Blog entry 21

As going back through your blog entries for the semester, I think that "the meatrix", "allegory of the cave", and " Truman show". These 3 works are all related to the enlightenment about the true. Before I do these assignments, I couldn't realize that there is always true behind the reality I believe as the true. So I'm interested in these essays and I think that these are the 3 best works for me in this semester. 

In this class, writing online was a little different form other writing experience I have had in the past because I didn't use online for writing that much and I have never used the blog for writing before. Writing blog entry helps me a lot. The blog entrys have many theme and it affects my idea and helps me to write creatively. I think that online work was a shared experience. Everytime I write the essay, i can see others and also comments on their essays so it was a shared work. I often read other's essay and  I often get the impreesion form the other member of the class. It helps me to try some new expression.

I take new lessons that how to summury and how to organize the essay form this class. I would have liked to discuss about how the factory farming is processing. When I write about factory farming on the bloig entry, I really wanted to know how does it processing in detail and I was shocked about the true of the meat we eat. I feel like I leave this class with a basic understanding of writing strategies because I know how to organize the essay and what things should be in each paragraph. The most memorable moment in the class was when I was watching the matrix. I knew that movie before the class but I didn't know what this movie wants to tell us and what is about exactly. So as I watch this movie again in the class, i could understand deeply about the movie than before. I would give some recommendations that not cutting the class and try to understand the theme of the class to a student who plans to take this class next semester.

Blog entry 20

As johusan lin explains in her blog entry 18, I strongly agree with her point that the technology will have many benefits for our world. In "sleep dealer". many people work in any place through the node which makes people to connect their body to the machine. They work in California even if their bodies are in Mexico and they get paid well enough that they can afford to pay for their family. It helps to create more jobs and makes our life more convenient. Even though it has some dangers, if people use the technology properly, it has more benefits for our world.

Blog entry 19

People exploit the planet's resources to make stuff  but the reality is that  people who live in the country with the resources do not have value because they don't own the resource. The country with resources is usually   an underdeveloped contry and many companies from  advanced contry gets benefits from it. The companies can get it in much cheaper price than they get in their country. People who live in the country with resources just work for the companies and get paid a little. they can't even afford to buy stuff from their resources. For example, in africa, there are many natural resources like wood and mine. However ,these places do not belong to the people who live there but to the companies from developed country. The more companies make stuff using these resources to make money, the more people who live in this area become poor. I strongly believe that this is wrong and it should be stopped.  

Blog entry 17 reflection

According to this semester, I think that the content of food unit has a close connection with the previous text which are the allegory of the cave, the truman show, the matrix. The common theme of these texts are all about knowing the truth beyond the fake. In the truman show, the truman lives in the fake world that is created by a director and he finds the truth at last by getting over fear of water. In the allegory of the cave, a prisoners who has been in the cave for almost his life escapes from the cave. He sees the real world which is the truth and realizes that all things he sees in the cave was not everything in the world. In matrix, neo face the situation that he needs to choose one of the red pill and blue pill. He picks the red pill to know the truth whether the truth is bad or good.

The maker of meatrix makes the film based on "matrix". The world is now industry society. people make things so fast and they want to make more money so that they don't really care about how the process is. the truth is covered by money like the matrix covers the real world to control the people. The maker wants us to know the truth about how the meats we eat are made and where the meats from like the neo finds the truth in the matrix. As I look back over my works for the food unit, I think that the theme of this class is the truth and enlightenment and I realize that I'm also one of the people who are afraid of knowing the truth.

I think I have done well on my essay structure through the practice CAT test but I need more practice about managing the time. The one big challenge that I face in this class is using variable words in the essay. I think that I need to do more freerice whenever I have time so that I can use more new words on my essay. I also need to develop my thesis and claim on practice CAT test. I hope I do more practice so I pass the CAT test.

Blog entry 18

I choose this photo as the theme of the movie. In the movie " sleep dealer " there are many Mexicans who works for the united states. They connect their body to the machine using the hole in their body called "node" in California to work there. these people get paid a little and they have a lot of risk that they can die or lose part of their body. I think that this photo speaks about the film that the outsourcing of labor has some problem. The reality is that the outsourced labor get paid much less than others and the work environment is horrible which is very dangerous like the place in the film. many people lose their fingers and they get paid like few dollars a month even if they do much works than others who are not outsourced labor. I feel that they are not labors but slaves. I believe that they should be treated as well as they do.

source:http://frickej.blogspot.com/2010/02/outsourcing-and-job-market.html

Blog entry 16

There are many fast food restaurants these days. People like to eat fast food because of time and its convenience. In the article, author talks about the reality that people like to eat fast food and how the fast food restaurants get into the public favor. The author also explains that what kind of nutrition problem it has. The problem is that eating fast food is not good for health. I strongly believe that people should stop eating fast food every day. There are 3 reasons that I believe are because nutrition, chemicals, and uncleanness.

First of all, the fast food doesn't have enough nutrition for people. Basically, human needs 3 nutrition which are protein, fat, and carbohydrate to live. Fast food has enough calories or more than recommended calories. However, it just has a lot of fat and carbohydrate but it doesn’t really have protein which is very important nutrition to live for human. If people eat these foods every meal and every day, they will die. Therefore, I think that people should not eat fast food every day.

