Friday, November 29, 2013
Friday, November 8, 2013
Song Analysis; John Denver - Country Roads
Todays
task was to choose a song related to the topic we’ve being working on; third
cultured kids. TCK are kids that constantly move from one country to another
because of their parents work. As this kids change constantly the country they
live, they generate a mixed cultural identity integrating the cultures of the
countries where they have lived. I’ve picked a song I like very much and talks
about a person how wants to go back to his real home. This is the song I’ve
picked.
Almost heaven West Virginia
The
song Country Roads talks about a person from United States how lives far away
from his real home, and wants to go back to it.
The
importance of this song is that it has a similar topic than the one expressed
by TCK. The idea of temporary home, and the feeling of not belonging to the place
where you live are common aspects for the song and the TCKs document we have
being reading.
We
can highlight some important phrases of the song, for example:
”Country roads take me home
To the place I be love”
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
“Punk for a month” v/s Aladdin (draft)
Todays task is to connect a
movie to the text we have being reading “Punk for a month”. This text talks
about a girl called Julie that changes her appearance to be accepted by the
“popular” social group of the school.
I thought about movies that
had the same theme and I have finally chosen Aladdin, a Disney film from 1992.
This movie is set in Agrabah, an Arabic city under the government of the
Sultan. The city is shown as politically and economically stable and ruled by
the Sultan, a wealthy person how has a daughter called Jazmin. The protagonist
of the movie is a “street rat” called Aladdin how makes his day a day living by
stealing but that in his heart is really a good person. One day the princes
escapes (dressed as a normal person) from the palace of the sultan and meets
Aladdin, how tries to impress her. Later the princess goes back to the palace
leaving Aladdin. He later finds a magic lamp in dungeon that contains a genie, who
reveals he will grant Aladdin three wishes. Aladdin tells the genie he wants to
be a sultan so he can marry jasmine and is transformed to a sultan.
Both stories have a similar plot where the
protagonists change their appearance to be liked by a certain group. Aladdin, by using the powers of the genie changes its appearence to be liked by the princess and Julie from punk for a month changes the way she dresses and her hair.
Altho this two stories have different setting, bouth of them have a similar plot.
Altho this two stories have different setting, bouth of them have a similar plot.
Questions to the text
1-.I think appearance is not a real indicator of the
personality someone has. Judging a person by how they dress is a huge error;
appearance is not an indicator of the personality of a person. I think is
always inappropriate to judge someone by their way of dressing because is not
an indicator of their way of life.
2-.I think Julie didn’t handle the situation as she should,
because she was too aggressive to her friends. Maybe she should have addressed
her friends differently, by having an open-minded conversation.
3-.The new friends of Julie may be only judging her by how she
dresses and not by her personality. This is a huge problem because she is
generating new friendship bonds based in his appearance, so if she ever changes
her way of dressing they may alienate her (as her old friend did).
4-.I think Julie changed only her appearance but maintained her
personality. Although she acted differently, she was the same person as before
and only changed her attitude because of the way she dressed. I think the
appearance can change the way a person behaves, but can’t change their
personality (their way of seeing life).
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Reproductive tourism slavery and business
“The Akanksha clinic is at the forefront of India’s
booming trade in so-called reproductive tourism — foreigners coming to the
country for infertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization. The clinic’s
main draw, however, is its success using local women to have foreigners’
babies. Surrogacy costs about $12,000 in India, including all medical expenses
and the surrogate’s fee. In the U.S., the same procedure can cost up to
$70,000.”
India is one of the countries
that has more poverty in the world, measures for ending poverty in India are a
known issue that has had many answers but has never provided a real life solution
for the Indian population. Poverty is one of the issues that are relevant to
our society, and scientists are investigating ways to reduce de amount of
poverty worldwide. Reproductive tourism may seem like an excellent solution for
poor mother to earn money, but it’s not. Surrogated mother
are not considering the
implications of this growing problem.
Constant body rental can
have many dangerous problems because it damages many tissues. Constant pregnancy
can affect the uterus and liver, generating huge damage in does organs that may
generate future infertility problems. But tissue damage is not the only problem
this activity can cause; it can also generate damage to the wellbeing of the
mother resulting in abuses of the clinic, and a later slavery.
Renting a woman’s uterus is
just disgraceful, how can we let poor mother be forced to rent their own bodies
for money. We are falling into nothing more than slavery where poor mother have
to give away their own body to have something to eat. As a 21st
century society we can’t permit women to be slaved by clinics exploiting their
bodies for money
Friday, October 4, 2013
Commenting about future predictions
Last class we were told to predict about what will happen to
world and society in 2038. I had chosen these 4 aspects from the list, here’s
the LINK for the class.
6-. I think in the future food production will be more
mechanized; robots will take care of the tasks that humans used to do such as
harvest the food or even transportation of those products to the markets, where
we will have a constant food supply. Maybe in the future food will be
genetically modified for as to produce huge amounts of food with only using
small amount of resources.
3-. I believe in the future we will have a 100% globalized
world, being able to interact with people all over the world in just seconds,
helping business industries or even family interactions.
5-. Massive Transportation, I believe, will be much more
effective than today. There will be flying cars and fast flying buses.
7-. I think transplant surgeries will be much more effective
and lest risky. People will get transplanted their own pre constructed organs
from steam cells.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Friday, September 27, 2013
Image Analysis
1-Background analysis + building.
2-Image Analysis (colours)à
use of bright but lifeless colours (dirt).
3-Use of working robots for difficult tasks.
4-Connection to our class + native speaking country.
5-Robot revolution (compared to H. Ford revolution).
6-Robots as a substitution of human workers.
7-Implications of the technological unemployment caused by
robots.
8-Relationship between humans and robots.
9-Future of the working machines.
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