Final Project:Vanilla Sky/The Matrix

These two movies have a lot in common even though they are from two different genres.  Also they are two completely different movies.  The Matrix is sort of an action movie that came out in 1999.  But the Matrix isn’t just an action movie many people know that.  Vanilla Sky is a psychological thriller that came out in 2001.  Vanilla Sky revolves around David a man who has everything.  But he still lives with his day to day routines like anyone else.  He also takes everything for granted.  The Matrix revolves around Neo a computer hacker who has 2 lives.  Both movies show how important choices really are.

            David and Neo make many choices that change their lives.  Morpheus gave Neo two choices the red pill or the blue pill.  The red pill would have Neo reborn and see the truth.  The blue pill he would wake up and forget everything going back to his everyday life.  Neo of course takes the red pill then he learns about the Matrix.  He is also reborn cause of taking the red pill.  David also takes many choices that change his life.  Such as getting in the car with Juley.  This leads to his accident which messes up his arm and mostly his face.  When David sees there is nothing left in life he goes to life extension.  Where you die and are born again and you’ll live without aging. 

David and Neo both have the same fear of heights.  Throughout Vanilla Sky David fear of heights is mentioned.  At the end if he wants to wake up he has to jump off the building.  During The Matrix Neo was getting help from Morpheus to escape the agents.  He had two choices one that involved heights or another one that involved getting arrested.  Neo was too afraid of heights so he got captured by the agents.

David gets introduced into life extension.  Where you’re in a system in a dream world.  He gets to start a new life similar to Neo.  Since the person is going to be sleeping imagining what ever they want to imagine.  There can be glitches in life extension which is what happened to David.  When this happened everything was upside down he didn’t know what was going on.  Neo goes into the matrix where he is able to warp reality since it isn’t real.  David was able to do this in life extension.  When he wanted one of his friends to be around him they would appear.  When Neo gets hurt in the Matrix his body gets affected in the real world.  David calls his enemies the seven dwarfs.  While Neo agents are called agents.  Both characters got to where they were because they were bored of life.  Neo was bored of his life so he took the red pill.  David had nothing to live for so he went into life extension.  Both characters have a virtuall reality life extension/The Matrix.

            These movies have many similarities although they are different movies.  At the end of each of these movies you’ll be asking yourself is this really real.  Or does this happen in my life.  The two pictures are how both characters wake up.  David is the one with the building.  Morpheus is offering Neo the two pills one blue and one red.

           

Day of the CAT

I got to the testing room at 5:15.  I'm well rested.  Ready to take my CAT.  I'm higly confident.  The proctor isn't there yet. So I'm able to relax.  I have my 2 pens, 1 pencil and my dictornary.  I see Doctor X come around the corner.  The proctor comes at 5:40.  We are let into the room.  I show the proctor my LaGuardia ID.  The tests are soon distributed to the students.  I'm familar with the prompt.  Thanks to all my time in Doctor X's class.  It's about media and deception.  I automatically think about the Truman Show and The Matrix.  I bring up scenes from The Truman Show were Christof plays with the audiences emotions.  Making them cry and fell sorrow.  In the Matrix some people don't know what is really real.

