Blog post 9 (Turned in the right way)

Brandon Penny

Professor Harris

English 1101

April 2, 2020

Opposing Viewpoints

"Mass Media." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2020. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC3010999226/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=168b7ef3. Accessed 2 Apr. 2020.

This article goes over how media is slowly taking over traditional media. For example, Television is being completely overthrown by streaming platforms. YouTube has already been doing this for a while but when you include Netflix, Hulu, Twitch, etc. It’s inarguable at that point that new Media is becoming better than old traditional media. It also explains the problem of Mass Media with articles and news. Fake news is a big problem with Mass media since its mainly activist that are publishing these making people change political views. Mass media just basically causes positive and negative influences on people.

"Online Gambling." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2020. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC3010999067/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=cd627603. Accessed 2 Apr. 2020.

Online gambling has been a problem but not a huge problem like gambling. Online gambling definitely seems like it breaks a law it doesn’t. This article is explaining what Online gambling is and if it should be checked for legality. The Internet has allowed new types of gambling to be available online. Improvements in technology have changed betting habits just as video lottery terminals and scratch cards changed the gambling industry in the 20th century. Gambling has become one of the most popular and lucrative businesses on the Internet. This is partly due to the wide range of gambling options available to many different types of people. For example, Fantasy Sports allows those who not only like sports but are able to basically be put in the hands of a GM of a team. This allows more satisfaction for people since they're in more control of what they’re betting on. While normal sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome. There’s also online poker and casinos which have more risk of course. But most of these were legalized in the late 2000s by most states.

"Arms Trade." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2015. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC3010999257/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=f1f48b61. Accessed 2 Apr. 2020.

This article is discussing Arms trade and how it’s hurting the US. The arms treaty was established common standards for the international trade of conventional weapons and seek to reduce the illicit arms trade. This article basically thinks that The Arms Trade Treaty is not in the interest of the United States. Over time, it will constrain the U.S. while having no effect on arms exporters such as China. It also thinks that it’s not serious about addressing the real challenges of maintaining peace and security. Since it’s growing more and more dangerous over time with it not being controlled as it used to be. It was more controlled during the cold war and arms race.

Introduction to the Claim

For the past 20 years, music has had a big inspiration on how people feel and how it affects their daily lives. Music makes has such a heavy effect on our lives that it sometimes changes our lifestyles completely. Depending on what music genre you listen to, a specific genre determines how you act. For example, different genres caused different actions, like rap music, causing gang violence in the US, metal music supposedly causing people to join evil cults, or maybe punk rock influencing rebels and protestors to make a statement. Certain music helps the body and soul progress through their daily lives and help them become a better person in todays society. The point is that music is exceptionally influential in our lives, but what specific genre has had the biggest impact across the world. To be able to tell which genre has outperformed the others during this last decade we will have to look at the popularity across the internet, album sales across the world, billboard status. These factors are essential since most music is noticed by the internet and gains popularity around the world that quickly. Deducting certain genres right away to determine the best genre is needed as well. Country and Metal shall automatically be taken out of the equation since their not popular around the world just the United States(specifically the south for Country). The internet has had a big influence on my decision since that's how most songs even get popular nowadays.   

Making Claims

1.  Music

2. Music Artists

3. What Music Artist has made the biggest impact in the last decade?

4. a. To be able to tell which Music Artist has performed the best this last decade we will have to look at. Most Popular Genre, Album Sales, top 100 music board

4.b. Genres, Album Sales, Billboard ranks

5. a. Official music streaming websites that keep the billboard status or billboard.com.

    b. Billboard.com

    c. Billboard status shouldn’t really determine if the artist had impact or not since there are One-Hit wonders.