To Kiana...
I liked your story kiana. It refelcted upon alot of teenagers these days that try to stand out through possessions. Instead of the boy being himself, he tried being an image that he sees everyday, probably placed in his mind through pop culture and things of that sort. Being obsessed with "coolness" made him do all the wrong things.
To Christian...
I liked your story because it portrays the average "cool" kid being polite for one second to his friends than rude after. Sometimes kids like that will act one way in school, but act like angles or entirely different in front of theyre family or outside friends. I guess Dean is one of those, nervous about the reaction his mother will have of him acting like that in school.
To Elias...
I like your story. Its short yet it explains it all! i have a friend who is just the same way. and i know exactly what u meant by making your character walk away "shaking your head". Sounds like this Edgar guy is living a secret life, or maybe hes just bootyblind? anywhoo, its a good story. i look forward to reading your next short story.
To Anias...
Your story was very creative. The girl, although she tried her hardest for people to stop looking up to her and being idolized, she thought showing much attitude for everyone everywhere was the solution for getting her uncoolness to finally rub off, even though that was the reason she got into that predicament in the first place.
Analysis
What i noticed about the short stories was that they all included the same elements. Attitude, and style. Whether the person had attitude in general, or they had shown attitude through they're style. These were the two only patterns i saw.
The archtypes of the stories were pursuit of imagery, defiance, and proving the hypocritical lifestyles of the innocence. (if that makes any sense). Its interesting to see that everyones story all included high school life, and all different kinds of people. the most important observation was that no ones character ever noticed they're need for being cool let alone admitting it.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
HW 24 - Short Story 1
That man must be exhausted. Not from sitting there on that park-bench waiting for his daughter to finish playing, but from his life in general. He works two jobs, for the Post office in the day and a dangerous track inspection job for Transit at night. Instead of using free, valuable time to sleep and re-energize himself during the day, he spends the extra time he has with his two sons and daughter out in Queens. Also in Queens, is the mother of his daughters other son, similar in age, who he still spends time with also even though he and the woman aren't together anymore, meaning that boy is no longer his step-son, yet he sticks around. His daughter, in Queens, has Soccer Practice on Saturdays, Church on Sundays, the step-son has soccer practice and needs to be taken to the library often. The other two sons, one only looking for support at his football games and the other, too old for the "quality time" spent at the park or bike-riding. Where is the mom? Probably out with her newest boyfriend again, the youngest girl complains. After a very tough breakup and permanent separation, the game of "watching your ex with new people without letting it bother you" begins. Knowing the new boyfriend comes by his children doesn't bother the man MUCH, but interestingly when they used the word "cool" and him surprisingly took him over the top. "Daddy, he has a motorcycle its so cool". "His house is huge!" "He does this trick where you take the balloon and..."
Never been called cool, and now will never get the chance to be. Using all his free time in his life to create impacts on his children's lives, only by simply being there. Not enough sleep in his life led to lack of focus in his night job, an incident is what they called it. And his son, I, now misses that "quality time" he thought he was too cool for. You think that new boyfriend will take the kids to practice in his cool motorcycle?
Never been called cool, and now will never get the chance to be. Using all his free time in his life to create impacts on his children's lives, only by simply being there. Not enough sleep in his life led to lack of focus in his night job, an incident is what they called it. And his son, I, now misses that "quality time" he thought he was too cool for. You think that new boyfriend will take the kids to practice in his cool motorcycle?
Monday, November 16, 2009
HW 23 - 1st constructive exploration of cool
For this first post of the Cool unit please explore the definition, feeling, concept, experience, pursuit of cool.
What questions do you have about being cool? About being uncool?
What insights have flashed into your mind about cool? Who is cool? What defines cool? What are different types of cool? Are you cool?
"Cool is an aesthetic of attitude, behavior, comportment, appearance and style, influenced by and a product of the Zeitgeist. Because of the varied and changing connotations of cool, as well its subjective nature, the word has no single meaning...."
When looking up the word cool, the results was just as i expected. No single meaning. To be cool is a word that is thrown around that doesn't have a meaning but represents one's stature. To describe literally anything you would want, you can include the word "cool" in your sentence. Cool is usually representing an entire thought, such as "Thats cool!", or "How cool!", such as cool representing the entire phrase nice to see or thats new or interesting. Things we see that we find new and entertaining is instantly referred to as cool.
