Hi all:
I will post entries here and ask you to write a comment on them in this blog space.
Please be aware. This blog is out there in public space.
If you feel writing an entry here might violate your privacy in some way, let me know and we will work out an alternative.
In any case--to protect your privacy--I suggest you sign your comments with your first name only follow by the first number of the time of your W109SS section.
For example, if your first name is Archey and you are in the 2-315 W109SS, you would sign your comment "Archey1." Or if your name is Elise and you are in the 330-445 W109SS, you would sign in as "Elise3."
As these remarks might suggest, I am teaching two W109SS's this fall quarter and decided to mingle the blog comments in one blog rather than making a blog for each class.
If you post your comment and do not see it immediately in the blog space, not to worry. I have to check the comments before they are posted to blog space.
Any questions, please ask in class.
And Welcome!
Nick
I will post entries here and ask you to write a comment on them in this blog space.
Please be aware. This blog is out there in public space.
If you feel writing an entry here might violate your privacy in some way, let me know and we will work out an alternative.
In any case--to protect your privacy--I suggest you sign your comments with your first name only follow by the first number of the time of your W109SS section.
For example, if your first name is Archey and you are in the 2-315 W109SS, you would sign your comment "Archey1." Or if your name is Elise and you are in the 330-445 W109SS, you would sign in as "Elise3."
As these remarks might suggest, I am teaching two W109SS's this fall quarter and decided to mingle the blog comments in one blog rather than making a blog for each class.
If you post your comment and do not see it immediately in the blog space, not to worry. I have to check the comments before they are posted to blog space.
Any questions, please ask in class.
And Welcome!
Nick
Just checking to see if the open comment setting works....
"The myth of mobility was often more humiliating to the relatively poor American than permanent low status would have been to a member of a caste society. Low income and a dead-end job was clearly 'the penalty for and the proof of personal failure.'" This quote caught my attention more than others due to the fact that it seems as if this was the first time the history of consumerism where personal failure was relative to wealth, as opposed to status or heritage in a society. It was no longer about who you were related to, but the focus had shifted to how much "stuff" one's job would allow for them to consume. The article, along with the documentary, opened my eyes to view consumerism in a way that I had never done before, and I don't know if that is a good or bad thing.