Reading Response 1

University of Phoenix. 15 April 2007. .
Summary: This website is the official website of the online Phoenix University. It has information about admissions, credibility, courses available, cost etc. There is not just one specific section of this website I can use, rather every aspect mentioned on this web page.
Importance: this is an important site for my paper because it gives me information on the criteria I am basing my paper on.
Connections: We talked about the University of Phoenix online in class briefly, but there is more details to the way it is operated and managed than we discussed.
Supporting Source: this source can be used to either disprove or verify my criteria for choosing a good college.
Argumentative Source: This is an official website of a university, therefore I can not critique it because I do not know enough information on the subject. The only thing I could suggest was having more clearly stated information and easier navigation.

Lucky #10!

So I went to the freshman finale tonight. I had pizza and a snowcone. I also watched people run around like little kids again. Im listening to techno and writing poetry. Is that an odd combination? Oh well if it is, it's working for me!! I can't wait to go home this weekend. My mom and I are redoing my room, that will be lots of fun. so anyways, back to writing I go!! Everyone have a super fantabulous weekend!! P.S. don't drink and drive!! <3 Hollie

interesting

so I just got back from the internation food festival. I got there kind of late so most of the food was gone. it was very sad. I ate food from many countries and drank coffe from Saudi Arabia. It was very cultural. I got my culture for the week. haha. I may go work out today at the gym, I am getting so lazy! hmm.. I'm bored. I am going to take a nap. peace up!

wow!

Okay, so I have to have 10 blog posts by midnight to night and this only makes 8.. hm.. I think I shall be an update whore today then! I forget to update in this.. I mean, I could copy and paste some of my blogs from myspace and whatnot.. my life is always interesting to read about. but for now i'm going to the international food festival at the BSU and I FINNNALLY finished my spanish homework. anyways, chao!!

Blog Post 7

My research is going pretty well. I am done with it actually. I ended up having 6 sources and I may use another. I had issues at first finding sources that didn't have the same information, but I eventually got it.

Spring Break

so spring break was really fun! I know i'm a little late to update about this but i'm procrastinating right now lol. I went to Florida with my friend and we stayed with my father. We went to Universal Studios , the beaches, and the most amazing concert I have ever been to. It was the Taste of Chaos Tour. It had a lot of bands :: The used, 30 seconds to mars, senses fail, saosin, chiodos, aiden and I can't remember the other ones. I had a brush with fame. I was like face to face with jared leto.. yes i was star struck!! He climbed up into the stands and he was right there in front of me. It was just absolutely amazing LOL. and then I got his autograph later on and it was fabulous. But all in all it was a GREAT concert. Hopefully next year I'll get to go too. so now here I am back at school.. but there's not much left to this year! Can't believe my freshman year is almost over. But anyways I have to work on paper now i suppose! Chao

Reading response post

Reading response 1
Vangie ‘Aurora’ Beal. “Defend Yourself Against Identity Theft.” Webopedia.com . 01 Sept. 2006. 06 March 2007.<>.

Summary: This website talks about what identity theft is and what it is on the internet. It explains the methods of internet identity theft such as Trojan horses and e-mail phising, which both put key loggers on your computer and track everything you type. This will give the thief all of your personal information and they will be able to steal identities. It also mentions that internet fraud is only a small portion of overall identity theft and the numbers seem to be decreases over the past few years. The website gives tips for protecting yourself against internet identity theft and what to do if it happens to you.
Importance: This is important because it gives some background information on primary identity theft and then what internet identity theft is.
Connections: I knew what identity theft was but I didn’t know exactly how identity theft worked on the internet.
Supporting source: I can use this article for basic information and it also gave some statistics that I can use as well.
Argumentative Source: I think there should have been more information on exactly how identity theft works so the reader would be a bit more informed and knowledgeable.

Reading Response 2
Russell Kay. “Phishing.” Computerworld.com . 19 January 2004. 06 March 2007.
Summary: This article talks about internet phishing. Phishing is a way for people to steal identification. Thieves will send out fake e-mails and try to pass them off as an email from a legitimate source such as eBay , Citibank, etc. It also gave examples of internet phishing that has been reported in the past from well known websites. It gave tips to know if the e-mails are legit or not.
Importance: This is a major scheme used by internet thieves and is important to understand how and what it is.
Connections: I had no idea what phishing was until I looked into internet identity fraud.
Supporting Source: This could be used as an example in my paper. I can use it to show ways a hacker may try to access personal information.
Argumentative Source: There should be more information in the article. It does provide facts but doesn’t go too far in depth.