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According to Danahay and Rieder Coppertop is an average working class Americans under capitalism. These people are often exploited, paid less than they should have earned. To make sure they are producing worth their salary workers are under constant surveillance. The Matrix amplifies this ongoing system of capitalism very well. Human beings are workers producing energy source in exchange for a delusional world (The Matrix) to mentally live in. The reason Human being are compare as workers under capitalism because they do not recognize the relationship between their labor and the capital that they produce. They don’t have the knowledge that they are forced to work, believing that they sell their labor voluntarily. They are exploited because they are not able to choose how and when they work. Human being in The Matrix is like factory workers or office clerk working roll by roll, in a dead end job that will get them nowhere. In this chapter Danahay and Reider state that the film fall short of convincing the audience to resist the Matrix. They claim that the directors use cinematic technique to made The Matrix seem like an acceptable place to live. The directors made The Matrix appear as colorful, lively and full of life. As we could see that in the Matrix the crew dresses in good clothing, they have beautiful hair and no hole in the back of their head everybody look their best. They also equipped with all the weapon and gun they desire, just by simply uploading of programs. Not to mention the ability to fight like jet li which of cause they were not able to in the real world. In contrast, the director made the real world seem as a burn out city from the result of war between human and machine. People on the ship eat tasteless food that look like whole wheat. They wear old clothes, head shave with a hole in the back of their neck. The colors in the real world were shot in black and white to give the viewers the feeling that life in the real world is harsh and unpleasant to live in, unworthy of fighting for. In the movie Sleep Dealer, The issue of capitalism is also play well. The movies give us a sense that one day it could all be real. Illegal immigrant can be exploited right in their own land without having to cross into United State. Technology can be a scary thing because it keep people isolated, less human interaction.

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The matrix and existenz had the same ground. Both movies play with the ideas of virtual reality vs reality. But the take on these ideas are different. The matrix had lot of guns and existenz had goo lot of goo. although both film engage viewers in its illusory reality, The Matrix give more insight about whether we live in computer generated dream world. By reading Penetrating Keanu (Cynthia Freeland) I disagreed with her and felt like Matrix had more thought and much more complex. In this section the author seem to be focusing on gender and the role of the male and female in the movie. In The Matrix Keanu Reeve/Neo is a male leading figure aid by a subservient female, whereas Existenz had a woman as a leading role by making a woman a computer whiz and decision maker. The author judge the movie base on role of gender because she thing the Matrix is sexist. After watching Existenz I do not feel its was culturally relevant at all. The entire movie base on game within a game, confusing, hard to understand and does not leave any thought. Ever since the beginning of the movie I already know that the movie was a game. The same bone like gun used to shot Allegra was later see in the game as Ted used it to kill the Chinese waiter. The Matrix had more meaningful insight of reality because machine and human coexistent are something we all could relate to. The matrix made us wonder if we are living in the Matrix or what we see,feel,smell,hear and taste are real. The Matrix show us that human are different from machine because we have freewill. Neo willingly choose to see the matrix for himself and what he see is billion of human body, floating in a pod of pink goo nurturing by robots without consciousness. The thought of myself being floated in those pod is really scary, am I really have no control over myself physically and mentally? Could one day we be unplug and free from the Matrix? In the book Cynthia describe the Matrix ending scene where Keanu reeves is flying on the as typical cinematic movie and had no point, but there is. Neo ability to fly like superman show us that the Matrix is just a computer generated program, being a psychokinetic computer hacker Neo is able to unlock the matrix codes and do the impossible.

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In the beginning of class I think I am going to do slide show clip about pitbull. Why the breed got a bad rep. I did some research on the background of this particular breed. I found out some information which are really interesting. I'm not sure if this is a good idea though.

final project blog 17

As i spend time looking at videos, i still can't come up with idea for the project. I am still looking for subject, to do a video about the media is kind of hard especially when you don't have any experience.

