Part A
i was at my cousins house and i notice that he had just bought these sneakers that i knew cost a lot one of the questions i asked him was why did he waste so much money on these sneakers when he could have saved up for something or just kept the money his response to this was "the reason i spend so much i sneakers is because sneakers is something i enjoy having and they also make me feel a little cooler because i am wearing something i like"
i thought that his answer was pretty true and he wasn't like really trying to avoid the question he just went with how he like sneakers and how it makes him feel cooler and i think thats the case for people who do spend a lot of money on things they either buy it for those two reasons.
Part B
one of the things that i am starting to do a lot which is pretty much the same thing my cousin did just i don't spend that much money on them is i've been getting into sneakers. the reasons that i think that i've gotten to the habit of buying sneakers is because sometimes i see people with some really nice sneakers that i would like than from there i would go online and see sneakers that i like and buy them. i guess i would fall under the categories of consuming because i am buying sneakers.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
HW 30 - Psychological and Philosophical Theorizing of Cool
What are the sources of this sense of meaninglessness but also of the need for a sense of meaning?
people well always at one point or another or all the time will have a sense of meanlessness. people also always try to be things or try to do things that will make other people judge as. what we all soon seem to figure out is that at one point or another our lives are going to end, and most the lives we live or end up living or useless pointless lives that really doesn't mean noting to know one but maybe yourself. one of the things that really mix with not being meaninglessness but it ends up turning to noting is cool in general. people try to be cool to feel like they are a part of something and that they can relate to other people if it has to be with wearing the same thing or something like that they try to be a part of it. but the end result to that is that you are still going to be filled with the sense of being meaningless and also so a sense of emptiness because there might always be a person that you think is cool and is always dressing cool that you cant really catch up to them so you start to give up and that just ends in you feeling meaningless again. what i think everyone try's to do on a daily basis is to try to find a sense of meaning and to try to figure out what they can do to feel like they have a reason to be here being cool is just one way of trying to find a sense of meaning but even that might turn to backfire on you.
i was reading this short thing about Becker's theory of the fear of annihilation in death and there was this quote that said
"A generalized expectation of danger occurs during the stressful condition known as anxiety. The anxious person experiences a state of heightened tension that Walter Cannon described in 1927 as readiness for "fight or flight." If the threat passes or is overcome, the person (or animal) returns to normal functioning. Anxiety has therefore served its purpose in alerting the person to a possible danger. Unfortunately, sometimes the alarm keeps ringing; the individual continues to behave as though in constant danger. Such prolonged stress can disrupt the person's life, distort relationships, and even produce life-threatening physical changes. Is the prospect of death the alarm that never stops ringing? Is death anxiety the source of people's most profound uneasiness? Or is death anxiety a situational or abnormal reaction that occurs when coping skills are overwhelmed?"
(http://www.deathreference.com/A-Bi/Anxiety-and-Fear.html)
one of the main messages i got from this quote was that when people are in a sense that they know danger going to happen to them or they know there going to die they start to act differently and i guess in a panic sorta which changes how they are in general and i feel that sometimes happens to people which ends up for them having pointless life's because they thought about it to much that it took to much time for them to make a real dession
people well always at one point or another or all the time will have a sense of meanlessness. people also always try to be things or try to do things that will make other people judge as. what we all soon seem to figure out is that at one point or another our lives are going to end, and most the lives we live or end up living or useless pointless lives that really doesn't mean noting to know one but maybe yourself. one of the things that really mix with not being meaninglessness but it ends up turning to noting is cool in general. people try to be cool to feel like they are a part of something and that they can relate to other people if it has to be with wearing the same thing or something like that they try to be a part of it. but the end result to that is that you are still going to be filled with the sense of being meaningless and also so a sense of emptiness because there might always be a person that you think is cool and is always dressing cool that you cant really catch up to them so you start to give up and that just ends in you feeling meaningless again. what i think everyone try's to do on a daily basis is to try to find a sense of meaning and to try to figure out what they can do to feel like they have a reason to be here being cool is just one way of trying to find a sense of meaning but even that might turn to backfire on you.
i was reading this short thing about Becker's theory of the fear of annihilation in death and there was this quote that said
"A generalized expectation of danger occurs during the stressful condition known as anxiety. The anxious person experiences a state of heightened tension that Walter Cannon described in 1927 as readiness for "fight or flight." If the threat passes or is overcome, the person (or animal) returns to normal functioning. Anxiety has therefore served its purpose in alerting the person to a possible danger. Unfortunately, sometimes the alarm keeps ringing; the individual continues to behave as though in constant danger. Such prolonged stress can disrupt the person's life, distort relationships, and even produce life-threatening physical changes. Is the prospect of death the alarm that never stops ringing? Is death anxiety the source of people's most profound uneasiness? Or is death anxiety a situational or abnormal reaction that occurs when coping skills are overwhelmed?"
(http://www.deathreference.com/A-Bi/Anxiety-and-Fear.html)
one of the main messages i got from this quote was that when people are in a sense that they know danger going to happen to them or they know there going to die they start to act differently and i guess in a panic sorta which changes how they are in general and i feel that sometimes happens to people which ends up for them having pointless life's because they thought about it to much that it took to much time for them to make a real dession
Monday, December 14, 2009
HW 29 - Merchants of Cool
What these corporations try to do is they do to find out what we like is they do a lot of research. They either go to where a lot of teens hang out and ask question or they do what the guy did in the video which was one on one with a teenager asked him a bunch of questions and checked the things he wearied. After these corporations gets the information that they do than is they have a meeting and see what they have already to put out there so teens will like it and buy it. Doing these types of field works helps them a lot because they get to really see what teens like and after knowing what teens like than from there they are able to start manipulating us by making different products that they know we will end up buying.
If you were to bad advertising I think that it would hurt the big corporations in some ways but than I can see them figuring out different ways to still get there product out there and for teens to buy it, like word of mouth could advertise what the corporation is selling people just talking about it and wearing it which starts a chain of other people doing it and it just goes on from there so I don’t really think there is really a way to stop corporations from advertising they will always find a way around it.
Well what the corporations’ already doing is pretty messed up already. What they are doing is there taking our ideas than making a product with our ideas and just selling it right back to as and they make a profit and we just buy back our ideas. The thing is we just help the corporations by buy buying our ideas back which is there product so either way we are both at felt.
I think what was Britney Spears did was wrong about dressing the way she did in a young age but it really wasn’t her felt she just wanted to be famous and a star so she was willing to do anything pretty much to get there, and the corporations knew this so they were the ones who told her to dress like that or act like that and she pretty much knew that if she said no that they would just replace her with another girl that would. I am not really sure why millions of teens consume the image I think it was because they saw this young pop star doing all these things making music dressing the way she dressed that a lot of people wanted to be like her and they thought it was cool. I think that it does this sort of image lead to loveless performance of alienated hyper-sexuality in the name of cool but this just goes back to our society being the way it is and also how big corporations just takes advantage of this.
