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I'm hooked on reality tv. I watch The Hills, Project Runway, Real World, Rock of Love 2, Flavor Of Love, I Love NY, and A Shot of Love. I'm so obsessed with wanting to find out whats going to happen next. I'm dieing to hit 21 and be on a reality show like Real World, so everyone can know who i'm and watch me on tv daily. Besides wanting to be on Real World, I think I would be a great host for a show; mainly a music show or some show where they send me out to do crazy things. But I feel like my chances are slim, I have this issue. I can't stop saying "yous guys", and "mines". I always talk like i'm hanging out with my friends. But i want to use this as an advantage, not a disadvantage. I want to know how people can see it as a great opportunity to get a regular girl on tv and host a show where many urban kids can relate to me and hear someone that talk just like them. If it doesn't work out i think i'm going to have to soend some money on a speech coach. My goal is to make it on tv, or working behind the scenes helping to make a show. I just love meeting people but i feel intimidated of how well spoken some people are and I feel they'll judge me. I just need some help or coaching. I have alot of dreams, let's just hope i'll get there.

Week 6 & 7

1) Visiting the libraries was exciting, since I haven't been to a public library in years. Actually I never visited the NYPL of Humanities or the one right across from it. But what I liked the most was our tour in the NYPL of Humanities, the class got to see all the paintings in there, the original Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and the rest of the Christopher Robbin collection. I found it very exciting that the train passes right by it in the bottom level of the library, it also has book shelves that run through floors in the building. The NYPL of Humanities has a building within its building where there was a court yard.
In the smaller regular public library the group & I looked at some photos of graffiti on the third floor. That floor was filled of any type of books about art. We visited the Fourth floor where we found periodical book, index books, and there was an online database there. The fifth floor was was the History & Socail Science floor; we found books on biographies, religion, philosophy, and folklore. The group also got yelled at, we asked the lady at the desk for a book on an artist and she couldn't find it, so she yelled saying we spelled it wrong and her computer doesn't lie. We found it funny.

2) I'm still trying to save the earth little by little. I work at a candy store in the city, and instead of giving all of our customers plastic bags I try and give them no bag or our paper bag. I'm only doing this because the plastic takes forever to disintegrate. And if they insist on the plastic bag I try to tell them my reasons and somethimes they'll change there mind, but others don't care, at least i tried. Other then just the plastic bags, we are recycling our paper towels. If we just used it to dry our hands off ,my mom will later then use it to wipe the table down after dinner. I want to find a new way i can buy drinks without purchasing a plastic bottle. my family drinks soda and i love Naked juice, but they all come in a plastic container.

blOg 5 "GOin' Green!"

Well the topic of the blog is how me and my family are going green? So it took me a while to figure out what we are doing in my home to do this, and I couldn't think of anything until I saw the energy star on my air conditioner, refrigerator, and tv. And then I realized the light bulbs in my house. I guess I got so use to these florescent light bulbs I didn't notice I had them already. My family apparently has always been using them. So this family has been going green for a while I see. Pretty surprising, cause there not your Earth saving people. I guess there just your saving energy to save money people. My mom hates plastic cups, plastic jugs, plastic forks, anything to do with plastic she hates. She says it carries a lot of germs if you don't clean it right; something like that. So in my house everything in the kitchen is mostly metal or glass. We still use plastic bags when we go to the store, only because we have a dog and we have to walk him outside so we reuse it to pick up th poop, or even for the trash in our home, so we recycle the bags. But speaking of trash, we recycle all our bottles, cans, and papers here. Well my whole building does, so we all working on it here. Purchasing a used textbook saved me money and saved a tree. And even though plastic bottles aren't good I reuse my plastic bottle and fill it up with my own water, those dollars add up. And not only do we go green in my home, but my dog as well, we feed him organic dog food. As well as Dr. Smith my mom has alot of plants. I call it her little jungle.

All these are great ways to save the earth, but I wanted to find out more ways. So i researched on it and found this cool website that can help me and others.
http://www.ewg.org/solutions?gclid=COe8mJyFy5ICFUIlFQodoVhWuQ
I also found this nice website with a good heart.
http://www.uber.com/1plus1
And then ways to go green and save money
http://www.bankrate.com/nydn/news/energy-environment-2007/tips_environmental_main_a1.asp?caret=4b

AMNH && An Inconviente Truth blog 4

Well on our visit to the museum we researched on what causes climate and climate change. We visited the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth. There we learned how people were able to find the climate from years ago through ice cores, ocean sediments, and tree rings. Ice cores give a detailed record of the climate 115,000 years ago. The tree rings indicate the annual climate. It has thick rings to indicate rapid growth during warm, wet years. Thin rings tell a slow growth and cold, dry years. One tree only records local climate. Ocean sediments indicate biological activity in the waters. Through the layers you see the amount of carbon that was produced because of the cold weather, they come out thinner and richer layers. In addition to that, we found out about the greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases consist if 4 gases, water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The gases are essential to the earth in order to regulate temperature. But the more gases in the atmosphere wouldn't make it livable on the earth because of high temperature.

