Friday, March 25, 2011
Blog Entry 5: Summary of "The Allegory of the cave"
Socrates tells Glaucon a story about humans living underground in a cave with there arms and necks chained to a wall. Socrates continues saying that the chained humans life revolves around looking at shadows.Then Socrates mentions that if one human living underground were to leave the cave and were to experience the outside world and become amazed about the experience.Finally Socrates would say that the humans inside the cave will make themselves feel better by making up honors.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Blog Entry 7: Reflection and Evaluation
Honestly I had some difficulties in blog series 1.One problem was that I had difficultyfinishing the series on time.Another problem was because of my lack of structuring in my essaysdue to the fact that I barely even write essays at all.I do know the whole structure of claim,reason,then evidence,it's just that I have some problems on how to explain my claim in one of my essays.
I do like the idea of someone commenting on my writing since they'll give me advice onwhat I'm improving,understanding,or need work on.Watching the videos on the blogs like "The Allegory of the Cave" video gave me a better understanding on how I was able to write my 5th and 6th blog entries.All and all,Ienjoyed writing my essays despite certain problems in some of my blogs.
I do like the idea of someone commenting on my writing since they'll give me advice onwhat I'm improving,understanding,or need work on.Watching the videos on the blogs like "The Allegory of the Cave" video gave me a better understanding on how I was able to write my 5th and 6th blog entries.All and all,Ienjoyed writing my essays despite certain problems in some of my blogs.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Blog Entry 4: "Hype Workshop"
Advertisement is basically being considered poison in the point of view of Kalle Lasn due the fact that ads are a powerful threat for the brains of the North American population. There used to be places to escape from ads but due to the fact that it never stops and are in everywhere you wouldn't even consider would have ads. 12 billion display ads, 3 million radio commercials, and 200,000 TV commercials shows exactly why it's not an exageration when its quoted "the most prevelant and toxic of the mental polluntants".
I agree with what Kalle Lasn is saying in her article "Hype" that advertisement is a toxin because I personally believe advertisement is like poison since I've seen a lot of commircial ads of skittles and the next thing I know I start destroying my teeth with the rainbow as if I was ordered to.When I was a little kid
there was one place that I keep asking my parents to take me to buy toys which I saw in an ad, and that was
my heaven back in the day,Toys RUs. When it comes to killing games, I see in a gameinformer magazine the
two most popular shooter games, and they're Killzone and Black-Ops. These are three examples are basically my whole agreement with Kalle Lasn.
When it comes to ads I personally think that the fact that there are 12 billion display ads, 3 millon radio commmercials, and 200,000 TV commercials every day makes me wonder when is there never an ad of anything poping up in your face as you go through your daily lives doing whatever your doing. To consider advertisement a toxin is probably the greatest way to describe it but I wouldn't call it toxic but more as a cold that never goes away. One example would be the proactive commercials that some popular celebrities have been paid to be in as well as fitness equipment that supposably helps you lose weight like the shakeweights. When it comes to ads North America definitely "takes the cake".
Destroying kids minds by using the things they love most, and thats candy, toys, and videogames. One example of candy would be Skittles T.V ad ending with "taste the rainbow"; yeah I taste it alright but is it the rainbow or is it ad poison that I taste in my mouth with skittles. Back in the day there used to be so many toys I bought and played with when I was five-years old because of ads, and they slinkies, playdoh, legos, and yoyo's all wrapped up in one place I like to call "Toys RUs" my heaven as a little kid. The thing
about videogames is that there are two types of games that the majority of American's always buy even to thisday and they are single-player shooter, and multi-player shooter games like Kill Zone, or Black Ops with one single goal,killing the other players by shooting them with god knows what kind of gun. The worse thing about this ad is that violence is shown in these types of games what I think is the worst type of ad poison.
To sum everything up, advertisement really could be considered the world's best toxic for mental polution.The speed in which ads appear daily could probably be as fast as the speed of light. The fact that it's a non-stopping cold isn't an understatement. Lets just hope that in the future that advertisement doesn't corrupt us to the point that it destroys our North America.
I agree with what Kalle Lasn is saying in her article "Hype" that advertisement is a toxin because I personally believe advertisement is like poison since I've seen a lot of commircial ads of skittles and the next thing I know I start destroying my teeth with the rainbow as if I was ordered to.When I was a little kid
there was one place that I keep asking my parents to take me to buy toys which I saw in an ad, and that was
my heaven back in the day,Toys RUs. When it comes to killing games, I see in a gameinformer magazine the
two most popular shooter games, and they're Killzone and Black-Ops. These are three examples are basically my whole agreement with Kalle Lasn.
When it comes to ads I personally think that the fact that there are 12 billion display ads, 3 millon radio commmercials, and 200,000 TV commercials every day makes me wonder when is there never an ad of anything poping up in your face as you go through your daily lives doing whatever your doing. To consider advertisement a toxin is probably the greatest way to describe it but I wouldn't call it toxic but more as a cold that never goes away. One example would be the proactive commercials that some popular celebrities have been paid to be in as well as fitness equipment that supposably helps you lose weight like the shakeweights. When it comes to ads North America definitely "takes the cake".
