Activity 3.5 Task2 Chapter 3 text book: Turning Point…
MY BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMEHT
Goal to quit smoking
Quitting smoking was one of my biggest accomplishments in my life.
I used to smoke for 7 years, when I realized that it was not a healthy habit. Once when I was sick I discovered by chance that I felt like I was experiencing the same withdrawal symptoms as if I was quitting smoking. Since I had tried to do it few times, I knew these sensations. The sickness gave me an idea when I was cured: “Why not pretend I was still sick when quitting smoking and facing real withdrawal symptoms?” I prepared myself mentally. I fixed a date to quit smoking and I really stopped. I avoided social events since a lot of people smoked.
One year later I decided to go to my friend’s party. Obviously, most of them smoked, so I was very tempted and smoked the weakest cigarette, hoping that it would not affect my desire to not smoke. Unfortunately, this one cigarette made me come back to my previous tract of smoking. I again become a cigarette smoker. Shortly after that I read an article about Silva’s visualization method which allows individuals to imagine themselves being successful in chosen field. So I started to imagine myself in different situations without smoking. In my imagination I didn’t avoid smoking people; I imagined I had pleasure without smoking in any situations. But again, I had to fix a day when to stop smoking.
I planned to go to catholic pilgrimage to the polish city Czestochawa with hundreds of thousands of other pilgrims. In such an event no one is allow to smoke. I had to decide to stop smoking at the day when the pilgrimage was about to start. And it was a year after the party when I started smoking again. A few days before the event I planned to take part in, I realized that an unforeseen obstacle would not let me fulfill my plan. I was very upset because my plans were about to fall dawn. But to my surprise, that day when the pilgrimage started, I woke up without feeling the need to smoke. My concern then was not to take a cigarette in my hand. I had no desire to smoke for the whole day. The second day passed and I didn’t feel any withdrawal symptoms; that was unusual. The third, fifth, tenth and following days passed and, again I didn’t experienced withdrawal symptoms. It became obvious that the visualization program worked. I realized that habits exist mostly in your brain so you have to convince your brain that you are free of bad habits; I’ve been successful up to present, decades when I really stopped smoking.
Monday, July 12, 2010
My Biggest Accomplishment
Activity 3.5 Task2 Chapter 3 text book: Turning Point…
MY BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMEHT
Goal to quit smoking
Quitting smoking was one of my biggest accomplishments in my life.
I used to smoke for 7 years, when I realized that it was not a healthy habit. Once when I was sick I discovered by chance that I felt like I was experiencing the same withdrawal symptoms as if I was quitting smoking. Since I had tried to do it few times, I knew these sensations. The sickness gave me an idea when I was cured: “Why not pretend I was still sick when quitting smoking and facing real withdrawal symptoms?” I prepared myself mentally. I fixed a date to quit smoking and I really stopped. I avoided social events since a lot of people smoked.
One year later I decided to go to my friend’s party. Obviously, most of them smoked, so I was very tempted and smoked the weakest cigarette, hoping that it would not affect my desire to not smoke. Unfortunately, this one cigarette made me come back to my previous tract of smoking. I again become a cigarette smoker. Shortly after that I read an article about Silva’s visualization method which allows individuals to imagine themselves being successful in chosen field. So I started to imagine myself in different situations without smoking. In my imagination I didn’t avoid smoking people; I imagined I had pleasure without smoking in any situations. But again, I had to fix a day when to stop smoking.
I planned to go to catholic pilgrimage to the polish city Czestochawa with hundreds of thousands of other pilgrims. In such an event no one is allow to smoke. I had to decide to stop smoking at the day when the pilgrimage was about to start. And it was a year after the party when I started smoking again. A few days before the event I planned to take part in, I realized that an unforeseen obstacle would not let me fulfill my plan. I was very upset because my plans were about to fall dawn. But to my surprise, that day when the pilgrimage started, I woke up without feeling the need to smoke. My concern then was not to take a cigarette in my hand. I had no desire to smoke for the whole day. The second day passed and I didn’t feel any withdrawal symptoms; that was unusual. The third, fifth, tenth and following days passed and, again I didn’t experienced withdrawal symptoms. It became obvious that the visualization program worked. I realized that habits exist mostly in your brain so you have to convince your brain that you are free of bad habits; I’ve been successful up to present, decades when I really stopped smoking.
MY BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMEHT
Goal to quit smoking
Quitting smoking was one of my biggest accomplishments in my life.
I used to smoke for 7 years, when I realized that it was not a healthy habit. Once when I was sick I discovered by chance that I felt like I was experiencing the same withdrawal symptoms as if I was quitting smoking. Since I had tried to do it few times, I knew these sensations. The sickness gave me an idea when I was cured: “Why not pretend I was still sick when quitting smoking and facing real withdrawal symptoms?” I prepared myself mentally. I fixed a date to quit smoking and I really stopped. I avoided social events since a lot of people smoked.
One year later I decided to go to my friend’s party. Obviously, most of them smoked, so I was very tempted and smoked the weakest cigarette, hoping that it would not affect my desire to not smoke. Unfortunately, this one cigarette made me come back to my previous tract of smoking. I again become a cigarette smoker. Shortly after that I read an article about Silva’s visualization method which allows individuals to imagine themselves being successful in chosen field. So I started to imagine myself in different situations without smoking. In my imagination I didn’t avoid smoking people; I imagined I had pleasure without smoking in any situations. But again, I had to fix a day when to stop smoking.
I planned to go to catholic pilgrimage to the polish city Czestochawa with hundreds of thousands of other pilgrims. In such an event no one is allow to smoke. I had to decide to stop smoking at the day when the pilgrimage was about to start. And it was a year after the party when I started smoking again. A few days before the event I planned to take part in, I realized that an unforeseen obstacle would not let me fulfill my plan. I was very upset because my plans were about to fall dawn. But to my surprise, that day when the pilgrimage started, I woke up without feeling the need to smoke. My concern then was not to take a cigarette in my hand. I had no desire to smoke for the whole day. The second day passed and I didn’t feel any withdrawal symptoms; that was unusual. The third, fifth, tenth and following days passed and, again I didn’t experienced withdrawal symptoms. It became obvious that the visualization program worked. I realized that habits exist mostly in your brain so you have to convince your brain that you are free of bad habits; I’ve been successful up to present, decades when I really stopped smoking.
The Portable Skills Profile
My comment is based on activity 3.4 from the 3rd chapter of text book Turning Point…
Portable Skills Profile assures me what skill I’ve already had and on which skills I have lack.