The movie "Half-Baked" with Dave Chappelle, shows a scene where his friend Scarface is quitting his minimum wage job, where he confronts everyone before he acts. "Fuck you... Fuck you... your cool... and Fuck you, I'm out."- Scarface. This is where he points around the room with a microphone exposing whoever he felt was "cool" as a person that he wouldn't express vulgar words to. Only one person was worthy of that, which was ironically funny because it happened to be this old white guy with white hair who seemed anything but cool. This represents the average American mind, where all we seem to do is wrap our minds and words around "cool". We will get anything that seems cool or associate ourselves with anything or anyone cool.
I do these things myself, I'm not afraid to admit it, although i don't see any reason to be 'afraid' either. I constantly get rid of cellphones or ipods that arent the latest thing, and i myself, used to the lifestyle of switching around, can never seem satisfied with what i have anymore. The newest features always seem cool to us and anything else isnt worth buying. Things we see celebrities with, whether it be fashion or technology, the things they promote to the public has to always be seen as cool, otherwise things we find odd that we catch them doing are often placed in magazine articles or caught on video. i think this cool unit will connect to the digital unit.
What questions do you have about being cool? About being uncool?
What insights have flashed into your mind about cool? Who is cool? What defines cool? What are different types of cool? Are you cool?
"Cool is an aesthetic of attitude, behavior, comportment, appearance and style, influenced by and a product of the Zeitgeist. Because of the varied and changing connotations of cool, as well its subjective nature, the word has no single meaning...."
When looking up the word cool, the results was just as i expected. No single meaning. To be cool is a word that is thrown around that doesn't have a meaning but represents one's stature. To describe literally anything you would want, you can include the word "cool" in your sentence. Cool is usually representing an entire thought, such as "Thats cool!", or "How cool!", such as cool representing the entire phrase nice to see or thats new or interesting. Things we see that we find new and entertaining is instantly referred to as cool.
The movie "Half-Baked" with Dave Chappelle, shows a scene where his friend Scarface is quitting his minimum wage job, where he confronts everyone before he acts. "Fuck you... Fuck you... your cool... and Fuck you, I'm out."- Scarface. This is where he points around the room with a microphone exposing whoever he felt was "cool" as a person that he wouldn't express vulgar words to. Only one person was worthy of that, which was ironically funny because it happened to be this old white guy with white hair who seemed anything but cool. This represents the average American mind, where all we seem to do is wrap our minds and words around "cool". We will get anything that seems cool or associate ourselves with anything or anyone cool.
I do these things myself, I'm not afraid to admit it, although i don't see any reason to be 'afraid' either. I constantly get rid of cellphones or ipods that arent the latest thing, and i myself, used to the lifestyle of switching around, can never seem satisfied with what i have anymore. The newest features always seem cool to us and anything else isnt worth buying. Things we see celebrities with, whether it be fashion or technology, the things they promote to the public has to always be seen as cool, otherwise things we find odd that we catch them doing are often placed in magazine articles or caught on video. i think this cool unit will connect to the digital unit.
Friday, November 13, 2009
HW 21- art project 1
My art project is a mirror of my life, but hammers down on the nails that hold up the true meaning of "art". my video, was allowed to be created in this route based on the rules of the assignment. But my video in my opinion was nothing close to what represents art in our culture. It instead reflects onto immature-america, something that we as a whole should be used to. Trying to imitate the visuals we see everyday around us, whether it be pop culture or Jackass the show or MTV. These things are things that we pretend to view as beautiful and artsy and portrayed as something special. Nevertheless, i still had an incredible amount of fun creating it...
Saturday, November 7, 2009
HW 22 - FINAL DRAFT
Introduction:
As if America doesn’t have enough problems to deal with, another small addition has been added onto our plates. Everyone loves Apple’s Macs or Microsoft’s Xbox, only we love them to the point where we are home all day playing with them until they decide to create a portable device. Video games and TV have come a long way when looking at Pac-man and Super Mario Bros. digital graphics compared to the infamous Grand-theft auto or Today’s television shows. There is no doubt that American Society has taken a rise for a newer profound take on technology, but it is too most surely that America’s technological rise will too be the reason for its fall.
