Reflecting on the role of technology in my life and American culture at large I can't help but think about how hard my everyday life would be without the technologies we have today. So many things count as technology when you really think about it. From the telephone, to television, to computers, and cars, calculators, to even a mechanical pencil. Even a simple ball point pen is technology that I simply couldn't live everyday life as I know it, without. I use technology in every aspect of my life, from the refrigerator that keeps my food fresh, to the toothbrush I use on my teeth every morning and night. Basically the world as we know it revolves completely and utterly around technology. If for some reason, one day everyone woke up and no phones worked, all cars were broken, computers down, refrigerators not running, no ovens, microwaves or calculators, not even a ball point pen that worked, chaos would rain havoc over the streets. The contemporary world would no longer exist.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Blog# 9 (Assumptions About Love)
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Blog#6 Promt
Blog#5 My Dominican and Dutch Roots
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Prompt#2
An entertainment experience in which a friend shared with me, was a story about how she had gone shopping with her sister-in-law and her baby girl. My friend revealed to me that she had stolen a shirt and slipped it into her sister-in-law's stroller, and didn't tell her until after they left the store. At that moment I became furious as she began to laugh. Our responses were completely different, even though she was my best friend at the time, I did not find what she did funny at all. I believe because she has had nearly everything handed to her without cost, and her pure lack of experience, and disregard to consequence, is all a result of her upbringing and social conditioning. I, on the other hand have been caught shoplifting, and know that the consequences to that action is not worth the risk; yet alone putting someone else, and their child, in jeopardy as well. Our two opinions differentiate for numerous reasons, but mostly because of our moral values and ethics. Something I watch on t.v. may be hilarious to me, but completely vulgar, and not entertaining what-so-ever, to grandma.
Blog#1 (Entertainment)
Friday, January 15, 2010
Breathing
Disappearing doubts, shadows in the dark,
Hope drowns disease, content at heart.
No quest at hand- no combustion necessary,
Body sedated in the bliss that varies,
And the love that carries
The fuel-
The feelings I’m feeling are all so new,
Unfamiliar to-
One broken soul,
All the who-
Now feels more whole.
No missing parts, no magma pool-
Ready to combust at any toll.
Silent serenity, peace, at least.
Complex simplicity dissolves the beast.
Disappearing doubts, shadows in the dark,
Hope drowns disease, content at heart.
Free at last, patched up at the seams,
I had no idea it felt like this-
To finally be able to breathe.