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Ashley, Kieran, Jonathan, Lauren

The question that Ashley asked us to respond to was whether or not we feel that the Internet and loss of personal interaction because of new technology was a good or bad thing. The evolution of language is a natural occurrence. I'm reminded of old English and Shakespeare, the days of saying things like "Isn't that just the bees knees", "Groovy", and even more recently "That's the bomb". Language evolves as the people who speak it evolve and it's not a bad thing. It reflects the era we live in, the struggles we live through, and the hip lingo we used during those times. As I was thinking about how language changes and methods of communication change it kind of makes me feel creepy to think that the things I say now and the lifestyle I lead now will someday be ridiculous to future generations. I think that novels and short stories are the ways in which we kind of leave our place in stone. All the previous ways generations spoke, and thought are kept and it's up to each individual if they choose to remember and reflect or completely forget.

Isabelle, Adam, Kate, Graham
With this presentation I completly disagreed with Kate and Adam. The interesting aspect of The Innocent Traveller is the fact that it is so true to life. In real life robots don't attck the city, we don't travel through time or space, and average people don't become the president of the United States. People instead live through family deaths, experience love in any of its many forms, and meet new challenges of discrimination or indifference. The thing that was most interesting about this novel is that it didn't do all the thinking for you. It gave you an event and a most simplistic reaction then gave you the leeway to either take it as is, or run with the feelings, reasons, and consequences that you could imagine. A lot of the things Graham said really surprised and inpressed me. The fact that he had originally written a blog aganst the premise of The Innocent Traveller and then critiqued it from another point of view with quite insightful perspectives was, lets face it, pretty awesome.

Fahad, Nathan, Brazil, Francesca

Nathan said that the events in the novel Hey Nostradamos were too far-fetched and hard to realte to. I would have to disagree. When I read about the shooting in their school the first thing that came to my mind was Columbine. That was a real event, right? It was completly unexpected, shocking, horrible, and uncomprehensible. Life is way to unpredictable to say that anything is out of the ordinary. It may not have been forseen but nothing in life really is.

Sydney Boucher