The effects of writing in early America

    I actually hate thinking about the impact language has on our lives because i go so in depth it gives me a headache.
    The effect writing had in history is unbelievable. It's so second nature in our lives, we don't even realize how much we depend on the fact that we're able to communicate and how much has stemmed from the creation of language.
    Even though the United States became an independent nation long after language was introduced, we had the ability to break away and establish a new form of government all because we were literate and could communicate with one another. After our independence was won, our forefathers created the Constitution and Declaration of Independence (http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/constitution/text.html), a document we continue to interpret and use as our foundation of democracy.
    With the creation of language came expressing one's opinions, likes, dislikes, etc. A man like Thomas Paine could publish a book with his beliefs--one which later caused him to flee England with charges of treason. That's sort of the risk you take when expressing something that goes against the grain, though. He stood by his work, The Rights of Man: (http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/writings/rights), and even started a revolution among the people of England. That's huge, for someone's opinion to impact so many people...all because of language.
    Another thing that is really interesting to me, is what technology stemmed from all of this. Thomas Paine's book was available all because of the printing press. From that came typewriters (http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/typrwriter.html), computers, cell phones...etc, because people were fascinated with communicating with one another.
    So, I'd have to say hats off to those who created the alphabet and thus invented our lovely language that we use all day everyday, it'd be a strange world fully of hieroglyphics and cave paintings with out it! (and don't even get me started on different languages (i.e. Spanish, English, German...etc.), that's a whole other topic in itself).

Blog about Blogging.

     Alright so....after about the 20 minutes it took me to remember how to get to this point to type out my blog....here I am! I used to think I was pretty technology savvy, but between this and say like Diigo, I'm finding out very quickly that there's much more than just facebook and twitter out there in the social media world.

    So, I understand why some people blog-to express themselves, to be critics, to be heard-but I feel so.........awkward, I feel is the appropriate term, when I blog. Maybe it's because I've never really had anything to push me to do it, like documenting a trip or going through a traumatic illness or something. The thing is, I would love to keep this blog up...but it's like when I write in a journal, I never know how to format it...do I act like I'm writing to someone? Do I basically just give you an overview of my day? That seems boring. Right now I don't have anything I'm particular intrested in voicing my opinion about...although I just had a project due today in my Ad Techniques class about the organization Greenpeace...which I have fallen in love with (check them out: http://www.greenpeace.org/). I have this thing where I get really passionate about something (like everything this organization is about), I just have absolutely no way to carry out any action. I'm a poor college student living in Northeastern Kansas. I feel as though my abilities to make a difference right now are very minimal. But anyways...that's totally irrelevant. I would have made a video blog, but I kind of spaced on this assignment so I'm doing it in the library, and I don't really want my peers thinking I talk to myself...that would be embarrassing!!! So I'll just leave it at that and hopefully get a vlog up next time.
     CIAO, try to stay warm, all!!!

KSU v. KU

Today's the day I've been waiting for all year: the first round (of 2) we play KU in basketball. My roommate told me a statistic she read about KState only having a 7% chance of winning today. To be honest...I love being the underdog. Sure, we had a reputation to uphold being picked to win the conference, but that went out the window I'd say after about our 4th loss, or maybe it was after our free throw percentage went under 50%, or I guess it could also have been just after Pullen and Kelly got suspended...who knows. It's definitely been hard being a cat's fan, but as a wise band once sang..."Don't stop believin'"...and by golly, I haven't. I think we can beat KU and I'm very excited to see what happens...we have the talent and the potential, if we could just put them together we can really play good ball, and I have a feeling we're going to get a very good game. I just hope this doesn't jinx us...

"...Faithful to our colors, we shall ever be. Fighting ever fighting for a wildcat victory....GO STATE!!!!!!!!"

Hello to YOU!

This is just and introductory blog to say "hi!" and kinda see what this is all about. I started this blog as an assignment for a class, but have always been interested in getting one anyways so, viola! I'm late for class right now, but will update later-Have a great day!!!!!!

Psalm 11:7 "God's business is putting things right."