Wow!! Is my initial reaction to the movie "Zeitgeist". When I first saw the assignment I was hesitant because I thought the movie was going to be some old paranoid hippie's home movie, designed to attack the U.S. government. Personally I do not agree with many of the ways that our country is ran and the decision that some of our leaders take, but sometimes I do believe that some people get a little carried away, therefore making it hard for me to want to continue watching. However after watching the clip of the movie I found myself hungry for more, which I believe was the point that the director was trying to make. I do strongly agree that my generation is directly affected by today's media from the music that we listen to, the books we read, or the shows we watch on television. Our media tells us what is acceptable and what isn't. We are suppose to be the age of knowledge however there most children today can not do a simple math equation such as long division in their head because they have been taught by a machine and simply memorizes the answers spat out at them. The same thing applies when it comes to politics and other worldly events. Some twenty years ago people actually took the time to learn and reach things to get a full understanding of the things going on around them. Now with these "worldly magazines" and television shows they rather just have someone else do the work and tell them the highlights. If anything this is the generation of laziness.
Education. Many people have different connotations as to what this word actually means. Some believe it is the amount of degrees obtained from a university while others believe it is the experiences in life and the knowledge obtained from these voyages. However in the last couple of decades one might have noticed that the level of education in today's society is in a steady downward spiral. Many blame it on the government and call it modern day oppression, others blame it on the individual family. Which ever way we as a people need to join together and pull our heads out of the clouds and focus on the issues at hand. We are supposed to be a self governing country that has the most access to resources of all types. We should take advantage of these opportunities and get the county back into the hands of the people and out of the hands of the "oligarchy" rules.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
The Ever Growing Use of Technology in Todays Society
In toady's society it is getting harder and harder to do anything with out something that talks, beeps or most often times in my case yells at you. And the scary part of it all is that it all started back in cave man times, when some crazy guy with too much time on his hands came up with an idea of a spear like tool to hunt with. Of course today it is way more complex than that, with computerized can openers and refrigerators that tell you that you need to buy more milk. But most the most common piece of technology that we all have been faced with has been the Internet.
Over the summer I was taking my 1101 English class for the second and was sceptical when I walked in to see this fairly young looking man posing as my teacher. I figured either he was one of those brainy guys whom graduated college really young or FIU was making some major cut backs and trying to majorly put my education on the cutting board with it. Then just as a was at the high point of my aggravation I realized that he finally got to be pay attention and was blabbing about us making a web-page and a blog and all kinds of random things that made my head spin. I had to look at the syllabus to make sure this was my English class and not some advanced computers class. Once i confirmed I was in the correct place I went directly to panic mode. However the next week we took a field trip to the library to ease the minds of my classmates and me, and give us a tutorial on how to set up or blogs and post or assignments.
Naturally me being the person that I am, I was not very happy about not being able to just scribble my feelings in my "throw back" black and white marble notebooks. And groaned about it for the entirety of my 15 minute walk to my apartment. But since I was unable to come up with a good enough reason as to why I would be unable to do the Internet based homework assignment I decided to suck it up and give it a try.
My first time was kind of awkward because I was raised never to trust computers and any information to them; so now here I am sitting here spilling all of my guts for not just my professor but for the whole world to read and judge. In the begining I found it really hard to find things to say about topics because I was afride of sounding stupid and for the whole world to read and see. The next day I spoke to a couple of my classmates and was put at ease that many of them were a bit hesitant about the idea of blogging as well. But as we talked I learned how to put change my settings so that only my classmates and select peolpe could view my page. Once I figured how to navigate around the site I started to feel really comfortable.
Eventually what I realized is that by me writing in this journal it helped me to anaylize my thoughts and put them into words then down onto paper; or in my case make them magically appear across the screen and in the homes of people across the world. Personally it even made me want to start sharing more of my personal writings even though I do still keep them in my old marble notebooks. Blogging overall is in many ways a positive and creative way of expression.
Over the summer I was taking my 1101 English class for the second and was sceptical when I walked in to see this fairly young looking man posing as my teacher. I figured either he was one of those brainy guys whom graduated college really young or FIU was making some major cut backs and trying to majorly put my education on the cutting board with it. Then just as a was at the high point of my aggravation I realized that he finally got to be pay attention and was blabbing about us making a web-page and a blog and all kinds of random things that made my head spin. I had to look at the syllabus to make sure this was my English class and not some advanced computers class. Once i confirmed I was in the correct place I went directly to panic mode. However the next week we took a field trip to the library to ease the minds of my classmates and me, and give us a tutorial on how to set up or blogs and post or assignments.
Naturally me being the person that I am, I was not very happy about not being able to just scribble my feelings in my "throw back" black and white marble notebooks. And groaned about it for the entirety of my 15 minute walk to my apartment. But since I was unable to come up with a good enough reason as to why I would be unable to do the Internet based homework assignment I decided to suck it up and give it a try.
My first time was kind of awkward because I was raised never to trust computers and any information to them; so now here I am sitting here spilling all of my guts for not just my professor but for the whole world to read and judge. In the begining I found it really hard to find things to say about topics because I was afride of sounding stupid and for the whole world to read and see. The next day I spoke to a couple of my classmates and was put at ease that many of them were a bit hesitant about the idea of blogging as well. But as we talked I learned how to put change my settings so that only my classmates and select peolpe could view my page. Once I figured how to navigate around the site I started to feel really comfortable.
Eventually what I realized is that by me writing in this journal it helped me to anaylize my thoughts and put them into words then down onto paper; or in my case make them magically appear across the screen and in the homes of people across the world. Personally it even made me want to start sharing more of my personal writings even though I do still keep them in my old marble notebooks. Blogging overall is in many ways a positive and creative way of expression.
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