Friday, March 28, 2008

Morning At The Musuem

I didnt know the musuem can be helpful for research. I always thought it was just for fun, scenery to view cause i had never really been in a musuem before. Only once, when i was in thrid grade though. The assignment for this was helpful into guiding and learning the steps to research in a musuem. Like gathering basic information about a topic, my topic as well as every one else in my class was Global Warming. Me and my group first gathered and read carefully the questions in our sheet. Whe we finally figured out that it was all related for one conclusion, therefore all our information would be in one area. We started with the origin of Global temperature, and found out that snowflakes have trapped in air bubbles that affect the temperature in a negative way. It wasnt like this before, but pollution has caused this problem. Besides the air, trees have also been affected by pollution, such as there inner rings. When it is a warm era, the rings are thick, and the opposite of climate when the rings are thin. This can affect the oxygen by lacking mass in trees. The GreenHouse affect is probably the most conclusion into global warming. It explains how gases help the earth, and is affected with pollution. There are five greenhouse gasses which are water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone, methane and nitrous oxygen. Due to pollution starting with The Industrial Revolution, much of the carbon dioxide has increased in the atmosphere. For it to be part of the greenhouse gas, scientist beleive it to have influenced the procces of global warming.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Gnosticism

Gnosticism, The Matrix, and The allegory of the cave, all have the same concept of what there message is giving to the people. Its good to know how these thoughts about being ruled or political theory, were not just around the start of world war 1. But it was awaken in text by Plato, student of socrates, and is now supported with films such as, The Matrix. Gnosticism, is the basic teachings of the spirit of man, how it can never be perfect for the simple fact that were human beings. The same way the matrix in the film taught us. The machines took over the humans to control them, in other words, it was beleived that man itself can not govern and live liberally equal amongs others. Neo escaped from this nightmare of ignorance, and faced his entrapment by actually fighting with the metaphorical machines. The machines in the allegory of the cave are the shadows that lie to the prisoners. The shadows gave the prisoners a game to play, and judge each other with there skills, the same way we saw almost every one in a suit or office in the matrix. The allegory of tha cave, and the matrix are connected because the humans/prisoners supported the method of being enslaved by living off to what benefits them. In the matrix, "The Truth" is the ship where they lived in, the same way The Sun was for the excerpt in Allegory Of The Cave. Gnosticism teaches us the way to live by these socialist laws, and not be fully trapped into how were meant to think, and do by the people that sets our living which are politicians.

Friday, March 21, 2008

Allegory Of The Cave and The Matrix

Allegory of the Cave is the basic idea of what we speak of in class.
The matrix is a more extended subliminal message within a movie. These two works teaches us, or hopefully wakes us up from World Domination. Even though there’s no escape from this tragedy, we can make the slightest difference from actually knowing what’s up in the world and how world domination works. The matrix uses machines as an example for methods to blind humans and live there life’s. This is a perfect example for modern day world, because what we mostly rely on is Technology, to prove this, we can look into the alternative controversial cause about the Iraqi war that is taking place now. Our machines need oil to be supported with, and the Arab lands are rich with that. Therefore, for us to move on with our life’s we take resources from other sources, the same way the matrix took the humans energy, for lacking solar energy. This has been happening in the real world for centuries and it’s usually the “””3rd””” world countries that have been harmed by this silenced conquest. Outside of the matrix, where neo is a real human, his surroundings are filled with poverty because of the matrix, the same way other countries are affected by another stronger country. 3 Well known examples of what im speaking of can be the Blood Diamonds in Africa, South American farms taken over by foreign Caucasian man making vast indigenous emigrate to the city’s or other countries to find a better life, and one that im most pissed off at is The Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty.. when Mexico’s best state’s of survival were taken away with short torture, and no alternative but to actually sign the treaty, and take the money. This we know in America as Manifest Destiny.

The Allegory of the cave implies the same situation, only in more simpler terms, using the sun to blind citizens, instead of machines like The Matrix that makes life for humans simpler. The sun keep’s citizens happy by showing them shadows that they have to identify quickly as a game. This they consider a game with huge pride over those who play the game very good by identifying the shapes fast and those who play poorly are criticized and ignored. Like in the business world in modern day, human beings are so concerned with succeeding and criticize those who don’t make it into living off a successful career. An interpretation is also told if a prisoner in the cave is released, to see the roots of these shadows and where they come from, in order for him to find out that it has all been a lie, and that the people he spent time with in the cave, have been lied to by living off the puppets shadows, the same way we live off with what the government provides us with. When the released prisoner sees the sun, he realizes the intentions and how everything works to keep the slaves from retaliating. Unfortunately, we will never see “The Sun” for the fact that, every one is so content with the shadows, even though some people from across the world have suffered from “The Sun’s” Lack of Knowledge.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

The Matrix Review

The Matrix was a very good film, to those who watch it without the naked eye. Its symbollic and subliminal messages conveyed an idea of what may be going on in the world today. For example Neo, the chosen one, and Morpheus, leader of the resistance, form a message in there name. This we know by Neo which means new, and Morpheus, who has the word Morph. Morpheus trained his soldiers, and taught them the truth of what the matrix is, this can be why he is known as Morpheus, for changing the mind of a certain individual. Neo which stands for new, is one of the most powerful soldiers in the resistance, his name symbolises humanity changing, possibly cause he is the only one strong enough to fight the machines, so he has an advantage of starting a more civilized and new species.





As an ordinary being within the matrix, Neo is Thomas A. Anderson, a computer hacker with a serious talent for what he dedicates his pass time with. This we know when he sells a disk to a guy for 2,000 dollars, after the transaction neo reminded his buyer to be discrete of what they had done. It is not explained why Thomas A. Anderson is The One, but it could be because, he resisted the matrix, by being a great hacker, so he basically fought the machines, or retaliated against the matrix while being a hacker. Before he sold his disk for 2,000 he received a message, hinting him to follow a certain symbol which was White Rabbit.





This here is also another simple message that The Matrix uses. White rabbit is a term used in Alice In Wonderland. It most likely represents faith, in Alice In Wonderland, Alice followed a white rabbit, and fell to a hole, where she then encountered a world full of rare animals and peculiar sightings. Neo also followed the white rabbit, and was then guided like alice to gather information about the matrix. In the beggining of the film, cops are chasing Trinity, Agents then come, and order the cops, meaning cops are controlled by the agents first hand. The agents also give a huge appearance to the look of any normal C.I.A. Keanu Reaves confronts one of the agents in the precinct, that means that these agents play an important role for the security of the matrix for having more privilages then cops do. These agents are the defense for viruses withing the matrix, such as the resistance, the same way C.I.A is the defense of foreign affair for america.

The Matrix reminds me alot of imperialistic nations, such as Rome. A nation that for a period of time, its main objective was to gain land. This nation could not have been succesfull without its people. The same way the matrix succeeded with the energy of its people. Basically its message is that, a government should organize with the peoples decision, only that the government in the matrix blinds people from knowing how its imperialistic nation was formed and governs.