1. 3 unique takeaways/tips from the readings were thinking about who the primary audience of the text is, breaking down the introduction so that you can understand what the text will be about and considering the author’s choices. These would help me in particular because I have a very hard time at comprehending and trying to understand WHY the author writes what they do, their thought process etc. Comprehending and understanding is a big part of learning for me because you can’t really take away from a reading if you can’t or really anything if you don’t have a full understanding of what you’re reading.

 

1. I think that this means to go into a reading as if you’re a part of the reading. While reading the text you could think, why is this being said, who is this meant to touch, why is it so important etc, You break down the text better which leads to a way better analysis.

 

1. You can learn the context of a text before reading by figuring out the author’s purpose and who the intended audience is.

1. A single-story is basically a rumor that gets told over and over again. Many single stories however, lead to stereotypes and people to have a certain view over a certain place or group of people.
2. I liked to read fantasy stories. Books like Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl etc, The characters were usually outcast with secret incredible gifts. I don’t think the stories I read specifically created any single-stories for me because my mom kind of taught me about different cultures and backgrounds at a very young age. It wasn’t until I got to middle and high school that I noticed the different single-stories in the books I was reading. 
3. Modern Technology definitely contributes to single-stories just because it opened different lifestyles people had to live up to you. Also, with modern technology there’s memes and live streams etc that allow people to openly express any narrative they want and millions of people have access to it. Modern technology has caused single-stories to spread faster than before which leads to way more stereotypes.
4. I feel like these two pieces are talking about how single-stories contributed to identity issues and with how they viewed their world against the world they read about.

I do agree with what Carr was saying about our reliance on technology growing. When we need to find somewhere to eat, find directions, do research for a paper or anything, we use our phones/computers. We automatically run to technology. Because of this sometimes we feel like we don’t really need to learn certain basics or take it as seriously because technology will always be there to fall back on. These crashes could have been prevented if the pilot would’ve taken his training a little more seriously. Also, if who/whatever trains the pilot, should not only teach the pilot how to work the technical side of the plane, but should also be taught how to take control of the plane when the computers etc fail. I think it’s a matter of the worker. As a society, we unfortunately rely on technology way too much. When the wifi shuts off, a whole household stops. We shouldn’t constantly upgrade technology just so we don’t have to do any of the heavy work. Technology was created to help and make things more efficient. Not completely take over our lives and do everything for us. I don’t really have much of a stance on technology taking jobs. It is definitely a possibility which is why we should start trying to catch up to technology so that if THAT fails, we won’t be completely screwed. 

It has now been a year since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic happened and everyone’s life changed. A lot of people lost jobs, loved ones, jobs and only god knows what else. The Covid-19 Pandemic has dramatically changed my life in positive and negative ways over the past year. Thankfully, through all the struggles I was still able to take care of all my responsibilities, graduate high school and complete my first year of college. Because of the pandemic, I was forced to stay home, attend school online and since everything closed down I wasn’t able to go out and just take my regular little breaks from stressful things.

Me being stuck at home all day caused me to worry. I am a very bad overthinker and tend to get into my own head a lot. I was constantly worried about what was happening in the world and where meals were coming from, how I was getting my sister to school, how was my brother getting lunch money, taking off work to get things done. Anything there was to worry about, I did. It caused me to  be really stressed out. I started slacking and losing a lot of motivation which made it harder for me to handle my responsibilities. I couldn’t really reach out to any one or do any of the things that were stress relievers for me. I was just stuck home, stuck in the same routine, stuck in my head. This eventually got in the way of school, highschool AND college.

Going to school from home made me feel isolated from my friends. On top of issues the pandemic caused, I have other health issues so I had to be on lockdown way more than the people around me. And all though I missed my friends and going out, I was glad I didn’t have to worry about all the little petty highschool issues. Who liked who, who wanted to hang out with who, all the stupid issues. I hated my highschool but love my friends if that makes sense. Besides my 3 main friends, I’m not a very social person. I try to come in contact with the least amount of people I can. But even for someone who doesn’t really talk much, I was way too alone. It’s one thing to just not see people but when you can’t really call or contact them as much because their parents sent them out of state it becomes too much. I felt very alone. To avoid this, I tried different hobbies. I got back into reading, writing little wattpad stories, playing my cello & violin etc. Which worked for a while but eventually I started feeling the same way.  Everything slowly began  to appear as a nightmare I was not able to wake up from. My job ended up going on furlough and shutting down and I was back to stressing a new set of issues. What used to be, how can I get my sister from school if I work turned into could we even afford to send her. And she’s too young to stay home alone. I had to worry about how long my final check can last us until I find another job. ( Thank god for PUA). However, once this happened more family started coming around and it was good to have my family beside me. My family helped as much as they can but with the rising prices, declining markets, and cost of living rising it’s almost impossible to be on top of everything. Slowly, I got very depressed but was still pushing through.