Choosing sources for Project 3 was much more unique and difficult than it was with Project 1 and Project 2. For starters, we had to use Gladwell as one source, which made the second one more difficult to choose. For the first two projects, it felt as though the prompts had more wiggle room, as we were to pick two authors and talk about how we feel about technology and how it’s affecting the world. For Project 3, we had to talk about activism, and we only had one author, Gladwell, who explicitly talked about activism, whereas all of the other authors talked broadly about our growing love for technology or its impacts on others. Since Gladwell was the only author to mention activism, we had to make an inference as to what the other authors would have had to say about activism as well. This made connections through quotes slightly more difficult, as I had to take Kelley’s broader view on technology and fit it into activism. While it was difficult, I still think that I did a good job selecting quotes. One of my most successful quotes was one I pulled from Kevin Kelley’s “Technophilia”, which read “we are so eager to love technology that Turkle is worried this love blinds us… she is concerned whether we will diminish our own humanity in order to match this minimal humanity we spy in our creations” (Kelley 9). I was able to take this rather broad quote and tie it to activism, by explaining how we have so much love for technology, that we proritize it over real people. There are people suffering and in need of help, and instead of getting up and helping, we are so blinded by technology that we think we can do all the work from our phones, which isn’t true. Earlier in the semester, I was pulling out very straightforward quotes and little snippets that could match the prompt easily with little explanation. Going from that kind of quote integration to what I did in this essay was a huge step, and I don’t think I would have been as successful if I tried it earlier in the semester.