Final Project

Toxic in products= workers communities and people

The average women in U.s use 12 personal products daily

Carcinogens chemicals

Toxicity level=

 lead

 triclosan flame

 retardants

mercury

Lead in lipstick

Ingredients from packaging: Active Ingredients: Padimate O (7.5%) (Ethylhexyl Dimethyl Paba), Oxybenzone (4%) (Benzopenone 3)Inactive Ingredients: Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Polybutene, Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax, Cetyl Ricinoleate, Glyceryl Triacetyl Hydroxystearate, Ozokerite, Beeswax, Glyceryl Triacetyl Ricinoleate, Wheat Germ Glycerides, Rosa Canina Fruit Oil, Anthemis Nobilis Flower Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Honey, Saccharin, Allantoin, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Tocopherol, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Propylparaben, Butylparaben, Fragrance, May Contain: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77499), Iron Oxides (CI 77489, CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), Mica (CI 77019)

Directions from packaging: For extra smooth lips, first exfoliate with Lip Emulsion. Tinted Treatment Lipsticks are sheer and foolproof enough to apply anywhere - no mirror required!

Warnings from packaging: Warnings:For external use only. When using this product: Keep out of eyes. Rinse with water to remove. Stop use and ask a doctor if: Rash or irritation develops and lasts. Keep out of reach of children. Children under 6 months of age: ask doctor. Sun Alert: The sun may cause sunburn, premature aging of skin and skin cancer. Avoiding the sun, wearing protective clothing and regular use of sunscreens over the years may reduce the change of these harmful effects.

Cosmetics own committee cosmetic industry making up their own rules

Government decides which products are in or out 

No laws of usage of toxics

FDA doesn’t assets products or their ingredients

Don’t required that products list all their ingredients in a label

Cosmetics own committee cosmetic industry making up their own rules

Use safe cosmetics at safecosmetics.org

Blog Entry 4.4

I’m sitting on the train with my headphones trying not to think so much about the essay. I get off and I buy some snacks. I arrive to the E building at 5:20, 15 minutes before the test start. I’m sitting outside the room drinking water and having a little snack. I make sure that I go to the bathroom so that I won’t go once I start (because I’m not allow).I’m feeling a bit anxious because I want to get over it. I step inside the room and feel a bit nervous because I don’t want the prompt to be something I can’t relate. I begin my essay, I start to read the reading slowly and carefully so I can focus then I read the prompt again and re read the article so that I can remember what I can use for the essay. I highlight some quotes from the reading and put a little note to the side saying evidence .After I’m done, I will take 30 minutes to do an outline of my essay I write my claim/opinion then I write 3 reason s why I agree or disagree. I am going to use 1-2 personal experience so that it makes my essay stronger. After I’m done with the outline I will begin to write and follow the order of my outline so I can concentrate better. I would take 15 mins to review my essay and fixed some sentences and misspellings or/and even add or remove things. After I’m done with that I will re read it and give myself positive feedback and give the proctor my essay .I would leave and have positive thoughts on head so I can feel confident I did good.

Blog Entry 4.3 CAT Practice # 6

  In the article “Is Google making us stupid?” the author Nicholas Carr talks about the famous search engine, Google. He says that Google is a useful search engine that allows us to get information quickly. He also mentions that Google and computers overall cannot only provide you with information but can cause distraction. One of the most significant ideas from the article was that the author Nicholas Carr said that what makes a person intelligent is not the ability to find information quickly but the ability to think deeply about the information. I agree with this, if we can’t develop our own thoughts without the help of the internet that means that we would depend on the internet for the rest of out lives in order to obtain information. Therefore I believe that the internet is bad in some ways because it can cause us not to learn on our own, lose concentration and interrupt our ability to think about the information.

   People are not able to think on their own because depend on search engines like Google too much and therefore we are not able to learn. Yes, the internet can b every useful but it can also be bad. According to the author, he says “so even as Google is giving us all that useful information, it’s also encouraging us to think superficially”. I can relate to this because I remember in my psychology class, my teacher used to give us research papers and the only way I used to find my information was throughout the internet. It was very helpful but I felt as it was not helping me gain more knowledge about the subject because I didn’t know if the information was accurate. Even thought I thought it was useful I knew that I was not learning on my own because I would skim through the information and rephrase it and not even understand what I was reading. And now I look back and say that internet was encouraging me to think superficially instead of my own.

     Another reason why people are not able to think on their own is because they are distracted with the internet. According to the article “if we’re distracted we understand less, remember less and learn less.”I can honestly say that I am guilty of this because when I’m distracted I lose my train of thoughts and sometimes even forget what’s been said. When I was in my computer class, I would sometimes go on the internet and get distracted. Instead of listen and typing notes from the teachers lecture, I would go on AIM and start chatting with my friends and even Google stuff to keep me entertain. I felt tempted to use the internet and it was an interruption of my learning because I wasn’t able to concentrate. I was not able to develop my thoughts because I wasn’t able to remember what was being taught. And because of that I wasn’t able to think deeply.

