Blog: 10

I think that the main problem that researchers face is time. Since time is limited to some they would have to organize a schedule and make sure to meet all those deadlines on that schedule. They would have to use every bit they have in order to have a complete researched paper. Another problem that researcher may face are everyday things like maybe running into an errand that needs to be done or what if something comes up.

One big thing that I know that is a problem is procrastinating and I will admit that I do the same too, leave things till theres nearly just enough time to finish it all. I think that another problem is also has to do with sources. Finding a source that isn't phony is hard to do over the internet. Google tries to be on your side but unfortunately it shows the most visited sites on your topics rather than giving you links to one that you can trust. And these days, going to the library and opening up an encyclopedia seems less popular than using the unreliable wikipedia.

I've done a research paper before and I think that when it comes to finding sources, a book is much more recommended. It's really hard to tell where the information the internets get it from. They don't cite any sources and sometimes i see repeated information on different websites word for word.

Workshop 11/12/09

I will accomplish on making my research blog which I will link. As for homework I think I will finish doing any research on my topic. Right now I am still in the process of choosing a topic. I'm sure by tuesday I'll have my ideas and work.

So far the ideas that I have right now for the video is: snowboarding, creating a catapult, or something with hilarity.

Blog 9 Project Idea

I'm planning on doing a video blog. I'm not ecxactly sure about the topic but i think I'll do something on snowboarding with an appearance of yours truly. I'm not gonna do a video on just doing a few simple tricks since I'm not very good at doing such things but I think i can do some sort of an instructional video on the whole thing.
Or I think i can do a video on life itself. such as what people might think about it. Why do you think we live? Is there a whole purpose as to why we're here right now or is it some whole other unnatural force out there? I want to interview and do a documentary on the philosophies of different people's views on life. Other than that I think there are a couiple of other good ideas that I can try putting on video.
Another idea can be a humorous skit about something. The ideas seem to be endless for me!

Essay 3

Fate And Freewill

I belive that my life is not run by fate but instead it is my freewill that does. It is my freewill that determines what i will do and what I will not do. I don't belive in fate because the idea of not being able to control and do what you want with your life can't be true. Which means tghat you can sit in a room and you can sit there for an eternity and whatever it is thats going to happen is going to happen because it is fated to happen. I think that it is all the choices that we make that make such events possible.
Schick quotes one of my favorite lines from the movie when Neo says " I don't like the idea that i'm not in control of my life."(87) Neo does not like the idea of fate because he doesn't want the choices made for him, instead he wants to make the choices for himself. I completely agree with his arguement about beliefs in fate. I also believe that it is choice taht brought him to Morpheus which leads to the pills and eventually him becoming the one.
I believe that it is the decisions that we makethat makes us. I'm here right no writing this essay because I chosose to. along with sitting down and being in the building. I could've stayed home and have slept through all of it. That is freewill, not because I choose to fail but because there is more than one way i could've started off the day and I chose to go to the college. But then there is fate. Since I made the choice to come to college was i fated to qwrite this essay? Maybe it ios true and maybe it wasn't. But would I be writeing it if I didn't go? Probably not. I've taken all this from schick's idea of finding a book about your life in a flea market when schick says " knowing a prediction can lead to it;s falsification."(97)
Now lets say you consulted with an oracle before went to work in the morining(which you want to be early for). And she says that you will be late for work,. You can do a whole bunch of things to stop this from happening. You can camp out or get up early or never sleep until the next day. MNow fate might be a jerk this day and it might come true. You might oversleep or maybe actually fall asleep trying to stay awake. But you can't disregard the possiblilty of it all working. Schick says "the oracle herself gives the game away when when she answers neo's question... Her mentioning the breaking of the vase is what broutght it about." (98) Basically the foreknowledge of anything cannot be true unless we believe it's true. And once we think that it's going to happen we will start making choices that wiill lead up to it.
Neo becomes the one because he chose to and also because he believed it so even though the oracle says that he isn't. Morpheus also believed neo was the One. Trinity dalls in love with Neo who the oracle says that she will fall in love with the ione. They all didnt believe it at once but eventually began to. It is only when we act upon our actions through free will is when we actually experience freedom. The ability to falsify foreknowledge is also an act of free will as well. Even if it does happen, can it still be free will for trying to stop it from happeneing?

Boundaries and More Boundaries

Boundaries I would list that define me as a human would have to start with my human layer of skin. From there it would have to be the walls and the floor that I live on. Then it would be the whole building that houses the whole floor. Another barrier that comes after the walls is the water that surrounds the city of NY and also the stretches of land and then the atmosphere.

The networks that penetrate these boundaries would be communication in some sort of way. If it was my skin then it would be words straight from my head. To communicate through the walls of my house can be through means of a phone line or on a computer. This also goes for the building that houses the whole floor too. The networks that goes through the large bodies of water that surrounds Ny can be many different things, this would also include the large bodies of land. The networks can be a phone or an internet connection. Another one can be letters, or it can be a person himself moving across these boundaries.

How I access these networks are very easty because I can be able to do every one of these things. I can pick up my cellphone and make a call, I can also go on to a computer as long as it has a connection and talk to anyone that is doing the same. And I can travel or write a letter which I think takes much longer than the other networks that penetrate the boundaries in my life.

There is one more boundary I haven't yet talked about and that is the earth's atmosphere. I think that the network that penetrates these boundaries can be sattelite connections becasue that is about the only netowork that is out there past the atmospheric boundary.

Research Triumph

7 pages of research isn't very hard to do if you have much to say about your topic. But for ,e I had a topic that wasn't very easy to talk about and filling those pages was no easy task. I had top write about bullet time and I wrote as much as i could on the topi. I wrote about the impact of the revolutionary technique, the creators of it, etc. I still didn't exactly reach 7 full pages but i did get to 7 though.

Started out as research then an outline and then multiple drafts for me. The first one i started on was simply horrid, so I started over. The second one turned out alright so I continued to work on that. I dont think that I would try to do this over at all since it turned out fine anyways.

If i was to rate my effort i would say 8 out of 10. I did get lazy at some point but i got the job done. As for the whole project, I would give it a 10 out of 10 because I can.

The Truman Show

This movie is surprisingly similar to the matrix film but maybe it's because both are based off the same idea from Plato's allegory. But at the end of the movie Truman finally is free from his fake life and gets to go out into the real world and experience it. If I was in his position I would have probably done the same thing too.

If I had a choice to live in a place with "nothing to fear" and going out into a world with me knowing very little about it, It would have to depend on the situation. If i was in a world where there was nothnig to fear but people were watching me 24/7 then i'd rather go into that other one i have no idea about. Because I would rather not be watched forever until i turn old and die and i would suspect that the outside world would be much better since there are people out there after all. If it was something like the matrix then I would rather stay int he matrix. Christof says that we accept the environment that is given to us and therefore we wouldn't know whether to leave or not since we've become so accustomed to where we grew up in. The matrix world is more sophisticated and much more very real, no one in there is an actor or some one who is "in on it" other than the unplugged humans and the machines. Maybe it's also because the matrix world is so much alike to the world we live in, and that's probably why i would choose it over the real world.