I found it interesting to read about where books, novels, and plays came from. I couldn’t imagine only having church sermons and histories to pick from when reading a book. Our society and culture has come such a long way from those days. I never knew how much the Declaration of Independence influenced newspapers. Writers, and artists. The changes in the print culture we giving writers and authors a “growing sense of identity” and “colonial unity.” It was also refreshing to see that African Americans were finally being counted as a whole person and member of society. Phillis Wheatley even published the first poem by an African American. I also found it interesting how things in the social media have changed, like newspapers for example. Newspapers 1700s drew colonies together and were established for a common cause whereas today I feel as though newspapers and the news only have bad news. Every day you turn on the news 95% of the stories are about someone dying, or being murdered, or the Dow losing more money. Back then real writers who had a voice of the people wrote articles and stories to entertain, not to destroy or upset. However, it was nice to hear how woman were becoming just as educated as men and being allowed to attend schools and read book and break away from the status quo of being a house wife.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Blog #1
I have always believed as Americans we are strong, determined, citizens who are proud of our nation. We show patriotism, pride, and are dreamers of the future however we can sometimes be charged with being too privileged, careless, and materialistic. I do believe that as Americans we have great feets of freedom and at times we feel as though we are the most people in the world. I feel that we are too materialistic and that we take many things for granted such as a home, running water, electricity, and the ability to put food on the table every night. I still feel that we are a strong and dominate nation, but I also feel that we are slipping away from what our founding fathers dreamt America should be. I feel as though we are all so caught up ib the ways of the world that we forget to help feed the hungry, or give back to society by helping those in need. We forget what it means to be united as one body and country sometimes. The original Americans were seen as white, Englishmen who owned property or were Scotish, Irish, Dutch, German and so on. Back then Americans were a small, segregated community. It's so nice to see that we have evolved the term Americans to apply to more people. Americans now consist of black people, legal immigrants, Native Americans who are naturalized, and so many more people than were back then. My defiinition on Americans hasn't changed, nor the way I view us, but I do believe we should find ways to come together to form a more perfect union.
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