blog entry 21-Reflection and evaluation.

           Before I start my reflection on this class, I would like to thank Prof smith so much, because He helped us all, to have a new understanding of writing strategies.  If I want to choose from my work ,I will choose  blog entries  11,13 and 16.There are my best blogs, because I really felt, that  I improved in writing. They are the most favorite blogs to me. I did my best in writing these assays .From one to anther I felt that I organized my thoughts and my ideas.

          Writing online was completely different than any other writing experience. First it was something new for me. Blog entries helped me a lot improving my writing. The more I write, the more I learn how to write. Online I can see and read every one’s work. I can put my comments on their work .I can read their comments on my work. I got a lot of good comments. It was very useful and helpful. Also we shared our opinions live online in one of the discussion. It was amazing experience.

         The most useful and helpful lesson I got from this class, is cooperation .It is very good to share thoughts , ideas and opinions with others .Yes, I sure that I am leaving this class with basic understanding of writing strategies .The most memorable moment for me was, when one of the English Profs came to evaluate our class. I was talking very good in front of him. I was so proud of myself. I felt Prof Smith was proud of me as well. I will recommend Prof Smith for any new student, wants to take writing classes.

blog entry 20-reflection on sleep dealer movie

  

       As L –Janet explained in her 18 blog. Memo traveled from his small village to a big city in his country. This is what I like about this movie. When the big company built the dam to prevent the people of the village from using water .After his father was killed, he decided to travel. He did not travel to a different country like United States for example, but he traveled to a big city in the same country he was born. He traveled to this city, because he was seeking for a better for his family. He was amazed by the high technology in this city.  Luz and Rudy helped him destroying the dam by high technology drone. His dream came true to go back to his village. He started and grew planets just like his father was doing. He came back to his original and lived happily ever after with his family.

blog entry 19 -The story of stuff and laber.

               I will talk about the first topic. It is very interesting, because I used to live in the Middle East, so I know what Annie Leonor is talking about. Big governments, co operations in big countries and third world leaders are exploiting and controlling the third world resources .The people who live in these countries don’t take any benefits from these resources at all. All people in the third world are suffering from lack of national income, lack of health insurance and lack of education .Now there are a lot of revolution in the Arab world. The leaders of these countries don’t want to give up authority, because they controlling these resources like oil. All the Arab leaders and their families are very rich, and all their people are very poor. 

blog entry 18

          I could not believe myself when I watched the sleep dealer movie. What happened in this movie was so real .When the American company attacked Memo’s father with the high technology drone, the same picture is happening with Israel and the Palestinian. Israel is the world leader in drone technology. They are saying that they are using them for surveillance purposes. They refuse to commit using them in air strikes. The truth is, they are using the Palestinian side as testing target for new drone technology.Palestinians say they know when an Israel drone is in the air. Cell phones stop working.TV reception stops and they can hear a distant buzzing. They also know what is likely to come next –a devastating explosion on the ground. They committed air strikes against Palestinian leaders by technology drones. Sleep dealer is a reality movie. What happened in this movie, it will happen in the future.

blog entry 17-reflection and evaluation

                   As I looked back on the food unit, I realized a lot of things I did not know about before. There is a strong relation between the 4 movies that we saw before.”The allegory of cave”, the Truman show”,”the matrix”and the meatrix movies. The relation between these 4 movies is controlling human beings.

                In the allegory of the cave people were controlled in their minds and their brains, by old ideas and believe. By the end one prisoner succeed in breaking these chains and live free life.   In Truman show, the main character in this movie was controlled in his freedom. He was controlled all his life by punch of people. They were observing him and controlled his directions. Also by the end he realized that he was a prisoner for all his life .He succeeds in breaking the chains .He decided to take his freedom.  

             In the other two movies, the situation is different. In the matrix movie, technology is controlling our lives and our brains. We don’t know how far technology goes to, because every day there is a new invention or new methods. In this movie Neo took the red pill, so he can observe how technology is controlling the world. In the three meatrix movies, we saw that how we are controlled in our food .The most important thing to human beings, because we cannot survive without food. The movies talk about how factory farming and food industry are controlled by a lot of people. They are controlling the whole economy .They encourage people to eat fast food instead of healthy food, and this is very dangerous to the whole people.

             The makers of the meatrix movies used the matrix movie as a basis, because they want us to know, how we are controlled in our minds, in our freedom, in our brains and in our health and food. Actually it is amazing to see and touch this relation between all of them. As we live in this world, every day we face a new and different challenge all day, and by the end of the day, we cannot do anything expect to accept it and live with it.

              I like this class so much, because the theme of the class is not boring. It is good to have a new subject every three weeks to talk about and discuss. Furthermore, I learned how to write assays than before, which I am so happy about it .I don’t face a lot of challenges like before. I can write about any subject now. So I will do my best until the end .So I can move forward into my plan which I drew to my life. 

blog entry 16-Act exam

          Without food we can’t survive, life can’t be continued on this planet without food. But with fast food, it is a different story. The article “let them eat fat by Greg critser talks about a very important idea which is big restaurants and national companies had targeted the poorest inner class in community to eat fast food. They were targeted because they are poor; they like t o buy cheap meals because of their poorness. I can say it clearly that they targeted the young black community.

