I think this time around I was more confident in my comments on my peer’s work. I felt more comfortable diving into his essay and figuring out what I liked and what he could work on. I felt a little less confident in my first draft of this essay than I did with my first draft of the social media essay, so it was nice to hear that I was on the right track from my peer reviewer. I think…
When constantly looking at life through a screen, we tend to not recognize social cues. Things like eye contact, crossed arms, and facial expressions can’t be seen when talking to someone through a screen, and it can be difficult to discern certain emotions through reading comments and direct messages?. As Konnikova puts it, “Some social skills may not develop as effectively if so many interactions exist online” (259). I for one know that if I just interact with people online,…
David Foster Wallace’s speech, in a nutshell, is about listening to others. One of his main points deals with the idea of virtues and how they don’t always wire in with listening. It has to do with the idea of self. Wallace says “It’s a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through…
My final thesis statement was: Social media has its benefits, however, its excessive usage desensitizes, causes personal communication deficiencies, and negates the ability to recognize social cues. I feel like my thesis is concise and has specific ideas. It could have more pizazz and be more detailed. I learned that I tend to ramble on in my writing. This essay prompt helped me figure out how to be specific in my writing (i.e using quotes to help my specific ideas)….
In this article, psychologist Paul Bloom expresses his concerns with the idea of empathy. One of his main points is empathy is a narrow subject. He compares it to spotlights “that only illuminate what they are pointed at, so empathy reflects our biases”(Bloom 1). With this claim, Bloom uses examples of how too much empathy can provide more stress on the individual receiving the empathy (he uses the Sandy Hook shootings as an example). I think he is right to…
