In this class I face problems with language which is actually second language for me. I have a chance to practice it, make a progress and learn new words, what is very important for me in my carrier. I think that I'm not that bad in grammar, my worse side is probably using more specific words. I expect that after semester in this class I will be able to pas CAT-W without problems. I don't like too much to write essays about something. Usually I prefer to talk about something and discuss it during conversation than write it down.
CAT-W practice was not that difficult as I expected but anyway it wasn't a easy one for sure.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Blog Entry 6: Review Socrates' and Plato's Allegory
When I was a child I always believed in that the life of adult people is more fun then mine. According to the "Allegory in a Cave" by Plato I can say that be a child is like being a chained person.
I used to believe that life on my own will be much easier for me because I will decide about everything I want, I will spent my money in the way I would like, and nobody will tell me what I have to do in my life, what is bad or good way of behavior in life. I always thought I will enjoy it a lot. I thought like a lot children that when they become adult than the rest of people will count with their opinions. I realized after years, when I finally become adult by age, that reality is much different than we thought before we discovered everything about that what we wanted. That what I used to believe was partly true. the problem is that I haven't think about how much responsibility I will have to afford in my life when I will be adult. As a child we usually think just about advantages, we don't take an option of problems which start in pair with some age.
When I used to go just to school, all I was worried about was how to get good grades and what will I do after classes will be done. On weekends I could do whatever I wanted. I used to go with friends to play basketball, we were going to ride on bikes or inline skates. During the nights we used to go on parties which were made for teenagers. I hadn't make any money than so all of it I usually took from parents. It wasn't too much but always enough on some fun. I knew it that I was dependent of my parents and that if I will argue with them too much than I won't get any money or I would get some penalty. I felt than like a person from Socrates' allegory because If somebody older didn't give me enough funds or didn't let me go somewhere than I wasn't able to do anything. I felt than closed in my house like a person chained to the rocks in allegory.
Adult life is a little bit different than I used to imagine that as a child. I can do whatever I want to, but it usually goes with some responsibillity. I have to go every day to work. As we know money doesn't give happiness but we need it anyway to pay rent, bills, school, and everyday expenses. That is the part which can be compared to the allegory's prisoner who got out of his cave life and realized that the life outside is full of surprises, new things, which scared him. I like my life style even that is usually in hurry. I always have a time after my job and school to enjoy it. Weeks are sometimes hard but I find a time to rest during the weekend.
I have a moments in my life when I would like to come back to my "cave" - childhood. That happen mostly because new bad experiences in my life. I good know it is not possible anymore, but anyway it is not what I really want to. I think that the problem is sometimes people expect more from life than they can have. We have to accept many things and the true is that we can't come back to some moments the same like prisoner in Socrates story. People should look forward and do not think about what could happen if they would be back to the biginnings.
I used to believe that life on my own will be much easier for me because I will decide about everything I want, I will spent my money in the way I would like, and nobody will tell me what I have to do in my life, what is bad or good way of behavior in life. I always thought I will enjoy it a lot. I thought like a lot children that when they become adult than the rest of people will count with their opinions. I realized after years, when I finally become adult by age, that reality is much different than we thought before we discovered everything about that what we wanted. That what I used to believe was partly true. the problem is that I haven't think about how much responsibility I will have to afford in my life when I will be adult. As a child we usually think just about advantages, we don't take an option of problems which start in pair with some age.
When I used to go just to school, all I was worried about was how to get good grades and what will I do after classes will be done. On weekends I could do whatever I wanted. I used to go with friends to play basketball, we were going to ride on bikes or inline skates. During the nights we used to go on parties which were made for teenagers. I hadn't make any money than so all of it I usually took from parents. It wasn't too much but always enough on some fun. I knew it that I was dependent of my parents and that if I will argue with them too much than I won't get any money or I would get some penalty. I felt than like a person from Socrates' allegory because If somebody older didn't give me enough funds or didn't let me go somewhere than I wasn't able to do anything. I felt than closed in my house like a person chained to the rocks in allegory.
Adult life is a little bit different than I used to imagine that as a child. I can do whatever I want to, but it usually goes with some responsibillity. I have to go every day to work. As we know money doesn't give happiness but we need it anyway to pay rent, bills, school, and everyday expenses. That is the part which can be compared to the allegory's prisoner who got out of his cave life and realized that the life outside is full of surprises, new things, which scared him. I like my life style even that is usually in hurry. I always have a time after my job and school to enjoy it. Weeks are sometimes hard but I find a time to rest during the weekend.
