Ignite speech outline

Title: A key part to my life

Intro:
 I. Attention Catcher-
Keys have been making life accessible for everyone since they were invented.

II. LRL-
I have yet to meet a person who does not have at least one key.

III. Speaker Credibility-
I have had to use keys since I was in grade school and I've been dependent on them ever since.

IV. Thesis-
Keys have helped make my life much easier. I couldn't imagine my life without them.  

V. Preview-
There are so many things I need my keys for.

Transition- Most of the time that I need them is to get into my dorm or my house

First Main Point:
LRL: When most people start off getting their own set of keys, they start off with their home key

A. It gives me free access to come and go when I please
    -Don't have to depend on others to get in.
    - Make my own hours of when I want to go out or come in

B. Keeps my stuff safe and locked away
    -No one can get in when I'm gone without my key
    - peace of mind knowing it's secure

C. Gives me access to my dorm
    - Bed to sleep in
    - place to get work done

Transition: If I'm not needing to stay in my dorm, my keys let me take my car wherever.

Second Main Point:
LRL: We all like having the freedom to go where ever when we want.

A. I can go wherever as long as I have my car keys
    - Not depending on others for rides
    - Place to sleep if need be
    - Lets me cure any type cravings

B. Lets me go build memories
    - As long as I have my car keys, anything can happen
    - Make great stories from going places

C. Keys my stuff safe inside
    - If it's locked, it makes it a lot harder to get in

Transition: My keys offer me other rewards, too

Third main Point:
LRL: Watching movies and stopping at gas stations are two things everyone can say they have done before

A. My blockbuster reward card on my keys lets me rent movies
    - For a slow night of staying in
    - fun times renting movies

B. Speedway rewards cards on my keys saves me money when ever I go
    - Gas
    - snacks/ drinks
    - anything in there

Conclusion:
Restate Thesis: My keys have helped me so much. I couldn't imagine not having any.

Summary of main points: My keys can give me a place to sleep, a car to drive and even a movie to watch with some snacks. Everything else is connected to what my keys already give me access to.

Clincher: In all, my keys have helped me numerous times and continue to help me live my life.

Ignite speech overview

I couldn't imagine my life without my Keys.

I. History
a. first keys
b. change over time
c. Change in society's amount and need of keys
d. Future

II. House Key/ Dorm key
a. access whenever I so please
b. Safe place
c. get to my bed

III.Car key
a. look over time/ my keys appearance
b. access to freedom of  going wherever
c. Making memories with my car

IV. Blockbuster/ Speedway reward cards
a. Rent movies
b. savings from speedway

My Social Identity

     I moved to Kentucky from New Jersey during my 7th grade year. upon me moving here, my dad decided to buy a new computer. Prior to that year, we never had a computer in the house. My dad always had a government laptop for working at home and anything that needed a computer, but I could never use it. So, in 7th grade, being the new kid with no friends and feeling very depressed, I discovered the wonders of the internet outside of the stuff they taught me in library class in school. I was amazed, but I remember all the kids at my school being interested in one thing on the internet: Myspace. This was my introduction to the world of social networking. This was also my ticket to understanding what people were talking about and making friends. If I met someone, even for a few minutes of small talk, I would get a friend request that next day. Soon, I wasn't that lonely anymore. I branched out to a few people, and through networking , I knew a lot more. This is the reason why Goodhealth.com said in an article that social networking has been linked to decrease in shyness or loneliness, strengthens your connections with friends and overall increase in self-esteem. I was living proof of this.
     My guidelines for using a social networking website was set by my parents at first. My dad checked it a lot to see if I was using it to talk crap about people or using it for any other dangerous actions. I knew he was checking it because any time I posted anything he didn't like hearing me say, I would hear about it from him. He knew that social identity was just as important as your identity in person. I couldn't just post anything I wanted to look tough, I had to censor myself as if adults were always watching. This was a characteristic I carried with me to maturation to Facebook, where I was at the age that my parents didn't care what I did on there anymore (as long as I wasn't going to jail).
    Facebook became very popular my freshman year. That's when I deleted my Myspace and moved to Facebook. But as soon as I started over with this new social network, I remember thinking " wow this is so dumb" when it was complete. It was the same concept as Myspace that made me stop wanting to check it as often: people saying things I was not interested in and trying so hard to get their number of "friends" as high as possible. I hated, and still do, seeing all my friends makes idiots of themselves doing stuff they wouldn't dare do in real life. It seemed as if no one had any self respect for their social identity on their web pages. This is when I started looking at my own social identity and start taking my parents rules as advice.
    When I first started, I never posted anything on Facebook. I did not want to look as dumb as my friends did posting about wanting to fight someone, doing drugs, and other stuff like that. I kept that stuff to myself. I did not feel this need to show it off, but for other people, this was their social identity. People used Facebook fights and pictures of them drunk or high to show off how cool they were. For me, I found it brave. The Huffington post posted an article on their website talking about police departments use of socail netowrks. They said "One company, SAS Institute Inc. of North Carolina, teaches police that they can scrape and analyze massive volumes of data from the backsides of Facebook and Twitter – something not everyone even knows is possible." This means at any time you can be watched by whoever, even the police. If I'm engaged in illegal activites, I would want the least amount of people to know as possible. But, then I did something really dumb.
      I eventually started using the site a lot more. I had fun with it. It kept me in contact with everyone all the time. I can talk about fun times and enjoy the memories with others who experienced them on there. I didn't care who saw. I started using the site so much, that it wasn't changing me, but it was becoming part of my life. Then, I posted this picture as my profile picture:

