Blog 3.4 Summary of the Meatrix

The Meatrix
The Meatrix is about a young pig name Leo Ham-derson that is living in a fantasy farm. He is then giving a chance to learn about the real world where he is in a Factory farm. Leo gets to see the truth on how most eggs, milk products, and meat come from; from being in a factory farm. He learns about greedy corporations and how they began to modify sustainable family farming to maximize profits. And in these factory farms there is a lot of animal cruelty, where the animals are being abused in many ways. They fight amongst each other, some animals get debeeked, they are being overdosed with antibiotics. The animals are surrounded in there excretions, leading to massive pollution to the community that surrounds the factory.
The Meatrix 2 Revolting

The Meatrix 2 Revolting begins by showing the progress they have made in the past 2 years of making people aware of where their food products comes from and how they are a healthier choice. In this film it also goes deeper into the way animals are being treated. They show how they spend their whole life basically in one spot doing one thing; they also show how the animals are being pumped with artificial growth hormones called RBGH. It is being used even though in other countries like Canada and the European Union banned it, it also shows how animals can get mad cow disease by feeding on the dead animal instead of the milk they need.

The Meatrix 2 and a Half
In the last film we are giving a quick recap of what was learned so far. Then it goes into the processing facilities. It talks about how the factories can process five thousand cows in a day; just to feed our fast food nation. They also begin to talk about the dangerous working conditions and how meat packing is the most dangerous job in the nation. Then they show us how E coli comes about from the processing facilities trying to work so fast without making sure everything is clean.

The Meatrix 360

While reading the article in the Interactive 360 I found that these industrial farms are no good. They continue to produce food that is harmful to our health and they are affecting the local economies, community and environment. These large industrial farms tend to make claims that they will support the local economies by investing in the communities and creating new jobs but they seem to the opposite. They are also affecting the people that are in the community because   the pollution they spew into the air and the water is having a dangerous affect. I read that they spread air pollutants like hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and a whole lot of animal poo.  It also talked about how these large farms also often pollute local water sources, mainly through the release of nitrates and nitrites from chemical fertilizers. A study of almost 2,000 wells across the country showed that 9 percent of domestic wells and 2 percent of public-supply wells had nitrate concentrations in excess of the EPA’s maximum contaminant level. Nitrate poisoning can cause dangerously low blood-oxygen levels in babies (or blue-baby syndrome), spontaneous abortions, and possibly cancer. This is a huge problem in rural communities, because rural Americans depend on ground-water and domestic wells. These Large farms need to do something about everything that they are doing in those farms. They need to make a lot of changes that will truly benefit the community that they surround. And the people that are being affecting by this need to continue to fight because if something doesn’t change it will continue to get worse. I thank God for this website because this is a great start to make people more aware of what is going on in the rural areas that these large industrial farms are hurting and to everyone that continue to support them by buying their products.

blog 3.3 cat 3

As I began to read this article it saddens me to know that someone took his own life for whatever the reasons were. If he got caught doing something that to him he felt was wrong he shouldn’t have been doing it in the first place, and by getting caught just deal with it the consequences the right way not take his own life.  I feel that those responsible should pay for their crime to the fullest extent, because what they did was wrong and illegal. While I read the article “The Net is The Real World” by Jake Simms and Larry Magid I found some good claims that some of the interviewees made. The most important points to me was what Anne Collier said that this story “is not about technology, but inhumanity”, and when Greg Sandoval stated that humans, not machines, are responsible for Clementi’s death. Another point that is good is that Cyber bullies can inflict mental anguish that can hurt worse than physical wounds.

I’m still in shock that an 18 year old boy is gone from this earth because of someone else’s pleasure. I feel that Ravi Dharun should face the maximum penalty for the New Jersey privacy laws that he broke, mainly because Ravi won’t face any time for Clementi being dead even though he is mainly to blame for it. As for Molly Wei I feel shouldn’t get as much time to me because she couldn’t have stopped Ravi from playing the video on his twitter. If you ask me she wasn’t involved in doing none of that but she was just with Ravi, she was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

When Collier and Sandoval stated their claims saying it’s not about technology, but inhumanity and that human, not machines, are responsible for Clementi’s death. I feel that it is totally true nothing in this story made me think about technology I just was focused on how humans treat each other. I wonder why would Ravi do such a thing, he must have really hated his roommate to do such an inhumane thing. Even though technology was used as a way of starting this whole thing it was the human Ravi that push the machine buttons to do so. Ravi to me is the reason Clementi is dead.

