Angry Letter draft

Dear AT&T Administrations

My family and I have been well been more than satisfied customers for the past 3 years. You have given us amazing phones such as the iPhone 4, View, and others we have been accustomed now to rely on you more and more for new and improving phones. The iPhone 4 has been a sure upgrade from our phones that we got from Verizon, not to mention such the high quality of performance we get out of it.

However, we have had some problems over the past couple months we have experienced problems where our phone service has dropped resulting in missed calls, missed texts, and not being able to go on the internet when it is needed. I have tried two different phones within the past 2 years, which was the iPhone 4, and the View, and it happened to both phones. But at first I believe that it wasn’t a problem with the View as it happened only a few times. But with the iPhone 4 which I got on October 17^th it has happened about 10 times, most recently in the past week (November 7-11) where my phone has dropped service and I had to restart it and when I had restarted it, it showed that I had a missed call, along with 4 unread text messages.

Also, I think that with the amount that we are paying for our bill as of now, which is $110 a month, I believe that we deserve the best, complete service that we don’t have to deal with dropped and missed call, missed text messages that are important, and having to restart our phones just for it to work..

Through all of these troubles in the past 2 years, we have had a lot of good assistants giving us helpful tips on what would we should do when it occurs. The assistances were as nice as they come, and very knowledgeable about their technology, I do not feel it is the phone or the assistance advice that is causing the phone to all of a sudden lose signal as it has happened numerous times.

I do not have any problems on your policies and what you can do with your phone as they are the best of the best, but I do feel that you guys should consider maybe updating or maybe even changing your signal technology that can assure everyone a good experience with their phones.

Sincerely,

Brayton Sakai

Risky Business

            Media affects most teens, either if it’s by music, television, computer social networks such as facebook and tumblr, and lastly by video games. But what are the consequences to this increase in violence in media? Things can escalate to depression to suicide.  So media is a main cause for depression.

            Some people believe that media aren’t the cause for a lot of kids’ depression. They argue that since not all programs are dealing with wrongdoing. Also they believe that there are parental controls on the website their kids look at. Also the music they listen to are usually heard on the radio and then looked up, since the song on the radio is usually edited. And lastly because most of the video games and movies are rated so they can allow or not allow their children the opportunity to be influenced by media.

            But on the other hand there are others that believe that media is the cause for teen depression. For example a study on teenagers that listen to music featured in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine researchers have found that out of 106 teenagers, 46 of them had already been linked to depression, which is about 44%.  Another study from the Archives of General Psychiatry taken by Brian A. Primack from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1995 by 4,142 teenagers reported that teens on average spend 5.68 hours of media per day, including 2.3 hours of television, 0.62 hours of videocassettes, 0.41 hours of computer games, and 2.34 hours of radio. Another survey was taken seven years later and the teenagers were screened at the age of 21, and 308 (7.4%) had developed symptoms consistent with depression. And lastly there was a study taken by Nancy Schimelpfening from about.com have found that 22% of teens log onto their favorite social media site more than 10 times a day, more than half of teens log on at least once per day, 75% have cell phones with 25% of those with social media, 54% for texting, and 24% for instant messaging.

            So teen depression shouldn’t be taken lightly because how everything is technology now days, teenagers have to be careful on exactly hat they do because you never know what could cause depression.