If you were to bad advertising I think that it would hurt the big corporations in some ways but than I can see them figuring out different ways to still get there product out there and for teens to buy it, like word of mouth could advertise what the corporation is selling people just talking about it and wearing it which starts a chain of other people doing it and it just goes on from there so I don’t really think there is really a way to stop corporations from advertising they will always find a way around it.
Well what the corporations’ already doing is pretty messed up already. What they are doing is there taking our ideas than making a product with our ideas and just selling it right back to as and they make a profit and we just buy back our ideas. The thing is we just help the corporations by buy buying our ideas back which is there product so either way we are both at felt.
I think what was Britney Spears did was wrong about dressing the way she did in a young age but it really wasn’t her felt she just wanted to be famous and a star so she was willing to do anything pretty much to get there, and the corporations knew this so they were the ones who told her to dress like that or act like that and she pretty much knew that if she said no that they would just replace her with another girl that would. I am not really sure why millions of teens consume the image I think it was because they saw this young pop star doing all these things making music dressing the way she dressed that a lot of people wanted to be like her and they thought it was cool. I think that it does this sort of image lead to loveless performance of alienated hyper-sexuality in the name of cool but this just goes back to our society being the way it is and also how big corporations just takes advantage of this.
Monday, December 7, 2009
HW 28 - Informal Research - Internet, Magazines, and TV Shows
Brett, Cliff. "Top 10 steps on how to be cool in college: As told by me.." WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2007. Web. 7 Dec 2009.
in this reading it talks about the 10 steps on how to be cool in college and if you were to follow these 10 steps that you would be consider cool.
I think that this guy was joking around about a lot of the steps he made because a lot of the steps you really would not do like there was one step where he saids "be sure to have a T-Shirt that looks like your grandma Minnie's night gown. If you cannot afford a Tall T, USE YOUR GRANDMA Minnie's night gown!" and than in other parts of the steps he makes them sound like he's joking
who, alan. "how to be cool." feb,16,2009. Web. 7 Dec 2009.
in this reading this guy just talks about 20 you need to know about being cool, some of the steps that he talks about are things you might have heard before others are just a little random and thinks outside of the box which would be a little cool because its being different.
i think that this reading was reading was pretty good and most of the things he wrote was pretty common about being yourself and some other things but than there are some other things that he wrote that were different that the most people would not do but most of the things he wrote were good.
in this reading it talks about the 10 steps on how to be cool in college and if you were to follow these 10 steps that you would be consider cool.
I think that this guy was joking around about a lot of the steps he made because a lot of the steps you really would not do like there was one step where he saids "be sure to have a T-Shirt that looks like your grandma Minnie's night gown. If you cannot afford a Tall T, USE YOUR GRANDMA Minnie's night gown!" and than in other parts of the steps he makes them sound like he's joking
who, alan. "how to be cool." feb,16,2009. Web. 7 Dec 2009.
in this reading this guy just talks about 20 you need to know about being cool, some of the steps that he talks about are things you might have heard before others are just a little random and thinks outside of the box which would be a little cool because its being different.
i think that this reading was reading was pretty good and most of the things he wrote was pretty common about being yourself and some other things but than there are some other things that he wrote that were different that the most people would not do but most of the things he wrote were good.
HW 27 - Interviews
the first person we interview was siting in the park by himself we went up to him and asked which is more cooler pcs or macs and he said "pc's because they have been around for longer." the next question we asked was what does cool mean to you and he said "Thats a hard question, i think being hip and trying not to go down the same path as others. someone who can go through the struggle and still come out with a smile on their face, is cool."
the second person we interview was another guy in the park and we went up to him and asked which is more cooler pcs or macs and he said "macs are cooler, they are more fun" than we asked what does cool mean to you he said " cool is a hard question. Being nice i guess is pretty cool." the last question we asked was do you consider yourself cool and his reponse was " i consider myself to be cool because i am a good person. i can't pinpoint cool on one thing so i don't know"
the third person we asked was a girl just siting down in the park eating her lunch we went up to her and asked what is cooler macs or pcs she said "macs because they are for more artistic people" the next question we asked was what does cool mean to you and she said "" Cool to me means to be fresh. to be different. style and food is cool because we live in nyc and that's a big part of new york." the last question we asked was do you consider yourself cool and she said "yea i think so. i try and embrace everything i have and always do new things. I think i am because i follow my own path."
the last guy we asked was just siting in the park we asked if he would be part of a survery and he said ok. the first question we asked him was which is cooler macs or pcs he said " macs, i don't know why" the next question we asked was who is the coolest person in your life right now and he said " my brother is, he's my best friend." the last question we asked was does he consider himself cool and he said "yea i think so, I'm a fun guy so yea i think I am pretty cool"
Monday, November 23, 2009
HW 25 - Story Comments and Analysis
ABE
i think you did a really good in making this story, i felt that i was able really able to pick up who were cooler than others because of the things they have. one of the kids in the story had a car which made him a little more cooler than the other people.
victor
i thought that your story was really good and it pretty much shows that to get popular you have to do things that you really would never do and you have to act differently. which is true in some cases but it just depends who are you trying to impress.
norra
i really enjoyed reading your story. i like how you wrote about a girl moving to another city and its her first day of school and how you went in to detail about how they were dressed differently and stuff. because different places have different ways of being cool.
brandon
i thought that your story was really good i felt that it showed how people change when they try to impress someone or hang out with someone and i thought what eric thought of those kids being cool changed because they picked on people and he didn't like that.
matt
i really enjoyed reading your story i thought that your story was really good. i also thought that it capture sort of what some teenagers might go through and how some things that might be considered cool might not be.
Part b
I felt that in general all the story some how related to each other in different ways and also in different meaning. one main thing i felt that all the story had in one way or another is that had to do either being cool or trying to be cool but changing in a way that they don't really like. one story that showed this was in Brandon Z. story it talked about this kid who wanted to be cool but the people that he wanted to be cool with were picking on other people which he didn't like so he decide to be the bigger man and not join those people and just be himself. in Matt B. story it talked about a girl who was considered cool sort of being lost and not really knowing what to do with her life. i felt that all these story's relate to each other in many ways and how being cool is not always that great because sometimes it has to do with you changing or doing things that you really don't want to do.
i think you did a really good in making this story, i felt that i was able really able to pick up who were cooler than others because of the things they have. one of the kids in the story had a car which made him a little more cooler than the other people.
victor
i thought that your story was really good and it pretty much shows that to get popular you have to do things that you really would never do and you have to act differently. which is true in some cases but it just depends who are you trying to impress.
norra
i really enjoyed reading your story. i like how you wrote about a girl moving to another city and its her first day of school and how you went in to detail about how they were dressed differently and stuff. because different places have different ways of being cool.
brandon
i thought that your story was really good i felt that it showed how people change when they try to impress someone or hang out with someone and i thought what eric thought of those kids being cool changed because they picked on people and he didn't like that.
matt
i really enjoyed reading your story i thought that your story was really good. i also thought that it capture sort of what some teenagers might go through and how some things that might be considered cool might not be.