The psychology professor John Suler hit it right on point when he talks about Disinhibition, where people say and do things in cyberspace that they wouldn’t regularly do in the face to face world. And to me it relates to my last point where Cyber bullies can inflict mental anguish that can hurt worse than physical wounds. I felt that Ravi was a one of those people, because he would have never thought that Clementi would take his life. To me Ravi was what John Suler called disinhibition because he wouldn’t have gone with a video camera and tried to record Clementi and then post it on twitter.

Ravi is the top cyber bully of 2010. I feel that Ravi Dharun should get the highest time possible in jail so that people from all over the world know that you shouldn’t be a cyber bully and do such inhumane things thinking you’re going to get away with it.

Blog 4.1 Personal Electronic Devices

Personal Electronic Devices

I feel that personal electronic devices like cell phones and IPods messes up a student chances to pass their class.

If you’re in college, high school or any grade I feel you should focus on your class work. And do your best not to fall into that temptation of using your electronic device whatever kind it may be. My reason being is that a student will focus on a text rather than on the board. When I was in high school I would always try my best to answer my text to get to know a girl that I liked at the time. I would miss major points the teacher stated while I was texting.

A student would even go outside the class room to answer their phone. Trust and believe if a student is bored in class and a friend calls they most likely will ask for a bathroom pass and go talk up a storm in the bathroom while class is going on. I feel they should continue to raise money to get metal detectors in every school so that students don’t try to sneak their personal electronics in school even if they feel  we are doing it to burden them it is only for their benefit.

Coppertop Artifact pt 2

Coppertop Artifact pt 1

Coppertop Artifact pt 1

The first thing that I chose to be my artifact was a song that is very confusing but good at the same time. And it’s called “Closer” by Kings of Leon, and I feel that this best represents some type of artificiality of modern life. I will do my best to describe how and why the artifact that I chose indicates that the world is, or may be, an illusion. So before I begin please take just about 4 minutes to listen to the song so that you can understand where I’m coming from.

Stranded in the spooky town
Stop lights are swaying and the phone lines are down
The floor is crackling cold
She took my heart, I think, she took my soul
With the moon I run
Far from the carnage of the fiery sun

Driven by the strangle of veins
Showing me no mercy, I'd do it again
Open up your eyes
you keep on crying, baby, I'll bleed you dry
the skies they blink at me
I see a storm bubbling up from the sea
and it's coming closer
and it's coming closer

Your shimmy shook my bones
leaving me stranded all in love on my own
Do you think of me?
Where am I now, baby, where do I sleep?
It feels so good but I am old
Two thousand years of chasing taking its toll
And it's coming closer
And it's coming closer
And it's coming closer
And it's coming closer

In this song to me it describes how messed up this world is and it talks about an emptiness feeling and that the way it once was isn’t no more. In a part of the song he says “the skies they blink at me” maybe suggesting that the world he is talking about in this song is not real because he is being watched above from the skies meaning probably a god like ruler watching his every move. But you can get a million things out of this song if you sit and actually think. To me towards the end of this song he is truly talking about a lost love or something that to him might have been his world until it was flipped upside down.

Blog 2.1 My Archetype

My Archetype

While in class I learned about Archetypes and read many articles on it and people’s views about archetypes. From the test I took to discover my archetype I found out that I am a Wanderer, and my second and third strongest archetypes are Orphan and Warrior. Most of the research I did on the wanderer it had me thinking a lot. Mainly from what I read it related to me and how I feel most of the time and then I read some negatives of being a wanderer and I didn’t like it. I read an article that said “As a wanderer, we’re looking for something different, a new answer. So we set out on a new course, away from our normal consolations, on a path into the unknown.”

