“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.

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).

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 21^st century society we can’t permit women to be slaved by clinics exploiting their bodies for money 

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.

Audio

this is the link for my audio presentation

LINK

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.

Building our robot: "WALL-E ONE"

1-.What problem or challenge does the robot solve?

The duty of our robot is to clean the sidewalks. Tourists enjoy cleaner eviroments but they don’t look after their garbage, not even we do, and it’s a very tough work to do, so that’s why we’ve decided to create this robot.

2-.What are some of the functions you will program your robot to carry out?

The main function of the robot is to “patrol” around the city sidewalks, grabbing the garbage that’s in the floor. It will use a mechanic arm to take the garbage and then it will pour it into a bin

3-.What materials will it be made out of? Why?

Stainless steel covered with hard plastic so sand won’t break the mechanism and it won’t rust. It will count with gps system so no one can take it (besides it weiths a ton)

4-.How will the robot sense its surroundings?

With a motion sensor in the front, back and sides of the machine to move around the crowds without crushing a wall or a person. It would be programmed to grab anything that’s lying on the ground without care, so you better look after ur chihuahua.

5-.How will it move and respond to the environment?

 It would be a little “car” with a mechanic arm on the top and a garbage bin at the back. Once the bin is full the robot will go to a bigger trash bin and throw the garbage.

6-.How or why is a robot better equipped to handle this challenge than a human?

The task of picking up garbage is a daily work, people walk at the streets almost all day long so it’s necessary to maintain the sidewalks clean.  A robot is the best choice for this kind of work, because it will work 24 hours a day the seven days of the week, while a human worker would work only for 8 hours a day.

7-.What specific functions will the robot carry out? What components will the robot include that help it carry out these tasks?

The robot will clean the streets by sweeping dust and sand with its broom. Also the robot will clean the sidewalk of garbage by picking up trash and throwing it to the trash can, using its mechanized arm.

 It will include a broom located in the front of the robot, a mechanized arm for picking up trash, and a small trash can where it will store temporally the garbage.

8-.What will the robot look like? Will it look humanlike? Why or why not?

The robot will have a simple structure; it will be like a small square with a trash can and a mechanized arm on the top. It will not look like a humanoid because the idea of the robot is to complete a task more efficiently than a human will do, by having multiple components a human could never use simultaneously. Also by having a simple structure, it would not draw attention of people passing by so they will not interfere in its work.

9-.How will the robot’s appearance influence how people interact with it?

The idea of the robot is to get unnoticed, so no one would interfere with its job. If this robot was build with a humanoid structure it will draw attention of persons that would play with it, and even it could make dogs play with it and even destroying it.

10-.What limitations does the robot have?

As it is a cleaning robot it would only be able to complete the task it was build for, not being able to do other tasks. Also it will need a very complex program so it won’t go into the street and crash with vehicles.