Final Project

Everything was organic and fresh.

The people selling the jam explained how they made it and let us try it.

The bread was so good and was tempting to buy everything.

when you get there, there are so many colors and scents but you cant miss the smell of flowers.

There were so many different kinds of mushrooms and couldnt pick which ones i wanted to use. 

I got a little carried away when i bought everyhing but everything was so fresh and i wanted to make

a really nice meal for my friends and mother.

I made bruschetta with all the fresh vegetables and the organic cheese.

Made home made pasta with cilantro and thyme and smoked kilbasa.

The trip to the farmers market was fun and very informational. The people explained why organic food is good for you and how it is grown. They explained wha i could make with the ingrediants i bought and could be a great daily diet program. When stepping foot into the farmers martket i didnt see any kind of food that was atifically procressed but all organic and had chilled apple cider that was really refreshing that day because it was so hot.

When i came home to cook my intention to cook something else but then i was thinking about making pasta and bruhchetta. I used all the ingrediants and made something that was tasty and healthy. Making all that food took a long time because i had to wash all the vegetables and herbs thouroughly so there wasnt any dirt. After, making it and putting it together it was easier and tasting it while cooking made me full.

Blog Entry 21

Throughout the semester we have been writing about a lot of interesting subjects but my three favorites were The matrix ( the red pill or blue pill), The hype article, and The Truman show. The matrix was the subject of the whole class but it asked questions that we never even tried to think about. It was the same thing with the Truman show because they had something in common with each other. The only reason I liked the Hype article is because it's the first piece of writing the class ever did in that class. It showed how much we improved from the beginning.

             I have never done a blog where I wrote about movies. That was very different because the three movies the class watched was very different. All the subjects were very different and fun to write about because it kept me wanting to write about the movie. Finally, writing about something really interesting helped me realized what my true potential can be. Writing on the blogs helped by giving us an advantage because we live in such a technology ruled world. Working online helped us by keeping our interest in our work and keep us from procrastinating because we knew we had to finish our essays. Since everything was provided online, we always caught up in anything we missed and we could read other students essays for a perspective or just for fun. After I was done with my paper I read other students papers because I'm very competitive in anything I do. When other students read my essays they left friendly criticism that helped me boost my confidence or a new idea that I could have put in my essay.

             The biggest lesson I learned from this class is that I should concentrate on the main points of the reading. Everything I learned I will taking to my other classes. from the start I learned everything I need to leave this class with confidence. The best part of the semester was when we were watching the matrix because it brought back memories and the questions when I was younger. I have a broader mind set after I grew older because when I was younger I didn't really understand the movie but I still loved it. The students that take this class should be prepared to write and really be on top of their work but you can easily lose track of time but you learn a lot by being around the computer.  

Blog Entry 20

As Neveennasim explains in her blog the movie seemed so real and i totally agree. Anything that happened in this movie can happen even in a few years from now. And it did she showed a picture of Israel and the Palestinian. They were using them as surveillance purposes but just showed horrible distruction. Her picture explained how horrible it could turn out if technology is used for these purposes . There are many dangers to using drones and having so much power with out getting hurt in the process.

Blog Entry 19

Many corporations that make a product need resources so they use all the resources from the united states then take it from other countries because they think that the resources don't belong to the people who have lived there for generations. In the film, these huge corporations make a product, make pollution, use other countries resources, and use cheap labor from poor countries and sell the product for cheap. The high demand for these products from the people make all these problems possible. The consumers buy a product and a newer model comes out very quickly so they can sell more and the consumers would buy more. This cycle keeps on rising just as consumers demands rise.

Blog Entry 18

This photo tells the difference between a city person and a country person and how they live. They may live in different places but they work as hard, just in different ways. The people who live in the city are always surrounded by technology and work with it. The people who live in the country live by land and are surrounded by natural environment and use hard labor to grow their crops. I think both have their benefits and downfalls but I grew up in the city all of my life and only visited the country side. Since I grew up in the city that’s all I really know.

