When you're on the computer and someone's standing behind you

Karac - a little man of a large mind

One of my friends and fellow classmates, Karac Medley, has a very intriguing blog that is quite in depth and on point, kind of like my eyebrows, though I think they're just slightly on a higher level. He uses very mature and well developed writing that makes him seem older than his age of a 9th grader. Though his articles aren't put into the form of directly being put into the spotlight of entertaining, it still has an entertaining taste to it as you read them. His points are valid and not only does he tell them well, they are also very well backed up. He has a great talent for writing and making what he writes a well oiled machine of work, so Karac, I salute you.

Communication is apart of nearly every one's daily life, even if you talk to no one and no one talks to you. There is actually a pretty in depth process that people go through for information and communication, whether it be giving or receiving the information. This process, being difficult but simple at the same time, is interesting.

1. An idea is created. This is stimulus.
2. The idea is put down in some way that it is preserved, but not shown to the public. This is called encoding.
3.  The idea goes through transmission, transmitting the idea so that the public can now see.
4. Then the idea is decoded - going through the process of translating the idea into something the information receiver understands.
5. Lastly, the idea is understood and interpreted by the receiver of the information, which is called internalization. 

There is much more to this process, such as what impediment each process between stimulus and then the idea being internalized, such as semantic noise; the disturbance of the idea being shared or internalized. This is linked to the encoding process. There is channel noise - choosing what is internalized. This type of impediment is like going on the Internet and browsing through the articles you want on a news site. Then there is environmental noise, which is being disturbed of internalizing information because of surrounding noise. This can be linked to cell phones, talking to someone but being distracted by the environment around you.

Wow! All of that, going through the process of internalizing information, and no one even realizes how they are doing so because it happens so quickly. This process, as stated before, is quite interesting and difficult, though the process is executed with ease.

Like anything else, books are a source of opinions for everyone. Do you like them? Reading them? Using them as a coaster for your soft drink as you watch the movie version instead? Either way, there's no mistaking the importance of books. They were, after all, the first form of mass communication. Books had many impacts on society when the printing of words became more efficient in 1450, the creation of the metal movable type press. A few of the impacts were increased literacy among all classes, protestant reformation, and the spreading of news, political ideas, art and music. Are books important? Of course they are. They can change people's lives, they create culture and leave behind something in an archive type of way. Books certainly are important and always have been, dating before any type of printing invention was made.

Kathryn the Slayer

My fellow classmate, Kathryn Minor, has one of the most... interesting*... and detailed blogs I've seen yet while going through all of me classmates' blogs. She uses her personality while writing, using voice, therefore creating a more personal feel as she talks to her readers in her reviews of our class topics. Her writing is exemplary and she uses details that work together to create very interesting pieces. She also puts the class topics we have gone over together in a way even I wouldn't have thought of, and come on, I'm pretty awesome. 

*I use the ellipses because Kathryn, I love you girl. Keep being a weirdo.

me and my lovely girlfriend are adorable, come on, admit it.

You ship us.

It's a known fact. We're cute. It's okay.

#trace

Night before APHG test