Blog Post

Very recently I finished constructing my desktop computer and as such the process of which I made it is a quiet easy one. I ordered all the parts nececary, used one of the products manuals (the motherboard manual so I would know where to plug stuff in) to put everything together, installed Windows 7 Ultimate, and started using it. The major issue it sturred with me is I have some of the best parts on the market and now have a very fast computer that I paid close to $750 for. Yet the same type of computer with software pre-installed and pre-assembled costs close to $1,500 or more. So why is it the people will pay for such a thing? The real reason is that they are blinded by the fancy jargon and the notion of dealing with electroincs when in reality it is a very simple process that is just muddled so that people become scared to do it themselves. The entire process is just pluging wires in the right place and with 15 minutes of instruction a person who knows nothing about computers can do it. That is why the companys that want to make money off of these things use odd words and complicated processes to make aproaching the subject seem like harder than its worth and so people pay hand and foot for really nothing they cant do themselves.

Reading Question

Choose any topic of interest that we have discussed in class (or not discussed, if you have a new one)  in relation to The Great Gatsby and explore it further. Use textual evidence to support your ideas.

For my blog post, I would like to address the surreal nature of the book The Great Gatsby and how a simple and boring story of love and loss takes a turn for murder and madness. From the start of the book there has been an air of no responsibility and carefree fun that all of the characters have, almost as though anything that is being taken seriously is just a first world problem and that by the end no matter what happens the worst that will happen is people will walk away with their feelings hurt. Then as the book progresses you start to realize how much greed and madness the world they live in contains. The book end with greed and lust overtaking many of the characters and driving them to kill each other or themselves. This ending left me with a bad taste in my mouth about the book and how it was written as it seems to have nothing profound to its ending except for the knowledge that bad things happen.