How ‘Dark Patterns’ Influence Travel Bookings

We’re just teenagers, but most of us do know how to work technology more better than our parents. Say they’re having trouble booking a flight to Mexico this summer, you hop onto OneTravel or any other booking site.  “38 other people are trying to book the same flight as you.” Are they really? Dark Patterns are used, which is a “user interface” that tricks users into doing things, in this case, OneTravel is trying to make you buy this flight right now since “38 others” are also as well.  How could that be? Ophir Harpaz posted about her experience with OneTravel and wondered how did they come up with 38.

I’m Ignited!!

1. How does stickers stick, how does tape work?
2. Are we related through Adam and Eve? Is it incest?
3. Is the supernatural real?
4. Is the Mandela effect real or is it just time travel?
5. Why do we think we have to please people al the time?
6. Is ignorance bliss?
7. Why do we take advantage of the things we’re given?

MY BIG QUESTION

Question : How does anxiety and depression work in our brain neurologically? How does it really work?l
A lot of the time, everyone goes through events that cause anxiety and depression. The rate of anxiety and depression have risen by 20% in teenagers, and that was only between 2007 and 2012.

Last Century’s Writing Styles

Genre is a made of thing.

Naturalism : Raw, political forces, Great Depression, weather, economical forces.  

Characterized by a deterministic ethos. Characters were often depicted as being driven by forces beyond their control toward inevitable fates.

The character does not change, still keeps their integrity and still is the same person inside.

Realism : Literally keeping it real. Don’t care what he thought or felt. (Richard Cory)

Modernism : Values progress, freedom, and social equality. WWI was the optimistic time.  WWI, “The war to end all wars.”, but horrifying and brutal. Modern artist and writers were liminal figures.

Liminal : Not quite what we used to be but not quite what we will become.

Institutions can be liminal like individuals.

People who don’t know the rules break the rules. I want the break the rules to say something different. Which the Modernest broke the rules, presented the word fragmentary impressionistic prose meant to represent the confusion of the new world.

Post Modernism (20th Century)

Argue This! ... Syllogism?

Syllogism >
Preston : Is the simplest form of a logical argument.
Ex. : All lines have 180 degrees, an object has a 180 degree, therefore this is a line.
There’s the truth, thats it.
True : is factually, when it comes to logic there’s no faith.

Does the premises support the conclusion?
Ex. : All students at SMHS are all nice people.
Lilly is a student at SMHS so that means she is nice.
If its not factually valid, then it’s not true.

Deductive reasoning : General idea to specific example, case or conclusion
Ex. : Sherlock Holmes 

Google : An instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs ).

Down The Rabbit Hole

• Lucid : very clear and easy to understand 
• Capacity : ability
• Irredeemable : not able to be saved 
• Concentrating : focus on ones attention or mental effort on a particular activity 
• Transcendent : above and beyond
• Duality : the presence of two things 

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• Steinbeck devotes his life to defending the disenfranchised and celebrating the highest potentiality of the human spirit
• “Despair, defeatism, cynicism, amnesia and assumptions”
• Good is good with something compared to that is bad

Notes from Today’s Lecture

The summer of our discontent

ETHOS : elements of the messenger that create the sense of creditability.
> may be non - verbal or verbal
LOGOS : 
PATHOS : 

FALLACY : An error

Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream”

• Emancipation Proclamation came as a joy to colores slaves
• Withering injustice : poetic, diction and syntax 
• 100 years later the negro is still NOT FREE
• DISCRIMINATION
• Negro lives on lonely island of poverty in vast ocean of improvement
• America has not kept their promise of life liberty and pursuit of happiness for black people.
• Now is the time :
• To make real promises of democracy
• To lift the nation from quicksand of injustice an racism to solid rock of brother hood.
• 1963 not an end, but the beginning 
• No rest of tranquility in America until negros are granted actual citizenship
• I have a dream 
• Let freedom reign
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Today I Interviewed an Expert!! XD

What I learned from today’s interview :

• 40 years ago, we had a change of politics, with Regan, stopping companies from becoming monopolies. 
• Back then we had rules over monopolies. Facebook bought Instagram, Google bought YouTube and Yahoo bought Flickr. 
• Eyewear brand, it’s now owned by one company. 
• Disney bought FOX, 50 talent agencies, now there’s 3. 
• Self Exploration? : The right to make up your own mind. 
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