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During this week, one of the pieces we read were letters sent back and forth between Abigail and John Adams. Although it is an important piece of history, I couldn’t help but feel like we were intruding on their privacy by reading and analyzing and discussing what were just two letters they had meant to be written to each other. I guarantee that when they were writing these letters, they never would’ve imagined high school students all over picking it apart nearly three hundred years later. But, it still happened. They both left their mark on history in ways they probably didn’t imagine to do so.
Relating this to life today, I started wondering what high school students will be studying three hundred years from now. Are they going to find President Trump’s tweets and start analyzing those (good luck with that) like we did with the letters? What if all they find from the 2000s are meaningless memes? I tend to overthink and often focus on hypotheticals but honestly, this is something that crosses my mind pretty regularly- the big picture and the overall impact of us. Because really, what significance do my actions have? How will current me writing this blog right now, affect future me and my life in general? Yeah, it’ll probably cushion my grade a little but all jokes aside, how will we as a society be remembered? How will I.. how will YOU be remembered? Will it be as a famous doctor or celebrity, or will the memories of you live through photos in family albums? Will you even be remembered?

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  1. Emily Estrada-ManzanaresFebruary 23, 2019 at 10:38 PM

    Interesteding approach to the letters we read. I too wonder at times how highschool students or our society will be like in 300 years from ( if there even is highschool then ). It would be pretty cool to think about future students analyzing the things of today.

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  2. Isabella SmithFebruary 24, 2019 at 10:00 AM

    I think about this all the time! I think what you wrote was really interesting and I always think how weird it is that they're people going to be analyzing Donald Trump's tweets or the world record egg.

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  3. molly capelliFebruary 24, 2019 at 3:21 PM

    wow, I really liked your post. It's so different from where a lot of other people took it! I think you definitely should see the play Hamilton (hey it's the same time period as the letters) but also because it's about this: what is your story? I think maybe as people, and as a society, we should be focusing on that a little bit more. How do we want to be remembered? All in all, I loved your post and think you did a really nice job with it!

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  4. Connor LevittFebruary 24, 2019 at 4:00 PM

    Another great post Sophia, I like the way u took your analysis about the text and made something like this out of it.

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