Reading Response 4
In these three essays written from the Common Reading booklet, they all have a common theme that is prevelant throughout the essays: the 4th ammendment and privacy. Each of these authors use examples to give the reader a little more insight on how they think it actually is affecting each Americans privacy. For example, in Mangu-Wards essay, he gives the example of never being able to keep your life private. If you go to a gay bar and use your credit card, youre leaving a digital record of where you have been. He is trying to prove that no matter where you go, you leave records by using a credit card or even being seen on a survelliance camera. She leaves us with personal experience by saying that most everyone has done things that people don't want others to know. However, the thing I like about her essay is that she doesn't think that all survelliance of privacy is bad. She says that sometimes homemade videos pay off by presenting it to the police as evidence for brutality.
The essay by Joh is all about leaving behind your DNA. She gives the example of research by saying that the police investigate crime scenes for looking for DNA that is left behind on a scene of a crime. For example, hair, blood, saliva or bodily fluids. The thing I find the most interesting is when she says that even when you lick an envelope for a bill and send it to the government, you are basically sending them a DNA sample. I think her research of talking to the Seattle police about how they investigate crime scenes really helped back up her ideas of left behind DNA and violating the 4th amendment. By interviewing actual scientists and people that have degrees, this makes research really credible. This gives me good insight of how I should intergrate quotes in my personal ethnography essay.
The last essay by Quamby, he uses actual evidence from the constitution and what acts and ammendments have been added to protect individuals privacy. These new policies really back up claims better than anything else because it is the actual constitution. I really responded to the way he wrote the essay because it gave big examples such as September 11th. I agree with some of the claims made that says we should use actual identification cards that use our fingerprints and other DNA information. I believe this will help from others stealing others identity.
The way each of these authors wrote their essays was different, yet effective. Quamby is basically saying that more is needed to protect our privacy while Mangu-Ward thinks that some of our privacy is probably more violated than needed. Joh is explaining how your DNA can be used against you even if you are not present. They all have a common theme of privacy, but the way they are all written and all the ideas are different.
The essay by Joh is all about leaving behind your DNA. She gives the example of research by saying that the police investigate crime scenes for looking for DNA that is left behind on a scene of a crime. For example, hair, blood, saliva or bodily fluids. The thing I find the most interesting is when she says that even when you lick an envelope for a bill and send it to the government, you are basically sending them a DNA sample. I think her research of talking to the Seattle police about how they investigate crime scenes really helped back up her ideas of left behind DNA and violating the 4th amendment. By interviewing actual scientists and people that have degrees, this makes research really credible. This gives me good insight of how I should intergrate quotes in my personal ethnography essay.
The last essay by Quamby, he uses actual evidence from the constitution and what acts and ammendments have been added to protect individuals privacy. These new policies really back up claims better than anything else because it is the actual constitution. I really responded to the way he wrote the essay because it gave big examples such as September 11th. I agree with some of the claims made that says we should use actual identification cards that use our fingerprints and other DNA information. I believe this will help from others stealing others identity.
The way each of these authors wrote their essays was different, yet effective. Quamby is basically saying that more is needed to protect our privacy while Mangu-Ward thinks that some of our privacy is probably more violated than needed. Joh is explaining how your DNA can be used against you even if you are not present. They all have a common theme of privacy, but the way they are all written and all the ideas are different.
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