Argument 1:
M.T. Anderson, an award winning novelist for his book “Feed” too discusses the downfall that we as a society are leading too. Only he does this in a more interesting way, an allegorical sense that shows the same problems faced by us as a society only in the future. It seems no matter the day and age, from this point on, we will only live to see problems occur with us, while we continue to live superficial lifestyles and judge the next person in two ways, for looking down on those who choose to live this lifestyle and for not joining in on the superficial race to live this way. It is already proven that Human beings are shown as a much “dumber” generation compared to those hundreds of years ago. In Feed, it depicts a picture for us, an eye- opening picture at that, showing we are on a road to only becoming dumber. M.T. Anderson shows us how blind we are to the environment we have created for ourselves. Not paying mind to our problems or the next, we soon disregard the problems that we experience now. We are blinded by the exciting flashy objects things that capture our attention, technology.
“I didn’t know which to choose, because if I got an upcar that was too small, than Link and Marty might be like, ‘We’ll take my car instead, more of us can fit in,’ and then I would have spent these hundreds of thousands of dollars for nothing. But if I bought the Swarp, it was a little more sporty, and that might be brag, because the Dodge Gryphon was maybe too family” (pg. 122).
It is a race for us to be able to claim who owns what, helping to divide us between the powerful and the powerless, while these technological objects representing power.
Argument 2:
Disney’s Motion picture “Wall-E” shows the tale of an only robot that remains on Earth 700 years later in the future, going from cleaning garbage to being aboard a spaceship vacationing all humans until Earth is cleaned. The storyline is more complex and a bit off track. But what remains to be seen in Wall-E is the problems that Humans will drastically go through if we continue to live carelessly not concerning our futures. Besides worrying about where garbage storage will lead us, Wall-E shows us the attachment and dependency we have onto technology. Technology is created to make things simpler for us, but when things get a little too simple, we tend to be less active and social. Being re-exposed to simpler things in life, such as swimming pools or activities less technical, is like being re-born. Movies like these, where scenes take place in the not-so distant future where we seem to have accomplished huge outbreaks in technology. They also show that one human who chooses not to join in on the rush for technology and chooses to live the much simpler life of easier laid back devices, making the character always seem rebellious. This connects to the real world as people constantly get swept into the rush of new technology. Those who choose not to get caught up are seen as left behind or just old-fashioned. This relates to the main idea of the powerful continuing to obtain as the powerless struggle to keep up.
Argument 3:
“Everything bad is good for you”, a book by Steven Johnson that explains the social differences that take place between readers and video-gamest. Interesting enough, he discusses the negative effects that reading has on human beings in this day and age rather than the digital devices surrounding us. His argument for reading was that it encourages the discrimination that society has against those who are dyslexic. Johnson believed that today’s games are a better use for children to practice reading skills and practice strengthening they’re attention spans. Video games today involve mappings, text, storylines, facts, etc. Even reading has become a digital thing for most readers on the go, as a wireless reading device storms through stores and makes a run for the books on people’s shelves.
(http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reading-Display-Generation/dp/B0015TCML0)
Introducing the Kindle DX, a handheld device that allows readers to read on a “newer level”. It is size of a small picture frame, that represents one page out of a novel that the text appears onto. For those who have trouble reading, such as glasses users, there are features included such as zooming and lighting for those who are trying to read in the dark. The Kindle DX allows any book to be uploaded into the frame, the touch-screen device allows a simple touch with the finger to flip to the next page. Something as easy as reading, turning pages with your fingers, holding the book with both hands, can turn into something more convenient.
Conclusion:
You can’t fight technology that works. Books and movies and messages are all over trying to mold us into boycotting machines. It takes propaganda to fight propaganda. We can see these movies over and over again, or listen to hidden messages in songs, or even realize that along with our consciousness to reality our money in our wallets is also gone. Authors like M.T. Anderson give us novel winning messages that can one day help us alter our way of thinking, and then we are introduced to authors such as Steven Johnson who support video games for the young minds. The fact of the matter is technology is growing along with our addiction to it. We cannot move past this era neither can we shrug off the need to inspect them. We will want them and most of us will get them, only question that remains is where will this lead us and when?
As if America doesn’t have enough problems to deal with, another small addition has been added onto our plates. Everyone loves Apple’s Macs or Microsoft’s Xbox, only we love them to the point where we are home all day playing with them until they decide to create a portable device. Video games and TV have come a long way when looking at Pac-man and Super Mario Bros. digital graphics compared to the infamous Grand-theft auto or Today’s television shows. There is no doubt that American Society has taken a rise for a newer profound take on technology, but it is too most surely that America’s technological rise will too be the reason for its fall.
