Hello ppls, This class has been fun, even though I didn't really participate I enjoyed watching and listening your ideas in class. Hopefully everyone is doing well their portfolios... Here is mine:
http://itzdavid0h.angelfire.com/
You'll have to use Internet Explore because firefox doesn't seem to work good as IE...
Here's some funny videos if you guys are taking a break and reading the blogs. ENJOY!
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Last day of class
hey people since tomorow is the last day of class i thought it would be fun if i posted something fun. I really like being in this class and i have come to consider all my class mates (even Sam) like friends u are all good people, I hope when we see each other on campus we dont turn our faces the other way i hope you guys wont be like oh hell naw here comes this mutha fucka over thurr. another thing is i was wondering that is the teach gonna let us stay in the blog or is he gonna kick us out i dont know about u guys i think it would be kool if we could keep in touch with each other in here,that would be cool. Ok I thought this was funny comment back if you guys no anything is this message Maxwell dont get mad at me for posting this.
if you're under the age of 13...you shouldn't even read this
and if you do, you should not re post this.
Just because you were born in '95 doesn't mean you're a 90's kid.
It's not like you could remember the original Simpson's. I am sorry but a few conscious years of the 90's just wont cut it.
You're a 90's kid if:
You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ]
You remember watching:
-Doug
-Ren & Stimpy
-Pinky and the Brain
-AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
-Rockos modern Life.
-Gargoils
You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
You just cant resist finishing this . . . "iiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised . . ."
You remember:
-LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE!!!
-Step by Step
-Family Matters!!!
-Dinosaurs
-Boy Meets World!!!!
-Wild and Crazy Kids
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
You remember reading "Goosebumps"
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence . . . not
when everyhting was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.
-skunk in the barn yard
-ms. mary mack
when cops and robbers was a daily activity.
when we played Hide and go seek until our legs grew numb.
when we used to obey our parents
You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time.
"Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" was both a game and a TV game show.
Captain Planet. He's a Hero.
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.
You remember when Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis became popular.
You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything funny.
You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 . . . and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"
You remember watching:
-The Magic School Bus
-Wishbone
-Reading Rainbow
-and Ghostwriter on PBS
You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.
You remember those Where's Waldo books.
You remember eating Warheads.
You remember watching:
-the 1st Batman
-Aladdin
-Ninja Turtles
-Animporphs
-ghost busters
you remember watching...
-my little pony tails
-care bears
-tail spin
-goof troop
-chip n' dail rescue rangers
You remember Ring Pops.
You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.
If you remember when every thing was "da BOMB!"
When they made the new lunch ables so that you could make pizza AND tacos.
You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.
Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your life with them.
You played and/or collected "Pogs" :)
You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.
one word. . . . . . . . Furbies.
You haven't always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.
And Windows 95 was the best.
You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.
Michael Jordan was a king.
YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff!
All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.
You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out
You collected those Beanie Babies.
Carebears
Gak was the coolest stuff invented.
Lambchop's song never ended.
The old dollar bills.
Silver dollars, which were cool to have.
Everyone watched the WB and yelled at people who interupred them.
You collected all the Troll dolls
If you even know what an original walkman is.
You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.
You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
You know the Macarena by heart.
"Talk to the hand" . . . enough said
You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"
You went to McDonald's to play in the playplace.
You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.
Before the MySpace frenzy . . .
Before the Internet & text messaging . . .
Before Sidekicks & iPods . . .
Before MIKE JONES . . .
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . .
Before Spongebob . . .
Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.
When light up sneakers were cool.
When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.
When we recorded
stuff on VCRs.
When we called the radio station to request songs for our bestfriends.
When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish from the library was THE cool thing to do.
You had slap bracelets!
Way back. when miss matched socks were cool.
Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.
Who would have thought you'd miss the 90's so much!!!!!
Post this in your bulletin if you remember these days . . . .
Post with the year you were born and comment on what u think.
if you're under the age of 13...you shouldn't even read this
and if you do, you should not re post this.
Just because you were born in '95 doesn't mean you're a 90's kid.
