Blog 21

My whole ENG099 semester I believe my best Blogs were the starting once. I also believe I did well in Blog 16. The reason is because I believe I wrote a 400 word minimum with a thesis, two body paragraphs with examples and with a conclusion at the end. I believe Professor Jason has taught the class very well. He let us know what was necessary was his class and what was mandatory to achieve a good grade in his class. In my point of view, I think Professor Jason is a great professor because we learned differently in his class. Most professors in the school either write in the board, while the students at times be falling to school while the professor is speaking or they be connected with the student through black board. Having him as a teacher, he made the class interested. He spoke and taught us more about the technology and what we are able to do online. I enjoyed watching the movie The Truman Show, as well in doing the assignment that was assigned to us.

If the students want to do well in his class, the only thing they need to do is complete all assigned blogs and essays. If you complete everything you don’t need to worry about nothing. Each individual work we do in class I believe is graded evenly.
If you ask me what needs to be changed, I don’t believe nothing needs to be changed because the professor cannot make the class any easier. He tells us what is mandatory and necessary for his class. To make it easier he also writes all the assignments online through blog spot so we could get access and finish all assign work giving to us. No other professor could make class any easier for the students.

Blog 18

The topic that I think relates to the film Sleep Dealer is Technology and Society.  The reason is because technology is taking over society. For someone to be able to connect with society around the world they need some type of technology. The picture is pretty much showing us that society is in our hands. We don’t need machine to connect with others. Having the technology advancing so much it shows us that we could get control of society with our hands without needing machinery around. In the film, it tells shows us that for us to be able to have a good connection with society with need to upgrade. Human Beings need to wire themselves up to be able to succeed, have wealth, and achieve your goals that you have in mind. Instead of working outside in the field as a garderner; we would connect ourselves with the wire connections and work from the same spot and location without needing to move around. We would view everything through this glass wears that we put on and we become robots. We do end up doing the same work as we would be doing in ground but now is through the robots. Instead of typing and using a mouse to move around the screen of a computer; we would then speak and touch in the air the image we choose to pick.

Technology is constantly growing so much every day, that it becomes hard to believe everything that goes on.  People would need to stay up to date just to be able to keep in touch with friends and family around the world.

Two examples I could use is Facebook and having an email account. First of all, many people connect with Facebook to be able to connect with others and keep in touch with others around the world. They use Facebook to be able to share their images and be able to IM each other directly. Second thing, many people use emailing. The reason is because through email you are able to send a personal message or picture to the next person. You are able to get to them when you have a free time. You could say; instead of sending a letter through the mail box you send it to their inbox. Emailing you could say is much faster and safer to use.

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Blog 16

In the passage “Let Them Eat Fat”, by the Harper’s Magazines talks about how the amount of calories have doubled in our daily living because of fast-food.

I do believe that the fast-food do grab attention for customers. First of all, fast-food restaurants don’t let our younger society live as long as our parents or elders around us. Secondly, fast-food restaurants cause many people to have unhealthy health condition.

Many fast-food locations do grab customer attentions. They might post a sign saying when purchasing a super-size you get free refills. In the passage, it gives an example of McDonalds. When buying super-size meals in McDonalds it automatic doubles our calories. Many of the customers might not realize that eating such a big meal could cause us to have an unhealthy health to our system. There are many reasons why many customers enter a fast-food restaurant. First reason, could be because is cheaper. Secondly, it could be a quicker way to grab something to take on the go. Thirdly, it might be the only thing closer around the way.  By many of us being so distracted by these restaurants, we don’t realize how our health condition is turning out. In addition, we could also be gaining more weight. A lot of us having a busy daily schedule don’t realize what we consume in. We are decreasing our protein but we are increasing our fat and carbohydrates. Fast-food is everywhere but they are now growing more in poor inner-city communities. They know that by increasing in those areas, more people will attend. The main reason is because it is at a good price for them and it is mostly located right there as soon as customers get off work. In our daily living we have customers increasing tremendously in their weight. Many teenager boys and girls drop by half their healthy nutrition and gain more fat rich.

Fast-food companies increase their super-size by adding offers to the customers. At the same time, the companies are not realizing that other people’s health is worsening. All this process that goes on could increase business and money for the companies but they do not notice that it decreases our healthy nutrients we could be consuming. Teenage kids are young and taking in so much calories, that at a certain age their health is going to get worse, gain weight, get a decease or many other things.  

We need to manage more what we eat. If we are following up with a specialist, then we need to listen to what the nutritionist and dietitians tell us. The reason is if we want to live a long time.