Argument 1:
M.T. Anderson, an award winning novelist for his book “Feed” too discusses the downfall that we as a society are leading too. Only he does this in a more interesting way, an allegorical sense that shows the same problems faced by us as a society only in the future. It seems no matter the day and age, from this point on, we will only live to see problems occur with us, while we continue to live superficial lifestyles and judge the next person in two ways, for looking down on those who choose to live this lifestyle and for not joining in on the superficial race to live this way. It is already proven that Human beings are shown as a much “dumber” generation compared to those hundreds of years ago. In Feed, it depicts a picture for us, an eye- opening picture at that, showing we are on a road to only becoming dumber. M.T. Anderson shows us how blind we are to the environment we have created for ourselves. Not paying mind to our problems or the next, we soon disregard the problems that we experience now. We are blinded by the exciting flashy objects things that capture our attention, technology.
“I didn’t know which to choose, because if I got an upcar that was too small, than Link and Marty might be like, ‘We’ll take my car instead, more of us can fit in,’ and then I would have spent these hundreds of thousands of dollars for nothing. But if I bought the Swarp, it was a little more sporty, and that might be brag, because the Dodge Gryphon was maybe too family” (pg. 122).
It is a race for us to be able to claim who owns what, helping to divide us between the powerful and the powerless, while these technological objects representing power.
Argument 2:
Disney’s Motion picture “Wall-E” shows the tale of an only robot that remains on Earth 700 years later in the future, going from cleaning garbage to being aboard a spaceship vacationing all humans until Earth is cleaned. The storyline is more complex and a bit off track. But what remains to be seen in Wall-E is the problems that Humans will drastically go through if we continue to live carelessly not concerning our futures. Besides worrying about where garbage storage will lead us, Wall-E shows us the attachment and dependency we have onto technology. Technology is created to make things simpler for us, but when things get a little too simple, we tend to be less active and social. Being re-exposed to simpler things in life, such as swimming pools or activities less technical, is like being re-born. Movies like these, where scenes take place in the not-so distant future where we seem to have accomplished huge outbreaks in technology. They also show that one human who chooses not to join in on the rush for technology and chooses to live the much simpler life of easier laid back devices, making the character always seem rebellious. This connects to the real world as people constantly get swept into the rush of new technology. Those who choose not to get caught up are seen as left behind or just old-fashioned. This relates to the main idea of the powerful continuing to obtain as the powerless struggle to keep up.
Argument 3:
“Everything bad is good for you”, a book by Steven Johnson that explains the social differences that take place between readers and video-gamest. Interesting enough, he discusses the negative effects that reading has on human beings in this day and age rather than the digital devices surrounding us. His argument for reading was that it encourages the discrimination that society has against those who are dyslexic. Johnson believed that today’s games are a better use for children to practice reading skills and practice strengthening they’re attention spans. Video games today involve mappings, text, storylines, facts, etc. Even reading has become a digital thing for most readers on the go, as a wireless reading device storms through stores and makes a run for the books on people’s shelves.
(http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reading-Display-Generation/dp/B0015TCML0)
Introducing the Kindle DX, a handheld device that allows readers to read on a “newer level”. It is size of a small picture frame, that represents one page out of a novel that the text appears onto. For those who have trouble reading, such as glasses users, there are features included such as zooming and lighting for those who are trying to read in the dark. The Kindle DX allows any book to be uploaded into the frame, the touch-screen device allows a simple touch with the finger to flip to the next page. Something as easy as reading, turning pages with your fingers, holding the book with both hands, can turn into something more convenient.
Conclusion:
You can’t fight technology that works. Books and movies and messages are all over trying to mold us into boycotting machines. It takes propaganda to fight propaganda. We can see these movies over and over again, or listen to hidden messages in songs, or even realize that along with our consciousness to reality our money in our wallets is also gone. Authors like M.T. Anderson give us novel winning messages that can one day help us alter our way of thinking, and then we are introduced to authors such as Steven Johnson who support video games for the young minds. The fact of the matter is technology is growing along with our addiction to it. We cannot move past this era neither can we shrug off the need to inspect them. We will want them and most of us will get them, only question that remains is where will this lead us and when?
Friday, November 6, 2009
HW 20 - revised draft pt.2
(now includes 3rd argument)
As if America doesn’t have enough problems to deal with, another small addition has been added onto our plates. Everyone loves Apple’s Macs or Microsoft’s Xbox, only we love them to the point where we are home all day playing with them until they decide to create a portable device. Video games and TV have come a long way when looking at Pac-man and Super Mario Bros. digital graphics compared to the infamous Grand-theft auto or Today’s television shows. There is no doubt that American Society has taken a rise for a newer profound take on technology, but it is too most surely that America’s technological rise will too be the reason for its fall.
