Week 2

January 29, 2017 by

Thoughts on:

Documentary; I thought that it was very interesting to hear about some of the advancements made just because of the construct of the White City. I never realized the spray paint made its debut just before the 1900s. Also, I was impressed at the acceptance shown for other cultures, I was always under the impression that we were not a very inclusive culture at that time, no matter what we tried to say.

CYIKAC; as I mentioned in class, I was surprised at the difference in connotation for the word Factory from the 19th century to now. In my mind the word factory creates an image of an assembly line stretching on where the workers look tired and bored from standing and completing the same task day after day. In the context that Hank Morgan and by extension Twain is using it, the word factory could mean a place of creativity and change.

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Week one

January 20, 2017 by

In regards to the book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, I have to say I never like Mark Twain’s writing. The style just doesn’t appeal to me. Looking deeper than my own indifference towards the writer of the piece, the contents in combination with the exercises in class  have caused me to think about a few things.

  1. Do I allow the technology in my possession run my life too much? The answer that I would like to say is no, but I notice myself reaching for my phone to see what happened on Facebook or Snapchat far too often for that statement to actually be true.
  2. Is some of this actually a good thing? Throughout the ages there have always been gaps of opinion between the generations. Times change and with it the people who grow-up with that change. Humans have always looked for faster, easier more reliable ways of moving and communicating. What if this era is just changing enough to meld that instinct with the new technology at our finger tips.
  3.  Finally, it has caused me to realize that just because the technologies of the past were different doesn’t mean that people didn’t rely on them just as heavily as we do on ours today. People in the 50’s would have been annoyed at the loss of black and white T.V. and vacuums. People post 1890 would have been disoriented without guns and soap.
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