       Finally, if we depend on the internet for the rest of our lives, we would not be able to think deeply about any subject. If we are able to concentrate, then we won’t remember or learn anything. If we are able to use other sources to help us get information and actually think about the information, this would actually help us understand better and learn more. And like the author says “the greater our concentration, the richer our thoughts are".

Blog Entry 4.1 CAT 5

In the article Rewired, the author, Larry Ronsen, a book author, talks about technology and the influence it has on kids. He says that using technology such as the internet, in class or at home can it make it easy for kids to learn, if it’s used properly. In addition he also said that these tools can help parents and teachers be involved with their children’s school work. Furthermore, One of the most interesting idea that the author mention was that he said he was a strong advocate, supporter, of using technology as a teaching tool because it made kids learn more. Therefore, I believe that the internet can make a class more fun entertaining with educational material.

After reading the article, I believe that the internet does make a class more interesting because you can obtain more information and gain more knowledge while class being fun.According to the article,the author quotes “You can use their love of technology to make schoolwork more fun” I agree with this because I remember when I was in my senior year in high  school; I had a class in which my teacher used technology as a teaching tool. The class was called “Mediastorm”. In this class, I was assign to a laptop and I was responsible to do my final project.For my final project,i had to do a video narrative about the importance of  community gardens. What made the project interesting was that I got to do my own research and even arranged meetings to meet people who worked in important organizationns such as david bowen,a gardanist that worked with Michelle Obama.with the help of my teacher and the internet i was able to like the class,and eventually get a good grade.This shows that learning can be interesting if a teacher uses technology.

Technology can make a class more fun and educational only if  it makes children be engage in their schoolwork.According to Larry Ronsen ,"If schoolwork involves technology then students need to be direct  to do their work for periods of time , followed by other activities, annd then nback to their studies until their work is done"",which i agree because kids are fast leaners and with the help of a computer they are more ikely to do their work.Which makes me remmeber when i read a New York Times article about education; how students from other countries used computers as a teaching tool.In this article it  said that kids were taught their math class through a computer program that contained all their lessons.They also were able to interact with viirtual tutors that helped them with math exercises.And eventually helped students be better in class because of these tools.

Using technology can make a difference.With my personal experince,i agree with Larry Rosen, just for the simple fact that using laptops in my class and doing my own project of interest made it much enaging then my other classes.And with the article i read, it was obvious to see that those kids gain more education as well as information since they used technology in their classes.

Pandora's: Blog 13: CATW # 5: How to Do One Thing at a Time

Pandora's: Blog 13: CATW # 5: How to Do One Thing at a Time: "The authors most important ideas in 'How to Do One Thing at a Time' by Nancy Jones of the women's health magazine is knowing multi-tasking i..."

Claim:"Talking on the phone while driving is a dumb idea"
The author Kristina did an okay job.
She had a good claim.
One of her examples was really good because she realted to it.

In my opinion her essay could have been a longer.
She could've use more reasons and evidence from the article.
She did not summarize,she just pointed out the authors main point.
Her summary made me a bit confuse because i didnt know what the article was really about.

Needs to work on her summary.
Needs to clarify her second evidence.Needs to seperate her paragraphs because its too much for just two paragraphs.
Needs to work on grammar; there was some grammar errors: usage of comas and short sentences.

Blog Entry 3.5 CAT Practice 4

In the article “Let them Eat Fat” the author, Greg Critser, talks about the consumption of fast food. He says that fast food restaurants such as McDonalds and Krispy Kreme are basically the only source of food for poor and low income communities. He says that,because of fast food restaurants there really isn’t a choice of healthier foods.So people are likely to consume things that are cheap and unhealthy. In addition, this article talks about black people,and how they are not able to afford healthy foods because of their economic status. Furthermore, one of the authors’ most significant point that caught my attention was that he said poor people are encouraged to consume unhealthy foods. I believe that fast food restaurants make it hard for people to eat healthy because people cant afford anything healthier other than fast food,and because  the vast variety or fast food restaurants,that makes their food so much cheaper.

People choose to eat unhealthy rather than healthy foods because of their economic status. For example, if you come from a low income community what you’ll see is that there are a lot of fast food restaurants. And because of that, it is most likely that a poor person would eat fast food. According to the article, “One of every four hamburgers sold by the folks at McDonalds, for example, is now purchased by inner city consumers who, disproportionately, are young black men.”This shows that young black men are targeted to eat these foods because of they are money less and are not exposed to healthy foods. Another example is that black people who are from low income can be easily recognized of their unhealthy habits because of their money status. According to the article, “Young black kids traveling between school and home, their economic status is apparent by the fact that they’ve walked instead of driven”. This shows that by looking at a person’s economic status, you can tell that they don’t eat healthy, not only because they are not exposed, but because they are not able to afford it.