The big companies like McDonalds knew their customers. They don’t target the rich section of the community but they book for the opposite section which is the poor one. Because people are poor, they need to buy the cheapest stuff especially food. When there is no money, what can people eat? They can choose the cheapest meals. Big restaurants not only target the poor people but they gave them rewards to encourage them to eat in their restaurants. They have surprises awards, every time they buy one hamburger; they give them double or extra. Kids don’t know that it’s dangerous on their health; they take extra calories from every meal they had gotten. In the same time when these restaurants give such kind of food to these teenagers, kids are less in physical activity by half. Because of that, teenagers suffer from obesity in the whole United States.

First I would like to talk about fast food. It is convenient, cheap and tastes delicious. Fast food is the main meal to a lot of people because it is easy to find in any neighborhood and it’s cheap. In the main time fast food tastes very good because of the fats inside it. When I first came to the United States, I used to bring my kids to a city hospital in queens. In this area there was a big McDonald so my son asked me to bring him something to eat. As we went inside, I got shocked when I saw the ages inside..They are all teenagers they are offering them surprises award just like the author talked about; most of the costumers are young black boys and girls. They just came from school.  (If you get one hamburger with French fries and coke then you will get double) the guy said. The meal is very cheap and the boys/girls are poor, and because of the parents don’t cook like before. Either they are busy or lazy, who knows.

   The most important thing, in these restaurants, they gave them double the calories in every meal. I got shocked when I saw the boys and girls, they all suffered from obesity. It is very dangerous. The boys and girls suffered from obesity because of the lack of exercise they should do. So imagine this picture with me. A lot of fast food restaurants present cheap meals to kids with a lot of calories. In the same time, there is no physical activity. Imagine after twenty years, when these kids grow up and face life .they are going to be responsible for their own families one day. Imagine these generations will look like .For me I have a son who is 15 years old; he goes to swimming team every week for four times a week. He knows that sports are good for his body and his brain. He goes to fast food restaurant every month with his friends, when he goes there he tries to pick the healthy meals. If there is no healthy meal, he doesn’t eat. If he didn’t find something to eat at home he will either eat cereal and fruits. This is how I raised him. He has to keep in his mind that his body is a gift from god and he has to keep it healthy.

   By the end we have to send our children to gyms or participate in physical activity at school .This is the responsibility of the parents. Parents should say to their kids not to eat outside home. They can cook cheap meals and healthy in the same time- they have to keep their minds healthy, and let them stay away from fats that these restaurants provide, they have to send them to do exercises or physical activity. Even if they don’t have the money to afford it, they can send them to the park or let them ride bicycles. This is the cheapest activity they can do. We have to keep them healthy for the future, because they will be responsible for families and for work. We have to know what’s behind fast food. It is obesity, more poor. Fat bodies and fat brains. Keep your children from fast food.

Thank you.

blog entry15-FAST FOOD

             Without food we cannot survive. We have to eat, because life has to be continue on this earth .(The meatrix) is a an interesting movie which I watched in Dr Jason’s class .This movie talks about a lot of significant issues about food industry, factory farming and fast food. These important issues are related to each other.I agree that fast food is taking over nowdays in our life in all of the American society.This is true because fast food  is conveneint , cheap and tastes delicious.For example kids, youth and adults like to go eat at fast food restaurants.

            Food has two sides either its healthy food or junk food. Healthy contains fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, and healthy meat or chicken . That has been cooked at home. Junk food contains a lot of fats , none fresh vegetables and fruits and meat and chicken cooked with unhealthy ways.I want to show people that fast food are very dengerous on their health.For me I dont eat in fast food restaurant at all,except for once or twice a year ,and if I have to.ast food is very cheap, that is why a lot of people see it very conventeint to their budget.also fast food is the main cause of obesity because it contains a lot of fats , loaded with saturated fats and a lot of calories. The more people go eat in these places because they are cheap, the more people will suffer from obesity. My girlfriend has three children between the age 18 and 9 years old, all of them suffer from obesity because of junk food. She knows that junk food is dangerous on their health but she doesn’t care because it saves her a lot of effort to cook and a lot of money

First,it is very easy for mom and dad to take their children to fast food restaurants. This is the main problem of fast food is that it’s easy and conveneint, because it saves a lot of money, time, an effort. Parents are so busy or lazy to cook at home that they cannot give healthy meal to their kids. By four dollars a person can get a meal in any fast food restaurant but if he tried to cook it at home it will cost more.F
Furthermore,also people suffer a lot of diseases because fast food restaurants use the same oil for a lot of days. My friend works in a fast food restaurant and he told me once,  if people saw what is happening in these kitchens. They will never eat again in these restaurants,They throught the chicken on the floor .They  dont wash it before they cooked it .They burn the oil until it becomes black .They use unhealthy ways to cook food and not fresh vegetables and ingredients. Scientist once said that burning oil or fat is the main reason for many kinds of cancer.

