October 2020

Cheleste Headlee’s “10 ways to have a better conversation” talks about the different ways to start and engage in conversations. The speaker talks about how people engage differently with other people and how the normal way – nodding your head so that the other person knows you are paying attention, engaging in small talk, and leaving an awkward silence – is not exactly the right way to speak.

Headlee gives 10 ways to have a better conversation. The first one she mentioned was to not multitask. That is absolutely true because when you start to talk to a person, it is unprofessional to listen or speak to them while doing something else.

Number 5 states that if you don’t know what the other person is talking about, say that you don’t know. Nodding your head and pretending to know what the other person is saying is not a very nice thing to do. Just saying that you don’t know is being honest and it makes the other person think that you are actually listening to them and want to know.

TIKTOK BAN IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN:

TikTok is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based Internet techonology company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming. It is used to create short music, lip-synce, dance , comedy and talent videos of 3 to 15 seconds, and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds. TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China. However, it only became available worldwide, including the United States, after merging with another Chinese social media service Musical.ly in 2018. TikTok has been downloaded more than 80 million times in the United States, and has reached 2 billion downloads worldwide.

TikTok was banned completely in India by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on 29 June 2020, with a statement saying there were “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order”. There was a lot of controversies that took place when the ban of TikTok happened. This app was banned because the audience – mainly people from the age of 16-25 – have been strongly addicted to this video-sharing app. Sources say that an 16-year old TikTok star from India dies from committing suicide and nobody knew the reason why. This happened just after Sushant Singh Rajput; a famous Bollywood Actor committed suicide. Mental Health has become more and more important after the demise of this 16 year-old as a lot of suicides took place in the pandemic.

On 9 October 2020, Pakistan blocked TikTok for failing to filter out “immoral and indecent” content. Here is a major Rhetorical question – why would people want to make videos of themselves and others that would make their life miserable? There were a lot of addiction concerns, content concerns, misinformation, content censorship, privacy concerns, cyberbullying due to these videos, and so on.

Talking about how writers conveyed this information is important to know; which tone they used and how explicit/implicit was the information. All three of the appeals are used in this text to show how the author described the situation. First, Ethos – is about establishing your authority to speak on the subject – the writer was explicitly assessing the situation about the ban of TikTok and how that impacted the audience. Second, Logos – is your logical argument for your point – how the ban of TikTok was made with logical reasons like privacy reasons, content concerns and misinformation. Lastly, Pathos – is your attempt to sway an audience emotionally – there were alot of people who died and suffered from depression due to the ban of TikTok.

Reading Journal 

  

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	FINDING THE GOOD ARGUMENT OR WHY BOTHER WITH LOGIC? And THE APPEAL
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	This article talks about arguments and how arguments impact people. There are two sides to every argument – someone who wins and someone who compromises (lose). Rhetoric arguments usually means a hypothetical situation, topics, where there is a for and an against. The article comes across notions like “all is far in love and war”.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	Argument – there are only two sides, someone must win decisively, and compromise means losing.  Logical reasoning is a kind of argument.  Antagonism – an active hostility and opposition
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.