artical post 1

I agree. Since the internet has come around and widely used it most likely has rewired the thought process and it has instead of the brain lighting up with memoy, we dim it down with looking for the infromation. The reason people seem so intelligent is that they can look up basically anything , while i hardly use the computer because i just dont llike the feeling it has on my wrists. An annoying throbing pain, that then induces a headache that dosnt allow me to think so i stay away from computer use for more then thirty minutes at a time. Its not a bad thing but i think it has shaped my way of seeing the world not as interconnected but still distance just in a newer way then the ocean use to.

reading response 4

I am currently beginning the biography of William Blake, a romantic poet. My sister use to read some of his poems to me as a kid, but i was always more intrested in the pictures that Blake had drawn to show his poems. It was only after I started to understand the alienation that he felt from his family even if they did love him he knew himself to be different mentaly. I understand that feeling when all you do seems to be wrong and no one understands your actions or the reasons behind why you act stupid from time to time. The constant attention you pay to the people around you trying to figure out why they act like they do, and how you wear a mask to get them to show different sides of thier personalities to you when you only crack jokes then turn a cold shoulder when you act how you act with people close to you. William Blake has been a huge influnnce on my own thoughts because he  made it, even with his eccentries.

reading response 3

This week I'm reading the lies of Locke Lamora, which is about a group of theives in a place that reminds the reader of Dickinsons England. It's a book centering on the past and present of the main character named Locke who has a gift for stealing and acting. He learns the trick of trade of conning rich and stupid people from a blind priest. The book deals with the injustice of poverty and how you will do anything to get ssomething to eat. The only difference in this world is that if yr caught stealing even one time your excuted, even the small children who need wieghts tied to thier legs so they can be "hung properly". it's a very intresting book and a personal favorite of mine.