Chapter 6 Lab
The first thing that comes to my head when I am told to reasearch something is the topic of careers. I would love to become a creative writer and I don’t really know about the life of a writer. I know that a creative writers job can involve writing interesting novels and books, but what kind of pay do they recieve or what are the requirements to be a writer. The main question to anyone when they decide on a certain career is how much will we make. I learned that as a writer your salary can vary dramatically, from around $25,000 to around $92,000. I know that as a writer the actual possibilty of you becoming great and famous is very small and it can be hard to live on a small salary.
Another question that pops into my head when I think about my furture career is what classes would I take in college to earn a masters degree, and do they even have a masters degree for those who want to become writers. I immediatly went to the Ball State University website for my answers. I saw that they have a masters degree just for people who want to become creative writers. Continuing on my reasearch I also learned that the main classes in college pertain to the different ways for which you can write creatively. They offer classes about peotry, fiction, and creative nonfiction books. They cover specific authors and theories of writing. I belive that it is important that you reasearch all of your options when you are questioning different careers and to view the best colleges that offer those degrees.
Three Questions:
I know that without my home computer it would be impossible for me to access the internet away from school. The home computer connects me to the outside world and lets me reasearch information that can’t be found in books. From my home computer I may be able to type on microsoft word, but I would have nothing to type if I couldn’t use the internet to find my information.
My home uses a cable interent connection. We are able to be connected to our internet wirelessly, as long as the cable modem can recieve information from the cable service. From what I have seem of the other services, I believe that they are more likely to have there internet accesses shut down, even if only momentarily. With a dial-up connection you start at the computer and modem, then the connection travels through a telephone jack, to the telephone lines, to the ISP’s modem, to the ISP’s router, and finally reaches the internet. There are so many steps that the connection has to complete before it makes it to the internet, I believe that there is a higher chance for the connection to be interrupted because of all of the steps.
When you are using a internet connection that has an always-on connection you have the dangers of any intruder entering into your computer informtaion. When many of the resources that we use have ports; like the internet, e-mail, and FTP, there are more ways for hackers to hack their way into your computer. The best way to protect your computer would to be to purchase a security system that allows you to see when one of your ports have been hacked into. Another security risk are viruses that can come into contact with your computer through e-mail, thus you must keep your virus protection software up to date. The software companies send out more updates as more viruses are created.
