Samantha McCarthy
Professor Luke Vasilelou
Eng 103
24 May 2011
Based on the movie Look Who’s Talking NYC in the 1980s portrayed how realistically New York City was compared to now, whether it was social, political or economic at the time. NYC has always been known to be a fast, busy and always stuck in traffic type of place. People travel from many different countries still though to make a better living condition for their families. Mid 80s the violent crime in NYC had decreased in the last 15 years. The crime rate spiked in the 1980s and early 1990, when crack came to the city. The train fare was only fifty cents per ride. Jobs were easy to look about and it all depended on the experience you had. Housing was hard to find because you had several abandon housing more than apartment or housing to rent.
At the time Ronald Regan was in office and he was the oldest president to be elected as the 40th president. Clubs, schools and restaurants were reasonable to attend but even back then there were some hustling and bustling going on in the city. That’s to show you how NYC hasn’t changed much since the 1980s. Segregation was already over so it wasn’t an issue at the time for blacks & whites to be in the same location. The boom on Wall Street caused the real estate market and unemployment numbers to dropped extremely. the city got rid of discrimination between gays and lesbian people within the employment and housing matter in 1986.In the last two years of Edward Koch was major homelessness became a serious issue during 1978- 1990. The world trade center on September 11 made a huge impact on the city.
Into the 90s women were becoming more independent .They had high class jobs and could provide for themselves. For example, the taxi cab driver (john tavotte) made reference to the NYC traffic. The business man neglected to give molly the cab when she was in labor because he was in a rush. Men in the corporate world like to have power and control over things.
At the time the taxi driver assume she had a husband or boyfriend because she was pregnant. But off the back by hear saying she didn’t have either and she was arterials inseminated people thought it was either because she was ugly or a lesbian. In life now maybe your partner can not produce and you have to get frozen sperm in order to produce a baby and that’s understandable.
Having a Family was important that the time. It was custom to have a two parent household. Shown in the movie molly had a strong desire to find a father for her child, even though she was independent enough to take care of her child on her own. The movie can come unrealistic because it happened so fast so we don’t get to see a day to day progress .for instances in the movie it seem like just two days ago little mikey was born and she met the taxi driver while rushing him to take her to the hospital. The next sense mikey is big and that taxi driver is in the house putting molly to bed and taking mikey for a ride in his cab.
The movie also depicts the class structure and the means of survival within the city. James the cab driver has two different jobs and is very creative in finding ways of meeting his financial needs. Making $1100 a month in comparison to what molly is an accounting makes a significantly difference. We also see where as a single mother, molly is able to provide a comfortable atmosphere as hiring a babysitter in the charter of James. This was a clear indicator of the class and economical structure of the society at the time.
The Mets is represented like a symbol because molly mom is wearing the sweat shirt and most times when you see the Mets people think NYC, So it a identifications of NYC. Accounting was use by a paper based method which was causing NYC to lose $600 million a year in uncollected taxes. As evidence in the movie molly is manual typing in the numbers and doing the calculations from out her head manually. (Stated from the New York Magazine may 14, 1984) From 1989 to 1922 the city suffered loss in mandatory growth. In this day in age everything is computerized so accountants have an easier task to get the job done quicker and faster.
In Manhattan the medium price for homes “dropped by more than a quarter, construction declined by a third, and the city lost one-tenth of its jobs”. (Stated from the New York magazine.)The market was further destabilized by bond bedding and jacked up interest rate. Employees were made redundant; there were various merges acquisitions, and buyouts of companies. “Wall street alone saw 16,000 layoff in the two years before the recession even began”. Referring back to the movie when James went to his second job to get his schedule, nothing was on it and Carrie informed him that they had to lay him off because of the recession.
In 1989 New York City was financial different regarding the salary for certain jobs, the rent to live in certain locations and the cost of certain items. For instance a paralegal would make around 28,000 a year, a register nurse would make 20,000 a year and a computer programmer would make an average of 27, 00 per year. Housing range for a new house cost around $68,714.00 and by 1989 was $120,000.00. A gallon of gas was $1.19 and a year later was 97 cents. During those times pricey was really reasonable. A new car was just $7,210.00 but soon rose by 1989 to $15,400.00. A pair of Nike air force shoes was $54.99. Milk was 85 cents for ½ gallon. Bunk beds with mattress were $148. In the movie Molly was an accountant and she made enough money per year to be a single mother and raise her child. James only drives a cab which therefore he wasn’t able to afford everything that he would have like to. For instance in order to make a long distance phone call to call his mother & family, he would pretend he was a lost messenger. Go to huge corporation and the receptionist would allow him to use their phone. He also knew how to get free lunches in 20 different restaurants.
Look who’s talking is a 1989 film produce in New York City directed and written by Amy Hecrkling.the stars were John Travolta( James), Kristie alley(Mollie) and Olympia Dukakis( Mollie mom). The release date was October 13, 1989. The budget was $7.5 million but after gross revenue the movie made $296,999,813.
Mollie is a single mother who is on a mission to find a reliable and normal boyfriend. Her son mikey seem to find the job easier because he has a better clue of which one of the guys his mom goes out with would make an excellent father figure in his life.mikey is only a baby so Mollie isn’t able to understand mikey when he makes the decision for her. Mollie lives and works as an accountant in New York City.mikey father is her latest Clint, He is married and stills embarks on having an affair with her. He even made a promise to leave his wife for her. Deep down Mollie feels that the relationship need to stop because it is wrong but then continues to have sex with him and becomes pregnant. When giving Albert the news he took it well and said “he would always be there for his baby and raise him with her. Meanwhile Mollie decide to keep it a secret ad tell her parents that there is no father and there was a sperm donor. She finds out that Albert is seeing another woman, she gets upset and it causes her to suddenly go into labor. James is her taxi driver, realized her situation and tried to get her to the hospital as soon as possible. A few days later James brought Mollie her purse she left in his taxi. Mikey & Him starts to enjoy each other company. When she offered him a job to babysit mikey this causes them to become even closer. When Mollie was arguing with the manger where James grandfather stays, Mikey escaped from James grandfather.Mikey then notice a taxi outside and thought it was James, so he followed it. He then ends up standing in the middle of NYC traffic while still trying to look for James. James and Mollie finds him and reuse him from the street, when suddenly mikey calls him da-da. Mollie then realized that James is the perfect father figure for her son and for herself.
In my belief life in the movie was very realistic political, economic and social. Relating to the movie women was in the working field and very independent. The average salary at the time was reasonable because nothing was as expensive that the people were struggling to meet ends meet. The average rent was good enough of money because molly as a single mother was able to work, take care of her baby and still have money to go out and look a boyfriend. NYC has always been known to be a fast going, busy and always traffic type of city. James had trouble getting to the hospital, which was prime example to show the reality of NYC. People travel to NYC to make a better living ennovriment for their families. Relating to the movie you can tell moly had more money than James because she didn’t have to sneak in places to feed her child and James always had a way of getting around things in a mysterious way. Economical Back in the 1980s violent crimes was get a very high peek and as time moved on it started to increase. NYC will always have crimes because you have your lower class and upper class. The upper may be afford to pay for such things but the lower class may not but still want to have it , so that’s when they would steal.