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Are we living in the matrix? I think is question lie upon a person's personal believe. We are free to believe anything, that is what separated human for machine. A free will to believe what we chose is a greatest gift one can possibly acquired. Human being chose what they believe is logically true, but how can we justified what is true? How do we defined real? In the book Nixon claim that we are probability living in the matrix. I have to disagree. How can an opinion of one man apply to million others. As a child we are taught to believe a certain things exist like Santa Claus, Tooth fairy etc. But as we grew older we come to realize that they do not exist. Some people believe in god but how do you prove that god exist, that he is real. People said that god is watching over us. Their are 6 billion people on this planet, how can god have the ability to watch over everybody? The same principal apply to Neo and Morpheus. Before offering Neo the blue and red pills, Morpheus tells Neo,"No one can be told what the matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." Morpheus knows that even if he told Neo about the matrix he would not believe him. Neo have to acknowledge and justified his knowledge and believe on his own that the matrix is real. Morpheus also said "some people are so build to the system they are not ready to be unplug or that they will fight to keep it alive".
This is another evidence of how people so possess in their believe they will fight for their believe regardless of what is right or wrong, real or artificial. If we do believe we are living in the matrix we might as well be. There really are no actual prove whether we are living in the matrix or not. It's all in our heads.

blog 15 essay draft

Midterm Essay Draft
Introduction: Introduction of the paragraph on television, the history of television.
Thesis Statement: media is not the leading cause of violence, but a combination of many social factors.
With the introduction of the television to American in 1946, our world had change. The world has been brought together in a very beneficial way. As our technologies progressed, events of the world have been able to be broadcast around the globe. As the world gets closer, people get closer. Society began to form and problem with violence started to take effect.
Violence in our society seems to be an increasing problem. We turn on the new and we see violence crime on T.V. everyday. Younger and Younger generation of youths are committing some of the most horrific crime. With the rise of violence in youth, society as a whole has begun to point out finger. Our quickness to place a blames has been one major aspect of American society. Everything and everyone can be target as a potential suspect. Television or the entertainment industry has been point out as one of the leading cause of violent in children. To blame the situation solely on Television alone is incorrect. That mean we are overlooking hundreds of different social problems which also play crucial role in producing violence behavior in young adult. In order to fix the problem, we must come together as a whole to recognize and evaluate every aspect of what cause violence. In doing so, we will find that the media is not the leading cause of violence, but a combination of many different social factors.
In a study, it was shown that children’s attitudes toward television content change dramatically over time, 34% of children aged five to seven believe that commercials always tell the truth, but the number drop to 5% by the ages of eleven to twelve. Relative to the attention paid to programs, the attention paid to commercials drops by 21% between the ages of five and seven and by 42% between the ages of eleven and twelve. This indicated that as children mature, they become aware of what’s true and what’s false, what is wrong and what is right. If children could see what goes on commercial is not entirely true why would they believe that going out with a loaded gun and shoot people is a right thing to do? Violent behavior and criminal activity has always been associated with drug, gangs, and living condition. Violence is everywhere even places where television is not a major part of life.

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Today I did research on information about how Television is not the leading cause of violence. I found some useful article online. I am getting the sense of how I would organize my paper. I also have read about Kitty Genovese murder and was pretty shock how people can be ignorance. The other thing I look up on is the baby-boom after the war but found no useful imformation on how it related to T.V. and violence.

violent and tv

Television is not the leading cause of violence, it just contributed to it.

Television and movie do not play a major role of everyday life. It is just a part of our enjoyment and should not be consider the source of producing violence behavior. I do believe that people choose to be violence by choice. It is up to an individual to decide to commit violence.

The other reason is the family value and living condition. Parents are the one who suppose to teach a child from right to wrong, telling them that violence is bad. It is ok for children to watch violence show on T.V. as long as there are parent to supervise them. Living condition is another reason in contribute to violence. Neighborhood with high poverty rate also have a high crime rate, it the lifestyle of gangs, drugs, prostitutes and guns.