I have some skills that will help me in my work career and at the interview. I will stay with my choice to be a Wed Designer , although in this process to analyze material in the text book I have realized that I could work in Education Field, I could work in Design related jobs, I could be a programmer and photographer. Actually photography is my hobby. I used to have a dark room in a vestibule and in a bathroom in my studio. I used to takes photos of my nieces in black and white; developed films; dried them and made photos.
My answer on task 2 is that my career goal is to be a Web Designer, though if my life condition will allow I will do certificate in photography.
My strongest cluster is a Communication Skills since I pay attention to the ideas, opinions, and questions of others; I listen without interrupting. Explain my point of view. Give my opinion. List goes on.
My weakest cluster is a Change-management Skill. Frankly, I lack most of those skills. Two example of lack of this cluster skills are: to have ability to respond coolly to emergency or crisis situation; to have healthy outlets to handle stress effectively etc.
The Portable Skills Profile is useful because you can find out what skills you have already, and what skills you shoul mastered to serve your in your future job.
Portable Skills Profile assures me what skill I’ve already had and on which skills I have lack.
I have some skills that will help me in my work career and at the interview. I will stay with my choice to be a Wed Designer , although in this process to analyze material in the text book I have realized that I could work in Education Field, I could work in Design related jobs, I could be a programmer and photographer. Actually photography is my hobby. I used to have a dark room in a vestibule and in a bathroom in my studio. I used to takes photos of my nieces in black and white; developed films; dried them and made photos.
My answer on task 2 is that my career goal is to be a Web Designer, though if my life condition will allow I will do certificate in photography.
My strongest cluster is a Communication Skills since I pay attention to the ideas, opinions, and questions of others; I listen without interrupting. Explain my point of view. Give my opinion. List goes on.
My weakest cluster is a Change-management Skill. Frankly, I lack most of those skills. Two example of lack of this cluster skills are: to have ability to respond coolly to emergency or crisis situation; to have healthy outlets to handle stress effectively etc.
The Portable Skills Profile is useful because you can find out what skills you have already, and what skills you shoul mastered to serve your in your future job.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
1.RACE: Sleep Dealer is obviously influenced by The Matrix (among other films). What connections do you see to The Matrix and like films? What differences do you see? What do these differences say about issues of race, for example Sleep Dealer is a Mexican-American production--What elements or themes in the film mark it as “particularly Latino” or “particularly Mexican”? What does Sleep Dealer have to say about the rural life versus urban life?
Well the obvious connection to the Matrix is the whole living in a virtual world where your energy is being wasted by machines. When they work in the Sleep Dealers, the workers themselves are tired and being used as an energy source, to power the machines which they work out of. it is similer in the Matrix because Neo and all the other humans are in a cocoon powering the machines. They are all in many ways a duracell battery for the machine world which they live in.
The difference how ever is all to obvious as well. The main difference in both movies is of course is choice. Neo never had the option of going into the Matrix and know that he is being used as an abundant energy source. The main character in Sleep Dealers had a choice as to whether to stay on the farm or run away to the big city and work to make the money he felt he owed his family. Another difference is of course the graphics that make the Matrix look more advanced than Sleep Dealers. The only expplaination for this is that Sleep Dealers never really needed those special effects to tell the story.
The race issue I have with the film is that it shows that even in the future it seems tha Latin community is met with a great deal of arragance and distraught as they face today. Unfortunatly the message that I see here is that all a Mexican is good for is to work for the whole family. Other than that this seems like another crazy theory about everything that go's on in this world, especially in Mexico.
it seems to show many differences from rural life versus urban life, one of which is the nodes that they have surgically grafted into the bodies of the workers. In the rural part of town, that's not practiced much because it's more of a farmers land then it is a city land. That city life style is the urban life style that all the young people want. I loved this movie it was such a great film espcially the ending, I didn't see that one coming at all.
Well the obvious connection to the Matrix is the whole living in a virtual world where your energy is being wasted by machines. When they work in the Sleep Dealers, the workers themselves are tired and being used as an energy source, to power the machines which they work out of. it is similer in the Matrix because Neo and all the other humans are in a cocoon powering the machines. They are all in many ways a duracell battery for the machine world which they live in.
The difference how ever is all to obvious as well. The main difference in both movies is of course is choice. Neo never had the option of going into the Matrix and know that he is being used as an abundant energy source. The main character in Sleep Dealers had a choice as to whether to stay on the farm or run away to the big city and work to make the money he felt he owed his family. Another difference is of course the graphics that make the Matrix look more advanced than Sleep Dealers. The only expplaination for this is that Sleep Dealers never really needed those special effects to tell the story.
The race issue I have with the film is that it shows that even in the future it seems tha Latin community is met with a great deal of arragance and distraught as they face today. Unfortunatly the message that I see here is that all a Mexican is good for is to work for the whole family. Other than that this seems like another crazy theory about everything that go's on in this world, especially in Mexico.
it seems to show many differences from rural life versus urban life, one of which is the nodes that they have surgically grafted into the bodies of the workers. In the rural part of town, that's not practiced much because it's more of a farmers land then it is a city land. That city life style is the urban life style that all the young people want. I loved this movie it was such a great film espcially the ending, I didn't see that one coming at all.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Blog 21 (Part 1)
Well we are going to attempt to down load stuff to help us with our other stuff to get more stuff... No but seriously wish us luck...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
My Card Game(Yami Roll)
Ok so my Game is called Yami Roll, and it is called so because I like the name Yami(in Japanese is translated into Dark) and because it requires you to summon a number of monsters with Dice.
How you win: When you have defeated all of your opponents monsters, and make your opponent deck out, you win.
Let us start with how the game works. Each player must have:
1. A Deck of 20 monsters. (A deck is allowed to have up to 40 monsters in a deck. A deck is allowed only three of each card)
2. 2 Dice to Summon monsters. (To summon monsters, you must roll the two dice, and what ever number you roll, you get to summon a monster with that many "Roll Points")
3. There is also an optional Field Card deck that is not part of the 20 card minumum. This separate deck goes right on the far left of your deck and can only contain 5 Field cards. So instead of you being able to draw a regular monster, you draw a field card instead.
Note: You cannot draw a field card if you have no monsters in your deck to draw at the beginning of your turn. You can only draw one if you have at least one monster in your deck.
First you and your opponents shake hands. Then you decide who goes first by rolling any of your die. Then you make your Field. The field is very simple: You have your deck on your right hand side, a "Card Graveyard" on the top of your deck, and your monster Field card zone is basically the space in front of you and in this field you can summon up to 10 monster cards, and only one field card. Then you and your opponent must draw 5 cards from your decks to begin.
