Making connections-Edwin Farley-The Average Joe's

Making Connections

Background: As you already learned, “The Writing on the Wall” is an informational text originally printed in the form of a blog. The author uses her blog to comment on social issues that she feels passionately about. This is a very unique form of communication because it allows people to share their thoughts and ideas without the limitations and requirements of using a publisher. This form of communication is, in many ways, similar to the way that the Chinese immigrants she writes about shared their thoughts and ideas: by writing on the wall, they were able to share their thoughts freely with their followers. Through their poems, time and identity are no longer barriers to human connection.

Task: Think of other ways in which people today or in the past have connected across time, distance, and even background through their shared circumstances. Write a two paragraph informational piece commenting on this phenomenon. It can be something modern or from the past. Make sure to discuss the following:

• Background info (what is it? How did it start?)
• What is it typically used to communicate? (Are all of the “followers” generally there for the same reason? What brings people to reach out in this form?)
• How did it revolutionize communication/human connection

Some ways people today connect to the past is social media and stuff like time capsules. Really social media isn’t all that good at connect to the past, for example snapchat it has no history to look at, and Instagram people don’t bother. I, in my personal opinion think a time capsule is the best way to connect to the past, more of your past. What it is, is either a box or container that can hold personal items or other objects you want to save and/or remember.  When it started it wasn’t called a time capsule, but it was explained, “they made it in 1936, the Crypt of Civilization is acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as the first Time Capsule – That means that it is the ‘first successful attempt to bury a record of this culture for any future inhabitants or visitors to the planet Earth’.”.

The way it can communicate is to connect to your past. It is said to be, “the closest we can come to time-travelling – They are a unique way of communicating with future generations through objects from today.”. The reason you’re their to dig it up is to remember and reach out with others to discover/learn what life was like back then and finding the interesting items. It was a revolution to communication with others is by talking to your/others past and respond( not by commenting back but laugh about it with others). It’s like walking in the past and see what others see.