Mary Wollstonecraft

Well besides this essay being too long I have very little to say about it. It was very hard to annotate it because I didn’t really know what to say about anything Wollstonecraft was saying. What I really didn’t understand about this essay was that in the begging it says Wollstonecraft wrote a chapter or a book on men too. She spent 26 pages talking about how terrible men where and what was wrong with them, if she hates men so much why write more about them. Also I just wanted to know who would buy what she was writing because she lived in the 1700’s and you would think that the men would’ve gotten upset with what she was writing and stopped it or something.
One other thing I noticed in this essay too was that she mentioned children being innocent and it’s only when they grow up they turn in to, what she thinks is terrible men or great women. Although I think that children are innocent I don’t understand her logic that even though she thinks that no matter what men will grow up a certain way, then how can she say that all children are innocent?
She also makes many Bible references, and I found a bunch of possible vocab words in this essay, I felt bad not knowing all these big words. After finishing this essay though I was so focused about how confused I had gotten and almost had completely forgotten what she had said in the begging, uh oh.

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

So , this entire article the author talks about how no one wants to read long stories or articles on paper anymore, I found that a little ironic because this was the longest article we’ve had to read so far. Anyway though, it took me a long time to figure out where this author stood on the new technology stuff, like computers. He spent the first few pages talking about how they have helped us and only the last page or two about what he really thinks about computers.

It was easier to read than skunk dreams, well I thought, and even though the author didn’t criticize computer technology that much I thought it was interesting that he said it’s good to be skeptical about what he was saying, which I was anyway. There was a line in this article that I related by to my college lit class, he said that no one wants to read long blog articles, and in college lit. We said this was because students are lazy, not because of technology.

I also wondered if the author could update this article if he would now, because it was published in 2008 and although computer technology might not have updated that much it has a little since 2008. However, overall I thought this article was easy to read and fairly informing.