Strong Personalities Skew Study Samples

Sani, Tarique. "Bay-backed shrike." Photograph.
Flickr. Yahoo, 18 Nov. 2009. Web. 20 Feb. 2014
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124448383@N01/4391855108>.

This article is about animal personalities and traits. They author talks about birds in specific. The author states that there has been new studies on birds groups of more and less aggressive bird males. This article connects to my science class from last semester because it talks about traits. That's like a subtopic under the topic, science. The article goes about the personalities the birds have in certain situations and in science we would talk about animal traits and how they react to whatever was put in their way.

When I read this article I thought to my self that how was it possible that a little bird like, the one in the image, can be aggressive. I wouldn't think that little flying animals like birds would harm anybody or anything. Except for what they eat, because they eat even more little insects and creatures. I thought this article was interesting and also that people are studying bird behavior and whether their very aggressive or little aggressive depending on the situation.

How does the structure of the text refine and support the author’s claim? The author supports his claim by the structure of the text because it is short and simple. Also the author uses an example, he stated that, "It's kind of like when talk show hosts say "95 percent of 13-year old (who responded to our online survey) are smoking pot!!!" -- leaving out the part about it really being 95 percent of the particular 20 teenagers who felt like responding to our survey." He was comparing the bird study to a survey. The author also says that "the idea of animal personality is not one that's been formally studied all that much." He says this because he then goes on with a different paragraph talking about the study that is being made on birds.

Farbman, M. "Strong Personalities Skew Study Samples." popsci. Bonnier Corporation, 27 May 2009. Web. 20 Feb. 2014. <http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-05/strong-personalities-skew-study-samples?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=2&con=strong-personalities-skew-study-samples>.

About Cher

Billups, Andrea. "Cher Returns to the Stage at The Voice Finale."
Photograph. People. AOL, 19 June 2013. Web. 7 Feb. 2014.
 <http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20710256,00.html>.

This article is about a "superstar" (WENN), named Cher. The article states that she released her last album last September. The passage also talks about Cher being on Twitter and seeing mean comments about her. Cher also explains about her album, "Take It Like a Man," because that's what the comments were on. The article also talks about Cher being with the Warner Brothers and how some of them don't have much interest in her CD's no more.

I believe that this article has to have some sort of connection with my college class am having right now. I have Music Appreciation. In that class we usually talk about famous people and there music; people from the past and sometimes from the present. My I was getting kind of ticked off while I was reading the end of the passage. The reason for my reaction was because Cher has been with the Warner Brothers since 1996 and now they don't have interest in her CD's so they stop being with her. To me it was like if your with someone for business or whatever you stay for with and for that person. Questions just came to head about why now stop working with her?

How does the author support his claim? The author supports his claim by quoting in his news article what Cher had to say about the situation. This was Cher's explanation about the comments people left her on Twitter; "The video had nothing 2 do with me. I was told it would only be shown in gay bars. It 's true WB's [Warner Brothers] hasn't got a great deal of interest in my CD" (WENN). Also the author stated that Cher also said, "Not all, there are hard working adorable [people], but decision makers don 't seem 2 care that much. It 's ok YHSTLOM [You haven't seen the last of me]." The author did support his claims with Cher's responses to the comments and her feelings towards the Warner Brothers; WENN explained himself great towards this whole issue.

WENN, "Cher: My Record Label doesn't care about my Album." MSN. Microsoft, 6 Feb 2014. Web. 7 Feb. 2014. <http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=851192>.