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your description of the image is well explain, the blue sky, the man with wing the woman in his arm. The expand of the wing represent independent and freedom. The man look proud and confident. I think you are right on the point that men are a stronger independent gender. But woman in this picture seem to take pride being support and held up high by her man. I like the line ere you said women can also be superheroes. Superwoman is a strong confident woman, she is not just a side kick.

What you wrote about the ad is correct. you explain it very well. The detail is good. The ad give the people image of what the game will be like, what they can expect from the game. Using the quote from the ad is also a good idea but you did not explain it. What is the meaning of the quote and how it emphasize the game.

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Thesis statement is an explanation of the topic or purpose of a research paper to let reader know what the paper is going to be about. The thesis statements come at the end of the introduction paragraph. www.sdst.org/shs/library/thesis.html
Research is about finding out and learn about a subject that interested you. The information can be find at the library, internet, or interview people. To be able to do a good research you need to think, reflect on ideas and ask the right question. You need to follow up on materials and search for them at the right place. www.usg.edu › Home › Welcome to The Information Age
Argument is a debate between two people or group on a subject. The two side present their idea and point of view , They must have a really good point to support their theory like logical fact, statistic and strong point. A good argument should result in an accepting conclusion. Most people might think of argument as a fight but it should be used as discussion in a civilize manners. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument
Claim is a statement used to define an ownership of property or invention. It also can be use to state the position on an issue, the purpose behind the argument. inventors.about.com/od/definations/g/claim.htm
Reasons is a statement in justification or explanation behind a belief or action, for instance the reason I go to college is to get a degree. ardictionary.com/Reason/1495
Evidence is a testimony, document, or item that can be proof. The word evidence is also refer to an object found at the crime scene which later used in the court to prosecute the defendant of a crimewordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
MLA Citation Style refer to as Modern Language Association for citing the source used in a paper. www.library.cornell.edu › ... › Citation Management

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1. What is your first thought of what the museum going to be like?

2. What is the first thing you notice when you walk into the museum?

3. How much are you planning to pay for suggestion price?

4. Who is Lon Chaney?

5. What was he call?

6. Locate and Watch the great train robbery?

7. What was the focus of the Fan magazine?

8. Go to music section and find whose star in movie meatballs?

9. Who compose nightmare before Christmas soundtrack?

10. Who compose men in black soundtrack?

11. Beat pac man.

12. Go check out Feral Fount.

13. How many series of small sculptures the Feral Fount made of?

14. When did Nintendo came out?

15. When did sega genesis came out?

16. When did ps 1 came out?

17. Create your own animation.

18. Who invented photographic devices?

19. Watch movie scene with different soundtrack and compare how different soundtrack had an effect on a movie scene

20. Try making your own voice automated dialogue replacement. Be creative.

21.What were the 3 film produce by vista vision, 35mm still camera?

