Does knowledge make you happier?
The knowledge is not always making us happy because the result of educational process might be different. Sometime we can feel happy when we learn something positive. However, we can be miserable if the knowledge doesn’t satisfy us. According to Cornell and Malcolmson’s article Neo who is protagonist from “Matrix” and prisoner from “Allegory of the Cave” experienced positive and negative things to get some knowledge. They were happy to know truth about real world, and same time that knowledge was painful for both of them. I thing the knowledge sometime makes us fortunate; but sometime it brings us a lot of problems that make us feel pain that need to change all following life; in addition, the learning makes us more knowledgeable that allow us to make less mistakes.
Some of the people glad to hear the truth or learn something unusual that happened with Neo and the prisoner from “Allegory of the Cave.” There both figured out the truth about real world. Of course, it made them happy but they needed to overcome some obstacles like to reach outside of underground in “Allegory of the Cave”, and to come in real world in “Matrix.” However, despite of their difficulties they were so happy to see real sun, real nature, and real life. Likewise, prisoner and Neo I like to know truth, and I can say that it makes me happy. For instance, when my friend said me about some my improper behaviors, inside of me I fell unpleasantness, but I always try to overcome it like obstacles that overdid prisoner and Neo. In addition, I glad change them because I don’t want to hurt unfamiliar people with that. Then I feel happy that all surrounded people glad to meet and know me. Thus, the result of the truth always becomes advantageous, even though we must overpass some difficulties.
Some cognition brings us some obstacles and pains such I wrote before, but these difficulties surmountable. The prisoner from “Allegory of the Cave” assayed the pain when he saw the sun. Rays of the bright sun blind prisoner’s eyes and hurt them. Neo from “Matrix” was shocked when he recognized about real life, and how was difficult to survive into. I remember the story that I heard few years ago. One married a couple, who had lived for 2 or 3 years together at that time, decided to make up the evening of the truth, and they agreed to tell only truth what had happened before they married. They both were talkative, and narrated each other many interesting stories such as who were their boyfriends or girlfriends, what they did, and so on. After that evening they both couldn’t fall asleep, they were thinking all night. At the next day they became different regarding each other, as if they substituted. Past one month, they divorced because they couldn’t absolve their love adventures each other. Both suffered and over passed moral difficulties and started new life; nowadays, they have their happy families. This story point out the pain that happen after heard truth, how the truth changes the following life and after pain always become a wonderful life.
Nevertheless all difficulties and pains the end of the educational process permit us to be more knowledgeable. When we know the truth we are stronger. We can make our decision without mistakes, or we have some dreams such as the prisoner wanted to help their co-prisoners and to open eyes them, or Neo who should save the planet of Earth and to give all people a freedom. The cognition helps us to help other and avoid some mistakes. Next story I heard from my one of the classmates. He came from Mexico. He overdid a lot of obstacles when he was walking across a desert where was dangerous with many of coyotes and snakes to cross Mexican and USA border illegally. However, before he went to cross border, he had recognized who could help him to cross it and how all process occurs. This knowledge helped them to save his life from wild animals, avoid a prison and deportation. This example shows us that cognition can avoid making mistakes and other difficulties.
In short, the truth not always makes us happy or happier. Sometimes, we have to overcome some obstacles, and then we can enjoy our happiness. The protagonists from “Allegory in the Cave” and “Matrix” also were glad to see sunshine and real world. However, it takes a lot of energies to persuade their co-prisoners or to save real world. Despite of all difficulties I think a bitter truth better than a sweet lie.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Blog 7
The Dangers of Reality TV
In “The dangers of Reality TV” Timothy Sexton states that television brings to people some dangers. He tells television strengthen and sent some terrible messages that can worse influence to people. Those messages such us the importance of the competitions, image more important than ability, and education is not key to get a lot of money, are forced people to think same. I know Timothy Sexton is right that television is the reason for some improper thinking because many people have started to believe that education is not important to make money, enough to take some competition to become rich, and an image is most important thing for success.