            This reminded me of many parts of the film how Memo lived in a small village and had to move to the city for a way to support his family. He lived all his life in the country and that was pretty much all he knew but he was still wondering how the city life or anywhere was like. He was curious that’s why he made the radio. When he got to the city he never expected get robbed and fall in love by the girl who helped and use him. He adjusted and got nodes and started working as a sleep dealer. The part that I thought about the most in the end was how he was still living in the city and he was trying to grow plants to think about his father’s dream.

Blog Entry 17

This semester this class has gone through many subjects as “The Allegory of the cave”, “The Truman Show”, and the “matrix”. I started to think how it is relevant to the “meatrix” and seemed that there was nothing in common with each other but it was very similar. Basically every subject is about discovering new truths and curiosity. When we moved from subject to subject I never thought about how they have changed my curiosity to learn. The more I learned I felt confident. Having basic knowledge before writing the CAT was a lot easier than just doing it. These subjects were interesting and kept us thinking and writing.

` “The Allegory of the Cave” and “The Truman Show” is very similar they both have a man discover something new but both had to make effort to discover it. In the “Allegory of the cave” Socrates explains that people who lived in chains looking at a black wall and the only thing they saw was their shadow then that would be all they know but then one person left the chains and discovered there was more than the shadows. The Truman Show is about a man who was born into a fake world but in actuality is a reality show all about him. He figures out that his whole life was a lie, his friends, his wife, and even his whole existence. Then he discovered the actual real world. These two subjects made it easier to understand the upcoming segments.

The “Matrix” and the “Meatrix” even have similar names. They used the same story line to tell two different stories. The matrix was about the computer world and how the world neo lived in was not real. Neo wasn’t happy living his life there as a hacker and computer programmer but he was “the one” that need to save the matrix. The meatrix is about food industries taking nice family farms and Turning it into a unhealthy factory. There is this little pig named Leo that is like neo and has to save the farms and consumers from discovering the truth about where their food comes from.

Blog Entry 16

At a young age kids learn about junk food and fast food restaurants. They eat it because it’s good and gives a little toy that the kids can play with. Most kids want the toy more than the meal. The fast food industries ploy is just that, they want kids to eat their food because as they grew to adulthood they start craving the taste when they were little kids. In the article “let them eat fat” by Greg Crister talks about how these industries target people and how they attract them by advertising heavy amounts of food and how convenient it is. These industries should stop targeting people by advertising what they can give to children and keep their food at a normal size.

Many of these fast food industries target poor inner city communities and children. The food is inexpensive and it is very convenient to people who work. In the fast food nation we live in can only cause obesity and diseases. For example McDonalds had the option to supersize their already high calorie items. They gave this option for a very low price which attracted poor inner city communities and the youth. Everyone wanted McDonalds because it was a cheap and convenient way of eating. Eating all this isn’t good for anyone especially for young kids because it can turn into a habit as they get older.

This food that is fast, cheap and good can cause many problems in the long run. The calories taken in are more than people are supposed to. People get lazy and are less physical. They get into the habit of being lazy leads to another trip to a fast food joint. Kids, teenagers and adults will have the same problem of obesity if the food is kept being consumed. The health problems that come with the risk of eating fatty foods will be fatal. These meals come supersized so the risk is a lot more dangerous. The fast food sold to the consumers should be served at a right size so people don’t ever eat. My experience of going to a fast food restaurant was a bad experience because I loved eating the food and ate it for lunch for a week and gained a lot of weight. This made me stop eating fast food for a long time, now I just eat it once in a while.

People shouldn’t be amazed and persuaded by how cheap and convenient something is and over look what it can do to people’s health. These fast food restaurants will do horrible thing to people’s bodies. The meals that bigger are not always better but can give you a better chance of obesity and other diseases that can be fatal.

