Thursday, October 27, 2011

Blog 14: Revision of CAT Practice #2


According to the article "Imitation of Film: Here's Smoking at you, kid " by Nicholas Balakar stated that young children are mostly get addicted by smoking because they have seen actors smoke in the movies. However, as we can see because of "R-rated" movies which shows twice as much smoking contain are responsible for influencing kids smoke addiction. According to the reseachers point of view most child who had watch randomly selected box office hits, each child would have been exposed to smoking in a movie. Finally, as we can see report did not preclude the possibility that smoking began before the children saw these movies, but those association who make movie like this, should be taken very seriously in order to change childrens future.


       Now a days, young childrens are highly influenced by movie which contains smoking shots. That may causes smoke addiction. As we know, childrens are so sensative that, they don't know what is good or what is bad for them. But some association who made movies and put smoking scens, can influence childrens life in danger. They don't care about what they want. But we shouldn't forget that one children can change the world.

      Firstly, there are various types of movies we have, but one is called "R-rated" movies which contain twice as much smoking as other films. And the awfull part is kids begins to view those types of movie at very young age. Because of watching those movies they feel interest on smoking little by little. The problem is they think, if movie actors can smoke that means smoking is good. On the other hand, they do smoking very secretly without their parents permission. But they don't know they are destroying their lives gradually. All parents should be aware of what their children's watching. That's the only way of preventing this big issue..

     Secondly, In my childhood, I used to follow what I saw in the movie. To be honest I was so desperate to try smoking at least once. I was so curious to know, how it feels. I was truely influenced by a movie. I was 15 years old at that time. There is a funny part happened with me. I was so stupid that I was start smoking in front of my dad. I thought smoking wasn't bad. First of all, I didn't liked it. And second of all, my dad took that cigarettes from my hand and slapped me! I was shocked! Because I didn't know what was just happened. Then my dad told me how bad smoking really is. After that, I promissed my dad I won't smoke in my whole life. And now I can say proudly that, I am a non-smoker.

     Thirdly, according to the article, as we can see, most children who had watch box office hits movies randomly, each of them mostly have been exposed to smoking. So, there is no need to point out that, those association should be talken very seriously. So we must try to save our children from the harmful affect of smoking. It is us, who can save their life from danger.

     Finally, no matter how much we try to stop those kinds of movie it's no use. Because they are playing huge role in our life that, we can't regret it. But we can stop our children from watching those kinds of movies. Also we can start telling our children about the harmful affect of smoking. We must work together to save our childrens life. Because they are the leaders of future.   

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Blog Entry 13

 The Meatrix Issues (animal welfare):

It is painful but true, every year  hundreds of thousands of animals lift up for food undergo horible living conditions because the majority of meat, dairy, and poultry production takes place in industrialized or factory farms.
            These factory are huge, and by their point of view, animals are profitable unit of production, rather than they deserve health care and welfare for efficiency and profit. However, those animals spend their life in the factory with the absense of comfort and freedom. They need more space to breath and more healthy food with the touch of proper care. Because of those animal we enjoy our meal, if they don’t get perfect care it can be harmful for us. On the other hand, those animal can be affected by various diseases. And because of we eat meat it can contain disease to us too.
According to The Meatrix website, “In the U.S, dairy cows have been bred to produce higher and higher amounts of milk, and evidence shows this practice has led to a higher occurrence of disease“. Those cows are affected because they are injected by artificial hormons for making more milk. On the other hand  another evidence found by The Meatrix website that is, “Approximately 98% of chickens used in egg production live in a cage of only about 48 sq. in”. So, as we can see because of limited space chickens are suffering a lot and sometimes it also causes various diseases such as “bird flue”.
In conclusion, raising awareness can prevent this terrible situation now a days. Therefore, it is important to know our local farmers about how the animals were raised and if they were slaughtered humanely or not. We can also search out companies and brands that follows strict animal welfare guidelines.We must  work together to save our animals as much as we can.  
 

