What's so Bad About Hate?
Part 1:
1. Can violence really be stopped by the government?
2.  What is hate fueled by?
3. What is the difference between a crime and a "hate crime"?
Part 2:
What is hate fueled by?
             In Andrew Sullivan’s article “What’s so Bad About Hate?” he talks about different types of hate, “hate that fears, hate that merely feels contempt; there is hate that expresses power, and hate that comes from powerlessness….etc.” I have encountered many of the hates that Sullivan has written in his article but there are two types of hates that stood out to me the most .

            The first one that stood out to me was “hate of the other’’, because it reminded me of two incidents I experienced; one was the time when I was walking home to school, I was a sophomore at the time, and a boy rushes towards me leaving his group of friends behind and stats to ask me “are you that girl that’s going out with that white guy?”, I was confused because I didn’t know him and I didn’t know how he even knew about my relationship, and I answered him “yes why do you ask?”. To which he responds to me in a bothered tone “WHY? Why would you do that? Why don’t you go out with your own kind!?!” ( the boy was Latino), this conversation lasted until I got home, it was very uncomfortable but in the end he left me alone. The second, was right after the first incident my fellow classmates that were Latino, started to call me Coconut, because I was brown on the outside and white on the inside due to the reason my boyfriend was white.

            Second one was “hate that comes from envy”, my junior year I transferred to another school. I started to get along with one girl very well and she introduced me to her friends. A few weeks had passed and one of her friends kept complimenting me every time she saw me with the girl I got along with. To later find out she was saying the opposite things to other people when I wasn’t there because she felt that I was taking her best friend away. After my experiences I have encountered I feel that hate is fueled by a persons emotions towards an individual or group of individuals.

Lady Gaga and the Death of Sex
Part 1
1. Why cant Gaga be the "voice of all the freaks and misfits"?
2. Why are other celebrities sexuality are with compared  Gaga's sexuality?
3. Why is Lady Gaga's name considered a "manufactured personality", when many celebrities change their names all the time?
Part 2
1. Why cant Gaga be the "voice of all the freaks and misfits"?

After reading this article, first thing is obvious Camille Paglia is not a fan. Second, I noticed that Paglia contradicts herself, when she questions Gaga’s credibility to be the voice of all the freaks and misfits. Paglia states that there is little evidence that she was ever was a freak or misfit herself because of her comfortable upbringing and eventual wealth. Another reason she questions her credibility is because she attended the same private school as Paris and Nicky Hilton did. This made me ponder for a bit, I thought to myself everyone goes to school whether it’s a public or private school; people don’t always fit in and are automatically labeled freaks or misfits. How do we know if Gaga wasn’t a misfit or freak herself when attending private school? So to me it makes Paglia’s statement invalid because all she presents is superficial remarks. Later on Paglia writes that “Warhol’s superstars were authentic misfits”, because they were the “products of New York’s bohemian and Beatnik underground in the 1950s”. She says they were edgy and at times self-destructive. This makes me question, why are Warhol’s superstars authentic misfits, just because they are products of New York’s Bohemia and Beatnik underground, their  edginess and self-destruction what about the misfits that came before Warhol; to me it seems she is generalizing the misfits to Warhol’s view of misfits. In parts of her article it seems that she has no concrete evidence to support her statements, she mostly writes about her clear dislike for Gaga. Compared to other pop artist she is not of the norm, which in a way makes her a misfit or a freak, with her meat dress, big wigs, unique attire, elaborate entrances, and videos that feature “murders of men”. Without a doubt Gaga’s misfit or freakish ways, make people want to know what she will come out with next.

Google article 6/19/13

Part 1
1. Has Google and the internet have altered the way we absorb information?
2.  Google is "working on search is a way to work on artificial intelligence", what will happent to human intelligence.
3. Has the internet affected our attention span?
Part 2
3. Has the internet affected our attention span?

In my opinion, feel that the internet has affected our attention span. It makes it difficult to focus on reading an article on the internet and even a book. Nicholas Carr’s article Is Google Making Us Stupid? He expresses how reading use to come naturally has now become a struggle. He describes how he would get caught up in the narration of the book but now his mind drifts after two or three pages. Then, he starts to get fidgety, losses the thread, or starts looking for something else to do. When I finished reading this article I became stunned not only because I related to parts of the article but of the time. The time to when I started reading the article and the time finished; I began reading the article at 6pmand finished at 9pm. Granted I wasn’t a big reader growing up, but I never took three hours to read 11 pages. Looking back at my actions when reading the article I noticed to zone in and out, reading a few then checking my phones internet because people would send me links to funny pictures, after getting back to reading and rereading because I forgot what I was reading. What I would also do is get up and walk around or look up definitions to words and Googling the movie the Space Odyssey, because I didn’t get Carr’s reference. Carr also mentions that Google and other companies collect information about us by the links we click and the pages we view to feed us advertisements, which leads us to distraction.  This to me is true when after clicking on the fifth link when I notice the advertisement it relates to the previous page I have surfed and I tend to get distracted and click on it. I often noticed myself skimming through something off the internet, because it seems too long. I agree with Carr’s analogy about his attention span, “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski”. Who also agrees with this analogy?