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 hi! i'm ebony and this is my little corner of the web :) welcome to my blog!






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Is "the internet" in the palm of our hands?

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            There’s a book I began reading in my English Literature & Composition class. It’s titled  “What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains The Shallows”  by Nicholas Carr. The internet is a digital landscape representative of every aspect of our world, but our "physical world" would be forever changed without it, can we change it? In Carr’s introduction, he states “The Shallows explains why we were mistaken about the net” our perceptions of the Internet and what we think it will do for us are not in alignment with what it actually does. He says “When it comes to the quality of our thoughts and judgments, the amount of information that communication medium supplies is less important than the way the medium presents the information and the way, in turn our brain takes it in.” The Internet as an interface for communication has a bigger impact on how we internalize information than the information itself. He says “It takes patience ...
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Who is punished through a sentence of death?

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              In Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, a character called Justine is found guilty of killing a boy named William, a boy whom she loved and the family of which she was deeply close to, Justine resolves to plead guilty of this crime she did not commit after her trial. She shares the truth with Elizabeth, who is angered by the situation but finds consolation in Justine’s freedom from the worst parts of humanity. Elizabeth’s pain lies with the fact Justine will die for actions she did not commit. That the people of the justice system are perpetrators of cruelty without remorse, and these actions unto Justine are in contradiction with justice. Elizabeth says, “I will try to comfort you; but this, I fear, is an evil too deep and poignant to admit of consolation, for there is no hope.” While Elizabeth sorrows for Justine, she believes that in Justine's’ resignation to being framed as guilty, she rises above her circumst...
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