I have a moments in my life when I would like to come back to my "cave" - childhood. That happen mostly because new bad experiences in my life. I good know it is not possible anymore, but anyway it is not what I really want to. I think that the problem is sometimes people expect more from life than they can have. We have to accept many things and the true is that we can't come back to some moments the same like prisoner in Socrates story. People should look forward and do not think about what could happen if they would be back to the biginnings.
Blog Entry 5: Allegory of the Cave
In one of the famous Socrates parables - "The allegory of the Cave" we can find all the true about life. He shows us a picture of a prisoners who spent most of their life in the cave. The prisoners have their legs and neck chained in way to do not let them do any movements. They have on front of them huge wall which work for them like a screen. On the other side of the wall free people are passing along carring many different things. Prisoners have never hear what exact somebody on the other side was saying, they can just see a shape of people shadows. The rest stays just for their imagination. When finally prisoner is released and have a chance to get out of the cave, he is completely lost. On the beginning he can't afford that life. After while he is trying to get back to the cave, but it is already too late.
That allegory show us that people who once found something out can't back to their life anymore. Once we know something new than our life won't be the same again like before.In one of the famous Socrates parables - "The allegory of the Cave" we can find all the true about life. By showing us a picture of a prisoner
That allegory show us that people who once found something out can't back to their life anymore. Once we know something new than our life won't be the same again like before.In one of the famous Socrates parables - "The allegory of the Cave" we can find all the true about life. By showing us a picture of a prisoner
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Blog Entry 4: Hype Workshop
Nowadays people are in the middle of huge mass of advertisements called mental polution. That is the thing which we cannot control anymore. That is my agree with the author of "Hype".
Advertisements are the worst pollutions of our brains. We are attacked by them every single day in every place we go. They are no longer just in standard places as a billboards buses, stadiums. Now they are everywhere we are. It doesn’t matter if we go to the bank, gas station, or even sit in a classroom. They always company us. Nowadays interactive screens on supermarket carts show us ads while we shop. That means there are no more silent moment in our lives.
The article "Hype" by Kalle Lasn in Signs of Life in the USA: Reading on Popular Culture gives us example of the sample day of avarage american. Advertisements are part of every person's life. Everything starts on the morning after we woke up. Lot of advertisenents fill our brains just after we turn on TV, walk on the street , using public transportation, watching live sport game, go on a shopping or even when we use the gas station.
It does not matter in what direction we are looking - those eye catching billbords, leaflets, and all other advertisements are everywhere. More over they are not only visual, we can hear plenty of them in the radio or during visiting shopping mall.
The worst part of ads is that we have them all time around. We see them on the nozzle on gas stations, there are also on every ATM, as well as in school's classes. Sometimes we do not even pay attention on our habbits when we are waiting somewhere in line, we see ad and we just read it.
In our generation of electronic devices the most eye catching idea of advertisements are small TVs which we can find almost everywhere, we can see them especially in public transportation. They have big influance on people because during the time we have almost nothing to do we can enjoy some commercial of new model of well known brand of cars, new exercise machine, cell phones or for example extra sharp set of knives.
Advertisements are problem of our population because they floods our brains with mostly useless for us stuff. They destroy our lives because we do not have a time for rest anymore, they keep us working on something all the time, even if we are on vacation that will not change much. We are convicted on company of them for every day of our lives.
Advertisements are the worst pollutions of our brains. We are attacked by them every single day in every place we go. They are no longer just in standard places as a billboards buses, stadiums. Now they are everywhere we are. It doesn’t matter if we go to the bank, gas station, or even sit in a classroom. They always company us. Nowadays interactive screens on supermarket carts show us ads while we shop. That means there are no more silent moment in our lives.
The article "Hype" by Kalle Lasn in Signs of Life in the USA: Reading on Popular Culture gives us example of the sample day of avarage american. Advertisements are part of every person's life. Everything starts on the morning after we woke up. Lot of advertisenents fill our brains just after we turn on TV, walk on the street , using public transportation, watching live sport game, go on a shopping or even when we use the gas station.
It does not matter in what direction we are looking - those eye catching billbords, leaflets, and all other advertisements are everywhere. More over they are not only visual, we can hear plenty of them in the radio or during visiting shopping mall.
The worst part of ads is that we have them all time around. We see them on the nozzle on gas stations, there are also on every ATM, as well as in school's classes. Sometimes we do not even pay attention on our habbits when we are waiting somewhere in line, we see ad and we just read it.
