Little Brother 3

Overall Thoughts Of Little Brother

• I thought a lot of it shadowed 1984, I know this we also said in class, however I seemed to find myself thinking about it a  lot.
• A lot of the actions the DHS took were extreme, yet they aren't too far off of what is going on today
• I thought Mr. Bevill made a really great correlation with the current airport security threats and the book.  Personally, I don't think that the airport security has gone to far.  The pictures are private, and if you chose to not go through normal regulations then they have to check you some way so the pat down is necessary.
• I thought a lot of the technology explanations and the DHS punishments seem pretty realistic, yet I did find the fact that Marcus was in high school and so were his friends slightly detracting.  To me there might be a high school student who could pull these types of things off but the chances are slim to none.   

Little Brother 2

I'll admit, I'm not to the point in the book that I need to be at, I am only at chapter 9 though we need to be at 17.  I plan on reading during the many hours I will be spending in airports as well as on the plane this break. 

So as of Chapter nine this is what I think.  What happend to Darrel?!?! They mention him every once in a while, but really what happend?  Are we soupose to assume that he is dead?  Is he going to re appear later in the book?  Is he still detained?  Are they taking care of him at the DHS since he was stabbed?  This little fact that I would like to know distractes me from the rest of the book the entire time I am reading. 

I'm starting to be able to follow the Tech stuff alittle more but not much.  I really think that Cory over played that aspect of the book.  I feel that he probably looses a lot of his audience during these points in his book.

Another aspect that I would like to see, Marcus's dad acctually get mad at the DHS!  I can't help but feel bad for Marcus.  His dad has no idea what has happend to him, and he's not allowed to tell him.  Marcus tries things to show his dad his point, he blows up for a brife second and then hes fine again!

Well that's it so far.

Little Brother

So, Supposedly we are all supposed to be thru 2/3's of Litter Brother by now.  I'm just now at chapter nine, which is sad because I haven't been neglecting the reading, I just read really slow.  Anyways What do you all think of the book so far? I found myself only liking the parts where the DHS was present.  Any other time I thought the whole Technology part was way over done, and I find myself lost.  Over all It's pretty good, but it get dry in areas.

My Research Proposal

-My Ted Talk, and basis for my paper

 When following the bible is it impossible not to pick and chose what rules you follow, therefore how can anyone call themselves a good Christian if they have to break some rules?

 Why I choose this topic.

-Started looking for polygamy

-Then I looked for Cults & Religions

-Saw Jacob's talks

-Agreed with many of the points

Why is this a good argument?

(Can you pick and chose what you follow in the Bible?)

-Highly Controversial

-Many sides to the argument

1.      No, you must follow everything

2.      Yes, but only the rules that are out dated

3.      Yes, as long as you follow the major ones like Thou shall not steal or Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s wife, then your fine

4.      No, You do not have to follow any of Gods rules to be a good Christian

iHate iSources

Since the lecture on how to Research for the iSearch project I have been meaning to to actually start the searching.  Though the steps are seemingly simple, I still feel like starting this research is this a task all in its self.  Therefore today I am going to sit my self down at my desk and I am not going to get up until I have made progress in the research portion of this project.  Any body have another suggestions in how to start the research any differently than Mr. Bevill did?

Where to begin?!

In Class when Mr. Bevill laid out the assignment for us I thought, "That's not that bad, It's in so many parts."  I went home and did part one and my blog post.  Now I'm starting to worry a bit.  Where do I go from here?  I started part two and I guess I can finish that.  However, I feel like I really need to dig into the Research part of it but i don't really know where to begin, and/or if what I am thinking about researching is appropriate for this paper.  Hopefully class tomorrow will bring some insight to when I am suppose to be heading with my research...

100% Bibical

http://www.ted.com/talks/a_j_jacobs_year_of_living_biblically.html

I started off on TED looking for some type of video clip on polygamy. Though that would have been interesting, I didn't find anything. So then I just typed in religion hoping to find some sort of Video clip dealing with cults. When I did this I stumbled upon A.J Jacob's year of living biblically. I was sure it was going to be some guy preaching about what is right and wrong according to him and the bible. However, A.J turned turned out to be a writer from esquire magazine that who never really had a religion and wanted to live out the bible, following EVERY rule, for a year! To me, this story sounded extremely interesting. Therefore I am going to do my persuasive paper/ project on weather or not we can or should follow all the bibles rules.

Let me know what you think?!