Blog Entry 15

The Meatrix showed how the consumers don’t know the truth of how the meat industry really just like the Matrix people didn’t know they lived in a fantasy world and didn’t know anything that was really happening. The little pig Leo was “the one” who has to prevent these horrible conditions.  The conditions are horrible in the industry of meat. The meat, cheese, eggs, and many other packaged products are the food that consumers eat don’t know the truth about what they bought. The corporate business men from the meat industry are ruining our environment and are being cruel to animals. These industries should be truthful to their consumers that their products aren’t healthy for animals and people.

The conditions are so bad that workers get hurt. The factories are too fast paced for the workers to keep up. The line that they work in is so fast for them to keep up but the line gets faster. They only care about profit. They get injuries and illnesses from the condition that they are working in. The air and the factories are dirty but the worker has no choice but to work I these conditions. They use illegal immigrants so they can pay them whatever they want because they can’t complain.  The workers work very long hours to keep up with the demand from the corporate meat industry.

The workers are important but so are the animals the consumer eats. There are cows, pigs and chickens that are so close together and don’t even get any sun or air. They are grown in these harsh and cramped conditions. They give them artificial hormones and antibiotics. These keep them alive and cause antibiotic resistant germs. These conditions even can make the meat have mad cow disease. The use the dead cow’s blood and milk to feed the baby cows. In the factories when they cut up the meat, manure gets on the meat that causes diseases like e coli.
            The environmental friendly family farms were healthy to the people and animals but since the animals took over the animals are in horrible condition and so is the environment. People are forced to breathe in the chemicals and the waste from the farms. The innocent people are victims to disease they can catch from the air. The land degrades and the factories are dirty and pollute the land that destroys the communities.

These corporate meat industries treat their worker badly and are really cruel to animals all for profit. People who buy their food don’t know how it was made or what kind of treatment animals went trough.  Consumers see low priced food and the industries see the profit.

Blog entry 14

I think the meatrix used the matrix for their argument because the comsumers know what they are told and not what they should know: the truth. The matrix is what they do to the animals and the comsumers dont know what they are eating but just told decietful lies.

Blog Entry 13

           The question that started Neo’s journey “you can take the blue pill or the red pill?” This question made it possible for him to move forward and find what he was looking for. The blue pill was to go back to where he was, his so called “real life”. The red pill was to find out about the matrix and be the chosen one. If I were in Neo’s position I would have chosen the red pill because the red pill because the red pill shows you “how far the rabbit hole goes”. There would be more meaning to my life if I found the real world instead of living in a fake world do the same thing every day.

            In the movie Neo had a job as a computer programmer and a hacker but he didn’t enjoy either of them and he wanted to find something more. Knowing the matrix was unreal that job became useless and not meaningful. That made me think, if I took the blue pill and knew the matrix was fake all the hard work of going to school and getting the career I want, it wouldn’t even matter because it was fake. Weird things kept happening to neo and without knowing he took the red pill because he wanted to know more about the matrix, he jumped into the rabbit hole. Just like Neo I would search for something more.

The decision of taking the red pill would be risky but I would go crazy if I took the blue pill and regretted it. In the movie, there was a part where the guy was going to betray his team and Morpheus to go back to the fake world. He thought “ignorance was bliss.” He wanted to be rich and someone important but going into that world he would feel empty. After a while, even though it was though Neo pulled trough without regretting it. I wouldn’t want to regret my decision because taking the red pill was for meaning and importance. I never want to live my life thinking “what if”.

            Neo didn’t really know what he was getting himself into but he found out about the real world and he liked it. He had meaning and importance and was accepted by everyone. The knowledge of computers got him there and was courageous and thrilled to be there but a little scared as well. He was referred as “the one”. The person who could save them, he was the hero. The feeling of importance and excitement to anyone’s life is something everyone strives for and need that to keep them sane. Being “the one” is a really important and comparing it to the computer programmer job, it was absolutely nothing.

             It was one question that got him somewhere; he chose the res pill and found everything he was looking for. The red pill world would have been my decision too because I never want to regret it and live in a world where all my achievements wouldn’t mean anything. Working hard and trying to make it in life didn’t matter. It was a fake reality and those achievements would be gone.

