Weekly Blog Post 2

The power of the Internet and the typed, rather than the written word, has been greatly under appreciated by the generations that never became accustomed to computers and the accessible information that it offers. This video diagrams how the written word has transformed into the typed word online and the advantages of using computers in writing and research. Although the internet and easily accessible information have been criticized by several researchers for its influence on younger generations, claiming that it shortens attention span and lowers children's comprehension of difficult ideas. In reality the mode of communication mirrors the speed of life, one that is constantly increasing with the need for efficiency and higher standards in a larger populous, so the way in which we communicate has become faster and less personable in the name of efficiency. This video helps explain the importance of communication and how the typed word has expanded and forever changed all preconceived knowledge of writing an communication.

The form of the video may serve as an introduction to the internet for any user of he internet. The writing of a sentence and constantly fixing it numerous times in an attempt to describe the value of written communication, guides the audience to rethink the expedience and malleability of the internet. Writing a sentence on a piece of paper and fixing it appears to be much messier and uncertain in comparison to the usage of the computer to type the same sentence and improve it. Following a very linear pattern allows the audience to follow the author's train of thought on the matter of the internet as an essential and world connecting mode of communication. Logos follows the form of the video perfectly in that uses an deductive style to help break the internet down into the pieces that shape the for the internet takes place. The simplicity of the terms and images, diagramming the parts of programs that aid the author's argument, essentially boil down to the same structure as physical writing. After the author makes the point that typing or using the internet functions the same way that sending a letter in communication with another person would be. After establishing the importance of the internet, the author uses the foundation to bend the discussion, saying that whoever is capable is using the internet in anyway is connected to the other people that use the internet because we all use the same information. The communication between different cultures, families, even yourself opens the mind to endless possibilities, all because the internet has become a prominent method of communication in the modern world.

Weekly Blog Post 1

"The reality is more excellent than the report."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Through fiction several seemingly impossible instances are revealed to the public so they may be able to experience beyond their typical routine and life. Writers have the capacity to manipulate and mold the thinking of the reader merely with words, illustrating base human desire and struggle. Writing has the ability to steal the minds of the audience, enrapturing them with impossible yet realistic scenarios. Authors can eloquently write a beautiful story, but the thing is that the stories that are the most enthralling are almost always fiction. Why do people become so obsessed over certain collections of novels when truly there is virtually no substantial reality that the story could be based on? Emerson essentially argues that reality is better than the fabricated truth of a story be it fiction or non. I disagree with this quote because even if the event did occur, such as the retelling of climbing Mount Everest, the story is more exciting than the reality. Communication illustrates the instinct to tell a story to share personal experience, morals, or basically anything to another living human being. According to the Buddhist religion one of the three basic needs of human life for an individual to be acknowledged by another human, the need to tell and retell stories has meaning for any individual. Therefore the "report" has a cathartic effect for the individual in that he or she is being acknowledged by the listener or reader. The story also enables the audience to be able to more or less experience what the person telling the story has. Books especially allow the audience to appreciate a story, primarily fiction, because like art the book is open to the interpretation of the person or people who read it even if the author intended the work to invoke a specific emotion or memory. The mind runs wild and the author simply guides it using the words in the passage to bring a collective audience to experience the same actions and conversations as everyone else. The false shared experiences of the people help them identify with various unlikely occurrences in the world such as past wars. The "report" as Emerson calls it allows people to safely imagine their own reality or follow a character in a nonfiction story earning about their life while keeping at a safe distance so not to get involved in any tragedy or even happiness that is not their own. Reality can be interesting but the report of what actually occurred can be molded into the imagination of an individual enhancing the story and possibly making it more exciting, while the writer gets a catharsis out of sharing their story with any audience.