22. What year were they produced?

23. What was Zoopraxiscope device use for?

24. Who was the first silent-film director to used close-up shot.?

25. What the name of the first American Blockbuster movie?

26. Do you like the museum?

27. What piece of exibition impress you the most?

28. Did you learn something from your experience in the museum?

29. What did you learn?

30. Do you have fun?

blog#6

The matrix makes me think a lot about the world live in. Do I really live in the real world or do I live in the matrix? The question left unanswered. I recently had watched the animatrix which is the prequel of the movie. Before the matrix was created human and machine coexist peacefully until the machine was rejected by human. Soon after the war begins, human had lost and agreed to become an energy source for the machine. In return the machine created the perfect world call the matrix for human to live in. In the matrix Neo choose to take the red pill because he do not believe in the world he lives in, that there are more to it, Neo also say that his dream feel more real than when awake. I believe that we are just one race to the machine, the human race. Gender are not important in the matrix either, the machine only need our body as their energy source. In the matrix our body is not important, the body is just a form of existing that the matrix had created for us. However outside the matrix our body is important to the machine like I mention before human are the energy source for the machine. What separate human from the machine is choice and free will? Human had the ability to make their own choice allow them the further their destiny. The machine however cannot comprehend the concept of choice and free will. They core structure base on purpose and control. This is the reason for the disharmony in Zion city. The people in the city chose to reject the matrix which goes against the concept of purpose and control causing the machine wanting to destroy the city. The true is human and machines do need one another. The movie is already a great example, human need the machine to perform task that is humanly impossible. The ship people ride on, the weapon they use and the computer are machine. We as human are the one who build the machine in the first place. Without human there would be no machine, that why we need to coexist.

matrix the quiz

I would take the red pill. In the matrix, the world is beautiful which is create by machine for human to live in. The reason I'll take the red pill because I would want to live in the real world and fight for my freedom. In order for humans to fight, they need to be free. Anyone who are not unplug is part of the matrix. Neo believe there was something different and he wanted to know more that why he take the red pill.

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The Truman syndrome is a type of psychiatric delusion under which people are were convinced that their lives are secretly playing out on reality TV. This syndrome is refer to a movie the Truman show starring Jim Carry. People who suffer from this symptom can be dangerous to themselves and to others. The Truman syndrome is a complex disease but can be threat psychologically.
The reason people feel that they are on TV could be from a result of paranoid disorder. They mistrust and suspicious of others. This could link to extreme stress level or under excessive depressions at these circumstances people are not mentally stable. They may develop a way out by believing in thing that is not real.
The sites where I found my information came from google. I think the sites are trustworthy because the information I get seem to be logical, plus the site was the one that came up at the very first page after I type the world.

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The different between the Truman show and reality TV show is the setting which it take place. In the movie Truman was born and raised in an artificial city where everything and everyone is a part of the movie. People that Truman interacted with everyday were actors. Truman participation as an actor without any knowledge that he is a star of the show, he was deluded by the creator of the show that the worlds he live in really exist. Every step of his life was predetermined by the creator and the cast, Truman never had a chance to make a decision of his own.
In reality TV people chose to be part of it by volunteer with the knowledge that they will be on camera, that their live will be view by millions of people. Everything in the show is real the actors, the setting and the situation, there is no script. In reality show people really interact with each other that why its call reality show.
During an interview where christof state .“I have given Truman a chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be.”I am however agree and disagree with this statement. The reason I agree with this statement is Seahaven is a perfect place to live in. Truman could live a perfect life in seahaven, he would never come into harm or be in any real danger, not to mention his financial status. He would always have a job and never have to face real life optical. Compare to the real world where he will have to face every problem on his own. There will be no cast and crew to assist him through. He would be facing real danger or even be killed. The reason I disagree with this statement is that is wrong to toy with someone life by creating a make belief world for a person to live in for other viewing entertainment. Truman should be free to have total control of his own life and make a decision that would determine his life.
When Truman start piecing together the falsity of the world that surrounded him, his view of seahaven is radically altered and start to question all that he encounter. The similarity that parallel with my life started way back when I was a kid, In my youth I never had to worry about real life problem. The only thing I could think of is play and play some more. I tend to see the world as how kid see it as fun and worry free. When I grew up I start to face many adult situations. I have to learn how to survive in the real world, encounter many people and start to see the world that surrounded me is not such a beautiful place after all.

Blog #1

Nasit Phongtankul
A cyborg is a human being whose body has been taking over in part or in whole by electromechanical devices.
I am a Cybor, however I am not obsessed with electronic device, it’s only part of my life. It is true that people depend on machine as a tools to help them get through the day faster or make their live a little easier . For example a tool such as computer , the whole world cannot run without them. Imagine what would this world be like without computer , no internet, no email, no more machine to perform humanly impossible task.