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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Blog 10: Hero and anti-hero in the movie Hero

A hero is some one who  performs great tasks for others, tasks like  savior; noble; courage in face of danger; self-less; cares for greater good of humanity; honest; simple; self-sacrifice; near-perfect and in the movies both Bernie LaPlante and John Bubber . John bubber saved people at the Vietnam war and Bernie LaPlante saved people from the burning air plane
And i also thing that both of them are anti-Hero because they also  contrary, opposite of hero; flawed; complex; tormented; rejects tradition and conventions; gray areas, sometimes unethical; imperfect.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Blog 9:practice test 1

   The passage is talking about the in and out state tuition rates of legal and illegal students at the illinois colleges and universities. A vote of 112-4 at the illinois house which recently made them to pass a bill that allows young people in the us illegally to pay in-state tuition rate at the college, and this shouldn't have been an easy vote. The difference between the in-state and the out-of-state rate is about $8,604, and the people would'nt want to see any able student deprived of a good education but neither should they deprive their citizens from their rights. They a consined because of the fact that this people have no legal right to be present in the country but be entitled to a very expensive and valuable benefit of citizenship is ridiculous. And when the matter is agured the fact still remains that their parents pay tax here.The idea that i think is most significant is that the difference is between $5,302, the current in-state rate, and $13,903, the out-of-state rate.
    As the author said ''no one wants to see any able student deprived of a good higher education''. that means that if illegal immigrants can't afford to pay this out-of-state tution fee, they there for have no choice but to drop out from the school, mean while considering the fact that both legal and illegel parents pay taxes here, therefor benefiting to the economy.for instance i have a cousin who is currently attending the new york university, who latter on transfered to a two year college because the out-fo-state tution rate was very high for him and his family to afford, i also also have another cousin back home in Nigeria who got accepted in one of the university in dallas and couldn't come because they also couldn't afford it. And for me presently in the states paying taxs but still paying the out of state tution which is two times more than the in-state fee, i have to try to work hard to see if i could get a scholarship or something, so that i can take a little burden of my parents and keep on pursuing my dreams.
     For most student the out-of-state tution fee is a very big obstacle that hinder them from achiving their goal as a student, and i hope that i could be reduced to an acceptable and affordable rate.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

blog 8

    In "The Red Pill or The Blue Pill Is Ignorance Bliss?" Christine Cornell and Patrick Malcomson where trying to relate the similaritys between the movie and common characters like Neo from the film The Matrix and Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. there related The red pill or the blue pill in The Matrix and the drink and the cake in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland because in both movies the taking of the pill and the eating of the cake but make them see the truth,or make them get to the other side of the world.contequently but movie are also similary because both neo and alice wanted to see how deep the rabit hole goes.
    both movie brought us to the " The Allegory of The Cave'" by Socrates in Plato book The Republic, because for neo, when he found out the turth, he couldnt belive, his eyes hurt and he became sick, and as time passed on he began to get used to it.