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  1. Aug 2018
    1. He got out of the car, ran in, ran up the steps...and somehow got on the roof, and last I heard he got away. They shut the whole thing down,

      They thought he got away, but he was really hiding up there, which led him to commit suicide.

    2. manager of the store reported smelling a strong odor from the column

      That is where the body was found. My thing is, how did he get up there and was he alone?

    1. JB was willing to give his life just to have a point proven, to assure that his meaning behind doing this movement wasn't just for clout or he wasn't just attention seeking, but he wanted their voices to he heard.

    2. The football team is perhaps the most popular — and certainly most visible — student group on campus, so the players’ surprising decision has drawn the national spotlight to a series of incidents that had cast an ominous cloud over the school’s fall semester and made Wolfe a controversial figure on campus.

      They went for the pockets, the money. The players played it smart.

    3. The football team is perhaps the most popular — and certainly most visible — student group on campus, so the players’ surprising decision has drawn the national spotlight to a series of incidents that had cast an ominous cloud over the school’s fall semester and made Wolfe a controversial figure on campus.

      This statement says a lot and is very true. Having a injustice system in a community that claims to have justice is hypocritical and is a threat.

    4. members of the school’s football team have threatened to boycott its remaining games,

      This alone was very powerful. For the entire team to step out and support their teammates in the movement was beautiful.

    1. Paramedics rushed Richards to an area hospital, where he died from his injuries.

      The fact that he was fighting for his life and just couldn't make it breaks my heart. It was on a public street too, where many seen him taking his last breaths and couldn't do anything about it shaking my head.

    1. Do they make people more or less isolated from the physical world communities around them?

      Personally, virtual communities can go both ways depending on how you are involved and how you incorporate your time in the virtual community. For example, being involved in the "social media" aspect of the social world sometimes causes this generation to be isolated from the physical world. But, being involved with video chats as a form of virtual community allows us to be involved with other physical communities that we aren't actual in.

    2. "Virtual communities are cultural aggregations that emerge when enough people bump into each other often enough in cyberspace.

      I agree with statement. For example, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, ect.

  2. Jul 2018
    1. he left one item intentionally — an American flag flying on a pole by his front door,

      Leaving the flag behind in hopes of having a serviceman see it and protect his home was a very bright idea.

    2. Many people who brought pets and weren’t allowed inside camped in their cars in the parking lot or on cots laid out on one of the campus’ open lawn areas.

      Very sad, but kind of beautiful that some families would take that risk for their dogs.

    3. steep terrain and hot weather combined with dry brush and other vegetation that can fuel a fire

      The conditions in the surrounding area can possible keep the fire going or cause another one to arise.

    4. Temperatures in Redding were expected to hit 110 degrees Saturday and reach triple digits through Tuesday,

      The temperatures will continue to rise for a couple more days.

    5. overwhelmingly sure that there are decedents at the scene but no bodies have been recovered.”

      the fact that the investigators can't find the bodies of the citizens in the house breaks my heart. They suffered tremendously and couldn't do anything to save themselves.

    6. “I can’t believe this is real. I just keep seeing all of their beautiful faces.”

      I'm just imaging being there and having to help people in danger and the fear of not moving fast enough to help them all.

    1. multitasking has an aura that people seem to find irresistibly appealing.

      people are very well attracted to the topic of multitasking.

    2. We should not draw the conclusion from this research that every age group is equally gifted with the skill of multitasking,

      In conclusion,the author is trying to say that all aren't said to be able to multitask, but in some cases, people are actual capable of multitasking.

    3. multitasking—such learning has a different cognitive status than that of uninterrupted learning, and is actually less efficient and useful than uninterrupted learning.

      Stating how we perform task(s) less efficiently when interrupted;multitasking.

    4. career professionals already saddled with overwhelming job-related expectations; young students who seem intent on justifying their “attention deficit” practices; and, interestingly enough, academic administrators and humanities educators.

      The communities that are affected by the act of multitasking .

    5. What is far less obvious is our ability to engage in conceptual learning—the type of learning we expect to foster in the classroom—along with other simultaneous activities, such as watching television or text messaging.

      Stating that we are capable of multitasking when completing far less engaging and academic based activities rather than when completing a learning activity

    1. a generation of great technical facility and intelligence but of extreme impatience, unsatisfied with slowness and uncomfortable with silence:

      I agree with this statement from personal experience. I felt l was being described here. Also in schools, I see a lot of students not excelling at their full potential because of their lack of stud time and or lack of paying attention since they're being distracted by their electronic devices.

    2. “multitasking adversely affects how you learn. Even if you learn while multitasking, that learning is less flexible and more specialized, so you cannot retrieve the information as easily.”

      More evidence of how multitasking is less efficient

    3. multitasking contributes to the release of stress hormones and adrenaline, which can cause long-term health problems if not controlled, and contributes to the loss of short-term memory.

      Evidence that multitasking has a negative contribution to out lives and is harmful to us in the long run.

    4. Meyer is optimistic that, with training, the brain can learn to task-switch more effectively, and there is some evidence that certain simple tasks are amenable to such practice.

      This is a interesting accusation; would like to elaborate on.

    5. task-switching leads to time lost as the brain determines which task to perform.

      Intertwines with the statement in multitasking myth 1; we aren't able to perform multiple task efficiently.

    6. also what makes multitasking a poor long-term strategy for learning.

      Stating that although the Brodmann areaa 10 allows us to multitask, it is what also makes us gain poor learning strategies.

    7. they found that workers took an average of twenty-five minutes to recover from interruptions such as phone calls or answering e-mail and return to their original task

      In a way is connection to the last multitasking myth; how the younger generation(s) are easily distracted by their electronic devices.

    8. multitasking is now shorthand for the human attempt to do simultaneously as many things as possible, as quickly as possible, preferably marshalling the power of as many technologies as possible.

      This sentence is very true, because in many working environments; such as schools and jobs,we are asked to do multiple things at a time.