Fast food restaurants provide a person with cheap meals that is why low income people are targeted and encouraged to consume these foods. People might say that they can get more food at a fast food restaurant with little money, but they don’t know how much unhealthier it is. For example, if you go to a fast food restaurant and you want extra of your food order, you have the option to make your other small, medium, large or even supersize! According to the article “Consumers are cheerfully encouraged to “supersize your meal!”  By signs saying, “If we don’t recommend a supersize, the supersize is free!” With these types of advertisements, it is most likely that a poor person can be encouraged to buy a super meal. Therefore, cheap meals at fast food restaurants make it affordable for low income people to eat unhealthy.

As a consumer, I am guilty of eating unhealthy food, at fast food restaurants. The reason why is because I am tempted by advertisements. For example the main purpose of advertisements is so that they catch your eye when you’re hungry. I don’t categorize myself as a low income, nor a high income person, but if I am hungry, and I know that the nearest thing around me is a fast food restaurant, I am likely to eat at one. I can say that is very difficult to eat healthy foods, when everything around doesn’t sell healthy foods, and food advertisements, only display fast food like McDonalds and Burger King. With these advertisements I can say that temptation is the reason why I eat unhealthy.

Finally, fast foods are very unhealthy.Fast food restaurants like McDonalds,Buger King,Wendys,can encourage you to eat their food,because their food is cheap and they provide more quantity instead of quality.With all these different fast food restaurants,it is hard for poor people to obtain healthy foods if their not exposed them. I believe that because of fast food restaurants you don’t have much option to healthy foods. Therefore, it can be very hard to eat healthy when your poor and your encouranged to eat bad foods.

Blog Entry 3.4 The Meatrix

                                                                    Summary

Meatrix:

   In the film the meatrix, Leo and Moopheous go on an adventure to learn about the real story about where our daily meat comes from. In this film we see that Leo is a pig and moopheous is a cow, like in the movie The Matrix, we see that in this replica Morpheus (the cow) is trying to show Leo (pig) the real world rather than the allusion that he has. In addition the film also speaks about factories in today’s world and how it has changed from being family farms to factory farms, where agriculture corporations have destroy all the family farms in order build factory farms. This film explains that agriculture corps has destroyed over two million family farms because they want to maximizes profit since it’s the consumers daily source. In this film Moopheous talked about the difference about family farms and factory farms. The factory farms animals are treated badly, they don’t have much space to move, and that’s the reason why there are many bacteria among the animals that can be dangerous. Also the way they make more cows and chickens and pigs is by a feeding them antibiotics that keep them alive so more animals can be reproduce. finally, this film also teaches us that  aside from the allusion, people don’t know where they meat comes from therefore we are at risk to unhealthy food, So Leo goes on an adventure to learn more about these factory farms.

Meatrix: Revolting

    In this second film the adventure of Leo and Moopheous continues. Leo learns that people Are trying to eat much healthier but even thought that other don’t take action, there is still problems. Some of the problems that this film speaks about are that moderns farms and how they have the unhealthiest conditions. The modern farms use an artificial growth hormone known as RBGH which makes animals grow and is a source of food so that instead of growing naturally they are injected with this hormone so they can grow artificially. Moopheous also tells Leo that in these factory farms, calves, baby cows, are separated from their mothers to be fed with milk that is produce by blood of other ceased animals. Because of this there’s the reason why there is mad cows diseases between these animals that can harm us if we consume this because animals have bacteria. In this film Moopheous is taken by the enemies also known as the agriculture corps agents.

Meatrix II ½

     In this third film the main idea was about real world and how these factory farms are affecting us, the consumers. In this film the agents tell Moopheous that these factories are created with the purpose to feed thousands of consumers because of our fast food nation. In this film the agents say that the factories havemany dangerous working conditions. One of them is that workers can cut their hands while they are cutting the meat and if the process of meat packing is going faster .second the agents tell moopheous about the purpose of speeding the process, the outcome to this is that manure, cows excrement, can hit the meat and cause Ecoli, a bacteria that can make consumers sick. In addition, the agents tell moopheous that the reason why they speed up the process of meat packing is because they have to produce more profit, meaning more money and more consumers. And for this reason this is why people don’t know that there meat comes from a place where there is bad conditions like the one this film explains.

Article

This article was about the main issues that workers face while working in factory farms. Some of the issues mentioned in this article were: health issues,working conditions,and working rights.This article said that working in a factory is the most hazadours job in America,meaning the most dangerous job because of its consequences.
The reason why is because these workers are exposed to many things such unhealthy and dangerous conditions.Some of the problems consistt of health issues,these workers are exposed to bacteria and diseases that makes them have serious health isssues.In this article the author mentioned that these worker have health problems because of the animals they work with.Famrn animals that are kept in a enclosed enviroment with these workers and mostlikely to get infections and other serious conditions that can affect them later on in life.This article says that workers can be atrisk when they breath in the gases caused by these animals and their manure.The manure of an animal can contain alot of bacteria and cause you to have respiratory issues.In addition these workers can get cut while butchering these animals.This article sdaid that 12 workers died while working at factorie farms because they have drown in animals excrement.
Also this article talks about workers right. It wsays that most of these workers are undocumented workers who are paid the minimun.This means that they work for a low wage because there isnt other people who will do this job.Even thoought they are not legal in this country they have working rights that protects them from abuse and health conditions,but it says that these workers are scared because they will loose the job and they wont be able to find another or are even afraiod that they would get fired.

