Lexi’s blog

Sorry,I completely forgot to do this blog, but its still before monday. This semester I really liked some of the discussions that we had in class. Using the blogs was also good because i fell like it is more informal and it isnt as big of a deal as writing out a response and bringing it in to class. I feel like sometimes when we have to do that in classes and then read them aloud in class, some people dont like to share because they are embarrassed. But, when we do the blogs, we can still read what people say without having to have them feel like they are being put on trail in front of a bunch of people who are going to criticize what they say. We can still respond and comment on teh blogs, and we can get the ideas that poeople have that way.

I hope we keep using teh blogs this semester, but maybe we could have some other system of commenting on them other than groups of 4, because I dont think that worked very well.

The article about the new remote conrol from the Onion was a really funny piece of satire. It made me realize how ridiculous the idea of a remoe control actually is. Are Americans really that lazy and obese that we can’t get up while we are watching tv to change the channel. And, with this new remote, you dont even have to get up if the remote is in a “barely-hard-to-reach place”. Also, it was funny when they were deliberately making fun of how lazy americans are, and they said, “”This puts an end to distracting remote searches, frustrating lifting and stacking of cushions, as well as eventual cushion replacement after retrieval, an annoying task that can sometimes result in missed programming and, in some cases, serious waste of valuable television-viewing time.” I think that TV is a much bigger part of our lives than it should be, and im not saying that i dont watch TV, im just saying that, especially with kids, americnas as a whole have much to lazy a lifesyle, and that is what the aritcle was trying to say.

The narratives have made me realize that slaves werent just farmhands, they also had other jobs, not just around the house, but one narrative talked about the slaves being blacksmiths, crew on boats , or people who worked with horses.

Also, i knew that the slave masters were cruel, and that they often whipped them and beat them. But, i had no idea that they would do it for no reason at all. In the narrative by Issac Mason, it said, ” His tyranical passion was so great that on the day of his death he called in the men from their work and with a stick in his dying hand struck each one across their hands.” This struck me as completely unreasonable, and incredibly cruel. The only reason that a person might do that is that they want to leave thier slaves with a hateful feeling of them. The entire slave system was so corrupt, and that is what Twain was trying to show in Huck Finn

From these narratives I expect to get more of an instight into the lives of slaves. I have read of how things worked on plantations in the deep south before, but hopefully these first hand accountswill help me to further understand what their lives were like.