Part b
I felt that in general all the story some how related to each other in different ways and also in different meaning. one main thing i felt that all the story had in one way or another is that had to do either being cool or trying to be cool but changing in a way that they don't really like. one story that showed this was in Brandon Z. story it talked about this kid who wanted to be cool but the people that he wanted to be cool with were picking on other people which he didn't like so he decide to be the bigger man and not join those people and just be himself. in Matt B. story it talked about a girl who was considered cool sort of being lost and not really knowing what to do with her life. i felt that all these story's relate to each other in many ways and how being cool is not always that great because sometimes it has to do with you changing or doing things that you really don't want to do.
Friday, November 20, 2009
HW 24 - Short Story 1
Marko was a kid at S.O.F, he was one of those kids who wasn't very popular. To make matters worse he wasn't even notice by his classmates. The kids in his class was much different than him, they were kids that were popular and known by everyone. Everyday Marko would sit in class and think about why were the kids around him popular and he wasn't.
One day he over heard some of the popular kids in his class talking about clothes. When he looked around the class all the kids were wearing name brand clothes and had certain styles of wearing their clothing. When he looked at himself, he noticed that his clothes were not name brand and not in style. So he started to think that if he were to get name brand clothes and wore them, everyone in his class would finally notice him and he would be popular for once. Everyday he started to study his classmates clothing and styles to get ideas on what kind of clothing he should get. After weeks of doing this he finally got enough information he needed. He went home after school one day and took out all his money he had in his piggy bank. He took all the money that he had found in his piggy bank and ran to SoHo, one of New York City's biggest shopping area. He spent hours and hours there picking out clothes, ones that were name brand and had similar styles to his classmate.
Marko woke up the next day and was excited to go to school because he had new clothes and he thought that people would notice him. he left his house with the new clothes and headed to school once he got to school he thought that someone would at least say something to him about his new clothes. he got to his class sat down kids walked in to the class room and didnt say a word and this went on through out the whole day. when the day was over he went home kind of confused because he thought that if he had nice clothes that he would be popular and people would notice but that didnt happen. what he decide to do was just to go back to his old clothes and go back to being himself because it seems that people notice you for who you really are and not who you try to copy someone elses
One day he over heard some of the popular kids in his class talking about clothes. When he looked around the class all the kids were wearing name brand clothes and had certain styles of wearing their clothing. When he looked at himself, he noticed that his clothes were not name brand and not in style. So he started to think that if he were to get name brand clothes and wore them, everyone in his class would finally notice him and he would be popular for once. Everyday he started to study his classmates clothing and styles to get ideas on what kind of clothing he should get. After weeks of doing this he finally got enough information he needed. He went home after school one day and took out all his money he had in his piggy bank. He took all the money that he had found in his piggy bank and ran to SoHo, one of New York City's biggest shopping area. He spent hours and hours there picking out clothes, ones that were name brand and had similar styles to his classmate.
Marko woke up the next day and was excited to go to school because he had new clothes and he thought that people would notice him. he left his house with the new clothes and headed to school once he got to school he thought that someone would at least say something to him about his new clothes. he got to his class sat down kids walked in to the class room and didnt say a word and this went on through out the whole day. when the day was over he went home kind of confused because he thought that if he had nice clothes that he would be popular and people would notice but that didnt happen. what he decide to do was just to go back to his old clothes and go back to being himself because it seems that people notice you for who you really are and not who you try to copy someone elses
Monday, November 16, 2009
HW 23 - 1st Constructivist Exploration of Cool
I think that there's not really a real definition of being cool, i think that its mostly on the person and what they believe in and also what they do for them to say thats cool or not. I also think you cant really be judge of being cool or not because your be judge with other people standards because you might think that video games are cool or like sneakers are pretty cool, but some people would not think that would be cool because they are not in to video games or sneakers maybe there in to like sports and they would rule that cool above all else. So cool to me is mostly what you found interesting/ what you are proud to show and say you think they are cool.
There are many ways that people can think of cool one of the ways people will think of cool or to find out if you are to them is First impression. Because if you are meeting someone for the first time you cant really judge if there cool or not. Maybe you can judge a little bit on how they dress but sometimes people don't really judge on that and they just judge how you act or are as a person. I think of myself as cool because my first impression on people they usually find me as a nice and quiet guy. but the thing is some people act differently when they are with people they know so they might be the type of person you would consider cool they just don't' show it because there quiet or they don't feel like showing it cause they don't really know the people around them.
What i don't really think is cool is when people act fake or they try to change who there are to fit in. the reason i don't really find that cool is because you pretty much changed a lot about yourself just to try to fit in with a group of people, and that can sometimes back fire because the group of people you could be trying to get with know that your fake or trying to change to hard to be with them that they might not even want to hang out with you because they might find fake people uncool. So i think just being yourself makes you pretty cool and other people will probably think your cool because your being yourself and your not trying to change for anyone else.
There are many ways that people can think of cool one of the ways people will think of cool or to find out if you are to them is First impression. Because if you are meeting someone for the first time you cant really judge if there cool or not. Maybe you can judge a little bit on how they dress but sometimes people don't really judge on that and they just judge how you act or are as a person. I think of myself as cool because my first impression on people they usually find me as a nice and quiet guy. but the thing is some people act differently when they are with people they know so they might be the type of person you would consider cool they just don't' show it because there quiet or they don't feel like showing it cause they don't really know the people around them.
What i don't really think is cool is when people act fake or they try to change who there are to fit in. the reason i don't really find that cool is because you pretty much changed a lot about yourself just to try to fit in with a group of people, and that can sometimes back fire because the group of people you could be trying to get with know that your fake or trying to change to hard to be with them that they might not even want to hang out with you because they might find fake people uncool. So i think just being yourself makes you pretty cool and other people will probably think your cool because your being yourself and your not trying to change for anyone else.
Monday, November 9, 2009
HW 22 - Final Draft
Technology is slowly damaging our society and make as more useless and dumb. As more and more new electronics come out the more we turn more useless. Many digital things now a day do many things for you. Take Microsoft word for example, you really don’t have to worry about spelling things wrong anymore because Microsoft word will fix it or show you that its wrong and you can just right click on your mouse and fix it. Which just adds on to as not really having to do much when we have to fix a word.
Technology has come a long way since back than. We now have different electronic devices for our daily needs. If we need to write a paper we can just turn our computer go on Microsoft word and write the paper and we would not have to worry about misspelling a word because Microsoft word would just fix it for you or show that you made a mistake. When people didn’t have any computers they would have to hand write there papers and if they think they spelled the word wrong they have to ask someone or look up in the dictionary if they spelled it wrong. The good thing about back than was not people were getting smarter because they could be able to use the dictionary better and also there penmanship would improve because they would be writing there paper than typing it. our society is always typing something that for some people they don’t really take the time to hand write anything which makes our penmanship not so great because we rarely have to hand write anything. another thing thats bad about technology is that it can be very unhealthy because people sometimes tend to spend so much time on electronic devices, like what people would do would be waste so much time using the computer or playing video games that they lose track of time and waste a lot of time on it. the bad about this is that you are just siting there not doing anything and not be active also your just looking at a screen which slowly are missing up your eyes. which just adds on to society not doing anything and sort of just go dumber because your not really doing anything.