Here are the rules for how your turn goes:
1. Draw Phase: If it is you who goes first you draw a card. If you go second, then you do not draw a card.
2. Roll Summon Phase: Then you can roll the dice to make your "Roll Summon". Roll Summon is simple: What ever number you rolled, you can summon a monster in your hand with the same number as the number you rolled, or as I like to call it, "Roll Points".
Example- I have a monster in my hand that takes 8 Roll Points, and I just rolled a 5 and a 3 on my dice, so that means I can summon this monster from my hand.
Note: You don not accumulate Roll Points in this game. What ever number you roll, if you cannot summon this turn, you just skip your Summon, and move unto "Battle Mode". You must get the exact number of "Points" to summon a monster.
3. Battle Phase: If you have monsters this turn, you must battle at least once with your opponents monsters depending on how much Damage Power that card has, is declared the winner of the battle between the two monsters. If your opponent has no monsters on the field, you can attack him/her directly with your monsters, and your opponent must send from his deck to the graveyard cards equal to the number of Roll Points it takes to Summon the card.
Example- The monster which I just summoned had 8 Roll Points, and my opponent has no monsters on the field, I can attack directly, and my opponent loses 8 cards from the top of his deck.
Note: If a player has gone first in this match, then he cannot attack this turn. He can go into Battle Phase after his opponent's first turn.
4.End Phase: You end your turn and your opponent goes now.
There are different types to monsters as well that players can use to there advantage.
1. Light
2. Dark
3. Fire
4. Water
5. Earth
6. Wind
Depending on what type of field card you have, these cards gain a 500 Damage Power Field Bonus. Any additional card affects can be found on the card itself.
So if any of you have any questions, comments, or concerns just comment below. I would have a sample card but my scanner doesn't want to scan anymore so sorry.
How you win: When you have defeated all of your opponents monsters, and make your opponent deck out, you win.
Let us start with how the game works. Each player must have:
1. A Deck of 20 monsters. (A deck is allowed to have up to 40 monsters in a deck. A deck is allowed only three of each card)
2. 2 Dice to Summon monsters. (To summon monsters, you must roll the two dice, and what ever number you roll, you get to summon a monster with that many "Roll Points")
3. There is also an optional Field Card deck that is not part of the 20 card minumum. This separate deck goes right on the far left of your deck and can only contain 5 Field cards. So instead of you being able to draw a regular monster, you draw a field card instead.
Note: You cannot draw a field card if you have no monsters in your deck to draw at the beginning of your turn. You can only draw one if you have at least one monster in your deck.
First you and your opponents shake hands. Then you decide who goes first by rolling any of your die. Then you make your Field. The field is very simple: You have your deck on your right hand side, a "Card Graveyard" on the top of your deck, and your monster Field card zone is basically the space in front of you and in this field you can summon up to 10 monster cards, and only one field card. Then you and your opponent must draw 5 cards from your decks to begin.
Here are the rules for how your turn goes:
1. Draw Phase: If it is you who goes first you draw a card. If you go second, then you do not draw a card.
2. Roll Summon Phase: Then you can roll the dice to make your "Roll Summon". Roll Summon is simple: What ever number you rolled, you can summon a monster in your hand with the same number as the number you rolled, or as I like to call it, "Roll Points".
Example- I have a monster in my hand that takes 8 Roll Points, and I just rolled a 5 and a 3 on my dice, so that means I can summon this monster from my hand.
Note: You don not accumulate Roll Points in this game. What ever number you roll, if you cannot summon this turn, you just skip your Summon, and move unto "Battle Mode". You must get the exact number of "Points" to summon a monster.
3. Battle Phase: If you have monsters this turn, you must battle at least once with your opponents monsters depending on how much Damage Power that card has, is declared the winner of the battle between the two monsters. If your opponent has no monsters on the field, you can attack him/her directly with your monsters, and your opponent must send from his deck to the graveyard cards equal to the number of Roll Points it takes to Summon the card.
Example- The monster which I just summoned had 8 Roll Points, and my opponent has no monsters on the field, I can attack directly, and my opponent loses 8 cards from the top of his deck.
Note: If a player has gone first in this match, then he cannot attack this turn. He can go into Battle Phase after his opponent's first turn.
4.End Phase: You end your turn and your opponent goes now.
There are different types to monsters as well that players can use to there advantage.
1. Light
2. Dark
3. Fire
4. Water
5. Earth
6. Wind
Depending on what type of field card you have, these cards gain a 500 Damage Power Field Bonus. Any additional card affects can be found on the card itself.
So if any of you have any questions, comments, or concerns just comment below. I would have a sample card but my scanner doesn't want to scan anymore so sorry.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
What do we do now?
Ok so we got the movie's, we got the program to do this project, we have the nerve to actually do it... I don't think there is nothing else to do except do it and we're basically done... The movie we are basing this project on are Network, V for Vendetta, and Fight Club, and maybe just maybe The Davinci Code...
Thursday, May 6, 2010
My (OUR) project...
Me and jose Pena will be doing a movie presentation about how symbol's are portrayed in certain movies and the movies we are using are Fight Club, V for Vendetta, Network, and more will be posted as soon as we get more information...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Blog 16
I believe that we are living in the Matrix because there has always been this thing in my mind that doesn't accept what I see in front of me. There are times that I have dreams and then they come true. My de'ja vu has also shown me that there is something not right with the world around me. I can't accept this reality in front of me because people sometimes act like machines and they do without thought or intuition. This is why I velieve in Nixon's claim, because people are to much like machines.
I sometimes wonder if the thing in front of me is real or not. I don't know if I'm really drinking this C&C Fruit Punch drink. I don't know if I'm writing with an actual pencil in my hand. I don't know if I'm thinking straight or not. All I know is how I feel, and how I feel is what I have been feeling since the eighth grade: that everything around me is fake. People act like a computer system all the time, like programs there to just be there. You wake up, drink coffe, get on a train, work, lunch, more work, then go home, take a shower, watch T.V., go to bed, repeat. Consistant every single time. When you hang out you go to the same places, talk about the same things every single time.
My dreams are also my reason for not accepting reality because there to many times I have seen what has happened to either me or someone I know. Now my thing about this is that if this keeps happening consistantly than that means to me that human's are to predictable. Like a program that runs over and over until it breaks down and can never be used again. I know in my head that we as a race have been very predictable especially in matters of war. In this "world" we have so many missle silos we could blow up all of earth and kill every single person in the world. The scary part is that the world we live in is just quite possibly a world where everyone is a Duracell Battery.