The most important thing is, people thought for a long time that animals are treated with healthy ways in factory farming.  They used to live-in healthy and sunny areas. What people don’t know is that animals are living in a very unhealthy environment. They put them in overcrowded facilities. So they cannot even breathe.  The animals expose to a lot of massive pollution .This is called animal’s cruelty. This is how we got our food from.If we saw what is happening in these farms, we will never be happy when we eat this meat .

By the end, we have to think hundred times, when we bring our children to fast food restaurants. We have to protect them from obesity and massive diseases. We have to take the responsibility and protect them from junk food . kids and youth have to know about the dengerous of fast food on their health. If they know about it ,They will decide not to go eat at these restaurant once again.

              

                

           

          

blog entry 14

                     The relationship between the matrix and the meatrix or food industry is very simple.It is money . Money plays a big role in the whole world.As long as technology is controlling the world. food industry also is controllling the world.The evidence for that a lot of big names for fast food restaurants  are controlling the world,like Mcdonald,Pizza hot and a lot of other famous names.Now people forgit about fresh food because they dont cook at home.They eat fast food all the time because they dont have time or they want to have easy life.They dont want to do more affort to cook.That is the reason why the big food industries or factrories took tha chance to let people spent more money on fast food.For example they have a big line for cooked food . The food that we can heat in the microwave for moments, then it will be ready. So that is why food industry is controlling the world.

blog entry 13

               What I want to discuss today, is a very interesting subject, which is how computers and technology are controlling our world. I agree with this opinion so much because this is happening to our lives today. Also, nowadays we see technology more often everywhere we go. Every day a new invention, new ideas, new machines take over. What I want to say is, even technology is good because we need it or is it bad because it’s destroying our lives. We have to know how and when we can get rid of it. In the movie the matrix, the main character Neo discovered that the whole world is controlled by technology. When he choose to take the red pill .The fact is that the world is a small village now because technology is taking over, and this is the message from this movie   

            If we think and watch everything around us, we will see that everything runs by machines. Where ever you are, you will realize that computers are taking over. Everything is computerized and sometimes, they replace human workers by machines. Technology took over paper work. I don’t know if this is good or bad because we might lose information, if the technology went down. It’s faster. See the wide use of internet and social net works all over the world. It made everything very easy to us; even it’s faster than using the phone or the old methods to get information or services.

First, I want to talk about this significant idea which is machines are taking over the human beings. I know now that a lot of companies and factories replaced human beings or workers with robots and machines. So a lot of people lose their work because of machines. Also technology can make mistakes like the Toyota Company, because of the robots and machine there are a lot of mistakes among millions of cars and they called out these cars all over the world because they are dangerous on human life. So I think that not every technology is right. Sometimes we have to use our own hands to fix something or prepare something.

        Furthermore, everything is computerized all over the world especially in the United States because it’s a huge country and they use tons of technology and computers all over it. The most recent example for that is what we do in our class. Computers took over in education. My English class Eng 099 is a new experience for me because all of our work is done by internet. I love the experience because it has two faces, learning how to write and learning how to use the computer. Also I want to talk about the stock market. How the internet and computers are controlling the whole stock market field all over the world. One number can change the whole economy system of a country. For example the stock market in New York is amazing because of the hundreds of computer are controlling it. All of this is from one building in Wall Street.

       The most important thing I want to talk about is the big use of the social network all over. Kids, youth and adults are using the facebook. This issue is affecting me home with my kids. When facebook is there, there is no communication at home between me and my kids. All of the five or six senses, they have, they are on facebook. If I called anyone of them, no one will answer or even hear me. If I said anyone needs to eat, no one will answer. No homework is done because of facebook. No help in the house because of facebook. I hate facebook because it is destroying  the most important things between me and my kids   which are feelings to each other and care for each other. I am a student in college. All I see these days people looking in their cell phones. They don’t care about anything except their cell phones. They even don’t say hi to each other, which I hate. I hate losing communication between people. If we lost our feelings it will be the end between each other. We as humans don’t have computers inside of our brains. And this is what is happening nowadays. We have to look at this world after ten or twenty years. How this world is going to be- I feel so sorry for that.

        Also I want to say that using the internet and facebook change a lot of things around the world. For example because of facebook, a lot of regions in the Arab world collapsed. I don’t know if it was good or bad but it happened form technology and how it will happen after.

        By the end of this essay all I want to say is that we can’t give up technology or computers, or the internet but we can reduce using them, we have to find a way so we can feel each other, know each other and communicate with each other. We can use technology but at the same time we have to believe that we can do it with our brains and can’t let technology control it. We have to break the chains like Truman and Neo, and the prisoner in the allegory of the cave.