BLOG # 9: "THE MEATRIX"

This interesting story begins when  Leo(a small farm pig)  living in a small farm, suddenly meet a interesting guy (a cow) called Moopheous appears and start talking to Leo about  the big difference of living in a small family farm as used to be before the mid 20th century; and living in a modern day factory farm where all you can see is: that there is a high incident of animal cruelty, besides poor animals have become Antibiotic resistant due to usage of antibiotics, also due to waste's  incorrectly handlyng  a masive pullution destroying  communities around them.

The second part shows us how people have start paying attention about food origin source's, and the differences between food coming from a modern day factory; where the farmers are abusing of Antibiotics, Artificial hormones, which they are overusing to increase the production, and besides this they are also  feeding the poor calves with cow blood based substances; and food coming from an independent family farm where the animals are still been raised  in the natural old fashion way.

In this interesting but terrifying third part, the true story of slaughterhouses, how humans and meats are exposed to manure so e. coli contamination due to again unacceptably very bad operation.

Samantha: Artifact 2

I completely agree with Samantha, there is nothing more artifial than plastic surgery, why can't be satisfied the way we look?, what a weird world!!! Samantha: Artifact 2: " The images are of a lady who considers herself as 'The Cat Woman.' She had plastic surgery done to make herself look like a cat. She fel..."

school: fake booty pads

I am really convinced of Sethlina's Choice's, specially this , actually it is one of the most commons. Sadly to know all of this beauty can be artificial. school: fake booty pads: "what isint fake about most of the things on earth?beauty is suppose to be natural but now in order to be beautiful you have to put on fake ..."

" A COPPERTOP'S LIFE ARTIFACT" PART II

TANNING BEDS, TANNING SALONS.

A  tanning bed  or sun tanning bed is a device emitting ultraviolet radiation (typically 97% UVA and 3% UVB, +/-3%) used to produce a cosmetic tan.
This kind of artifact so in mode, is another one of the neverending list of artificialities, very effective, getting the tan you want, but at the same time very inappropiate and unnecessary. Because of the adverse effects on human health;  it is one of the biggest promoters of  cancer, specially;  skin cancer, cataracts, premature skin aging, suppression of the immune system, (all of this examples are included on the package you pay for) as a result of overexposure to UV radiation.
Why can't we humans be satisfied the way we look?  nor better why can we just enjoy a sunshine bath and take the color the sun generously give us for free.

BLOG # 8:" THE NET IS THE REAL WORLD"

According to Simms and Magid;  Like it or not, the net now is a  reality for the overwhelming majority of children and adults, not just in the developed world but for the rest too.  The biggest reason for them to said so:  Tyler Clementi's case;  The Rutgers University student who after discovering his romantic affair was uploaded to the internet page, decided to jump from the top of the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River, ending this way his own life.

As we can see Internet encourage: "People to say and do things in Cyberspace that they wouldn't ordinarily say or do in the face-to-face world"; as Psychology Professor John Suler write on his online book: "The psychology of Cyberspace".  Taking this words as refference, I Could assure that this is the most important reason that keep all this kind of people attached to their computers, some of them  all day long because internet make them feel strong, and important, and also make them think, they can do whatever they want to do, because there are no rules, no limits and nobody cares about been mean, not even difamation or bullying.

It is so perturbing for me thinking about how endangered next generations have become after all of this technologic advances in this our modern world.

Lab # 4: " A COOPERTOP'S LIFE ARTIFACTS " Part I

   
The SIMS ONLINE OR PC GAMES
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A massively multiplayer online game  is a multiplayer video game which is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously, mobile devices and smartphones as well as the Iphone or Ipod Touch .
MMOGs can enable players to cooperate and compete with each other on a large scale, and sometimes to interact meaningfully with people around the world. They include a variety of gameplay types, representing many video games genres.
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Here it is, what for me is a very good example of  artificiality, living in a fictitious world.The Sims city is  Kind of Dreamland, addicts are cappable of transport not just their frustrations, secret dreams, but their hopes over which for them is The ideal World where everything can just happen as the player wants it to. I think this kind of games can really affect the real life, because users can become addicted to live the unreal life. I think that it could be counterproductive, and depending on the age people could get confused, as example: Teenagers, they love this kind of games, because they can play  to be adults.

Brave New World:

I really like this picture of Chilean Martial Actor, Marko Zaror.Brave New World:

Blog #7: "I'M NOT A CYBORG"

"CYBORG":  In science fiction, Human being whose biological functions are bionically enhanced. After reading the meaning of this word. I can totally say No, I'm not. Unless, this is just the nickname for the kind of people that like to take the advantage of using and enjoying the comfort that such devices bring to our life day after day, in which case I should say Yes, I'm a Cyborg.

Not only that I'm not the kind of persons that easily get obsessed with an activity, and I don't even like to do what everybody do because is actually cool, but because I think that technological advance does not come alone, there are a sort of consequences, as result of utilizing them that we have to pay for.

