ENG004 University of California Importance of Societal Forgetting for Job Applicants Paper

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I need to write an Thesis essay in my English Class. The essay need to response to the questions: According to Jeffrey Rosen in “The Importance of ‘Societal Forgetting,’” what is the value of societal forgetting? Do you believe that employers, universities, and other institutions should consider the past behavior of job applicants as revealed by social media or online searches when making hiring decisions? Support your opinion using three specific, well-developed examples from your own personal experience, observation, or reading (not including Rosen’s essay).

This essay needs to response to the reading that I attached below.( The importance of "societal forgetting")

The essay also needs to follow the prompt in the attachment ( How to write Essay for English 4)

Remember to answer the first question fully.Then present a thesis that directly answers the second question. Then use three detailed examples to support your thesis.

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How to Write Essays for English 4 and the Final Exam: 1.The Directed Summary (response to Question # 1): a. Your first sentence should include the author’s name and title of the essay you have just read. Make sure to spell both correctly. b.Answer Q1 directly, exactly as it is worded. c. Make sure to answer the first prompt question fully before moving on. Imagine that you are explaining the essay to someone who has never read it before. d.A good rule of thumb is to explain at least three different places in the text that answer Q1. e. Answer this question in your own words. Don’t rely only on quoting the prompt essay to write the summary but instead restate it in your own words, showing that you fully understand the author’s points. f. If you do use any of the author’s words or phrases, make sure to place them into quotation marks. Do not plagiarize the author by just copying the author’s phrases. g.Do not discuss your own opinion yet. The first part of your essay should be reserved only for answering Q1. h.This section of your essay could be two or three paragraphs long, but remember that length is not as important as answering the question fully and correctly. 2.Your Thesis (response to Question # 2): a. The essay topic’s second question will ask you about your own opinion on some specific issue. b.Take a while to really consider what you believe. Don’t be afraid to disagree with the author if you truly disagree. c. You might take a moment to brainstorm. Make a list of reasons WHY you agree or disagree. Make a list of events in your life that may explain why you feel as you do. d.Then, pick a side and stick with it. e. After you have fully answered Question # 1, make an explicit statement of your thesis that mirrors Question # 2. f. A thesis should be very clear: “I agree with (author’s name) that (whatever the question has asked).” g.At no time should you assert an opinion on some other issue that the prompt question has NOT asked you to discuss. (The exam is measuring your ability to focus.) h.State that you have three examples that will demonstrate why you agree or disagree. 3.Your Examples (response to Question # 3): a. The essay topic’s last question, which is actually a statement, instructs you to support your thesis using examples from your own experience, observation, or reading. b.Use three separate examples that prove that your thesis statement is correct. c. Develop each example in its own, separate paragraph: i. Example # 1: 1.Explain an event in your life or something you have observed or something you have read that proves that your thesis statement is true. (Do not use the prompt essay as one of your personal examples because you will have already described all of the evidence from the prompt essay and you would just be repeating yourself.) 2.To craft an example paragraph, first tell us the story of what happened. Give us as many details as possible to help us fully understand the situation or event. Remember that your reader a.) was not there, and b.) is not a mind-reader. Clear explanation of the event is crucial. 3.After you have explained the story, give us a sentence or two to explain HOW this example proves your thesis statement. 4.Make sure that your example really does prove your thesis (agreement or disagreement) statement. If you are agreeing with the author, make sure your example does not contradict the points the author has made. If you are disagreeing with the author, make sure that your example does not actually prove him or her right. ii.Example # 2 1.Repeat steps 1. through 4. above. iii.Example # 3 1.Repeat steps 1. through 4. above. 4.Conclusion: a. Briefly restate your answer to Q1. b.Briefly restate your thesis. c. State again that the three examples you have just explained prove your thesis to be true. 5.Revise, revise, revise: a. Go back through your essay with a fine-toothed comb to rid it of grammar errors, messy sentences, problems with logic, and organizational problems. b.Repeat a. c. Repeat b. 262 Part 2 Writing Assignments THE IMPORTANCE OF "SOCIETAL FORGETTING" JEFFREY Rosen The following is from an essay he published in 2010. on her MySpace page that from Harvard University and a JD degree from Yale. Rosen is a professor in the Jeffrey Rosen is an American academic, writer, and speaker. He earned a BA George Washington University School of Law, and a widely published writer, showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, posted a photo caption "Drunken Pirate." After discovering the page, her supervisor at the high school of Education, where Snyder was enrolled, said she was promoting drinking in virtual told her the photo was "unprofessional," and the dean of Millersville University School view of her underage students. As a result, days before Snyder's scheduled graduation, violated her First Amendment right to free speech by penalizing her for her perfectly the university denied her a teaching degree. Snyder sued, arguing that the university had ing that because Snyder was a public employee whose photo didn't relate to matters of legal after-hours behavior. But in 2008, a federal district judge rejected her claim, public concern, her "Drunken Pirate" post was not protected speech (Krebs). When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example of a chal lenge that, in big and small ways, is confronting millions of people around the globe: gers nothing —where every online photo, status update, Twitter post, and blog entry how best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and for which collects and shares embarrassing personal revelations from Facebook users, ill. by and about us can be stored forever. With websites like LOL Facebook Moments, advised photos and online chatter are coming back to haunt people months or years after the fact. Examples are proliferating daily: There was the 16-year old British girl who was fired from her office job for complaining on Facebook, “I'm so totally bored (Levy); there was the 66-year-old Canadian psychotherapist who tried to enter the United States but was turned away at the border—and barred permanently from visit- ing the country—after a border guard's Internet search found that the therapist had written an article in a philosophy journal describing his experiments 30 years ago with LSD (O'Brien). According to a recent survey by Microsoft, 75 percent of U.S. recruiters and human- resource professionals report that their companies require them to do online research about candidates, and many use a range of sites when scrutinizing applicants—including search engines, social networking sites, photo- and video-sharing sites, personal websites and blogs, Twitter, and online gaming sites. Seventy percent of U.S. recruiters report From The New York Times, July 21, 2010. Copyright © 2010 The New York Times. All rights reserved. Use by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistria tion, or retransmission of this content without express written permission is prohibited. Part 2 Writing Assignments 263 - ability pasts. che encial level, our ESSAY 2 Reading ga Valley page that with the h school • School virtual luation, discussion-board conversations and membership in controversial groups. that they have rejected candidates because of information found online, like photos and The fact that the Internet never seems to forget is threatening, at an almost exis- to control our identities; to preserve the option of reinventing use/ves and starting anew; to overcome our checkered Viktor Mayer-Schönberger cites Stacy Snyder's case as a reminder of the importance of In a recent book, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, the cyberscholar societal forgetting. By “erasing external memories," he says in the book, "our society maxpts that human beings evolve over time, that we have the capacity to learn from past experiences and adjust our behavior." In traditional societies, where missteps are sherred but not necessarily recorded, the limits of human memory ensure that people's sisare eventually forgotten. By contrast, Mayer-Schönberger notes, a society in which Geothing is recorded "will forever tether us to all our past actions, making it impos- silale, in practice, to escape them." He concludes that "without some form of forgetting, forgiving becomes a difficult undertaking.” It's often said that we live in a permissive permanent memory bank of the Web increasingly means there are no second chances cra, one with infinite second chances. But the truth is that for a great many people, the : to escape a scarlet letter in your digital past. Now the worst thing you've done is often the first thing everyone knows about you. now that we live in a world misleadingly called a “global village," to Talmud, for example, any kind of gossip or tale-bearing about other people--oral or think about privacy in actual villages long ago. In the villages described in the Babylonian munities have long memories and every word spoken about other people was thought to sity had erfectly m, say- no opportunities ters of It's sobering, Stacy chal- globe: for- entry ents, ill- Fears girl -ed" the sit- mad ith writen, true or false, friendly or mean—was considered a terrible sin because small com- scend to the heavenly cloud. (The digital cloud has made this metaphor literal. ) But the Talmudic villages were, in fact, far more humane and forgiving than our brutal global village , where much of the content on the Internet would meet the Talmud's definition of gossip. Although the Talmudic sages believed that God reads our thoughts and records them in the book of life, they also believed that God erases the book for those who atone for their sins by asking forgiveness of those they have wronged. In the Talmud, people have an obligation not to remind others of their past misdeeds, on the assumption they may have atoned and grown spiritually from their mistakes: “If a man was a repentant sinner," the Talmud says , “one must not say to him, “Remember your former deeds." Works Cited n- ch ng 25 Krebs, Brian. “Security Fix.” The Washington Post. 3 Dec. 2008, http://voices.washingtonpost. com/securityfix/2008/12/court_rules_against_teacher_in.html. Levy, Andrew. “Teenage Office Worker Sacked." Dailymail.com. 6 Oct, 2017. http:// office-worker-sacked-moaning-
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Running head: IMPORTANCE OF SOCIETAL FORGETTING.

