follow up to blog 8

 

          I remember when I went to go shopping for a new car, one of the male sales person looked at me funny.  Maybe he thought that I didn’t look professional, I wasn’t a guy or looked too young to go buy a new car.  I went in there wanting someone to help me but everyone just looked away and didn’t pay any attention to me.  The next day I went in with my father, and all of these sales people gave all of their attention to him.  A few weeks later, when I had to go back in for a detailing for the car, they charged me so much.  But the same person that sold the car to my father and I told us that the detailing was for free, but that same person tried to charge me extra because I was this young female that they thought I was clueless about everything.           

          Well after when I came back home from the car dealership, I was upset and hurt the fact that these people were just ignoring when I kept asking for help.  I was also upset the fact that when I knew for a fact that I had a free detailing on the car, this same person tried to charge me.  From my point of view, I feel like when they see a girl coming into a car dealership; it’s like an easy target to them because they think that women don’t know anything about cars.  I feel like most places not even car dealership, categorize sex and treat people differently.  One of my best friends dealt with the same situation, where she was being ignored when she went into a car dealership, so the next day she walked in with her father and came out with the best deal. 

blog 8

My other would be someone that doesn’t have any taste in fashion, who listens to country or hard rock, who loves to study, not an upper class, who acts shy and all crazy and hyper.  My other would also love to eat meat and drink every day.  She is not an animal person and abuses them, she is bald, which has a strong body odor because she only takes a shower once a week; her height is 6’7 and really skinny.  My other is someone that works for the IRS.

          This other person is described as my opposite because she doesn’t have any quality that I like in a person, or someone that I don’t define myself as.  I am a type of person that loves to go shopping and have trendy outfits. My other has an animosity towards animals and abuses them.  I myself am an animal person; I love animals and all living things besides creepy insects.  I can’t stand standing next to a person or even sitting next to them with a really bad body odor.

blog 7

1.    The mass media during Hurricane Katrina had been impacted mentally and physically. 

2.    Reporters and journalist who were there to cover the storm began rescue efforts in helping those who were trapped or stranded by using their satellite systems. 

3.    Many witnessed death and saw firsthand of art of survival.

• Media will be more prepared in handling situation more affectively.
• Government response to this natural disaster will be handled in an orderly fashioned.
• The technology in the media will help save more lives because during hurricane Katrina communication were destroyed, so technology will be more advanced.
• The media showed the effect of the natural disaster in a way that people helped by donating goods, food and money to help those in need.
• Hurricane Katrina can influence other natural disasters.

Lehrer, Jim. "Online News Hour." Katrina Media Coverage. pbs.org, 25/09/2005. Web. 30 Oct 2010. <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/weather/july-dec05/media_9-29.html>.

"Hurricane History." Hurricane Peparedness. NOA/National Weather Service, 13/09/2010. Web. 30 Oct 2010. <http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/history.shtml>.

Yollin, Patricia. "HURRICANE KATRINA Red Cross sending volunteers to South Largest effort in its 124-year history ." SFGate (2005): 1. Web. 30 Oct 2010. <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/31/LOCALS.TMP>.

Cash Sought To Help Hurricane Victims, Volunteers Should Not Self-Dispatch. Washington D.C: FEMA, 2005. Web. 30 Oct 2010. <http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18473>.

Warrick, Joby. "Crisis Communications Remain Flawed." Washington Post (2005): 2. Web. 30 Oct 2010. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120902039.html>.

Shukla, Anuradha. "Intelsat Ensures Communications after Haiti Earthquake." Satellite Spotlight (2010): 1. Web. 30 Oct 2010. <http://satellite.tmcnet.com/topics/satellite/articles/72787-intelsat-ensures-communications-after-haiti-earthquake.htm>.

"Help Survivors of the Earthquake in Haiti." Charity Navigator. Charity Navigator, 2010. Web. 30 Oct 2010. <http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=1004>.

Wells, Matt. "Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media? ." BBC News. BBC News, 2005. Web. 30 Oct 2010. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4214516.stm>.

Blog 6

     The media portrays “hero” as a miracle worker, an angel or a person that can do various things.  In the media, journalist, reporters or news anchors will write about a person to make the people either to love that person or to hate them.  A “hero” can be anyone that can do good deeds or bad, just as long as those people have a heart.  From the movie “hero” it was about a guy name Bernie Laplante and John Bubber, who are both heroes.  This movie is a good example of how the media depicts the ideal hero for the viewers to love. 

            From the movie “hero” Bernie Laplante was characterized by this lonely loser guy, who can’t have a steady job, can’t keep a family, and not a people person.  But all of a sudden he saves a ton of people from the plane crash, but didn’t get the credit.  Another guy name John Bubber, who was a veteran from the Vietnam War who saved people during that war, was being characterized as a hero because of the lie he informed to the reporters.  In this movie, the media and the viewers loved and worshipped John Bubber because of his lying heroic act.  But the media loved him because of his past history, and he was the type of person that can be titled as a hero.  Even though the reporter knew that he wasn’t the hero, he still stuck to the story and still claimed himself as a hero.  The media didn’t depict Bernie Laplante as a hero because of his image and his criminal records.  After his heroic act, he disappeared from the scene but confessed to the wrong people and reported to the reporters too late.  But at the end, when Laplante hinted the reporter that he was the hero that saved the people from the plane crash, he wasn’t shown in the media that he was the hero.  Laplante didn’t like the fortune and the fame in the media, so he decided to stay off the media. Anybody can be a hero but I guess it’s the media who picks the ideal person for the viewers.   For example, a New York City guy name Wesley Autrey and Chad Lindsey is being labeled as a hero, for saving a person from the train tracks but one of them was rewarded.

