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Looking back at my own blog posts and from other classmates comments referencing my own work, I have seen some common themes and some changes. In my first post, looking back on it, it’s obvious that i was trying to figure out how to do these blogposts. The majority of the post was kind of a summary of the article, and a summary of the time period that we were talking about at the time in class. Looking back at the first article, and after attending the lecture, looking back I was thinking that the author of the article convinced me, like when i said in the post that “The Gilded Age was also a time where the politicians that were in office during this time period were actually sincere and dedicated to being public servants.” This now looking back, is in fact not true at all of the Gilded Age. Now after doing a couple of these blogposts, I now know to read between the lines of every article and to take everything that i read with a grain of salt. In my second post, I start bringing up points that the author has made in their writing.  In my second posting I stated that Chicago developed because of the “ many people that lived in Chicago were the ones that contributed money for the railroad by the rural communities that were to be along the railway line.” Looking at this i see that that  is also a common theme with the readings that its common for communities to fund projects for their town. An interesting point that I included is a point about historiography and that it’s ” a way other historians try to take a new angle at another scholar’s work or to try and disprove what their statement is with their own facts and interpretations.” Which is kind of what we are doing through these blog posts, and in many ways picking apart another scholar’s work. One aspect that i noticed, looking back on my blog post about Isaac’s Storm is that I enjoyed the way that Larson “ explains Isaac’s background in how he got into meteorology, and also gives accounts of the approaching hurricane as it travels to Galveston.” Which is something when i finished the book, I actually didn’t like because I felt like there was actually too much background about the main character. Looking at someone else’s mid-semester blog post, Gravity21 said that in my first couple of posts that i decided to “brief that audience on what is occurring in the reading and what types of sources that the author used to show to event.” Which i think is an accurate description of my beginning blog posts.