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.