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Blog Entry 12: The Meatrix Summaries

The Meatrix:

According to the 1st part of the video "Meatrix" it talks about how badly animals are living in the firm.However the character leo was living in the dream world and rescued by moopheous. The character Moophious showed him that animal are treated poorly rather than they deserve better. Also because of that it causes many animal disease. Also Moophious gave leo options to choose red pil or blue pil. Red pil take leo to face the truth and blue pill gave leo to stay in the dreamy world.

The Meatrix: Revolting:

According to the 2nd part of the video "The Meatrix: Revolting" it talks about how fast food company destroying the family firms insted of making their artificial firm. However, those food companies giving cheap service to the animals and injecting them artificial hormons to make more money. Because of that animals are suffering various kinds of diseases which can be harmful .

The Meatrix II 1/2 :

According to the 3rd part of the video "The Meatrix II 1/2" it talks about speeding up can make more profit. In the firm those food company forced their employe to work more fast, so they can make more money. But because of that those employee can get hurt. But the food company don't care about their employee safety. They only care about money. 

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Blog Entry 11

 
Does Knowledge Makes Us Happier

Not all knowledge makes one happier. Expanding our intelligence, is great though, if it's something we want to learn more about.If someone ask me does knowledge makes me happier or not than I would like to answer that, oviously it makes me happier. However, life is short. In this short time of life we should learn as much as we can. Knowledge is like a ocean. It has no limitation and as much as we get into it, we can learn a lot.           

In the movie "Matrix" as we can see Neo's overall experience is an educational process similar to the release of the prisoner in the “Allegory of the Cave.” Neo lives his life like a prisoner in the matrix. Then he figure out the world he is living its not real. All his life he was controlled by some one. The truth was like awfull tasting medicine but at list he knows what is real. Like Neo, may be one day we need to face awfull truth like his and also it can be so hard to believe. But the question is how strong we are to face that kinds of awfull truth that is actually important.

I have a experience of my life and that is so painful. I have a friend and he is living his life like living in the cave. He stays all the time in his home and never come out. Because of that he don’t see the outer world. He don’t know how beautiful is outside world. The reason he stay in his home all the time is because he lost his mom since he born. He think he is resposible for his mom’s death. Then I have decided, no mater how it cost I have to help my friend. Then I have told him about real world. How it looks and how much lucky we are that we are living in this world. We are here because we must earn knowledge as much as we can. After three years of nonstop trying, finally he decided to come out from his world to my world. It was a greatest achievment of my life that I cant forget.
           
In conclusion, the benefit of learning has no limitation. As much as we learn that much as we can get joy. To be honest I love learning new things. And I really want to know everything around me. Also I don’t want to live my life in the cave. I hate darkness and I think no one can stop me from getting knowledge that I deserve to be learned.







Thursday, October 13, 2011

Blog Entry 10


                             The Dangers Of Reality TV


According to the article "The Dangers Of Reality TV" its stated that in general life reality television spreading illogical informations that are harmful for young fans. However, reality television still following the ancient thoughts, that is, competition is the only way of success in a capitalist economy. Also, reality television sends the message that image is more important rather than ability. On the other hand, it is also telling us that, education is completely unnecessary to fulfill the American dreams. Finally, reality tv shows aren't replicating the society but also it is showing the whole world wrong messages.



      Now a days reality television plays harmful role in our general life. It is also spreading several valueless messages that are destroying the minds of its young fans. However, it is sends out the harmful information which is related to the importance of competition, the value of image over ability, the absolescence of education and so on. it is believed by creators of reality television that, competition is the only key to success in capitalist economy.But the creators of the reality tv don't care about the young generation rather than fulfilling their own needs.

     Firstly, reality tv show is the only show that encourage the idea that, life is nothing but a competition. However, many business truly depends on competition. There is no such bussiness in America that doesn't want to become monopoly serving the needs of consumers. Because of that almost every industry in the United States losing economy due to mergers and acquisitions.

    Secondly, reality television also shows that it is the only way to get success rather than ability. In reality show most contestant who is  also qualified often  loses to another who presents a better image. For example, singer of any singing reality  shows who has a better voice but less attractive looks than other singer can't survive further. So, as we can see image is more important than substance.