Blog Entry 3.3 Practice CAT #3

In the article “The Net Is the Real World" the authors talk about the recent case of the teenager, who killed himself after finding out that his privacy was not so private. Tyler Clementi, a teenager at Rutgers University found that his privacy was leaked all over the internet, because his roommates had implanted a hidden camera. Soon after he had seen videos of himself in the internet having an intimate moment with another man, he decided to say his last goodbyes through the same way his privacy was invaded, the internet.Later, he took his life by jumping out the George Washington Bridge, where his body was found. What really interested me about article, was that it said that the perpetrators,In this case the bullies,would never know how much pain they inflicted to their victims.We can truly say that the reason why is because of all the emotional stress provoked by bullies.This makes me think how a person is capable to victimized a teenager.

     After reading this article, I believe that cyber bullying can be very hurtful, in my opinion; it is the number one cause that leads to tragedies among teenagers in today’s world. Nowadays I hear the news about death. We all know death is natural thing but young people dying is when things get unhumorous.in the news i hear teenagers killing themselves and murdering someone. It is a very common topic in today’s world because there are more teenagers who have been a victim of cyber bullying. And some of the reasons are because of bullying and privacy invasion.
      Victims of cyber bullying, like Tyler Clementi can lead them to committing suicide because they have no other way of dealing with their suffering. After a terrible act like the one his friends did to him, it is likely to understand that Tyler felt maybe embarrassed or even betrayed that his roommates would do such thing. Because of cyber bullying Tyler Clemeti, these roommates and their actions caused a very sad tragedy. In the case of Tyler people were being part of this sad tragedy because it caused his death. According to the article is says that “Whether is an invasion of privacy, or outing, as in this case, or some other form of bullying, such as defamation, impersonation, or just plain being mean, cyber bullies can afflict mental anguish that can hurt worse than physical wounds because cyber attack can reach a vast audience,and can haunt the victim forever.”I do agree with this because is the only reason why a teenager who has a life ahead of him would kill himself.
          Cyber bullying can victimized a person's life for the rest of their lives or even a soon after their victimized. For Instance, I remember when I read an article in high school about a teenager committing suicide because she was a victim of bullying through the internet. This teenager was only 13 years old and she was an active user of a popular social network called MySpace. Megan Meier, had received a friend request of guy who she interacted with and felt feelings for, who she later called her “boyfriend” but had never met. Even though she had not met this kid she liked him and enjoyed talking to him. Little; did she know that the person she called her boyfriend was actually a neighbor friend’s mom who pretended to be a teenager to find out if Megan Meier was talking about her daughter. In this case this girl took her life by hanging herself after other people began insulting her. I believe that this girl killed herself because she had low self esteem and she was bullied at school so even then it is likely to say that she was hurt that a person would do such a thing. And according to the article “when it comes to bullying, the internet can encourage what psychologist call “disinhibition”.”
        Finally, I believe that cyber bullying is a dangerous thing to teenager nowadays because it can affect them very bad. The culprit of these actions should face with a sentence to jail because it is not a normal thing to do. There are more teenagers who keep dying because of being bullied throughout the internet. For instance in the case of Meagan and Tyler, two teenagers who were victims of internet bullying, by coldhearted people, now are gone because they weren’t able to handle mental injuries produce by other humans.

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REFLECTION:
According to my classmates i did a good job in demonstarating clear understanding ideas in the reading,giving examples,the structure and word choice.I dont know about Grammar usage because they didnt put any grade in the that part.

Blog Entry 3.2 Practice CAT # 2

The article “The Cyborg Advantage” by Clive Thompson is mainly about a question that the author asks: Which are smarter, humans or machines? In this article the author talks about the difference between using machines, like computers, rather than humans using their brain. In addition, he talks about how humans use machine intelligence in situations such as playing a game of chess where in the article he proves that humans do use machine intelligence in order to facilitate their moves such as calculations or help. Furthermore, he says that whether humans use or don’t use machine intelligence, nowadays people rely on computers and machine intelligence to increase their strategies. This article concludes that if humans and computers work as a team there is a better chance at winning and gaining an “aha” moment.

In my opinion I believe that computers and humans are smarter than humans alone, because if you work as a team you can gain more knowledge. I believe that use of digital assistance and machine intelligence can help a person have more advantages, rather than those who don’t use computers.

After reading the article, I noticed that computers have a great advantage towards humans. If humans and computers work together as a team they are able to be more powerful source. According to the article, the author says that “computers can perform endless lighting fast calculation; humans can’t”. I do agree with this because a human can’t add big numbers in less than three seconds, but with a computer who has a calculator, it is much faster to have a quick answer than taking time to do calculations.