It's not like you could remember the original Simpson's. I am sorry but a few conscious years of the 90's just wont cut it.
You're a 90's kid if:
You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ]
You remember watching:
-Doug
-Ren & Stimpy
-Pinky and the Brain
-AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
-Rockos modern Life.
-Gargoils
You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
You just cant resist finishing this . . . "iiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised . . ."
You remember:
-LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE!!!
-Step by Step
-Family Matters!!!
-Dinosaurs
-Boy Meets World!!!!
-Wild and Crazy Kids
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
You remember reading "Goosebumps"
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence . . . not
when everyhting was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.
-skunk in the barn yard
-ms. mary mack
when cops and robbers was a daily activity.
when we played Hide and go seek until our legs grew numb.
when we used to obey our parents
You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time.
"Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" was both a game and a TV game show.
Captain Planet. He's a Hero.
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.
You remember when Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis became popular.
You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything funny.
You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 . . . and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"
You remember watching:
-The Magic School Bus
-Wishbone
-Reading Rainbow
-and Ghostwriter on PBS
You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.
You remember those Where's Waldo books.
You remember eating Warheads.
You remember watching:
-the 1st Batman
-Aladdin
-Ninja Turtles
-Animporphs
-ghost busters
you remember watching...
-my little pony tails
-care bears
-tail spin
-goof troop
-chip n' dail rescue rangers
You remember Ring Pops.
You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.
If you remember when every thing was "da BOMB!"
When they made the new lunch ables so that you could make pizza AND tacos.
You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.
Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your life with them.
You played and/or collected "Pogs" :)
You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.
one word. . . . . . . . Furbies.
You haven't always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.
And Windows 95 was the best.
You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.
Michael Jordan was a king.
YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff!
All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.
You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out
You collected those Beanie Babies.
Carebears
Gak was the coolest stuff invented.
Lambchop's song never ended.
The old dollar bills.
Silver dollars, which were cool to have.
Everyone watched the WB and yelled at people who interupred them.
You collected all the Troll dolls
If you even know what an original walkman is.
You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.
You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
You know the Macarena by heart.
"Talk to the hand" . . . enough said
You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"
You went to McDonald's to play in the playplace.
You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.
Before the MySpace frenzy . . .
Before the Internet & text messaging . . .
Before Sidekicks & iPods . . .
Before MIKE JONES . . .
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . .
Before Spongebob . . .
Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.
When light up sneakers were cool.
When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.
When we recorded
stuff on VCRs.
When we called the radio station to request songs for our bestfriends.
When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish from the library was THE cool thing to do.
You had slap bracelets!
Way back. when miss matched socks were cool.
Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.
Who would have thought you'd miss the 90's so much!!!!!
Post this in your bulletin if you remember these days . . . .
Post with the year you were born and comment on what u think.
Done!
Hey guys, hopefully everyone is doing well with their portfolios and essays. I am pretty much finished with my portfolio, and maybe some of you guys can use it for some ideas.
http://changesabound.googlepages.com/
Anyways, class has been fun, I am pretty excited about this class party. Sorry Tim, this post has very little substance.
http://changesabound.googlepages.com/
Anyways, class has been fun, I am pretty excited about this class party. Sorry Tim, this post has very little substance.
Our group's website...
ok so here is our website we made last night at 3am for the media monitoring project.
www.xanga.com/koreanhostagegroup
back to studying for psychology final/essaying for psychology/finishing eportfolio and essay 4.
should be a fun night for me.
www.xanga.com/koreanhostagegroup
back to studying for psychology final/essaying for psychology/finishing eportfolio and essay 4.
should be a fun night for me.
Torture
During the debate, I was originally on the side FOR torture, so arguing against it was a bit challenging. I think that any normal person would naturally be against torture, but in this case and after reading Levin's essay, I chose to support it becauseI am all for protecting humanity. Torture as we see depicted in films is quite negative; innocent people are forced to endure pain that is inflicted to them by someone who has no compassion or interest for an individual. That type of torture is demonic and evil. However, torturing someone for the sake of saving millions of lives is more than acceptable. A person who wants to deliberately kill millions of people obviously will find no remorse in their actions. Instead, they would view that act as an accomplishment...which is sickening. Torturing someone is certainly inhumane and unethical, but mass murder is far more disturbing.
