So, whoops. I'm really bad at updating this damn thing, i doubt i'm getting credit for it at this point, it being almost a week late, but, i'd like to put in my two cents about the Jon Stewart Commencement address for William and Mary University. I enjoyed his liberal (if you'll pardon the pun) use of comedy and the actual messages he put forth in his speech; the ideas that central to your life should be helping other people.
I would hope that his messages were well received, but i can;t help feeling that, considering my own college experience i can only assume that some people took it wrong, laughed at the jokes and missed the messages, and i feel like those were the very people he was trying to reach.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Blog Post #3
I'll be honest, i'm not quite sure about this weeks blog post's subject. I wrote in down in my note book in such haste that couldn't later read it. I believe it was to be about 3 ideas for a community to do our paper on, if not, i apologize.
The communities i was thinking of are 1) the community of Gamer peoples in the upper right lounge in the Rcc, i sped a lot of my time there and consider myself one of them and they are an interesting society. Another would be my Co-workers at stop and shop. the pecking order there would make for an interesting paper. and thirdly, i suppose would be the people i commute with on the train in the morning. They have, i suppose transportation in common but little else, yet they are forced to share space with one another. All would make for interesting insights on 'community'.
The communities i was thinking of are 1) the community of Gamer peoples in the upper right lounge in the Rcc, i sped a lot of my time there and consider myself one of them and they are an interesting society. Another would be my Co-workers at stop and shop. the pecking order there would make for an interesting paper. and thirdly, i suppose would be the people i commute with on the train in the morning. They have, i suppose transportation in common but little else, yet they are forced to share space with one another. All would make for interesting insights on 'community'.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Blog post #2
The article in class this week that had the biggest effect on me was, without a doubt the one about September 11th Tattoos. Tattoos are a vibrant and of course, permanent form of art, and one not to be taken lightly. As i said in class, They are snapshots of your identity which preserve that part of you for as long as you've skin on your bones.
The tattoos discussed in the article are all in one particular vein; patriotism and unity in the face of national disaster. The only qualm i have about these sorts of tattoos is that the sentiments they support apparently could only be evoked by such a great loss. In an ideal world i suppose we could feel this close and similar all the time.
The tattoos discussed in the article are all in one particular vein; patriotism and unity in the face of national disaster. The only qualm i have about these sorts of tattoos is that the sentiments they support apparently could only be evoked by such a great loss. In an ideal world i suppose we could feel this close and similar all the time.
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