I think that my second peer review experience went better than the first time. I think I was more confident and better knew what to look for when reading the paper. Although the paper I read did not have any big components missing, I felt like I could praise the person instead of not leaving any comments. I felt too that I could leave more direct feedback such as saying how a certain element helped connect the main idea to…
The use of Twitter and absorbing other people’s views and opinions is something that definitely got through to Phelps-Roper rather than the people who yelled at her during picketing and counter-protested to silence them and helped her broaden her perspective. Thus, when people like Abitol saw her as human and didn’t make her feel like she was wrong even though she didn’t line up with his views she started to change. CG played a role in her becoming more of…
I think she is talking more about the process than the product when she talks about the first draft. I say this because she says that when she first sits down to write her draft she just writes the words down so she can filter out her ideas. She often found that he built her ideas off what she wrote in her first draft. When she writes her first two drafts she is not focused on the product but rather…
When I first read the piece I was kind of confused by the fish story but as I read I started to understand it. His first main point is that we need to understand where someone’s point of view is coming from when we disagree with someone about something. Wallace mentions that people “never end up talking about just where these individual templates and beliefs come from”(Wallace 3). When we disagree we usually don’t bother to understand the other person’s…
Social media is a blessing and a curse to our generation, it can spread information, and help us have a broader perspective, but define our identity even if we don’t want it to. I think that it encompasses all the ideas in my essay well and that it introduces my ideas well. I think it could be more specific about what platforms I am talking about. There are different types of social media platforms so I think it would help…
When I first read the article I found it surprising because I have never read about this point of view that people can’t sympathize with more than one person before so I was surprised. I never thought about it before. The piece talks about how we can’t have empathy for multiple people because of the energy it takes to empathize with one person and how empathy can show our biases and show our narrow point of view. Bloom’s first main…
The article “The Limits of Friendship” by Maria Konnikova is about how social media is affecting our relationships and connections to people. She talks about the Dunbar number and how it depends on how big the brain of the animal is. Her big ideas are that social media can’t replace the endorphins that come from touch and how social development is going to be negatively affected. Overall, the article is about how social media is affecting our social skills and…