Using a computer helps you win. If your playing a game your likely to win if a computer helps you with tips or helps you figure our your next step. For instance in a game of chess is more likely that a computer is going to beat you. But according to the article, in a freestyle online tournament of chess in 2005, “each competitor enter the position of their pieces into a computer and use the move that the program recommended to inform their decision-making” This helped the computers win, because of “blending their smarts with machine smarts. Therefore this study proof those computers can help humans become smarter.

Humans who rely on computers are the ones who are more strategic and smart. The reason why is because humans who use computers usefully and are able to gain more intelligence instead of those who don t use computers. According to the article the authors estates that, “people who are thrilled by personal; technology are the ones who have optimized their process-they know when to rely on machine intelligence” further on it says the result of using computers, “the upshot is that they feel smarter, more focused, and more capable .In contrast those who feel intimidated by online life haven’t hit the sweet spot”. We can say that there is a great outcome if a human uses machines because with the help of a machine toy can accomplish things

Finally I believe that humans who use computers and smarter than those who don’t use machine assistance because there is a great disadvantage if a human doesnt use  machine.therefore I belive that if humans are able to work together as a team like  the article The Cyborg Advantage"  says,then theres a greater chance that a human wins.

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Blog Entry 3.1 Personal Electronic Devices

Claim:

Personal Electronic  Devices provides us with portable entertainment that makes us contented.

Reason: Listening to music

Evidence: Everyday when I am in the train i carry my ipod and I listen to music so i wont get bored.

Reason: Personal electronic devices makes us happy becausewe can communicate with a love one or family.

Evidence: Instead of making a call from a house phone, a cellphone,that you can carry with you at all times,can serve you to call someone you wish to speak too without a hassle.


Reason: With personal electronic devices we are able to interact.

Evidence: For example with the latest iphone, you can do video chat with another person and actually see the person and yourself in the screen of the iphone.

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Blog Entry 2.3 Part III

3D 

                              
In our lives we can say that we have watched a 3d movie. Three dimensional movies unlike regular movies are enhance so we can see movies in a whole dimension. For example in a 3d movie we can see the movie characters come out the screen of a movie theater with 3D glasses that makes us say “wow” . In this picture we see a scene from the movie Toy Storie 3 where woody is running along with his buddy. If we were to put our 3D glasses we would see that woody comes out of our screen .We would be able to touch him and see how he is running towards us.
The reason why I chose 3D movies , is because if we think about it, and the theme of the movie matrix, where one of the movie characters says that the world is fake. We can say that 3d movies makes our world artificial because we can see that with advance of technology instead of just seeing a plain regular movie at the movie theaters we can actually experience the movie characters coming out the screen.

      When I think of seeing a 3d movie is something amazing because back then there wasn’t so much technology that made movies look better like the way they do today.3d movies are becoming more popular and seeing the movie matrix I can relate that 3d movies are artificial according to the theme of the movie since the world is seeing as artificial. therefore that’s why I choose 3d movies because in the sense of the movie matrix we can see that 3d movies can be artificial.

Blog Entry 2.3 Part II

                           
                         Call of Duty: Black Ops


Call of Duty: Black Ops -Trailer


Nowadays people want to experience what war feels like or what it looks like. Don’t think that these people actually want to go to war, what they want to do is experience war in a whole different type of way. The way that most people (who don’t have the courage to actually presence real war) get to experience war is by video games. There are many war games out there were they have really good graphics and you actually see blood and you get to shoot whoever is your enemy and get wounded. Most people would say they prefer to play a video game rather than actually go serve in war. With a any game console at the comfort of your house you can play video games such as Ghost Recon, Medal of honor and the most popular game name Call of Duty.

In this video, we see the trailer for the newest game Call Duty: Black Ops, In this trailer the narrator tells us the features that this new game has. If you take a look at the video and the narrator and the player shows us some of the moves that you can do such as shooting at your enemy, there’s also scenes where we see man in uniforms that look like actual soldier uniforms holding guns and getting shot.

The reason why I choose this video is because is an explanation of the game and there you get to see the setting of war and you see many graphics that actually look like real war,not real graphics but fictional graphics that make it look real.In this video you can see that Instead of actually going to war now you can actually play video games based on war theme at your house with any game console. With this video you can see that our world is sort of artificial because there things like this video game that hides the true meaning of actually being in war. And with this video we can see that our world can sometimes have artificial things like skipping out from experiencing war in real person than now playing it at home.

Blog Entry 2.3 Part I

                                                   Lazy much?