Worked Cited
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New York Magazine, May 14, 1948
The Wall Street journal
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
blog#16
Samantha McCarthy
Professor Luke Vasilelou
Eng 103
24 May 2011
Based on what is happening in the movie even in the 1980s NYC is always been known to be busy and always have lots of traffic. The movie tends to portray the movie in a realistic way. Mid 80s into the 90s women were becoming more independent .They had high class jobs and could provide for themselves. There was some hustling and bustling going on in the city also. For example, the taxi cab driver (john tavotte) made reference to the NYC traffic. The business man neglected to give molly the cab when she was in labor because he was in a rush. Men in the corporate world like to have power and control over things
At the time the taxi driver assume she had a husband or boyfriend because she was pregnant. But off the back by hear saying she didn’t have either and she was arterials inseminated people thought it was either because she was ugly or a lesbian. In life now maybe your partner can not produce and you have to get frozen sperm in order to produce a baby and that’s understandable.
Having a Family was important that the time. It was custom to have a two parent household. Shown in the movie molly had a strong desire to find a father for her child, even though she was independent enough to take care of her child on her own. The movie can come unrealistic because it happened so fast so we don’t get to see a day to day progress .for instances in the movie it seem like just two days ago little mikey was born and she met the taxi driver while rushing him to take her to the hospital. The next sense mikey is big and that taxi driver is in the house putting molly to bed and taking mikey our for a ride in his cab.
The movie also depicts the class structure and the means of survival within the city. James the cab driver has two different jobs and is very creative in finding ways of meeting his financial needs. Making $1100 a month in comparison to what molly is an accounting makes a significantly difference. We also see where as a single mother, molly is able to provide a comfortable atmosphere as hiring a babysitter in the charter of James. This was a clear indicator of the class and economical structure of the society at the time.
The Mets is represented like a symbol because molly mom is wearing the sweat shirt and most times when you see the Mets people think NYC, So it a identifications of NYC. Accounting was use by a paper based method which was causing NYC to lose $600 million a year in uncollected taxes. As evidence in the movie molly is manual typing in the numbers and doing the calculations from out her head. (Stated from the New York Magazine may 14, 1984) from 1989 to 1922 the city suffered loss in mandatory growth.
In Manhattan the medium price for homes “dropped by more than a quarter, construction declined by a third, and the city lost one-tenth of its jobs”. (Stated from the New York magazine.)The market was further destabilized by bond bedding and jacked up interest rate. Employees were made redundant; there were various merges acquisitions, and buyouts of companies. “Wall street alone saw 16,000 layoff in the two years before the recession even began”.
In 1989 New York city was financial different regarding the salary for certain jobs, the rent to live in certain locations and the cost of certain items. For instance a paralegal would make around 28,000 a year, a register nurse would make 20,000 a year and a computer programmer would make a average of 27, 00 per year. Housing range for a new house cost around $68,714.00 and by 1989 was $120,000.00. a gallon of gas was $1.19 and a year later was 97 cents. During those times pricey was really reasonable. A new car was just $7,210.00 but soon raised by 1989 to $15,400.00. A pair of Nike air force shoes was $54.99. Milk was 85 cents for ½ gallon. Bunk beds with mattress were $148.
Professor Luke Vasilelou
Eng 103
24 May 2011
Based on what is happening in the movie even in the 1980s NYC is always been known to be busy and always have lots of traffic. The movie tends to portray the movie in a realistic way. Mid 80s into the 90s women were becoming more independent .They had high class jobs and could provide for themselves. There was some hustling and bustling going on in the city also. For example, the taxi cab driver (john tavotte) made reference to the NYC traffic. The business man neglected to give molly the cab when she was in labor because he was in a rush. Men in the corporate world like to have power and control over things
At the time the taxi driver assume she had a husband or boyfriend because she was pregnant. But off the back by hear saying she didn’t have either and she was arterials inseminated people thought it was either because she was ugly or a lesbian. In life now maybe your partner can not produce and you have to get frozen sperm in order to produce a baby and that’s understandable.
Having a Family was important that the time. It was custom to have a two parent household. Shown in the movie molly had a strong desire to find a father for her child, even though she was independent enough to take care of her child on her own. The movie can come unrealistic because it happened so fast so we don’t get to see a day to day progress .for instances in the movie it seem like just two days ago little mikey was born and she met the taxi driver while rushing him to take her to the hospital. The next sense mikey is big and that taxi driver is in the house putting molly to bed and taking mikey our for a ride in his cab.
The movie also depicts the class structure and the means of survival within the city. James the cab driver has two different jobs and is very creative in finding ways of meeting his financial needs. Making $1100 a month in comparison to what molly is an accounting makes a significantly difference. We also see where as a single mother, molly is able to provide a comfortable atmosphere as hiring a babysitter in the charter of James. This was a clear indicator of the class and economical structure of the society at the time.
The Mets is represented like a symbol because molly mom is wearing the sweat shirt and most times when you see the Mets people think NYC, So it a identifications of NYC. Accounting was use by a paper based method which was causing NYC to lose $600 million a year in uncollected taxes. As evidence in the movie molly is manual typing in the numbers and doing the calculations from out her head. (Stated from the New York Magazine may 14, 1984) from 1989 to 1922 the city suffered loss in mandatory growth.
In Manhattan the medium price for homes “dropped by more than a quarter, construction declined by a third, and the city lost one-tenth of its jobs”. (Stated from the New York magazine.)The market was further destabilized by bond bedding and jacked up interest rate. Employees were made redundant; there were various merges acquisitions, and buyouts of companies. “Wall street alone saw 16,000 layoff in the two years before the recession even began”.
In 1989 New York city was financial different regarding the salary for certain jobs, the rent to live in certain locations and the cost of certain items. For instance a paralegal would make around 28,000 a year, a register nurse would make 20,000 a year and a computer programmer would make a average of 27, 00 per year. Housing range for a new house cost around $68,714.00 and by 1989 was $120,000.00. a gallon of gas was $1.19 and a year later was 97 cents. During those times pricey was really reasonable. A new car was just $7,210.00 but soon raised by 1989 to $15,400.00. A pair of Nike air force shoes was $54.99. Milk was 85 cents for ½ gallon. Bunk beds with mattress were $148.
blog #19
Working with the archives paper it helped me to understand more about new york city.I never seen that this beautiful city i live in you to be a dump in several places.people come to new york for adventure and to live there big dreams.The introduction to the archives project wasn't helpful at all to me. i still had to use the internet and my own knowlege about the city to put a paper together. i think the research paper was more easier then the archives project because i had a more understand of the movie then the planned shrinkage. i had watched the movie several time so i grew to understandhow new york city was in the 1980 compared to now. witht he planned shrinkage everyone had sevral opinion about it.. and i couldnt see the city for myself. the major reaserch paper was also easier becuase it was a movie of my choice, so i had alot to say about it.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Blog 18: report on major research paper
the difficulties i faced when drafting my major research ppaper was finding the proper information relating to my movie and the correct sources that should be included.My movie took placed in 1989 so certain information wasnt avaiable to find . Any time i type in 1989 they would bring me to current 2011.when i type in rent or cost of living in nyc in the 1980s they would result finding current rent prices to live in nyc now.Certain other information i had to ask my parent to get there opinion of nyc in the 1980s.if i didnt have the movie to relate the project to., i think it would have been even more difficulties becuase the internet isnt always true.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
blog 15
In this class discussion where I think privacy or security is more important, security the priority of all. New york is a target to many countries. We try to escapes from having to tell deal with privacy and security even though it part of reality. We have been attack so many times in different locations. I would rather be strip search before entering a certain area. You never know when someone will try to attack again. For example before going on the plane they ask you to reach at the airport 2 hour before your flight.
Security is the longest thing to go through at the airport and it all for your own good. But as American we don’t understand that. We argue about people looking at us a certain way, looking through our bags, going through metal detector and having to go into a room to strip if we continue to beep off. The airport is basically trying to do there jobs, so to make sure when that plane takes off there isn’t any terrorist on it or some type of weapons. In other case maybe they can get to personal. Certain people might have to take certain pills everyday and if the airport feels that the pills don’t look right. They would be force to throw it away.