One of the main goals that the companies of these electronic devices tend to stick to is to make your life much easier and to make whatever you are doing much easier. but sometimes what they do is they make things much to easy that it starts to make as lazy because it does it for as. like if you had homework and your homework was to find out something that happen in history people who didn't have electronic devices would have to look through textbooks and read a few books that talks about the history your looking for. the benefits from that would be that you would get better with using a textbook and looking for things. now a days if we had the same homework would just google whatever we are looking for and just print out what we found out and that would be it. which just makes as lazy because we didn't really have to read through a lot of text just to find out the info we are looking for. electronic devices do so much now a days that most stuff can be done for you some things even think for you. when you use the internet everything that you do is saved on the history so lets say the next day you want to go back to the same website but you dont remember the name of the website you were on, you can just go back to your history and just look back at whatever you were doing yesterday. leaving you to remember less and not having to do much because the internet is pretty much doing it for you along the way.
If society keeps living this way where they are using electronic devices 24/7 and not go outside to do something or not even take a break we might just end up how the people are in WALL E. In the movie WALL E the world has gotten to a point where garbage and trash was pretty much covering the whole planet. so what this company did was make a good spaceship and told people to live here for a few years and just stay there while they made robots to clean up the earth. and after the earth was clean they would send the people back down to the planet. They also said it would take a few years to, but what ended up happening was that the people on the spaceship ended up staying there longer, than the next generation ended up living on the spaceship. than pretty much they never really learned to walk and they were always in chairs and they always had a digital screen right in front of them that pretty much did everything for them. they never had to do anything because everything was done for them when they had to eat robots would give them food, or if they wanted to do noting and just talk to there friends the chairs would pretty much move them all around and they would never notice it because all there looking at is the screen right in front of them. The reason that i say our society might turn out like this is because we are already really hocked to a lot of our digital devices. so pretty much what happen in WALL E is not that far from where we are now which would be in a chair not moving and using our digital devices all the time without doing anything else.
The other major thing thats pretty bad about the new electronic devices that are coming out is that the company's that are making them are pretty much trashing our planet. one way they trash our planet is the factors and whatever waste comes out of that factors when they make these electronic things goes in to our air. The other way these company's are trashing our planet is when they keep making newer things like every few months. because than what we end up doing we buy the new thing that comes out cause its new and it might have more features and other things, that we just throw away our old things which just ends up making more trash for the world to deal with. And as a society fail to notice that we are trashing our world pretty bad because we are so in to our digital devices to either care or to even notice that we are trashing our planet that when we finally do notice that our planet is trashed it will be to late to stop it. this is pretty much what happen in the book feed where everyone in the book is connected to the feed and the feed is just there own little electronic devices to do what they want and there so consumed by the feed that they don't really notice there world is coming to a end kind of like how we are consumed and dont notice our world is not doing so great from global warming and other problems are world is having.
Overall the more and more new electronic devices companies make the more that we get drawn in to staying home more or just drawn in to using these new electronic devices more that we will probably get more hooked on to the new devices and start forgetting about more stuff. So i think the key thing from as being like the people in WALL E and also the people in "feed" is to spend less time using our digital devices and to use that extra time to go outside and do something else, and i think that if we were to do that than maybe we wont have the same fate as the people did in WALL E and "Feed".
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WALL E
Technology has come a long way since back than. We now have different electronic devices for our daily needs. If we need to write a paper we can just turn our computer go on Microsoft word and write the paper and we would not have to worry about misspelling a word because Microsoft word would just fix it for you or show that you made a mistake. When people didn’t have any computers they would have to hand write there papers and if they think they spelled the word wrong they have to ask someone or look up in the dictionary if they spelled it wrong. The good thing about back than was not people were getting smarter because they could be able to use the dictionary better and also there penmanship would improve because they would be writing there paper than typing it. our society is always typing something that for some people they don’t really take the time to hand write anything which makes our penmanship not so great because we rarely have to hand write anything. another thing thats bad about technology is that it can be very unhealthy because people sometimes tend to spend so much time on electronic devices, like what people would do would be waste so much time using the computer or playing video games that they lose track of time and waste a lot of time on it. the bad about this is that you are just siting there not doing anything and not be active also your just looking at a screen which slowly are missing up your eyes. which just adds on to society not doing anything and sort of just go dumber because your not really doing anything.
One of the main goals that the companies of these electronic devices tend to stick to is to make your life much easier and to make whatever you are doing much easier. but sometimes what they do is they make things much to easy that it starts to make as lazy because it does it for as. like if you had homework and your homework was to find out something that happen in history people who didn't have electronic devices would have to look through textbooks and read a few books that talks about the history your looking for. the benefits from that would be that you would get better with using a textbook and looking for things. now a days if we had the same homework would just google whatever we are looking for and just print out what we found out and that would be it. which just makes as lazy because we didn't really have to read through a lot of text just to find out the info we are looking for. electronic devices do so much now a days that most stuff can be done for you some things even think for you. when you use the internet everything that you do is saved on the history so lets say the next day you want to go back to the same website but you dont remember the name of the website you were on, you can just go back to your history and just look back at whatever you were doing yesterday. leaving you to remember less and not having to do much because the internet is pretty much doing it for you along the way.
If society keeps living this way where they are using electronic devices 24/7 and not go outside to do something or not even take a break we might just end up how the people are in WALL E. In the movie WALL E the world has gotten to a point where garbage and trash was pretty much covering the whole planet. so what this company did was make a good spaceship and told people to live here for a few years and just stay there while they made robots to clean up the earth. and after the earth was clean they would send the people back down to the planet. They also said it would take a few years to, but what ended up happening was that the people on the spaceship ended up staying there longer, than the next generation ended up living on the spaceship. than pretty much they never really learned to walk and they were always in chairs and they always had a digital screen right in front of them that pretty much did everything for them. they never had to do anything because everything was done for them when they had to eat robots would give them food, or if they wanted to do noting and just talk to there friends the chairs would pretty much move them all around and they would never notice it because all there looking at is the screen right in front of them. The reason that i say our society might turn out like this is because we are already really hocked to a lot of our digital devices. so pretty much what happen in WALL E is not that far from where we are now which would be in a chair not moving and using our digital devices all the time without doing anything else.
The other major thing thats pretty bad about the new electronic devices that are coming out is that the company's that are making them are pretty much trashing our planet. one way they trash our planet is the factors and whatever waste comes out of that factors when they make these electronic things goes in to our air. The other way these company's are trashing our planet is when they keep making newer things like every few months. because than what we end up doing we buy the new thing that comes out cause its new and it might have more features and other things, that we just throw away our old things which just ends up making more trash for the world to deal with. And as a society fail to notice that we are trashing our world pretty bad because we are so in to our digital devices to either care or to even notice that we are trashing our planet that when we finally do notice that our planet is trashed it will be to late to stop it. this is pretty much what happen in the book feed where everyone in the book is connected to the feed and the feed is just there own little electronic devices to do what they want and there so consumed by the feed that they don't really notice there world is coming to a end kind of like how we are consumed and dont notice our world is not doing so great from global warming and other problems are world is having.