The importance of societal forgetting.
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IMPORTANCE OF SOCIETAL FORGETTING.
According to Jefrey Rosen's "The importance of societal forgetting," he explains how
before the introduction of the internet, memories were all that people had concerning the past
(Rosen, 2010). Most that people recalled was from the political leaders, famous artists, and historymaker, what people wrote on papers or photographs taken. However, with the adventure of the
web, everything has changed. Anything inclusive of a thought, event, photo, opinion posted marks
a permanent record, one that can be traceable by anyone anytime (Rosen, 2010).
What are the repercussions of this available memory? For others, it has cost them a lack
of employment or loss of a job or caused livelihood interference. Due to this, Jefrey warns the
young generation to be careful about what they post on social media. He adds that upcoming
technologies are being developed that will be formatted to destroy information available after a
given period. Email accounts firms are designing an option that disapproves emails sent to us
during a specific time of the week, maybe over the weekends when one is probably drunk and may
find himself replying with a nasty response (Rosen, 2010).
I agree with Jefrey Rosen’s writings on the need to forget one’s past and using it against
them in their future. It is so unfortunate that when one is involved in a mistake, it is not considered
that they could improve their behaviors and character, recalibrate their morals and make life run
smoothly. Everything is regarded as an error. An action that describes a person adds so much input
in their operations such that we humans are not able to control our own identities (Niederée,
Kanhabua, Tran, & Naini, 2018). It is evident that in the society we are living in, those whose
characters are rotten do not have a chance to re-direct their compass which I believe it’s so
inhuman. Take for instance all those politicians if they had a meticulous past that was dug into
during their campaigns, how many of them would still be holding their offices? Just like Rosen
mentions in his paragraphs, our society should start erasing memories done in the past and give

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IMPORTANCE OF SOCIETAL FORGETTING.
human beings a chance to learn from their past and evolve to be better humans. In my experience,
I have discovered to treat both mistakes and failure the same as they both leave me with knowledge.
Life examples.
About five years ago, Kyler Patton, then a 26-year-old teacher in training at Cornerstone
High School went out for a party with her colleagues. During the same night, she posted a photo
on her Instagram account which showed her at the party wearing a mini dress holding a plastic cup
that was filled with alcohol. She captions the picture, “Drunken Girl.” Two years later her
supervisor, after discovering her social media account, summoned her and told her that the photo
was inappropriate and that what she was doing that night was unprofessional.
Further, her sup...


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