Blog 8 : The Future (unoriginal but its 7am)

I feel that in the future kids will know longer have to leave their homes to go to college. Computers will be able to be a whole room, four walls for monitors (three walls that do not have a door and the ceiling). We will be able to join a classroom and seem like we are actually their due to the 3-D of the room. This will allow us to still interact with other students and see them, but from the comfort of almost any location. This would also let professors be more efficient, being able to teach from anywhere and almost at anytime. This would also give them more time for personal interaction such as office hours or more time for their personal research. With this technology in place campuses would be virtual, they could even go as far as a virtual quad where students could promote things and discuss topics. Since the campus would take nothing to maintain tuition costs would be cut in half. I believe the future most things will be done from home things like schooling or working out. The one things I cannot see ever going fully online is social activities. Some people find social networking fulfilling and healthy, but I need to talk to a person face to face to get any real enjoyment out of the discussion. Technology is already well on its way to the 3-D realm, they have just released the technology to display a computer on your wrists that has touch capabilities. In fact the military already has a lot of technology a few years ahead of mainstream society, but prototypes are not deemed safe or necessary for citizens. The future is all about how can we make ourselves less real, ten years ago people would never have thought about blogging being a assignment for a class. Thirty years from now they will not even realize how far we have come. Soon our worlds will be run from technology and everything will be done with a few waves of our hands. Reality is only what we choose to accept. I think the future will decide how much technology rules our lives, but from what I have seen the students of tomorrow will not have to go far for a education. All areas of the subject are grey, technology does not choose sides it is always up to the user.

Blog 4: Pay It Forward

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Recently I went to see the movie Pay It Forward. It has the phonominal actors, Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Osemont. It is a tale of a young boy who is faced with a project. The project his teacher gives him is to come up with a idea that will change the world. The boy comes up with something that should be realitively simple. He will help three people and in turn he will ask those three to help another three. The cycle should continue. It is a great idea and continues to go well and draw attention, both postive and negative. This movie will change your life no matter who you are. It shows even the smallest people in the world have the ability to change the world if they can find the will and the ending will surprise you immensely. All teenagers would appreciate the concept of this movie and theory behind it. It is not a action or horror movie, but every now and then we need a movie that will make us think. This one will have you pondering for awhile.

Blog 5: Pay It Forward Trailer

To begin with this movie was an amazing performance by a bunch of great actors. Now I had never seen a trailer of it until now. The trailer was actually really decent, it does not spoil the movie in anyway, but it does explain the main concept and plot of the movie. Which was the theory that if you help three people those three people must help three people and so on. This trailer would make middle aged people want to go see this because of the concept I believe, it shows people who are given another chance. I think everyone wants another chance, the audio also plays a part in the begging and end of the trailer it lifts the mood and also kills off the mood. So your left with a feeling of awe. This trailer also has interviews with the actors which i think middle aged people would enjoy, the reason for that is they get more of sense of who the actors are as people. Just from this trailer the common person would be intrigued, the idea is so simple a basis. Yet, it is a original movie as well. This trailer would intrigue anyone and it does. Just give it a watch.

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The Idea of Civil Liberties

I chose article three because of its title “Security Versus Civil Liberties”, this title appealed to me since I have an interest in law. Richard Posner feels we should sacrifice some of our civil liberties in times of crisis. However, he comes from a standpoint that he is an average citizen and feels if you are doing nothing wrong you have nothing to hide. Yet, he fails to take in account that most people are hiding something; people cheat and steal as a way to get ahead in life. He does not see that poor people, whether they are junkies or have disabilities have to take short cuts in life to make a living. He does not address people who are below middle class, which I take as his disregard of how the lower class feels. We may have a caste system, but we should never treat anyone as a second-class citizen. I did not like this article simply because if it were up to him he would give the power to choose our rights to the government. What he suggests is we trust our government. The key principle of the Constitution is never trust a government and to never let anyone boss you around. Republicans are better than him when it comes to his ideas on were power should lie. At least you know where the Republicans stand, but he wants things to shift with the times instead of having a set plan. We have a document that does that already and it is the Constitution.

Posner believes that we need to give up our civil liberties in times of risk. To me this is exactly what he mentioned before it is nothing but hindsight. If we had known we were at risk, we would have done something about it. The NSA (National Security Agency) already handles national security and they can step on whatever rights they want to get their job done. However, they are careful and go slow to make sure they are not seen. Therefore, as far as Posner wanting to give up civil liberties for national security it seems his point is moot. We have NSA working internally for our country. Then internationally the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) that works on making sure terrorists stop before they hit our soil. He seems to think we just lie down and take these beatings. Yet, we spend billions a year paying these agencies to find our enemies before they find us.

Untold Stories

Immokalee "My Home" is the highest point in southern Florida. It used to represent the simpler time. Where ranchers made up the community. It was a lot like the old west, there was not much law and everyone worked to make the most of their communities. The railroad changed the trading industry and even the lumber industry started coming down into Florida. Eventually the farmers market changed Immokalee from a cow community to a farming community. Immokalee has always been a producing community, in the future it will most likely become 100% mechanical in harvesting to cut the costs down. As for the oil, it came and gone. It gave the community a boost, but other than that once the oil is gone it is gone. We cannot attribute that property since it will be gone at some point. The casino will probably be Immokalee's future. Casinos always have become big and taken over everything in a lot of young cities. Won't be a surprise if the casino does not just continue to get bigger until it has enough power to do what it wants with the city. Also I cannot really relate to this city since I grew up mostly in the deserts of California about the only thing I ever saw growing was Joshua trees and alf alfa plants. We had a lot of ranchers but I was in the city so even then rarely saw anything. Was some great videos though learned more about the hardships of settling swamp lands. Even today this school is still struggling with that concept.

Real Americans (pg 3-15)

Americans are individuals that are unified by the government. We think and invent ourselves the way we desire. Yet at the same time, we are told who we should be and how we should think by the representatives in DC. We are the closest to one another whenever we have a common enemy, like during the cold war. However, when that ended we started looking at all our differences once again. We are such a great nation and at the same time we know not what we do. We set an example for the world and we still are tangled in ethical dilemmas. In the end it comes down to a choice stand together or stand alone.

I agree with the authors point that we are a tangled mess when it comes to issues of race and sex. For a country that has people from around the world we still do not seem to understand how to be united. I also agree that the media and politicians separate us as well. The media does it by reporting stories that are excite and captivate, like trying to use the stereotype that black people commit the most crimes (which is a lie), and politicians that use stereotypes to swing certain races to vote for them. Lying is the fastest way to get a group of people behind you. This author makes a good point in bring this topic up, people today seem to be sliding away from being a nation to being just individuals. I feel that one day we will come to a point where race will not matter and our government will have our best interests in mind. However, that day is far from now and we all should work to reach this goal.