Reflection of the Class

I am not one who enjoy's reading or every thinks critically about what I read. I just read things because I had to. This class has taught me alot about think critically, and has helped me realize that it is okay to express my opinion about issues. Before I never cared enough to say what I thought, but now I see it is important to express your beliefs. One aspect of class that I really enjoyed was having smalled groups that we talk in about the material in class. I am not always comforatable speaking in front of class, so by having smaller group I could still share my thoughts. The Dumbest Generation reading really bothered me because that is a stero type our generation has had to live with and it is so frustrating. We are not dumb, we live in a society were technology allows us to not have retain as much common knowledge as people use to. It is harder to have to look up information in books compared to getting online and looking it up. That being said it is clear that we do depend on technology a lot, but I think Culture Jams over exaggerated that. We are still in touch with nature, and care about people. We have not lost empathy because of all of the violence in movies. But that is just my opinion, and it not right or wrong. What I really learned in this class is that knowing other peoples opinions are important because it helps you be able to justify why you feel the way you do and it also chanellegs you to think about issues differently. Towards the end of the class when we started talking about censorship I realized that I would miss books it they were gone. Although I do not read often I do enjoy siting down with a good book every once and awhile. I don't agree with the banning of books, if you don't like what they say don't read them, simple as that. Authors take time to wirte books and it is not right to get rid of their work because it is offense to someone people. Over all I truly did enjoy this class. It has made me realize that general classes are just important as our major classes and that I want to retain the knowledge taught in them.