Post for Friday 23

The video about new world order that we watched on Tuesday was very eye opening. At first i was confused about what they ment when they said a new world order and i'm still not completely sure i know what they mean. I thought it was interesting that they put chips in people, i had no idea that they actually did this. I think that the video closely related to the book Feed. I dont completely agree with "chipping" people. I think that it is wrong to track peoples every move, or just to have one for security reasons. I dont think that chipping people will help crime rates or anything like that. I also think that if do we start to chip people more and more it will become not only for security reasons. I strongly feel that people today get what they want to get. I think that if enough people want to invent a chip to work with your body to somehow play a radio like in Fahrenheit 451 that it will be invented. I cant help but think that this all leads back to Culture Jam. The media and growth of technology is where it all begins. People become sooo consumed, there is nothing left to consume you have to invent more things. Overall i think that this class has been a very good experience, and i would recommend it. It made me think of a lot of things in a new way, and made me think about things that i am doing daily and their impacts.

Post for Friday 16th

I thought it was very interesting when we found out that Montag was hiding the books in his house and he was sneaking books from every fire that he had to start. I think that it is ironic but i see where hes coming, because i think that if i had to put out fires all the time that i started because books were illegal i would be curious what was in the books, and why i had to burn them so often. I would probably sneak books as well, and try to read them. I also think that it is weird that Montags wife is caught up in the television and he is trying to grounded secretly. He is very curious as to what the books are hiding and why they are soo illegal.

Blog for Friday 9th

I have found Fahrenheit 451 to be very interesting so far in my readings. There are many things in the book that stand out as specific differences that show contrast in the book. The contrast between light and dark in the beginning when he meets Clarisse is a good example. She is very bright and seems like full of life and ready to go, on the other hand Montag is very dark and drearry, I think this is a good way to portray them because when you think of bright things you think lively and dark sort of means dead. I also was curious when reading that when the people hear the sirens of the fire trucks are they scared or do they just think good things. When we hear sirens and think of firetrucks we think of heroes, in the book i was wondering do the people get scared that they are coming to burn them and their houses down.

Post for Friday 26th

This week when discussing A clockwork orange we mostly talked about the aversion therapies and if they should be a choice for prisoners, I don't agree with them, i think that once the crime is committed they should be punished with really no other options, suffer the consequences. Wanted to do the crime still but not being able to is still not being changed, and he should not be out in the public. if there was a such aversion therapy who would get to choose if a person should get the therapy. Should families choose or should the prisoner get to choose. I personally think neither!

I also think that the language in the book leads to violence, i believe its a violent slang as apposed to in Feed the slang is more just whats hip and not so much violence. When reading A Clockwork Orange the slang not only makes it difficult it makes it almost scary. The language even though we don't know what they are saying until we look it up just sounds violent.

Post Friday the 19

When reading A Clockwork Orange there were many mixed emotions developed. Most of reading left me wanting to stop because i was so disgusted with the violence but at the same time I needed to know the outcome. I really like the in class activity that made us express our opinions towards violence, and the media today. I think that it was interesting to hear everyone's point of views on the various subjects and to try to look at things from a different point of view. The ones that were most interesting were the topics that rose the most controversy. My favorite was the one asked about child violence and punishment. I think that a crime is a crime and that at a young age children learn right from wrong, and that they know there are often consequences for their actions. A good example is when a child throws a toy at another kid, they know they will get put in time out or some sort of consequence. If a child knows right from wrong then they know not to commit crimes and should be punished the same as an adult that knows right from wrong.

Blog for Friday 19

Reading Feed was very interesting and better then i had expected. The part about the book that i liked the best was just seeing how brainwashed everyone was by the feed. They had lost all sense of time, family, and anything that's truly important. It was sad to see how they only depended on the feed for everything in life. The feed was always there for them to run to whenever they were feeling down. For example when Titus went and bought all new pants to fill the void of Violet. He didn't know how to react to her on a personal level and he didnt understand that she was dying and didn't have much time left. I think him not understanding was because of the feed. They are so brainwashed to loose all personal feeling with themselves, they dont recognize their emotionsWhen Titus's family had dinner i thought it was interesting that they threw away the dishes and the table, and didn't even think about it. Things are so inexpensive that they just throw them away daily.

