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Professor Han Comp. 1 11-17-19 Euromail and Amerimail

In the article, the author Eric Weiner explains how Europeans and America approach email in a different way. He explains that Americans have replaced the telephone with email. He explains how American find it easier and the back and forth interaction through emailing is the same as being on the phone with someone for hours. He says that American are reluctant to dive into the meat of the email. Americans tend to write everything that they can think of rather than just the important things. They just want to talk about everything, even it it doesn't matter. Weiner explains how Europeans get straight to the point of what they are talking about in their email. The author calls them stiff and cold. The author thinks these emails are unexciting and boring. The europeans are strictly business and they don't discuss anything expect the reason why they are emailing that person. I believe that Americans take advantage of e-mail more than Europeans do. They are able to express themselves and tell who they are talking to exactly what is going on in their lives. If you are emailing someone that means you can't see them and I know I would definitely want to know what is going on in the lives of the people I can't see. Europeans seem to not care as much about what is going on in the lives of others. They just care about the topic at hand and don't take advantage of everything that email gives you. America knows that you can talk about anything and they take advantage of that. But Europeans just want to get what's most important

to them out of they way. I know I definitely the side of the Americans because whenever I email or text someone I get everything I can out into the small typing space.

Professor Han Comp. 1 11-29-19 Friending, Ancient or Otherwise

In the article Friending, Ancient or Otherwise by Alex Wright, the author explains how the world has altered the way that people communicate with their friends and others. He explains how things like social network sites have caused people to spend all their time surfing the web and looking at their friends accounts online rather than communicating with them through face to face encounters. He explains how we are quickly moving farther away from normal face to face interactions and he wonders if the technological ways for communication help or hurt friendships between people. Wright explains how people's friendship can grow without actually talking to them. He says that we evolved with speech and not writing. He says you lose the important part of a true friendship and you never know how a person really feels through ways of technology. You need to see facial expressions and body language to know what they really mean. He says that the web causes people to make friends through flimsy connection because they don't really know the person true self without physically interacting with them. This leads to weak ties between friends because they are not gaining the advantages of a true friendship while hiding behind a piece of technology. Although I definitely fall into the category of the people that the author is talking about, I agree with everything he says. From my own experience, when I texted someone I never know what they really mean. I can't tell if they're happy, sad, angry, or excited just through a vague text. It makes things frustrating on both sides. You can comfort someone and excite them

through technology. You need to be in a face to face interaction in order to react to the situation with the best of your ability. People including myself need to stop hiding behind their phones and computers and go out and physically be with their friends. They need to make true friendships rather than soft ones through technology.

Professor Han Comp. 1 12-1-19 Who's a Pirate? In Court, a Duel Over Definitions

In the article, the author talks about how 6 Somali “Pirates” are being put on trial for allegedly firing at U.S Navy ship. But there is a problem with convicting them. The U.S made a law against piracy but did not define it. We can defer what a pirate really is. They don't know if they call call these people pirates for trying to rob their ship. America claims they were fired at on April 10th at 5 A.M by a small skiff. The Navy then returned fire sending the 6 men overboard. Then then captured these men and found the skiff contained weapons and an anchor. The navy then tries to convince the U.S District Court that these men are guilty of piracy. They claim that this was an act of violence and an attempt to take over the ship, thus classified as piracy. The court ruled this piracy and robbery on the high seas. But the defense argued that since they didn't succeed with robbery in could not be considered piracy. This article was definitely a little all over the place. I don't understand how you can just convict these men. They shot at a U.S Navy ship and had an anchor on board meaning they were going to try and rob the ship. How do they make a case that since the didn't succeed it can't be piracy. It would rob a store and get caught while doing it, you still get arrested for attempted robbery. I believe these pirates should have been convicted on the stop for attempted assault/murder and robbery and put to jail for a very long time....