Two papers, two different styles of writing

While the two papers we have written so far were on the same sort of content, they were very different. I thought that the summary/response to the cloning article that we did for the first paper was far easier. It was alot easier to write a 4-5 page paper summarizing the material and then choosing one side of the issue and writing about that. I also enjoy an educated argument so that made it very easy for me to write the paper. The visual analysis was a little harder to do, but not much. The biggest problem i had with the visual analysis was to keep coming up with new, fresh, ideas, and not repeating myself at all. I also did not think that blogging helped very much. I found that writing a rough draft, peer-reviewing, then writing a final draft was the most helpful. The rough draft gave me a base to start with, and then once i got three students opinions on my rough draft it made it alot easier for me to make changes, and add things into the paper as compared to starting from scratch and writing 5-6 pages. I feel like my writing has improved a little bit this year from the first to second paper, but it would have been alot easier to start with the visual analysis and move to the summary response. The easiest part out of either paper was by far the summary, because all you had to do was give the reader a very condensed version of what I was summarizing. That is why i preferred the summary/response paper.

Technology

There were a few things that i found interesting in what we watched today in class. The first is when they were talking about the handles on peelers, which are very simple and dont get much thought. They went around and did multiple studies and looked into multiple ideas, just to improve the handle on a potato peeler. This seems like its alsmot dumb to put all this work in but if they users of the product like the changes then it will create alot of revenue. Another thing i found interesting is how much work goes into designing and manufactiruing what seems like simple everyday objects, such as toothbrushes, or chairs, or potato peelers. There are so many steps in this process and so many things that have to all go right to make these, not to mention the people behind the scenes brainstorming and coming up with ideas, all in an effort to advance technology. The third thing i found interesting is how much the inventors and the people in charge of this technology really look into even the smallest deatails. The one asian designer of that cell phone was talking about how part of the reason he designed it the way he did is because people like to play with their phones in their hand and pockets, so he needed to make a design that made that possible. Its crazy that designers look into things so much and look at even the smallest details that seem completely irrelevant, but i guess thats what needs to be done to further advance technology

Farenheit 451

The apocalyptic movie I chose to watch was Farenheit 451, and this movie was awful. The plot of the movie is basically firefighters burn books instead of put out fires in an attempt to curb individualism. The main character in this movie is Guy Montag, who is a firefighter that in the end becomes an advocate for books. His wife is Linda montag, and she is a very proper and nice lady who is a housewive. Those are the only two characters who are specifically named and focued on in the movie, however there are many smaller characters. The movie was made in 1966, so the setting is portrayed to be futuristic which is far from true watching it today.

Guy meets a woman on a train who follows him after he gets off, and after finding out that he is a firefighter she asks him many questions, such as why do they burn books, did they ever used to extinguish fires instead of putting out books, and if he has ever read any of the books they burn. This triggers his imagination, and at the sites where they burn books that have been found, he tends to take a couple home with him. This is very risky due to the fact that books are illegal, and his wife is totally against this. As he brings more and more books home and reads more he realizes what he is doing at the fire department is wrong, and after being told abotu a society that embraces books, he decides to quit his job. The day he quits the chief talks him into one more mission, and ironically enough he ends up at his own house. He burns his books, but also burns the chief, killing him. Guy then escapes and makes it to the society in the woods where all the book advocates, including the lady on the train live. Overall this movie was not very well put together, didnt make sense at times, and was also very predictable.

Terrible end

I thought the last scene started out well with Deckard going into the apartments and being confronted and killing the first android swiftly, but then it started to get drawn out. Leon, the last surviving android first comes down from Tyrell's home and sees that Pris has been killed and is visibly upset. He then runs behind a wall and actually reaches through, grabs Deckard's arm, takes his gun, breaks his fingers, and then gives his gun back and tells him he has a few seconds to run. After that the chase is on. This is where the scene starts to get monotonous and very annoying. First they chase eachother through the bottom floor, then when all looks doomed for Deckard he manages to poke a hole through the cieling and get up to the next floor, which is very unrealistic. Then Leon busts his head through a wall and goes after Deckard again. This brings nothing new to the scene, just repetition. After this Deckard goes out the window (we clearly know hes not going to fall to his death) and somehow manages to scale the side of a building with 2 broken fingers in the rain. (once again highly unrealistic)  He then attempts to jump from one building to the other when Leon comes on the roof (Woah, didnt see this once coming) and of course he lands on the edge and is holding on for dear life. For some reason Leon jumps over and lifts him up over the edge onto the roof, then sits down and says "time to die," lowers his head, and shuts down. I dont think i have ever watched what im guessing was to be an action scene end this terribly.