Blog Entry: 12 Reflection

           The experiences I had so far were great and in such a short period of time I’ve learned so much. I didn’t expect to have a class that was interesting and kept me participating. Everything wasn’t great, there were challenges but it kept me on my toes. I knew the class was fun and Mr. Smith was pretty easy going but never under estimated how much work there would be. There were many challenges and benefits of this class that made me a better writer. The movies and the stories were interesting enough to keep writing. There are still a few weeks of class to learn and improve.

           The only think I can say I did well is finishing and posting the essays on the blogs on time. It seemed hard to write 400 words in and hour but as time went on, it got a lot easier. The pressure to write that much kept me concentrated and stopped me from procrastinating. The things Mr. Smith did that helped me is that he put the work on his blog that instructed what we had to do. There was no such a thing as wasting time. There was no time to waste and sometimes there wasn’t enough time. Mr. Smith surprised by being so technology savvy. Since most of the students have IPhones, blackberries, and Facebook accounts he made it possible for the students to use these tools as an advantage to be a better writer.

          There were many challenges in the beginning; it was hard to keep up and concentrate. In the first two weeks all I wanted to do was leave because I wasn’t used to staying in class for a long time so I was the first one out. I actually saw improvements as the weeks passed. A bad experience was when the class took the CAT exam and I didn’t get a good score but passing. Looking the scores I wanted to do better I felt like I had a lot of work ahead of me. The bad thing is when the topic doesn’t interest me I don’t write a lot of details because I can’t seem to relate to it.

          Overall the semester is going very smoothly. There might have been downsides but it resulted in learning something. There is still so much to learn because the goal is to pass the CAT and get ready for English 101. Being in class for this short period ive learned enough to find every possibility to be a good writer.

Blog Entry 11

Everyone watches reality TV from adults to childrenof any age. The shows that they may watch seem harmless but there are hideden messages that make people think differently about their education, image, and competitive nature.  These qualities could turn for the worse by learning from these shows. All the simple dreams of going to school and being successful could be easily destroyed by showing easy and fun esapes.They use reality TV as an example of how adults and children could see their lives differently if they were on a reality show. People watch the drama and all they see is the glitz and glam but it is all read from a script.
               Education is a very important role for the american dream of becoming successful. Reality shows make young minds think that it is much simpler to go on a reality show to make money which becomes their definition of successful. Without education it is possible to become who you want to but if it doesnt work out there isnt anything to fall back on. Getting on a reality show might be easier then going to school for many years and going to work. The question pops up "why would you go to school when its so easy to make money by eating something gross,something exciting or even embarass yourself." Getting on these reality shows and doing the challenges has no garuntee that you will win.
                Image can be the reason why someone else got an interview, job or even as petty as a free soda. This message seems to be the most dangarous because the consequences that can happen when children and adults can be fatel. Reality shows show beautiful women and men, they appear so graceful and someone that is admired for their beauty. People try so hard to change themselves to look like them which can cause anorexia,bulemia, and even addiction to plastic surgery. Reality shows rather have atrractive people then people who are skilled and normal so they can attract more viewers. When i would watch tv at home i would see beautiful celebrities, that made me think i should go on a diet. This can happen to anyone just by watching reality shows.
                 Timothy Sexton stated that "Reality Television premotes the old belief that compitiion is the key to sucess in capital economy". Where ever you go there is some sort of compitition and not all compition is good. Compitition has many pro's and con's but on reality shows they show the players playing dirty and unfair. That kind of compitition isnt good to teach young kids. You would want them to play fair and learn how to compete nicely. Compitition does show how a person should thrive and challege themselves but playing fair is a common moral.
                Reality Tv can be very harmful and can give people ideas in their head that can turn them in the wrong direction. The messages that they learn can be rash and also can make desicions too quickly without thinking. Some of these messages can really be fatel. People shouldnt use reality Tv as an easy escape.

