The library should be classified in ways that readers can better understand and relate too. The title of each section should help the reader to know whether they would enjoy books in that section or if they should move to a different one. If I ran a library I would have sections such as "Difficulty of Reading" and have books labeled as hard, medium, and easy. The hard section would have books with small print or that many readers find boring. Another method of classification would be "Level of Interest" with sections labeled very interesting, moderately interesting, and boring. This would help the reader to possibly recognize books they may enjoy reading. Very interesting books would include topics like progress in cancer research or gay and lesbian lifestyles, while boring books would have topics like the history of early presidencies.

Tipping Point

The Tipping Point as a novel is an extremely well written and focuses on topics that were well researched and accurate. Each tipping point was explained in great detail and followed a specific rule. Each tipping point was used as an example for a rule, and often a rule had several tipping point examples making it easy for the reader to understand the point.

However, at times the book was confusing as it would constantly reference hush puppies although they seemed to not fit in the setting the author would place them. If the author talked less about hush puppies and focused solely on the tipping points the book would have been easier to follow.

2 Goals for the Second Multi Draft

The two goals I have for my second multi-draft are to be more concise in my descriptions and reasoning, as well as to have less grammatical errors. I think with this multi-draft this will be possible because I will spend more time on revising my rough draft, and therefore have more time to recognize mistakes and unnecessary words and sentences. By spending more time on revisions and revising for several short periods I will be able to produce a better product.

Since I forgot to reference The Tipping Point in my last blog, I will now. Gladwell discusses a type of subtle bias using body language. The broadcast I chose showed a spoken, more obvious bias. These two types are dissimilar because body language showing bias is less obvious while a spoken bias is easily recognized.

Sticky Advertising

Sticky advertising is a method that draws in viewers by generating a type of emotion. My sticky advertisement would used to get donations to my local animal shelter and hopefully cause some adoptions. In my television advertisement, I would first show pictures of healthy dogs that are usually found in loving homes. These dogs would be the typical image that comes to mind when one thinks of that furry, cuddly, loving, best friend that many American call their pet dog. These photos would be set up as a slide show with a cute song as the backdrop. I would then show pictures of similar dogs that are sick, injured, and malnourished with a somber song in the background. I would then post "Please help us." This commercial would pull at the heart strings of viewers and encourage them to either donate or adopt a shelter dog as they are sympathetic to the poor suffering animals that often inhabit animal shelters.

Bias Broadcast

It has been apparent to some viewers for many years that Fox News as well as many other news broadcasts is very biased in the way it presents news stories. While I was unaware of this bias, it became evident to me in the news coverage of a debate between Senator Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama. A statement made by Obama in response to a question posed about his relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright was misconstrued to show an inaccurate ambiguity of Fox News and inconsistency on Obama's part. In a previous interview, Obama said he cannot disown Wright just as he cannot disown his African American heritage. In the debate, Obama said he does not approve of Wright's actions. This quote was used as a contradiction to his former statement that he will not disown him. However, shortly after Obama said he did not support Wright, he qualified his statement, saying he does disown Wright's comments. This part of the debate was not included in the news broadcast. This was done in an attempt to make Obama seem foolish, although it is obvious later in the debate that there is no inconsistency. This exclusion shows that Fox has a bias toward the Republican party.
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