Friday, September 24, 2010

" Things I Need to Remember When I Write Summaries."

  • The summary is based on the key ideas of the reading, at least three or four.
  •  It preferable goes at the Beginning of the the response.                                                                     
  •  Never forget to mention the title of the reading and Author's last name.                                                       -

Thursday, September 23, 2010

THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

In Plato's "Allegory of the cave ", Socrates referred, "the prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun" and he also illustrates:" in the world of knowledge the idea of Good appears last of all "

This incredible fable show us how hard going from the darkness of the ignorance to the light of consciousness is;
to be the guide trying to take people on the way of knowledge is not always either welcome or appreciated by others; the most of the time we prefer to live in "the prison-house" than to pay the high prize for getting free. And why does it happen? Just because in our arrogance we think we know all we need to know, and we can not see beyond what in front of our noses is. The curious thing about all of this is that we can not know what we haven't see.

My place in the Cave:
Reading this allegory I can say that I am just starting the ascent to get out of the dark.  Personally I can feel it is going to be hard,  actually I start feeling the pain but I really wish to get to see the Light.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

"WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO PASS THE CATW TEST?"

Honestly, I rrealy believe that to be able to pass The CATW Test, first of all, I need to get to understand the nature of the test.  Furthermore I do have to analize, memorize and apply the strategies that will help in planning how to organize the time to spend on each one of the steps to follow during the response development.

Last but not least, aware of my hardships, I urgently need to improve my understanding of the English Language including, vocabulary, spelling,and gramma.

I am pretty sure that only by understanding, memorizing and applying the essential rules and strategies on each one of the following stages during the preparation of the response ;
-Reading stage,
-Planning and pre-writing stage,
-Writing the response stage,
-Revising and Editing stage,                                                                                                                             Just by considering and keeping on mind this topics I will be abble to succede in my assignment.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

HYPE

"Commercial pollution floods our brains" ;what the author is trying to say is that we haven't had the time to realize how fast and easily we have been contaminated because of the media. There is no choice, not even a chance to escape pollution. Every little thing we do since the very first moment when we wake up in the morning to the relaxing moments at night, we wouldn't be enjoying a quiet time, as the author referred he used to "live years ago" There is no "advertising free" place around us, anywhere our eyes can possibly come to rest is now a place that incorporated America's view, necessarily must be filled with a logo or message that reminds you about the brand, the importance or even the organic origin of the product.  Incredibly an estimated 12 billion display advertisements, 3 million radio commercials and more than 200,000 TV commercials are dumping into North America's collective unconscious. Advertisements are the most toxic and harmful of the menthal pollutants but sadly, there is nowhere to run.