Media Monitoring
Through this media monitoring exercise I realized just why the news adds all of the extra pictures and "fluff" to their articles. It was through my boredom of the analyzed news articles that brought me to this realization. It was very helpful to know about all of these current events, but I really could not help be bored with every subject. I really felt brainwashed!... Like all the news that I listen to, I only listen to BECAUSE of the fluff and pictures. It's scary that so much can be overlooked when just quickly reading the news... it seems that they always leave important information out of the articles.
KOREAN HOSTAGES
I don't think this people deserve wat they got after all the hard work they put in to helping iraq. They were just trying to help the children and women. Rest in peace for those that lost there lives trying to help and i feel sorry for all those sick minded people who harm for pleasure.
My perspective of torture
Torture is one of the forms of punishment that many people find hard to accept because of how graphic and cruel it is. Most people are against it also because of the recent incidents in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. It is true that in those locations, humanity was really taken to the edge. We are shocked by the images we see, and we quickly come to the conclusion that torture is unacceptable. No one has ever heard of a torture that has turned out well. However, I believe that most torture is done in secret by organizations such as the CIA, etc. We don’t know how much useful information the government has being able to obtain from prisoner torture, because those are considered as top secret. No one is going to reveal the fact that the world was somehow saved by torture. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prison torture was leaked out because several individual soldiers thought the act was “entertaining”. Are we to block out the possibility of torture just because of the actions of several unlawful individuals? People must step out of that sphere of discomfortness of torture and look at the bigger picture. We have all heard about individuals who heroically sacrificed themselves for the greater cause. This is the same idea. If we can prevent the lose of thousands or even just ten people then its worth it. Someone brought up the movie Private Ryan during the discussions and I know that it was a fiction but in the plot eight men risk their lives to save the life of a single soldier who’s mother has already lost three of her sons in the war. You ask yourself this question, were the lives of one man worth the lives of eight other individuals? Another example is the dropping of the two atomic bombs in Japan during World War II. The destructions of these two bombs killed hundreds and thousands of innocent Japanese civilians. But why was it dropped? Because there was the “possibility” of Japan surrendering if enough destruction was caused, and it would save the lives of a lot of Allied troops which was about to invade mainland Japan. I understand the argument that some of you guys making about innocently torturing people and not obtaining any useful information. The government is very corrupt I understand but they don’t go out and just torture random individuals. These are tortures done after intensive amount of investigation of the person. There are times when mistakes are made, but sometimes its worth it if you look at the great benefits if it does succeed.
Please rebut me. Thanks.
Big Brother, the us edition
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/04/fisa.upgrade.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch
please read this article. its about how president bush is pushing the house to follow the senate to allow the eavesdropping of foreigners by monitering their communication routed through US networks and websites. The only thing slowing it down is the Supreme Court who wants to make sure US citizens are "protected" from this eavesdropping. So torture might be the next step in our government trying to police the world. maybe soon we can get the first newspeak dictionaries.
please read this article. its about how president bush is pushing the house to follow the senate to allow the eavesdropping of foreigners by monitering their communication routed through US networks and websites. The only thing slowing it down is the Supreme Court who wants to make sure US citizens are "protected" from this eavesdropping. So torture might be the next step in our government trying to police the world. maybe soon we can get the first newspeak dictionaries.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Torture is Wrong
Emily commented the video that David posted by saying that people like the guy in the video should be tortured and rapped as punishment because he had no valid reason to be doing what he did, he only did it for sport. However torture should not be practice for any reason, even if it serves as punishment because it is just as wrong. We consider that this guy has no right to have tortured and rapped people therefore what or gives us the right to do to him what we consider to be wrong. If we perform torture even for punishment then we contradict our belief that it is wrong and therefore say that it is Ok. I think the reason why people resort to torture is because it is the easiest option available, I mean what you do to the other person does not damage you in any way so why not do it right. But no, even though with out torture we have a very limited amount of options with which to punish who we think deserve a punishment, we stay away from torture because no matter from what side you look at it, it is still wrong.