Sometime we can meet or see success person who achieved a high position in our society, but he or she didn’t like to study, or didn’t get any Degree. For example, Bill Gates, he was excluded from Harvard University and he didn’t be graduated, but it’s didn’t thwarted him to became one of the rich person in the world. Another person, who was most famous all over the world and without Diploma of Degree was Steve Jobs, he was founder of the Apple Corporation. These just only two examples, but our history has many such as these famous people. Thus, people can see and hear about such people and believe that they don’t need to take long time to study for getting lot money.
Another message that destroyed people’s thinking is the participating in competition make people rich. According to T. Sexton’s example when he said that woman who found a multimillionaire in reality-show, and that man made her his wife. It messages people to try participating in the same reality-shows, and they will be rich, too. However, not all of the participants can be winner. For instance, a lot of young women try to be a model. Every time many of them try to exhaust themselves with different diets to be a certain size of the body. But just only few of them become models. Even though, it doesn’t break their thinking, and they continue to do that.
However, most of the cases, we must have well image to be rich and successful. The image plays an important role for our success, despite of some personal talents. For example, when people vote for a president, they don’t know well him, but them enough to know his image or a reputation in the society. Other example, when you want to get some job, first of all needs to make well expression on an employer. The employer will make first decision of employee of looks, style of wearing, and ethic of behaviors. After that, the employer can ask questions about profession. I remember one man told the story about his first interview to get job in New York. He is a professional engineer. He came in the company and had been dressed in jeans and T-shirt. The employer just asks him few common questions, and didn’t even interest about his qualification. However, he got a job in other big company, and now he got high position in there. He told us that story and wanted to say that first impression is so important for successful ending work. The author of the article also refers on an example of the American Idol. He says that a better voice is not so important than image.
In conclusion, these messages indeed can burn into people’s mind and can form improper thinking. They may consider that the studying is not significant thing, and do not need to spend a lot of time to study; competition and image make people rich and successful. Therefore, people have to ask themselves for what the filmmakers created these reality-shows. At first, the filmmakers interest to make more money for themselves. They don’t care of people’s thinking; they just want to drag in many people in those reality-shows.
In “The dangers of Reality TV” Timothy Sexton states that television brings to people some dangers. He tells television strengthen and sent some terrible messages that can worse influence to people. Those messages such us the importance of the competitions, image more important than ability, and education is not key to get a lot of money, are forced people to think same. I know Timothy Sexton is right that television is the reason for some improper thinking because many people have started to believe that education is not important to make money, enough to take some competition to become rich, and an image is most important thing for success.
Sometime we can meet or see success person who achieved a high position in our society, but he or she didn’t like to study, or didn’t get any Degree. For example, Bill Gates, he was excluded from Harvard University and he didn’t be graduated, but it’s didn’t thwarted him to became one of the rich person in the world. Another person, who was most famous all over the world and without Diploma of Degree was Steve Jobs, he was founder of the Apple Corporation. These just only two examples, but our history has many such as these famous people. Thus, people can see and hear about such people and believe that they don’t need to take long time to study for getting lot money.
Another message that destroyed people’s thinking is the participating in competition make people rich. According to T. Sexton’s example when he said that woman who found a multimillionaire in reality-show, and that man made her his wife. It messages people to try participating in the same reality-shows, and they will be rich, too. However, not all of the participants can be winner. For instance, a lot of young women try to be a model. Every time many of them try to exhaust themselves with different diets to be a certain size of the body. But just only few of them become models. Even though, it doesn’t break their thinking, and they continue to do that.
However, most of the cases, we must have well image to be rich and successful. The image plays an important role for our success, despite of some personal talents. For example, when people vote for a president, they don’t know well him, but them enough to know his image or a reputation in the society. Other example, when you want to get some job, first of all needs to make well expression on an employer. The employer will make first decision of employee of looks, style of wearing, and ethic of behaviors. After that, the employer can ask questions about profession. I remember one man told the story about his first interview to get job in New York. He is a professional engineer. He came in the company and had been dressed in jeans and T-shirt. The employer just asks him few common questions, and didn’t even interest about his qualification. However, he got a job in other big company, and now he got high position in there. He told us that story and wanted to say that first impression is so important for successful ending work. The author of the article also refers on an example of the American Idol. He says that a better voice is not so important than image.