In our generation of electronic devices the most eye catching idea of advertisements are small TVs which we can find almost everywhere, we can see them especially in public transportation. They have big influance on people because during the time we have almost nothing to do we can enjoy some commercial of new model of well known brand of cars, new exercise machine, cell phones or for example extra sharp set of knives.
Advertisements are problem of our population because they floods our brains with mostly useless for us stuff. They destroy our lives because we do not have a time for rest anymore, they keep us working on something all the time, even if we are on vacation that will not change much. We are convicted on company of them for every day of our lives.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Blog Entry 3 "summarization of hype"
Advertisements are the worst pollutions of our brains. We are attacked by them every single day in every place we go. They are no longer just in standard places as a billboards buses, stadiums. Now they are everywhere we are. It doesn’t matter if we go to the bank, gas station, or even sit in a classroom. They always company us. Nowadays interactive screens on supermarket carts show us ads while we shop. That means there are no more silent moment in our lives.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Blog Entry 2: Reflecting on Annotation
- What did you get from thinking about annotations with the class?
I got great idea of how I can make my work much easier, faster and more effective.
- What did you get from writing annotations for "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" with your partner?
We understood that Google has many disadvantages. One of them is that people usually look for a fastest way of finding information, but at the same time when we find something easily than we forget it fast too. We are not getting deeply into the problem. There is not a problem anymore is just curiosity which desappear quickly.
- What did you learn about the reading by annotating it?
I learnt that computer are very helpful and useful, but usually they distract us. They don't let us think clearly. If we want to really think than we supposed do that without computers, than we really use our brains.
- How may annotating make you a better writer?
They let me focus on main ideas which i can develop in my essay.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Blog Entry 1: "Hype"
Nowadays people are in the middle of huge mass of advertisements called mental polution. That is the thing which we cannot control anymore.
The article "Hype" by Kalle Lasn in Signs of Life in the USA: Reading on Popular Culture gives us example of the sample day of avarage american. Advertisements are part of every person's life. Everything starts on the morning after we woke up. Lot of advertisenents fill our brains just after we turn on TV, walk on the street , using public transportation, watching live sport game, go on a shopping or even when we use the gas station.
It does not matter in what direction we are looking - those eye catching billbords, leaflets, and all other advertisements are everywhere. More over they are not only visual, we can hear plenty of them in the radio or during visiting shopping mall.
The worst part of ads is that we have them all time around. We see them on the nozzle on gas stations, there are also on every ATM, as well as in school's classes. Sometimes we do not even pay attention on our habbits when we are waiting somewhere in line, we see ad and we just read it.
In our generation of electronic devices the most eye catching idea of advertisements are small TVs which we can find almost everywhere, we can see them especially in public transportation. They have big influance on people because during the time we have almost nothing to do we can enjoy some commercial of new model of well known brand of cars, new exercise machine, cell phones or for example extra sharp set of knives.
Advertisements are problem of our population because they floods our brains with mostly useless for us stuff. They destroy our lives because we do not have a time for rest anymore, they keep us working on something all the time, even if we are on vacation that will not change much. We are convicted on company of them for every day of our lives.
The article "Hype" by Kalle Lasn in Signs of Life in the USA: Reading on Popular Culture gives us example of the sample day of avarage american. Advertisements are part of every person's life. Everything starts on the morning after we woke up. Lot of advertisenents fill our brains just after we turn on TV, walk on the street , using public transportation, watching live sport game, go on a shopping or even when we use the gas station.
It does not matter in what direction we are looking - those eye catching billbords, leaflets, and all other advertisements are everywhere. More over they are not only visual, we can hear plenty of them in the radio or during visiting shopping mall.
The worst part of ads is that we have them all time around. We see them on the nozzle on gas stations, there are also on every ATM, as well as in school's classes. Sometimes we do not even pay attention on our habbits when we are waiting somewhere in line, we see ad and we just read it.
In our generation of electronic devices the most eye catching idea of advertisements are small TVs which we can find almost everywhere, we can see them especially in public transportation. They have big influance on people because during the time we have almost nothing to do we can enjoy some commercial of new model of well known brand of cars, new exercise machine, cell phones or for example extra sharp set of knives.
Advertisements are problem of our population because they floods our brains with mostly useless for us stuff. They destroy our lives because we do not have a time for rest anymore, they keep us working on something all the time, even if we are on vacation that will not change much. We are convicted on company of them for every day of our lives.
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