Perspective (Douglass Ch.1 & 2)

      Our thoughts and emotions of a situation change when our point of view changes. Usually when we learn of miserable events in textbooks we distance ourselves from the victims and feel only a little sympathy. We think to ourselves: “oh, how sad” then we move on and forget about it.  However, in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave we experience this sickening issue through a genuine primary source, therefore exponentiating our feelings.

      As the audience, we place ourselves in Frederick´s shoes and imagine ourselves as slaves. I can´t imagine how I would feel if I did not know my father or my age. It is like not having a sense of identity and thus feeling worthless. If my mother died I would cry uncontrollably, yet Douglass feels no emotion because he was unattached and forced apart from her. He is also obligated to see his aunt whipped until blood would flow nonstop. Douglass truly conveys this feeling of vulnerability and hopelessness. It just makes me want to go back in time and wipe out all the cold-blooded and barbaric slave owners in an even more ruthless manner than the way they treated the slaves.

If by Rudyard Kipling (video)

Blog vs. Blog Post

A blog is a discussion or informational site on the web. Blog posts are the individual posts which make up the body of a blog. These two terms are different; however, Forest Wickman obsseses over the common error of mistaking them. I find it weird that Wickman becomes so infuriated by this irrelevant issue that he must write an entire blog post about it. Even he admits that “Most who make it are new to blogging, or aren’t fluent in the language of the Web.” Although I understand how it can be somewhat annoying, Wickman seems way too enraged.