Think for yourself....
It's ironic, of course. Thinking for yourself about...thinking for yourself. Do you? Can you? What even does it mean to?
This is really a matter of degree. How much control do you give to others to make decisions for you? Think about this in your political decision-making, your buying decision-making, and even your most basic choices, such as whether you sit in in the front of the room or in the back. If you do sit in the back, who has made that decision? You or someone or something else?
In the civil rights era, recall that Rosa Parks heroically refused to take a seat at the back of the bus as Negroes were supposed to and became a hero and a symbol of what it takes to stand up against oppression. Why would you choose to take the seat in back if it symbolized oppression?
Think for yourself before someone else thinks for you.
As an American with the means and the wherewithal to be attending college, you have about as much freedom as anyone in the world; yet how much of that freedom do you yield to others who, while more than happy to make your decisions for you, are very unlikely to make them in your best interest but rather in theirs?
These are the fundamental questions of this course, and they are the ones you need to be asking yourself as a member of a democracy, which currently, as it as since its inception, been threatened by forces both within and without. They are also the questions you need to be asking yourself and finding answers for within yourself and in the content of this course as you write this essay.
Your freedom to think for yourself is not something you should take for granted. In fact, if you look into you may never have thought for yourself before.
This is really a matter of degree. How much control do you give to others to make decisions for you? Think about this in your political decision-making, your buying decision-making, and even your most basic choices, such as whether you sit in in the front of the room or in the back. If you do sit in the back, who has made that decision? You or someone or something else?
In the civil rights era, recall that Rosa Parks heroically refused to take a seat at the back of the bus as Negroes were supposed to and became a hero and a symbol of what it takes to stand up against oppression. Why would you choose to take the seat in back if it symbolized oppression?
Think for yourself before someone else thinks for you.
As an American with the means and the wherewithal to be attending college, you have about as much freedom as anyone in the world; yet how much of that freedom do you yield to others who, while more than happy to make your decisions for you, are very unlikely to make them in your best interest but rather in theirs?
These are the fundamental questions of this course, and they are the ones you need to be asking yourself as a member of a democracy, which currently, as it as since its inception, been threatened by forces both within and without. They are also the questions you need to be asking yourself and finding answers for within yourself and in the content of this course as you write this essay.
Your freedom to think for yourself is not something you should take for granted. In fact, if you look into you may never have thought for yourself before.
When we had to pick sides in class I wasn’t expecting Mr. Maxwell to change the rolls. That help me to be able and make me see it in another other way. I chose the side were I didn’t believe torture should be acceptable but and the end I think it should be but only to those who have harmed others. Also those who know something that can save hundreds of people.
Think for yourself
Is it just me or is this the the toughest essay prompt ever?! I have seen the central argument of the course since the first day ("THINK FOR YOURSELF OR OTHERS WILL THINK FOR YOU") but I never took the time to understand the meaning of it. In that context what does "think" mean? Opinions? Acts? I know we went over this essay for an hour in class today, but I still don't get it. I remember one person said we don't think for ourselves because we are manipulated by media and advertisements, but manipulated to do what? To buy things? Make decisions that are not in our best interest? Feel free to help me out, I need it.
Problem Solving
I know we were talking about problem solving, and how in many debates, when one side senses they are losing, they begin attacking others. Well this is an extreme example, but check out the Taiwanese legislature. And we thought our system of filibusters was bad...
Torture
This reporter says that Bush did all he could to stop people from seeing images of the Abu Ghraib torture and it is sickening to know that he would only do so to protect the image of the country. What these soldiers did is very wrong and instead of hiding it, he should confront the issue. I just found out about this incident this quarter and when I saw it I was speechless, and I still don't know what to make of it because that's how bad it is.
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