There are many movies and television shows that revolve around the topic of disasters. Even though most are fiction or are fictionalized they sometimes do show creative ideas for survival. The disaster movie that I enjoyed when I was young was Independence Day. The movie is about an alien invasion of Earth. The aliens use huge ships to blow up major cities around the world to prepare for a ground invasion. One idea that I still remember from this movie is how the fiancé of the main character helped herself, her son, the first lady, and a small group of survivors escape the aftermath of one of those attacks. She kept a look out for a functional vehicle while walking out of the city. She finally came upon a functional firetruck with the keys left in the visor. The vehicle was then used to carry the small group, some of who were injured, to safety.

In most disasters governmental agencies are not the only ones to show up to help. Citizens and community groups, local and from across the nation/region, show up to help. One group who gained notoriety during Hurricane Harvey was the Cajun Navy. These groups are often loose groups of people instead of being a single organization. These groups use social media, apps ,and even walkie talkies to coordinate their efforts. Like all methods of communications social media has many problems that might hinder their usefulness. (Smith, Stephens, Robertson)

Blog 11

All disasters have many of the same issues that must be faced and hopefully solved. One of these major issues is the lack of means to or difficulty of moving people to or from the disaster area. This issue like others varies by disaster and the geographical area it takes place. In one city congestion might be a problem while another city has its bridges washed away by flooding. Both examples prevent people from leaving the disaster area and hampers help from arriving in a timely manner.

I worked really hard and long on the anointed bibliography and outline. The week before the assignment due date I woke up early every day to work on it before my first class of the day. Then I stayed up really late, especially the night before the assignment was due. During that late night I downed a lot of mounted dew to stay awake. I did this finish and polish the assignment.

What are the reasons we actually use our sources?

• To back up your argument?
• To add authority to what you’re saying.
• To prove you’re not stealing or plagiarizing.
• To argue against the source, disagree with them.
• To show you carried out the goal,  you used the iceberg technique.
• To defend your points.
• To define key terms in your intro.

How might sources be used in poor or annoying ways?

• The road kill-you drop the source in there, it doesn’t make much sense or relate to the topic.
• Citations that don’t make sense(always want to use the authors last name in a citation and the page if you have it (bell 140). Bad Ex:(“definition).
• Uncle Berry  rambles too much-throwing in too many sources and too much too fast.
• Reminder: the solution comes from you.
• This means using “I” in your page.
• Not quoting or summarizing correctly.
• Three things we do: summarizing, paraphrase, and directly quoting.
• Summarizing: general or the  major point of what you read.
• Paraphrasing: putting part of a source in your own words, still means you have to cite it..
• Quoting: exact words from an author are needed.
• Ex: “Chernobyl was one of the worst places to live in the 80’s”, “worse places”(citation) Include Chernobyl.
• Flow- connecting old info to new info in a smooth way.
• First, I went to my morning class. Then I had a snack. After that I went to music class. Then finally I ate lunch, and school got out early. How is the flow working in social media? There’s little flow in our everyday lives, either in social media or on the news…

10 Sources total, 5 of which are from journals/scholarly sources, 5 from reputable places, using CRAAP method, pop culture example (qualify them-explain that they are fictional, but they can help us understand certain things).

Pose a hypothesis first at the top of your outline.

Highschool analogy of a burger. Top Bun-=Intro

Meat= Body

Bottom Bun=Conclusion

Now the analogy is deluxe burger

1.Into Paragraph 1: Start with a personal example or story that explains why you researched this topic, or share a story from pop culture sources(qualify it and say it is fiction).

2. Intro Paragraph 2: Define all of your terms. Slow down, and explain what your most important key terms mean. Ex: EMP- explain what it is in your own words.

3. Into Paragraph 3 Thesis paragraph. Where you explain your solution and how you will structure it.

Bridge between into and body. Describe possible scenario that will cause disaster.

In a proposal, stick to that genre. Use logos, use qualifiers-explain that it is hypothetical. Be concise(no more than 1-2 paragraphs). Avoid changing genres and making it a creative writing exercise).

IV Describe the way the world normally functions.

V Describe the way we must solve a problem.

VI Describe opposing views/different ways to solve the problem.

VII Conclusion pat 1: Explain again why your choice is the best.

VIII Call to action. Explain what work still needs to be done, explain the limits of your proposal.

Create your own outline, filling in the specifics from your project, make it with parallel structure( means that all grammatical and stylistic choices the same)

1 Orientation

A. Overview of your project(syllabus pg2)

B. Weapon exercise group activity where you had to pick a weapon that would be useful during a disaster/apocalypse

c. Create a blog for your “short assignment” Anne Lamott wrote everyday we can write a short amount and get things done.

D. Describe a situation where you lost power, wrote, etc in blog 1

2 Day 2

A. Interview a classmate about their experience interviews can count as primary sources. You just have to give credit to the right people and make sure they were a witness. Gathered raw data with their answers we then used to make fake research paper that day. Homework read campus plumber.

3 Day 3

A. NPR and “fake news.”

B. Healthday.com use of pills

C. AL.com About our water comes from

d “campus plumber”