Personal Security

I was on Youtube.com and I randomly decided to look up "online security" and I got these really short clips of things that can happen when online sharing goes wrong. I was intrigued and decided to share with everyone else. It is not meant to freak people out but we really need to think about the things we post online before we do.

It made me ask myself questions like: Who are we putting at risk other than ourselves? Who is reading our information? Do we really want everyone to access our information?







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Literary Term: Purpose

Purpose:

• Purpose is the different reasons why authors write something. For example, they write to: inform, persuade, entertain, or explain something.
• An author's purpose is the reason an author decides to write about a specific topic.

Literary Term: Archetype

Archetype:

•  An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype

Example:

1. "'Frankenstein' . . . 'Dracula' . . . 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' . . . the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories" (New York Times).

Links have great examples and explanations of archetypes: 

http://teachers.vestavia.k12.al.us/townsendjn/VHHS/Eng_11_CP_files/archetypeschart.pdf

http://rgsmedicalinsight.homestead.com/archetypes1.html

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Literary Term: Apostrophe

Apostrophe:

• A figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding.
•  the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically 

Examples:

1. “O Liberty, what things are done in thy name!”
2. "Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness."
(Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818)
3. "Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art"
(John Keats)

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-Example of song with apostrophe (the star)

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky."

Literary Term: Subordination

Subordination:

• Words, phrases, and clauses that make one element of a sentence dependent on (or subordinate to) another.

Part of Subordinate Clause:

• A group of words that has both a subject and a verb but (unlike an independent clause) cannot stand alone as a sentence. Also known as a dependent clause.

Clause Subordinators: after, although, as, because, before, even though, if, once, since, though, unless, until, when

Examples:

1.The dog barked incessantly at night.
Because the dog barked incessantly at night,
Because the dog barked incessantly at night, the neighbors finally lodged a complaint with the town board.
2.Constance sighed.
When Constance sighed,
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Literary Term: Style

Style:

• The way you write, as opposed to what you write about (though the two things are linked). It results from things like word choice, tone, and syntax. It's the voice readers "hear" when they read your work.
• the mode of expressing thought in writing or speaking by selecting and arranging words, considered with respect to clearness, effectiveness, euphony, or the like, that ischaracteristic of a group, period, person, personality, etc.

Quotes on Style:

1. "The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off."     -Raymond Chandler
2. "The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."                                                   -Edward Gibbon
3. "Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style."       -Jonathan Swift

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