COM 1450 - Fall 2019

There is this New York Times article that I came across yesterday and it’s titled “ Supreme Court Considers Whether Civil Rights Act Protects L.G.B.T. Workers .” The article covers two cases; both of which  dealing with workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. The Supreme Court is trying to decide  whether or not  Title VII of the Civil Rights Act applies to LGBT employees.   T he reason it got my attention was because I couldn’t tell whether this was supposed to be some sort of clickbait or if it was an actual thing. Had you asked me before I read the article, I would have told you that I don’t even know why this case made it all the way to the Supreme Court because I couldn’t see a way how sexual orientation and gender identity could be a basis for termination. Those two things have nothing to do with a person’s ability to do their job.    I went into the article with that mindset, hard-pressed to believe that wasn’t the be...

For this blog post I want to talk about the Mad World video . Immediately after starting the video, there were a couple thing that spoke to me. The first thing being that the video is in black and white and the main character of the video is a lot smaller than everyone else around him. In the video you can see everyone is  g lued to their phones, completely oblivious to the world around them. There is even a scene of a line of people walking and falling into a manhole because they are only paying attention to their phones. And the manhole is uncovered because the construction worker that is supposed to be working on it is on his phone. A f ter you watch the video for a while you can start to realize that the only excitement people get is through their phones. The only time color is s hown in the video is when the camera is looking through a phone or a tv.    I took this video as saying that we are becoming more and more obsessed with our phones and it is sucking t...

Cloud computing, according to Wikipedia is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. In simpler terms it means to handle computing over the internet rather than via your computer’s hard drive which would be considered local computing. For it to be considered cloud computing, you need to access your data or your programs over the internet, or at the very least, have that data synced with other information over the internet. The creation and introduction of cloud computing to the world revolutionized the way people could communicate and share information.    “The Cloud” can have different meanings for regular consumers and businesses, for consumers, regular people like me and you, we have services like Google Drive and iCloud. These are services that allow the user to store and access data on an online server and that information is there and can be accessed anytime,...