Overall the more and more new electronic devices companies make the more that we get drawn in to staying home more or just drawn in to using these new electronic devices more that we will probably get more hooked on to the new devices and start forgetting about more stuff. So i think the key thing from as being like the people in WALL E and also the people in "feed" is to spend less time using our digital devices and to use that extra time to go outside and do something else, and i think that if we were to do that than maybe we wont have the same fate as the people did in WALL E and "Feed".
sources
WALL E
Friday, November 6, 2009
HW 21 - Art Project 1
I feel that the picture of WALL E is both a mirror and a hammer. the reason i said that it is a mirror because i feel that it is reflecting ourselves and what we might become if we keep going on this digital road we keep following. The reason i find it to be a hammer at the same time is because its just right at your face in what digital is doing to as and how digital things can also be really bad than a good thing.
I think that the art does make you think and sort of reflect what are we really heading to. because in the movie WALL E earth got to a point where people didn't want to live on the earth anymore because it was full of junk and useless things that they decide to go to space, and that makes me think of how our world now because if we are not carefully about what we do or what we make that turns in to junk that our earth might end up in how it was in the movie and we might end up living because we messed up the earth so much. Another thing this makes me think of is as today as well how digital devices can make as pretty lazy because we just sit there and use them like computers and video games. In the movie WALL E no one has to get up to do anything everything is done right in front of them because they have these digital screen that does it for them with one click of a button, and i feel that the more deeper we go in to these digital devices and more in to the future that we might become the people in the movie as well.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
HW 20 - Big Paper Revised Draft - Nov 6
Technology is slowly damaging our society and make as more useless and dumb. As more and more new electronics come out the more we turn more useless. Many digital things now a day do many things for you. Take Microsoft word for example, you really don’t have to worry about spelling things wrong anymore because Microsoft word will fix it or show you that its wrong and you can just right click on your mouse and fix it. Which just adds on to as not really having to do much when we have to fix a word.
Technology has come a long way since back than. We now have different electronic devices for our daily needs. If we need to write a paper we can just turn our computer go on Microsoft word and write the paper and we would not have to worry about misspelling a word because Microsoft word would just fix it for you or show that you made a mistake. When people didn’t have any computers they would have to hand write there papers and if they think they spelled the word wrong they have to ask someone or look up in the dictionary if they spelled it wrong. The good thing about back than was not people were getting smarter because they could be able to use the dictionary better and also there penmanship would improve because they would be writing there paper than typing it. our society is always typing something that for some people they don’t really take the time to hand write anything which makes our penmanship not so great because we rarely have to hand write anything. another thing thats bad about technology is that it can be very unhealthy because people sometimes tend to spend so much time on electronic devices, like what people would do would be waste so much time using the computer or playing video games that they lose track of time and waste a lot of time on it. the bad about this is that you are just siting there not doing anything and not be active also your just looking at a screen which slowly are missing up your eyes. which just adds on to society not doing anything and sort of just go dumber because your not really doing anything.
One of the main goals that the companies of these electronic devices tend to stick to is to make your life much easier and to make whatever you are doing much easier. but sometimes what they do is they make things much to easy that it starts to make as lazy because it does it for as. like if you had homework and your homework was to find out something that happen in history people who didn't have electronic devices would have to look through textbooks and read a few books that talks about the history your looking for. the benefits from that would be that you would get better with using a textbook and looking for things. now a days if we had the same homework would just google whatever we are looking for and just print out what we found out and that would be it. which just makes as lazy because we didn't really have to read through a lot of text just to find out the info we are looking for. electronic devices do so much now a days that most stuff can be done for you some things even think for you. when you use the internet everything that you do is saved on the history so lets say the next day you want to go back to the same website but you dont remember the name of the website you were on, you can just go back to your history and just look back at whatever you were doing yesterday. leaving you to remember less and not having to do much because the internet is pretty much doing it for you along the way.
If society keeps living this way where they are using electronic devices 24/7 and not go outside to do something or not even take a break we might just end up how the people are in WALL E. In the movie WALL E the world has gotten to a point where garbage and trash was pretty much covering the whole planet. so what this company did was make a good spaceship and told people to live here for a few years and just stay there while they made robots to clean up the earth. and after the earth was clean they would send the people back down to the planet. They also said it would take a few years to, but what ended up happening was that the people on the spaceship ended up staying there longer, than the next generation ended up living on the spaceship. than pretty much they never really learned to walk and they were always in chairs and they always had a digital screen right in front of them that pretty much did everything for them. they never had to do anything because everything was done for them when they had to eat robots would give them food, or if they wanted to do noting and just talk to there friends the chairs would pretty much move them all around and they would never notice it because all there looking at is the screen right in front of them. The reason that i say our society might turn out like this is because we are already really hocked to a lot of our digital devices. so pretty much what happen in WALL E is not that far from where we are now which would be in a chair not moving and using our digital devices all the time without doing anything else.
The other major thing thats pretty bad about the new electronic devices that are coming out is that the company's that are making them are pretty much trashing our planet. one way they trash our planet is the factors and whatever waste comes out of that factors when they make these electronic things goes in to our air. The other way these company's are trashing our planet is when they keep making newer things like every few months. because than what we end up doing we buy the new thing that comes out cause its new and it might have more features and other things, that we just throw away our old things which just ends up making more trash for the world to deal with. And as a society fail to notice that we are trashing our world pretty bad because we are so in to our digital devices to either care or to even notice that we are trashing our planet that when we finally do notice that our planet is trashed it will be to late to stop it. this is pretty much what happen in the book feed where everyone in the book is connected to the feed and the feed is just there own little electronic devices to do what they want and there so consumed by the feed that they don't really notice there world is coming to a end kind of like how we are consumed and dont notice our world is not doing so great from global warming and other problems are world is having.
Overall the more and more new electronic devices companies make the more that we get drawn in to staying home more or just drawn in to using these new electronic devices more that we will probably get more hooked on to the new devices and start forgetting about more stuff. So i think the key thing from as being like the people in WALL E and also the people in "feed" is to spend less time using our digital devices and to use that extra time to go outside and do something else, and i think that if we were to do that than maybe we wont have the same fate as the people did in WALL E and "Feed".
sources
WALL E
Feed by M.T.Anderson
Technology has come a long way since back than. We now have different electronic devices for our daily needs. If we need to write a paper we can just turn our computer go on Microsoft word and write the paper and we would not have to worry about misspelling a word because Microsoft word would just fix it for you or show that you made a mistake. When people didn’t have any computers they would have to hand write there papers and if they think they spelled the word wrong they have to ask someone or look up in the dictionary if they spelled it wrong. The good thing about back than was not people were getting smarter because they could be able to use the dictionary better and also there penmanship would improve because they would be writing there paper than typing it. our society is always typing something that for some people they don’t really take the time to hand write anything which makes our penmanship not so great because we rarely have to hand write anything. another thing thats bad about technology is that it can be very unhealthy because people sometimes tend to spend so much time on electronic devices, like what people would do would be waste so much time using the computer or playing video games that they lose track of time and waste a lot of time on it. the bad about this is that you are just siting there not doing anything and not be active also your just looking at a screen which slowly are missing up your eyes. which just adds on to society not doing anything and sort of just go dumber because your not really doing anything.