M.T. Anderson, an award winning novelist for his book “Feed” too discusses the downfall that we as a society are leading too. Only he does this in a more interesting way, an allegorical sense that shows the same problems faced by us as a society only in the future. It seems no matter the day and age, from this point on, we will only live to see problems occur with us, while we continue to live superficial lifestyles and judge the next person in two ways, for looking down on those who choose to live this lifestyle and for not joining in on the superficial race to live this way. It is already proven that Human beings are shown as a much “dumber” generation compared to those hundreds of years ago. In Feed, it depicts a picture for us, an eye- opening picture at that, showing we are on a road to only becoming dumber. M.T. Anderson shows us how blind we are to the environment we have created for ourselves. Not paying mind to our problems or the next, we soon disregard the problems that we experience now. We are blinded by the exciting flashy objects things that capture our attention, technology.
“I didn’t know which to choose, because if I got an upcar that was too small, than Link and Marty might be like, ‘We’ll take my car instead, more of us can fit in,’ and then I would have spent these hundreds of thousands of dollars for nothing. But if I bought the Swarp, it was a little more sporty, and that might be brag, because the Dodge Gryphon was maybe too family” (pg. 122).
It is a race for us to be able to claim who owns what, helping to divide us between the powerful and the powerless, while these technological objects representing power.
Disney’s Motion picture “Wall-E” shows the tale of an only robot that remains on Earth 700 years later in the future, going from cleaning garbage to being aboard a spaceship vacationing all humans until Earth is cleaned. The storyline is more complex and a bit off track. But what remains to be seen in Wall-E is the problems that Humans will drastically go through if we continue to live carelessly not concerning our futures. Besides worrying about where garbage storage will lead us, Wall-E shows us the attachment and dependency we have onto technology. Technology is created to make things simpler for us, but when things get a little too simple, we tend to be less active and social. Being re-exposed to simpler things in life, such as swimming pools or activities less technical, is like being re-born. Movies like these, where scenes take place in the not-so distant future where we seem to have accomplished huge outbreaks in technology. They also show that one human who chooses not to join in on the rush for technology and chooses to live the much simpler life of easier laid back devices, making the character always seem rebellious. This connects to the real world as people constantly get swept into the rush of new technology. Those who choose not to get caught up are seen as left behind or just old-fashioned. This relates to the main idea of the powerful continuing to obtain as the powerless struggle to keep up.
“Everything bad is good for you”, a book by Steven Johnson that explains the social differences that take place between readers and video-gamest. Interesting enough, he discusses the negative effects that reading has on human beings in this day and age rather than the digital devices surrounding us. His argument for reading was that it encourages the discrimination that society has against those who are dyslexic. Johnson believed that today’s games are a better use for children to practice reading skills and practice strengthening they’re attention spans. Video games today involve mappings, text, storylines, facts, etc. Even reading has become a digital thing for most readers on the go, as a wireless reading device storms through stores and makes a run for the books on people’s shelves.
(http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reading-Display-Generation/dp/B0015TCML0)
Introducing the Kindle DX, a handheld device that allows readers to read on a “newer level”. It is size of a small picture frame, that represents one page out of a novel that the text appears onto. For those who have trouble reading, such as glasses users, there are features included such as zooming and lighting for those who are trying to read in the dark. The Kindle DX allows any book to be uploaded into the frame, the touch-screen device allows a simple touch with the finger to flip to the next page. Something as easy as reading, turning pages with your fingers, holding the book with both hands, can turn into something more convenient.
As if America doesn’t have enough problems to deal with, another small addition has been added onto our plates. Everyone loves Apple’s Macs or Microsoft’s Xbox, only we love them to the point where we are home all day playing with them until they decide to create a portable device. Video games and TV have come a long way when looking at Pac-man and Super Mario Bros. digital graphics compared to the infamous Grand-theft auto or Today’s television shows. There is no doubt that American Society has taken a rise for a newer profound take on technology, but it is too most surely that America’s technological rise will too be the reason for its fall.
M.T. Anderson, an award winning novelist for his book “Feed” too discusses the downfall that we as a society are leading too. Only he does this in a more interesting way, an allegorical sense that shows the same problems faced by us as a society only in the future. It seems no matter the day and age, from this point on, we will only live to see problems occur with us, while we continue to live superficial lifestyles and judge the next person in two ways, for looking down on those who choose to live this lifestyle and for not joining in on the superficial race to live this way. It is already proven that Human beings are shown as a much “dumber” generation compared to those hundreds of years ago. In Feed, it depicts a picture for us, an eye- opening picture at that, showing we are on a road to only becoming dumber. M.T. Anderson shows us how blind we are to the environment we have created for ourselves. Not paying mind to our problems or the next, we soon disregard the problems that we experience now. We are blinded by the exciting flashy objects things that capture our attention, technology.
