HIS Blog Spring 2021 VB

When it comes to main ideas, phrasing is everything. My project is about my grandma, and the cruelty that she underwent in her youth. It's not every day that one has the possibility to hear the recollections of a bombing survivor, much less from WW2. That being said, my intention is not to romanticize any aspect of the war. Everyone can agree that it was the bloodiest period in human history. My purpose, rather, is to inform of the horrors of war as an incentive to never let it happen again. The main idea will, in Serrell's words, provide a "fundamental meaningfulness that is important to human nature". If we cannot learn from history, what is the point? This being my grandma's story, I also want to focus on the impact that the undoubtedly traumatic event has had on her life. As Serrell states, formulating a big idea "takes time. Hours, days, even months . . There’s lots of editing and reediting". While this is only the first draft, my main idea will be ...

  Vanneva Bush’s memex, or rather his idea of it, holds many characteristics that can be found in the World Wide Web (WWW)  to this day. His concept had a primary focus on association and hypertexts, with the purpose of the memex to create  a personalized experience found in “trails” left by the user to facilitate the retrieval of information from large clusters of  data. If deemed necessary, one could also add their own comments in a trail.    While one could argue that the comments that would have been written in the memex would have served as personal  annotations rather that feedback meant to be seen by others, it’s still fascinating how the concept of leaving comments  on sources is still prevalent today. Much like the WWW, the memex was thought up to store vast amounts of  information easily accessible to the user.    The translucent screens at the top of the memex make it so that scrolling through books, articles, and pi...