Job strategies

I chose two articles. One article was about having good conversation with possible employers. This is showing the employer how you have reacted to other real life situations and is making sure you fit their corprate structure. This is cruticial in real life and in the job market. eing able to have a smooth conversation can make or break your interview and might just land you the job. The other article I looked at was on dealing with your interview stress. If you are a person like me you can become very anxious sometimes. The article tells the reader to take slow deep breaths and this will help to calm the nerves. Also, sit up straight and don't cross your legs or arms. It is easier to control anxiety when it first strarts then when it starts spiriling out of control. All of these skills will help in my interview the only problem is that I have to put them into action. I can read about this all day but is my personality going to allow me to follow through? That is the question I ask myself and in the near future that question will be answered.

Drug Abuse

http://www.theantidrug.com/drug_info/prescription_dangers.asp. There is the address for this piece I chose. The ethos is seen through the fact that teens are starting to turn away from street drugs, but the problem, that the article points out, is that they are strating to abuse a different type of drug. These would be the types of drugs that you and I would be prescriped for a broken bone or chronic back pain and such. The logos comes through when the speaker says, "Every day 2,500 youth age 12 to 17 abuse a pain reliever for the very first time., Also, In 2006, more than 2.1 million teens ages 12 to 17 reported abusing prescription drugs." This is appealing to logic that prescription drug abuse, if untreated, could become an epicidemic. The article its self suggests that this is already becoming a problem. The ethos comes in when the author starts telling the reader of the health risks associated with overdoseing. If I were a parent reading this article I would immediately go and lock my medicine cabinet, but lets be honest, if children and teens are already abusing then they will find a way to get the drug. I am not ignorant to the fact that drug use is a big deal, and to be honest time I've in high schoool and college witnessed alot of drug abuse. I am not one to judge quickly and never will be. The emotional appeal in this article comes from the fact that as a responsible adult you need to eduacte kids on the dangers of overdoseing and we need to keep close tabs on our prescription medicine. As far as me comparing the guest speakers and MLK to this pieace of writing I would have to say that MLK is the most appealing due to his charisma of being a courageous unique person in such a close minded society. He was way outside the box for his time and paid the price for being different in society during his time. His logos, pathos, and ethos are all in a unique allignment and it is seen in his eliquently written letter from a Birmingham jail. But in all honesty, I enjoy reading articles on drug abuse and addiction because it runs in my family and educating myself might help me in the future. Life is short and the most pesuasive line filled with ethos, logos, and pathos is from the Shawshank Redemption where Tim Robins says,"get busy living, or get busy dying." I know this isn't eactly what you had in mind for this assignment, but I went off on a tangent for some reason. I hope I am somewhere in the ball park for what you were looking for.

10 Years

In ten years I hope to be starting my career. I have to be honest and say I have never really thought about what I want to do. Well, I mean to say that I don't know what I want to do with my life. I have student loans to pay as well as figure out a way to live from day to day without my parents money. They dont help much but without the help they give I dont know what I would do. I am a management major with a minor in coaching. I love sports so I might go into coaching; but I do desire to own my own business one day. To do this I will need to get a job managing or interning at a well known company like BMW, Oconee Nuclear, or something to that sort. This will give me knowledge of the internal workings of business. I hope to have found a girl/woman that is loyal, loving, and willing to work through rough times with me because I know I can be difficult here and there. Since Wednesdays class I have given thought about the army because they would pay a huge chunck of my student loans. However, if I do that I will be setting the beginning of my life back by several years because I will have to give them so many years in service. I need to think more but I feel as though time is running out. In ten years I just hope that I am happily married with children, have a good paying job, and am still alive.

Utube Video

In my opinion, this is a very interesting video. The video is showing the viewer the way the web has made the speed of life change. Actually it is showing us how drasticaly the web has moved our lives. I am not sure what the titile of the presentation means though, but with some time I might. Web 2.0 links everyone to everything. When getting ready to enter the workforce knowledge of the internet can be a very valuable tool. It allows a worker to get info from mutliple sources and may help someone do their job better. For people already in the workforce it means they must do some learning. They must learn in order to not get their jobs taken by younger employees. The end of the movies says we will need to rethink everything. Now do we really need to rethink everything of just change habits. The world is changing and getting more connected. The internet connects people from all over the world. Therefore we need to get use to the idea of using the internet in personal and professional aspects.

About me

Hello! My name is Michael Wald. I am a senior here at Clemson and I plan to graduate in the fall. I went to Seneca High school so I am a hometown kid. I plan to open my own business one day but I need some job experience first. My main goals are to graduate and to find a loving caring woman who I can start my family with. This will take time but it is well worth it. I drive a Saturn Ion, not the best, but it gets me where I need to go. It is currently getting fixed because of a finder bender I had this summer over the holidays, and no I wasn't drunk. If you need to know anything else just ask.