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.