Security is the longest thing to go through at the airport and it all for your own good. But as American we don’t understand that. We argue about people looking at us a certain way, looking through our bags, going through metal detector and having to go into a room to strip if we continue to beep off. The airport is basically trying to do there jobs, so to make sure when that plane takes off there isn’t any terrorist on it or some type of weapons. In other case maybe they can get to personal. Certain people might have to take certain pills everyday and if the airport feels that the pills don’t look right. They would be force to throw it away.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Archives Paper
Samantha McCarthy
Dr.Luke Vasileiou
Eng. 103
9 May 2011
Planned Shrinkage
During the 1970s New York City Roger Star made a proposal called “Planned Shrinkage”. This proposal introduced him as the housing administrator in the south Bronx and Brownsville, where the two neighborhoods was undergoing acute population and housing erosion. Roger Star stated that “there’s only one way to make a housing problem, and that to start with vacant land”. His plans were to build houses on vacant land out in rockaway and move the first section of Brooklyn slums out to those empty Brooklyn buildings in rockaway, and then empty the second section of slums in Brooklyn and move those people out there. Afterwards he wants to demolish their homes so they could build new housing in Brooklyn, which would remain empty. The whole argument between roger star and Robert Fitch is roger wanting to do all this moving in and out and building up without contacting with the people on what his ideas are and finding out whether they like it or not.
Roger felt that all his life people always told him what he can’t do and what not to do and he always did it anyways. Was the problem really the housing priorities of was his forces mostly on the clearance of the slums that on the middle class housing, the city is spending unnecessary sums in services and money on Ares that are now being demolished and the costs are getting outrageous. Everything would have worked out better if the land in south Bronx had extensive vacant area because then they would have a greater redevelopment value.
The city was losing almost about 1% of its populations a year and has lost 400,000 people since the 1970s.Demographics is unsure if the residents are moving to other neighborhood or whether a migration of the part of the poor city and the northeast is under way. Roger star stated that “he is not talking about forced migration or anything related to that. He also denied that he would ever propose that the south Bronx become a national park after the residents moved out. The city was not in good shape because are borrowing money, but had the ability to pay all of it off. Today the city suffered from a cash flow problem, the lack of wealth creation to support the immense obligation, because they have to take care of the people who can’t take full care of themselves.
The fact in matter with an increase in population will lead to decline within jobs and force the city’s obligations to become smaller. In order to live on the future revenue they would have to shrink down the subways system extremely and do the same for the bus lines. Roger star thought that he could have the city’s responsibilities shrink by having private people from the outside do it.
Fitch speaks on star wanting to cut back on services, which mean it would be recycled as privatization. He replied saying he wasn’t driving out anyone from the city; the people were just leaving themselves. Star made two arguments saying he didn’t realize there was an extent of immigration but then also talked about job shrinkage as if everything he was trying to pursue was right. In the 1977 there were many more jobs then there is today. The only thing that has exceeded was the financial district in the past few years. But certainly after 5-6 years they had a decline after the market dropped. Wall street today has many more jobs than has many more jobs than they had in the 1969 of course.Roger states that there will be a shrinkage in wall street again because the stocks can’t just go up and because of that in effect people will start to get laid off again.
Thursday May 15, 1975 president fords a legislative of the federal assistance denial to the people of the city of New York in there tragic time of finical crisis. Several business and financial taxes amounted to be a little over 3% of the city’s budget. The idea to balance out the city’s budget they would have to cut off several services, which can affect 8 million people and put their safety and health at a risk. Several hospitals, schools, firehouses would have to be closed down as well. Police protection in every area would increase and the remains services would inefficient beyond what the citizens are used to. (Joint statement by Governor Care and Major Abraham D. Beame).
Based on Major Abraham D beame there are several kinds of service that he asks Washington and the rublican party in Albany to live by. For example, making calls to 911 will now be screened and the less important calls would be unanswered. Crossing school guard’s position will be dropped by 7,251. Neighborhood family care center and other citizens units are closing. The Sanitations department is refusing to pick up 1/3 of the trash, so 2,882 of their positions were dropped. The highway and streets that are due for maintenance and repair will be reduced by 50%. The financial community is reducing everything from the city which is punishing them further. He proposed a plan that gives more opportunity, to close all gaps from the 1975-76 without borrowing extra money from groups or other institution. This plan will leave the city to be living and expanding without struggling for survival. Six councilmen are now demanding Roger star to quit his $45,418 a year job as the leader of the city’s housing and development administration. Star and the mayor both refused the offer on resignation.
LaGuardia and Wagner Archives beame Oral history collection
Interview with roger star, by Robert Fitch, 9-2-93
Daily news March 5, 1976
Lawa beane collection bx 070012
Dr.Luke Vasileiou
Eng. 103
9 May 2011
Planned Shrinkage
During the 1970s New York City Roger Star made a proposal called “Planned Shrinkage”. This proposal introduced him as the housing administrator in the south Bronx and Brownsville, where the two neighborhoods was undergoing acute population and housing erosion. Roger Star stated that “there’s only one way to make a housing problem, and that to start with vacant land”. His plans were to build houses on vacant land out in rockaway and move the first section of Brooklyn slums out to those empty Brooklyn buildings in rockaway, and then empty the second section of slums in Brooklyn and move those people out there. Afterwards he wants to demolish their homes so they could build new housing in Brooklyn, which would remain empty. The whole argument between roger star and Robert Fitch is roger wanting to do all this moving in and out and building up without contacting with the people on what his ideas are and finding out whether they like it or not.
Roger felt that all his life people always told him what he can’t do and what not to do and he always did it anyways. Was the problem really the housing priorities of was his forces mostly on the clearance of the slums that on the middle class housing, the city is spending unnecessary sums in services and money on Ares that are now being demolished and the costs are getting outrageous. Everything would have worked out better if the land in south Bronx had extensive vacant area because then they would have a greater redevelopment value.
The city was losing almost about 1% of its populations a year and has lost 400,000 people since the 1970s.Demographics is unsure if the residents are moving to other neighborhood or whether a migration of the part of the poor city and the northeast is under way. Roger star stated that “he is not talking about forced migration or anything related to that. He also denied that he would ever propose that the south Bronx become a national park after the residents moved out. The city was not in good shape because are borrowing money, but had the ability to pay all of it off. Today the city suffered from a cash flow problem, the lack of wealth creation to support the immense obligation, because they have to take care of the people who can’t take full care of themselves.
The fact in matter with an increase in population will lead to decline within jobs and force the city’s obligations to become smaller. In order to live on the future revenue they would have to shrink down the subways system extremely and do the same for the bus lines. Roger star thought that he could have the city’s responsibilities shrink by having private people from the outside do it.
Fitch speaks on star wanting to cut back on services, which mean it would be recycled as privatization. He replied saying he wasn’t driving out anyone from the city; the people were just leaving themselves. Star made two arguments saying he didn’t realize there was an extent of immigration but then also talked about job shrinkage as if everything he was trying to pursue was right. In the 1977 there were many more jobs then there is today. The only thing that has exceeded was the financial district in the past few years. But certainly after 5-6 years they had a decline after the market dropped. Wall street today has many more jobs than has many more jobs than they had in the 1969 of course.Roger states that there will be a shrinkage in wall street again because the stocks can’t just go up and because of that in effect people will start to get laid off again.
