Contemporary Literacy Jorge Q

                                           Is Pop Culture Good?         Pop Culture has its benefits and its negatives, but all things consider pop culture brings more positives and brings a lot of opportunity for the youth.  In the article "Watching tv makes you smarter" by Steven Johnson the author mentions sleeper’s curve. Sleepers curve idea states that as time passes, the median level of cognitive complexity provided by popular media increases. Meaning that over time most TV shows are getting more complex. Furthermore, Johnson states that Sleepers curve is the most important force for altering the mental developing of our future generation. Some may argue that this is a positive and a negative. One side stating that the intellect of our future generations is at hands of these big media companies. Whi...

                                                                                                     Autobiography                My name is Jorge Quevedo, I was born in Colombia and moved here when I was seven years old with only my mother. I am a junior here at NJCU and I have many interests like basketball, coding, hustling and business ventures. I decided to take this course because literacy is important in almost every aspect of life and to fine tune these skills practicing is key which is included in this course. Literacy is evident in my home and community in many ways starting off with ...