Blog Entry 10

The question taking the blue pill or the red pill really made me wonder, even when i was watching the movie this question popped up in my head. The choice i would have chosen is  the red pill, its the choice that is rebellious and thrilling. The reason why i would have picked the red pill is because i would always wondered what if i didnt take that pill and how it would have changed my life. The blue pill allows you to go back to the life you already knew but the red pill are new experiences new worlds and meanings. If i never took the red pill i would regreted it because there could have been more meaning and importance in my life. If i lived in the matrix it would be all fake and my goals and achievments would not matter at all

Blog Entry 9: Telecommute

The dicussion on thursday for the telecommute went very well people participated and had very good ideas and they all wrote what they felt about the movie. I personally really enjoyed the movie and had a good time dicussing the movie. The only thing i didnt really like about the discussion is that people had a lot of the same ideas and agreed a lot with other students. Overall i really like the discussion.

Blog 8: The Truman Show

       

                      The Truman Show is about a man who was born into a fake world but in actuality is a reality show all about him. He figures out that his whole life was a lie, his friends, his wife, and even his whole existence. Cristoff the creator and Truman’s “father” wanted to create a perfect world where there was no danger just real emotion. He put Truman’s life and his whole existence on national Television which is wrong without consent. After watching this movie I couldn’t believe what kind of deceit that had been wronged to him. Everyone deserves to live their lives how they please; no one should ever be deceived how Truman was deceived.

                       Our society may not be perfect but there is pure truth and reality. We live our lives how we please and work even harder to make it better. These true interactions with people real people can help how a person thinks and find out what they believe. The Truman show was unreal except Truman, all his friends and his family were reading from a script just saying things without truly meaning them. Basically Truman had been lied to, his whole existence. Even with my consent I would never live in a place like Sea haven it is too perfect, all smiles everything neat and tidy. I couldn’t live with myself how everyone would be artificial and reading off lines when I would talk it would be real and considerate. That lifestyle is unfair to Truman how he didn’t know what was going on and how he lived his so called ordinary life every day until he started suspecting something was up. All he wanted to do was to leave that little town and travel so he could see the world.  

                      Cristoff wanted fake a society where he was safe, unharmed, and comfortable. He implies that the reality of the real world is too dangerous and all he wanted to see was real emotion from Truman and told Truman that there was nothing waiting for him. Cristoff put Truman in his fantasy world where he wanted to grow up. As a “father” cristoff wanted to protect him from what he went through. He used Truman as an example of what he really wanted as Cristoff was Truman. The problems he creates in trumans world are real but candy coated problems, it always has a touching solution.  In the movie they didn’t want Truman to find out he was in a show so they made him afraid of water by truamatizing him.

Blog Entry 7 : Reflection and Evaluation

     

  From the beginning when the teacher said that the students have to make a blog for class I had a bad feeling because I never let anyone see my writing except the teachers before. At that moment I just sucked it up and made it and just kept doing my assignments like no one was going to read it. The experience of facing my tiny fear was great and the hardest part to deal with was commenting on other peoples papers because, you never wanted to be too nice or to mean. From blog entry 1 and now to 6 I have improved by writing more each week.

              The improvement I think I should work on by seeing the previous work is that I need to write more because when I read it over it needed more details and facts. From "hype" to "The allegory of the cave" I could see improvements little by little. I need to work a lot more to see a huge improvement. From reading the essays I should extend my vocabulary; I keep using the same words each time. The last think I should really work is the number of words because I always write about four hundred words and I’m done.
              The challenges are, sometimes when I read the article to write the easy it seems like I get it right away but I have to read it over and over to really start feeling what the author is trying to explain. When the classmates and I were commenting on other people’s essay it is hard to find the middle in being nice and mean and trying to be truthful so I could help them. Then again I was scared of reading my own comment because it is really hard to take criticism.

            The CAT- W test actually surprised me even though you told us it was coming. The test was long but everyone pulled trough. When I was taking the test it wasn’t that bad but I just didn’t like the article they have given me because it was so general. It was about how chocolate is good for you. It explains how chocolate is good for you and it can lower your chance at stroke but the research done for this isn’t really accurate, it only had one source I could use.  It seemed like a great topic because I am such a chocolate lover but the facts weren’t so great to back it up my statements. Overall I think I did okay enough where it is clear what I was trying to explain.        