In conclusion, these messages indeed can burn into people’s mind and can form improper thinking. They may consider that the studying is not significant thing, and do not need to spend a lot of time to study; competition and image make people rich and successful. Therefore, people have to ask themselves for what the filmmakers created these reality-shows. At first, the filmmakers interest to make more money for themselves. They don’t care of people’s thinking; they just want to drag in many people in those reality-shows.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Blog 6
Truman and Me
Cristoff is an interpretation of our reality life. At the end of the movie Cristoff persuade Truman that real world has not more truth than the world was created by him. In both sides also have lie and hypocrisy. Consequently, the reality that displayed in the movie is reflection our or my real life. Difference between Truman’s and my lives is size. Truman’s life is show that observed people from over the world; my life also like show, and I can call it the Life, and I think unlike Truman my Life is observed just some people. Truman and I have many common things; we both have followed rules that were created by Cristoff for Truman and by Life for me, and we both have inflicted fair and it affected on our lives.
The Truman’s world is artificial world where everything under control. However, I am not completely sure that my life real or not because I can see cameras everywhere. Every time when I used to walking through the city I notice the cameras on the streets, on the wall of the houses, in the offices, in the stores and so on. Of course, I know that these cameras for our safety and commonweal. But sometimes I seem that it’s just for explanation for us. Nobody knows how the special department uses the space satellites, maybe they see after some people. Now I am working in the store. The whole store fills with cameras. I understand that cameras in the store need for security and to avoid shoplifting. But I am under control, too, and I stay half of my day under cameras. It’s so tediously. I am cashier, if no costumers in the store I cannot even sit because I have to stand. I am not able to break the rules because I know the owner of the store can see on the screen from everywhere even from his home. Thus, I am also like Truman; almost always stay under control, but unlike me Truman didn’t know about cameras.
Likewise Truman I have “a screenplay” with rules which was created by the Life, and I have to follow them. In the whole, our screenplays are not differing. At the beginning of my life I went to kinder garden then schools, college. Afterward, I found good job and got married. Next, follow “the screenplay” is the nurture the next generation. I think, if “the Truman show” have been continued he became a parent, too. The place Seahaven also like my place where I live only the name different is New York. There like Truman I have home where I live with my husband and daughter. Every day at morning when I left home I usually see my neighbors who also to hurry to work and with whom we always great each other. After work I come back home and do some routine house work. Weekend and free time I spend with my family and friends. The friends also as well in Truman’s show not all the real friends. Some of them so well pretended good friends that frequently occur. So, Truman and I have many common in our lives.
In the movie we can clearly see the fear which was imposed by Cristoff with manipulation and how it affected on the Truman. When Truman was child he always said that he wanted go away from Seahaven. However Cristoff wanted to hold Truman in the show, so he invented a trick, where Truman’s father sank in the sea that Truman saw it. Since at that moment, Truman became to fear the sea. Same thing happened with me. I remember, when I was child I lived close to lake. All children liked to run at the lake, and they swum in there. But our parents didn’t allow us to go there without adults. However, sometimes we disobeyed and run there. When our parents learned about it, they told us a story that in that lake was living a crocodile. One day, my brother and I saw it in the lake, and I stopped to run there forever. Passed years, we moved from that place; I learn wherefrom appears that crocodile, but I long time scare to sink into water everywhere. This example tells us that the fear influences in my life.
I was born and had lived in ex-Soviet Union. In there we had some media such as television, radio, and newspapers. However, all of them were under control, like Truman. We saw, heart or read just only that news that wanted someone of the government. In all of these fields had been a censor who permit or not allow printing out some books or articles on the newspapers. We didn’t know a definite truth that had been occurring in the outside of the country. That country remembered me the cave with prisoners because there was everything under control. I can say that we live like in Truman’s place.