The dreams I have also tell me that I have also tell me that since our world is probably a fake and so predictable, that sounds like the thinking of a machine to me. We breed not real babies but battery's for the machines to feed off of, in fact we don't breed anymore, we are grown.
This is how the world is in my eyes. This is what I believe our world has become and this is what the author of the book is thinking. I'm pretty sure Nixon feels more or less like me, and I fully agree with his point of veiw of the world.
I sometimes wonder if the thing in front of me is real or not. I don't know if I'm really drinking this C&C Fruit Punch drink. I don't know if I'm writing with an actual pencil in my hand. I don't know if I'm thinking straight or not. All I know is how I feel, and how I feel is what I have been feeling since the eighth grade: that everything around me is fake. People act like a computer system all the time, like programs there to just be there. You wake up, drink coffe, get on a train, work, lunch, more work, then go home, take a shower, watch T.V., go to bed, repeat. Consistant every single time. When you hang out you go to the same places, talk about the same things every single time.
My dreams are also my reason for not accepting reality because there to many times I have seen what has happened to either me or someone I know. Now my thing about this is that if this keeps happening consistantly than that means to me that human's are to predictable. Like a program that runs over and over until it breaks down and can never be used again. I know in my head that we as a race have been very predictable especially in matters of war. In this "world" we have so many missle silos we could blow up all of earth and kill every single person in the world. The scary part is that the world we live in is just quite possibly a world where everyone is a Duracell Battery.
The dreams I have also tell me that I have also tell me that since our world is probably a fake and so predictable, that sounds like the thinking of a machine to me. We breed not real babies but battery's for the machines to feed off of, in fact we don't breed anymore, we are grown.
This is how the world is in my eyes. This is what I believe our world has become and this is what the author of the book is thinking. I'm pretty sure Nixon feels more or less like me, and I fully agree with his point of veiw of the world.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
My paper draft...
Kristopher Rodriguez
Doctor Louie Lucca
April 27, 2010
HUC 130
Television through My Eyes
vi•o•lence
n.
1. Physical force exerted for the purpose of violating, damaging, or abusing.
2. The act or an instance of violent action or behavior.
3. Intensity or severity, as in natural phenomena; untamed force.
4. Abusive or unjust exercise of power.
5. Abuse or injury to meaning, content, or intent.
6. Vehemence of feeling or expression; fervor.
me•di•a–noun
1. a pl. of medium.
2. (usually used with a plural verb ) the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely
Imagine you are ten years old, watching a favorite show of yours, called WWE Smack Down. You are so excited to see your favorite characters do so many crazy stunts in a squared circle, like a frog splash, or a choke slam, or even the new move that just came out from a new character that arrived, the Jack Hammer. This new character (a man who calls him Goldberg) just won with this move, and you are awestruck with the power of this man. You are ten years old and you your think what your watching is real, that the man in that ring really knocked out this guy and he actually won a real wrestling match. Well in comes your father who is watching the program with you and tells you that what you are watching is fake and that nobody could really do that move at all, without help from the other guy. You ask why are they helping each other if they hate each other, and your father answers the obvious answer: wrestling is fake, a soap opera, an over the top performance that isn’t real at all.
The next morning appears and you are off to school. It’s a nice day with a little cloud cover and you’re feeling pretty good. You have almost completely forgotten last night and your mind is set on other things. You’re walking with your whole family to the car so that way you’re all together. All of a sudden as soon as you get to the entrance to the parking lot you look over at the playground near your house and you see a bunch of kids actually wrestling on the hard concrete floor. You see that they are almost half naked, bleeding from the top of their heads, and they have each other in headlocks. Your father sees what you’re looking at and hurry’s you away, but not before you see one of the boys give the other the Jackhammer and you see him limp on the ground.
I never knew what happened to that boy. I never even knew his family, who he was what kind of person he was, and honestly I didn’t care. What sparked my interest, what stuck in my mind was that almost everything they used on each other I could have announced out loud if I was announcing a wrestling match instead of seeing an actual fight. I thought of the entertainment side of it, not of the violence, but of the entertainment.
It seems to me at this point and age of my life that most people would attribute to the raise of violence in the last couple of decades is due to the way that violence is portrayed in everyday life on a television screen at home through the eyes of our children. It seems that to me, media didn’t have a lot of control as to what went on the T.V. screen at the time of me being introduced to professional wrestling, and if they did my opinion is that they let it get as worse as it did because they needed the ratings to get people to watch they’re show. It does how ever come at a cost for us as humans because most things kids watch on T.V. stay in their heads for a very long time especially if it’s something that catches they’re attention when they watch T.V. Twenty four/Seven. According to sources in the Washington post (Vedantam, “As Well As Children”), “Teenagers and young adults who watch even as little as an hour of television a day are more likely to get into fights, commit assaults or engage in other types of violence later in life…” which means that young people of any age can just turn on the T.V. watch something and actually get even more violent themselves. Now to me wouldn’t that mean that actually watching a very violent T.V. show like World Wrestling Entertainment might have something to do with why kids are acting like the characters of this program? From my own boy-hood experiences then that means that this is exactly what’s happening in our society in yester-year, and it still continues into our society today.
But apparently this “…claim isn’t supported by data.” According to Levitt and Dubner, they are “…making an entirely different argument here. Our claim is that children who grew up watching a lot of T.V., even the most innocuous family-friendly shows, were more likely to engage in crime when they got older.” Well there are statistics that actually prove this fact true according to an article called “Want to Raise a Bully? Turn on the TV…” four-year-olds watching the daily average, which is about 3 hours, were 25% more likely to become bullies. Also a single child “watching more than eight hours of television per day was 200% more likely to bully.” So stating these facts actually proves the point of children actually watching television can not only lead to bullying and violence outside on the streets. This should encourage people to not watch TV at all but according to this article it hasn’t.
`Well I know one thing for sure that
Doctor Louie Lucca
April 27, 2010
HUC 130
Television through My Eyes
vi•o•lence
n.
1. Physical force exerted for the purpose of violating, damaging, or abusing.
2. The act or an instance of violent action or behavior.
3. Intensity or severity, as in natural phenomena; untamed force.
4. Abusive or unjust exercise of power.
5. Abuse or injury to meaning, content, or intent.
6. Vehemence of feeling or expression; fervor.
me•di•a–noun
1. a pl. of medium.
