power point is evil

I strongly agree with Tufte's argument. I always thought of Power Point as being an easy way out of any assignment. All you have to do is put a couple bullets on each slide and then you've got yourself and A.Most of the time when I was required to make a power point, half of my grade was based on how pretty it looked. So most of the time I spent on making it look nice and filled with color instead of the information that went into it. I liked the way he ended his article with "the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience". I don't think that using power point is a respectful way to speak to people, it's just much easier. Using a power point is very impersonal, especially if your audience is reading it themselves. Plus it's a big pain the butt when you have to sit through a presentation that consists of 10 slides all with 1 or 2 bullets on them, so once it's finally over you still don't know what the heck the presentation was about. I think they're a good way of putting half the effort into something but technically you've completed what you are supposed to. So I think Tufte is completely right about Power Points, they were a stupid idea and they give not only kids, but other people who take advantage of them, an easy way out.

Johnny Cash "Gettysburg Address

I thought it was very honorable of Johnny Cash to talk about Gettysburg. Back when he was popular, his word would mean a lot to people around. It was a very good way to make an impact on society. I like that Cash really sounded like he meant what he said. You could tell he was proud of what so many people did for our country. I always thought President Lincoln was a great president. He almost eliminated one of the major problems of the U.S back then, slavery. So it was a good idea for Johnny Cash to make this clip just to make sure people remember what happened and so they don't take advantage of their freedoms. He wanted people to appreciate what we have because so many people take it for granted. I think that we should have someone who is very well-known nowadays, just to remind people why they have what they have.

Cussing Canoeist

I do not think the jury was right to rule against Timothy Boomer. Although cussing is thought of as being tacky, trashy, and unnecessary, I don't think it is right for a state to decided that people are not allowed to use the fowl language. If you want to get political with this argument, then making it against the law to cuss is taking away a freedom, the freedom of speech. Even if it could harm the minds of young children that doesn't mean it should be made illegal and if that's the case then there are many other things that should be made illegal such as video games or cell phones. I think that Timothy Boomer just made a mistake. Sure he said it over and over again, but sometimes when people get mad, the last thing they think about is the words that are coming out of their mouths.