Relating the museum to the film, The Inconvenient Truth, I realized that a lot of what was being said in the film was actually at the museum. Al Gore spoke about ice cores in his film and I really got an understanding about what he was saying in the museum. He described most of the greenhouse gases in his film as well and how they affect us and the temperature, and what is going on with the world because of the effect on greenhouse gases. I've been to the museum before and saw this part of it but i really never paid attention to it. But watching The Inconvenient Truth really convinced me, he described everything so well.

Being in this cluster i didn't really understand what was the whole thing behind Dr.Smith not using paper. I realized that he is going green and it relates to all this going on in film. He is trying to get us to use as less as paper in the class to help the world. I understand what going green is about now, and why people should go green. I'm ready to make changes to live longer and make this place a better place to live on.

Gnosticism Blog 3

So I learned about this word that was new to me, Gnosticism. Some religious movements felt that the world was created by ordinary people in a bad spirit, and the religious movements felt that their body was a divine soul living in this materialistic world created by the ordinary people. Created by this bad spirit, people thought it was evil. The believers of this wanted to free themselves from the materialistic world, so they thought God sent Jesus of Nazareth as an embodied supreme to die and bring freedom to them. To the believers Jesus was sent to teach them and free them, but to others he was this regualr man. People just wanted to break free from this evil world.

I see how Allegory of the Cave is related to Gnosticism. In Allegory of the Cave, the people stuck in this cave that try to break free are Gnostic people. People who want to break free from the ordinary and what they know because they know there is more out there then what they are taught. They are living in this cave created by people, the ordinary people. Just like movement felt the world was evil, these people in the cave felt the same way about the cave.

Tieing all of this into The Matrix, The Gnostic people are like Neo and the Nebuchadnezzar, and the agents are just like the ordinary people that created the materialistic world trying to make everyone same. The Nebuchadnezzar felt Neo was "The One" like a supreme being role Jesus played in Gnosticism. He was here to free them and make this movement possible. They wanted to free themselves from this materialistic world the agents created, and free themselves from what the only knowledge they are taught, as in Allegory of the Cave. All of this makes sense.

Allegory Of The Cave & the Matrix

When I reaserached Allegory Of the Cave on wikipedia, I found out this a theory from a Plato the phliosopher. Plato thought that one only knows what he taught. So he made this whole thing about keeping some people in a cave and playing mind tricks with them with imaginary stuff, and then letting them out into the world so they can see real things. In the cave there were chained and faced one way to see no sunlight, but only shadows made by puppets. So when they were out of the cave in the sunlight they found it unusual.
The Matrix showed us the same theory as Plato's. The Matrix made us see that society only tells us what they want us to know and learn. They feel that the more we know the more powerful we will be. And Morpheous in the movie along with his fellow followers felt that way in the movie, so they thought they had to break this. And they started programming their brain to break this shell that the ordinary people were living. They felt they weren't thinking for themselves.
It's the same as Plato was trying to explain. It's true that it's only what they teach us is what we are going to know. For example if i don't get taught how to write i won't know how to read and write.

The Matrix

The Matrix was a good movie, considering i don't like fictional movies like that. I was expecting to fall asleep or just get antsy in my pants. But the movie was intriguing. I liked how the directors; Wachowski Brothers, did all the special effects. I felt it raised the bar for more recent films. I thought it was crazy when Neo took the Blue Pill and ended up in some sort of bowl full of slime with all these wires attached to him. Then how Cypher betrayed them. I was so angry. I thought the outcome of his betrayal was well deserved. The movie was well put out, it made me feel that things could really be like that in the future. I enjoyed the way they were able to add intelligence about something to there mind if they needed it. The movie also had me thinking Neo wasn't THE ONE, but i guess the old lady knew, she just wanted Neo to figure it out on his own and believe. The movie was well put out, it made me think it was gonna be over or someone was gonna die, but the main people survived, and the movie ended awesome. The Matrix is a movie I can watch again.