and it facilitates our communication with loved ones or business co-workers. In addition to technology proving to be beneficial for us, it just as well does us bad in the aspect of making us lazier, not allowing us to have an in-person conversation, and if we lose this technological device we lose a lot of things because we tend to store so much information in one little gadget. Social media is the biggest benefactor from the disadvantages that technology provides for this generation of human beings since social media gives us everything that is trending and popular out in the world. If a certain catch phrase is popular at a time most people begin to use it in their vocabulary and say it wherever it is thought to be appropriate. Also, people speak with slang through social media and with so much use of that slang it begins to stick to them and I have seen some people incorporate it into their writing and school work. Social media creates a barrier between us and getting the courage to do a public speech and in person conversations with one another. In the book "Rhetoric for Radicals" the author says that there are four rhetorical approaches which are persuasion, argumentation, storytelling, and invitation. Persuasion is the act of convincing another individual of an ideology that they may not believe or have a mindset on. Argumentation is the act of debating with the use of a claim and providing evidence to support it. Storytelling is the use of stories to get a point across. Invitation is the welcoming of different people to learn from past experiences that have happened. The media manipulates all four of these approaches to either inform people of different information or try and change their view on a certain subject since the media is where we get most of our information, if not all. One challenging situation that I have faced that forced me to respond to diverse communities was once when I was completing my community service hours for high school at a diverse middle school that I attended. I witnessed the discrimination of an African American student who was accused without any evidence of a wrong-doing just because he was at the sight of the incident meanwhile there was also a white student nearby the incident also. The African American student was falsy accused because "he was closer" when in reality both students were the same distance. I did not see who did it, but I had to sit with both students to try and figure out who really did it. I could not come to a conclusion, but it ended up being the caucasian student. This goes to show that there is still discrimination out in the world and it was the teacher who falsy accused the boy, so adults still haven't grown out of that stage of discriminating against other people with different ethnicities.