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This blog targets my ideal audience. Though my main argument in my review of lit and research is that television can jumpstart a lot of negative things in children's lives, what I really want to emphasize is that parents need to be watching their own kids, not just relying on television to do it because this is what television can do without the added influence that a parent is supposed to give. Television will always be "This is awesome. This is what your life could be like if you had this or did this" but parents are supposed to be the counteracting ingredient in that. Parents should be "This is reality. This is what will really happen. This is real life." But if children are babysat by their television, then they don't get that.

This blog may or may not cover that exact subject. But it does suggest things that will make your home safer for your child and ideas for activities and such. You can tell it's targeted towards parents because, well, it says so. Aside from being called parenting-blog, it also has articles with titles such as How To Avoid Mommy Burnout. They use language that assumes that you're experienced with things such as child rearing, instead of explaining more minor details. They assume you understand the experiences behind things like "teething", etc. and don't really elaborate.

Inspiring Video

This video is the one I chose for one that inspired me. The song is god-awful, actually. But I'm a huge Glee fan and it's usually weird to watch mash-ups like this. I know that the scenes are sometimes actually ridiculous when they're in places where they should be sad, but this one doesn't do that for me. It actually, literally, broke my heart. It has nothing to do with making an argument, not really (it's more of a 'what if' than anything.) and absolutely nothing to do with my subject but its so heart wrenching and well put together (though I maintain that the song is awful). It doesn't even give me ideas. It just makes me want my video to be good enough to share Youtube with it.

Unethical Use

I don't really remember using anything from the internet unethically. I'm sure I've done it, it's just not really something that I did and was like "Oh, I used this unethically" or set out to do. I think current copyright laws are a little too rigid for our current culture. That's not to say that people who publish their things online shouldn't have rights and be protected, but I think it's a little tedious to have to go hunting for sources and permissions for things you find on Google. If I just need a picture of a puppy, it shouldn't take me 3 hours of hunting and requesting and emailing to officially use it. Thankfully, there are a lot of allowances made for students and I haven't really encountered anything that irritating yet. However, I'm sure a lot of people have. Maybe there should be blocks and filters regarding copyright on search sites. That way, if I use a source, I can be sure that I'm not using something that someone copyrighted and didn't want me to use.