Thursday May 15, 1975 president fords a legislative of the federal assistance denial to the people of the city of New York in there tragic time of finical crisis. Several business and financial taxes amounted to be a little over 3% of the city’s budget. The idea to balance out the city’s budget they would have to cut off several services, which can affect 8 million people and put their safety and health at a risk. Several hospitals, schools, firehouses would have to be closed down as well. Police protection in every area would increase and the remains services would inefficient beyond what the citizens are used to. (Joint statement by Governor Care and Major Abraham D. Beame).
Based on Major Abraham D beame there are several kinds of service that he asks Washington and the rublican party in Albany to live by. For example, making calls to 911 will now be screened and the less important calls would be unanswered. Crossing school guard’s position will be dropped by 7,251. Neighborhood family care center and other citizens units are closing. The Sanitations department is refusing to pick up 1/3 of the trash, so 2,882 of their positions were dropped. The highway and streets that are due for maintenance and repair will be reduced by 50%. The financial community is reducing everything from the city which is punishing them further. He proposed a plan that gives more opportunity, to close all gaps from the 1975-76 without borrowing extra money from groups or other institution. This plan will leave the city to be living and expanding without struggling for survival. Six councilmen are now demanding Roger star to quit his $45,418 a year job as the leader of the city’s housing and development administration. Star and the mayor both refused the offer on resignation.
LaGuardia and Wagner Archives beame Oral history collection
Interview with roger star, by Robert Fitch, 9-2-93
Daily news March 5, 1976
Lawa beane collection bx 070012
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Special Activity: MOMI
The first thing I learned was the ADR…that allowed us to record and play as the actors. Its like you record while reading the lines and watching their lips and it plays back with your voice. The most amazing stuff I learn was how they separate the voice, the music and the affects from each other from a scene in the movie. For example they use the titanic where rose falls on the deck it really a bag filled of sand falling on a chair. The whips hitting the water from the can is really guns shots. The can bending in half is a soda can crushing and when it hit the water its really and elephant horn. That was cool because its like you haven’t really thought about the sounds or what was going on in the scene until they separate it. Then without the music you have just the voice people yelling and it was kind of funny because you couldn’t really get the moment of what they were yelling for without the music or hearing the affects. Next
We then moved on to a baseball screen where it should you different cameras and different angles .the director telling a specific cameras what to show or how to move either its a zoom in or move down or trolley out.
We then moved on to a baseball screen where it should you different cameras and different angles .the director telling a specific cameras what to show or how to move either its a zoom in or move down or trolley out.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Blog 13 Draft of Archives Project Essay
Samantha McCarthy
engl03
Dr.vasileiou
assignment
5/2/11
Planned Shrinkage
During the 1970s New York City was a place of housing were they called it “planned shrinkage”. This crime was brought about by roger star deciding to financially ailing New York City to gradually reduced in blighted areas from where residents were moving out in droves. Neighborhoods for the south Bronx and Brownsville were under construction. Certain places like Harlem and Brooklyn where people consider there home at the time had the most crime and poverty rate. The idea of it most was spending unappriate money and services on areas that have been thinned out. The city was losing almost about 1% of its population a year and has lost 400,000 persons since the 1970s. Star said that" suppose we lose two million people... and we could unless the job climate improves... then we must confine our services,"
engl03
Dr.vasileiou
assignment
5/2/11
Planned Shrinkage
During the 1970s New York City was a place of housing were they called it “planned shrinkage”. This crime was brought about by roger star deciding to financially ailing New York City to gradually reduced in blighted areas from where residents were moving out in droves. Neighborhoods for the south Bronx and Brownsville were under construction. Certain places like Harlem and Brooklyn where people consider there home at the time had the most crime and poverty rate. The idea of it most was spending unappriate money and services on areas that have been thinned out. The city was losing almost about 1% of its population a year and has lost 400,000 persons since the 1970s. Star said that" suppose we lose two million people... and we could unless the job climate improves... then we must confine our services,"
Thursday, April 28, 2011
BLOG 12
Relating back to the movie Gattaca, Vincent was an abnormal child who was categorized as a less than suitable given his genetic make up. He was an underclass human who was only useful for menial jobs, such as cleaning bathrooms. Growing up he believed that his brother antwon was better and different from him and antwon kept putting that in his head to bring him down. Vincent dreamed was to travel to the stars. But having the identity of himself was going to stop that dream. His brother antwon would always tell him he would never make it up there. Vincent wanted to prove everyone wrong. He became Jerome Morrow who is able to go into space but cannot because he can’t walk. Through out the movie Vincent uses Jerome DNA to be able to be scheduled to go into space. But then once again his brother try to destroy that dream and accuses antwon for commenting a murder. Towards the end Vincent realizes that he is better then his brother when his brother needs to be rescue after swimming out too far.
The views of anna offer the man on the moon the goal of the American’s to be the first to say they were the first to put the people on the moon and that they were better than there others. The madness was them believing that it was a god giving talent and that it was the right thing to do. Relating to real life god creates everyone differently. Some are born normal and some are born with special dieses that cause them not to be able to communicate or to be as active as the other person.
The views of anna offer the man on the moon the goal of the American’s to be the first to say they were the first to put the people on the moon and that they were better than there others. The madness was them believing that it was a god giving talent and that it was the right thing to do. Relating to real life god creates everyone differently. Some are born normal and some are born with special dieses that cause them not to be able to communicate or to be as active as the other person.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Blog 9 media research paper
Samantha McCarthy
Professor Louis A. Lucca
Media and Society (H130)
April 21, 2011
Over the years, Media sociologists have claimed that children who grew up watching television constantly were more likely to interact with crimes and violence as they got older no matter what the television show they were watching. I agree with the media sociologist half and half because I myself grew up watching Cartoons and family shows which could sometimes be violent but I grew up to be a very decent young lady. I guess what I am trying to say is that it all depends on the child itself. Children tend to behave and follow things or people that they see on television. If it is someone they admire or is a role model to them, which ever road that role model decide to take whether it’s good or bad the children would not think twice about what they are doing, they would just follow them. Sometimes the television could be one of the most dangerous things in your house. Watching television can cause you to lose contraction on everything else that is going on around you, especially towards children. For example if a child is watching a show that they like and danger is around them by the time they noticed something is wrong it could be too late to stop it. Television can cause people to get distracted.
On March 13, 1946 a queen’s resident name Kitty Genovese was murdered outside her home in knew gardens. Thirty-seven people witness the murder but didn’t take an affect. They were so distracted by either the television or thought it was none of there
Business. They watched the stalker stab the women in three separate attacks .Each time that he returned he would sough her out and then stab her again. Meanwhile not one person made an effort to telephone the police while it was occurring until afterwards one person made an attempt after she was dead. ("Murder of Kitty Genovese." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 22 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese. Web.
In today’s world people are very noisy and if they see and accident there willing to hold up traffic and watch. If someone is being attack on the street more than one person would eagerly call the police. That is to show you the time change difference from the early years of television to the present. Let’s go back some decades where the television was first acknowledge and how it expanded over the years to have an effect on people. Between the years of 1940 when television was first commercialized in the U.S. to the present time developed, explored and change rapidly. In the 1940s it was initially by RCA which NBC who had owned and CBS. Towards the end of the 1930s several broadcast systems had developed. To provide basis TV across the country the National television system Committee standardized on 525 line broadcast. The television process had a cease movement when World War 2 had begun, but the pioneers had returned to the air waves when the war ended. Afterwards the concentrating was on the east and west coast and a few stations were operating at the end of the decade. By 1955 the United States was one of the most major mass media. Most Americans households had at least one television set. But majority of them had more than one. Some could even only afford the black and white models. But by that time a few of the programs were running with color until the mid-1960s. The television network of the United States as a whole was the largest and most syndicated. "Television in the United States." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 18 Apr. 2011. Web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_the_United_States. Web.
