I have been reading Little Brother and I absolutely love it!! I am already through chapter 13 and I'm continuing to move farther and farther into the book. For those of you who have not got that far or even started the book, I'll give you a slight summary of my ideas and opinions. 1. There is no way the main character can continue fighting against the government and get away with it. He has already almost been caught quite a few times and he is now trying to set up an underground clan if you will. I don't know how long he can keep this up, but I'm definitely cheering for him. I don't think he will "change the world" with his intense bravery and adamant nature, but I do think he can get his point across and can maybe show the Homeland Security that they need to back off some. 2. My boy has got himself a girl, and I'm interested to see how their relationship progresses and if the Xnet comes between them, just like it did with all his gaming friends. 3. If you haven't read or aren't very far, catch up because this book is legit!

Well, I have already read through 4 chapters in Little Brother and I really love the book. I have never been a big fan of surveillance topics and such and wasn't really looking forward to reading a book based on the idea of surveillance. I have always found the subject to be quite boring, but then I started to read this book and I was instantly entertained. Little Brother is amazing! It has some extremely cool gadgets and genius plans in it, along with a terrorist attack and basically torture along with that. It is interesting to see how American's treat other people from other countries because as a citizen, we don't see and comprehend the awful things that go on behind the scenes. Our soldiers were interrogating this guy who was only playing a game and now he is suspected of being a terrorist. I honestly don't know why the boy just didn't tell them that he was playing a game so he could have got free a long time before he did. Also his stubbornness and sarcasm didn't help his cause at all, which was stupid for him to use. This book makes you think about surveillance and how they can watch your every move and know where you are, what you're doing, and when you're doing it at all times! This is a scary thought and it makes me wonder how much privacy we actually have as American citizens.

So after class today, I came to the conclusion that my paper was pretty dang good, except for one aspect of it. I saw that I needed to include a comparison or analogue in it to make it even better, so that is exactly what I did. During class, my group studied the legalization of marijuana, which is already my topic of choice. We went to some websites and found some good ones, relating to the anti-legalization of marijuana. I found a website today that I put into my paper about the comparison of the pros and cons of marijuana use, by someone for it and someone against it. I feel like this small addition into my paper was well integrated and it helped someone see both sides of the topic, which is good because when they choose my side, my paper will have done it's job with great effectiveness. Oh and by the way, since no one believes me haha, I seriously have never smoked anything! Don't know why people don't believe me, but they don't.

As you all know, we have our contextual analysis paper due next Thursday. Since my schedule is completely brutal, I have already started on my paper and written three pages. My topic is the legalization of marijuana. This topic relates to the political, economical, social, environmental, healthful, historical, and cultural of both the past and the present, as well as the future to come. Since I do not know a lot about marijuana, I did a bunch of research and found some extremely interesting facts that I will be able to incorporate into my paper. It is crazy how so many people misinterpret marijuana and its uses and effects on so many things, such as the individual and the environment. I found out that marijuana was basically only made illegal because of racism against the Mexicans. Also I found out that weed was used in cloth, food, medicine, and many other cultural events and items. This topic is so interesting because people don't know all the facts about this plant, so they just assume it is awful because it is illegal for the time being. Marijuana has actually been legal 99% of the time in which it has been known to man and I believe that within our lifetime, we will see marijuana become legalized.