FU to the TURE

Its 9:30am on a Tuesday morning, Dexter, my robot servant opens the blinds of my newly equipped F175 3000 Hover Craft Dorm room near the Southlake Village residents. Unlike most freshman here, I have my own room which comes with a deluxe S5000 shower with sauna, deluxe 8520 king size bed with double padding and a full size working kitchen with service 24/7. As Dexter wakes me up and takes me to the bathroom to shower, brush my teeth and pee and picks out my clothes I’m going to wear; he is also preparing my usual for breakfast, which consists of the FGCU waffles and hash browns.
Getting up for class is extremely tedious; it consists of turning the TV on to channel 573 and watching your professor talk to you, but some days there is no need to wake up and watch the TV… you just Tivo the lesson for the day and sleep in or just enjoy the day.

In the tutorial “The Skunk Ape” I felt like I pretty much knew most of what they were explaining. I honestly lost interest and found it kind of boring/repetitive. The activities they had were helpful and kept me paying attention for a bit. This would be good for students just learning how to use the database.
I knew how to use the database already because I had Emily Vallier last semester and we had a librarian come in and show us how to use and then we were assigned a paper using the database.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(5)

From the very beginning of this trailer the music used and the clock ticking backwards creates a sense of mystery or wonder that captures the viewer immediately. Certain aspects appeal to certain age groups, for example the love story is more appealing to a middle aged women, while being at war, the whore house, and being on a ship appeals to the male audience. While the trailer gives enough clues to get a general sense of the story line, they leave certain things unsaid, well, makes you want to watch the movie!

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(4)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a story about a newborn old man who’s growing younger. In this tearjerker, Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) is placed in the care of Queeny, a maid in a home for the elderly. The movie is told from narrator’s point of view. Being told by doctors that he would not live much longer than his infant years, he lets go of his inhibitions and decides that he wants to experience as many things as possible, from working on a ship at sea to fighting at war and going to a whore house. The movie could not be complete without a love story, he ends up falling in love with one of the resident’s granddaughters, Daisy (Kate Blanchett). For a moment the two lovers overlap and are the same age, they produce a child at this time. However it is only a matter of time before Benjamin Button grows younger and eventually dies as a newborn.

Less Privacy is Good for Us (and You) #3

In the article Less Privacy Is Good for Us (and You) by Amitai Etzioni, it goes into explain why the First Amendment isn’t really good on privacy, but that the Fourth Amendment is a little better and should incorporate privacy in it. For example Etzioni goes on to explain certain situations like “your neighbors being able to listen in on your cell phone calls, E-Z passes allow tollbooth operators to keep track of your movements, bosses being able to read your emails”, this I would consider a violation of privacy and should be moved over to the Fourth Amendment.
Oh well here is my opinion… screw privacy! Only certain things like cell phone calls, Social Security Numbers, bank accounts, who your married too, street address and phone number and things of that sort should be kept private from the public, but public to government. I say that because these days you don’t know what people are up too, you could have someone living next door to you who is a terrorist and is planning an attack, but if things were kept private then our lives would be changed forever; again.

Untold Stories!

The small town of Immokalee could best be described as a rural community thriving with agricultural and farming; with communities such as seminole communities, the pioneering communities, the 20th century entreprenuers, and farmers making up the vast proportion of people. The history goes on to be that people came here seeking a better life with agriculture and farming, especially once the railway was built! With the small town seeing a drastic change because of WWII it began its process of growing, with its population more than doubling and tripling; 43 to 578 residents. Then Immokalee received its very 1st Regional Airport which was an old Bomer Training Base, then oil was then discovered causing a huge era of change. Going along with other new things that helped Immokalee thrive was the fact they put in place a Seminole Casino.
Growing up in Miami, FL and reading about Immokalee and how it arose, I believe it is totally different from Miami… Miami is more a fast pace life, barely any farmers, ranches, or cattle around. You mainly see house squished in side by side with little land, big buildings and shopping centers everywhere. Immokalee is representative of the “old” American Dream because as the videos showed their was a family who had about 16 children or so and they all worked on the farm and helped with the trading. Some major industries I believe will help Immokalee’s future would be that of casinos or major attractions like that. I don’t believe the farming will get the community by for much longer. Honestly I don’t see Immokalee being anything in 10 years, unless they put in place a big casino or something of that nature.

A Quilt of a Country: Out of Many, One?

In Quindlen’s short story A Quilt of a Country: Out of Many, One? she goes on to compare how America is built off of refugees and everyone is different. She compares the Arab cabbies to Jewish passengers, blacks to whites, gays to straights, left to right, Pole to Chinese, and Puerto Rican and Solvenian. She uses the idea of a quilt to compare it to the United States because were all different pieces that come together to form something magnificent, despite some drawbacks it might have.

I couldn’t agree with her more completely, I mean not everyone is going to get along with people. Your going to have some people that are set in their ways and do what they want to do. And big things like terrorist attacks and nation wide tragedies bring everyone closer due to the fact that something like this brings people together because they have that one things in common, for example the Arab cabbie and the Jewish passenger both could have lost someone in the World Trate Center accident.