2. (usually used with a plural verb ) the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely
Imagine you are ten years old, watching a favorite show of yours, called WWE Smack Down. You are so excited to see your favorite characters do so many crazy stunts in a squared circle, like a frog splash, or a choke slam, or even the new move that just came out from a new character that arrived, the Jack Hammer. This new character (a man who calls him Goldberg) just won with this move, and you are awestruck with the power of this man. You are ten years old and you your think what your watching is real, that the man in that ring really knocked out this guy and he actually won a real wrestling match. Well in comes your father who is watching the program with you and tells you that what you are watching is fake and that nobody could really do that move at all, without help from the other guy. You ask why are they helping each other if they hate each other, and your father answers the obvious answer: wrestling is fake, a soap opera, an over the top performance that isn’t real at all.
The next morning appears and you are off to school. It’s a nice day with a little cloud cover and you’re feeling pretty good. You have almost completely forgotten last night and your mind is set on other things. You’re walking with your whole family to the car so that way you’re all together. All of a sudden as soon as you get to the entrance to the parking lot you look over at the playground near your house and you see a bunch of kids actually wrestling on the hard concrete floor. You see that they are almost half naked, bleeding from the top of their heads, and they have each other in headlocks. Your father sees what you’re looking at and hurry’s you away, but not before you see one of the boys give the other the Jackhammer and you see him limp on the ground.
I never knew what happened to that boy. I never even knew his family, who he was what kind of person he was, and honestly I didn’t care. What sparked my interest, what stuck in my mind was that almost everything they used on each other I could have announced out loud if I was announcing a wrestling match instead of seeing an actual fight. I thought of the entertainment side of it, not of the violence, but of the entertainment.
It seems to me at this point and age of my life that most people would attribute to the raise of violence in the last couple of decades is due to the way that violence is portrayed in everyday life on a television screen at home through the eyes of our children. It seems that to me, media didn’t have a lot of control as to what went on the T.V. screen at the time of me being introduced to professional wrestling, and if they did my opinion is that they let it get as worse as it did because they needed the ratings to get people to watch they’re show. It does how ever come at a cost for us as humans because most things kids watch on T.V. stay in their heads for a very long time especially if it’s something that catches they’re attention when they watch T.V. Twenty four/Seven. According to sources in the Washington post (Vedantam, “As Well As Children”), “Teenagers and young adults who watch even as little as an hour of television a day are more likely to get into fights, commit assaults or engage in other types of violence later in life…” which means that young people of any age can just turn on the T.V. watch something and actually get even more violent themselves. Now to me wouldn’t that mean that actually watching a very violent T.V. show like World Wrestling Entertainment might have something to do with why kids are acting like the characters of this program? From my own boy-hood experiences then that means that this is exactly what’s happening in our society in yester-year, and it still continues into our society today.
But apparently this “…claim isn’t supported by data.” According to Levitt and Dubner, they are “…making an entirely different argument here. Our claim is that children who grew up watching a lot of T.V., even the most innocuous family-friendly shows, were more likely to engage in crime when they got older.” Well there are statistics that actually prove this fact true according to an article called “Want to Raise a Bully? Turn on the TV…” four-year-olds watching the daily average, which is about 3 hours, were 25% more likely to become bullies. Also a single child “watching more than eight hours of television per day was 200% more likely to bully.” So stating these facts actually proves the point of children actually watching television can not only lead to bullying and violence outside on the streets. This should encourage people to not watch TV at all but according to this article it hasn’t.
`Well I know one thing for sure that
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Blog 13- my Rough Draft
Kristopher Rodriguez
4/21/10
I am going to show how light and darkness in the movie shows us the mood of the man. It shows in a variety of places and most of them happen when the man is showing a happy emotion or a sad emotion, and you could almost tell each time through the background how he was feeling at the time. In fact I see that most of the characters could tell you how they feel through the background, but it’s mostly focused on the man that is followed through-out almost the entire movie save for the part where they introduce the woman who he’s cheating on his wife with.
Let’s first look at how the woman is introduced, as it plays a part about how her very nature is in this movie. She lives at this point in the movie, in a rundown old shack in the middle of nowhere. It’s very dark and gloomy and a little bit like a place no one would dare catch someone who lives like a queen anywhere near there. The way the background is set-up with hardly any light what so ever in any of her scenes, it gives off that she’s a very lonely city girl and not a girl who was brought up with decent manners.
Usually when a character is introduced in a dark setting they are usually evil in some way or form. This is a common theme surrounding villains in stories like this, because darkness is well associated with evil or evil intentions, while very bright lighting usually shows us that there is a good guy/girl already there waiting to be introduced in the story. This gives film-makers the perfect set-up for how they want their characters to show who they are before they are even introduced into the story.
Let’s go to the introduction of the man. In this background this background you see him in a dark room with only one light in the middle of a table. The walls are dark, he is hunched over to look as though he is dark and even his cloths are dark save for a single white shirt he has underneath his jacket. This kind of set-up shows us a couple of things about this guy. It seems to me the two lights are a symbol for whatever war his soul is having inside of him. On one side he is conflicted between the two women, the one from the city and his wife. You could also say that the darkness all around him is his depression that he is going through with the selling of his crops, and the way he and his wife are with each other now, but that one light in the middle is the happiness he finds when he’s with the woman from the city.
When the husband tries to leave to go to the swamp, the wife is introduced and the situation with the two light and darkness shift a little bit. Now it seems she also shares a bit of gloom with him because he keeps leaving and she knows where he’ll be going all this time and her one guiding light is that her husband will return to her after he’s had his fun. As she sits with the bowl in the same place he was it’s kind of like they switched places and now she carries his grief, his darkness, but it seems they do not have the same happy thoughts that keep them happy or in the case of the wife, a reason to keep going.
(this is my first draft. before anyone says anything, I know it isn't finnished at all. I will post the final later today.)
4/21/10
I am going to show how light and darkness in the movie shows us the mood of the man. It shows in a variety of places and most of them happen when the man is showing a happy emotion or a sad emotion, and you could almost tell each time through the background how he was feeling at the time. In fact I see that most of the characters could tell you how they feel through the background, but it’s mostly focused on the man that is followed through-out almost the entire movie save for the part where they introduce the woman who he’s cheating on his wife with.
Let’s first look at how the woman is introduced, as it plays a part about how her very nature is in this movie. She lives at this point in the movie, in a rundown old shack in the middle of nowhere. It’s very dark and gloomy and a little bit like a place no one would dare catch someone who lives like a queen anywhere near there. The way the background is set-up with hardly any light what so ever in any of her scenes, it gives off that she’s a very lonely city girl and not a girl who was brought up with decent manners.
