Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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The capabilities I have demonstrated through my work in New Media Lab
I can write well-developed articles for the general audience. I am able to make the article an intriguing piece and attract audiences from outside of the topic as well. I am capable of controlling my voice and style to write in both opinion and objective journalistic styles. I can also use narrative writing to tell an engaging story. I can generate interesting and relevant writing ideas and target an audience bringing relevant and current information on the topic. My research is done well using credible sources only and have been confirmed by the fact-checking team.
I can use a variety of online tools such as email, online word processors, social media, search engines and content management systems to communicate, research, write, and publish my work using online conventions such as hyperlinking to sources. I can embed media to publish multimedia articles. I can find and select images that convey the topic and tone of my writing in a way that understands and respects copyright and fair use.
I can act as a leader in the classroom, assisting my classmates and helping direct our collective project. I can use my understanding of the English language, written nonfiction genres and the needs of the audience to help develop and polish other writer’s work. I can understand the needs of the brand and help maintain the integrity of our publishing project.
Legalization of Sports Betting
In 2018, a U.S. Supreme Court verdict functionally gave a green light for many states to open up legalized online sports betting. Naturally, the then-illegal online gambling spent approximately $0 in television advertising; that jumped to $10.7 million at the beginning of 2019 and is now a $154 million market in the local ad space alone and ranks 11th overall among the 1,200 product categories that Nielsen tracks on television, single-handedly accounting for 2.1 percent of all advertising dollars spent on television.
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Complex News recognition of the Black Lives Matter movement
Complex News is known to be one of the top media companies, varying from pop culture and music news all the way to the recent passing of George Floyd, which has sparked a grand movement world wide to end racism once and for all, and end police brutality with it. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
The video shows ground footage of Minneapolis, the very city where George Floyd was laying on his stomach with a police officers knee on his neck, not breathing. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
This global movement is breathtaking and empowering, how everyone is doing this together. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Complex News has been on top of every event so far, sharing news every hour of updates on every case, every protest and every change happening in this matter right now. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
This worldwide movement will go down in history. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
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Banner/Icon
I made an Icon and a Banner for my wordpress account which had to describe me and associate myself with it. So the first one I made was my icon, which is basically my profile picture that I made myself and it says KALEB’S BLOGS and big bold letters which are different shades of blue and circling around 3 flags, a Canadian flag, a Russian flag, and an American flag. These three represent me because I’m a tri-citizen with all these countries and I think I associated myself well with the logo by using that. Also the color of the letters I used I think matches well with me because I’ve always been told that blue is my color etc. Next is the banner which is displayed at the front of this blog post as well as at the front of my own front page of my wordpress website. It is a picture that I took myself of a local attraction point, Metrotown, in the sunset. And I thought it was the perfect banner image for my blog since I enjoy photography, I took this picture and edited it myself, and I made the logo sitting at the top of the image myself, associating me with all these things.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism could be described as many things as “theft” or “literacy crime” and that’s exactly what it is, it’s a very much occurring situation where people’s own literacy that they created is being copied by someone else as an attempt to do less work and potentially make it look like the plagiarizer’s writing is better than expected. This is also used with any ideas and writing styles. The common ways where plagiarism is identified is failure to put quotations around text that is directly copied from another source as well as no credit given to the source of the original writing/ideas.
As expected it is very easy to make your writing seem like it’s plagiarized whether it is intentional or not, it is also very easy to spot by editors or teachers. A few ways to write freely while not plagiarizing are understanding the context or content you are presenting, this will give you more freedom to write in your own words while staying on topic at all times. Another way is quoting any copied text that’s helpful for the topic to enhance you’re context as well as keep it unplagiarised.
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
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