Blog 15

 In the film “Meatrix” talks about how the factory really creates the food we eat.  The factory is the one that creates our eggs, milk and meat that we eat in our day living, but the factory also causes us unhealthy situations to our living. Should factories keep maximizing their industry more or should the farms take over the agriculture industry again?

The factories might not notice that but as more time passes more of us human being are getting unhealthier. I do agree with what the film mentions, that many of us do not know where our food comes from.  It causes us to gain diseases and germs.  As soon as the factories started to minimize the farming spacing, the animals were becoming unhealthier.  First of all, many animals that are being kept in the factories do not see the light, touch the ground and they do not get to breath the fresh air no more. Secondly, the factories when feeding the animals include antibiotic in their nutrient. The reason for the antibiotic is so that the animals could maintain their weight and like they say to stay healthy.  One thing that the factories do not realize is that over feeding the animals with antibiotic is not making them healthier, is actually creating and spreading more germs. When the animals have to move their bowels, it is actually polluting the air and ground water. That is because they are not getting well fed, not well treated and the animals are maintaining their weight by taking in antibiotic with their nutrients.

I do believe that the farms should take over the agriculture industry, rather than the factories. My reason is because less harmful food and diseases will be delivered to society.  Secondly, less artificial food would be consumed.  Farms, I believe would feed the animals healthier. They would treat the animals well.      ………….. IM NOT DONE

Blog 14

One thing that the movie Meatrix has similar to the Matrix is that they both are telling you to choose one out of two pills. You either choose the red pill or the blue pill. Both movies also let us know that we do not know about the real world. 

Blog 12

Since the beginning of this semester it has been a great experience for me. I have to say what made my experience well is because of the professor I have, Mr. Jason. Having Mr. Jason as my professor I have gained experience in how to write a better essay and improving with my vocabulary as well. I also gained more experience in where to place or use the punctuation marks in a paragraph or essay.

 I have done well in a few things this semester but I also believe I need improvement with a few things as well. Since Blog Series 1 (Entries 1-7) I believe I have done well in writing paragraphs as well as writing an essay. When I am writing my essays I could say I do include a good introduction, a body with examples and last but not least a conclusion re-summarizing of my thesis. I would say I need more improvement with how to properly start an introduction and how to improve summarizing the story better. I could write an introduction but I am constantly leaving something out. I tend to have problems with finding out what is the most important thing the author is trying to mention.

I believe for me to move ahead I need to know a few things. I mentioned in the above paragraph, to know how to summarize my stories better. If I do improve with my summary, I think I could achieve to move ahead with writing my essay. I need to maybe focus more in what they author is trying to say and in trying to use the details in the story to find out the main idea of the passage.

Blog 8

I would not choose to live in Cristoff’s world because we go through the same process daily. We have the same routine. Cristoff’s is the one that dictates what we do in our daily lives. In the movie Truman is the main person in creating his television show.  Cristoff is using Truman in keeping his show from running. In addition, the same daily routine was used every morning. Every morning Truman would leave his house and say to his neighbors “Good Morning, and if I don’t see you later have a Good Afternoon, Good Evening and Good Night”. Secondly, he would pass by the news stand and always pick up newspaper and a female article to take with him and he would say it’s for his wife.

Cristoff’s world has created a world to make thing seen like a perfect world. The only difference is that everyone around you is watching you and they are lying to you just so you could have a good life and perfect world. Cristoff’s is trying to tell us that in our society we have too many problems going on. He is trying to eliminate all those problems in Truman’s world. If we think about it, Truman world has problems too because everything around him was fake. An example is when Truman best friend was sitting with him in the beach, he was talking to him but his best friend was being dictated on what to say to Truman through a micro-piece ear.

Cristoff’s world is not something anyone wants to live in. Like how I mentioned in the above paragraph everyone in your world is just lying to you and watching every move you take and do.