Speaking about "Pay for", it is not just about money, it is much more about the psychological, physical or mental injuries, caused by the inadequate use of some of this devices.  To mention one of the blessed inventions in life, Let's take the case of Computers, I specifically would like to talk about Internet, which in the last years, had been providing a sort of  knowledge, general culture, work, business, social networking, entertainment and so.  Apparently a generous list of good qualities, but there is another face of the moon, which is called the dark side of the moon. As the moon, Internet has also his dark side,  and it have been becoming really dark since at the same time that have been used to help reunite families,or to find missing persons, in the meantime had been used for bullying, abusing, destroying integrity or even human life.

Day after day we have been listening or reading the news and getting affected by how some of the bullying victims have reacted in view of the aggression .  It is really sad to realize that  at my view one of the most important discovering s in the last century cannot just be used as a Knowledge, or Love, or Peace instrument but as a deadly weapon too. In conclusion, We should never forget that there is a frontier between our and the other rights, and that respecting human rights is the only way to live longer in Peace and Love.

"BRAINSTORMING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY"

Steep #1:

Tool:  used to carry out mechanical functions manually or by machine; device, method, technique.

Technology:  study or use of mechanical arts and Applyed Science.

Cyborg:  Human being whose biologycal functions are bionically enhanced.


Steep #2:

I do use several electronic devices at home the most of them daily, such as

• Coffee maker
•  Air conditioner
• Microwave Oven
• Ipod Touch
• Cell phone
• Desktop computer
• T.V.
• DVD Player
• Air Purifier
• Metrocard
• Banking Card
• Credit Cards.

 As I said before almost all of the devices are used at home at least once a day, excepting the last three of the list used the most of the time to make payments, buying or traveling.  Fortunately almost all of the devices I do use in my life are replaceable, I could survive without them, but I cannot lie about the comfort they bring to my life.

Revision of blog # 4: "The Allegory of the Cave"

Summary of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”


In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Socrates while illustrating Glaucon his young disciple: “And now let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened”. Socrates starts telling a story about human beings living underground  in the most miserable conditions since their childhood without seeing the sunlight and have not possibility of standing up and walk, they didn’t even seen each other or the people who used to walk around the place, they just hear the voices behind them.  In my opinion Socrates was trying to prepare his follower for one of the inconveniences that later on he should experience as the mentor he will become.

With this story, the Master was also trying to teach his young apprentice the nature of humans; how should humans reacts facing new realities and new possibilities, Socrates highlight the moment when at first one of the prisoners got released of his prison and besides discovering that everything they used to belief of things was completely wrong, and after returning back to his den and realizing  that looking at the outside of the cave, the sunlight made him miss his anterior ability of guessing things as his fellows still do, and didn’t it make him look in disadvantage
according to them? because after all, they should be thinking they better never go out and miss what for them, who never saw the real world, is their only truly real world. Therefore, they possibly couldn’t be grateful to anybody who attempt to take them to the light.


My Place in the Cave.
It is not easy for human beings to sacrifice comfort and freedom in the name of Knowledge, since all who did try missed furthermore their freedom, some of them their life.  After reading Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, I can only say that I’m in the most difficult stage of the getting out of the cave process, which is to accept that I really need to live the cave and look for some other possibilities, on the way of improving myself as a person, and at the same time mine and my daughter’s quality of life which has become my  biggest challenge. I’m aware there is a long way from now on, besides to give up to my restfulness or informality on the way to get good grades and finally a Degree.

Blog # 6 SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TRUMAN SHOW AND THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE.

What are the similarities and differences between The Truman Show and Plato's  Allegory of the Cave?
In my opinion there is just one very important similarity between the principal character of the movie: "The Truman Show",Truman Burbank, and the principal character of  "The Allegory of the Cave", the prisioner.   Both of them had spent their whole lives in another world, a very different place.  As different as the Sun is to Moon.    In the beginning they couldn't even imagine that there was another life full of new experiences to live, like love, happiness, sadness, knowledge, all aspects of life that people in another situation can live out there in the real world.
On the other hand, speaking of differences; in The Truman Show, Truman Burbank, (after Christoff's intervention) was aware of what he was going to find after leaving his old life behind, and he knew what he was looking for. Unlike Truman, the prisoner in Socrates' fable didn't even imagine how the people or things on the outside world were going to look like, he did not even think about how his body was going to respond to the physical changes that he would have to encounter, for example the change of environment might change vision (due to being in a cave and never seeing the light), posture (from bending down because of the heavy chains), basically every thing would change, having adapted to life in a cave, the prisoner did not know what to expect.

Blog # 5, READER RESPONSE.

One connection between the ideas that Jazmin was writing about and my understanding of Plato's Allegory is that since ancient history, humans have experienced a very strong sense of being "afraid to the unknown".  It happened to prisoners of Socrates fable in Plato's allegory, Ptolemy and Copernicus in Jazmin's examples and to all the other founders of the humanities in their own time. All of them were disregarded, some of them judged and sentenced to death, and all these things happened because it is not easy to open our minds to new ideas that surely are carrying all sorts of new requests of physical and mental efforts.