Jamie Jesson
jjesson@mail.utexas.edu
Office: PAR 404
Spring Office Hours: TBA
About Me
I thought it would be appropriate to post this song because my second paper is rebutting Welch's argument that blogs qualify as journalism. I disagree. Although there are investigatory bloggers with sound arguments most of the entries i've seen are more like this...Plus it's is halarious. The beginning "mood:apathetic," is 100% livejournal entry
http://emosong.ytmnd.com/
The internet has revolutionized communication. It gives access to infinite quantities of invaluable information expressive of innumerable outlooks from all around the world. The internet has had such an astounding impact on our generation because it is so widely and readily accessible—transcending hundreds of cultures and countries every second of every day. Unlike any other form of media, however, the internet is more than just a source of information, but an outlet of expression: the good, the bad, the educational, the pornographic, the entertaining etc.—its all there, one click away. These are the qualities of the internet that I feel should be valued and preserved.
The history of America is not one of passive indifference and defeated compromise; it is a culmination of centuries of innovations—a perpetual evolution of ideas that have resulted in the liberties and rights that we enjoy today.
If the Declaration of Independence were never fabricated, America would still be under British rule; if the constitution were never amended, white men would be the only people allowed to vote; if amendments were never amended, prohibition would still be in effect. Just as slavery laws and suffrage have evolved with the realization that Africa-Americans and women are in no way sub-citizens, so should doctrines that invalidate a person of homosexual orientation by defining marriage as the union of only a man and a woman.