            From the New York Times, a journalist name Ray Rivera and Karen Zraick labeled Wesley Autrey and Chad Lindsey as a hero because of their heroic act.  Autrey is being labeled as a hero because he saved a person from a seizure attack that fell onto the tracks, right before the number one train came.  Autrey is a fifty year old guy, who is married and has two kids and works as a construction guy.  Autrey was awarded with a visit to the white house and the people in the city saluted him for his heroic act.  Lindsey saved a person who fell on the tracks right before the train came.  But Lindsey was going to become an anonymous hero until his friends told about Lindsey.  From my viewpoint, I feel that the journalist gave an innocent man Autrey more credit of his act because he is a family man which viewers like to see, because he is like our everyday people.  I guess these news reporters or journalist knows what type of people would stand out and can be classified as a hero.  Just like in the movie, Gale Gayley the reporter gave more credit and fame to Bubber because he was this homeless guy that had nothing.

            A hero in the media is someone who fits in with the story and the type of people viewers would like.  The media from the movie “hero” illustrated Bubber as a hero because of his image; the media weren’t satisfied with the real hero Laplante because of his records and his characteristics.  Just like what Bubber said “everyone is a hero”, so personally, the media shouldn’t choose which person should be the hero that best suit the media, it should be whoever did their duty.  

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/a-subway-hero-descends-then-vanishes/

Blog 5 overview of what I'll be writing on for the midterm (to be continued)

My topic will be on the coverage of Hurricane Katrina, because I feel like this disaster impacted on a lot of people all around the world, such as the media and how people helped out giving donation through the radio shows and from Red Cross through commercials.  In this paper, I will develop the paper by introducing what Hurricane Katrina is, and when it hit, how many people lost lives and how it impacted the whole world.  

Sources I will be using:

http://www.katrina.noaa.gov/

http://www.hurricanekatrina.com/

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/special-reports/katrina.html

Blog 4 Reflection

Well I really didn’t know how to come up with a thesis statement or a main idea and I had a really hard time. But after you went over with the class about how to write a thesis by having an argument and a position, it helped me realize how to start a thesis.  I also learned that the main idea should be broad and not specific, but again be a position statement.  So every time I post a blog online, it helped me a lot with writing my main idea.  But for some reason I do have trouble writing my conclusion and I know conclusion is something you restate from the introduction but I really get a hard time writing that.  And I literally take a long time trying to come up with a topic to write about, and I know that’s not a good sign because for the final we only have two hours to write an essay with six hundred words. But free writing will help me come up with a topic because it’s a technique where I’m suppose to come up with one topic and write about it without stopping.

 Posting blogs online and interacting with other students from other class is interesting, because it shows other peoples mistakes and it can allow me to see the types of mistakes I make with my writings as well.   Also giving feedback to someone outside of the classroom helped in a way because its different from giving feedback to someone you already know in class.  It helped me learn the type of mistake that person makes on their essay, and the same error that person make are the same errors I make on my essay so it helped me correct mine.  It was kind of hard trying to give that other person a feedback, because I was suppose to write it in a way where that person won’t feel like they didn’t go good on their essay.  I also didn’t want to bring down her self confidence on writing an essay or think they did a poor job.

I don’t really having anything to reflect on but to say that I’m starting to improve on my essay, but only on writing up to 600 words or more.

Blog 3: the Matrix analysis

Illusion is a word that we force our mind to think that everything is perfect. It can also be something we sight for desire.  Illusion can be described as a hallucination, where people can see the future we appetite for.  From the movie, The Matrix the character Neo is being introduced to the Matrix by Morpheus and Trinity, but has no idea what the matrix was at first.  But soon to find out that the Matrix is the real world, but living on earth was an illusion.  This movie can be a great example of an illusion because it describes that an illusion is something we see, touch, hear, smell and taste.

From the movie “The Matrix”, at the beginning Neo tries to find out what the matrix is, so Morpheus states:  “The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.” And his perspective of the matrix was living in an illusion, where the reality isn’t real and our eyes are being force to think that the illusion is reality.  But from Cypher’s perspective from the movie, the reality world wasn’t satisfying him, where his eyes were craving for the illusion where he can be satisfied with anything he wants.  From the movies perspective an illusion of the matrix is something we can portray with our senses, just like cypher where his craving for money and food in the illusion world called reality.  This can be a great example from the “allegory of the cave” by Plato, where he describes his perspective on illusion is being ignorant.

The “allegory of the cave” Plato describes how these slaves were in the cave from childhood and has no idea about what reality is to them.  They think that reality and the world is in that cave, for instance Socrates states: “the prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun and you will not misapprehend me if you interpret the journey upwards to be.”  But from Socrates perspective, the prisoners were to decide if they wanted to be scorn by others, and live with the truth or to live in a lie and be ignorant and live in an illusion is what some prisoners had to decide to live with.  This statement can be compared to the Matrix where Neo had to choose to want to know what the Matrix is, when Morpheus makes Neo choose if he wants to drink the blue pill where he will go back to the reality world in the illusion, where this can be compared to living with a lie and being ignorant and living in an illusion. And the red pill is where he can find out the Matrix, and this can be compared to living by telling the truth and being scorn by others.  Socrates also stated: “and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive someone saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion,” In my opinion, this statement is that the reality is an illusion.

Hallucination is what we define as an illusion and what we portray in our brain.  Neo sees that the real world was in illusion and from “allegory of the cave” Socrates also perceives that reality is an illusion as well. Illusion can also be a fantasy to allow us to see whatever we want to see, but in Neo’s case anything you plug into your brain is an illusion.