BLOG 10: "Where the Whale Be At?: The Place of Race and Racism in the Discussion of Environmentalism"

In "Where the Whale Be At? The Place of Race and Racism in the Discussion of Environmentalism" by Terry J. Cole is an interesting essay, including an important question, "So why should People of Color be concern about the environment?". He explained how white people came from a different land, leaving their ancestors behind, and took over the New Land. It was described as misunderstanding the connection of the nature between People of Color and white people. Another point was made by how Black people don't have the same opportunity and access to healthy food, and that they live in areas where toxins are abandoned. Cole even researched the medical conditions of different races, he wrote that Black people have higher chance of getting many disease than the White people, mostly is caused by where they live.
   
      I agree with Cole's opinion about people of color living in communities that are more exposed to toxic waste. I think it is mostly caused by the increasing price of rent in the areas with fresher air and cleaner environment. But my question is, should only People of Color be concern about the environment? 
  Everyone should be concern about the environment because where we live, later on bounces of on our health. People in most parts of Manhattan have better access to the fruits and vegetables supplies, cleaner environment and more park space.
      Where we live and how we eat, shouldn't be based on the color of our skin but on education and how much we earn. It's logical that if we have a low pay job we won't be able to live in a nice, clean neighborhood, and a super market close to our house, where we can supply ourselves with as much healthy food as possible. So what I think is, stop with the pity, get to work, and don't blame the color of your skin for how much you earn. It's America, everyone is EQUAL.

Blog 9: Summary of The Meatrix

The Meatrix

In the short film "The Meatrix" a character named Moopheus approaches a pig character named Leo. He asked him if he knows what is The Meatrix and if he wants to know about it. Moopheus explains how the Meatrix is all around him, "it is the story we tell ourselves about where are meat and animal products come from". Moopheus shows Leo the real world where a factory farm is where most eggs, milk and meat come from. Factory farming is used to maximize profits and small farms were decreased.

The Meatrix: Revolting

In this second part of the short film the Narrator Moopheus goes into more depth into the factory farm. Cow mutilation like cutting of the tails and again antibiotic overuse. These corporations use artificial hormones such as RGBH which causes increased growth rates. Also the calves are separated from their mothers and are feed milk derived from dead animals, the dead are fed back to the living but this in causing diseases in the animals such as Mad cow disease. In the end Moopheus is capture and Leo yet again reminds us that we can still stop these corporations by supporting local family farms.

                                                                   

The Meatrix II 1/2.

 

In this final part of the film the agents have Moopheus tied down at the farming factory and the agents explain to him how the factory operates,  it process 5000 cows a day, all this to feed Americas fast food nation.but this fast pace environment also cause dangerous working habits for the workers inside this factory this all in the name for profit that is name for it. Because of the fast pace lines there's manure in the meat that falls from the dead animal, this causes a great risk of Bacteria.

Blog 8- CATW Essay

The authors most important ideas in the passage are invasion of privacy, a young man committed suicide, students feel their dorm should be their private space, and online bullies. On Sept. 28 police arrested two students, Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, on invasion of privacy charges. Ravi activated a web cam in the dorm room he shared with Tyler Clementi. Ravi, using his twitter account tweeted he saw his roommate, Tyler Clementi making out with another man using the web cam he set up in the room. The images of Clementi and the other man was posted live on the Internet and Clementi found out. Three days later, Clementi posted a farewell message on Facebook, then jumped off the George Washington bridge. Ravi and Wei could face prison time if found guilty. Students are upset. they expect their dorm to be private space, no one should invade that privacy. The Internet can encourage bullying. Professor John Suler put in his free 1996 online, book “The psychology of cyberspace” “people say and do things in cyberspace that they wouldn't ordinarily say or do in the face- to -face world”. New Jersey’s privacy law makes it a crime to send out or look at nude images or sex acts of somebody with out that persons approval. Dharun Ravi and molly Wei did a very cruel thing. They could be sentenced up to five years in prison. Anne collier, co-director of ConnectSafetly said that this story “ is not the machines responsible for Clementis death its the humans. Clementi didn't want to face anyone after he has been humiliated on the Internet. He killed himself, some people can turn to one side of the situation better than others. Being bullied can change a persons life for the worst. Online bullies never know how much suffering they are doing because they don't see the victims suffering.

Others peoples blogs i really like

From our sister class, Living in the Matrix-
School-stuff: Blog entry 2.3 b Xmas tree: "Artificial Christmas treeThe weather is getting chillier as we are approaching to the end of the year. A very popular celebration is coming...."


I like Barbara's blog about the artificial trees, because i can relate. I love the smell of a fresh real pine tree for xmas but an artificial tree makes less of a mess and it can be re used every xmas if taken well cared of.

Artifact 3

Panda Dog - A new Hybrid Specie or Cruel Joke ? I’ve never seen a cross breed like this panda dog before. Is it a genuine dog ?


It’s just a chow chows white dog dyed black in certain parts, There is No Such Breed called- Panda Dogs , These are Dyed Artificial Coloured Chow Chow Dogs.

Artifact 2

Taking birth control is something that inst natural. You are not born and raised knowing about birth control. Birth control is to prevent pregnancy, to prevent from something  as natural as having a baby when two people get together.  Everyone has their own opinion but a majority of religious people feel that taking birth control is messing with nature as the picture states.