“I didn’t know which to choose, because if I got an upcar that was too small, than Link and Marty might be like, ‘We’ll take my car instead, more of us can fit in,’ and then I would have spent these hundreds of thousands of dollars for nothing. But if I bought the Swarp, it was a little more sporty, and that might be brag, because the Dodge Gryphon was maybe too family” (pg. 122).
It is a race for us to be able to claim who owns what, helping to divide us between the powerful and the powerless, while these technological objects representing power.
Disney’s Motion picture “Wall-E” shows the tale of an only robot that remains on Earth 700 years later in the future, going from cleaning garbage to being aboard a spaceship vacationing all humans until Earth is cleaned. The storyline is more complex and a bit off track. But what remains to be seen in Wall-E is the problems that Humans will drastically go through if we continue to live carelessly not concerning our futures. Besides worrying about where garbage storage will lead us, Wall-E shows us the attachment and dependency we have onto technology. Technology is created to make things simpler for us, but when things get a little too simple, we tend to be less active and social. Being re-exposed to simpler things in life, such as swimming pools or activities less technical, is like being re-born. Movies like these, where scenes take place in the not-so distant future where we seem to have accomplished huge outbreaks in technology. They also show that one human who chooses not to join in on the rush for technology and chooses to live the much simpler life of easier laid back devices, making the character always seem rebellious. This connects to the real world as people constantly get swept into the rush of new technology. Those who choose not to get caught up are seen as left behind or just old-fashioned. This relates to the main idea of the powerful continuing to obtain as the powerless struggle to keep up.
“Everything bad is good for you”, a book by Steven Johnson that explains the social differences that take place between readers and video-gamest. Interesting enough, he discusses the negative effects that reading has on human beings in this day and age rather than the digital devices surrounding us. His argument for reading was that it encourages the discrimination that society has against those who are dyslexic. Johnson believed that today’s games are a better use for children to practice reading skills and practice strengthening they’re attention spans. Video games today involve mappings, text, storylines, facts, etc. Even reading has become a digital thing for most readers on the go, as a wireless reading device storms through stores and makes a run for the books on people’s shelves.
(http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reading-Display-Generation/dp/B0015TCML0)
Introducing the Kindle DX, a handheld device that allows readers to read on a “newer level”. It is size of a small picture frame, that represents one page out of a novel that the text appears onto. For those who have trouble reading, such as glasses users, there are features included such as zooming and lighting for those who are trying to read in the dark. The Kindle DX allows any book to be uploaded into the frame, the touch-screen device allows a simple touch with the finger to flip to the next page. Something as easy as reading, turning pages with your fingers, holding the book with both hands, can turn into something more convenient.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
HW 19 - draft comments
kiana...
Your draft is very strong i can only imagine how your actual paper will turn out. you included alot of background research on your arguments, which you connected to the next. If i had to throw advice your way, id have to mention the part where you talked about your conversation with Cotto, it seemed as though you went from researched argument to a personal sided argument, it flowed almost as if you started free-writing. Other than that i enjoyed your draft very much. Keep up the good work.
Stephanie...
I like your paper. Your interpretation of what is going on in Wall-E the movie was good. The quote you chose from Feed was good because it connected to your thesis and also your other arguments including Wall-E movie and the book "everything bad is good for you". It seems as though you are on top of your game and are ready to start on the actual paper. Good work.
Your draft is very strong i can only imagine how your actual paper will turn out. you included alot of background research on your arguments, which you connected to the next. If i had to throw advice your way, id have to mention the part where you talked about your conversation with Cotto, it seemed as though you went from researched argument to a personal sided argument, it flowed almost as if you started free-writing. Other than that i enjoyed your draft very much. Keep up the good work.
Stephanie...
I like your paper. Your interpretation of what is going on in Wall-E the movie was good. The quote you chose from Feed was good because it connected to your thesis and also your other arguments including Wall-E movie and the book "everything bad is good for you". It seems as though you are on top of your game and are ready to start on the actual paper. Good work.
HW 18 – Big rough draft paper
DRAFT !!