Even throw, Truman and I have been living almost in same world, but I would not like to live in Cristoff ‘s world because I don’t like to being controlled by anyone, and in my life more than often can see and meet reality friends unlike Truman.
Cristoff is an interpretation of our reality life. At the end of the movie Cristoff persuade Truman that real world has not more truth than the world was created by him. In both sides also have lie and hypocrisy. Consequently, the reality that displayed in the movie is reflection our or my real life. Difference between Truman’s and my lives is size. Truman’s life is show that observed people from over the world; my life also like show, and I can call it the Life, and I think unlike Truman my Life is observed just some people. Truman and I have many common things; we both have followed rules that were created by Cristoff for Truman and by Life for me, and we both have inflicted fair and it affected on our lives.
The Truman’s world is artificial world where everything under control. However, I am not completely sure that my life real or not because I can see cameras everywhere. Every time when I used to walking through the city I notice the cameras on the streets, on the wall of the houses, in the offices, in the stores and so on. Of course, I know that these cameras for our safety and commonweal. But sometimes I seem that it’s just for explanation for us. Nobody knows how the special department uses the space satellites, maybe they see after some people. Now I am working in the store. The whole store fills with cameras. I understand that cameras in the store need for security and to avoid shoplifting. But I am under control, too, and I stay half of my day under cameras. It’s so tediously. I am cashier, if no costumers in the store I cannot even sit because I have to stand. I am not able to break the rules because I know the owner of the store can see on the screen from everywhere even from his home. Thus, I am also like Truman; almost always stay under control, but unlike me Truman didn’t know about cameras.
Likewise Truman I have “a screenplay” with rules which was created by the Life, and I have to follow them. In the whole, our screenplays are not differing. At the beginning of my life I went to kinder garden then schools, college. Afterward, I found good job and got married. Next, follow “the screenplay” is the nurture the next generation. I think, if “the Truman show” have been continued he became a parent, too. The place Seahaven also like my place where I live only the name different is New York. There like Truman I have home where I live with my husband and daughter. Every day at morning when I left home I usually see my neighbors who also to hurry to work and with whom we always great each other. After work I come back home and do some routine house work. Weekend and free time I spend with my family and friends. The friends also as well in Truman’s show not all the real friends. Some of them so well pretended good friends that frequently occur. So, Truman and I have many common in our lives.
In the movie we can clearly see the fear which was imposed by Cristoff with manipulation and how it affected on the Truman. When Truman was child he always said that he wanted go away from Seahaven. However Cristoff wanted to hold Truman in the show, so he invented a trick, where Truman’s father sank in the sea that Truman saw it. Since at that moment, Truman became to fear the sea. Same thing happened with me. I remember, when I was child I lived close to lake. All children liked to run at the lake, and they swum in there. But our parents didn’t allow us to go there without adults. However, sometimes we disobeyed and run there. When our parents learned about it, they told us a story that in that lake was living a crocodile. One day, my brother and I saw it in the lake, and I stopped to run there forever. Passed years, we moved from that place; I learn wherefrom appears that crocodile, but I long time scare to sink into water everywhere. This example tells us that the fear influences in my life.
I was born and had lived in ex-Soviet Union. In there we had some media such as television, radio, and newspapers. However, all of them were under control, like Truman. We saw, heart or read just only that news that wanted someone of the government. In all of these fields had been a censor who permit or not allow printing out some books or articles on the newspapers. We didn’t know a definite truth that had been occurring in the outside of the country. That country remembered me the cave with prisoners because there was everything under control. I can say that we live like in Truman’s place.
Even throw, Truman and I have been living almost in same world, but I would not like to live in Cristoff ‘s world because I don’t like to being controlled by anyone, and in my life more than often can see and meet reality friends unlike Truman.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Blog 5
How much does our reality depend on the media and the purpose behine it to costume?
