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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
A time capsule. Most capsules are buried for a few hundred years. They can be for anyone and sometimes aren’t dug up by who they wanted to. Either way it can hold important things such as a country's riches, to a historic artifact. The oldest time capsule was The Samuel Adams and Paul Revere time capsule.
It started as a way to communicate or send letters, information, or other historic items to people of the future. It’s also a method of communicating with future archaeologists. A time capsule usually has a big event when it is buried in which people bring some of their valuables and place it in the capsule. They also have an event when dug up so the public can see the relics of the past. The time capsule allowed humans to communicate with other humans hundreds of years in the future.
I agree with this because I had the same views on this. They connect with people through time. They don't connect with distance though. But the idea of them communicating with others in the future I do agree with.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the fact that the time capsules were created as a way to communicate people in the future. They let us now of what happened in the past and let us in the future now what our culture was today. You also included the oldest documented time capsule which tells us who were the first ones to create a time capsule. You could though possibly combine the two sentences about burying and digging up the time capsules.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the time capsule is a good way for the past to communicate to the future. It can bring friends together to discover old things that revolutionize today's technology. When was the first one made. How is it a way to send letters when it is buried six feet under?
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