Samantha St. Laurent
Kate, Mondays 3PM

Week 10 Journal

Jean Twenge and Barbara Ehrenreich’s overarching point is that Generation Me is preoccupied with attitudes that promote their self-esteem and happiness. Twenge argues that “raising children’s self-esteem is not going to solve the problems of poverty and crime” (187). She contends that the danger in self-esteem programs is that they do not prepare GenMe with reality. Hence, she finds that this generation faces anxiety and depression once their aspirations clash with reality.

Samantha St. Laurent
Kate, Mondays 3PM

Week 9 Journal

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Essay Prompt 7-8 pages due M wk. 7, 5/10

How do we become who we are?

Trace the creation of the modern self - and explore what the consequences of modern life may be for our selves.

Use your experience in Second Life as a case study to illustrate your points. Your discussion should use plenty of details from your Second Life experience that show that you know what you are talking about; it should be very clear from what you write that you have had a Second Life experience. You may also use real-life examples, from your own life or the lives of others.

Samantha St. Laurent
Sociology 130
Kate, Monday, 3 pm
April 28, 2010

Hey everyone,

it is so fun seeing you sign on here! Spend a little time browsing the website. There's a lot of stuff here, nearly all student-contributed. You can see all of it if you click here:
http://gen-us.com/?q=tracker

Fun reading the recipes too - it's making me hungry.

Hopefully if you're cooking for class, you've read the little excerpt from Slow Food Nation in your reader.

Here's the website for the Slow Food movement:
http://www.slowfood.com/

Here's the USA Slow Food website:
http://www.slowfoodusa.org/

Here's the Wikipedia on Slow Food:

I am opening this Forum with a list of basic tips for your beginning in SecondLife. have Fun, play around, and if you have ANY questions...post them here.

When i figure out how to add pictures I will.

-Shawn

So there are links already posted here to some of the tutorial sites on second life. Also, there are plenty of YouTube videos that give tutorials on various subjects. I would also check out the Wiki community on the SecondLife Website.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Main_Page

Thanks to Gen-Us community member ekizz for passing on this information for us:

I think that this site on Second Life will greatly help students figure out how to use second life:

http://secondlife.com/showcase/tutorials/

On the right side of the video player, there is a "Browse tab" then you can choose the "Category" to "Beginner". It then shows a bunch of videos which teach the user how to do basic commands.