Destroying kids minds by using the things they love most, and thats candy, toys, and videogames. One example of candy would be Skittles T.V ad ending with "taste the rainbow"; yeah I taste it alright but is it the rainbow or is it ad poison that I taste in my mouth with skittles. Back in the day there used to be so many toys I bought and played with when I was five-years old because of ads, and they slinkies, playdoh, legos, and yoyo's all wrapped up in one place I like to call "Toys RUs" my heaven as a little kid. The thing
about videogames is that there are two types of games that the majority of American's always buy even to thisday and they are single-player shooter, and multi-player shooter games like Kill Zone, or Black Ops with one single goal,killing the other players by shooting them with god knows what kind of gun. The worse thing about this ad is that violence is shown in these types of games what I think is the worst type of ad poison.
To sum everything up, advertisement really could be considered the world's best toxic for mental polution.The speed in which ads appear daily could probably be as fast as the speed of light. The fact that it's a non-stopping cold isn't an understatement. Lets just hope that in the future that advertisement doesn't corrupt us to the point that it destroys our North America.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Blog Entry 3: Summarizing "Hype"
Kalle Lasn says in the article "Hype" the effects of advertisement in North America. Advertisement is basically poison for the minds of the population in America now that ads sneak up on you everywhere. You'll see ads in the places you go to or things you use whether you like it or not, so "you can run but, you can't hide".
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Blog Entry 2: Reflecting on Annotation
What I obtained from the annotations with the class was the ability to organize the main idea and my opinions of a passage buy writing it down.
What I obtained by writing annotations for "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" was the main idea of the article and also examples of how google or my laptop makes me think less in my daily life.
What I learned from reading by annotating was seeing the important ideas of the article more clearly.
Annotating can make me a better writer by helping me organize the main idea as well as my thoughts.
What I obtained by writing annotations for "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" was the main idea of the article and also examples of how google or my laptop makes me think less in my daily life.
What I learned from reading by annotating was seeing the important ideas of the article more clearly.
Annotating can make me a better writer by helping me organize the main idea as well as my thoughts.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Blog Entry 1: "Hype"
Advertisement is basically being considered poison in the point of view of Kalle Lasn due the fact that ads are a powerful threat for the brains of the North American population. There used to be places to escape from ads but due to the fact that it never stops and are in everywhere you wouldn't even consider would have ads. 12 billion display ads, 3 million radio commercials, and 200,000 TV commercials shows exactly why it's not an exageration when its quoted "the most prevelant and toxic of the mental polluntants".
When it comes to ads I personally think that the fact that there are 12 billion display ads, 3 millon radio commmercials, and 200,000 TV commercials every day makes me wonder when is there never an ad of anything poping up in your face as you go through your daily lives doing whatever your doing. To consider advertisement a toxin is probably the greatest way to describe it but I wouldn't call it toxic but more as a cold that never goes away. One example would be the proactive commercials that some popular celebrities have been paid to be in as well as fitness equipment that supposably helps you lose weight like the shakeweights. When it comes to ads North America definitely takes the cake.
Destroying little kids minds by using the things they love most, and thats candy, toys, and videogames. One example of candy would be Skittles T.V ad ending with "taste the rainbow"; yeah I taste it alright but is it the rainbow or is it ad poison that I taste in my mouth with skittles. Back in the day there used to be so many toys I bought and played with when I was five-years old because of ads, and they slinkies, playdoh, legos, and yoyo's all wrapped up in one place I like to call "Toys RUS" my heaven as a little kid. The thing
about videogames is that there are two types of games that the majority of American's always buy even to thisday and they are single-player shooter, and multi-player shooter games like Kill Zone, or Black Ops with one single goal,killing the other players by shooting them with god knows what kind of gun. The worse thing about this ad is that violence is shown in these types of games what I think is the worst type of ad poison.
To sum everything up, advertisement really could be considered the world's best toxic for mental polution.The speed in which ads appear daily could probably be as fast as the speed of light. The fact that it's a non-stopping cold isn't an understatement. Lets just hope that in the future that advertisement doesn't corrupt us to the point that it destroys our North America.
When it comes to ads I personally think that the fact that there are 12 billion display ads, 3 millon radio commmercials, and 200,000 TV commercials every day makes me wonder when is there never an ad of anything poping up in your face as you go through your daily lives doing whatever your doing. To consider advertisement a toxin is probably the greatest way to describe it but I wouldn't call it toxic but more as a cold that never goes away. One example would be the proactive commercials that some popular celebrities have been paid to be in as well as fitness equipment that supposably helps you lose weight like the shakeweights. When it comes to ads North America definitely takes the cake.
Destroying little kids minds by using the things they love most, and thats candy, toys, and videogames. One example of candy would be Skittles T.V ad ending with "taste the rainbow"; yeah I taste it alright but is it the rainbow or is it ad poison that I taste in my mouth with skittles. Back in the day there used to be so many toys I bought and played with when I was five-years old because of ads, and they slinkies, playdoh, legos, and yoyo's all wrapped up in one place I like to call "Toys RUS" my heaven as a little kid. The thing
about videogames is that there are two types of games that the majority of American's always buy even to thisday and they are single-player shooter, and multi-player shooter games like Kill Zone, or Black Ops with one single goal,killing the other players by shooting them with god knows what kind of gun. The worse thing about this ad is that violence is shown in these types of games what I think is the worst type of ad poison.
To sum everything up, advertisement really could be considered the world's best toxic for mental polution.The speed in which ads appear daily could probably be as fast as the speed of light. The fact that it's a non-stopping cold isn't an understatement. Lets just hope that in the future that advertisement doesn't corrupt us to the point that it destroys our North America.
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