As if America doesn’t have enough problems to deal with, another small addition has been added onto our plates. Everyone loves Apple’s Macs or Microsoft’s Xbox, only we love them to the point where we are home all day playing with them until they decide to create a portable device. Video games and TV have come a long way when looking at Pac-man and Super Mario Bros. digital graphics compared to the infamous Grand-theft auto or Today’s television shows. There is no doubt that American Society has taken a rise for a newer profound take on technology, but it is too most surely that America’s technological rise will too be the reason for its fall.
M.T. Anderson, an award winning novelist for his book “Feed” too discusses the downfall that we as a society are leading too. Only he does this in a more interesting way, an allegorical sense that shows the same problems faced by us as a society only in the future. It seems no matter the day and age, from this point on, we will only live to see problems occur with us, while we continue to live superficial lifestyles and judge the next person in two ways, for looking down on those who choose to live this lifestyle and for not joining in on the superficial race to live this way. It is already proven that Human beings are shown as a much “dumber” generation compared to those hundreds of years ago. In Feed, it depicts a picture for us, an eye- opening picture at that, showing we are on a road to only becoming dumber. M.T. Anderson shows us how blind we are to the environment we have created for ourselves. Not paying mind to our problems or the next, we soon disregard the problems that we experience now. We are blinded by the exciting flashy objects things that capture our attention, technology.
(include quote)
It is a race for us to be able to claim who owns what, helping to divide us between the powerful and the powerless. These technological objects representing power.
Disney’s Motion picture “Wall-E” shows the tale of an only robot that remains on Earth 700 years later in the future, going from cleaning garbage to being aboard a spaceship vacationing all humans until Earth is cleaned. The storyline is more complex and a bit off track. But what remains to be seen in Wall-E is the problems that Humans will drastically go through if we continue to live carelessly not concerning our futures. Besides worrying about where garbage storage will lead us, Wall-E shows us the attachment and dependency we have onto technology. Technology is created to make things simpler for us, but when things get a little too simple, we tend to be less actively and less socially. Being re-exposed to simpler things in life, such as swimming pools or less technical activites, was like being re-born for the humans. Movies like these, where scenes take place in the not-so distant future where we seem to have accomplished huge outbreaks in technology. Movies like these, show the one human being who chooses not to join in on the rush for technology and chooses to live the more simpler life of easier laid back devices, making the character always seem rebellious. This connects to the real world as people constantly get swept into the rush of new technology. Those who choose not to get caught up is seen as left behind or just old-fashioned. This relates to the main idea of the powerful continuing to obtain as the powerless struggle to keep up.
“Everything bad is good for you”, a book by Steven Johnson that explains the social differences that take place between readers and video-gamest.
As if America doesn’t have enough problems to deal with, another small addition has been added onto our plates. Everyone loves Apple’s Macs or Microsoft’s Xbox, only we love them to the point where we are home all day playing with them until they decide to create a portable device. Video games and TV have come a long way when looking at Pac-man and Super Mario Bros. digital graphics compared to the infamous Grand-theft auto or Today’s television shows. There is no doubt that American Society has taken a rise for a newer profound take on technology, but it is too most surely that America’s technological rise will too be the reason for its fall.
M.T. Anderson, an award winning novelist for his book “Feed” too discusses the downfall that we as a society are leading too. Only he does this in a more interesting way, an allegorical sense that shows the same problems faced by us as a society only in the future. It seems no matter the day and age, from this point on, we will only live to see problems occur with us, while we continue to live superficial lifestyles and judge the next person in two ways, for looking down on those who choose to live this lifestyle and for not joining in on the superficial race to live this way. It is already proven that Human beings are shown as a much “dumber” generation compared to those hundreds of years ago. In Feed, it depicts a picture for us, an eye- opening picture at that, showing we are on a road to only becoming dumber. M.T. Anderson shows us how blind we are to the environment we have created for ourselves. Not paying mind to our problems or the next, we soon disregard the problems that we experience now. We are blinded by the exciting flashy objects things that capture our attention, technology.
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It is a race for us to be able to claim who owns what, helping to divide us between the powerful and the powerless. These technological objects representing power.
