Author Archives: lhellyer

Blog for 9-23-16

This week, have been really focusing on the way that White people take from the culture that black people have worked to create.

It is something that I have seen in more popular music as well.

I was listening to Hound Dog by Elvis and saw a comment that said that the song sounded like a song by Big Mama Thorton.

I listened to it, and lo and behold, I was right.

Blog for 9-16-16

As I write this post, I think about the article we just read fromĀ The Atlantic that talks about the way that we think.

It reminds me of the fact that we all think different ways, and, information comes to us in different ways.

For example, I have a friend who has Autism, and, to get information to him, you have to be so blunt with him, or else he will not get it.

I just think the idea of information and the way it is spread is something that is so amazing.

Blog for 9-7-16

After reading The Shallows, I have become so much more aware of the effects the internet has had on my mind, and I do not like it.

I have found myself to not be able to focus on something, especially with a book. I want to focus, but, it just doesn’t happen.

I also think that our minds are getting ruined just because everything is so instant now, we don’t have to work for anything that we get, which is not good.

Blog for 8-29-16

“The life of the mind is the mind atĀ play.

I really liked that quote that we heard on the first day of class. It sums up the mindset that everyone should have. We should not be bashful to change what we have been told if we think they are not good. The mind isn’t meant to stand in the same place for all of time. We need to challenge ourselves and push ourselves further.