Blog Entry 14

Why do you think the makers of The Meatrix films used The Matrix as the basis for their arguments? What possible connections could the food industry have to the ideas in The Matrix and, by association, the themes of this course? I believe because the famous of the Matrix film was all over the world at that time, and the film will make an impact if people compare it to the Matrix simulation of a real world. What the food industry makes us believe in contrast to what it is really happening in their facilities. How the abuse of animals have been hidden away from the society view to produce more supply and over stimulate the demand of their products. The use of hormones to accelerate the growing of animals is consider to be in a way unhealthy for the final product, besides it makes the live of the animal shorter than it should be. 

Blog Entry 13

In the Matrix film, Neo has to decide whether he wants to stay in his known world by taking the blue pill, or should he take the red pill to know the “Matrix”. If I were him, I would take the red pill as he did, because I would like to know the truth beyond my reality.

I would not like to live inside of a lie. In the movie, the whole world was part of a lie. People were dominated by sentient machines, they created the world where humans habitat as a program recreation, they made that world only to control humans and to use them as energy source. People were not aware of their real lives. In the created world, there were agents that controlled people mind in order to preserve the Matrix. For example, one of the agents took over a human body to try to trap Neo, so they could capture him and bring him to the dark side.

I would like to go the extra mile when it comes to adventure. Neo did fulfill his life with new experiences when he took the red pill. He was just anxious to discover what the Matrix was really about. In any given situation of my life, I always like to go down the road for the unpredictable, I cannot imagine the adrenaline of taking the red pill, and it would make me go nuts. I would manage to control the mystery behind the red pill. I remember one time when I was a child, I ate a spicy jalapeno because of the red color, and the outcome from eating that jalapeno was that my face turned red, I had to throw up, and I had an irritated throat.

I would not like to be stock in an office job for the rest of my life as Neo was; he was a programmer in one of the most prestigious companies. He was tortured to stay the whole day in his office and through the movie he did not seem to like it.

Living In a life full of lies is not what we call a perfect life. Even though we know that the truth could be painful for us and for the ones we love, we should not take the truth for granted, but stand up for it. I believe that is what Neo did.

Blog Entry 12: Reflection and Evaluation

As of now, In ENG 099, I have been trying to develop my writing as much as I can with the professor supports. Even though I believe that I need to work harder to develop my writing, I am enthusiastic of my performance as of now and I know that is just a matter of time until I finally get on track to pass the CAT-W. My personal work in this class can be evaluated into three specifics detail assignments;  from the CAT-W practices tests in class, the blog entries and the group discussions, and the incoming challenges of the next couples of weeks.

The CAT-W practices have been very useful to take, the same as the one we will be facing at the end of the course. I am looking forward to take the test and finally pass it over. In my own experience this class is leading us to face the test with the complementary tools we need to succeed in our writing path. Until now, those practices have become the most important assignment of the class because it gives a clear approach to the real test. As it was noted on one of the classes, the real method they use to grade the CAT-W, eventually, this will get a hand on the preparation of the test as now we know the specific rules of the evaluation process and the math behind the test, which it used to be a real mystery for students. The most recent CAT-W practice test gave me a score of 57, a slight point over the limit to pass the original test. The result shows me that I am struggling to keep the topic sentences of the paragraph and my examples are not organized by paragraph.

The blog entries and the group discussions reflect our thoughts and opinions to be shared with the rest of students. This tool of knowing what others believe and their values really provide a sense of acceptance from different perspectives. Also, it is very helpful the response outline of the claim, reason and evidence, it give us a sort of order to develop our thesis. The blog entries could be modified at any time before it is due; this is great since I can focus on working in different times and work out my opinions and possible responses to the topic. The blog entries have one little issue of technology, sometimes I lost all my written and I had to start all over again. That is what I really hate about technology.

I am excited for the incoming assignments and the next blog entries; I know that the challenges are going to be tougher as we move forward to the end of the semester. I would like to work more in my vocabulary and sentence structure as it was first pointed out by the professor review.  In addition to this issue, I have to develop my ideas and organize them in a very clear way through the whole written; sometimes I go from one point to the other without a connection to the paragraph. I am planning to stick with my professor concerns to enhance those issues and to read more my keys for writers book.

Up to now, this class has been a great experienced since I had overcome many of my difficulties on written essays. I hope to continue the hard work and keep improving those errors until I finally overcome them. For the rest of the semester, I will be trying to give my best and subsequently pass the target call “CAT-W”.

CAT-W Practice 3 Revisions posted as Blog Entry 11.

The Dangers of Reality TV from Timothy Sexton, it is an important reflection of the manipulation we are exposed by realities on TV. I strongly agree to the contest of this article, since I believe that television has a strong power of cauterized the attention of young audience, and send out wrong ideas to them. These are some of the ideas that are stated in the article; the importance of competition, the value of image and the lack of education.