Second, the fast food has a lot of chemicals. When they make the food in the restaurant, they usually put some chemicals on food to taste better and to keep for long time. However, in the fast food restaurant like McDonald, they put too much chemicals on hamburger when they make it. As a result of putting too much chemicals, the hamburger is never spoiled even after few months. I can't even imagine how it works in my body if I eat. So I think that fast food is never good for people's health.

At last, the fast food is dirty. Customers of course think that the fast foods they eat are clean and these are made in good environment. However, the reality is that the food is nasty and it is made in dirty place. For example, I used to work in McDonald and I was shocked when I saw the environment to make hamburgers first time. It was nastier than I expected and most workers don't even wash their hands and the stuffs for making hamburger are not clean. There are also some people who died because of eating hamburger which has a lot of bacteria. I think that having fast-food is not a good idea

In conclusion, I emphasize that having fast-food is a horrible idea. I hope people to be aware that fast food has a lot of problems and to be careful about it.

Blog entry 14

I think that the maker of meatrix used the matrix as the basis for this argument because they have similar connections between meatrix and matrix.  In the meatrix,  the maker trys to tell us that factory farming is wrong and people don't know the truth that where the meat we eat from. It is like neo was trying to save the world that is fake and wrong. so I think that the maker of meatrix wants us to know the truth like neo and try to fix it.

Blog entry 13

In the movie “matrix", the matrix is the fake world created by computer and main character "neo" lives there. He gets to know about truth little by little and finally, he has a situation that he has to choose one of pills which are red and blue. Taking a blue pill makes him to stay in his current existence and taking a red pill makes him to see the truth. He chooses the red pill and i totally agree with his choice that taking a red pill. If i were in neo's position, I would also take a red pill. The reasons that I choose red pill are because I hate people who lie to me, I don’t want to be stuck in a fake world, and I don't want to be controlled by somebody.

First of all, I hate people who lie to me. I have a bad experience about it. When I was in middle school, I had a best friend in the same class. One day, I lost my wallet in the class and I asked him about it. He answered that he doesn't know about it and never saw it before. However, after few days later, I found my wallet in his bag by accident while I was cleaning the class. I had no doubt of him when I lost my wallet. I thought that he always told me the truth and never lied to me. I was so hurt that my best friend lied to me. Since it happened, I have become a person who hates lie or fake. Therefore, I don't want to live in the matrix.

Second, I don't want to be stuck in a fake world. If I live in the fake world, there is no meaning in my life. For example, I complete my education and get a job in the fake world, however these are all fake and there is no truth at all in this world. I'm also afraid that I never see the truth by being stuck in the fake world before I die. So, I would take a red pill if I were in neo's position.

At last, I do not want to be controlled by somebody. The matrix is the world that is created and controlled by an artificial intelligence computer. I want to live my own life, not the life determined for me already. If I live in the matrix, there is no freedom for me to decide and to make my own life. This is scar and horrible for the people who want to live their own lives. In the "matrix" neo also doesn't live to be controlled and wants to see the truth. Therefore, I think that living in the matrix is not a good idea.

In conclusion, I emphasize that taking a red pill is better than blue pill to live our own lives in freedom. I hope more people to face the truth and be aware that which one is better

Blog entry 15

People do farming to live and there are 2 representative ways to farm. These are house farming and factory farming. house farming is farming using natural environment and factory farming is using factory. In the film"meatrix" Moopheus stated that the factory farming has many problem like animal cruelty and massive pollution and he also showed that how bad environment the factory has. Factory farming has been popularized since the industry revolution and many house farms were destroyed by factory farming. The reality is that there are only few house farms left and even some of these farms try to change to factory to maximize the profit though they know the problems about factory farming. I strongly believe that people should stop doing factory farming. There are 3 reasons that I believe this are because product from factory farm is harmful to people, raising the animals in the factory farm makes animals to have some bad diseases and factory farming causes massive pollution.

First of all, product from the factory farm is harmful to people. In the factory farm, a lot of animals got stuck in small places so that they can get infected fast and easily if there is any disease. Owners of the farm don't want to lose at least one of them for disease and they put a lot of medicine or drug on animals in factory farm. Some of these medicine or drugs remain on the animal's body even if they died and people will eat these meats without knowing anything. This is like people are eating the medicine and drugs regularly. No one knows what happens to the people who eat these kind of products for long time. So, I think that the factory farming affects people's body.

Second, raising the animals in the factory farm makes animals to have some bad diseases. There are many horrible diseases such as bird flu and mad cow disease now days and these are from factory farming basically. There are very small places allowed to animal to move in the factory farm because the meat is sold by weight and the owner wants them to get fat faster and it also makes the meats more soft. Animals doesn't even have freedom to move and they get sick. The owner even feeds them the meats of themselves  and it makes them crazy and it also affects their brain so that they have new diseases. Therefore I think that factory farming should be stopped.

At last, the factory farming causes massive pollution. The millions pounds of excrement come from the animals in the factory farms and they are released to the rivers and air around the factory. It pollutes the rivers and all the lives in the river will die soon. It also pollutes the air so that people get sick and makes people hard to breathe and it smells so bad. The community around the factory farms often suffer from high level sickness and after the community are polluted, it takes a long time to turn back to the time before pollution. I think that factory farming is bad for environment.

In conclusion, I emphasize that factory farming has many bad influences on our society. I hope more people to be aware that factory farming affects our life and to be careful about it.