The United States had the first regularly scheduled television service on July 2, 1928. Most of the early TV programs were just images of radio shows. In the year of the 50’s they were able to justify TV from movies and radio stations. For example the talk show “The Jack Paar show and the TV show “I love Lucy“. Different stations across the world were producing their own local programs which contained simple advertisement game shows and shows for the children to watch. A few of the Local shows often became popular and profitable but was only about selling product promotion and other conflict that guided them to closely vanishing by the 1970s. "Television in the United States." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 18 Apr. 2011. Web. 23 Apr. 2011. Web.
By the 1970s, there were about 700 uhf and vhf television’s stations. Today there is just 1,300.During the 1970s TV stations and network ranked $3.6 billion in ad revenues and as of today we are over 60 billion.Televison programming made a big impact on American and world culture. People critics the 1950s as the golden age of the televison.the TV set were starting to get prices and are catching the viewer’s attention. Producer of television program had a feeling that Broadway plays were attracting ad audience segment that they decide to move the play to television studios. The more television people had in there households the more the programs varied.
Game shows started to become more popular during the 50s.At the same time many of the genes that people were familiar with today started to expand. For example spoah opera, game shows, kids cartoons, the news and the sports channel. On November 22 ,1963 when the president Kennedy was assassinated several American rush to the TV set to hear the news.it was such a tragedy that the network devoted all there airtime days after days to cover the funeral and the aftermath. Americans left church early to come home and watch the Sunday morning news when they heard Jack Ruby had killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The Fourth most popular show on television during the 1960s was the “Andy Griffith show” from the 1960 to 1967 it remained on the top ten until it became number one. GENZEL, Bill. "Television during the 1950s and 1960s." The Wessels Living History Farm, the Story of Agricultural Innovation. 2007. 24 Apr. 2011 Web.
According Levitt dubner every year a child was exposed to televiso with their first
Fifteen there was four percent increase in the amount of people arrested for property crime years later in life and it also increased the violent crime arrest. In today’s record the children who had extra television exposure since birth effected them the most.at the age four kids were watching cartoons and family shows, so at that time it was difficult to blame the problems later on, on the televison.some children growing up was on lock down, so majority of the things they learned to do was based on what they watched on television. For example my older sister wasn’t the kind of kid to always go outside to play with other kids. She loves to read and study her school work. When she did watch TV it was always something educational. She learned to cook by watching the cooking channel every day. When she wasn’t that she would be getting educated by watching the News. Television back in the day played the babysitters in the child’s childhood. Parents would sit there child in front of the television and go take care of the business. They knew the child would get distracted by the TV and wouldn’t notice that they were even gone. I came to realize that the bad fruits will be the ones to be criminals later on.
Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J. Dubner. Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. New York: William Morrow, 2009. Print.
According to Steven D.Levitt there was a shark difference in crime trends between the cities in the United States who received signal in the mid 1940 compared to the people who had no television until decades later. Before television violent crime was extremely high in the cites who had TV earlier than the cites who had earlier than the cites who received signal late. An experiment was done were they compared the children who was born in the same cities in the 1950 and 1955. The city who had TV in 1954 compared to a age group who didn’t have TV for four years of their life to who didn’t have it there entire time. Levitt, Steven D. Superfreakonics Lp. Print
Television can play a good and bad side. It could be some type of entertainment and educational. It could have that effect on children where it opens there mind giving them the idea to have a wild imagination, to learn about several other cultures and to see ideas they wouldn’t see in their own society. Television programs with positive role models can inform the viewers to make positive choice in their lifestyle. At the same time kids could learn things on television that aren’t appreciate for them to learn. TV can influence kid’s behavior and their families in negative ways. Parents should decide how much and what their kids watch. TV could affect the way a child sleeps, the weight they can gain, there GPA in school and the way there behavior in general.
Before fox’s came about in October 1986, ABC, CBC and NBC were the biggest nationwide broadcasting. Today we have more choices of programs because of cable and satellite. We recently increase ease and perilous to watch our shows in reruns, recording them on our DVR, shifting the time by fast forwarding through the commercials and from the internet. Which decrease the amount of people who would watch the shows on a single broadcast? The mass media of the internet has attracted the TV watchers usually sit in front of the TV for hours. Some of these networks ran similar schedules. Most during the weekdays, after the local news. Then followed by a morning show like the weather, interviews and NBC’s today.
American television was so successful that it influence television network to show similar show in their country. As of today some of these shows still come on the air and people enjoy watching them. Reality television was the longest to exist in the United States. They are now starting to place ordinary people in talent contest, dance competition an any other unusual circumstances. Your usually American soap opera has been going for over 6ix decades. Ever since I was born or maybe even before that I have grew up watching my mother get all excited about her soaps. She doesn’t miss a day. If she feels like she will not make it to a TV in time before it comes on, She will make sure she tape it so when she comes home she can watch it. The way my mother feels about her soap is the way I feel about my show “The Game” on BET... The Game is like a black soap opera every time it ends it leaves you wondering what going to happen next or who will be leaving the show. Any time I miss an episode of the game I would go online to watch it on their website. I use the internet as my secondary source. If everyone was to miss the game when it came on a single broadcast everyone would just got on the internet to watch it and The television would start to loose there viewers. Out of the current seven soap opera five has been running for over forty years and is still alive. Your popular children’s television programs have moved to cable television with successful results. For instance sponge bob square pants, wizards of warly place, I Carly and several other kids and family programs. The problem is will these kids start to put their school work as a secondary choice instead of the main probity.
Based on my research these shows are influencing the viewers on what they should do and from what they should not do. Anytime they are about to do something that they wouldn’t want their audience to do. They tell them “please don’t try this at home”. But being a kid they would go ahead and do it anyways. Children aren’t trying to act rude or smart but it all about growing up and knowing your Nose and Yes’s. Yes it okay to watch this television show as long as you finish your homework. Maybe if the parents set some rules along with allowing their child to watch TV maybe the percent all over the world is different in the crime rate.
After watching years of television the viewer’s probably look at the TV as a secondary source. When they turn on the TV to hear the news. Some things are live and facts but other news can just be what they see and are basing it on. Today’s viewers look at the television as a distraction and to find out what is going on all over the world. If someone didn’t die then the news are forces on someone getting married and the aftermath? The media revolves around the television, the internet, newspapers, magazines’ and billboards and people in today’s society is so influence by the media ,not just children and television.
GENZEL, Bill. "Television during the 1950s and 1960s." The Wessels Living History Farm, the Story of Agricultural Innovation. 2007. 24 Apr. 2011 Web.
("Murder of Kitty Genovese." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 22 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese. Web.
"Television in the United States." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 18 Apr. 2011. Web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_the_United_States. Web
Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J. Dubner. Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. New York: William Morrow, 2009. Print
Levitt, Steven D. Superfreakonics Lp. Print
Professor Louis A. Lucca
Media and Society (H130)
April 21, 2011
Over the years, Media sociologists have claimed that children who grew up watching television constantly were more likely to interact with crimes and violence as they got older no matter what the television show they were watching. I agree with the media sociologist half and half because I myself grew up watching Cartoons and family shows which could sometimes be violent but I grew up to be a very decent young lady. I guess what I am trying to say is that it all depends on the child itself. Children tend to behave and follow things or people that they see on television. If it is someone they admire or is a role model to them, which ever road that role model decide to take whether it’s good or bad the children would not think twice about what they are doing, they would just follow them. Sometimes the television could be one of the most dangerous things in your house. Watching television can cause you to lose contraction on everything else that is going on around you, especially towards children. For example if a child is watching a show that they like and danger is around them by the time they noticed something is wrong it could be too late to stop it. Television can cause people to get distracted.
