Implications For Today?

Based upon the image gallery of American movements/inventions/events/ideology/ways of life/ and cultural phenomenon that you viewed within the classroom, please respond formally through your blog response to the following questions.

• What did you observe?
• How did the images make you feel?
•  How do they shape the fabric of American life?
• What have we gained from these American movements/inventions/events/ideology/ways of life/ and cultural phenomenon?
•  What have we lost from these American movements/inventions/events/ideology/ways of life/ and cultural phenomenon?
• Do these embody the American spirit?
• Do these help us understand what it means to be an American?
• What implications do these create?

Please use your notes that you created during class to generate ideas for your response.  This blog response is due by Mon., August 25th at 2:30p.m.

Inspired?

"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.”

--Ralph Ellison, From Invisible Man

How do the Inspired Bicycles: Way Back Home presentation and the Ralph Ellison quote relate to your world? Do they provide you with a new perspective? How should we examine our lives? Who are we? How shall we live? Should we follow our dreams? What are our realizations? Can the presentation and quotation connect with your academic endeavors? Did they make you look twice? Did they inspire and motivate you? If you have seen one of these before, what is your new reaction? Other reactions? Please connect and comment using complete sentences. This blog post should be completed by Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 at 2:30p.m.