Brooklynn's Blog

So, I take a Computer History class online and we have been reading about, you guess it, Computer History. In the beginning the text starts by introducing the readers to Eckert and Mauchly, the creators of the ENIAC also known as the UNIVAC. They used these computers to aid the military with their calculations for their firing tables because doing them by hand was time consuming and took up to 76 hours for each new weapon..and that's about it. Their original machine the ENIAC was lacking in speed and had to be basically rebuilt every time they used it. A man named John von Nuemann, who at the time was an international mathematician, joined their team and introduced them to the stored-program principle. That is what made the evolution of the ENIAC to the UNIVAC. The UNIVAC's speed was 10x greater than the ENIAC. They sold 6 of these large computers to military departments but they weren't able to come up with any other tech and eventually went bankrupt and their company was ...

I do not know about you but I agree with Adkins's advice about group work. The advice that was given to the readers is the same thing that we have been hearing ever since elementary school when our teacher would assign us to do group work. From my personal experience, the most important advice that he gave to the readers was "determine what technologies you and your group will need to facilitate the project collaboratively, and set deadlines for tasks" (Atkins, 237) First, determining the technology you'll need is essential because what if one of your group members who was assigned to the task the needs some sort of technology does not have access to any. They would have no way to let you know until the next time you would meet and that would most likely be the day of the deadline. You do not want to take that risk. Next, the self set deadline for the tasks are also important. You may be put in a group of lazy people who will not do the work until the day before the o...

Remember that time at a college party almost 10 years ago with you slurping beer out of some random dude's hairy belly button? Well, your friends took a picture of it and decided to post it on Facebook for their #tbt and tagged you in it. You see the post after you sent your job application to the biggest company in your city. You laughed at the post and gave it a like, your future employer did not. You just lost your job opportunity. In the article "10 Tips For Maintaining a Professional Image Online"  by Nathan Chandler, it reveals that not only can your actions ruin you online image, your friends and other colleagues can taint your image with obscene photos and posts just by tagging or inserting your name. " People who initially find you on the Internet have only that content by which to judge you."(Chandler, 1) I believe in this because before I meet any of my professors I went and googled them to get a sense of what kind of person they were and what could I...

Are these myths bias or are they true? In Irvin's essay, "What Is “Academic” Writing?" he outlined and debunked 7 myths that most high school and college students were made to believe as they evolved as writers. The Myths Are: Myth #1: The “Paint by Numbers” myth  Myth #2: Writers only start writing when they have everything figured out  Myth #3: Perfect first drafts  Myth #4: Some got it; I don’t—the genius fallacy Myth #5: Good grammar is good writing Myth #6: The Five Paragraph Essay Myth #7: Never use “I”  Most of these myth's I have personally never heard of but I just can't agree with myth #1. The myth is described as "writers believe they must perform certain steps in a particular order to write “correctly.” Rather than being a lock-step linear process,-". Maybe it's just me being stubborn but I've always been taught to follow an evidence triangle or some type of layout when I wrote essays and it made it a little more easier an...

If you were trying to employ me what would you find? You wouldn't be able to find anything but a half-used Facebook that only has embarrassing posts that I've been tagged in by my family members and a couple of pictures I took when I went to Hawaii for my 16th birthday. Since I'm not active on social media I don't necessarily have an "online image" so my employers would have to base their opinions on me by official documentations and how well I do in a interview setting. But What if I did have an online image? What if I had a whole bunch of pictures of me doing gang signs or posing with guns even though I wasn't a gang member and the guns were fake? My potential employers do not know that. They will assume my personality and my work ethic based on those pictures and skip right over me. It is crucial that you monitor what you post on your social medias because it is an open space, anybody can see it and even use it against you.

Hello Everyone! My name is Brooklynn Thomas and I am currently majoring in Information Technology (I.T). I've never really been a good writer so hint hint (I don't like to write). My objective for this class is not only just to pass it but to be able to further advance my writing capabilities. I also want to be able to have a little more confidence in my writing and to not dread the thought of having to write an essay at any given moment during this class and term.