                   The blog entries and the test broadened my mind on what to improve and what I am actually good at. I love writing but it is so hard to let anyone else read it but that fear had passed because I have no choice. We only did two official essays but it did help on what we should do on the CAT- W.

Blog Entry 6: The Allegory of the Cave"

When I compare the "Allegory of the cave" by Socrates to my personal life I find out that I am still in the shadows because there is still more to learn and experience. From my experiences I was told the truth but in a very sugar coated way and it was the adult’s way of keeping my innocence. This was way better for me and everyone so I could grow up and learn and grow by learning harmful and amazing things.  At my age now I am still learning and growing but people should see beyond the shadows and look into the sun to see what reality is and what is not.

In the “Allegory of the cave Socrates” explains that people who lived in chains looking at a black wall and the only thing they saw was their shadow then that would be all they know. This reminds me of innocence when children are younger. They go along with what they are told. When you start asking questions you get more curious and want to know and that’s when you escape the chains and look beyond the wall. There will be new experiences in life where you are chained but it is your decision if you want to leave that closed in reality.

Looking back when I was a little girl I was told many stories and facts that I should believe but they weren’t lies. And as I grew up I just added information to that story or fact. One experience was when I was about 6 years old my father had passed away and this is something my family had to tell my me and my sister but told us he was on a vacation. I knew they were lying but in my young and naive age I believed them until I was old enough to understand. I don’t blame them at all but I think that what they did was better so I could enjoy my childhood instead of being depressed all the time. I lived my life with a better understanding instead of being very closed in and believe what everyone said.

With “The Allegory of the cave” I have escaped my closed in reality and lived my life as a grown women and will have more experiences with a closed in reality and it will be my choice to escape them. These challenges made us grow up and make us who we are today. Just like the story I have told I became my own person and escaped these chains and shadows.

Blog Entry 5: The Allegory of the Cave

In the part of the book "The Allegory of the cave" Socrates talks to Glaucon about how peoples nature is enlightened and unenlightened. Socrates uses examples as in a story to prove his point. Basically all he is saying is that if a person has been living in an underground den and they are chained and cannot move and all they can see is shadows is what if one person got out of the chains and went out and saw where the light comes from. They would have not know what it was and where it came from. If you are locked in a room from reality all you know is they things you can see and what is around you but there is things beyond the room.

Blog Entry 4: The Hype

              Kalle lash wrote in her passage “Hype” the “Advertisements are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants”. Mental pollutants can affect you in harmful ways, physically and emotionally. Advertisements appear un-harmful and seem to just inform you on a product or service with brightly colored banners and have your favorite celebrity with the product or service on television. Advertisements are everywhere to convince you to buy their product but when you end up buying it you realize that you never needed that product in the first place or it isn’t very good for you. I agree with Kalle Lash when she could hear classical music and now all she hears is the commercial jingles.
                In "Hype" by Kalle Lasn wanted the readers to know how advertisements can be a mental pollutant and how it can effect you in your daily lives. Advertisements are everywhere like T.V, banners, radio, buses, billboards, stadiums and etc. Lasn explains how you cant escape advertisements to find piece and quiet. "Every day an estimated 12 billion display ads, 3billion radio commercials and 200,000 TV commercials are dumped in North America's collective unconscious"stated by Lasn. Advertisements are there anywhere you go and cant be escaped.

              There are many different kinds of advertisements for instance clothing, food and electronics. Physically everything can harm you because you end up buying things you never needed which stays in the back of your closet, given away or just maybe sold again. The things you buy may be the hype of that time period but sooner or later it becomes a fad. Clothing is advertisements are in varies of different categories which polluted women and men all around the world to local to high fashion. Women, men, children and teens see these advertisements and they have this need to buy clothing in the magazines, billboards, and on their favorite shows, which goes out of season and becomes something in the back of your closet and you never wear. For food like fast food, restaurants, and frozen food are the most advertised and is an aid for obesity. This affects your health and your everyday life. Technology grows faster and faster every day and a new product is presented which everyone wants because it’s new and everyone has to have it. By the next day or next week the same product comes out but it is more advanced. This means this is the new product that “everyone must have”.