One of the main goals that the companies of these electronic devices tend to stick to is to make your life much easier and to make whatever you are doing much easier. but sometimes what they do is they make things much to easy that it starts to make as lazy because it does it for as. like if you had homework and your homework was to find out something that happen in history people who didn't have electronic devices would have to look through textbooks and read a few books that talks about the history your looking for. the benefits from that would be that you would get better with using a textbook and looking for things. now a days if we had the same homework would just google whatever we are looking for and just print out what we found out and that would be it. which just makes as lazy because we didn't really have to read through a lot of text just to find out the info we are looking for. electronic devices do so much now a days that most stuff can be done for you some things even think for you. when you use the internet everything that you do is saved on the history so lets say the next day you want to go back to the same website but you dont remember the name of the website you were on, you can just go back to your history and just look back at whatever you were doing yesterday. leaving you to remember less and not having to do much because the internet is pretty much doing it for you along the way.
If society keeps living this way where they are using electronic devices 24/7 and not go outside to do something or not even take a break we might just end up how the people are in WALL E. In the movie WALL E the world has gotten to a point where garbage and trash was pretty much covering the whole planet. so what this company did was make a good spaceship and told people to live here for a few years and just stay there while they made robots to clean up the earth. and after the earth was clean they would send the people back down to the planet. They also said it would take a few years to, but what ended up happening was that the people on the spaceship ended up staying there longer, than the next generation ended up living on the spaceship. than pretty much they never really learned to walk and they were always in chairs and they always had a digital screen right in front of them that pretty much did everything for them. they never had to do anything because everything was done for them when they had to eat robots would give them food, or if they wanted to do noting and just talk to there friends the chairs would pretty much move them all around and they would never notice it because all there looking at is the screen right in front of them. The reason that i say our society might turn out like this is because we are already really hocked to a lot of our digital devices. so pretty much what happen in WALL E is not that far from where we are now which would be in a chair not moving and using our digital devices all the time without doing anything else.
The other major thing thats pretty bad about the new electronic devices that are coming out is that the company's that are making them are pretty much trashing our planet. one way they trash our planet is the factors and whatever waste comes out of that factors when they make these electronic things goes in to our air. The other way these company's are trashing our planet is when they keep making newer things like every few months. because than what we end up doing we buy the new thing that comes out cause its new and it might have more features and other things, that we just throw away our old things which just ends up making more trash for the world to deal with. And as a society fail to notice that we are trashing our world pretty bad because we are so in to our digital devices to either care or to even notice that we are trashing our planet that when we finally do notice that our planet is trashed it will be to late to stop it. this is pretty much what happen in the book feed where everyone in the book is connected to the feed and the feed is just there own little electronic devices to do what they want and there so consumed by the feed that they don't really notice there world is coming to a end kind of like how we are consumed and dont notice our world is not doing so great from global warming and other problems are world is having.
Overall the more and more new electronic devices companies make the more that we get drawn in to staying home more or just drawn in to using these new electronic devices more that we will probably get more hooked on to the new devices and start forgetting about more stuff. So i think the key thing from as being like the people in WALL E and also the people in "feed" is to spend less time using our digital devices and to use that extra time to go outside and do something else, and i think that if we were to do that than maybe we wont have the same fate as the people did in WALL E and "Feed".
sources
WALL E
Feed by M.T.Anderson
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
HW 18 - Big Paper 1 Rough Draft
Technology is slowly damaging our society and make as more useless and dumb. As more and more new electronics come out the more we turn more useless. Many digital things now a day do many things for you. Take Microsoft word for example, you really don’t have to worry about spelling things wrong anymore because Microsoft word will fix it or show you that its wrong and you can just right click on your mouse and fix it. Which just adds on to as not really having to do much when we have to fix a word.
Technology has come a long way since back than. We now have different electronic devices for our daily needs. If we need to write a paper we can just turn our computer go on Microsoft word and write the paper and we would not have to worry about misspelling a word because Microsoft word would just fix it for you or show that you made a mistake. When people didn’t have any computers they would have to hand write there papers and if they think they spelled the word wrong they have to ask someone or look up in the dictionary if they spelled it wrong. The good thing about back than was not people were getting smarter because they could be able to use the dictionary better and also there penmanship would improve because they would be writing there paper than typing it. our society is always typing something that for some people they don’t really take the time to hand write anything which makes our penmanship not so great because we rarely have to hand write anything. another thing thats bad about technology is that it can be very unhealthy because people sometimes tend to spend so much time on electronic devices, like what people would do would be waste so much time using the computer or playing video games that they lose track of time and waste a lot of time on it. the bad about this is that you are just siting there not doing anything and not be active also your just looking at a screen which slowly are missing up your eyes. which just adds on to society not doing anything and sort of just go dumber because your not really doing anything.
One of the main goals that the companies of these electronic devices tend to stick to is to make your life much easier and to make whatever you are doing much easier. but sometimes what they do is they make things much to easy that it starts to make as lazy because it does it for as. like if you had homework and your homework was to find out something that happen in history people who didn't have electronic devices would have to look through textbooks and read a few books that talks about the history your looking for. the benefits from that would be that you would get better with using a textbook and looking for things. now a days if we had the same homework would just google whatever we are looking for and just print out what we found out and that would be it. which just makes as lazy because we didn't really have to read through a lot of text just to find out the info we are looking for. electronic devices do so much now a days that most stuff can be done for you some things even think for you. when you use the internet everything that you do is saved on the history so lets say the next day you want to go back to the same website but you dont remember the name of the website you were on, you can just go back to your history and just look back at whatever you were doing yesterday. leaving you to remember less and not having to do much because the internet is pretty much doing it for you along the way.
Technology has come a long way since back than. We now have different electronic devices for our daily needs. If we need to write a paper we can just turn our computer go on Microsoft word and write the paper and we would not have to worry about misspelling a word because Microsoft word would just fix it for you or show that you made a mistake. When people didn’t have any computers they would have to hand write there papers and if they think they spelled the word wrong they have to ask someone or look up in the dictionary if they spelled it wrong. The good thing about back than was not people were getting smarter because they could be able to use the dictionary better and also there penmanship would improve because they would be writing there paper than typing it. our society is always typing something that for some people they don’t really take the time to hand write anything which makes our penmanship not so great because we rarely have to hand write anything. another thing thats bad about technology is that it can be very unhealthy because people sometimes tend to spend so much time on electronic devices, like what people would do would be waste so much time using the computer or playing video games that they lose track of time and waste a lot of time on it. the bad about this is that you are just siting there not doing anything and not be active also your just looking at a screen which slowly are missing up your eyes. which just adds on to society not doing anything and sort of just go dumber because your not really doing anything.