Blog Entry 4.3

LaGuardia College
Aaron Straker
11/23/10

I think Google stops people from using their knowledge. In the blink of an eye, the search engine delivers useful information about pretty much any subject imaginable. Think about when you don’t understand something or your unsure where do you go. Most of the time you’ll go to Google to get the information. Without out even taking the time to think about what you’re not understanding. You could have probably gotten the answer if you just sat down and thought about the subject material. But google is so tempting because it has all the answers and it’s so easy to use. When you first go to the internet you most likely will be taken to google. You can access google through your computer, laptop, Cell Phone even IPod. Almost everyone has at least one of the devices. Nicholas Carr author of “The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to Our Brains” thinks that google is even making us shallow.
From personal experience I’d say whenever I don’t understand something I’ll run to google, which I’m sure many others do. I mostly go to google for my Math homework. If I can’t solve a solution I’ll search how to solve the certain math equation. While I could have taken the time to brainstorm, what is the question asking me? Nicholas Carr says “What really makes us intelligent isn’t our ability to find lots of information quickly”. Meaning you don’t have to run to google for information, because that doesn’t make you intelligent anyone can run to google for information. If you think deeply on your own without google search engine you’ll see yourself becoming a much better thinker and more intelligent.
Nicholas Carr says “If were distracted, we understand less, remember less, and learn less.” This is true if you’re using google. Once your on google you’re on the internet, there are so many distractions on the internet that you won’t even be able to use that information you just found. You can be doing homework but you take a trip to google, next thing you know your own facebook then later on YouTube. Now you’re so far away from what you were just doing. You might waste 1 or 2 hours surfing the web, when all you came for was for an answer to a question you didn’t know. Nicholas Carr says “The Net bombards us with messages and other bits of data, and every one of those interruptions breaks our train of thought. We end up scatterbrained. The fact is, you’ll never think deeply if you’re always Googling, texting, and surfing.” This is true especially when I’m doing homework, I’ll watch a YouTube video which is about 10 minutes long, and then I’ll answer one or two questions on my homework. Using google has many disadvantages you get your information, but you might easily get distracted away from the work your currently doing.
Nicholas Carr says “If you’re really interested in developing your mind, you should turn off your computer and your cell phone and start thinking. Really thinking. You can Google all the facts you want, but you’ll never Google your way to brilliance.” If everyone uses google for information they’re all going to get the same answer, not always the same but mostly similar. But if you sit down and think about something you might think of something different, and no one else might know about it.

Is Google Making Us Stupid???

LaGuardia College
Aaron Straker
11/23/10

I think Google stops people from using their knowledge. In the blink of an eye, the search engine delivers useful information about pretty much any subject imaginable. Think about when you don’t understand something or your unsure where do you go. Most of the time you’ll go to Google to get the information. Without out even taking the time to think about what you’re not understanding. You could have probably gotten the answer if you just sat down and thought about the subject material. But google is so tempting because it has all the answers and it’s so easy to use. When you first go to the internet you most likely will be taken to google. You can access google through your computer, laptop, Cell Phone even IPod. Almost everyone has at least one of the devices. Nicholas Carr author of “The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to Our Brains” thinks that google is even making us shallow.


From personal experience I’d say whenever I don’t understand something I’ll run to google, which I’m sure many others do. I mostly go to google for my Math homework. If I can’t solve a solution I’ll search how to solve the certain math equation. While I could have taken the time to brainstorm, what is the question asking me? Nicholas Carr says “What really makes us intelligent isn’t our ability to find lots of information quickly”. Meaning you don’t have to run to google for information, because that doesn’t make you intelligent anyone can run to google for information. If you think deeply on your own without google search engine you’ll see yourself becoming a much better thinker and more intelligent.


Nicholas Carr says “If were distracted, we understand less, remember less, and learn less.” This is true if you’re using google. Once your on google you’re on the internet, there are so many distractions on the internet that you won’t even be able to use that information you just found. You can be doing homework but you take a trip to google, next thing you know your own facebook then later on YouTube. Now you’re so far away from what you were just doing. You might waste 1 or 2 hours surfing the web, when all you came for was for an answer to a question you didn’t know. Nicholas Carr says “The Net bombards us with messages and other bits of data, and every one of those interruptions breaks our train of thought. We end up scatterbrained. The fact is, you’ll never think deeply if you’re always Googling, texting, and surfing.” This is true especially when I’m doing homework, I’ll watch a YouTube video which is about 10 minutes long, and then I’ll answer one or two questions on my homework. Using google has many disadvantages you get your information, but you might easily get distracted away from the work your currently doing.


Nicholas Carr says “If you’re really interested in developing your mind, you should turn off your computer and your cell phone and start thinking. Really thinking. You can Google all the facts you want, but you’ll never Google your way to brilliance.” If everyone uses google for information they’re all going to get the same answer, not always the same but mostly similar. But if you sit down and think about something you might think of something different, and no one else might know about it.