               Advertising affects you emotionally by showing you thing that might be very exciting but not very healthy and even may be dangerous like cigarettes and alcohol. On posters and commercials of cigarettes can show you dangerous affects from smoking like lung cancer, amputations and rotting teeth. Which can make you either curious or have a loved one have one of these deadly causes. Drinking can be the same way but shows you more of the exciting and fast paced life of drinking. Behind the scenes there is more to it like drunk driving, fights, rape, and embarrassing moments. 

Hype: summarize

In "Hype" by Kalle Lasn wanted the readers to know how advertisements can be a mental pollutant and how it can effect you in your daily lives. Advertisements are everywhere like T.V, banners, radio, buses, billboards, stadiums and etc. Lasn explains how you cant escape advertisements to find peice and quiet. "Every day an estimated 12 billion display ads, 3billion radio commercials and 200,000 TV commercials are dumped in North America's collective unconscious"stated by Lasn. Advirtisements are there anywhere you go and cant be escaped.

Blog entry 2- Annotating

Annotating with the class is great because it gave me ideas that i never thought of or imformation that was important to the article. This concept is very useful to get rid of the useless information and stating opinions by debating about the article. From "Is Google making us stupid" ? i have thought about how many times i was writing an essay and went to google without no hesitations.  With my partner we talked about how google will make you less efficent because all the information is already there but we wondered if all the information we used were correct. By underling and noting we had many ideas to write anout and person thoughts we had about the information that was provided. We thought about out personal lives and google how we use is even if its for fun or for educational puposes. What i learned about reading by annotating is that we have all the information in front of us but all we have to do is put in out own personal opinions. It gives us an idea what we could right about and what points in the article is right for us to use in our essays. By using annotating we can organize out thought and bring out ideas that we never thought of. There are many ways it have helped such as underling key points and having side not of words we may not know.

The Hype

               Kalle lash wrote in her passage “Hype” the “Advertisements are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants”. Mental pollutants can affect you in harmful ways, physically and emotionally. Advertisements appear un-harmful and seem to just inform you on a product or service with brightly colored banners and have your favorite celebrity with the product or service on television. Advertisements are everywhere to convince you to buy their product but when you end up buying it you realize that you never needed that product in the first place or it isn’t very good for you.

              There are many different kinds of advertisements for instance clothing, food and electronics. Physically everything can harm you because you end up buying things you never needed which stays in the back of your closet, given away or just maybe sold again. The things you buy may be the hype of that time period but sooner or later it becomes a fad. Clothing is advertisements are in varies of different categories which polluted women and men all around the world to local to high fashion. Women, men, children and teens see these advertisements and they have this need to buy clothing in the magazines, billboards, and on their favorite shows, which goes out of season and becomes something in the back of your closet and you never wear. For food like fast food, restaurants, and frozen food are the most advertised and is an aid for obesity. This affects your health and your everyday life. Technology grows faster and faster every day and a new product is presented which everyone wants because it’s new and everyone has to have it. By the next day or next week the same product comes out but it is more advanced. This means this is the new product that “everyone must have”.

               Advertising affects you emotionally by showing you thing that might be very exciting but not very healthy and even may be dangerous like cigarettes and alcohol. On posters and commercials of cigarettes can show you dangerous affects from smoking like lung cancer, amputations and rotting teeth. Which can make you either curious or have a loved one have one of these deadly causes. Drinking can be the same way but shows you more of the exciting and fast paced life of drinking. Behind the scenes there is more to it like drunk driving, fights, rape, and embarrassing moments. 

What I expect to get out of this class

What i expect from this class is to learn the skills and do my best.