One of the main goals that the companies of these electronic devices tend to stick to is to make your life much easier and to make whatever you are doing much easier. but sometimes what they do is they make things much to easy that it starts to make as lazy because it does it for as. like if you had homework and your homework was to find out something that happen in history people who didn't have electronic devices would have to look through textbooks and read a few books that talks about the history your looking for. the benefits from that would be that you would get better with using a textbook and looking for things. now a days if we had the same homework would just google whatever we are looking for and just print out what we found out and that would be it. which just makes as lazy because we didn't really have to read through a lot of text just to find out the info we are looking for. electronic devices do so much now a days that most stuff can be done for you some things even think for you. when you use the internet everything that you do is saved on the history so lets say the next day you want to go back to the same website but you dont remember the name of the website you were on, you can just go back to your history and just look back at whatever you were doing yesterday. leaving you to remember less and not having to do much because the internet is pretty much doing it for you along the way.
Monday, November 2, 2009
HW 16 - Big Paper 1 Outline - Nov. 2
EQ: how has Digital / Electronic effected our society and how we live
Thesis: technology has become very important in our society, it has made a lot of our lives easier in many different ways but it also makes most of as very attached to it as well.
Argument 1: How technology has made our lives easier
Technology can be helpful in a lot of ways between trying to figure out where you are and where you want to go to looking up something for your homework technology in some ways makes things much easier for people. If we were trying to look for a old classmate or maybe a family member that you have no talked to for a while technology can help with this. You can use your computer and try to look for who ever you want plus these social networks like Facebook or Myspace makes looking for someone a whole lot easier.
Argument 2: The bads about technology
Even though there are a lot of good things about technology there are also things that are bad. What technology always tries to focus is to make things easier for you. Technology has gotten to a point where you pretty much don’t even need to leave your house anymore to get anything you can buy things you need online and it just gets shipped to your house so you don’t even have to really put in effort in to looking for what you needed you can just find it online. Which just adds up to making people lazier and not wanting to go out and do these basic things because you can just find it online. Sometimes I think that our society might turn out to be like the people in WALL- E where everyone is lazy in a chair everything is pretty much done for you and you have a digital screen to do what you want.
Conclusion:
Overall I think technology is a good thing but in moderation. Like its ok if you want to use the computer or play video games and stuff like that but you should do it in moderation and know when its time to go take a break and go outside to do something else. I think that if society were to use technology in moderation than we might not turn in to the people in WALL E.
Thesis: technology has become very important in our society, it has made a lot of our lives easier in many different ways but it also makes most of as very attached to it as well.
Argument 1: How technology has made our lives easier
Technology can be helpful in a lot of ways between trying to figure out where you are and where you want to go to looking up something for your homework technology in some ways makes things much easier for people. If we were trying to look for a old classmate or maybe a family member that you have no talked to for a while technology can help with this. You can use your computer and try to look for who ever you want plus these social networks like Facebook or Myspace makes looking for someone a whole lot easier.
Argument 2: The bads about technology
Even though there are a lot of good things about technology there are also things that are bad. What technology always tries to focus is to make things easier for you. Technology has gotten to a point where you pretty much don’t even need to leave your house anymore to get anything you can buy things you need online and it just gets shipped to your house so you don’t even have to really put in effort in to looking for what you needed you can just find it online. Which just adds up to making people lazier and not wanting to go out and do these basic things because you can just find it online. Sometimes I think that our society might turn out to be like the people in WALL- E where everyone is lazy in a chair everything is pretty much done for you and you have a digital screen to do what you want.
Conclusion:
Overall I think technology is a good thing but in moderation. Like its ok if you want to use the computer or play video games and stuff like that but you should do it in moderation and know when its time to go take a break and go outside to do something else. I think that if society were to use technology in moderation than we might not turn in to the people in WALL E.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
HW 14 -Second Text
In "Everything bad for you is good" by Steven Johnson There a part where he talks about Television. He starts of by talking about some things that are good about it, a few things that he said were that how it in proves your cognitive work and also depending on what you are viewing it Television can exercise your mind in different ways. The other thing he tends to talk about is that there are shows that really make you think and you really have to analyze it, than there are other shows that just give you the answers and you really don't have to do much thinking at all which is not that great because you will probably end up zoning out.
I agree with a lot of Johnson's points, one point that i agree with a lot was when he talk about how shows with a complex narratives makes people want to watch the show more and makes them think more, but than some shows are very easy to understand and the narrative about the show is not that complex so people might watch the show but not for a long time. for example Johnson talks about a show called "Starsky and Hutch" and how the show wasn't really that complex and a lot of people understood it but when you compared it to "hill Street Blues" which was a more complex show and some people didn't really get it. also another good way to compare these two shows would be the graph that was in the reading. Johnson had a graph which showed how complex a show would be, for "Starsky and Hutch" if you were to look at the graph it was pretty much a straight line but there were maybe about two shows that were different. Now comparing that to "Hill Street Blues" you can see in the graph that there were about nine lines which would mean that it was more complex and it would be a little harder to understand.
When you compare "Everything bad is good for you" to the book "feed" I would say that there were a lot of similar ideas they both had. What Johnson tend to do a lot would be to go back in to the past and talk about television and how it was back than and also how there were shows that were pretty complex and would really make you think. and in "feed" he would just talk about the digital / electronic devices that we are so hooked on today and how it causes a lot of problems. I feel that they are both on point though in there ideas in how people today are pretty hooked on to there electronic devices and how there might be use full electronic devices but than there are others that are pretty useless but we end up using it a lot.
I agree with a lot of Johnson's points, one point that i agree with a lot was when he talk about how shows with a complex narratives makes people want to watch the show more and makes them think more, but than some shows are very easy to understand and the narrative about the show is not that complex so people might watch the show but not for a long time. for example Johnson talks about a show called "Starsky and Hutch" and how the show wasn't really that complex and a lot of people understood it but when you compared it to "hill Street Blues" which was a more complex show and some people didn't really get it. also another good way to compare these two shows would be the graph that was in the reading. Johnson had a graph which showed how complex a show would be, for "Starsky and Hutch" if you were to look at the graph it was pretty much a straight line but there were maybe about two shows that were different. Now comparing that to "Hill Street Blues" you can see in the graph that there were about nine lines which would mean that it was more complex and it would be a little harder to understand.
When you compare "Everything bad is good for you" to the book "feed" I would say that there were a lot of similar ideas they both had. What Johnson tend to do a lot would be to go back in to the past and talk about television and how it was back than and also how there were shows that were pretty complex and would really make you think. and in "feed" he would just talk about the digital / electronic devices that we are so hooked on today and how it causes a lot of problems. I feel that they are both on point though in there ideas in how people today are pretty hooked on to there electronic devices and how there might be use full electronic devices but than there are others that are pretty useless but we end up using it a lot.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
HW 13 - Feed B
The thing about feed thats different than any most books out there is that it had alot of messages in there. for a few examples everything that happen in the book related to as in some way, shape or form. when they talk about the feed the author is mostly talking about us and how we use digital / electronic devices and how we are so hooked on it as well. Another thing that the author does is he sorts of points out all the problems that we as teenage tend to have which would be all the electronic devices we use. The other thing that makes feed different than any other book is that it list problems but doesn't state a way for you to fix the problems he just sort of leaves that for as to decide.