A mother using a Segway


Some people might say that walking is not their thing. People who don’t like walking or exercise would try to avoid walking by using alternative transportation modes. For example a person may use a car or bus, skate board or even roller blades, instead of using their own two feet to walk. Some people don’t understand the importance of walking or how walking can benefit them. For once, standing is better than sitting and walking is better than not walking.
In the picture above, we see a mom ridding a mobile scooter. We see a lady who is taking a “walk “ on the park pushing her stroller. The women is actually ridding a Segway and pushing a baby stroller instead of walking in the park pushing her baby stroller, just like any normal person would do. A Segway, is a two wheeled, self balancing scooter. This Segway, shows the artificial side of the world because if you think about it, you notice that people would choose a mobile scooter instead of walking to work or take a walk in the park. This is an example of illusion to the real world because when I think about ancient years people had to walk and go through obstacles in order to get to their destination. They had to walk long distances which nowadays are shortening by technology and this mobile scooter also known as a Segway.
Why do we have to find alternatives of transportation in order to get to a destination or do things? If we were created to be born with two legs then we should be able to use those muscles and walk instead of using alternatives. Therefore this is why I choose the mobile scooter because its something that makes part of our pop culture.

Blog Entry 2.2 Truman Syndrome

           The Truman Syndrome is a disorder that affects ordinary people with their every day lives. This syndrome can potentially make a person go lunatic and think that their lives are being tape like a reality TV show. I believe that any person who is easily influenced by reality shows, any sort of technology, or even pop culture, they are most likely to develop the “Truman Syndrome”.
           The article “Life Imitates art as Truman Syndrome diagnose” is mainly about a mental condition named “Truman Syndrome”, this mental condition was named after the movie “The Truman Show” starring Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank. This movie was about a guy who did not know that his life was being recorded, but later, he realizes that his life was staged as a reality show, and all his “friends” and family were playing actors all along. The Truman syndrome has symptoms of paranoia, delusions and having the feeling of being persecuted. Patients that suffer these symptoms tend to think that “their lives are being played out on a reality TV show”. This is why patients with this problem relate to “The Truman Show”.
          A person can develop the Truman syndrome if they are a target to self deception. If a person believes that their being hunted or in this case being recorded or subject to inappropriate drug use, they can be affect with the Truman syndrome. The author of the article says,” delusions can be a symptom of various psychiatric illnesses, as well as neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. Some drugs can also make people delusional“. This disorder is significantly important because people can have these symptoms and slowly become delusional and lead to them having “Truman syndrome”. If they do develop this symptoms that it can gradually make them more crazy .They would believe that their lives are being tape like in the case of Truman Burbank. According to the article, Dr Joel Gold a physiatrist and his brother “learned about 50 more people with similar symptoms” It is most likely to say that if there’s 50 similar cases then it’s probable that there’s even more cases of this syndrome.

          This condition can be serious because people get influence very easily because of the internet. In such cases that they are likely to develop some of the symptoms like paranoia and have delusions. For instance, in the case of a patient in Australia, a girl believed that she was being recorded and was becoming a walking webcam, because she was addicted to the internet. According to the article, studies say that “Delusions tend to be classified by broad categories, such as the belief that one is being persecuted, but research has shown culture and technology can also affect them” This shows that this Australian girl develop these symptoms because of the consistence use of technology. The reason why there can be so many cases like these because technology can be a powerful tool that can easy influence people in a negative way.
　
The Truman syndrome can gradually make a normal person be convinced that there lives are being taped. The symptoms can go from bad to worse. If a person starts having delusions it can be worsen by paranoia. The Truman syndrome doesn’t just come out of nowhere. This syndrome is caused by many things, such as pop culture and technology and things that can easily influence us. Therefore people who are easily influenced by these things are most likely to be convinced that there life’s are like reality show.

Blog Entry 2.1 Archetype: The Caregiver

                                 Archetype: The Caregiver

What is a caregiver?
-A caregiver is a personwho demonstrate her ability of helping others in need.Her characterictic consist of being caring and baing altruistic.Altrusitic is when someone gives adbudence to other people and is wealthy not exaclty with money with other powers such as love.The Pearson Archetypal System , says"Caregiver types need to watch their tendencies toward martyrdom and enabling others,and to burn themselves out while always putting others first"This means that caregivers are highly altruistic and are naturarally compasionate of what they do.



"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving" -Mother Theresa



When I think about a caregiver. I think about a person who is concern about another persons life. For example doing research i found that an example of a caregiver is Mother Theresa. As some people know, Mother Theresa was a very religious icon, and she helped everyone she could without nothing in exchange. She helped the ones who were in need such as the poor people and homeless people. She always extended her hand to help people with much love as possible. Therefore it clearly shows that a caregiver not only helps a person but does it with out expecting to be rewarded.



The archetype, the caregiver, reminds a lot of my mother .Not only it reminds me of my mother but my archetype comes from her side. The reason why is because my mother is over protective, in the sense that she likes to nurtureus and care about our wellbeing. For instance, dinner time, shell cook and serve every one of us, once we finish eating, she’ll start serving herself. This is an act of a doting parent, where a parent puts themselves first than themselves. This shows that she is very nurturing and constantly keeps providing the best for me and my siblings. Living with my mother i can see the resembles on me,because i like to sacrifice for people in order to help them and its something i do without expecting something in return. 