Sleep Dealer

Aaron Straker
LaGuardia College
11/20/10

Sleep Dealer is a science fiction movie that came out in the year of 2008. Sleep Dealer deals with the many things that can happen in the future. Mostly consisting of the new technologies being created everyday. These technologies are changing the very world we live in today. Sleep Dealer is a very complex movie which connects with other science fiction gems, such as the Truman Show and the Matrix. All of these movies make you think about what will happen in the future.

Sleep Dealer and the Matrix have many similarities such as there virtual worlds. There was a war in the Matrix. It was the machines/agents vs. the humans. The only time the humans were able to fight the agents was when they entered the Matrix. Neo and others were able to enter the Matrix through machines. There is something similar to this in Sleep Dealer. In the movie the workers do virtual labor. The characters have nodes which allows them connect into the virtual world. But in order to get them you need to get them installed. These nodes are metal objects which are placed inside the human body. This enables them to go online and do work. Neo also has something similar in the back of his head after he took the red pill from Morpheus. They also have Virtual Wars in Sleep Dealer. Fighter pilots can shot up Iraq in this virtual world. But sleep at home every night. This also happens in the Matrix. They’re able to fight the agents in the Matrix/Virtual Reality but sleep in the real world. In the Matrix and Sleep Dealer they both plug themselves into the virtual world. While there actual body is still in the real world. If you get hurt inside the virtual worlds your body in the real world will be affected this happens in both movies.

Sleep Dealer also connects with the Truman Show. In the Truman Show Truman is own television for almost all of his life. Truman doesn’t know that he’s on television though. The people who are watching the show laugh and cry at what Truman is going through. They all watched Truman grow up and know all his memories from his childhood. Similar in Sleep Dealer where Memo girlfriend sells her memories. Also memories which involve them together. So anyone who wants to see it can purchase his and her memories. Something that is a bit weird selling your past.

Sleep Dealer and the Matrix have many differences. Sleep Dealer you get connected to the system to get online. Also so you can work and make money. It’s a must to get connected. That is why Memo goes through hell to get the nodes installed. He actually gets mugged while trying to get installed. In the Matrix you have the choice to get installed. It isn’t necessary you actually have the choice. Morpheus gives Neo the choice of the blue pill or the red pill. Blue pill you wake up and forget and red pill you’ll see the truth. Neo takes the red pill. He wakes up then he later gets connected into the Matrix.

There are also many differences between Sleep Dealer and the Truman Show. With The Truman show everyone sees his memories. Also his entire childhood and life. Since he was on television until he was 30 years old. In Sleep Dealer you get the chance to actually sell your memories or not. Someone can view them or not. But you know what is going on when someone is looking at parts of your life. Unlike the Truman Show.

Blog 4.1

The internet and mobile devices can be used as teaching tools. Our current generation can be called the iGeneration. Preteens and teens are constanly plugged in. There's nothing wrong with using technology to learn.

They are many websites that can be used to learn. For my writing class there is grammarbytes.com. It teaches you how to use verbs, commas, fused senetences and much more. There was also a freerice.com which helped improve someones vobulary and grammar. For my reading class there is backboard hich helps students with reading comprehension. There are many other classes that have the internet as teaching tools. My math class has educosoft.com. Where you can do your hw and take quizzes/tests. There's also tutorials online. For the iGeneration mostwork is online. Because if it isn't kids wont do it. Since they're already online they'll have a better chance of doing the hw. But there is a problem when the kids multitask. When a student is on facebook and on youtube while doing there homework they shouldn't except a good grade. Teens have to forget about there social lives while they're doing homework.

Students shouldn't be allowed to multitask with there work. This is a new generation called the iGeneration where everything is very different. Homework is mostly done online same for talking to your friends.

CLASS BLOG: Blog 13: How to do One Thing at a Time

CLASS BLOG: Blog 13: How to do One Thing at a Time: "             In the passage 'How to do one thing at a Time' by Nancy Jones, Nancy explains that in this century and generation multi-tasking..."

The author doesn't present a claim. But they're saying don't multi task it's better to do one thing at a time. The author has many grammatical errors probably from rushing. Reading over his/her work will help. I think mostly this author needs to take his/her time and look over the essay.