I feel that this book was mostly for teenagers like the whole book was basically about teenagers and how hook they are to the feed, and the reason i say that this book is sort of pointed out for teens is because alot of teens can maybe relate to the characters in the book or just relate to how much digital / electronics that was used. Feed can be seen as a piece of work because it sends a strong messages to as about how are we today as teens and how we are so caught up in our own feed which is electronic devices that we don't really notice anything else happening around as, like right now the environment is not doing that great and one of the problems is global warming. And the problem is we are so in to our daily life's of using electronics devices that most teens don't really care about what going on even though it could mean the end of our world.
Monday, October 19, 2009
HW 12 - Feed A
What i think the book feed is about is about these kids that are all in to there own feed. I also feel that feed paints a good picture in how teens are with there digital / electronic devices today. like the feed in general to as is all the electronics things we use on a daily basis TV, games, i pods, computer are pretty much what the feed really is. It seems that as teenagers we are so caught up with new electronic devices, and what are good things to buy and what are not good things to buy we sort of forget about what happening on our world today. Like one of the problems with our environment and all global warming and we are so in to our digital devices we don't care to notice or don't even really care.
I think that there were not many tragedy in the book that i can connect to myself but the thing i can connect to would be when they start talking about sort of like the bubble there living in is not doing that great and its sort of coming to a end. I can connect that to myself and what happening today because as of right now our environment is not doing that great and if we don't take care of that than and we keep living our lives zone out in our digital / electronic devices our world to might come to a end.
I think that feed didn't miss the point at all i think that the author M.T. Anderson did very good in writing this book, i felt that he really knew how teenagers are today and what we do on a daily basis. I feel that titus and his crew are pretty much like as but more in the future but who knows maybe thats where we are heading.
Friday, October 9, 2009
HW 11 - Self-Experiment 1
What i did when i went home was i used less digital / electronic things like i didn't use my computer and also i didn't watch TV for that long either i cut back on that and using my phone. and doing so made me going to sleep early and that was sort of help fully because when i got up to go to school the next day i had a lot of energy and i wasn't tired at all. The next day i decide to do double digital and i used my computer and i also went on my xbox and stayed up pretty late playing it also ended up going to sleep late and the side effect to doing that was that i got less sleep also when i had to go to school i was pretty tired.
After doing both of less digital and double digital i feel that i should sort of be in the middle of both because using less digital is good but sometimes it can get pretty boring, and useing double digital is not really that great either because you might feel tired more from the lack of sleep or something else. so i would like to be in the middle where i would use digital things but to a limit.
After doing both of less digital and double digital i feel that i should sort of be in the middle of both because using less digital is good but sometimes it can get pretty boring, and useing double digital is not really that great either because you might feel tired more from the lack of sleep or something else. so i would like to be in the middle where i would use digital things but to a limit.
HW 10 - Informal Research Internet
http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/3190
What this article is mainly trying to answer the question if video games are good or bad for you, and the article answer by saying that video games are pretty good. Some of the arguments they had were how video games is a great stress relief and also talks about how it improves the logic thinking that people make. the other argument they talk about is quicker decision making that playing video games can help you make some quicker decision.
I sort of agree with this article about it saying how it can be a stress relive and how some games have a lot of decisions and how playing a lot of these games can help you be quicker in making decisions. But I still think that you should not play games for to long because than the game you are playing to try to release some stress might give you more stress which just defeats the purpose.
http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog/are-cell-phones-good-or-bad-for-you/
What the article was talking about was if cell phones are good or bad for you. The first thing he brings up is what people have said about how cell phones give radiation and also it rises the chances of you getting cancers, but than the other thing he brings up is how true are some of these facts. But what he ended up saying was that there isn’t enough evidence at this point to say that it gives radiation or if it rises your changes of getting cancer.
i sort of agree with this article, the writer states what some people have said which was that it can give you radiation and also talks about the chances of cancer but the main problems with these point is that there is not a lot of evidence to really prove this so it kind of leaves unsure if its true or not. but i feel that cell phones are useful because it helps you keep in touch with people.
http://quazen.com/shopping/consumer-electronics/ipods-good-or-bad/
in this short article the main points was that ipods can effect you in alot of ways and how it can sometimes cause ADHD and also after a long peroid of time can make you deaf
i feel that ipods are not really harm full, i've had a ipod for a few years now and i am still the same i have not seen any of these effects happen to me. but i do feel that if you put the volume of your ipod really loud than that might effect you alot in the near future.
HW 7 - Interviews and Surveys
cousin: "I think that the more we move on to the future the more and more digital objects we are going to use. I also feel like company keep making newer and better digital products not only just to make money but also i kind of feel like they want as to stay home more as well, because now you can do a lot of things on the internet without having to leave your home"
my reaction: I felt that what my cousin was saying is true and the part where he said that company keep making products for as to stay home more is pretty true as well there so many things you can do with digital / electronic things that you don't even have to leave your house hardly to get anything.
HW 6 Video Project
when i was watching my own video it felt kind of werid, i looked pretty space out and i was really hook on the computer and also useing my sidekick. i would not mind my sister being on the computer but if she did it all day without taking a break or going outside than i would not really like it.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
hw 4 triangular comments 1
steph, I thought that your first post was very good. I like how you talk about how for some people find it easyer to share there feelings in a text than to see the person face to face, I feel that its true for some people because not really being in front of the person makes it easyer to say what you have to say, and the other thing you did pretty well was adding on to that saying are we being lazy or emotionally unstable and that made me think it was a mixture of the two. what i also like is the way you ended it as a question it also made me think is it really helping or messing up our community. It was very good hope to read more blogs from you.
HW 4 triangular comments 1
matt, I really like reading your post about your thoughts on digital and electronic media. one of the parts i like about your post was when you were connecting WALL E to life right now with digital stuff and how we might end up going the same path with the movie, where we dont even have to leave our house to do stuff that eletranics takes care of everything. The other thing i really agree with is when you were talking about your cable box and how you were paying alot of money for it, that there is a price tag when it comes to new electronic things and how we always end up spending alot of money for the new stuff.I enjoyed reading your post and i see that there are alot of things we see in common about digital and electronic media i hope to read more post from you.
Friday, September 11, 2009
HW 3
What i think about all the digital and electronic media is that there are goods and bad things about doing it. Some of the good things would be that you get to learn about different things that are happening around the world by the TV or the internet. But some of the bad things to this is that some of the things you hear from the TV or the internet could be one sided and wrong so you wont hear the other side. Also another bad thing about the digital and electronic things would be that people spend to much time doing it and they get really consumed by it. So i think people should be able to like digital and electronic things but also you should know when its time to take a break and step away from it to go outside or to do something else.
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