: About Me

I am a slightly "non-traditional" college student from southeastern Connecticut. While I am still young, I took an off-beaten path to college; my experiences on the way have helped color my understanding of the world and fill out my writing.

I was selected to be a writing tutor at my school in January 2007, and I have held that position ever since. While I have always loved to write, I find that I have learned more about the craft by teaching it to others in the past year and a half than in the previous two decades of my life.

Since returning to school in the fall of 2006, I have won numerous awards for composition, Social Sciences, and the Humanities. Learning and writing about what makes people tick in different cultures, countries, and time periods is one of my greatest passions. I always try to take what I've learned and apply it to a broader spectrum in my writing, in the hope that perhaps my perspective on different issues will give my readers something to think about.

My ultimate goal is to be a professor of the Humanities or Social Sciences, so that I may share my knowledge with others and continue to write as part of my career.

My passion is ...

to learn as much about the world around me as I possibly can and share that knowledge with others via all available mediums.

I know too much about ...

doing things the hard way.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be an actor or a writer or a lawyer or a tightrope walker.

Why I write ...

to record my observations before they flee my mind. to find out what I really think about things.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway.

My first job ...

soda/carbohydrate/meat slinger at Burger King

My best moment ...

having a moment of clarity and returning to school.

My inspiration ...

life.

Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms The effects of media on American society

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For as long as it has been popular to give each generation a cute nickname, America has been naming them. Perhaps the first was that decade of decadence, the Roaring Twenties, famous for its flappers. In succession were the Depression Generation, the Great Generation, the Baby Boomers, the Free Love Generation, the Disco Generation, the Material Generation, and the infamous Generation X. The current crop of young Americans, it seems, is the first to be named for their media: the Plugged-In Generation. Plugged-in indeed. Most people under 20 would probably suffer from technology withdrawal ...

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