Usually when a character is introduced in a dark setting they are usually evil in some way or form. This is a common theme surrounding villains in stories like this, because darkness is well associated with evil or evil intentions, while very bright lighting usually shows us that there is a good guy/girl already there waiting to be introduced in the story. This gives film-makers the perfect set-up for how they want their characters to show who they are before they are even introduced into the story.
Let’s go to the introduction of the man. In this background this background you see him in a dark room with only one light in the middle of a table. The walls are dark, he is hunched over to look as though he is dark and even his cloths are dark save for a single white shirt he has underneath his jacket. This kind of set-up shows us a couple of things about this guy. It seems to me the two lights are a symbol for whatever war his soul is having inside of him. On one side he is conflicted between the two women, the one from the city and his wife. You could also say that the darkness all around him is his depression that he is going through with the selling of his crops, and the way he and his wife are with each other now, but that one light in the middle is the happiness he finds when he’s with the woman from the city.
When the husband tries to leave to go to the swamp, the wife is introduced and the situation with the two light and darkness shift a little bit. Now it seems she also shares a bit of gloom with him because he keeps leaving and she knows where he’ll be going all this time and her one guiding light is that her husband will return to her after he’s had his fun. As she sits with the bowl in the same place he was it’s kind of like they switched places and now she carries his grief, his darkness, but it seems they do not have the same happy thoughts that keep them happy or in the case of the wife, a reason to keep going.
(this is my first draft. before anyone says anything, I know it isn't finnished at all. I will post the final later today.)
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
What I did for my research...
Well at first I needed to get statistics as to why watching to much T.V. for kids is a bad thing because I have had experiences where T.V. has influenced the way how kids "play" in the court yard near my house. So I got some stuff on the web that I felt was very intresting and proved my point pretty clearly. I found the website on google, which is kidshealth.org, and it explains how much kids and young adults watch to much T.V. how some watch even seven hours of it before playing video games or some other form of entertainment that require's a television. unfortunately I could only print out some of the info as the polocy of the computer lab is a ten page limit or something like that. But tomorrow is as always another day.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Why I said what I said to Parris and Joshua.
Well I said what I said to these two was very simple. While both there shorts were very good they lacked certain detail's in there example's that could have made it so much better to understand what they were talking about. Joshua had his points across very well but his example's lacked in backing them up. Parris was all over the place and although she described the picture pretty good, the fact is that Parris kept coming back to the same thing over and over again and it was just like a very long run on sentence that had nothing to back up what she was saying in the short. They have some pretty good potential, but it was lacking and they can do better.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Blog Nine
I believe that what Louie is asking us to simply research or investigate how crime is somehow linked to T.V. or not. According to him, Levitt and Dubner believed that T.V. shows like Leave it to Beaver started crime. The evidence was not enough from a statistical view point. One other Hypothesis he has stated was that a baby boom was to account for all the violence, as well as the migration of African’s and the return of Vietnam soldiers however even this doesn’t support their claim. My position on the upscale of crime is not in any T.V. show but of the government, because as we have seen before the government will stop at nothing to be the superpower of the world. This usually stirs up rebellion in its own country, and then people start to break laws because they believe that as long as the government holds tightly to its country, the more the country will fight back. This is all caused by the American dream showed to us every day on T.V. that we watch because we are so used to just sitting down and watching T.V. that it is a constant from the moment we are born. This has been proven time and time again, although finding this research will be hard because not many people have these types of things on a web search engine such as Google. What I think I need is the statistics on how Television has affected us since its inception and also statistics that show how much people watch T.V. now. Again I doubt it but I will use the search engine Google to find my supporting evidence.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Blog 7 My experience in class...
Well my experience in this class hasn't changed the way I think but more importantly how I view things about my life and such. For example, we went to a museum that had stuff that I have never seen before in my life and I could never have done any of this without finding out with other people with me. The people I have met in this college are really the kind of people I like to hang out with. The teachers have told me and taught me things that I think are very interesting to think about historically and philosophically and I think maybe people have changed the way that I think in some things. When we as human beings help each other find ourselves I believe that it helps us get to where we all want to be which is to free ourselves and our minds.
Museum Trip
“I am not an elephant! I AM NOT AN ANIMAL! I AM A HUMAN BEING! I...AM...A MAN! “
Not only a popular kids character in the united states, characters, in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, but a well known hair style amongst African Americans in the late 80’s to early 90’s.
“When you’re good to mama, mama’s good to you!”
“The name on every bodies lips is going to be ROXY” (not Roxie)
You can play the 1982 film on the arcade, that now 28 years later has a sequel.
Go into the 1:30 showing of the red balloon, and find the “rebel without a cause”
Watch your step…before you seat down to watch TV.
Hear her famous words…”fasten your seatbelt it’s going to be a bumpy night!”
“9-10 never sleep again”….guess they were right I haven’t slept in 26 years.
We looked like this before plasma, LCD, and LED took over.
“Set all the phasers to stun”
Can you find the running man on the 3rd floor.
Save Princess Peach Toadstool from King Koopa.
1978 video game with vector graphics.
Where is the picture of the star who starred in It happened one night.
Watch Karen Allen in a scene from this popular movie franchise that started in 1981.
It never spoke English, but everyone could always understand is gargled sounding speech.
She turned around and through her hat up in the air for the LAST time in 1977.
Watch past presidents in the living room.
Model number H-24-37-E
Locate the great train robbery.
“Mirror Mirror on the wall”.
“Luke I am your father”
Your right arm will definitely get tired at this peep show.
Didn't like the lines or voices in these movies?, no problem change them.
Mitchell Vista Vision?
“why so serious” Chuck Taylor?
There’s a Snow White board game? Prove it.
Ah, damn you!, God damn you all to hell!
Prevent Dr. Robotnic from collecting the six Chaos Emeralds inn an attempt to rule South Island.
Epileptics not allowed…Sorry
Not only a popular kids character in the united states, characters, in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, but a well known hair style amongst African Americans in the late 80’s to early 90’s.
“When you’re good to mama, mama’s good to you!”
“The name on every bodies lips is going to be ROXY” (not Roxie)
You can play the 1982 film on the arcade, that now 28 years later has a sequel.
Go into the 1:30 showing of the red balloon, and find the “rebel without a cause”
Watch your step…before you seat down to watch TV.
Hear her famous words…”fasten your seatbelt it’s going to be a bumpy night!”
