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…
Although some would say that Konnokova’s claims that you can’t have a deep connection through social media is false, I disagree. I don’t think it undermines the claims of Konnikova because it does still apply to Phelps-Roper’s story. Although she learned so much about the world and other people’s views of society and the world she did not have a deep connection with any of them except CG and Abitol. She could see what was going on around her locally…
For my peer review I received comments about explaining my quotes more thoroughly and to introduce important people such as Fred Phelps. Additionally I needed to add more quotes from Kannikova’s article to balance out the use of evidence from each of the articles. My peer reviewer commented that my thesis statement worked perfectly to touch on all the points in my paragraphs. I think that my peer focused on my quotes and me using all the articles more equally….
Before I think that social media is beneficial to my academic acclimation because I can connect with other students to make a study group or see if anyone has the notes to a class I missed. In addition to connecting with other people in my class I can find out about resources such as SASC and events that may help me with my academics. It can benefit my social acclimation too. Just as I can hear about academic resources through…
I think the They Say I Say templates are helpful to know how to acknowledge the other side’s point of view and to organize your argument. These templates are a good way to acknowledge the other side’s point of view while still making your argument strong. I think that these templates are going to be useful to give me ideas to add variations in my sentence starters and to strengthen my argument. Overall, I think they are a way I…
2. The Dunbar number is the average number of people someone could have in their social group. In paragraph 3 Konnikova mentions “150 people” as the average number of people in a social group(Konnikova). The Rule of three is the three most intimate circles in a social group. In paragraph 4, Konnikova states that, “fifty is the is the number of people we call close friends..then there is the circle of fifteen” then the most intimate group is “the number…
Megan Phelps-Roper began as someone “who was friendly with her classmates and her teachers, but viewed them with extreme suspicion–she knew they were intentionally evil or deluded by god”, and wasn’t vocal about her beliefs(Chen). She became more vocal about the church’s teachings. She became very open about God’s hate for gay people and began protesting “every day walking in a circle while holding signs with messages…such as WARNING GAYS IN THE BUSHES! WATCH YOUR CHILDREN!” when her grandfather saw…
