pgs. 554-566

The first report "Meet Joe Blog" starts out about three average people, Mathew Gross, Rob Malda, Denis Dutton, who edited blogs on amateur websites. Then it talkes about what blogs are and their purpose and their history. I found it interesting because I didnt know much about blogs and didnt blog until this year because it is required for my English 1010 class at Tennessee Tech Univ. Blogs can be about anything and you cant get in trouble for it to my understanding because the first amendment, Freedom of Speech, examples Storm Thurmond, and l'affaire Lewinsky. Then blogs got ads put on them by some companies but it doesnt corrupt them. Blogs are eventually gonna be the way America Communicates. It might as well be now, and the way political candidates campaign.
The second report "Homeless on Campus" was about a girl that became homeless because her childs father became physically abusive. She moved out and lived in the EAU and got transfered from it to a hotel back to the EAU then to family shelter in Queens. This made it difficult for her because she had to ride the train to her friends house drop her kid off, ride it back to school in Brooklyn. She missed school and got it excussed by her teachers. Their were 2 other people the story mentions that are part of the 44 homeless students that were awarded the LeTendre grants since 1999. Then the report goes on and tells about the hardships they face and how they dont have access to showers, which makes their grades suffer, and their lives as a whole suffer. Some people see this happening and pretend to not notice that it is happening and others notice it and try to help them. We need more of the kind of people that want to help. It would make the world a better place.