Blog Post #8 Schermerhorn

With the future comes questions; questions that a followed by ideas and assumptions of what will be. EM Forester shares his vision of the future with us in has short story, “The Machine Stops.” He sees the world as a place where people live in “cells” captured by this machine living below the earth’s surface, unable to have face to face communication. Only people who allowed to go above the surface can. This reminds me of the movie “The Island.” It’s about how people pay for a jelly like structure that has clones of their organs so if they get sick, they have a replacement. Little to their knowledge the company is making real human clones in an old military bunker below grown. The clones are told that the outside world has been contaminated and they are survivors. Each day they have a lottery where they can go to “the island” but really this is just people needing the clones body parts. Two of the clones escape informing their “investors” of the situation and the investors are so concerned with their lives they don’t even care that there are real people dying for them to live longer. It’s incredible the Sci-Fi similarities between “The Machine Stops” and “The Island” and how the technology plays such a huge role in the lives of people, but in the end technology always fails.

Schermerhorn Creative Proposal

1.    My group presentation topic is health; I believe that in the near future, within 10 years, everyone who is slightly motivated will be in great health because of new workout machines and discovers of medicine that will probably keep you alive and healthier for an extra 20 years.
2.    I would either like to research finding that nutritionist are working on and create the outcome of their experiments, I would like to film this or do an experiment of our own.
3.    If we did an experiment of our own we would need to record all data but I would want to video the process to a video camera as well.
4.    Depending on what my teammates want to do, I would like to start the experiment this week and continue filing and recording data until a few days before the project is due. I would want to start putting the film together by the end of next week. Then record our final conclusion the day before so we have as long as possible to complete the experiment.

Blog Post #11 Schermerhorn

Online Privacy is not existent. Although people believe they are safe online there are still ways to obtain any information wanted to obtain. For instance, if I did my banking online a hacker could easily, at least for them, hack all of my information and probably even wipe out my bank account. The term online privacy is simply there to make people not be afraid of putting information on the internet. This I hard to fathom, that everything that is put online is shared with the world but it’s true. Facebook claims to keep the information private that is requested, yet they continually get penalized for this deceiving term. I personally don’t put anything on the internet I would want the world to know or see. I believe companies and consumers should come to an alliance on what privacy really should be, and what both sides want out of it. I personally believe that everything you want to be private should not be shared with anyone that you do not consent to. With Googling my name all that came up was my Facebook but its private so all you can see in my picture and name. I believe this is because I haven’t had anything published, I don’t have any of my own accounts; it’s all under my parent’s name. I was expecting more to come up when I googled my dad’s name, there was literally nothing on him and he is a pilot and owns a store. Although my searches were invalid I do believe that privacy is an issue online which is causing distrust in the internet.

In Class Writing #9 Schermerhorn

     The audience of this article would be toward people who are probably a little older not teens mostly beacuse it refers to issues that mostly adults would be concerned with. Teenagers dont usually have grocery cards or read CSO. This article is responding to the issue of privacy with regards to buisnesses and consumers, with commercial transactions and cyberspace cookie-tracking. He uses CSO magazine and also that government records can be found online along with SEC violations. He uses CSO to support his claim with agreeing and using quotes from it and also uses the online records to support his claim. He uses logos alot along with pathos. When he talkes about using a dead persons grocery card this makes you feel almost discusted with those ways. He uses logos when giving hard facts about whats posted on line and how, making the reader come to the logical agreement of his argument. I would not use this article to back up my argument, although he uses a few sources it is too one-sided. His opinion is too blunt not having any understanding for the other side of the argument.

In class writing #8 Schermerhorn

My top 5
1.That 70's Show
2.Pirates of the Carribean
3.Harry Potter
4.The Hangover
5.The
Notebook

Group top 5
1. Harry potter book, The Sorcerer's Stone stone
2. The Hangover
3. Lord of the rings, The fellowship of the ring
4. The Matrix
5. Backstreet boys, I want it that way

Citations:

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. Print.

The Hangover. Dir. Todd Phillips. Perf. Bradley Cooper, Ed Helmes. 2009. Film.

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings. Dir. Peter Jackson. Perf. Eligah Wood, Ian Makellen. New Line Cinema, 2001. Film

The Matrix .Dir. Andy and Larry Wachowski. Perf. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburn. Warner Bros, Distibutor, 1999. Film.

The Backstreet Boys. Millennium. "I Want it That Way". Cheiron Studios. 1998. CD.

In class writing #7 Schermerhorn

1.This video was about Glen Beck's opinion on how video games are teching kids to kill. He backs this by saying video games evolved from teaching soldiers to shoot people durring World War two. The tone in his voice is discusted by the video game Grand theft auto and the horrible ways to acheive winning the game by having a prostitute or lighting a police officer on fire; these actions that kids see as normal in games, Glen Beck believes is runing children.
2. In his statment about the horrifying game he stated that the game began with teaching soldiers to kill. First, the military used paper targets with body figures on them then began using simulations. The video game, as Beck proclaims, originated from these simiulations to help soldiers be more comfortable with shooting a real human being.
3. In this video Glen Beck is enthusiastic about the horrifying aspects of the game, Grand Theft Auto, and how awful the detriment is to kids. His voice is overwhelming and extreamly biased. He continues to only focus on the sex and prostitutes and mearly speeks of the killing of police officers. He attempts to say that this video game is teaching all children to be killers when really only kids 17 and up can buy it without a parent there. He is preaching about his views without having any solution.

In class writing #6 schermerhorn

Honestly, I really don't know that much about music piracy, other than what the reading covered. I know that there are sites like limewire and putting peoples songs onto their own ipod, but I wasnt aware that it was an issue so big that artist could see the effects in their income. I have never bought music, I just downlad my friends itunes on to my ipod. I never really thought about how much it could damage the indsustry. I realize that people want everything "free" but if everyone gets everything free then no one will have the ability to make a living.
I read How to Save the Music Buisness. The author really feels in his heart that the music industry is slowly going down the drain because of music piracy. He wants to make people aware of their actions and come to the realization that the music consumers love may disapear beacaue the artist are not getting the income they need. It does support my opinion now that I am aware of the issue, he truly changed the way I will get music.