Blog #6

After reading Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts”, I realize that mine felt quite ‘shitty’ to me. Part of it could be that  I have little confidence in my own writing or I didn’t feel confident in my own opinion. I feel as this might be more influential in the next papers as opposed to this one. Getting the …

Blog #5

After reading some of the papers, it did make me think a bit about my own. It got me to reread it aloud to myself and let me see a lot of errors I had in the paper. The idea of flow was what struck me the most. I am certainly no expert in the …

Blog #4

Art can or cannot be a waste of time. There is has been a lot of discussion and work in my English class being put into a question that has no definite answer. There are so many things to consider with the creation and sharing of art. Was it made for you or an audience? Why was …

Blog #3

The limits of music are hard to define, if definable at all. Music can bring any range of emotions to a person from sadness to happiness, calm to uneasy, rage to bliss. A piece of music (in this case classical) can bring out so much. One of my personal favorite classical pieces is Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony. …

Blog #2

Upon reading the article a second time in conjunction with annotations, I do not know if my overall opinion on not really liking the EAs mindset has changed. Don’t get me wrong, I applaud the Effective Altruists for being the change they want to see in the world, but what they ask for everyone to give …

Blog #1

Follow the Thread # 1: While I have to preface I am not one that is big into art, I find the Effective Altruists to be quite absurd. One of the things that struck me was Bitton’s idea of making memes. As a millennial, I have spent a good amount of time on the internet. After …

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