On March 13, 1946 a queen’s resident name Kitty Genovese was murdered outside her home in knew gardens. Thirty-seven people witness the murder but didn’t take an affect. They were so distracted by either the television or thought it was none of there
Business. They watched the stalker stab the women in three separate attacks .Each time that he returned he would sough her out and then stab her again. Meanwhile not one person made an effort to telephone the police while it was occurring until afterwards one person made an attempt after she was dead. ("Murder of Kitty Genovese." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 22 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese. Web.
In today’s world people are very noisy and if they see and accident there willing to hold up traffic and watch. If someone is being attack on the street more than one person would eagerly call the police. That is to show you the time change difference from the early years of television to the present. Let’s go back some decades where the television was first acknowledge and how it expanded over the years to have an effect on people. Between the years of 1940 when television was first commercialized in the U.S. to the present time developed, explored and change rapidly. In the 1940s it was initially by RCA which NBC who had owned and CBS. Towards the end of the 1930s several broadcast systems had developed. To provide basis TV across the country the National television system Committee standardized on 525 line broadcast. The television process had a cease movement when World War 2 had begun, but the pioneers had returned to the air waves when the war ended. Afterwards the concentrating was on the east and west coast and a few stations were operating at the end of the decade. By 1955 the United States was one of the most major mass media. Most Americans households had at least one television set. But majority of them had more than one. Some could even only afford the black and white models. But by that time a few of the programs were running with color until the mid-1960s. The television network of the United States as a whole was the largest and most syndicated. "Television in the United States." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 18 Apr. 2011. Web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_the_United_States. Web.
The United States had the first regularly scheduled television service on July 2, 1928. Most of the early TV programs were just images of radio shows. In the year of the 50’s they were able to justify TV from movies and radio stations. For example the talk show “The Jack Paar show and the TV show “I love Lucy“. Different stations across the world were producing their own local programs which contained simple advertisement game shows and shows for the children to watch. A few of the Local shows often became popular and profitable but was only about selling product promotion and other conflict that guided them to closely vanishing by the 1970s. "Television in the United States." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 18 Apr. 2011. Web. 23 Apr. 2011. Web.
By the 1970s, there were about 700 uhf and vhf television’s stations. Today there is just 1,300.During the 1970s TV stations and network ranked $3.6 billion in ad revenues and as of today we are over 60 billion.Televison programming made a big impact on American and world culture. People critics the 1950s as the golden age of the televison.the TV set were starting to get prices and are catching the viewer’s attention. Producer of television program had a feeling that Broadway plays were attracting ad audience segment that they decide to move the play to television studios. The more television people had in there households the more the programs varied.
Game shows started to become more popular during the 50s.At the same time many of the genes that people were familiar with today started to expand. For example spoah opera, game shows, kids cartoons, the news and the sports channel. On November 22 ,1963 when the president Kennedy was assassinated several American rush to the TV set to hear the news.it was such a tragedy that the network devoted all there airtime days after days to cover the funeral and the aftermath. Americans left church early to come home and watch the Sunday morning news when they heard Jack Ruby had killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The Fourth most popular show on television during the 1960s was the “Andy Griffith show” from the 1960 to 1967 it remained on the top ten until it became number one. GENZEL, Bill. "Television during the 1950s and 1960s." The Wessels Living History Farm, the Story of Agricultural Innovation. 2007. 24 Apr. 2011 Web.
According Levitt dubner every year a child was exposed to televiso with their first
Fifteen there was four percent increase in the amount of people arrested for property crime years later in life and it also increased the violent crime arrest. In today’s record the children who had extra television exposure since birth effected them the most.at the age four kids were watching cartoons and family shows, so at that time it was difficult to blame the problems later on, on the televison.some children growing up was on lock down, so majority of the things they learned to do was based on what they watched on television. For example my older sister wasn’t the kind of kid to always go outside to play with other kids. She loves to read and study her school work. When she did watch TV it was always something educational. She learned to cook by watching the cooking channel every day. When she wasn’t that she would be getting educated by watching the News. Television back in the day played the babysitters in the child’s childhood. Parents would sit there child in front of the television and go take care of the business. They knew the child would get distracted by the TV and wouldn’t notice that they were even gone. I came to realize that the bad fruits will be the ones to be criminals later on.
Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J. Dubner. Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. New York: William Morrow, 2009. Print.
According to Steven D.Levitt there was a shark difference in crime trends between the cities in the United States who received signal in the mid 1940 compared to the people who had no television until decades later. Before television violent crime was extremely high in the cites who had TV earlier than the cites who had earlier than the cites who received signal late. An experiment was done were they compared the children who was born in the same cities in the 1950 and 1955. The city who had TV in 1954 compared to a age group who didn’t have TV for four years of their life to who didn’t have it there entire time. Levitt, Steven D. Superfreakonics Lp. Print
Television can play a good and bad side. It could be some type of entertainment and educational. It could have that effect on children where it opens there mind giving them the idea to have a wild imagination, to learn about several other cultures and to see ideas they wouldn’t see in their own society. Television programs with positive role models can inform the viewers to make positive choice in their lifestyle. At the same time kids could learn things on television that aren’t appreciate for them to learn. TV can influence kid’s behavior and their families in negative ways. Parents should decide how much and what their kids watch. TV could affect the way a child sleeps, the weight they can gain, there GPA in school and the way there behavior in general.
Before fox’s came about in October 1986, ABC, CBC and NBC were the biggest nationwide broadcasting. Today we have more choices of programs because of cable and satellite. We recently increase ease and perilous to watch our shows in reruns, recording them on our DVR, shifting the time by fast forwarding through the commercials and from the internet. Which decrease the amount of people who would watch the shows on a single broadcast? The mass media of the internet has attracted the TV watchers usually sit in front of the TV for hours. Some of these networks ran similar schedules. Most during the weekdays, after the local news. Then followed by a morning show like the weather, interviews and NBC’s today.
American television was so successful that it influence television network to show similar show in their country. As of today some of these shows still come on the air and people enjoy watching them. Reality television was the longest to exist in the United States. They are now starting to place ordinary people in talent contest, dance competition an any other unusual circumstances. Your usually American soap opera has been going for over 6ix decades. Ever since I was born or maybe even before that I have grew up watching my mother get all excited about her soaps. She doesn’t miss a day. If she feels like she will not make it to a TV in time before it comes on, She will make sure she tape it so when she comes home she can watch it. The way my mother feels about her soap is the way I feel about my show “The Game” on BET... The Game is like a black soap opera every time it ends it leaves you wondering what going to happen next or who will be leaving the show. Any time I miss an episode of the game I would go online to watch it on their website. I use the internet as my secondary source. If everyone was to miss the game when it came on a single broadcast everyone would just got on the internet to watch it and The television would start to loose there viewers. Out of the current seven soap opera five has been running for over forty years and is still alive. Your popular children’s television programs have moved to cable television with successful results. For instance sponge bob square pants, wizards of warly place, I Carly and several other kids and family programs. The problem is will these kids start to put their school work as a secondary choice instead of the main probity.
Based on my research these shows are influencing the viewers on what they should do and from what they should not do. Anytime they are about to do something that they wouldn’t want their audience to do. They tell them “please don’t try this at home”. But being a kid they would go ahead and do it anyways. Children aren’t trying to act rude or smart but it all about growing up and knowing your Nose and Yes’s. Yes it okay to watch this television show as long as you finish your homework. Maybe if the parents set some rules along with allowing their child to watch TV maybe the percent all over the world is different in the crime rate.
