Monday, January 5, 2009

Welcome to the Blogging World: Your First Post Prompt

Blogging, Facebook and Myspace all offer an interesting look into the written-technological wave sweeping our society. Because our 2010 class is focused on examining social issues, we will examine this epidemic by participating in it ourselves. Your first task in this class is to create a blog using Google's blogging service Blogger. You must leave me a comment on this Post so that I may link back to your blog.

You should make your first post after reading the introduction to our textbook, Rereading America. Your post should consider the following questions: What does it mean to you to be an American Citizen? How might this text challenge or complicate your opinions?

After creating your own post, refer back to the comments on this blog and look at your other classmate's blogs. You must read and respond to two posts.

24 comments:

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  2. Made my blog...hope I did it right :)

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  3. Hi Chelsi
    My blog is done its awesome!!

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  4. Well it took me long enough, but I did it

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  5. i was kidnapped by aliens, and they made me make a blog....

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  6. Got my blog! Now I just need a book...

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  7. O Wow the 50's sure were happy times. It seems as if whenever one thinks back on the nineteen fifty's they see nothing but good times and even better people. As i read these articles the first by Soto it speaks of a boy who gets the idea of the perfect American family from the tv families. They have the perfect life and are always smiling and all-in-all just happy people. Through watching these shows he recieves these ideas he has been feed and figures that if his family dresses and acts like they do, he will be more accepted in the world and become a more liked family.
    The second article by Coontz was about how the 50's really arent the happy times everyone thinks they are. By looking in movies and pictures of the 50's it would appear as one of the best decades there has ever been, however this is because we are only looking at the happy times, with no grasp toward the hard times at all. If we were to look at our time and showed only the good we would also look as if we were perfect too. The fact is perfection doesnt exist, there is no perfect generation, or perfect American family. All can appear perfect if the only thing you see is what people want to see. With this next article it shows of the wars, trials, and conspiracies all back in the fifties. They were indeed not the happy times every thinks they are. Rather than trying to be perfect, or be just like something else, why not just simply be the best we can be.

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  8. I think it's finally working now, I hope this works! Here's my link.

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  9. Hey Chelsi,
    I did not get the members of my groups names, and I cannot find any info on our latest assignmets. Am I overlooking them or are they just not posted yet?
    thanks for everything.

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