Nowadays, our reality strongly depends of the media. We can learn any information from it, and it helps us to be more informed. Media offers to us huge number of advertisements for our convenience. Those also play a big role in our lives. However, sometimes some of them can distract people from important deals. In addition, some news that we figure out from the media might be a wrong. Those wrong can seriously influent on some people’s minds because some of them believed in primary rumors. Despite of negative things I believe that our reality depends of the media; moreover, the media importantly necessary to our society because we have to learn what happen in the world every day, hour, and minute; sometime due to media, we can help and save some bodies’ lives, and we cannot dark people such as prisoners in “The Allegory of the Cave” without news.
Our society is used to getting information from media. Every day we usually wake up and immediately turn on our television or computer, or check newspapers to learn some news. From these sources we can get the news over the world. We cannot live without news, we have to know what occur in the world because events have happened at somewhere can affect in our life, too. For instance, the event that happened in Gulf of Mexico, when the resulting of the explosion was spilled oil into the Gulf in acted to many people. The cost of oil instantly became high all over the world. Consequently, it reasoned on the cost of the gas which uses almost every family for cars. Another example, the crisis in Greek influences on exchange of the Europe money. I know some my friends have saving account in euro, so they have been worrying to lose them. Or one more example, one my friend was going to trip in Egypt at that time when there flame up civil disorders. She learned and saw about that event on time; therefore she could cancel her trip. Thus, we should know and be interested in news. Might be we can change some decision in time.
Sometime in time received information can save some lives. The conductor of this information can be the media. The media is able to fast present such information. Once, I remember on the television I saw one family who was so upset and asked people for help. They needed a huge amount of money for their child. The child was deadly sick and she needed the operation that does in the Europe. Unfortunately, they didn’t have such amount of money. After one day, the help came from people over the world; everybody was touched that story and everybody wanted to help the child. Everybody sent the money how many they could, someone $1, another $2, and so on. Next day the money was more than enough. Past few months I again saw those parents on television, they were happy because their child is alive. They thanked all people who helped to save their child. The rest of money they handed to other children who need help. It’s just only one example how the media quickly help to save human beings. Another example, when in Dominican Republic survived a terrible and frightful earthquake last year. People all over the world were sorry Dominican’s people and everybody tried to help them how they could. Therefore, I consider that media is an important thing in our lives, and our reality lives mostly depends of it.
Sometimes I seem that people who never learn or want to know some news live like prisoners in cave. I remember the time when I was child and lived in Soviet Union. My grandfather always tried to reach “Voice of the America” on the radio. Very rarely he reached it and was quietly hearing it. He so silently said to my father that not all news transmitted on TV, radio and wrote in newspapers. Most of the information could reflect at that country, and later he predicted the breaking a big country on base of getting information from “Voice of the America.” However, most of the people didn’t interest any news; they just live like people from cave. Therefore, people who possess important information are strong and the media helps them, unlike them who live in “the cave” like prisoners.
In short, nowadays, the media is an important thing for everybody. With media we can fast find appropriate decision in time, to help people if somewhere needed it, and cave’s people are weak and can be more vulnerable. So, our lives a lot depend of the media.
Nowadays, our reality strongly depends of the media. We can learn any information from it, and it helps us to be more informed. Media offers to us huge number of advertisements for our convenience. Those also play a big role in our lives. However, sometimes some of them can distract people from important deals. In addition, some news that we figure out from the media might be a wrong. Those wrong can seriously influent on some people’s minds because some of them believed in primary rumors. Despite of negative things I believe that our reality depends of the media; moreover, the media importantly necessary to our society because we have to learn what happen in the world every day, hour, and minute; sometime due to media, we can help and save some bodies’ lives, and we cannot dark people such as prisoners in “The Allegory of the Cave” without news.
Our society is used to getting information from media. Every day we usually wake up and immediately turn on our television or computer, or check newspapers to learn some news. From these sources we can get the news over the world. We cannot live without news, we have to know what occur in the world because events have happened at somewhere can affect in our life, too. For instance, the event that happened in Gulf of Mexico, when the resulting of the explosion was spilled oil into the Gulf in acted to many people. The cost of oil instantly became high all over the world. Consequently, it reasoned on the cost of the gas which uses almost every family for cars. Another example, the crisis in Greek influences on exchange of the Europe money. I know some my friends have saving account in euro, so they have been worrying to lose them. Or one more example, one my friend was going to trip in Egypt at that time when there flame up civil disorders. She learned and saw about that event on time; therefore she could cancel her trip. Thus, we should know and be interested in news. Might be we can change some decision in time.