The wanderer is a lone wolf, preferring isolation to gather his own thoughts. I chose this picture of Jacob from the movie twilight because it relates to one of the articles I read about a wanderer where they said that the wanderer is someone on a journey like a traveler, a prince, a knight seeking something like treasure, the goal, the holy grail that will lend meaning or fulfillment to life and remove its sense of disjointedness. The negative is that the wanderer is often labeled as a sad and lonely individual who is seeking an internal place of tranquility through travel in the external world. And Jacob was lonely and sad mainly because he wanted Bella that is where his internal place of tranquility would be. She would lend meaning or fulfillment to his life is she would be with him. A wanderer may also manifest as someone who never completes anything, or sees things through full cycle.  The positive side of this energy is very rich, however, and can lead a person to explore other countries and traditions. In this instance the Wanderer learns that the journey itself empowers well at least that is what I read about the wanderer.

Some one that was both a Wanderer and an Orphan to me was Link from Zelda and for those of you who do not know what I’m talking about shame on you L.O.L.

 If you don’t recognize the picture by now then let me just tell you, this is Link from a video game for Nintendo. The Legends of Zelda series for Nintendo Link was to me all my archetypes in one. He was and Orphan that became a Wanderer leading him to become a Warrior. He wandered all around his world and even through time to save his Princess the thing to me that was his meaning of living. She was his answer to everything, and I feel that I’m like Link in some ways because I felt lost and lonely at times but I got tired of it and began looking for my answers that I desperately wanted answered. So I went on this life long journey each and every day to find that one thing that I felt was missing in my life. During this journey of mine I became a warrior from fighting for my life so many times when I encountered danger. Through this voyage of mine I finally found what I was looking for and it was God and I found out that he was always with me but it took my long empowering journey to find that out

Blog 2.2 The Truman Syndrome

Truman Syndrome Diagnosed

As I read the article on the Truman Syndrome I was in shock. In my twenty years of life I have never heard of something like this. I have read about people having delusions and even saw movies with the stars being delusional or having a heavy case of schizophrenia. But growing up through all that I’ve never heard of people having delusions believing that their on a reality television show. That had me thinking a lot because I tend to joke about stuff like that, for example one time I saw Lion King and after the movie was over I pretended to be a lion and pounced on my sister. But to find out that it is happening to people, I couldn’t imagine how crazy it would be if I truly believed I was a lion and really attacked my sister.  After reading the article and seeing what the psychiatrists, scientists, and philosopher all had to say. I began to try an answer their questions, and claims that they made. One question asked in the article to simply put in my own words said “Is the Truman Syndrome just a new version of an old paranoid or big delusion or is it something totally new in our culture?”  And another claim stating that culture and technology can have an effect on people making them delusional.

When I think about the Truman Syndrome I truly feel that it is far from being just a new twist on an old paranoid or grand delusion. But I also wonder is it something new that is beginning to occur now in our generation due to our culture. And can ones culture and technology have an effect on people that may already have schizophrenic behaviors.

 I believe that the Truman Syndrome is something new that we are facing in our culture and it isn’t just a new version of an old problem. I chose my answer mainly because of society today. To me you got to look at how society is now and how it looked twenty years earlier. And realize that the Truman Syndrome is happening now because of our culture and technology. Back then when we really didn’t have the internet and most people didn’t even have televisions like that; and a person with schizophrenic illnesses would just show symptoms of being crazy with whatever case of it that they had. So back then you couldn’t try to connect this syndrome with the way our society was and make it seem like it have something to do with our culture.

In the article I read some of the scientist and Doctors made a claim stating that culture and technology can have an effect on people making them delusional. I agree with this claim but not one hundred percent. To me if you already are a person with a schizophrenic background this might sometimes give a little bit of fuel to the fire that’s already blazing. But I choose to believe that; that isn’t always the case it may not always be because of the culture or technology it can be problems they are facing at home or in the streets. For example abusive parents or boyfriend, or something as drugs that takes a toll on the family. My opinion is that culture and technology can have effects on some people making them delusional, but not that much of a percentage if you ask me.

I believe that society itself meaning all of us need to come up with ways were we can catch people with symptoms of these psychiatric illnesses beforehand. So that when it comes to a point and time in their lives when they are on the web and using all these technological things don’t further engross themselves in it and fall into these crazy delusions. The only thing I can say about our culture is that where ever we are, and there is a certain culture most likely we are part of it. That’s something we will just have to deal with. I just hope since we are somehow affecting people by our culture and technology that we will be willing to put and effort to help the people that are pressured by it and do more to help make the world more aware of the Truman Syndrome.