Media Bias.

The American government and politics play a huge role in what we see in the media. This includes the news as well as talk shows and radio. They have the ability to refuse or allow things to be released within the media. This basically shelters us from the real news and knowledge of whats going on. We only know what they want us to know. There is also a large amount of individual bias within media itself. Two different people with different beliefs can cover the same story and make the outcome completely opposite just by differentiating the facts they give and the choice of words they use. This entales you can't trust just any website or any information you recieve. You have to question it and look at other stories that cover the same information and see what it has to do. To get the most accurate information you have to look at multiple sources and then interpret the information and form your own opinion on the subject. If one simply trusts the first thing they read on a certain subject they are not getting the full and true information, they are mainly getting one person's opinion on that subject. That person could very well have the complete opposite opinion you have, resulting in you getting the opposite information you really want to read and write about. There is nothing one can do to stop bias within news and media, but there is certain things one can do to get around it and still get all the facts. You can research the author of said news or story, as well as look around at different articles on the same subject and compare / contrast the evidence to form your own opinion on the subject. By doing these things you are much more likely to get all the real information and write what is true, rather than writing something that is not so true but more opinion, worded well enough someone could make a totally legitimate statement or argument about something that is completely false.

Graduation Speech.

Hello, and good afternoon everyone. it brings me great joy and pride to stand atop this stage in front of all of you folks. Now what we've done, and by we I mean the jeffconet students have done, has been quite different than what most of you in the audience think Highschool is. We all come from a different background and all decided we needed to try something different. In a sense, its a swift, kick in the nuts to society and how they try to conform all of us to, at such a young age. Here at jeffconet, you are allowed to express yourself as who you are, all of the teachers know you and push you to graduate, whereas in traditional highschool the teachers could care less who you are, and if you graduate, they are they to get paid, regardless if their students graduate or not. The staff here at jeffconet has been amazing and really helped to push me to actually get my diploma. I am proud to say that I left the conformist traditional high schools, where every student is just another kid in the eye's of the faculty, and come to a place where I am accepted for who I am, all the staff knows me by name and knows if Im falling behind or not. As I said before, it is so very satisfying for me to be able to say, I did things my own way....and it worked. Salvador Dali once said, I sometimes feel I might die from an overdose of satisfaction....well I never knew what he ment untill this day. However hard this ride has been this is what the The Grateful Dead have to say about our trials and tribulations, I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe,But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride. No matter what goes down, who goes down, I will enjoy the ride! (not part of speech, just putting quote in so I dont forget, going to rearrange some stuff too, this just a compilation of ideas for now, Leaves are falling all around,It's time I was on my way.Thanks to you, I'm much obliged For such a pleasant stay.But now it's time for me to go,The autumn moon lights my way.For now I smell the rain,And with it pain,And it's headed my way.Ah, sometimes I grow so tired,But I know I've got one thing I got to do, I've gotta Ramble On!)