The new way to read

Do you remember when all you had for entertainment was to read a book? This simple enjoyment is no longer so simple.  With the invention of these new electronic books, eReaders, the pleasure of losing oneself in a novel has changed forever.  EReaders are the next generation, they are environmentally friendly, cost efficient and offer features that a printed book could never.  EReaders are the new way to read. 

Annotated Source

Farrant, Brad. Joint Attention and Parent-Child Book Reading. Australia: Australian Institute of Family studies.  2006, Academic Journal. Farrant presents a detailed argument about how reading with your child improves attention in school.  He talks about how the interaction between the parent and child helps them develop better socially and in returns helps them improve academically. 

Personal Choice or Fact?

The Pearls before Breakfast piece is interesting because it shows how much society sometimes just does not pay enough attention to their surrounds unless they are directly affected by it. In this article they talk about how they placed a famous musician in a subway and how only a handful of people stopped and appreciated what they were witnessing. This to me is a form of being entertained.  I think that in order for you to be entertained you have to be interested in the music, show or production.   To the people that had stopped and listened to Joshua Bell were entertained because they chose to stop and listen while the others just passed by.  This goes back to the fact that entertainment is a personal choice.  We are going to be pulled to events that have an interest to us.  If you are a painter then you are more likely to enjoy an art show then a monster truck show and vice versa.  That’s what this article is saying, we choose the things that entertain us and we are more likely to enjoy them because we showed some interest in them beforehand.     

A good interview

http://www.right-writing.com/steps.html

I found this website, it consits of 25 tips on how to conduct a good interview. 

Tribes

For this blog we were required to read an excerpt for our text book Remix.  This was about how we are more subject to changing and getting ‘sucked’ into groups, or tribes.  They used the example of how when three different groups were placed in a room with different flags and how they describe themselves.  This experiment showed that when placed in a room with a Princeton flag they were more likely to talk about how they attend Princeton, unlike when they had a neutral classroom they were more likely to talk about other aspects of their lives.  This blog is about how we have to shape and change with the people we are associated with.

Update

For my identity collage, I decided to choose picture of people who influence my life in different ways.  I chose the picture of my best friends and my family and I climbing a mountain because I love the outdoors.  I also placed several words and quotes around the border representing who I am and what I believe in.  I created this with the theme of what is passionate to me and my life, because I feel that if any one of theses pieces goes missing I will loss such a huge part of who I am. 

How do you define yourself?

Identity is not something that can be described in one word or picture. Identity is based on our entire lives. Identity according to dictonary.com is defined as the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another.  These words can mean so many different things.  What is being oneself and not another? For this post I decided to talk about what my definition of Identity is based on who we hang out with in school, what we do for extra activates and the culture that surrounds us. 

            Identity is something that everybody struggles to find.  Some people argue that identity is what you are born with and that is it nothing other than what is written on your birth certificate. 

Above is an example of what somebodies birth certificate may look like.  It has their name, their mother, father and home address.  That’s it, is that all we are 100 characters? Identity is like a pot of soup, each one is a little bit different from the next, but they are all made up of the same basic stock.  

We change who we are all the time. Identity is not something that is set in stone.  You are not the same person now than when you were 5 and you will not be the same when you are 75.  We are constantly changing our lives.  When you were 5 everybody was your friend, there were no cliques or social groups. Now you have chosen who your friends are and we tend to gravitas toward people like us, but in 50 years we will have changed again, because we are always changing to adapt to our environment.  When you go a trip you always come back a little different than when you left because you see and experience new things. Our culture and friends are how we define ourselves, not the 100 characters on our birth certificate.