                                            

Mary Poppins

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In this website I found that a caregiver has a positive and negative.
According to Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen pace Nilsen, a caregiver is person that is self sacrificing and has many responsibilities along a their journey. It also says that the negative aspect is that caregivers are guilt-inducers, for example they like to bring guilt out, and feel guilty about things. This website also says that a caregiver is a a person who is willing to help a person and empowering people with tough love.In this website they give an example of characters and people who are like caregivers and one of them was Mary Poppins.Mary Poppins was a very helpful person and nurturing because in the movie she helped the kids be obidient and help them with homework and cleaning,so being nurturing can relate to mary poppins because she was a character who did things like helping the kids with love and providing them with support and her service.





Blog Entry 1.4 Reality,TV,and Reality TV

            Does living life without exploring real life events affect the way we live our life’s? It certainly does, if we lived our life’s like reality TV shows do, we would be mount to act a certain way. For example we would be told to do things a certain way or act a certain way. If our life’s were to be lived as a reality show we would not come across actuality, we would be produce into a TV show where our lives would be recorded and staged. For instance the movie Truman Show, the main character Truman Burbank, doesn’t know that his life is been recorded, and doesn’t face real life events. He faces situations that are already scripted in such way that leads on to events that are not authentic.
           Watching the movie The Truman Show we see that the protagonist Truman, lives in a world that is manipulated by other people who are actors. The type of life he lives in is known as a reality TV show. While his life is been recorded everyday, Truman doesn’t notice until he comes to eye opening scene where he sees his father(who died in a boat accident) dressed as a bum and is been taken away by a group of people who were dressed with suits. Later he notices that he’s life is recorded because every move he tries to make is been changed to a “normal way”.For instance in the scene where Truman is dancing he has his sight on a woman who he feels attracted too.He tries to approach her and dance with her and have a word,But it all comes down,where the girl he had laid eyes on is been taken away again,by the group of people dressed in suits.This clearly shows that if truman wasn’t on a reality show he would have fallen inlove with the girl that he actually had his sight on and had feelings for.If he knew what love really was, his life would have been completely different because instead of marrying the wife he was married too, he would have been with Lauren, the girl he wanted to be romantically involved with, But on the contrary he ended up marrying someone who he didn’t love and was part of the cast. At the end of the movie Truman clearly sees that Sea heaven is not the “perfect” so he exit’s his own reality show.
              In the book The Republic by Plato, the story The allegory of the Cave, there are prisioners in a cave who don’t know much about reality.Their reality is based upon shadows that other prisoners create with cut out shapped cardboards. In the story Socrates says “The prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and you will intellectual world according to my poor belief, which, at your desire, I have expressed whether rightly or wrongly god knows”(The Republic, Plato).Socrates tells Glaucon that these prisoners have been living here for so long that what they see is the only reality they come across with. Now if we ask ourselves what if they go out the cave what reality do they face? Since they are prisoners, maybe they don’t have an option. But in the story Socrates tells Glaucon that one of the prisoners goes out the cave and sees the light of the actual world that the other prisoners have forgotten about. The prisoners is amazed from what he sees and goes back to the cave and tells his friends but they think that the outside world has made him crazy so they don’t believe in Therefore we see that the prisoners are manipulated to think that there’s no such reality that the reality outside is plain crazy.
          In conclusion we can see that both The Truman Show and The Allegory of the Cave have some similarities because of the way that Truman Burbank and the prisoners where blinded with thinking that what they were faced to see was the only “reality”.We see that living life without real life event s affect their lifes because they don’t have much freedom,therefore we see that these characters don’t live a normal life.They live in a world of deception.

Blog Entry 1.3: My Place in the Cave

        Going back to when I was adolescent, I was always living indoors. I never knew what the outside world had stored for me. I always thought that I was going to stay close home like I had always been. I went to school near my house, for example my elementary school was 4 blocks away. My middle school was right in front of my house. At first I didn’t mind this because I was young and couldn’t travel outside my boundaries. I felt like I was like the prisoners in The Allegory of the Cave. In the book The Republic by Plato, Socrates is talking to Glaucon about enlightenment and prisoners and says “Here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning around their heads” ,That’s exactly the way I felt. But as the years went by I knew something had to change. Always coming home to my daily routine was getting tiring and I was in my last year of junior high school. Now I would have to apply to the high school of my choice and with 13 years of age I knew that the only way out of the four plain walls was to apply to a high school that was not in the same borough, Brooklyn.
            I was so excited when I got the news that I been accepted to a high school of my choice, in the lower east side. It was my escape from the ordinary, yes I was nervous but it was all I wanted. I finally had the chance to travel and meet new places and especially new people. It was mid September and my focus was on traveling to school. With a destination in mind and everything ready for a new adventure, there was nothing that could stop me.
             Walking to the train station, I felt more mature and anxious because I had the responsibility to get to school safe and sound on my own. I didn’t have Mami or Papi along me to take me to school, I was on my own and on my way to a place I have never been, the train. As soon as I got the J train near my house I was timid that something would go wrong. I felt awkward and estranged when I got to the train, I was so small, compared to the people that I saw in the train. I was the youngest and I felt intimidated because I felt everyone looked at me because of my height and my innocence.
             When the train started moving I was amazed of the train movements and how many people kept getting in and out. The part that amazed me was the bridge, crossing the bridge made me feel so scared because I thought that something bad was going to happen. As I got up and I saw my stop in front of me I knew this was it. I was finally on my own and going to school.
Outside was beautiful my experience there was unbelievable, new environment and new surroundings. Everything was different it wasn’t my comfort zone anymore and no matter what there was no turning back, I would be traveling here for four years. 
            According to Socrates when he was explaining to Glaucon, “Whether true or false my opinion is that the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent light and of the lord of light in this visible world” (The Republic, Plato).according to him the journey that the prisoner took, was rewarding because he got to see all the beautiful things that the outside world had for him. I can relate to this because I felt like I was the prisoner who went outside the cave and discovered that there were many things outside and he couldn’t wait to tell his friends. I had no regrets and it was the best feeling.

