Article Response #1: Is google making us stupid?

Reading about this article really just put me to sleep. I kept finding myself off topic in my mind and having to reread the section due to boredom. The article had some key points in it like when it talks about the patholigists from University of Michigan Medical School and how he states that “I’ve lost the ability to do that. Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it.” I found this one of the most interesting parts of the article because I can really connect to this, just reading this article alone I found myself bored and off topic just within the first three or four paragraphs. Also from the article a study at George Mason Univerisity states that "Even the adult mind is very plastic, it  has the ability ro reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions." This is very true in my opinion, the human brain is becoming more and more like a computerized machine and in the future I predict seeing more and more ways to make things easier, for example "Siri."

Mindblown.

Readers Response #4 - Catcher in the Rye

I have started a new book called The Catcher in the Rye. The main character is Holden who tells the story from in a mental institute, which I am really confused about... He goes to Pencey Prep, in the book he talks about how he is failing 4 of his 5 classes and the only one he is passing in is English. Why that matters? I have no clue but I guess he likes English. Holden doesn't apply himself to school at all. He states that he is the fencing teams manager and how he loses all the equipment on a train ride to their match. The headmaster at Pencey Prep later in chapter two asks Holden to drop by his house so they can talk. So when Holden arrives his teacher is laying there in his bed lecturing to Holden about how he needs to play by the rules and how he wont be allowed to come back to this school after the fall term. The teacher tells him "Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules." Holden is just basically tuning out everything the teacher is telling him and finally just gets fed up with it and walks out in the middle of the teachers lecture about school. Seems to me like this book I am really going to be able to relate to because we both are teenagers and the problems I foreshadow for him in the future are problems I could relate to.

This is a picture that I am imagining the teacher giving Holden a lecture looks like.

Readers Response #3 - Flash Burnout

The book begins by introducing the four people that live in the Hewson's house: Blake, a high school sophomore; Garrett, his older brother; mom, a hospital chaplain; and dad, a medical examiner. Blake and his brother Garrett go to West Park high school together. On the car ride to school, the brothers listen to the school radio and for some reason it seems weird because they are talking about a new DJ; almost like its awkward for some reason. Once they get to school, Blake's girlfriend, Shannon, is upset with him. As a typical woman always does, she overreacted because he had forgotten to call her after dinner. "I can hear her muttering, 'He will rue the day' as she disappears down the hall.” This quote just leaves me itching to know what the climax of this book will be, because already it is showing signs of almost scary incidents waiting to come. This book I feel like I’m going to enjoy more then my last one because it has a side of suspicion to it that leaves me wanting to know what it is about the book that gives it the vibe of almost a dark side to it.

Here is the car that Garrett and Blake drive to school, that Garrett and his dad fixed up.