Gabriel Almonte

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/business/tesla-factory-musk.html 

In “Inside Tesla’s Audacious Push to Reinvent the Way Cars are Made” it uses many visual elements. The article starts off by stating the company’s agenda to speed up the production process as they were 17,000 cars behind their expected production by December 2018. The article then showed a picture of the exterior of the new assembly line in California. It didn’t look very modern, the assembly line looked cheaply made and seemed like it was made with a very small budget. The article was trying to show how them being behind in production made their budget tight. The next picture was of a Tesla worker that looked like he was shining the leather on a seat. They used this picture because it was stated that the robots that were being used to put the seats into the cars were having trouble fulfilling all their tasks. They said the robots were too slow and were very inconsistent, after a while they decided to use the robots to place all the seats in the car and have the workers handle bolts and the handle the electronic connectors. They then used a picture of their robots in the assembly line to show the difference in Tesla’s production compared to other car companies. Usually car companies start off by paying workers to produce the cars, but it cuts into profits so they either move production to a country with cheaper labor or they start using AI’s to make production cheaper. Tesla has done the opposite they started off with the use of robots and then decided to use more workers to increase production numbers.  

Gabriel Almonte

In “Understanding Rhetoric” I agreed with the ideas Aristotle had on rhetoric. I believe that rhetoric is bad for the progress of people. I view it as a negative because people will be closeminded if it’s used often. Everyone can have their opinion but without having discussions and being open to hearing other’s views how can someone expect to learn about any topic. I agreed with a lot of the ideas in “When Your Grades Are based on Labor”. I go to class to learn if I knew the criteria, I wouldn’t need to take the class. Therefore, I agree that mistakes shouldn’t be viewed negatively because the class is supposed to teach the concepts. You become a better writer by practicing your writing, if you get a reasonable grade while making a few mistakes you will want to revise the writing because constructive criticism leaves a writer in a positive state. I also agree that writing should be for the writer not the teacher. Students will be using writing concepts learned in school for their entire work careers. School is very important but isn’t where your writing will be used the most, the workplace is. As a student I love the idea that revisions have no penalty. Many teachers don’t like this concept because it leads to more work for them, but I believe if we put in the effort to try and correct our wrongdoings it should be rewarded. Some students are better at writing then others so it would be unfair for the struggling students to not be able to practice their writing for a revised grade. In “Labor Log” I disagree with it because it stated students would receive no grade if they didn’t hand in the assignments on time. I believe that’s unfair because although students should be aware of deadlines, we take many classes and once behind it makes students unmotivated if we are not allowed to do the work late. We are still putting in the effort but should be penalized as well.  

My experience viewing these episodes gave me some understanding of what the future could resemble. How we can live in a virtual world after death with simply our recollections. They likewise made me consider how our protection is attacked totally and everybody can approach our introspection and recollections. This can be risky when in the hands of somebody that can-do damage. These episodes likewise helped me to remember individual experience that I had in the pass that I might want to recall in detail as I assume a foggy memory of it. This additionally helped me to remember how in the event that you need you may almost certainly share every one of your contemplations through web based life and that can be risky in light of the fact that imagine a scenario in which you show recordings that can make other individuals uncover. There are positives and negatives to the innovation that was appeared in the shows. They can either be utilized for good or detestable and that is all up to the client. This likewise makes me think how these innovations are being controlled and how the administration can utilize this innovation to keep an eye on others. On the off chance that these innovations at any point do turn into a reality it can change how we get things done in our way of life. Connections will change in the way that nobody will confide in you without seeing the video to demonstrate it. This isn’t something that somebody needs to occur. We ought to have the capacity to confide in our companions and friends and family without taking a gander at recordings of them appearing entire everyday life.