After watching years of television the viewer’s probably look at the TV as a secondary source. When they turn on the TV to hear the news. Some things are live and facts but other news can just be what they see and are basing it on. Today’s viewers look at the television as a distraction and to find out what is going on all over the world. If someone didn’t die then the news are forces on someone getting married and the aftermath? The media revolves around the television, the internet, newspapers, magazines’ and billboards and people in today’s society is so influence by the media ,not just children and television.
GENZEL, Bill. "Television during the 1950s and 1960s." The Wessels Living History Farm, the Story of Agricultural Innovation. 2007. 24 Apr. 2011 Web.
("Murder of Kitty Genovese." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 22 Apr. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese. Web.
"Television in the United States." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 18 Apr. 2011. Web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_the_United_States. Web
Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J. Dubner. Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. New York: William Morrow, 2009. Print
Levitt, Steven D. Superfreakonics Lp. Print
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Blog 11
My other is people who cannot imagine having anything in common with at all in life. Gostic people are just so werid looking to be and I just look at them different from everyone else. They wear the all back which reminds me f ome kind of darkness, evil and cold hearted. They ear these chaing on them which reminds me of like a jail prisoner and I wouldn’t want to know why anone will tring to mock that image. Gotic people look like if there up to no good.what make me feel oppsite to them is the fact that I hate wear black and I am a very joyful and I ama very happy person. Gotic people wear tonge rings and percing all over there body in different areas.
In high school I teract with with a young lady who look at life from a way point of view then I did. Anytime I made a opinion she always aruge back and sted her opinion. Me and her is the total oppsite I love to shop and sepnd unessary money and she like to save her money. Anytime I picked up something that wasn’t under $40 she would say is that even worth it and judge the clothing. I hated that and fromt hat day I never toke her shopping with me again. I care about the way I present myself and she didn’t. I could spend 1 hour in front the morrior fixing my hair and she would just wake up and come to school. I feel like that is very dirty and not be lady like. Every young lady should spend time taking care of there body .
In high school I teract with with a young lady who look at life from a way point of view then I did. Anytime I made a opinion she always aruge back and sted her opinion. Me and her is the total oppsite I love to shop and sepnd unessary money and she like to save her money. Anytime I picked up something that wasn’t under $40 she would say is that even worth it and judge the clothing. I hated that and fromt hat day I never toke her shopping with me again. I care about the way I present myself and she didn’t. I could spend 1 hour in front the morrior fixing my hair and she would just wake up and come to school. I feel like that is very dirty and not be lady like. Every young lady should spend time taking care of there body .
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Blog 10
During the course I have learn several things when it comes to the English language and they way people look at things. The most interesting thing I learned was the difference between and illusion and reality. Everyday we wake up get dress and go about our business that called reality something you do on an everyday basis. Illusion is something we hear people talk about and imagine, we see it our dreams and wish we could be whoever it is or do whatever it’s doing. For example when you say something or ask your parents a question that out or ordinary they always say “you need a reality check.” We have covered mythology in the matrix and knowledge in Oedipus the king but in certain text I am still a little confused on the way the world act towards it. I have learned several things about the meaning ignorance in this course. Depending the situation something its important not to know the truth because it can better you off or the other person. But knowing the truth can maybe change your life or excite someone else’s.
As seen in my blog from the first day to now I think my writing as become better but isn’t as perfect yet. Each time that I write it becomes longer and longer. My thought start to expand more, I use more of my imaginations, and personal point of view. My strengthens when it comes to writing is making up my own topic, writing my own ideas and just free writing.my weakness is when my professor give us a topic to write about and we have to relate to something else or to explain more on the topic. I find it hard to start off. My major problem is where do I start from and how to put my ideas together. Sometimes when I know what I want to write about I am so excited and I start to just go on and on without analyzing my words. Using the blog instead of writing on paper has helped me to express my self more instead of using the proper English language I just wrote whatever comes to mind and just write. Writing on the blog didn’t help to expand my vocabulary because I look at it as Facebook. You have a topic and then you just post a comment on what you think it’s about.
My strongest piece of writing will have to be this blog because it’s about you and myself cant go wrong writing about your self. My weakness blog was writing about my childhood when I use to believe in fairy tales and unrealistic things. It was hard for me to right about stuff like that because my parents and family always kept everything a buck with me. I knew there was no such thing or person called Santa and when I tooth fell out I would just give it to my other to keep .my childhood as bases on reality. I had the mind of a teenager, I knew write from wrong and what to believe to what not to believe.
As seen in my blog from the first day to now I think my writing as become better but isn’t as perfect yet. Each time that I write it becomes longer and longer. My thought start to expand more, I use more of my imaginations, and personal point of view. My strengthens when it comes to writing is making up my own topic, writing my own ideas and just free writing.my weakness is when my professor give us a topic to write about and we have to relate to something else or to explain more on the topic. I find it hard to start off. My major problem is where do I start from and how to put my ideas together. Sometimes when I know what I want to write about I am so excited and I start to just go on and on without analyzing my words. Using the blog instead of writing on paper has helped me to express my self more instead of using the proper English language I just wrote whatever comes to mind and just write. Writing on the blog didn’t help to expand my vocabulary because I look at it as Facebook. You have a topic and then you just post a comment on what you think it’s about.
My strongest piece of writing will have to be this blog because it’s about you and myself cant go wrong writing about your self. My weakness blog was writing about my childhood when I use to believe in fairy tales and unrealistic things. It was hard for me to right about stuff like that because my parents and family always kept everything a buck with me. I knew there was no such thing or person called Santa and when I tooth fell out I would just give it to my other to keep .my childhood as bases on reality. I had the mind of a teenager, I knew write from wrong and what to believe to what not to believe.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Blog 8
In the Matrix and Oedipus the King covered the image of ignorance. Neo was ingoring the image of the real world compared to the matrix. Going through life hearing about it but not actually believing what he was told. When he saw the matrix for the first time . he couldn’t believe his eyes this all white room.Oedipus the king grew up not knowing he was adopted. Blind about who his real parents were, never even knew what they looked like. The teriresisas told him he will kill his father and marry his wife. He didn’t want that to happen so because he didn’t know he was adopted he went after the other king and queens who was his real parents . Trying to prevent the danger wheres it not and end up hurting yourself or someone else. He killed his real father and he couldn’t believe it was him because he was upset and it wasn’t done purposely. In the matrix chispers said that ignorance was a bliss and that he rather live in a world of lies. Sometimes not knowing the truth and better you off in life. Knowing the truth can hurt you and someone else at the same time even if it not your intenstions. In Oedipus jocasta wanted to forget about everything that happpen and just move on with life and happeniness but then turned around and killed herself.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Blog #7 Annotated Bibliography/ Outline..
The affect television has on people in today socitey or in the Past.
Sources
Articles of stories that has happen in real life,wheather it was in the past or current where tc has affected young adults educations as they were growing up.Did they watch too much uneducated telvision show that had nothing to do with there school work and in effect cause them to do very badly in school.
Books explain alot they help you out when it comes to reserch projects.What was the history of televison.When,where,how, and why was it invented.what made it so popular over the years? what afeects did it cause to adults and children that had a telvision.how did it expanded over the years and where is it going today.
Video can help someone understand your arugement that you are trying to prove. Maybe reading books and articles are just arent enough. a image could even do more. seeing where tv has started and where its going.whether its playing a good part or sometimes can have a bad affect in people lives today. Images are always good it gives you a visual of what your trying to explain to someone who has no idead what your arugment is about.
Internet is helpful but at times but can also be to broad. the italic website inside other links can be helpful to the project.It can answer all our questions about telvision.if i am not able to meet with someone who knows alot the image television has made towards society a simple interview can be done threw emails to someone that familar with the topic.