Sometime in time received information can save some lives. The conductor of this information can be the media. The media is able to fast present such information. Once, I remember on the television I saw one family who was so upset and asked people for help. They needed a huge amount of money for their child. The child was deadly sick and she needed the operation that does in the Europe. Unfortunately, they didn’t have such amount of money. After one day, the help came from people over the world; everybody was touched that story and everybody wanted to help the child. Everybody sent the money how many they could, someone $1, another $2, and so on. Next day the money was more than enough. Past few months I again saw those parents on television, they were happy because their child is alive. They thanked all people who helped to save their child. The rest of money they handed to other children who need help. It’s just only one example how the media quickly help to save human beings. Another example, when in Dominican Republic survived a terrible and frightful earthquake last year. People all over the world were sorry Dominican’s people and everybody tried to help them how they could. Therefore, I consider that media is an important thing in our lives, and our reality lives mostly depends of it.
Sometimes I seem that people who never learn or want to know some news live like prisoners in cave. I remember the time when I was child and lived in Soviet Union. My grandfather always tried to reach “Voice of the America” on the radio. Very rarely he reached it and was quietly hearing it. He so silently said to my father that not all news transmitted on TV, radio and wrote in newspapers. Most of the information could reflect at that country, and later he predicted the breaking a big country on base of getting information from “Voice of the America.” However, most of the people didn’t interest any news; they just live like people from cave. Therefore, people who possess important information are strong and the media helps them, unlike them who live in “the cave” like prisoners.
In short, nowadays, the media is an important thing for everybody. With media we can fast find appropriate decision in time, to help people if somewhere needed it, and cave’s people are weak and can be more vulnerable. So, our lives a lot depend of the media.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Blog 4
Any good writer must learn how to make her or his composition interesting. When readers read good compositions, they are fuelling with positive emotion. For that they need know or learn about writing skills. Writing skills include a few things, such as structure of the essay, grammar skill, and some experiences and knowledge.
In the class ENG 099 during first month we learned how’ve prepared to write a good respond to any article. First, I have to carefully read an article few times. For better understanding I need make an annotation, to find some significant ideas and supporting evidences that supported these ideas. The annotation would help me to write good summary. The summary I have to rephrase in my own words. After summary I obligate add thesis statement consist specific topic, claim, and few reasons. Then, follow the bodies of paragraphs. Each paragraph tells us about one reason. In that paragraph we should include a topic sentence, developing the topic sentence and example of my or anybody experiences, or some story from books and movies. Second and third paragraph I will explain about others reasons. In conclusion I have to write what I learn or what I take from that event.
I think I feel confident about my understanding the all these staffs about writing skills because I definitely know how organize and construct the writing essay.
Moreover, I would like to learn more grammar because grammar is another an important thing in writing skills. In addition, I still weak at this field.
In the class ENG 099 during first month we learned how’ve prepared to write a good respond to any article. First, I have to carefully read an article few times. For better understanding I need make an annotation, to find some significant ideas and supporting evidences that supported these ideas. The annotation would help me to write good summary. The summary I have to rephrase in my own words. After summary I obligate add thesis statement consist specific topic, claim, and few reasons. Then, follow the bodies of paragraphs. Each paragraph tells us about one reason. In that paragraph we should include a topic sentence, developing the topic sentence and example of my or anybody experiences, or some story from books and movies. Second and third paragraph I will explain about others reasons. In conclusion I have to write what I learn or what I take from that event.
I think I feel confident about my understanding the all these staffs about writing skills because I definitely know how organize and construct the writing essay.
Moreover, I would like to learn more grammar because grammar is another an important thing in writing skills. In addition, I still weak at this field.
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