Blog 5:“Historical and Personal Illusions.”

I used to live in a cave, my cave was my country in Caribbean  called Dominican Republic.
Before I moved to NYC at the age of 7, I used to believe that New York was the best state ever. I thought that in New York the streets were made of gold, and everyone here was rich, there was a lot of food and everything was free in my head, no one ever had to pay for anything or do anymore work. In my country there was a lot of poor people and  a lot of people starving for food. I guess everyone in New York never starved for food and always had money with them. My family that lives in the Dominican Republic always kept telling "Oh when you move the New York you wont have to do anymore work, you wont ever be hungry, you can always eat whatever you want and your going to grow up to be so big." Since they kept saying that to me I believed it. Once the plane landed and I saw what New York was really like I was in shock, I never thought that something that I thought was so magical,in the end it was completely opposite to what I had in my head.
I believe that if you do your work ahead of time you will do best.
I used to believe that my parents would never age and that they won't ever ever die and I would stay little forever.
I believe in karma, that if you do something bad now later on you'll end up paying for it.
I believe that hard work get you the best.
I used to believe that if I wished for something to happen really badly, it would.
I used to believe that adults never lied to kids.
I used to believe that kids actually came in a stork.
Many people believe that if you are always nice to someone that they will be nice back or that if you respect your elders they will respect you back. I don't believe in that because not everyone in the world is nice, even if you are nice to them they will still be mean to you and even if u respect them they will disrespect you in many ways. For example I always respected the elders and I never said anything rude to them, but one day I was in the bus with my friends and it was really crowded. I had to stay in the front when this old lady came on the bus, I was kind of annoyed because she kept leaning on me, so I kindly asked her to please scoot over because her jacket was itching me(It literally was) and she didn't move. She just ignored me, so I end up asking her again because at the same time she was heavy and was starting to hurt me, so I kindly ask her again can she move over or let me move over, so when it was my time to get of the bus I pushed her out my way and said a lot of not so kind of words to her because she kept ignoring me, she said a lot of   inappropriate words to me. This is an example of how even though you respect your elders and you try to be nice to them they end up disrespecting you and being not so nice back.

Blog 4: The Allegory of the Cave Summary

 The story will check to see if humans know the truth about the world. There are humans kept chained in a cave. They believed in images that passed by created by the sun behind them, that they called the fire. All day long they would gaze at the shadows and believe that the shadows talked back because of the echo created. A prisoner freed was hurt by the sunlight; it took him time to slowly get adjusted to the light. He then learns how the real world and wants to share it with his friends. They reject him because he no longer sees the world the way they do. This tale is an allegory of how damaging awareness is.

Blog 3: Revise the Diagnostic

According to the essay "Hype" by Kallen Lasn, it states that advertisement have been rising little by little,

Ads are not limited to the typical places anymore like buses, billboards, stadiums. Kalle Lasn also says that there is nowhere to run from the ads because they stick with you due to the fact that there is so many appearing in the media.

Billions of ads are displayed everyday, ads have become part of our daily lives. Everywhere we go there's and ad, every channel on the TV advertises something. Ads can be seen anywhere from buses to train to billboards to stadiums. I believe that advertisement is negative because its taking over and no one seems to mind it. In the passage "Hype" excerpted from Kallen Lasn It states that "Advertisement are the most prevalent and toxic of all the metal pollutants".
  Carlos is a college student who is very crammed with school with essays. Carlos was behind on two essay and was planning of finishing one that was due the next day. Carlos went to check his email and there was an advertisement of some sneakers that he wanted at a cheaper price, Carlos clicked it and forgot about the essay because he kept scrolling for thing he didn't need. Carlos ended up failing the class because of all his late work.
 I was watching the TV and this commercial about the Muppets came on, I thought the commercial was really cool, it had a very catchy song that I kept humming to. As the day progressed the Muppets commercial kept coming on and playing that same song over and over again. The commercial that I once thought was cool turned into a living nightmare, the Muppet's song just kept repeating itself over and over again in my head and I couldn't seem to get it out. I decided to stop watching TV for the rest of the day because everywhere I went it seemed like that commercial was on. It took me about a day to get the song out of my head, but sometimes when I'm alone I can still hear that Muppet singing "Am I man or a puppet".
Ads are everywhere from Google to Facebook to Hotmail. I don't think that people should stop advertisement, I just think that they should limit them to less ads per day.

Blog 2:Summary of Hype

According to the essay "Hype" by Kallen Lasn, it states that advertisement have been rising little by little,

Ads are not limited to the typical places anymore like buses, billboards, stadiums. Kalle Lasn also says that there is nowhere to run from the ads because they stick with you due to the fact that there is so many appearing in the media.

Blog 1: Diagnostic

Billions of ads are displayed everyday, ads have become part of our daily lives. Everywhere we go theres and ad, every channel on the TV advertises something. Ads can be seen anywhere from buses to train to billboards to stadiums. I believe that advertisement is negative because its taking over and no one seems to mind it. In the passage "Hype excerpted from Kallen Lasn" It startes that " Advertisement are the most prevalent and toxic of all the metal pollutants".
Calos is a college stdent who is very cramed with school with essays. Calos was behinde on two essay and was planning of finishing one that was due the next day. Carlos went to check his email and there was an advertisement of some sneakers that he wanted at a cheaper price, calors clicked it and forgot about the essay because he kept scrolling for thing he didn't need. Carlos ended up failing the class because of all his late work.
Maria works with an advertisement company, and she has to see millions of advertisements everyday. Maria was getting sick of all the ads that she had to see everyday and decided to take a break from themby going to the country side. To was many ads there too. Maia was very annoyed at the gack that she couldn't relax like she wanted because of all the ads.
Ads are everywhere from google to facebook to hotmail. I dont think that people should stop advertisement, I just think that they should limit them to less ads per day.