“9-10 never sleep again”….guess they were right I haven’t slept in 26 years.
We looked like this before plasma, LCD, and LED took over.
“Set all the phasers to stun”
Can you find the running man on the 3rd floor.
Save Princess Peach Toadstool from King Koopa.
1978 video game with vector graphics.
Where is the picture of the star who starred in It happened one night.
Watch Karen Allen in a scene from this popular movie franchise that started in 1981.
It never spoke English, but everyone could always understand is gargled sounding speech.
She turned around and through her hat up in the air for the LAST time in 1977.
Watch past presidents in the living room.
Model number H-24-37-E
Locate the great train robbery.
“Mirror Mirror on the wall”.
“Luke I am your father”
Your right arm will definitely get tired at this peep show.
Didn't like the lines or voices in these movies?, no problem change them.
Mitchell Vista Vision?
“why so serious” Chuck Taylor?
There’s a Snow White board game? Prove it.
Ah, damn you!, God damn you all to hell!
Prevent Dr. Robotnic from collecting the six Chaos Emeralds inn an attempt to rule South Island.
Epileptics not allowed…Sorry
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Blue or Red?
I would choose to take the red pill, because of the fact that if I was told that the world I had been living in for all of my life was just as I expected it to be a relly big fake lie then I would not choose to live in a world where I am part of a system that control's me as a person. Human's weren't ment to be controled by anyone we have jsut as much right to live here as any other organisim on this earth does and I would think it's unfair that a computer system can decide our fate in a micro second just because they wanted to. I'm not saying that our actions were any better (if this were the secnario were true) because it was us who struck first blood when we decided to not let them be recognized as equal's.
Equality I think is the main focus here in this story for if the human's welcomed there creations like civilized people would and appreciate the art of living with such an advanced species of beings such as the cyborg's, then we wouldn't have the war that is brewing with the human's and the machine's. We take for granted a great deal of this earth for us to claim we are superior to any other race on this earth, and I believe that this one factor will be the down fall of us all as a race and the black stain on our culture in the years to come because whether we want to admit it openly or not we are a very greedy race indeed. We take advantage of everyone and everything just to make sure we as a person have a peace of mind at the end of the day, and it sickens me to know that we can't even change for the simple fact that we might be able to save the planet as well as ourselves.
Equality I think is the main focus here in this story for if the human's welcomed there creations like civilized people would and appreciate the art of living with such an advanced species of beings such as the cyborg's, then we wouldn't have the war that is brewing with the human's and the machine's. We take for granted a great deal of this earth for us to claim we are superior to any other race on this earth, and I believe that this one factor will be the down fall of us all as a race and the black stain on our culture in the years to come because whether we want to admit it openly or not we are a very greedy race indeed. We take advantage of everyone and everything just to make sure we as a person have a peace of mind at the end of the day, and it sickens me to know that we can't even change for the simple fact that we might be able to save the planet as well as ourselves.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
My life in LaGuardia
Well it looks like I will be having so much to do when I’m here. A lot is expected of me from my teachers. For example we have a research blog every single week from Louie, a movie we must watch for American Film and we must do a blog for our English professor. Basically I got to get my head together if I want to pass and get myself out of this school, and that means no matter what just do what I have to do to get the work done. Most of it is on the computer anyways so I should be able to do this without any sweat. I don’t have a plan to get stuff done I just do it and get it done. People have told me that isn’t how you should get stuff done because it might fry me out. Well I might be fried but at least I am getting to do what I need to do for me. A while ago people told me I should only worry about me, and I didn’t listen but this time I will listen because it worked last semester pretty well, so something must be working. When I was in this school a while ago, I used to be the guy they needed to get stuff done for them. I was the one they needed for all those projects they needed. I can’t be that person again. Not here. It won’t work here for me at La Guardia.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Truman Syndrome
Truman Syndrome is a form of psychological delusion in which the patient believes that he or she is trapped inside in a reality television show, or that people are monitoring his or her every move. The name for this syndrome is a reference to The Truman Show, a 1998 film which revolved around a character who was living his entire life on camera without being aware of it. To those of sound mind, Truman Syndrome might sound a bit ludicrous, but not dangerous, although this is not, in fact, the case: this condition can actually be very dangerous for the people who suffer from it.
The above is the definition of the Truman Syndrome. I found the information on www.wisegeek.com and I believe it is a trust worthy site only bearing to the fact that it gives such a great analysis of what the movie was about and how people have taken into effect of how we think we’re being watched by the government or the media both in my opinion is true.
I think people feel they’re on T.V. because there is a constant state of security when it comes to a powerful country as ours with the military present almost all over the place even in private sections of Manhattan, so even I a New Yorker I feel like I can’t even turn my head in this town anymore with the fear of being followed or watched all over by people. Maybe not to the extreme that has been presented by the Truman show but it was enough to open my eyes to certain truth’s in my society and the one we are living in right now.
The above is the definition of the Truman Syndrome. I found the information on www.wisegeek.com and I believe it is a trust worthy site only bearing to the fact that it gives such a great analysis of what the movie was about and how people have taken into effect of how we think we’re being watched by the government or the media both in my opinion is true.
I think people feel they’re on T.V. because there is a constant state of security when it comes to a powerful country as ours with the military present almost all over the place even in private sections of Manhattan, so even I a New Yorker I feel like I can’t even turn my head in this town anymore with the fear of being followed or watched all over by people. Maybe not to the extreme that has been presented by the Truman show but it was enough to open my eyes to certain truth’s in my society and the one we are living in right now.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
The Truman Show
Blog 3
The Truman show was a real eye opener for a lot of people including myself. When I first heard of this movie my friend Jose said it was a great movie. What I didn’t expaect was that he wasn’t bull shitting. This was a great movie that I enjoyed because this movie has a lot to do with the matrix in a way. This director took a little kid from an adoption agency and put him on an island and made him live there with out him knowing that everything on this island was fake for him to believe in this world. This has a lot to do with how Neo percieved his world until Morpheous took him in told him the truth. So my question as I am always filled with whenever I see a great movie is this: Why is it that we human’s except the “truth” right in front of us from the begining of our birth right up til we die? Why is it that when we look at the society around us we see it as a safe haven of some sort like we’re free from the powers that be?