Blog Entry 1.2 My Heroic Day

As I woke to the smell of breakfast, I knew I had the responsibility to get things done before I went to school. For starters I had to eat breakfast to get energy to start of my day right. The first thing I had to do was my laundry. Without laundry, there would’ve of been a pile of dirty clothes. Every week is my responsibility to have my clothes wash and dry. Stepping out the threshold of my apartment, I figures that I was going to place where a lot of people stare at you while you wash your clothes. I felt relieved when I noticed there weren’t so much people. That meant I had the chance to do my laundry peacefully with no one focusing on me.

After I finish with my laundry. I went back home were the couch and the TV were waiting for me to relax. I only had a few minutes to rest when my father approached me and said “Let’s go out to grab lunch”. I felt annoyed but I had to eat before I went to school. As we drove around we were undecided of what to eat. I called my mom and asked what she wanted us to bring her to eat, because we were unsure what to eat. She immediately said Italian food,(since we didn’t have Italian food for a while),I thought it was great idea and made me and my father ,and sister come to an unanimous decision to order take out from our favorite Italian restaurants called “De’aleos Pizzeria”. I was brave enough to go to the pizzeria on my own and place my order since it as crowded and of course I was very shy.

After enjoying my food, I knew I had to rush and get ready for school. When I was all ready I had exit the threshold and outside where I had come across rain. I wasn’t prepared for this kind of weather so I had to go back home and change into my rain boots and light sweater and umbrella, of course, to come home without being soaking wet. As I walked towards the train station and looked at my watch, I figured I was going to be late because no trains were passing .Finally a train came and luckily went express and felt a relieved because I got to class on time.

Once in class I didn’t realize that the rain that was going on was actually a storm, a storm that complicated my day when I got out of school, because when I was making my way over to the train a girl was saying there weren’t any trains. I began to get scared and almost panic because all I wanted to do was to go home. I had to find another alternative to go home and found my own way to another train station were the trains were running. It was already 9:00 and I was still stuck on the train because of the storm, I was frustrated and hungry and simply tired. But once I stepped in home I knew I was in my comfort zone. Home sweet home.

Blog Entry 1.1 Technology and Me

Technology has become a daily base utility in my life. Technology is one the things that I need to get throughout my day. If it wasn’t for technology everyone would be doing things the old fashion way, for example, instead of having an alarm you will have to listen to the rooster sing in order to wake up.

If it wasn’t for technology I would not have attended class because of not knowing my schedule. The reason why is because nowadays, most people would say they use technology such as their phone, in order to do things in their life. Some of the useful things that technology brings to us are that we can use our phone as a way to be organized. For example a calendar that notifies you with alarms for an upcoming event or birthday or helps like schedule, like in my case. Therefore I believe that technology has become something that everyone uses.

Technology has minimized my time management. We all know that technology makes things much easier to do. Technology doesn’t complicate any one’s life because it is one of the easiest things you can use. An example of making things easier would be ordering food. Who doesn’t know how to order food? Well a person who doesn’t have a source technology wouldn’t. But if you’re a person who doesn’t like waiting in lines of a takeout restaurant, you can simply use a computer or a phone to place your order. Most people may say that is laziness, but if you think about it, it saves everyone day and your time. With the use of technology you use your time more efficiently, by a click away you can be having dinner without stepping out of your house or having to make a line of course. Technology is just a way to make things much simpler.

Another example of technology making your life easier as a utility is interacting or socializing with someone who is not next to you or in front of you. In my opinion, this has become on e of the most popular ways of socializing with another person. With the help of technology, the internet has helped us stay in touch with friends or family by using Facebook, Aim, MySpace, Oovoo. With these interacting tools that technology provides us with, we can use a keyboard and camera build in a computer to send pictures and write letters, instead of making a trip and visiting a friend or family member.

As a user of my phone, I can say that I do depend on technology a lot. I believe is not a bad thing because if you are an organized person that depends on technology and your a person who cant get used to it then it can affect your daily life and the way you get throughout the day. For instance, not having technology can complicate your life, if you don’t have your phone in which you have everything saved on and have all your to do stuff. Therefore I believe that technology is one of the things that are a big part of my life.