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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Black_Lives_Matter_Black_Friday_%2815742148387%29.jpg This weeks class discussions brought up an interesting question, do movements like Black Lives Matter, have a leader. Sure they have originators of the cause, but it does not seem like they have a sole leader who decides the every movement they do. If anything, it seems like social media, or even random groups of people control the groups rallies. Whenever these rallies occur, they are generally responding to an event that has occurred. In this case, most of the time it is unfortunately the death of a young black male in some very preventable way by a policemen. These rallies, generally are marching for the right reasons, however, they blow up so large, rightfully so, because of social media. Social media allows information about these events to spread across America in seconds. Essentially, any movements, such as the Black Lives Matter, would not be anywhere as large as it is t...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bagogames/26769234963 This week in class, we discussed gaming toxicity in the online social video games. For those of you that are unfamiliar, toxicity is essentially hatred, profanity, or slurring that occurs in online games from players to other players. A person is labeled as a toxic player when they display such behavior. I myself have been playing online games since high school such as Halo, Call of Duty, and more recently Overwatch. After years of being a decently invested gamer, I have seen many cases of toxicity displayed from other players, whether they be enemies calling you trash, or teammates calling you trash, lol. Sometimes on occasion there is a female playing and they experience toxicity on a daily basis. Gamers will take it so far as they will threaten female with rape and other disgusting acts. Now of course its all talking with the safety of the internet in between the players, so people feel like they can say anything they want and g...

This week during our collaboration class, we presented with groups our 1st projects. The goal of the project was to present Tuckman's five stages of group developement using a story to see how each stage of development occurred within the story. My group presented the five stages using the movie "School of Rock". Most groups used either a movie or a tv show to show the stages, and throughout the presentations, I felt that the most important stage out of all the stages was the adjourning stage. This is because adjourning is what allows the previous group members to go on in life, while keeping in mind what they learned from their group. Each member will then be better prepared for the next time that they collaborate because of their new findings from previous experience. Overall I feel that ever stage is important, but adjourning is the stage that prepares us for our future. Just how Dewey Finn was able to find a new career by finally deciding that maybe being a rock sta...