The Internet and It's Place in the World

Throughout our class, there has been a lot of talk about how the world communicates today. After reading a few other people's blog entries, I have learned that people consider that the internet has really served as a means of communication and it is both good and bad.  I consider this to be true in a way.  There exist two sides to this argument, number one: the internet is a really beautiful invention and brings cultures together.  It helps educate the world and is wildly useful for school purposes, and it helps to better bring two people together from different places on the globe that may never have seen each other before.  Number two: The internet has a negative influence on the world, it is used to further bully and demote people of various races, sexual orientations, and or ethnic groups.  Throughout the internet people can use their anonymous identites to attack groups of people or individuals.  Now there is my standpoint, I would primarily agree with number one. The internet is a wonderful addition to further better the world.  The internet can teach us languages to communicate, can educate us on problems outside of our own nation, can bring us closer to people who we would have never talked about, and can be a place where you can share your own ideas just as I am doing now.  When all of this bullying comes into play, it becomes a much less happy place i will admit.  However, people would insult or put people down whether it is online or offline it really does not make a difference.  You cannot stop the people with poor opinions, you can only withstand them and it does not matter whether that be on the internet or anywhere else.

Glass Menagerie Reflection

This is a reflection on the Glass Menagerie.  I wanted to ask a few questions concerning this play that we read in class. In my opinion, although it may have been an accurate representation of what the 1930's were like during the Great Depression, I feel little interest in the story. The story in all had complicated metaphors and double meanings surrounding it, however; the story is unexciting, and rather boring, in reality it is a story about a man and his hysterical mother accompanied by his socially awkward sister.  The story I think accurately depicts the time period while showing what a family of the time may have had to endure and what it may have produced.  However; If there is another item of severe importance that I am supposed to grasp from this story, then I do not.  The messages in the book remain unclear to me as well, in the end Tom ends up leaving his family and roaming the United States while his family stays in their tiny apartment.  This play shows a sad family in an extremely unfortunate situation which draws a lot of empathy and sympathy for each individual character, however is that all I am supposed to feel? What emotions are trying to be evoked from me besides just me feeling sad for a family that breaks down.  The message that is supposed to be there, I am afraid is not visible to me.