    Thirdly, the most dangerous message of the reality show is they belief, education is less important or completely unnecessary in order to fulfill the American dreams.They also believes, people who graduates from college can't make more money rather than chosing reality shows. There is no benefit in going to the  school and face the difficulties of learning when there is  a better option to get on reality shows such as fear factor, eating bugs and walk away with a bucket of money. But truth is these  is the path of getting money only, not the path of learning true education.

    Finally, reality shows can shows us a package of entertainment. It can't gives us true education. Also, it is not the procedure of repliciting society. It is the procedure of destroying young generation. We should be more aware of not getting fooled by them.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Blog Entry 9

               The Perfect World Of Truman

 
According to the movie Cristoff made his own world known as "perfect world" which is created for reality show. As he think in his perfect world Truman can live  happily ever after. But it makes Truman's life disaster. If we compare Seahaven to our real world in tearms of family life, neighborhood life, work life and leisure time there is huge difference came up. Our real world has no limitation and it is also way more beautiful rather than Cristoff world.
For me I always  wanted that perfect life, such as the houses all looking the same and white fences.But after watching the movie I felt real word is better than Truman’s perfect world. I would  love to have the normal life which is full of big building, the subway, the busy life of the city e.t.c  that’s my world.  However, I felt awfull when I saw Truman’s life, he is waking everyday, doing the same thing, greeting the neighbors the same way in every morning. Hence in real world most of the times I don’t even see my neighbors.
It’s about more than two years I am living in newyork city. I saw my brother who is living here happily more than nine years and he has a daughter . NewYork it’s a good place to raise a child as my brother did to his daughter  and she is turning into a fine young lady. We enjoyed the parks, the food, and so many different types of culture as well. As we can see its not possible at all like the vision of Truman’s world.

           Finally, if a question asked to me which world do you prefer to stay I would choose to stay in my reality my real world, because Christofis world is just too fake for me.

Blog Entry 8

        "The Allegory of the Cave "and  The Truman Show

 “The Truman Show” all Truman did revolved around the media. Such as drinking coffee would end up turning into an advertisement for coffee, Truman speaking to a couple of clients by buy a home signs and advertisements for food. However to survive relying on the media, we all do things like Truman.

      After analyzing the class readings and watching The Truman Show , I think now a days we all moves in circular motion around the media. Its because we highly addicted to media in many ways. As we can see in the movie

      Now question comes How much does our reality depend on the media and what purpose behind it? Well I think I do depend on the media. Media do a huge role in my general life. It changed my life a lot. If it wasn’t exist I wouldn’t be where I am today. For example we do various kinds of job in our day to day life. Media helps our life easier without it our job wouldn’t be as advanced as they are today. With no advertisements where would we all be today? We wouldn’t really know everything we know now. How would we know about many jobs if there is no one to speak about it? Most of the Companies use radio, TV or spokesmen to tell us the people about their job openings and careers. So its important to have media in our general life.

      If we look at our study life there is huge source of advertisement I believe would be schools. For example almost every college use tv commercial to advertise their open college enrollment meetings for new and upcoming students. They advertise their strengths over TV and the radio to get us to choose them rather than some other school. . If it wasn’t for the media there is no way to know about all these different schools and great programs and opportunities they offer us.

      IT is true that media is making our life easier but also it can make our life disaster too. We must be weary of fake advertisements. Many advertisements offer you us wrong thing and I can be harmful. In their advertisement they talks about so good news you want to know about the company and they hide problematic stuffs. Or they tell us once we have purchased the product. Lots of people use internet to make up fake advertisements to get us purchases their fake item. Sometimes they link to us a virus. So as we can see everything has good side and bad side. Because of that we should be aware of using things before really going into it. We must have the ability to face the fact that we are a growing population. Also this source of media can get us through our daily life. And we must learn not to take advantage of these sources. We should let it help us understand more of good things that we may go on or deny.