Fiyin's Blog

 What is but a home if not a miserable place of secrets? Home, like many words, has a solid definition but what it actually entails differentiates from person to person. The common definition would define it as a place of permanent or semi-permanent residence but there's a lot more to what I would describe a home as. As someone who lives in the school dorms, I'd struggle to call it a home just yet. It fits the definition but isn't 'homely' for me or at least what I'd call a home. To me, what makes a home isn't as much the home itself but more 2 main things; time spent in the home and family or a sense of community with others. More time spent in a place gives one the ability to really 'get' the place and the subtle nuances of the home. You could have spent a day in a friends' house but you would have only seen the more surface level home and not the more nuanced aspects of it. However, as you visit the house more often, you'd come to see some...

A. I feel like I have a jaded/apathetic view regarding the news, though more specifically the contemporary view of news as 24/7 Cable News. I've always felt that due to its more limited nature, they have to choose what to talk about and what to focus on and that takes away from the myriad of stories that could be told. It's why I feel that news has a bit more relevance in modern day as it can be spread and heard from various places and sources, be spread towards others via social media and even better doesn't limit the amount that can be heard of. In fact, it increases the amount that can be heard. I get a lot of my news from 2 main sources. The first of these sources, like most people, is from social media. Social medias like Twitter, Reddit, Snapchat, etc. have people active 24/7 all across the globe so whenever a new story breaks out, it's usually received and spread like wildfire via these social medias. While they may not be 100% accurate, they would quickly inform...

 I think the intro of The View from Nowhere was very quite well done and interesting. The host, Lewis Raven Wallace, sets up her point of doing the podcast very well; she does this podcast so to have journalism with a purpose and not to have the journalism be impartial. Ramona Martinez further supports her with the idea of objectivity being something that is factored by one's environment and whatever is considered objective is really only due to the agreement of the majority. I also really find David Mindich's explanation of "Helen's Sphere of Consensus" to be quite interesting and the changing perspective of what's okay to talk about or what becomes disagreeable. I thought the short podcast was a very well done introduction to her ideas.  

 Hey Class, My Name is Fiyinfoluwa Odulana. I am a 17 year old Nigerian Student who is majoring in Computer Science. I have a heavy interest in a lot of fictional media, mainly video games, animation and comics. I would love to be a script writer for various mediums mainly comic books and tv shows and I do some occasional (once a month) writing.  To me, there are various meanings of the question "What is an American?" I could go for the direct dictionary definition; "An American are the citizens and nationals of the United States of America." However, if answering a question as nuanced as that were that easy, we wouldn't need to enter a class for it. In my opinion, the question implies something more than just the strict definition. It implies there are several values that are needed to qualify to be an American. One that comes to my mind almost immediately is the core values of the American Dream. The American Dream is the idea that one can, through hard work,...