proposal

social justice is always a tough subject to touch on. but we all know what social justice is when we see it because all of us have souls and a sense of right and wrong on topics that involve social justice. Just like in "The Ones Who Left Omelas" where they left all of the pain and aggony on a young boy who had no choice in the situation just so the rest of the people can live happily. 
for my digital story proposal, i will explore how Facebook and twitter helped out the country of Egypt by using the use of social media to set them free from the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak. facebook groups like "we are all Khaled Sadeed" and twitter updates and trends to spread the word about the injustice going on in Egypt until the government shut down internet connections in the country to hide itself from the world. people have even go as far as to say that this social media uprising started the revolution in Egypt. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/01/the-twitter-revolution-debate-the-egyptian-test-case/21296/

http://gephi.org/2011/the-egyptian-revolution-on-twitter/

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-02-11/opinion/sifry.egypt.technology_1_egypt-internet-access-revolution?_s=PM:OPINION

tweet tweet

I think that I comprehend a lot of literacy on Twitter and know what people are talking about in the world of Twitter. I know how to comprehend hash tags and know a lot of lingo and languages of the internet. The world of social media is expanding and spreading so fast that every time that there is a trend, we know it, comprehend it, and use it whether it is in social media or real life. The world of digital media has been expanding and evolving at a rapid pace, to the point where twitter gets news out even before the major news networks like CNN, Fox, and even ESPN. The thing about learning new terms in social media is that you have to ask people what it means or look it up yourself to find the answer. But now we are still in a transition period where we are learning the new system of social media while we still use old school contacts like calling someone and e-mail. But I firmly believe that we will adjust to this new system.

my internet use

i use the internet a lot. i use it for social media and informal purposes so that i can keep track with what is happening in the world. in the ICT model, i would say that i have grown and developed how to operate computers and the internet as well as create short cuts to make things go faster and become more efficient. using the internet for multimedia and information purposes are replacing and taking control of things like magazines, books, newspapers, basically any thing that has to involve using paper. literacy has been involved through out all my life. i was in a transition state in my early life using old literacy skills and using the new Mosaic web browser, being released in 1993. to me, i use physical, digital, human, and social resources all together seeing that my generation was born the same time the internet was born. so we all had to have a transition to what we do to gather information. when new things arise for us to use, we take hold of it and get the concept quickly to understand how things work.

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My melt sandwich

justice

Social justice is the respect given to someone for being a fellow human being. When people think about social justice, they instantly think equality and that we all should be equal. But that is never a good thing nor is it even possible to accomplish. If everyone was treated equal, then we instantly turn into communists and socialist. As bad as that may sound, it is true. That is the definition of Communism and Socialism. This is why we have classes and ranks among us. We need to regulate each other and help each other out by having people have more power than we do. That is why we live in this great country and that we are so great.

People should have power over others only to a certain extent and should have responsibilities for those certain rights. If no one has responsibilities for their own actions, then we all know what would happen. Chaos would enter into the equation and injustice would go out of proportion.

On the Where Races Lives website, they give great information and great points on what happened in the past back to segregation era of America. But there is only one problem about that site. That it is in the past and what’s done is done. As much as that hurts to hear, we can’t change the past. All we can look at is he past and learn from it so that we can have a better and brighter future for all of us.

the scope of social justice

Miller brings a lot of good points about social justice and I agree with most of them. First he separates the differences between distributive justice, which is the fair distributions of benefits among the various members of the association, and social justice, which is the fair distribution of benefits to anyone. Distributive justice, as Miller said, was mainly used by clubs, organizations, Aristotle's writings, and by Christians throughout Aquinas' era. He also explains and tells that liberals and progressives embrace this idea of social justice more than socialist, which says that to even speak of justice puts you in  the realm of ideology, which i thought was interesting and agree about the liberals embracing social justice.

His list of advantages and disadvantages to social justice were interesting as well. His list of advantages range from money, commodities, transportation, child care, and even medical care; with all of these advantages and many more I agree with him that these are real advantages to social justice.

But some of his disadvantages that he lists I disagree completely. He says that military services are a disadvantage which I think is a great advantage because you need to defend yourself from people or countries that want to attack you like terrorists. And on another note you need to sometimes fight with another country to restore peace in the world. He also says that social justice has a disadvantage for taking care of the old. Basically he contradicted himself social justice means that everyone deserves the same benefits, regardless of age as well as his comment of hard degrading work for workers because social justice benefits all people.

In the end of Miller's chapter, i do agree when he says that we as a nation and as humans need to strive and find social justice to connect one another. However, as long as there are differences in the world, it will take a long time to find a common social justice among ourselves, but that doesn't mean that we can't try and mind justice. On another note, I think we need to have a social justice system while being different because cultural diversity makes the world go round as well as see that we are all different (being culturally diverse), yet the same (being all human) at the same time. That is what needs to be done so that we can accomplish our goal for the greater glory of God.