Me and My Mac: Travel Adventures ofa Sexangenerian and Her Laptop

<p>This is a work of creative non-fiction describing five of my travel adventures. The telling of these stories is an attempt to understand what it is to be human by trying to make sense of lives of the various people I met at the intersection of their world and mine. A humanities course description from the University of Southern California posits that an examination of the struggles and aspirations, achievements and failures, values and visions, can lead to a greater understand­ing of the human condition. I wrote many pieces that are not included here; the ones I selected particularly illuminate the sometimes crude attempts to under­stand and find one’s place in the universe. Observers of change suggest that the parameters of life can and should be altered using existing technologies. My laptop is acknowledged in the title as “Mac” provides ease, immediacy, an organized record and a strange sense of companionship that makes my story-telling possible.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Humanities

Year

2009

Author dc:creator

• McBride, Alexis

Contributors dc:contributor

• Joan Baranow, PhD
• Mojgan Behmand, PhD

• Humanities
• Arts and Humanities

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.dominican.edu/humanities-print-theses/268

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.dominican.edu:humanities-print-theses-1267