Artifact 1

This video is interesting, they are performing by using treadmills. Treadmills can be found at the gym or a person's home to make it easier to do a walking motion on a machine by staying in place. Its convenient for walking in place on a rainy or cold day. Instead of walking naturally around  block or taking a walk to the store the treadmills are used.

Brave New World:

I Like this butterfly: Brave New World:

Mommy and Baby

Blog 7: I Am Not A Cyborg

Then write a 400-word essay where you prove to myself and your classmates that you either are or are not a cyborg. Start by giving YOUR OWN definition of what a “cyborg” is and then use evidence from your own life and experience to support your claims. Be as detailed as possible. You may quote any of the definitions that you found out yesterday, if it helps.


                  The word cyborg is over 50 years old.


Not done!!!!!!!!!!

"Brainstorming about Technology"

Step 1: Terms

• When i hear the terms listed below i think of the internet.
• The dictionary says:

-Tools means 1. Instrument, used for work 2. shape or work with a tool

-Technology means 1. Science used to solve practical problems

-Cyborg means 1. A person whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device.

• Thesaurus says:

-Appliance, machine, device, gadget, accesory, utensil, contraption.

-Computers, hi tech, industrial science, mechanics, robotics, knowledge, telecommunications.

-Android, clone, drone, robot, bionic person

What the words got to do with one another is that they are all connected to using the internet. You can use tools on the technology of the cyborg.

Step 2: Listing

The technologies that define my daily life are:

• Cell phone
• Computer/laptop
• Metro card
• Debit card
• Calculator

I use them often, like everyday more than once.

I use my cellphone to text and make/recieve calls. Use my computer/laptop to do homework/research, facebook and webcamm with friends.

My life without them would be me not in contact with friends and family who are far.

Step 3: In Groups

Revising Blog 4: Summary of Plato's Allegory of the Cave and “My Place in the Cave.”

Summary of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”

In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Socrates told a story to his pupil, named Glaucon to give knowledge.  He describes a cave underground where the prisoners are chained from neck, arms and legs and all they see is a wall in front of them. On the wall, shadows appear made from a fire behind the prisoners. The shadows are created from men carrying all sorts of objects, so the shadows look unusual. This is the world of reality for the prisoners. One day a prisoner escapes and see's the cause of the shadows and the light that makes them. He makes his way out of the cave slowly. He is blinded by the light of the outside world, but he adjusts to the light and see;s true reality. He decided to return to the cave and reveal the truth to the chained prisoners but they don't believe him because all they know is darkness and shadows in the cave. 

My Place in the Cave

         
         I'm thinking about my own life and i can compare it to Socrates description of the cave. The prisoners of "The Allegory of The Cave" had different stages.  I'm a prisoner still chained, i am looking in front of me on the wall in amazement  at the shadows that are created for us, by the people and objects walking above on the walkway. I am chained from my neck,arms and legs and can not look behind me. I want to be free, be able to see the light and feel it. All i see is darkness and all i feel is coldness in this cave. I hear crying and mumbling. I feel free now and not chained, i am blinded by the light. I open my eyes and see the light. I now believe something other then i cave.

        Real things are showed by shadows of the things that are being carried in front of the fire, and since I am  "chained" so that i cannot see anything but "shadows, this is what we the prisoners perceive as real. However, when i am "unchained" and led into the sunlight, this means that everything is modeled after an "ideal" form of what it is. Plato says that when we come "outside," which means that we open our minds to the ideas of the "forms" we can begin to understand the universe. But until we are "unchained" we will continue to believe that the "shadows" are the real thing.

      

Blog 6/ Lab 2

    
         At birth, Truman Burbank is legally adopted by a television network to be the unknowing star of a television series, in which his entire life is watched by an audience of millions through many hidden cameras. Christof, the main person behind the idea of the Truman Show constructs a realistic world, called Seahaven, around Truman, which is actually just a large television set. Everyone participating in this created world are actor's/actresses  except for Truman himself. Even his mother, father, and wife are paid actors/actresses. "It's his world we are just living in it" is a great phrase to describe 'The Truman Show".  Throughout his entire life, the television network is on a mission to keep Truman in ignorance of his situation through the manipulation of his environment. He begins to question his reality because of series of events made him seem controlled. He realizes everything he encounters in Seahaven is a lie.
       I feel people shouldn't live a lie. I wouldn't want to be in a place surrounded by a set, actors/actresses, people who are paid to fake emotions. I want to be liked for who i am, not for who i am made to be by others.
          When Truman finally exits Seahaven, I think what he expects to find on the other side of the door is the real world, that is what he is going to find. Truman will find the real world, with real people, with real emotions. The real wold wont be as perfect like the Seahaven but im sure Truman aint going to expect a perfect world, he just wants normal and he knows Seahaven wasn't normal. I also believe he will be paranoid at first and believe everyone is watching him still until he can become accustomed to living his life freely and having the knowledge and control of his life. He will be able to make new friends and create his own family and travel to Fiji as he wished to do while in Seahaven. Because of the falseness he felt being in Seahaven, i believe that is what pushed him to want to travel and explore and now being in the real world he can accomplish that goal. So this is what i believe Truman should expect on the other side of the door when he finally exits Seahaven, Its for the best.

Blog 5: Reader Response.

The most interesting idea in Tasheema's post was.....how throughout history there have been many situations where people have lived in an illusion or have simply refused to accept the truth. She gives two good examples to discuss situations in life where people live in an illusion or refuse to accept the truth. Tasheema discuss two situation's from human history and explain what the illusion was.