Semester Dos, Blog 10

1. "Did Google Maps almost cause a war in 2010? On Nov. 3 of that year, Edén Pastora, the Nicaraguan official tasked with dredging the Rio San Juan, justified his country’s incursion into neighboring Costa Rica’s territory by claiming that, contrary to the customary borderline, he wasn’t trespassing at all. For proof, he said, just look at Google Map" I think that it is completely hilarious that the general used google maps to decide where he could send his trop instead of using treaties and or documents. I also think that it is odd that google maps can almost cause a war because of some research errors. Just because one map maker decided that the border was in a certain place two countries almost started warring with each other. It goes to show how powerful certain things are, like google.

2. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/the-google-maps-war-that-wasnt/

I picked this because it supports my claim that it is completely hilarious that the military invaded because of google maps. It just shows how massive that company has gotten, it can be used as grounds to invade a country. I think that this supports my ideas of google at some point taking over the world.

3. How can google have this much power?

Why did someone think that google maps is a trustworthy source for a border dispute?

Is the general justified in sending his troops over the "border"?

Semester Dos, Blog 9

I think what makes a great forum post is a post that answers a question and asks many more. A great online conversation if fueled by good questions that can be interpreted many ways. That is why you need posts that answer and ask questions, so that people can be fulfilled but still learning.

I think i have done exactly what i have said to do above, in all of my post i have kindly answered someone's question with my own opinion and then asked a question related to the topic.

I think that i can start to add more direct evidence into my post wether that is putting certain quotes or just citing pages that have the ideas on them.

Semester Dos, Blog 8

"Their intrest rather touched me and made them less emotionally rich -- nevertheless, i was confused and a little disgusted as a drove away. it seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was the rush out of the house, child in arms -- but apparently there were no suck intentions in her head."

This connects to flappers because it is the exact opposite of what flappers are. During that age there were the traditional women and then flappers, Daisy is more of a traditional women instead of a flapper. I think that being oppressed as women were it forced them to become more of flappers.

"This is a valley of ashes -- a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens."

This connects to the Guilded Age because Nick, a rich guy is commenting on the poor working class that was still very prominent during the Guilded Age. It is a perfect representation of this age because you have the elite that are rising represented by Nick and Tom, and then the poor underclass that is the valley of ashes.

"In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another"This connects Prohibition because this is during the prohibition but he still has a full bar and isn't very discrete about it at all. this kind of tells me that just because he lives on east egg he can violate certain laws and the police wont really care.

Semester Dos, Blog 7

I think what stands out to me the most in what i have read so far is how in depth he goes when he is explaining someone that he meets. Take Tom for an example, he spent almost half a page giving you very specific detail about what he looked like.
"Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body, he see,ed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulders moved under his thin coat."

Semester Dos, Blog #6

I think what stand out most to me is the blatant disregard for safety in some of the factors back in these days. The owners of the factories completely disregarded the law and the safety of their staff.

I think that the chicago journal had the best layout, it was just so put together and looked like something that i would want to read. It didn't look like it was just thrown together like some of them are. It looks very professional and looks like a real newspaper that could have actually been published.

This affects me because now i know how to look at different news articles to decide if i want to read them or not. I can decide between feature, editorial, or news and now i know where to look for what they are about and what they seem to be most like.

I have a very different outlook on the owners of the triangle factory. I can into it thinking that they were doing things that they had the right to do but it was still terrible. Now i can look upon it and realize that what they did was against the law and just out right terrible.

I am going to be much more careful when i edit all of my papers and articles now because i dont want a repeat of "builing".

Semester Dos, Blog Cinco

I think that the most interesting resource that i found is the cite from Cornell that i have been using for my research. The most interesting part of the site would have to be the picture sections or the interviews with the survivors/families.

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/story/introduction.html

The most interesting story that i found was in the testimony of a survivor, she told a story of how just hours before the fire she asked the floor manager why there was no water in the buckets used for putting out fires. He replied with a comment about if they burnt then they could use themselves to put the fire out.

I realized just how uncaring big business owners were back then, they broke various numbers of laws just so that they could get more profit. It makes me think about how set we are in the life we have as teenagers in the 21 century.