Blog Entry 21

       After going back through my blog entries, I think my best entries are "The Truman Show","The Matrix" and "The meatrix". These three essays are about the truth. I like these essays because in this three essays I have more ideas and good respond.
        This is my first time to take a class that use computer to done our work. This is very different form writing on the paper. When I took esl099 we always write our essay on paper. When I wrote a paper it took a long time to finish it because if I make mistake I need to write it one more time. However, if I write online I can change any paragraph  I want any time. I think online work help improve my writing ability. I can develop more idea if I can change even the whole paragraph. I felt that the online work was a shared experience because everyone can see my work online. I read other students' work sometime and I got impress that other members of the class read my blog.
        Overall, my experience in this class is very good. I learned to develop my idea from professor and even learned by reading others blog entries. This class is very interesting and this is the best class that I have ever taken. Although my writing is not as well as other student, I think I am leaving this class with a basic understanding of writing strategies. Meanwhile, I have many good experience and memorable things in class. The most memorable moment is the films that we watched. In my other classes we also watched films in class, but they are not really interesting. However, the films that we watched in this semester were all really interesting and even made me want to see them again. I would recommend that he should be prepare himself to do the work online and be aware that everyone can see his work online, but it will be a very interesting class.

Blog Entry 20

     In the movie "Sleep Dealer", "node" is decribe as the first step to be in American dream. Node is which people can get a job that work in other countries without being there and it is created by the technology. People use the node to work, sell memories and even kill people. I thought that technology and help our society get better. However, after reading Hangi Song's blog entry 18, I change my mind. As Hangi Song explains that they are not labors but slaves. I strongly agree with this. In the movie, the node job is a jod that you can work in any country. It seems good at the first time, but as I think more deeply about this I realized that they have no option. They just do the work that the machine wants them to do.They are just like slaves.  In addition, I also agree with Hangi Song's idea that the work environment  is very dangerous. Although the technology has developed well, it can have some problems. People do not even know what problem will it have and how to solve it.

Blog Entry 19

       In our world there are many countries have resources to make stuff, but the people do not own any of them even if they have been living in these countries for generation. As the result of this people do not have much money they become lower class in the society. However, the reason that causes this problem is that companies are buying the resources in a very low price and then sell them in a higher price.  The companies own all the benefits, but on the other side they are over exploiting the country and people ho live in there cannot get any benefit. They do not have option, the only thing they can do is work for the companies which take away the benefits and even destroy their places. However, the irony is that the companies pay very low wage and they cannot even buy the stuffs that are made by the resources that suppose to be their one resources. For example, in my country, there are many mountains and many are living there. However, in some places people are chased by companies because they want to exploit the area. The result of this is that people are getting poorer but the companies are getting much richer they can. I think that to over exploit the resours can cause many problems people should stop it and save our world.

Blog Entry 18 "Technology and Society"

In the movie "Sleep Dealer", people can work in any places if they have the "node". "Nobe" job is created by the technology. People are more like work in the computer. They can work at any country if they want, no matter how far it is, they can see or hear by the technology. In this picture, it shows the difference between the technology world and the real world. In the technology world everything is made by computer and is the real thing that we can touch or feel it. They are numbers, letters, and symbols. On the other side, the real world has the things that we can touch and feel. There are buildings, clouds, blue sky and the man is eating chips. Although there are many differences between them. I think if people use the technology well, it will have many benefits for our world.

source:  http://audentis.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/adopting-technology-transforming-society-the-internet-and-the-reshaping-of-civil-society-activism-in-indonesia/

Blog Entry 17

          In our world there are many different kinds of foods. People need them every day. However, some people do not know where do these foods come from and how does it made up for. The problem is that some foods are harmful. If people do not realize the truth they may get hurt. However, some people may think that to know about the truth may hurt too. I think that it is better to be hurt by knowing the truth rather then not knowing anything.
      
            According to "The Allegory of the Cave", people do not believe the truth that they never knew before. Same as "The Trueman Show" Truman lived in the world that is not the real world and he dose not know anything about the real world. He thought that the world he lived is the real world. However, when he realized that he lived in a fake world most of his life. He wanted to go to the real world and fight with the truth. In the movie "The Matrix", Neo has the same situation as Truman. In addition, they chose the sane choice. Truman decided to go out of the fake world and Neo chose the red pill to go to the real world and save the world. Furthermore, the film "The meatrix" also wants people to realize the truth. It describes the truth of the foods that we eat. I think that people should know more about the truth and not live in a fake world.
          
           After reading all my blog entries, I think my essays are getting better. I can develop more ideas and I have more examples to support my claim. However, I still do not clear about the difference between thesis statement and claim. I know I should put my claim at the end of the first paragraph but where should I put the thesis statement?

