Blog 8: 2010, 30 Years From Now

A day in my life 30 years from now would be totally different. I would wake up from a customized alarm that knows when each of my classes are every morning and how long it takes me to get ready for them. So it knows exactly when to wake me up without me having to set it the night before. My closet would already have an outfit picked out for me electronically and already be ironed and steamed. I would then go brush my teeth andp hair but wouldn't really have to do anything because im going to have an advice that automatically does it all for me. As for putting make-up, there will be make-up that lasts for a week and not have to touch it up till the next week. My breakfast would already be made by my mini robot who poured my bowl of cereal and glass of orange juice. Once im all ready for class I will press a button at a station that will send me a flying matt to take to class and won't have to wait 10 minutes for a bus. There will not be shuttles anymore to cause global warming which will actually make a more sustainable environment. In class, I will be taught my a professor on a webcam and the teacher will not actually be present in the class. Everyone assignment, quiz or test will be on a new updated computer that is much more accessable and does not have to be charged every day. My cell phone to text on will consist of me saying what i want to text and the words will automatically type exactly what I say and send it to who I told it to. Life will be so much easier in the future but I will not let myself get lazy. I will still do activities during the day outside, work out and go running. I hope life is like this in the future and our world isn't destroyed by human activites.

Blog 7: Skunk Ape Tutorial

This tutorial is very valuable, in my opinion. It helps refresh my memory of how to search on databases because that can be very difficult. The mistake I usually make when researching is finding effective information for my paper, but the tutorial helps me find more effective information ethically. The games are fun to do and I really got involved with it. The quizzes were alright, but I mean who likes quizzes? The tutorial is easy learn which is why it is more effective to students and they actually want to use it. I already did know a lot about MLA format because I learned that all in Composition 1, but reading up on it again does not hurt. It is deffinitely a good reference when you need to be refresh your memory about this when writing papers and doing the research for them. I wish I would of known more about it during Composition 1 last semester because that is when I was learning everything and I would of probably caught on a lot quicker with the tutorial than I did without it. The only thing I would change about it would be to not make it so repetitive because that can get annoying and lost student's interest.

Couples Retreat Trailer

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2681274905/
Want some laughs and maybe some advice about your failing marriage? Watch this movie. It will help you with all your problems in your relationship. This movie shows couples how important honesty, loyalty and passion is in a marriage. It helps you realize how you should never take your partner for granted. This movie is about a couple who's marriage is failing and they want to fix it. They go on a vacation to a tropical island and drag their other friends along. What they didn't know is that they had to participate in couples training and yoga which they weren't up for. Half way through they trip, the people who were supposed to be helping their marriage, were really just messing it up ever more and now all the couples were on the verge of divorce. Towards the end, they all come together because a friend was lost at sea and had to search the party island for him. All the couples realized how much they needed their partner in their life and it braught them all close together and did save all of their marriages. So if your marriage is in trouble go see this movie. It will be very helpful in getting you and your loved one back to the way they were when you first got married, guaranteed!

The Notebook

"The Notebook", inspired by a book written by Nicholas Sparks, is about a young woman who comes to the coastal town of Seabrook, North Carolina in the 1940's to spend the summer with her family. During this summer, still in her teens, Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) meets local boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) at a Carnival one night. From the moment he laid his eyes on her at the Carnival, he knew they were meant to be together, even though she is raised from a wealthy family and he's only a mill worker. Over this Summer, they both fall deeply in love and spent every day together, they were inseperable. Allie's parents realize how serious they are and wants to break them apart because her mother sees him as trash. Her parents make her leave early that Summer and move far up north. Every day for a year, Noah wrote Allie letters but her mother hid everyone from her and she never read one of them. Once they both realized it was just a Summer fling, they both go back to living their lives. Noah went and served in the Army for WW2 and Allie had meant some rich gentleman volunteering at a GI hospital, Lon (James Marsden), who she got engaged to. Even though the both of them moved on they still never forgot about that perfect Summer they fell in love. Allie decides to visit Seabrook one more time before she makes it official with Lon. What she didn't expect to happen, sure did, she fell back in love with Noah. Now confused as can be she had to make a decision about who she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. Decades later, in a nursing home, a man reads a journal to a woman who has suffered from alzheimers disease. She suddenly remembers she was the girl in the story he was reading her and he was Noah, the young man in the story. Her memory only lasted for a couple minutes until she acted like she didn't know him again. Many men think this movie is just a chick flick but it really isn't. It's enjoyable for everyone to watch and shows that theres love really like that.