Other then all the bad parts of the feed i did thing one part was cool. I like that it knows everyone specifically, it adapts to every person individually. It knows what you want, before you want it. it knows your specifics and what you like what you think about. This would be annoying for times when you didnt want to hear it, but for times when bored it would be interesting. I also like the chatting aspect. I like that you could just think about what you wanted to say to someone and say it to them. Its like texting but not as much work.

So, are we the dumbest generation!? I would say that no we are not. I think that we dont all have the same smarts, and i hate being a statistic. Especially not a good one. There are things that some people know and things that others dont. We are all going to college for a particular area of study, so if asked a question about that then i'm sure we'd know the answer. I'm an accounting major and if someone asked me questions about a lot of classic literature or history, i'm terrible at that stuff and of course would not know the answer. I also think that people around the age of 30 did not have the drive and push to go to college as much as we do. So, they might not be as knowledgable as we will be when we are 30. I dont think that technology is sign of us being any dumber then anyone else. The technology should be a sign that we are smart, becuase we are smart enough to use it efficently. You could call an older person dumb because most of them dont know technology as well. My mom for example is definately older then 30 and she cannot use a computer well or ever her cell phone. I dont call her dumb its just that things have changed, and are different kinds of smarts. There are certinaly things that she knows, shes extremely smart. If anything technology makes us lazy, not dumb. Its more convient to look up an online book then to go to the libaray, and easier to text someone then to call them, or to even write them, or go to them and talk face to face. These things do not make us dumb they make us if anything lazier.

blog entry for Feb 5

The first video clip i had watched at about Spike Lee, and the movie Girl 6. The movie was planned to be the biggest black film ever, all i could think was really? Its hard to understand why someone would have a goal such as that when making a video. Hook talked about how Spike Lee is always looked down on and he can't seem to succeed as a producer of movies because hes not white. I disagree I believe becoming a successful movie producer and actor simply is based on performance and nothing else. I think that if he has so much struggle succeeding then people just arn't fans of him. She said that Lee is know as a failed film maker. She also talked about the movie Waiting to Exhale and how i was the biggest movie about all black ladies and how they lived but it was written by white people? I didn't really understand her point but i do think that she is using color as her reason for everything and i tend not to agree.
The second video that i watched was about rap music. I do agree that rap music is pretty vulgar and that they do tend to have more sexual music videos, but there is sex is alot of other genres videos too. She said that we tend to focus on the worst of the music videos and that sex is what sells. the sterotype of women being slutty and easy is what sells and makes the most money. People will do anything really to make the most money so this is not surprising. She said alot about the black female body that is ideal. I think that is it the same thing with white women in other music videos. Its like the advertising thing the perfect body that no one has is always the one that sells.

Blog for Friday 29

I was watching myself today with all the technology that I was using. I worked most the day and still i was on my cellphone so many times. Every chance that i had gotten i found myself checking the time, or my messages, or just picking up my phone to look at it. Then i realized that i was doing it way too much and i tried not to for awhile. And let me just say that it was hard. I think that this would be true for many people. I think that some of us should try to go without the cell phone or any technology and see what its like. Doing this really made me think, and relate to Culture Jam. Realizing that i am just caught up in the technology like the book says. When i was first reading the book some of it left me saying, yeah right. And now i'm starting to realize how right the book it. Today we are so cuaght up in everything do we even realize it? Its unnatural for us to go without technology, and to spend a day with anyone with it. Spending time with family is very important to me, doing this had made me take time to think how much i'm on my phone when i'm spending time with my family. My mom constantly tells me that i would die without my phone and maybe shes right. Not that i would die but that i'm on it too much.

Jessica Hershey