SPEAK OUT LOUD

Speak Out Loud


Blogging. Before entering this class it was just a word used by the “colorful” Perez Hilton as a way for him to out celebrity gossip. Now seen as a form of expression and communication on any given topic for the world to see! Blogging gives individuals the freedom to speak out on how he or she feel about government, media, or a mad scientist teaching a 21st Century Literature class. With the use of today’ technology Blogging seems to be the best way to express our freedom to speech and act on a greater spectrum.

At the beginning of class I saw Blogging as another tedious task set forth by the Professor to for fill the expectation of college not being an easy ride or it was Professor Lennon’ way to give us something to do to ensure that we were reading through out the week. Being that it was a once a week class three blogs does not sound impossible but to many, like me, it wasn’t easy. I mean it’s one thing to read 200 pages in a week but getting the time to sit, organize ones thoughts into three sections while having a million other things going on is by no mean opening a book on the way to work, its just not that simple. After forcing myself to write these blogs I got to a point where I wanted to just give up! I remembering thinking who is actually going to sit down and read my piece of shit blog posting other than the Professor? It had gotten me to the point where I wanted to just drop the class, not just because of his hard to understand, where are you going with this, what’s your point war stories, but because I could not stand looking like a fool who could not write a simple blog!

Then I met Rich, Terrence, Jamie, and Jessica! After a night of drinking and loud slurred sports speak, I went home and started to read their blogs. There I was upset because I could write a blog when all it is, are your thoughts! I know, professor said that these blogs were out “online journals” in the first class but who really listens in the first class? Reading through each blog I got a sense of who each of these individuals were, and changed the way I saw what this really was, a way to get it all out. Professors words started to play over and over in my head, “If you like it, Fine! If you don’t like it, Fine! But why?” There is was the question on why the reason for blogs, no one thinks the same and that is what makes life so interesting. One person’ thoughts or ideas can help educate millions, the Bible, the Koran are, to me, peoples thoughts or memories on history. This is our way to speak out loud and give our option and maybe educate one another!

Is it needed in a 21st Century Literature class? I would have to answer this question with my head hung low, and say yes. The blogs, if used correctly, can help student discover new ideas on a given text and give insight to the way others are thinking. I believe that blogging is very important in the 21st Century! We all live on computers and technology, instead of us waiting to go home and play that record we all love so much, it is now at the tip of our fingers on our iPods! Even waiting to get home to download a song is now easier than ever all you need is your Apple ID and internet access and there it is on you iPod without even touching a computer. All I am saying is that maybe blogging is what is need to get our point across! That was the something I found surprising while writing my blogs this semester.

In conclusion if there were something I were able to do differently with my blogs it would be to look at them as expression and art rather than homework. I know in saying so I am putting myself in jeopardy of getting what might be a low grade, but I can see what Professor Lennon attempting to accomplish.