This is progressive. This is also seen in our advertisements today, thus what makes them so influential and successful in the selling of products. This is a personal take.

I had not thought to myself how difficult and new the telephone had been for its time. It took practice and time to understand how it functioned. This piece of technology had been so important for our societal communication that people were also willing to understand how it works.

I suppose this is a smart way to let the public know the benefits that the telephone has for its users.

This represents the spread of long-distance communication and the initial invention that led to the creation of many other operations involving the telephone. This did not take as long as I thought especially when technology was at its infancy.

Instance of new technological advancements emerging into society, placing the telegraph below the telephone. I'd like to think that it might've taken some gradual time for this, maybe due to the price of the telephone and the installments that had to be implemented.

This is upsetting and outrageous, everyday giving your duty 100% of attention for nearly 24 hours a day for weeks, to be informed that they didn't provide service. How disappointing.

This is not entirely surprising to me. It is a way to influence and begin trends, in this case it was during the war. We can also tie this into our modern day society with what we consume from our media, and how the trends flesh out into our everyday lives .

Here is a raw element of what mass media entails during its time, the Government using posters throughout communities to promote news. Now we use televisions and social media.

Though there were great compromises and ways they have worked this out between the men and women, I am shocked and I continue to ponder, why the pride of these men got in the way of women wanting to work. Even more so, they are on the same team, they want the same things.

Immersing myself in this time as a woman, I would not even believe that people viewed our parts in war in this way. This ongoing issue in society has had a ripple effect, where we can still point to a few arguments today on how women are treated in workplaces.

This is so interesting! I never thought to ask myself this question. I wonder why it had taken so long for this step to be made? I also begin to wonder how much of the world influenced the American society.

I feel a huge sense of discipline within these young workers, as I am sure they've had long training hours to perform the way they do. I wonder how they grew up from this point.

I am intrigued to understand the duties of the boys who put dedication and long hours into the exchanging of messages during this time.

I am very glad I learned that the telegraph boys played the most crucial role in the progression of the telegraph and how people received their messages. I think it is important we understand how the industry was laid out, as well as how people performed their duties in this form of media and communication. They are to thank for their work and mobility.

Interesting system, it is explained in a way that feels efficient for the delivery of the messages, however it is questionable to have children do the task, with a number system identifying each boy. Lot of angles to this.

This is a lot of labor to consider when we look at the workers who are younger boys. It's a good chunk of physical demand that is questionable in our society today, back then, I wonder what each boy personally thought about it.

This is great to mention, of course we can draw this to the technology we use today, and how it can still be considered to be 'habit of the heart'. I think that the evolution of technology grew into this phenomenon, we should always be aware of what is going on around us. But this idea becomes controversial in numerous ways!

Time is significant in simply adding structure to the things we do. A great question is, what would happen if we didn't use clocks in modern day society? How would we structure our lives?

Fascinating information to learn here, I never thought about where the construction of time originated from and how it was implemented into our daily lives.

Telegraphy for its time, as explained, was innovative and progressive. It was a new variance of communication at this level, detailed as speed and instantaneous. Looking back to this time in history, it is interesting to take note with how far we have come within our society.

I appreciate how we are encouraged to use our own perspective of how things happened, along with the historical evidence we are provided. Being able to read artifacts from various authors gives the opportunity to expand our minds further from what is given to us- which then provokes the ideas and questions, how is this applied to the events happening in our world today?

I really like the questions asked here. I think privilege is a huge factor to take into consideration when we think about who is a "passive recipient" in history being told. I also find the second question to be incredibly thought-provoking. I believe we as humans play some kind of small role in every piece of history, as long as we exist through its making.

Sitting here reading this paragraph, I thought to myself how my father exposed us to Telenovelas. We used to watch Spanish soap operas every night as a family, and I can recall a few friends of mine telling me how "weird" that is. I am sure if they turn on a Telenovela, they would be hooked! I feel that amplifying these foreign channels have become more popular, but not as impactful as American television.

I find truth to this from my own experiences, and I am sure it can apply to my classmates as they read over this. I love watching interviews of actors and actresses on talk shows, they talk about developing and practicing American or southern accents. Most of them claim it was easy because they were normally exposed to American television and film. But this is the norm in the media industry, something we have difficulty recognizing, since, we live mostly in this "cultural cocoon". This is so important.

Absolutely! It is much easier to see that pattern, just like in the 2000s, Freaks and Geeks came out and turned the TV industry upside down. They usually would feature richer families and bigger cities in television shows, but Freaks and Geeks made it a point to bring focus to a smaller town in Michigan. More audiences could relate as the TV became more popular.

I love how history gives us these opportunities to think harder and think from different perspectives. This encouragement allows us as readers to look beyond the events and interpret how and why they happened. I feel like this strengthens our ability to be more open-minded.

I do find this to be a fascinating phenomenon. With every step forward, there is always tension in some other direction. This can be seen in our society today, history repeats in the most interesting ways.

This makes me think about our use of technology. I am excited to understand more of its history, and I am excited to ask myself more questions about its history.

I appreciate this. This mention of history makes me realize how beautiful storytelling truly is. My great-grandmother was the storyteller of my family, I learned a lot about our past, such as my relatives' immigration from Germany to Clearfield, PA. Or when she first heard about Elvis Presley, small but memorable stories. They all come with great meaning.

To add to this, I strongly agree with the idea that history forms identity. This goes to show as it explains within families, groups, institutions, and countries. I find that patterns and behaviors can be found in these given groups, essential when history is studied.

History is incredibly important for many purposes discussed throughout this article, but also for the ways it can be interpreted. Being able to break down conflicting interpretations allows for that human experience and extensive training in the meaning of historical text.