Blog 6

I was a young mom when I had my son. I was 16 years old. Everyone was so negative with me, never had nothing positive to say about me. I dropped out of school and started working. I didn’t have a real job but it was a little something for me to do. I helped my neighbors or close friends; like maybe clean the house and received a little cash from them. I was caught in struggling a little throughout life. I was constantly trying to show people that I could do it and raise my son without anybody’s help. I had my baby father around until my son was one years old. Then after that he was gone. I moved out as well. I moved in with a friend of mine. I told myself If kept going when everyone was talking about me while I was pregnant, then why should I stop now. I decided to raise my son on my own. I started believing that I wasn’t going to survive on my own, that I was going to fall down sooner or later. I was like in a cave. I struggled a little more on my own. There was a time when I was just thinking that maybe people was right, maybe I cannot do it on my own. At the same time, I didn’t want any help from nobody just because everyone was putting me down and being so negative. I had a friend of mine that moved in town and she helped me with my son, while I went to work. Then I finally got to put my son to school and started working some more. I saved out some money and rented a little place, just for me and my son. I escaped from the cave or the hole I was in. I have my own little place and raising my son on own. I could say I’m free and taking it a little further day by day. Now I could say if I did it on my own, anyone could do it as well. I’m still working and raising my son, while I’m currently enrolled in school. I want a better future to keep being there for my son and make sure I could give him what he needs. Things is not that easy but I could say I proved people wrong and dug myself out of the cave, now I don’t need to hear nothing else from nobody else. I am happy to be a single parent and I tell people all the times, “Don’t ever give up because there is always a time where we have to struggle sometime but sooner or later things are going to get better”. Keeping my head up and just listening to all the negative things people was saying, that’s what kept me going on. I heard everything and I just wanted to prove people wrong. Us being young, we do a lot of mistakes but people have to give you an opportunity so you could prove to them that you are not going to do the same mistake twice. I did it and now I’m doing well; and before you know it I’ll be doing better after I graduate with a career.

Blog 7

Now that I am enrolled in Professor Smith ENG099 class, I am hoping to learn and improve my writing skills. Starting this semester with Professor Smith has been good. I’ve noticed that when I have any questions or need any help with anything, he is there to help me and the others out. He is positive minded and constantly tries to keep us focus. At times, I know we need to do our behalf to be able to succeed, but it is hard when you work full time and go to school full time right after you get out of work. You feel like everything is pilling in your shoulders. I do catch myself at times studying in the train and bus while I’m on my way to school.

I am going to be honest with you. This is not an easy class for me because my writing skills are not so good. I often do have problems with my writing. I could speak English, maybe not perfectly but I could say is well enough. When it comes to writing I always have difficulties.

I think I do well with my introduction and when I give examples of my own when I'm writing my essay. There are a few things I believe I need improvement on. My main thing is with my punctuation marks. I am able to write the sentences but my problem is that at times I don’t know exactly where to place my comma, semicolon, etc. I tend to put a period everywhere and simply just start a new sentence every time. After revising my work I end up putting commas where they belong at. Second thing, I believe I also need improvement with is with my verb tense. When I write my summary or essay I at times mix present with past tense verbs. Sentences might sound correct to me but they might actually be incorrect.  I believe I mix my verb tense a lot because I do not read or write a lot. I know I definite need improvement with that.

At times, I do have problems writing an essay of four hundred words. With the CAT-W practice test I think I did okay. I had a topic that was a little bit difficult for me to write about but I did write about something. I do know that I did not achieve a goal of writing a four hundred word essay. I believe that for me to pass this class I need to know my verb tense. That’s why I’m trying to stay focus to be able to pass this class this semester and also to get better writing skills.

Blog 5

In the passage "The Allegory of the Cave", by Plato talks about how prisoners that has been in a prison underground cave for many years live and how will they to react and see things after they get release. While being in prison they do not get to see nothing. Prisoners were chained facing the wall. The only things they was able to see was the shadow of everyone walking and passing by.  The only reason they was able to see the shadows was because a fire was placed behind them, around where the path where everyone walked across, so that was what was creatin g the shadows in the walls. The prisoners were able to hear people speak but not clearly, they heared mumbeling going on. 


Once the prisoners were released to the outside world, they saw everything different because it wasn't nothing that they was expecting to be or see. While being outside, the sun bothered them. The reason the sun was bothering their eyes so much was because they was in prison in the dark for so many years that when they finally saw light, the light was so strong and bright that it wasnt blinding them, not allowing them to see. When the prisoners saw everything clear outside, they ran back to the cave to tell the other prisoners about what they saw but it was impossible. The prisoners simply thought it was the same old routine, someone walking by and hear someone mumbling something to someone else.

Blog 4

In the passage "Hype", by Kalle Lasn talks about how our brains are  filled daily with so much toxic of the mental pollutants.  In other words the author is trying to say that we see many advertisement daily that it floods our brains. It floods our brains so rapidly at almost a rate of about three thousand logos or product messages per day. Kalle is trying to tell us that we cannot even have a piece of silence any more. I could agree with the author that there is many logos and messages posted everywhere we look and everything we look at.