I took this picture the night I had a "run-in" with the law. I had a bit of something to drink as I was on top of the roof of a school. Sometime that next week, the cop who arrested me came to my school and talked to my teacher (being good friends already) and told her about it. She pulled up my image from facebook and he said "that's him, that's from the night I saw him." It was annoying to have teachers think of me as a bad kid. I'd rather them not notice me at all, then treat me like a bad student. I didn't need people knowing my personal life anyways.
      I then decided it did not seem necessary anymore to make my internet persona reveal me by posting statuses and pictures about my personal life to show people I'm cool and going out. That's why I decided to take it all down and not focus on my social identity as being cool, but being aware of the power of it. My parents were right when they spoke of the importance of keeping a clean social identity. It's open to the whole world. Anyone, and apparently anywhere, can see it. According to socialbakers.com, a website for making social netwoking sites, There are over 175 million people on Facebook. That's a lot of people.

 It's also one of the few things most Americans have in common and its a part of millions everyday lives. And growing with over 145,000 people joining since last week in America alone. But why is it so popular?  Because it is so addictive for so many reasons. A study from techaddiction.com gave me 20 reason including mood booster, informative and keeping in contact with family. These are all very accurate reasons and everyone has their reason. I found it addictive for me because if I needed plans for the night, they were there and if I missed out, I could catch up quick. Everyone would put up pictures of a party I missed and I could hear from them what happened right on Facebook. These were also very fun and easily accessible memories to come upon. That's all it was good for for me though.
      As time went by, I found it a lot easier to use a telephone to stay in the loop. It was also a lot safer for my image and no worries about starting conflict by talking to the wrong people. My social identity became less and less active. Now, my social networking activity is back to was when I first started. I am aware of who is watching and who is on my Facebook, like family and coworkers. Keep my activity at a minimum because I never feel I have anything to say people have to hear. And if I need to contact people I give them a text. I am out of the hype of social media. I have no posts and can't remember the last time I received a notification. I end by showing you the change in my social identity, or my lack of. I took this picture at my senior prom. This has been my profile picture for 5 months now and I doubt it will change any time soon.

Is Google making us stupid?

I just want to stay I feel like he is contradicting his argument by asking us to read this long article, but says Google and the internet has made it hard to read a long article. Anyways, I agree with his ideas about the effect of Google and the internet has on our minds. It was almost scary how accurate he was with some of his claims. As I started reading it, I stopped and checked the scores of the games, and when I came back he was telling about how difficult it is today to stay focused on reading something. It is true because even once on an article and reading it, there are so many flashy things going on around it, like advertisements, links and maybe even videos. I feel like the internet has, also, taken away some of my attention span because of the accessibly to more interesting things on the internet. The only time I can stay truly focused on something is if I am pushing a deadline or if it is easier to read than text documents. It was like the comic we read compared to the article on "rhetorical situation." I think the author hit it right on the head when he compared it to clocks and which we prefer looking at. I rap up this post by saying I share his fear of artificial intelligence and question its need. Knowledge is best left open to the world and given to those who wish to seek it. It is something that is earned.

Lloyd F. Bitzer

This essay was fairly to grasp on the first glance at it. I had to google a lot of the terms to get an idea of what he meant by them. Once I understood it, though, it clicked to me. Rhetoric is using the English language to strength a point the writer is trying to make using specific word choice. It is almost an art of it's own now and if used effectively, can do a lot for the audience reading it.
The author of this paper states that rhetoric is based upon situation. A rhetorical essay is then used to bring attention to something. He used an example in the essay to explain this to me. When he speaks of the man who commits injurious actions, he says the man's actions are rhetorical. The exigence is what he says is used to bring attention to the man's actions. This makes for a rhetorical essay.
Rhetorical situations have three constituents: exigence, audience and constraints. Exigence is defined as any "imperfection marked by urgency." In a rhetorical exigence, something is brought to attention for a positive outcome. I liked to think of the debate on smoking in this situation and how it is a rhetorical exigence because it brings attention to a deadly substance and calls for positive attention to it. The second and most important part, to me, is the audience. A rhetorical situation is nothing without a target audience to influence. The paper is written in attempt to cause change in the situation so without the audience, the writer can do nothing with his words. The last is constraints which are the objects and events you use to build and strengthen your point. Many times it can be examples or your own beliefs.
He then later begins to discuss more important points of rhetorical situations like having a fitting audience and asking for the write audience. Without this, there will be no desired outcome. The importance of organization of the writing can also effect the outcome. He raps up by saying rhetoric exigences will always be here, will always be important to talk about and will always need persuasion out of. This is why rhetoric has to be important to us.

5 sources for social identity project

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/facebook_inc/

http://www.everydayhealth.com/healthy-living/0406/the-facebook-effect-good-or-bad-for-your-health.aspx

http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/?interval=last-week#chart-intervals

http://www.webpronews.com/how-lawyers-use-twitter-facebook-in-court-cases-2012-04

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/web-surveillance-social-media_n_1854750.html