Blog Entry 16

       
In today's society, almost every people love to eat fast food. Some of the children are even raise by fast food. The problem is that fast food is harmful for people's health. In the article" Let Them Eat Fat " talks about how harmful the fast food does and how the fast food companies make people to eat their products. I think that people should not follow the gimmick to eat the fast food and make themselves unhealthy because the gimmick from the company is only to make people eat their products and there are many harmful things in the fast food.

      First, the gimmick from the company is only to make people eat their products more often. The reason why people love to eat fast is because it is fast, cheap and also because the gimmick. In the article, the company sales gimmick knows as " supersizing ". They change the small size to super size by given an extra seventy-nine cents. In this kind of gimmick, people think that it is really cheap and will eat it every day to save their money. However, they do not even think about how harmful these foods are. For children, the gimmick is mostly the toy with happy meal. In my experience, when I was in elementary school, every student in my class has the toy from McDonald's. Some of them even wanted to collect all of the toys they showed in McDonald's. At that time, our conversation is all about those toys and the things we played are only the toys we got from McDonald's. Children who did not have the toys could not join us. As a result, they wanted to get the toys to be able to join the community in school. Therefore, they need to go to McDonald's more often in order to get all of the toys and this is how the company makes this gimmick. In addition, some companies even state that their foods are healthy and everything in them is harmless. People who do not have much money may think that fast food is the best choice because it is cheap and is harmless. The reality is that this is just a gimmick that makes people eat fast food. Companies do not really care about if their foods have harmful things or not.

        Second, fast food is not good for people's health. In the article, it states that " the total caloric content of the meal has been jacked up from 680calories to more than 1340 calories. " This is really scare because base on what I know, a person only needs about 1500 calories per day and if a person is dieting he or she only need about 1000 calories. For me, I am dieting now. I control my daily calories within 1000 calories. If I eat a meal, it is going to run over my range. In addition, people can get fat easily if they eat fast food very often. Moreover, fast food has many harmful things in it such as fat, carbohydrate-rich. These things can affect our body and is perfectly not good for our health.

      In conclusion, fast food companies sales gimmicks to make people eat fast food however, people just follow the gimmick and do not think about their health. I advise that people should know more about the food that they eat and find out what is good for them. In addition, people should not just follow the gimmick. moreover, they should not eat fast food too often.

Blog Entry15

       In the film, "The Meatrix," it tells people about where meats or the animal products come from. People buy the product in the supermarket or where they can buy. Most of the people believe that these products are from family farm and are safe to eat them. However, this film shows that most of the animal products we eat are from factory farms and may have some problems. I strongly agree whit this film. I think that people should recreate the family farm and stop the factory farming because factory farm can cause many serious problems, such as the pollution and the health of people or even animals.
 
        In the factory farm animals are placed in one room, they put them as close as they can, some of the animals cannot even turn around. As a result of it the number of the animals in the factory can be a really large number and it cause a serious problem which is pollution. In the film, it states that there are 12 million pounds of excrement  in factory farming. It pollutes the water and even the air. In addition, it is not only pollutes the area where the factory farm is but also pollutes the area that around there. This pollution can cause a lot of problem. People cannot have clean water to drink or use. People can get sick if they drink the polluted water. However, the problem will not be easy to solve, animals in the factory farm pollute the water and they drink the polluted water and get sick and pollute the world again, it can be repeat over and over. In the other hand, family farm does not have too much problem like this. The number of the animals in the family farm is small. In addition, in family farms animals are placed on the grass they eat the grass and the excrement in the farm can grow the grass. As a result, family farm does not pollute the water or the air, and it makes everything goes in to natural.

      The other reason is the health of  human and even animals. In the film, it shows that animals are not treated well. Factory farms do not think animals are life they just want to make money by them. They put then in a place that is full of excrement. Animals do not grow up with happiness, they never see the sun, never stand on the ground and even never turn around. The animals that are in this situation can be nervous, unhappy. In addition, there are too many animals in the factory farm as a result some of them are sick without being noticed. They are not healthy. Therefore, when people eat the products from the factory farm, they may get the sick animal's product and be sick. However, family farm do not have this kind of problem. Animals in the family farm are a number that the farmer can takes care. Farmer can know right away if the animals are sick. Moreover, animals in family farms are more happier, they grow in natural and they are healthy. People do not get sick by eating the products from family farm.

     In conclusion, family farm has more benefits. The products are healthier then the products from factory farm. People can be safe to eat these product.In addition, animals can grow up more happier and healthier in the family farm.