                Reality TV enfaces that through competition people often acquire success. It has been said that; in order to be the best you have to be one step ahead of your potential competitors. The article gives us an example on the most seen reality on TV. “The Bachelor Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire awarding a husband”. This reality shows hundred of women behind a rich guy who wants to engage with the perfect aspirant in the program. These women beat each other to mostly disrespect themselves. This model of competition is being incorporated to our social life in order to pursuit our happiness, therefore is use as a slogan by the American corporation’s view of success.

                Reality TV prioritizes the image of people, they physical appearance rather than who they are as human beings. This views on TV send the wrong messages to thousands of people around the world, people is being judge for their outside looks and not for their inner values and skills. One of the examples showing through the article is; some people are better accepted in realities by the viewers because they are good looking. These realities send an idea of beauty rather than the intelligent of the person and do not consider the person’s judgment at all.

                Reality TV shows; is projecting a completely wrong message by lacking the necessary of education goals to become famous in live. This can be found in any reality show in which people don’t appear to be educated and they possess fame which is the primary goal of many young adults that watch this type of shows. These viewers expected to gain the same privileges of those in the show by imitating them, as an outcome, people hope to get a chance the next super model or the new crew member of the next team-squad show, rather than following a career in arts or actuation. Thanks to these shows one person could become national recognizes by humiliating itself on any stage and make tons of money out of it. This sends out an idea that ridiculizes the effort of many Americans that go to college to make a good living and a better future.

                In my conclusion, reality TV are changing the concept of how Americans persuade their life to success by sending wrong messages to the audience, these message are being receive mostly by young audience, this reflects the society to become less educated, more influence by the stereotype, and to be competitive rather than help each other to achieve their goals. 

Blog Entry 10

Claim: Is the matrix film a prediction of society being punish by its own creation.

Reason: In the movie, sentient machines rule the world and manipulate the reality of the human live.

Evidence: in the movie, people were living in an unreal world and they were considered to be a source of energy to preserve the Matrix. This can be similar to the distractions we suffer from governments and organizations around the world, they sell ideologies to control and subjugate their population, many examples around the world can be analyze: as the one from the Cuban regimen, the government subjugate their population via old ideology politics as communist. This ideology is portrait as the solutions to the inequality of the capitalism, but this system only brings poverty to the population and comfort to the government.  

Blog Entry 9: Telecommute Report-out.

My experience from the telecommute class was satisfactory since I interacted with other students, not only the students in my class but others from another class, and a lot of different interpretations and opinions were exposed. In my opinion, the telecommute class was more a debate class about an interesting movie that grabbed everyone attentions and thoughts. In some point of the class, people began to post a lot and it took me more time to read everyone’s opinion. The only problem that I found so far; was that I did not have earphones, I could not listen to the speaker because I was in B-333, and therefore I missed the video from the professor which it will save time to understand the class assignments. 

Blog Entry 8: Responding to a significant topic in The Truman Show

I definitely believe the Truman show is a very good piece of advice about the corporations manipulating our life. In my point of view, I represent one of those whom are attached to the system and therefore manipulated. These corporations can dominate our world in several ways, some of those are; the use of famous people, they post ads everywhere, and they stimulate us to create an unreal world out of their products.

Corporations are selling the idea of imitating superstars to become one of them. In the Truman show, we can see how the whole world was captivated; people all over the world were watching the show and Truman was recognized as a famous TV star. In reality, the corporations promote real superstars on TV commercials, as I remember the Pepsi commercial prior to the start of the world cup last year in Africa, Some of the most famous players played in the forest surrender by young people, these people were the edge of the soccer field and the younger defeated the famous player to become more famous in their community. These commercials can create sort of fanaticism among TV watchers, since they can create false expectations of younger people to follow imaginary actions that are not possible.

At the present time, Posting ads have become one of the most profitable marketing actions for corporations to sell their products. Everywhere we look around us; there is an ad to see. In the Truman show, I remember the image of the twins that were on Truman’s way every single day of his unpleasant and boring life, the ad was about Kaiser Chicken sort of Kentucky franchise. Countless of ads are found on the street, internet, TV, radio, and public places. These ads have taken part of our daily routine, as it is considered to be normal in nowadays. In some way, it creates a manipulation of our thought, sometimes we do not want to buy a product or we don’t need it, but we end it buying unnecessary products just for watching the ads.

Another way in which the corporations are manipulating us is by; projecting unreal illusions out of the products. In the Truman Show, we can see the whole show as a creation to promote advertisement which is the main propose of the show, they take control of a human being life and sell an idea of a perfect life being shown to the world. In reality, the AXE propaganda is a good example of this concept of product, spray the fragrance all over your body and you will become more attractive to women. Another example is the underwear commercial of Armani Exchange that seems to show an idea of being more masculine to the opposite gender if you wear it. As I understand, people come in different sizes and shapes, we are not equal to anyone of the models shown on TV, and we cannot be equal to them for wearing or using a product.

In general, the corporations control our minds by making us believe their products are the best choices for us. This is the marketing proposed of making profit for business. Truman experienced the marketing plan from the inside, being the product himself, which is a critical demonstration of the corporations unethical procedures.