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.

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.

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.
   

Blog 7: The Heroic Choices in The Matrix

The Choices that neo made
1- he had to choose from the red or the blue pill.

2-he had a choice to stay as a computer hacker or to work in one of the best software company

3-he had a choice to pull out the plug from morphous or to save him

4-he had the choice to teleport his self back to the ship or to stay and fight the agent

5- he had the choice to let trinity die in the helecopter or to save her

6- he had the choice to beleave what the oracle said or not.

 

Some of the important  choices that show he is the hero of the story

 -he had to choose from the red or the blue pill.

he had a choice: To take the blue pill and stay in his current
existence or take the red pill and see "how far down the rabbit hole
goes". 

-he had a choice to pull out the plug from morphous or to save him. in that scene, he showed the ture qualitys of a hero he decided to die trying to save morphous than to watch him die, because morphous sacrificed himself for them.

 -he had the choice to teleport his self back to the ship or to stay and fight the agent, in this scene he also showed som quality of a hero,he showed courage the ability to face his fears.

-he had the choice to let trinity die in the helecopter or to save her,he show the spirte of determination and never give up.

i know the thruth, so don't bother me with facts

     The article i know the thruth but don't bother me with facts was talking about about how people belive in what they want based on what they see, heard,or read. even if the fact or the actual truth is been revealed to them. like in the case of aluminum foil hat,and the presidents birth place. the author also talked about how easy it is to manipulate people's belief systems with insinuating pictures or inflammatory quotes, like the controverse of building a 13-story islamic cultural center planned  at ground zero, which does not consist of only a mosque but other recrational and educational facilities. consequently a research was carried out in ohio state university where 750 people who reported being familiar and believing at least one of the rumors about the proposed center, and 28% rejected the rumors, while 35% acknowledged that there where some truth in the information after giving them full, written rebuttals of the rumors i.e (the facts).
    the world today is fill with many wrong information, and people beleave what ever they want to, base on where their form,what they grow up with and their religious belives, and no matter how you try to convince them, they ignore facts because they beleave its not true.

Blog 4-The Allegory of the Cave

    

    In the book the allegory of the cave by Plato, the author was talking about how people lived in an illusion. Plato describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to the author, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. and when one of the prisoners was set free to have a view of reality, he now realize that he was living in a false life all through his life .So he went back to the cave to change his fellow prisoners view of life, But they all disagree with him and said that he has lost his sight, and he will be sentenced to death. The author then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.

''HYPE''

      The article hype is basically talking about the mental pollution, and it gave advertisement as the most prevalant and toxic of the mental pollutant. because all through our day to day activities we come across with several different ad or listen to different ads expecially in north america. you find ad every where you go, from your house to school, to super markets, even on your way back home ,in buses and bill boards.and ranging from 12 billion display ads, 3 million radio commercials and more than 200,000 tv commercial ad is been dumped in north america every day.  i can not be avoided so i becomes part of us.As the author said ''in the silent moments of my life,i often used to hear beethoven's ninth symphony play in my head''.what matters most ot me is that  every day an estimated 12billion display ads,3million radio commercials, and more than 200,000 tv commercial are dumped into north america's collective unconscious.
     As the economy grows, different company finds different ways to make their products known to the world. so they conduct research to find out what to do to their ads of where to put it in order for their costumers to see it or for them to beat other competitors. by doing that they dump millions of ads in the society forgeting about its effects and mental pollution. today you find ads in the internet, mobile phones, news papers, etc. and many research has identefie ads asthe most prevalent and toxic.Capitalist marketing and advertising has polluted our minds and environment from outdoor signs to TV commercials. Now, it pollutes the Internet with all sorts of new attempts at promotion. because they think that we need ads to get and find the information, products and services we need. we prefer to use sites like DMOZ.org which is free from different promotions or advertisement.
     according to what i have read in this article and on my research, i thing that the goverment should creat a policy that prevent the multiple dumping of advertisements, and find a way to reduce the rate of radio and tv ads.