The Digital Past

I have so many mixed feelings about this book, I am kind of stuck on where to start. My classmate and I were talking about how a book would not be THAT hard to read despite Professor O’Malley’s many, many warnings to us about how dense and difficult it was. I found myself getting distracted quite […]

I’ve grown up listening to the Rolling Stones, both by choice and against my will. My father is a hardcore 80’s rock guy and listens to it almost exclusively, so growing up, I would listen to them all the time. So it sparked my interest for a while since I actually was familiar with the […]

While reading Goodin’s “Why passwords have never been weaker – and crackers have never been stronger”. Just from the title, I was able to infer that our society is not very original and is quite frankly lazy when it comes to anything. And there would be no difference when creating passwords. A quote in the […]

This was such an interesting lecture for a topic that can be stereotyped as “boring”. I really enjoyed it and there were so many things that I found mind blowing. I have never had to have something copyrighted but I have seen others do it for their personal businesses so I do understand the basics […]

Since I could remember, all my teachers in elementary, middle, and high school have told me to never use Wikipedia. When I was younger, I questioned them and relied on Wikipedia anyways for information; still to this day I’ll use it when fact checking (but not for school papers, just my own personal use). From […]

For my scavenger hunt, I wanted to look into the origin of rock and roll and I found some interesting results. I wanted to find the earliest reference of rock and roll music and used the Google Ngram Viewer. From 1900 to about 1950, rock and roll music was barely a thing. I was lucky […]

The American Civil War was ridiculous but definitely something I feel was inevitable (some historians may disagree with me). The Union fought to abolish slavery and the Confederacy was for it, obviously. But something I thought that was interesting in class that Professor O’Malley mentioned was that African Americans fought with the Confederacy. What? Really? That’s like […]

I thought this class discussion was very relevant to life now a days…for me at least. My friends and I all have very different tastes in music from country, to EDM, to pop, to rock, and so on. As someone who is 20 years old, I have never experienced what it is like to go […]

The talk about beats today was something I really enjoyed and I’ll tell you why. I am a dancer and dance coach so I am constantly…CONSTANTLY…counting beats! Except I don’t do it in 4’s, I use 8’s so that is something I think is really interesting. I always thought it was natural to count in […]

I found this discussion to be quite uncomfortable. But I think that was the point. It was said that apparently blackface was a thing and has been a common thing for years, but honestly I never knew how big it was until this class. Maybe it’s because of the generation I grew up in where […]