During this week, I was able to accomplish a lot for this project. We assigned out roles, me taking the lead on the testimonial portion of the project. With that I reached out to a couple students and staff members on campus through email, requesting […]
Year: 2021
Regarding the Pain of Others (Chapters 6-9) QCQ’s
Q: “Calling such wishes “morbid” suggests a rare aberration, but the attraction to such sights is not rare, and is a perennial source of inner torment” (Sontag 96). C: This is a really conflicting statement for me personally, not something I particularly agree with Sontag […]
Journal #13
There is a couple things I enjoyed in this chapter so I am going to list them each reflecting a little: It was interesting, and something I understood, that groups do not mean numbers but mean commonality. Think of groups as hereditary, common social interests, […]
Regarding the Pain of Others QCQ’s (Chapters 3-5)
“It seems the appetite for pictures showing bodies in pain is as keen, almost, as the desire for ones that show bodies naked” (Sontag 41). Q:”Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who […]
Journal #12
A concept I found so interesting in this chapter is the reinforced ideas we have about different job careers. They become reinforced by the media we are fed growing up, that being things such as books, movies, the news, etc. Some jobs that, realistically, I […]
Journal #11
I found this article extremely interesting to me. This was because the idea of the internets affect on our cognitive processing is something that has crossed my mind. I’ve notice some of the trends that they mentioned in my own daily life. The biggest red […]
QCQ’s Vargas Llosa
Q: “But literature has been, and will continue to be, as long as it exists, one of the common denominators of human experience through which human beings may recognize themselves and converse with each other, no matter how different their professions, their life plans, their […]
Journal #7
After performing my speech, overall, I feel an extreme weight off of my shoulders. I had a lot of restless anxiety when it came to performing this in front of a classroom. One of the things I had to continue to remind myself was that […]
Journal #10
After performing my speech this past Tuesday, I feel really strongly about it. The information I took away from Cuddys’ video actually aided me in being ready to perform. I am someone who comes off to others as very extroverted, but underlying, I am very […]
Journal #9
The big takeaway and resonation that I found in Cuddys’ talk was the idea of “fake it until you become it”. I had always been very confused with the statement until you make it, because what if you make it and know nothing? Cuddy explores […]