Disney’s Motion picture “Wall-E” shows the tale of an only robot that remains on Earth 700 years later in the future, going from cleaning garbage to being aboard a spaceship vacationing all humans until Earth is cleaned. The storyline is more complex and a bit off track. But what remains to be seen in Wall-E is the problems that Humans will drastically go through if we continue to live carelessly not concerning our futures. Besides worrying about where garbage storage will lead us, Wall-E shows us the attachment and dependency we have onto technology. Technology is created to make things simpler for us, but when things get a little too simple, we tend to be less actively and less socially. Being re-exposed to simpler things in life, such as swimming pools or less technical activites, was like being re-born for the humans. Movies like these, where scenes take place in the not-so distant future where we seem to have accomplished huge outbreaks in technology. Movies like these, show the one human being who chooses not to join in on the rush for technology and chooses to live the more simpler life of easier laid back devices, making the character always seem rebellious. This connects to the real world as people constantly get swept into the rush of new technology. Those who choose not to get caught up is seen as left behind or just old-fashioned. This relates to the main idea of the powerful continuing to obtain as the powerless struggle to keep up.
“Everything bad is good for you”, a book by Steven Johnson that explains the social differences that take place between readers and video-gamest.
Monday, November 2, 2009
HW 17 - blog comments
Stephany Adames...
Sounds like you've got your head in the game. This is not only well organized but very thorough. It'll be simple to write out your arguments based on your topic starters, its obvious that it can lead to a whole paper. Only thing is i guess you can create your thesis rather than show your essential question because eventually your gonna need it and have to strengthen it further on, why not kill two birds with one stone, no? Anyways, i wanted to do wall-e- to but i thought itd have been silly (haha) no but its good that your using it because what it depicted for viewers was something very serious, and not only a future dilemma on our hands but one we have now in modern America, i guess thats where feeds "allegory" kicks in. i hope my comment was helpful. Goodluck on your paper.
Sam Cotto...
Nice outline. its very structured, sounds like you are well prepared for your big paper. Your arguments are good but i think it might be a little more complicated then you realized to connect what those interviewed and your family members think about digital media to Feed and everything bad is good for you. But your also ahead of the game it seems so odds are you'll prove me wrong. Its very creative to use your own brainstormed thoughts as evidence, because it shows your in control of your own paper as this entire paper is based on our own self control and addictions to technology. Good luck on your paper.
Sounds like you've got your head in the game. This is not only well organized but very thorough. It'll be simple to write out your arguments based on your topic starters, its obvious that it can lead to a whole paper. Only thing is i guess you can create your thesis rather than show your essential question because eventually your gonna need it and have to strengthen it further on, why not kill two birds with one stone, no? Anyways, i wanted to do wall-e- to but i thought itd have been silly (haha) no but its good that your using it because what it depicted for viewers was something very serious, and not only a future dilemma on our hands but one we have now in modern America, i guess thats where feeds "allegory" kicks in. i hope my comment was helpful. Goodluck on your paper.
Sam Cotto...
Nice outline. its very structured, sounds like you are well prepared for your big paper. Your arguments are good but i think it might be a little more complicated then you realized to connect what those interviewed and your family members think about digital media to Feed and everything bad is good for you. But your also ahead of the game it seems so odds are you'll prove me wrong. Its very creative to use your own brainstormed thoughts as evidence, because it shows your in control of your own paper as this entire paper is based on our own self control and addictions to technology. Good luck on your paper.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
HW 16 - Big paper outline
Outline:
Intro
Thesis:
(1)American Society's rise for a newer profound take on technology will too be its fall.
(2)America's society, split into two, will show the powerful obtaining new technology to add onto while the powerless strive to obtain only to catch up and fit in, seemingly straggling behind as an "average american".
arguments:
(1)(tv vs. gaming)
Newer games and devices slightly prove to help teach kids and help them focus and learn in a more modern way.
(2)(m.t. anderson - feed)
aligory's are used by famous award winning novelists predicting the fall of americans being through our own accomplishments through digital use.
(3)Americans only find happiness or satisfaction through possessions, while others who do not possess those are found feeling emptiness or seen as feeling empty without
conclusion
Intro
Thesis:
(1)American Society's rise for a newer profound take on technology will too be its fall.
(2)America's society, split into two, will show the powerful obtaining new technology to add onto while the powerless strive to obtain only to catch up and fit in, seemingly straggling behind as an "average american".
arguments:
(1)(tv vs. gaming)
Newer games and devices slightly prove to help teach kids and help them focus and learn in a more modern way.
(2)(m.t. anderson - feed)
aligory's are used by famous award winning novelists predicting the fall of americans being through our own accomplishments through digital use.
(3)Americans only find happiness or satisfaction through possessions, while others who do not possess those are found feeling emptiness or seen as feeling empty without
conclusion
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