Greetings classmates,
I was thinking about using Thoreau 's quote, "Our life is frittered away by detail". The main subject I was planning to write about was the media and today's technological advances, specifically what affects teenagers. How the news is rarely positive or useful to the average american. The huge impact that cell phones, the internet, and television have upon our generation and how it is all a major distraction from living our lives. I was going to use facebook as a major point, how can you focus on your life when you're wrapped up in the detail of other peoples lives through facebook. Eventually I am going to tie it into Emerson's ideals about nature's importance in our lives, and how it is becoming less and less a part of our lives as we are swamped and overcome with detail. In addition I was thinking about tying the detail and media portion into Emerson's non-conformist ideas.
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