Outline
Television image has had a great amount of affect on today's society over the past years towards adult and children.
1. where did television all start from?
2. who was the first to have one?
3. televion has made several changes to poeple life in society
4. Unapporaite televison shows can be harmful to children who watch them
5. televsion has change the way of how people think and look at life.
6.
Sources
Articles of stories that has happen in real life,wheather it was in the past or current where tc has affected young adults educations as they were growing up.Did they watch too much uneducated telvision show that had nothing to do with there school work and in effect cause them to do very badly in school.
Books explain alot they help you out when it comes to reserch projects.What was the history of televison.When,where,how, and why was it invented.what made it so popular over the years? what afeects did it cause to adults and children that had a telvision.how did it expanded over the years and where is it going today.
Video can help someone understand your arugement that you are trying to prove. Maybe reading books and articles are just arent enough. a image could even do more. seeing where tv has started and where its going.whether its playing a good part or sometimes can have a bad affect in people lives today. Images are always good it gives you a visual of what your trying to explain to someone who has no idead what your arugment is about.
Internet is helpful but at times but can also be to broad. the italic website inside other links can be helpful to the project.It can answer all our questions about telvision.if i am not able to meet with someone who knows alot the image television has made towards society a simple interview can be done threw emails to someone that familar with the topic.
Outline
Television image has had a great amount of affect on today's society over the past years towards adult and children.
1. where did television all start from?
2. who was the first to have one?
3. televion has made several changes to poeple life in society
4. Unapporaite televison shows can be harmful to children who watch them
5. televsion has change the way of how people think and look at life.
6.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
the matrix relates to Plato
Plato “ The Allegory of the cave “can be related to the movie “the Matrix in several ways. The matrix was a 1999 film that was about a guy name Neo” a computer hacker who learned about the unexplained rebels of his reality and the world of the matrix. His job was to enhance the utopia world and destroys dystopia that was controlled by it. Morpheus toke Neo into the utopia world and because this was his first time being there he had a lot of questions; everything was new and weird for him. In this white room of another world where everything is being controlled and Morpheus telling him that he is the one to free everyone from it. It was a lot to handle all at once. To take in all at one time he waked up right away and got sick because he had never seen such thing.
In allegory of the cave there was a room of prison that was captured in this cave since there childhood. One of the prisons was able to escape from the cave to see the light of the real world. At first the light was a pain to his eyes, which would cause him to turn away and refuse to leave the cave. He wasn’t used to the reality and the things he was just seeing for the first time. He couldn’t believe that there was such a world. All his childhood he and the rest of the prison thought it was just shadows which he formerly saw were truer than the object that were just shown to him. Socrates believed that he would grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world.
Neo
In allegory of the cave there was a room of prison that was captured in this cave since there childhood. One of the prisons was able to escape from the cave to see the light of the real world. At first the light was a pain to his eyes, which would cause him to turn away and refuse to leave the cave. He wasn’t used to the reality and the things he was just seeing for the first time. He couldn’t believe that there was such a world. All his childhood he and the rest of the prison thought it was just shadows which he formerly saw were truer than the object that were just shown to him. Socrates believed that he would grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world.
Neo
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Blog #5 Summary of allegory and he cave
The Allegory of the cave was about Socrates and his student Glaucon. Who had man chained up inside a cave stopping them from seeing the real world. The only thing they were allowed to see was fire from a distant with shadows of the puppets. The main point of the story was to show how unenlightened and enlightened these men were.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Blog #4 A time in human history
During the time of 1898 a drug called Heroin was made by Bayer Company in Germany. People used this illegal drug as a cough medicine and a pain killer. They thought it was help them with their morphine addiction. Until twelve years later doctors realized it became the opposite, an addictive drug, which was either smoked or injected into a muscle to get feeling of being calm and relax which meant high. Some people consider it to be an illegal drug in some countries but also consider taken it for a medical purpose. No matter what the affect were like. After finding out facts that indeed heroin could cause so many different illness and problems in your body people were already used to taking it that it was so hard to stop, even if they wanted to because there were so additive. Sometimes they would even overdose like take to much that they would start to become very sick and catch different dieses and sometimes even die.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Blog #3 What i used to believe in ..
Some time during my childhood I used to believe in a lot of crazy stuff:
1.I used to believe in Santa Clause and stay up all night waiting for him to come until one day I caught my mother wrapping my gifts and putting them underneath the tree at minute to 12.
2.The Easter bunny was real and that he came alive on Easter day only
3.I used to think all boys had cuddies and I would stay far from them in school.
4.I used to think all Haitian do voodoo and were evil. Until one day I meet really nice Haitian boy that change my whole view about them.
5.The boogie monster underneath my bed or in my closet would come out and eat me. But then I was cleaning out my closet and I realize there was know one in there and it was just my imagine nations.
6.I used to think tweet bird was a girl until my older cousin went online and looked tweet up on who played his voice and it was indeed a boy.
7.I used to think my friend Ashley was my cousin because we were so close until my mom and I had a conversation and I realize that we weren’t related in any way.
1.I used to believe in Santa Clause and stay up all night waiting for him to come until one day I caught my mother wrapping my gifts and putting them underneath the tree at minute to 12.
2.The Easter bunny was real and that he came alive on Easter day only
3.I used to think all boys had cuddies and I would stay far from them in school.
4.I used to think all Haitian do voodoo and were evil. Until one day I meet really nice Haitian boy that change my whole view about them.
5.The boogie monster underneath my bed or in my closet would come out and eat me. But then I was cleaning out my closet and I realize there was know one in there and it was just my imagine nations.
6.I used to think tweet bird was a girl until my older cousin went online and looked tweet up on who played his voice and it was indeed a boy.
7.I used to think my friend Ashley was my cousin because we were so close until my mom and I had a conversation and I realize that we weren’t related in any way.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The Allegory of the Cave
The allegory of the cave was between a professor name socarates and his student Glaucon.They talk how "far nature is enlightend or unenlightned".To be enlightened meant you believed in The truth with facts and to be unenlightned meant you heard the facts but no matter what,You wasn't going To change your mind you stick to one conclusion.Most people would rather live not knowing the truth, then to fear the reality and have to face it. In the story socates gave glacun an example of human beings who lived underground since there childhood and there legs and neck chained stoping them from seeing nothing but a low wall built along the way and a distant fire with shadows of the puppets.socrates was basically trying to say that the "men could only see what they were allowed to see "which was shadows and that was what they beleieved in.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Blog 1
The differences between my private self and my public self are the total opposite. For example, I wouldn’t carry myself the way I go about when I am at home as when I am on the street. I believe that happens with most people because when you are on the street you want people to look at you as someone with class, well spoken and knows how to carry him or herself as a male or female. Some people could care less about their image and dress in their nightclothes to go on the street. Different rules when it comes to different folks.
My private self is basically my time the way I present myself when I am alone is like the way a child behaves when their parents aren’t looking. I go crazy, I speak anyway I want to speak, I blast my music, I take care of my personal business, I dress any way I want to dress and then I just relax. The way I talk to my friends I wouldn’t go school speaking the same way to my professor. You want them to see you as an educated person then as if someone who comes from a bad neighborhood and speak to people any way they want to.
As your own privacy you wouldn’t tell your friends or people you don’t know every well your personal business or something you feel is not relevant to them for someone else ears to hear. In some situations it can become problematic. It becomes a talking conversation as each time a different person hears something the situations switches up.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
draft for blog 1
Hello my name is Samantha McCarthy and i am a freshmen at Laguardia Community Colllege. As of now my major is Liberal Arts . after graduating from Here i will like to move on to a 4 years college and hopefully make up my mind on what i want to do in life.
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