The Truman show was a real eye opener for a lot of people including myself. When I first heard of this movie my friend Jose said it was a great movie. What I didn’t expaect was that he wasn’t bull shitting. This was a great movie that I enjoyed because this movie has a lot to do with the matrix in a way. This director took a little kid from an adoption agency and put him on an island and made him live there with out him knowing that everything on this island was fake for him to believe in this world. This has a lot to do with how Neo percieved his world until Morpheous took him in told him the truth. So my question as I am always filled with whenever I see a great movie is this: Why is it that we human’s except the “truth” right in front of us from the begining of our birth right up til we die? Why is it that when we look at the society around us we see it as a safe haven of some sort like we’re free from the powers that be?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Blog 2(Understanding "The Cave")
This blog will focus mainly on the “Allegory of the Cave”. What is being described in this passage is basically the whole of the human race blinded by the things we see as truth or “the real”. What we define as real are things that we feel, taste, smell, things our brains interpret as electrical signals that we define as real. When we feel a chair or touch a woman or like in the story see shadows on the walls and make a reality of it, we define that in our society as “real” things that happen in “real” life.
Now Socrates brought up an interesting theory: What happens when someone is brought out of that cave to the sunny plains of the world? How would he react? Would he define this new reality of his “real” or not? What happens when he actually gets used to this “new world” he was left in? Would he depend on the other world’s views to guide him? Would his eyes be blinded by the radiant light of the sun, or would his eyes adjust in time?
The reasons why he asked these questions are simple: if you live your life in a cave with other people and all you see all day are shadows on the walls made by people who walk across the bridge lit by fire then your reality all your life will be those shadows. Now others take you out of that cave and you discover a new reality that is far different than the one you knew from below. Now the question is how would you react to such a new reality? Could you tell the difference between what you thought is “real” and what you know is “real”?
Now Socrates brought up an interesting theory: What happens when someone is brought out of that cave to the sunny plains of the world? How would he react? Would he define this new reality of his “real” or not? What happens when he actually gets used to this “new world” he was left in? Would he depend on the other world’s views to guide him? Would his eyes be blinded by the radiant light of the sun, or would his eyes adjust in time?
The reasons why he asked these questions are simple: if you live your life in a cave with other people and all you see all day are shadows on the walls made by people who walk across the bridge lit by fire then your reality all your life will be those shadows. Now others take you out of that cave and you discover a new reality that is far different than the one you knew from below. Now the question is how would you react to such a new reality? Could you tell the difference between what you thought is “real” and what you know is “real”?
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Jack In
Kristopher Rodriguez
Blog 1
Well my whole idea about how are we so linked into the matrix is that when we depend on technology so much in a way that we live with electronics and constantly becoming more advanced with this new software we forget how we are human. We live in a world where we are surrounded by nothing but computer screens computers in offices computers outside on walls hell even on bill boards that people used to work on painting an advertisement that has been outdated by this 57 foot television screen. I see it all the time in Times Square all the time and I mean that is the motherland of LCD screens, I mean literally 47 television screens, and that is only one block for crying out loud I mean how many T.V.’s does this city need to let you know that Sephora just came out with a new perfume?
Seriously toys r us is the one where most people breathe electricity more than oxygen. I should know I spent half my high school career there playing video games. I mean we see enough of this on T.V. mostly we sit there and watch all this stuff and we want to get it and then because we saw it on T.V. we think it’s going to be just like the picture. In the end they will let us down like always and rip us off in the end. I saw it all the time when I was kid whenever I saw this new toy that I had to have I begged my mom to get it for me but in the end I got so bored of it I threw it away the moment it was clean up day. I expected it to be my every need in my room whenever I played but it was just a stupid electronic just like everything else it was never enough for me.
I think a lot of the time people aren’t satisfied with electronics is because they know that in the end there is always a new model that most people are going to want in the future. When we see something and we think we want it we need it I think do we really need all of this? Even my own ipod I look at it sometimes like do I really want all of this music in this one little device everywhere I go? This thing used to get me into more trouble than it’s worth at high school. I used to get sent down to the dean’s office and never get to hear one song at the end of the day because I was so angry that I couldn’t listen to it now. I wasn’t a really clear thinker back then, but still I was a kid like everyone else. Maybe that isn’t an excuse I don’t know. All I know is that this little thing has taken up my life in so many ways. I buy cards for it I buy cases I buy upgrades I live on the computer so much that I’m getting sick of looking up new music for my playlist. It just goes to show me that this world we’re living in is getting more plugged in everyday and I am sick of it.
Everyone saw the matrix. I get that. So why hasn’t anyone seen what is happening to our world? Am I just living in a dream? Or is this the reality that I am faced with to live in?
Blog 1
Well my whole idea about how are we so linked into the matrix is that when we depend on technology so much in a way that we live with electronics and constantly becoming more advanced with this new software we forget how we are human. We live in a world where we are surrounded by nothing but computer screens computers in offices computers outside on walls hell even on bill boards that people used to work on painting an advertisement that has been outdated by this 57 foot television screen. I see it all the time in Times Square all the time and I mean that is the motherland of LCD screens, I mean literally 47 television screens, and that is only one block for crying out loud I mean how many T.V.’s does this city need to let you know that Sephora just came out with a new perfume?
Seriously toys r us is the one where most people breathe electricity more than oxygen. I should know I spent half my high school career there playing video games. I mean we see enough of this on T.V. mostly we sit there and watch all this stuff and we want to get it and then because we saw it on T.V. we think it’s going to be just like the picture. In the end they will let us down like always and rip us off in the end. I saw it all the time when I was kid whenever I saw this new toy that I had to have I begged my mom to get it for me but in the end I got so bored of it I threw it away the moment it was clean up day. I expected it to be my every need in my room whenever I played but it was just a stupid electronic just like everything else it was never enough for me.
I think a lot of the time people aren’t satisfied with electronics is because they know that in the end there is always a new model that most people are going to want in the future. When we see something and we think we want it we need it I think do we really need all of this? Even my own ipod I look at it sometimes like do I really want all of this music in this one little device everywhere I go? This thing used to get me into more trouble than it’s worth at high school. I used to get sent down to the dean’s office and never get to hear one song at the end of the day because I was so angry that I couldn’t listen to it now. I wasn’t a really clear thinker back then, but still I was a kid like everyone else. Maybe that isn’t an excuse I don’t know. All I know is that this little thing has taken up my life in so many ways. I buy cards for it I buy cases I buy upgrades I live on the computer so much that I’m getting sick of looking up new music for my playlist. It just goes to show me that this world we’re living in is getting more plugged in everyday and I am sick of it.
Everyone saw the matrix. I get that. So why hasn’t anyone seen what is happening to our world? Am I just living in a dream? Or is this the reality that I am faced with to live in?
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