Less Privacy Is Good for Us (and You) Question for Discussion #2

Etzioni's article, Less Privacy Is Good for Us, definitely helps readers to see the complexity of privacy issues. One example the author points out, is how mothers who have HIV can pass it on to their children. To get rid of the disease from the infants the mother cannot breast-feed and have to be given AZT immediately. What civil libertarians and some gay activists argue about is that the mothers have to be tested for HIV to know if the baby will have it as well and libertarians say that it is privacy violation. I completely disagree. I think it is unfair to the child to be born with HIV, especially if it can be treated. The mother should have to be tested without people thinking its a violation of her privacy. Throughout the article, Etzioni makes it very clear how complex people's views about privacy are. Another example the author made was about how biometrics will not allow a person who had a criminal history to move to another part of the country with a clean slate and not be looked at as a criminal. I, again, think there is nothing wrong with that. Someone with a bad history should not be able to get rid of it because for example if that person wanted to get a job, a boss would want to know his or her past. No one would want to hire a theft or any other type of criminal. I think it is rediculous that libertarians think that making it mandatory to take a drug test if you wish to become a driver of a school bus, train engineers, or pilots constitute suspicionless searches. If you wish to pursue one of those careers, you should not be under the influence of any type of drug for other peoples safety. Some people may agree with libertarians, but I surely do not. As you can see, Amitai Etzioni helps readers see the complexity of privacy issues.

Immokalee At It's Greatest

Immokalee has had a substantial growth since the 1800's when it used to be home to the Seminole Indian community. It received its first Regional Airport, which was an Old Bomer Training Base. Then, they had the discovery of oil, which changed the society completely. Immokalee has come a long way since the pioneer age. Immokalee is known for their agriculture and farming. It has braught a lot to their community as far as being developed. It now has a Seminole Casino as well, which did a lot for the society to bring in tourists. In my opinion, Immokalee is a representative of the "old" American Dream because of its history. I still argue that there is no "new" American Dream because it isn't dead, it has just changed.
Compared to where I grew up in Loxahatchee, Florida, it is very similar to Immokalee's community. Loxahatchee had a lot of land and less buildings like Immokalee does until Loxahatchee started to become more developed, which is why my family and I moved away from our hometown to Punta Gorda. Something Immokalee could use to help drive Immokalee's future is a Shopping Mall. Malls attract plenty of people and could really help Immokalee's society. In 10 years, I think Immokalee will be even more developed than it has already gotten since the 1800's. It will have more attraction and will make more profit off of its agriculture and farming.

A Quilt of a Country:Out of Many, One?

"All men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone" Anna Quindlen states in her article A Quilt of a Country: Out of Many, One? She expresses this statement because she is trying to get the point across that, with all the different ethnicities living in America, people still judge one another based on their race. This article is mainly about the United States being so different from other countries. Other countries have divided into new nations with new names because of their divisions, but America has not. We, as "Americans", can call the people living next door, who may be from a different race, our neighbors. Quindlen makes a very strong point about Arab cabbies being chauffeurs for Jewish passengers and vice versa, even though they hate each other because of their history, but because we are in America they deal with it.

I agree strongly with the author because I believe in how she expresses her thoughts about how our country is today. Im glad that at the end of the day, we can call everyone Americans and our neighbors. I love how much pride the U.S. has, especially when something horrible happens to our nation and at the end of the day we all come together as citizens. That is what America is about, not what race you are or what country your ancestors are from.