I believe in the art of ranting because we should all sweat the small stuff. For those days that just don’t go your way you know those days where your alarm doesn’t go off or you trip on the way to class and then forget your wallet; be annoyed. Rant. Why? Because the small stuff […]

  The “This I believe” podcast and paper have me a bit frazzled as I believe in a lot of different things and have many morals that I can discuss in this unit. I am not sure exactly how I am going to hone in on just one of my many many beliefs.. Another problem […]

Political correctness: the avoidance, often considered as taken to extremes, of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against. “Political Correctness as a concept is good however it is now used to the extreme and is counter productive to open […]

  Mercer before his untimely death was against the circle and their projects and would often warn Mae about the danger they cause. He identified a “new neediness” in the social-media-driven culture. I believe that in our society has dependency is very present stemming from multiple causes. The addiction to social media is strong because […]

For my paradigm shift essay I am considering several possible topics. The issue I am currently working through is figuring out whether or not the things I choose will constitute an actual  change from one way of thinking to another. It has to be a revolution, a transformation, or a sort of metamorphosis. It just […]

In the book Mae is assigned to  broadcast Stenton’s new aquarium which is now inhabited by  creatures from the Marianas Trench thanks to a ship developed by the Circle, specifically the feeding of a new shark who itself is transparent so that one can see the food it eats being quickly processed in its body. […]

Even before the dinner with Mae’s ex boyfriend Mercer, she seems to be very preoccupied with the Circle’s transparency plan and her “Parti rank”. She sits for hours online trying to perfect her score and even chooses to complete that than go home and sleep after work. Mae also has become constantly watched as the […]

My artifact for my speech is Penn State’s “We Are” chant, a chant that began as a cry for social justice and has now grown into the chant of an entire community. In fact The cheer is so popular among the Penn State cognoscenti that it is often shouted throughout the world by strangers wearing […]

The Circle has now started to immerse Mae into their world of technology and the tone has subtly changed from exciting and new to almost creepy and unsettling. The first time this tone comes into play is when Bailey introduces his new technology SeeChange. SeeChange consists of millions of tiny, unnoticed cameras placed around the […]

Civic artifact Speech- Disclosure My thought process is all over the place Intro/hook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCSQ_mDgoG0   -avici https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=493oB1cPeY0 -Student section Begin with “We are” hope for response getting attention before showing video, also ask about being in the student section at football games. Basically the chant began when the football team was told to leave its […]