Hello World!!I would just like to start off by stating that, yes, I am alive. The past few months have been exciting ones wherein I have honed my awesome Adobe skills to create some truly awesome material for Madison Memorial Hospital.
As the weeks fly by, the end of my internship looms in sight which is exciting, stressful, and bittersweet. I remembered finally that on the last day of my internship I have to turn in a 5-page paper (which I have not started writing) based on the book The Elements of Journalism (which I did start reading last week, but only passed page 20 this afternoon) and how it relates to my education experience.
And do you know what I discovered during the 50-or-so pages I read today? Orson Scott Card can predict the future.
Ok, maybe not in reality. He writes science fiction novels which are typically based in worlds and societies that do not actually exist. But as I read about the purposes of journalism and how it is changing and where it is seen in today's world, I realized that Mr. Card could see in 1985 how the internet would change the way we communicate. The storyline following Peter and Valentine is usually not my favorite. But that is where you find adults all around the world taking notice of and listening to two children, who have assumed fake identities of much older much more educated individuals, giving opinions and suggestions on international relations.
That really summarizes a lot of what the world is like today.
1. You never really know who you are talking to on the internet. They can claim to be anyone they want.
2.Citizens all around the world are using the internet's tools such as blogs, youtube, facebook, etc. to share their opinions and stories and somewhat assuming the role of what was once thought to be a journalist.
Ok, so it summarizes two points of life in 2011.
Anyway, in conclusion I want to read Ender's Game again because it gives me hope that if an 8 year old boy can save the world, I can do whatever I want.
_Loverly