I could relate with the author when she say that our brains is constantly being flooded as soon as our alarm goes off every morning. Everywhere we look we see something being advertised. I could relate to this, I wake up every morning at three o' clock to get ready for work.  I have one hour to get ready and walk out the house. In that one hour I use to just get ready I see a lot of things. As soon as my alarm goes off and my eyes are open that is when we start seeing logos and others advertisement going on. There is just a few things I see just in the little bit of time I use in the morning at my house. I soon as I wake up I hear the alarm go off and face the clock to look at the time.  I turn on the morning news and see many commercial advertisements going on. I see many news information being posted to alert us on what is going on around the world.  We see more when we are in the bathroom, logos that are tagged in our jeans and the items we are going to grab to prepare our breakfast. In just that one hour I use to just prepare myself I seen a lot more then what I think. That's why I do believe when the author say that our brains is constantly being flooded at the rate of about three thousand messages per day.


Another example I could connect with to this is when we drive across a country side that has a nice view and then all of a sudden is being disturbed by an enormous billboard. In addition, we walk down a block, we see a Verizon and T mobile department store. While walking across the Verizon store, we see an ad saying that they have the best phone service compared to other company. In the other hand, when we walk by the T mobile store, I noticed they are advertising an ad saying they have the best phone deals around.


Everything our eyes could look at, we are being advertised by something in every corner we see. It starts from early morning when we wake up, as soon as our alarm clock goes off, then it follow throughout the day when we go outside until late at night, when we go to bed.

Blog 3

In the passage “Hype”,  by Kalle Lasn talks about how our brains is constantly being flooded and filled everyday with so much contamination with logos or products messages as soon as we open our eyes early in the morning.  Every direction our eyes looks we see something; is either a logo or product name or message. Our brains can never get no rest with having a post interrupt our view, unless we see a blank wall with no distraction around it.  We was able to relax by just listening to the music but now even the music gets disturbed by commercials.

Blog 2

One think I got from thinking about annotations with the class is that the when we reading a passage we should read it right through the first time, then re-read it over a second time with writing notes on the side of the passage so we could get a little more understanding about what we are reading.
The thing I got from writing annotations for "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" is that when we use the Google/ Internet access we are getting distracted. While we are distracted we remember less and learn less. Google lets us find lots of information quickly but it doesn't give us the ability to think. When we think deeply that makes us intelligent, intelligence doesn't come from researching things quicker.
The thing I learned about annotating is that when we underline and write notes in the side of our passage we are getting more of an understanding about what they are trying to tell us.
Annotating makes us a better a writer because we learn more of what the passage is trying to tell us. We are highlighting only the basic or most important information of the passage.

Blog 1

In the passage "Hype", by Kalle Lasn talks about how our brains are  filled daily with so much toxic of the mental pollutants.  In other words the author is trying to say that we see many advertisement daily that it floods our brains. It floods our brains so rapidly at almost a rate of about three thousand logos or product messages per day. Kalle is trying to tell us that we cannot even have a piece of silence any more. 
I could agree with the author when she say that our brains is constantly being flooded as soon as our alarm goes off every morning. Everywhere we look we see something being advertised. I could relate to this, I wake up every morning at three o' clock to get ready for work.  I have one hour to get ready and walk out the house. In that one hour I use to just get ready I see a lot of things. As soon as my alarm goes off and my eyes are open that is when we start seeing logos and others advertisement going on. There is just a few things I see just in the little bit of time I use in the morning at my house. I soon as I wake up I hear the alarm go off and face the clock to look at the time.  I turn on the morning news and see many commercial advertisements going on. I see many news information being posted to alert us on what is going on around the world.  We see more when we are in the bathroom, logos that are tagged in our jeans and the items we are going to grab to prepare our breakfast. In just that one hour I use to just prepare myself I seen a lot more then what I think. That's why I do believe when the author say that our brains is constantly being flooded at the rate of about three thousand messages per day.
Another example I could connect with to this is when we drive across a country side that has a nice view and then all of a sudden is being disturbed by an enormous billboard. In addition, we walk down a block, we see a Verizon and T mobile department store. While walking across the Verizon store, we see an ad saying that they have the best phone service compared to other company. In the other hand, when we walk by the T mobile store, I noticed they are advertising an ad saying they have the best phone deals around.
Everything our eyes could look at, we are being advertised by something in every corner we see. It starts from early morning when we wake up, as soon as our alarm clock goes off, then it follow throughout the day when we go outside until late at night, when we go to bed.