Blog 10

I personally believe that humans will not become subsidiary to a new race of genetically enhanced humans as seen in the movie "Gattaca" and also as we read in the excerpt from the book.  I believe that there will be a group considered to be the other, but i think that concept will be a vice a versa type of thing.  I say that because either group of people is of course going to consider the other group to be the opposition and each group will consider each other to be a negative when you really look at it,  the people who will be genetically enhanced would technically have a considerable advantage over anyone who wasn't made through a test tube.
          I personally don't have a problem if this were actually to become the casein the United States because I think there are so many opportunities that people would still be able to thrive and succeed in the economy.  I only think this would be a problem in the Sport's world.  I say that because there would be a huge argument between critics whether there should be genetically enhanced players in the arena of sports, like would it tarnish the records of former players who did it off pure skill and talents and not being made to play the game.

Blog 9

The basic idea of the movie Hero was about a man named Bernie Laplante whom committed a heroic act under the pre tenses of not doing good, but just merely seeing, an image of his son in a struggling child. Which led him to realize that his life of crime would tear him away from his child and he saw this as a time to sort of gain retribution for his own transgressions, as to not remove another child from their father.    The movie Hero had a lot of central ideas and theme points in which to touch on in this paper, but the theme in which I choose to engage you in is “Everybody’s a Hero”.  Do you think that’s true?  I damn sure don’t.  How can anyone really be a true hero if they sin?  A hero in my eyes must be sinless and pure of mind and thoughts, words and actions.  Neither Bernie nor John Bubber the man who assumed his position was any of the above. 

                Everyone simply can’t be a hero; it just wouldn’t work in the grand scheme of things.  If everyone had the qualities of hero’s there would be no crime, there would be no social unrest, there would be no chaos, without chaos there is confusion and just pure social imbalance, which is no good for anyone in this Monopoly day and age. In the movie Hero my point is clearly demonstrated when Bernie Laplante, while in the act of saving lives on the burning plane he stole someone’s wallet.  Where’s the heroism in that?   So you may be sitting there thinking well what about our local police officials and firemen aren’t they heroes? Hell NO.  How could anyone sit here and possibly justify to me what these men and women do in their spare times.  It’s impossible; my grandmother always told me “     Look out for the Devil in Church Clothes”.  Which simply means the purest of people and the wholesome of people can still have the power to do evil, no matter how they perceive themselves to the rest of the world.

                After all this you must be thinking I have really high, Like Superman high type standards for my hero’s.  And you are absolutely right, I do.  My heroes are best left kept in the comic books where they belong.  There are people out here who do good things every day, don’t get me wrong but, these people have common “HUMAN” fumbles, which we all do, but to hold them to a standard like a hero is ludicrous. For example in the movie, the director tried too per sway the viewer to feel some sort of, honor for John Bubber even though he lied and assumed a position that wasn’t rightfully his.  The phrase “we can all be heroes” is more like a motivating mantra that people say to get themselves pumped for a horrible day.  If we could all be heroes I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be writing this or you reading it.  I think we all have the power to do great and influential things, but hero NO, let’s just all save that for the professionals.

                Another reason why I disagree with the notion that everyone can be a hero is that, like me with my opinion of a hero, I doubt a lot of people in the world are juxtaposed with me on that.  I like to think everyone shares some type of agreement on things but, separately in the thought process, but to think that everyone agrees with me is wrong.  That’s why opinions of hero’s vary, like my previous example with the police officers, some people may beg to differ and believe that they are hero’s or some people may think that there neighbor is a hero for turning off the oven because they left it on.  Some people may consider mail men to be hero’s because they always deliver that check on time.  I personally think none of us are heroes but just pure mortals who try to emulate. 

Blog 7

Blog 7

My topic is Walt Disney

1.       Walt Disney Contributed to Mass Communications in many ways for one his many creations in animated art.

2.       Another contribution to Mass communications would be the building of his Theme parks which are located around the World.

3.       Another contribution would be his assets which he has allocated in his life and after his life to certain funds and organizations throughout the world.

4.       Another contribution would have to be his, time transcending characters that are still known throughout households today.

5.       Another contribution would be his message that he provided to his audience and the number of TV shows in which he produced that we can still see today.

6.       Another contribution would be his outlook on life which was reflected through some of his characters for example Donald Duck.

Bibliography

1.Disney, Walt. "disney.go." www.disney.go.com. Disney, 10/20/2010. Web. 19 Oct 2010. <http://disney.go.com/index>.

2. Toschi, Angelique. "Angelique Toschi." Disneyization. Word Press, 04/27/2009. Web. 19 Oct 2010.

3. Disney, Walt, Adapt. Walt Disney The Man Behind The Myth DVD. Dir. Jean-Pierre Isbouts ." Perf. Walt , Disney. Documentary Films: 03/02/2004, DVD.

4. Disney, Walt. USC Speech. USC. California, Southern California. 1958. Address.

Blog 8 Follow-Up

Blog 8 Follow up

The Other Group

                There was a specific time when I was considered the “ Other”,  but it was a very blatant situation.  I remember when I was a little younger  my mom made me go to a camp for the summer upstate New York.  I was considered to be the other due to the fact that I was the only person of color in my group at the camp.  It was weird for me at first because it all seemed because they were of Caucasian decent we really had nothing in common and also because they were from upstate and I from the city also proved to make a lot more differences in how they saw me.  After being ostracized for a while I came to the realization that we were different and there was no getting around it, so I had to suck it up and revel in the fact that I was different from everyone else and I made it through.

Blog 8

Blog 8

The Other Group

                The other group for me would be people who aren’t realists. I say this because I am not an optimistic person in the face of inevitable defeat.  For example like the type of people who think they can succeed even though their failure is imminent.   I strongly feel such opposition to this “other” because I feel like they are living in a false world where failures aren’t real and they think people can have happy endings and as life has shown for many of people, this is not how it works.  I feel that people should have a positive look on things, but more so for attainable things, not trying to overshoot themselves with positive energy just to get pumped up for a failure.  Coming from experience and actually working on projects with these types of people it is very difficult; I say this because you and both the other person have two very conflicting ideas about life and the situation at hand.  The other person may consider an unattainable task to be attainable, but you may know that no matter how hard you work it is impossible, so you are stuck in a position to either waste your time with this person for their sheer benefit of positive thinking, or you can just call it a quits and cut your losses because you have fully assessed the situation and realized that it was impossible to overcome, either way someone has to end up upset or wrong.