Well on our visit to the museum we researched on what causes climate and climate change. We visited the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth. There we learned how people were able to find the climate from years ago through ice cores, ocean sediments, and tree rings. Ice cores give a detailed record of the climate 115,000 years ago. The tree rings indicate the annual climate. It has thick rings to indicate rapid growth during warm, wet years. Thin rings tell a slow growth and cold, dry years. One tree only records local climate. Ocean sediments indicate biological activity in the waters. Through the layers you see the amount of carbon that was produced because of the cold weather, they come out thinner and richer layers. In addition to that, we found out about the greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases consist if 4 gases, water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The gases are essential to the earth in order to regulate temperature. But the more gases in the atmosphere wouldn't make it livable on the earth because of high temperature.
Relating the museum to the film, The Inconvenient Truth, I realized that a lot of what was being said in the film was actually at the museum. Al Gore spoke about ice cores in his film and I really got an understanding about what he was saying in the museum. He described most of the greenhouse gases in his film as well and how they affect us and the temperature, and what is going on with the world because of the effect on greenhouse gases. I've been to the museum before and saw this part of it but i really never paid attention to it. But watching The Inconvenient Truth really convinced me, he described everything so well.
Being in this cluster i didn't really understand what was the whole thing behind Dr.Smith not using paper. I realized that he is going green and it relates to all this going on in film. He is trying to get us to use as less as paper in the class to help the world. I understand what going green is about now, and why people should go green. I'm ready to make changes to live longer and make this place a better place to live on.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Gnosticism Blog 3
So I learned about this word that was new to me, Gnosticism. Some religious movements felt that the world was created by ordinary people in a bad spirit, and the religious movements felt that their body was a divine soul living in this materialistic world created by the ordinary people. Created by this bad spirit, people thought it was evil. The believers of this wanted to free themselves from the materialistic world, so they thought God sent Jesus of Nazareth as an embodied supreme to die and bring freedom to them. To the believers Jesus was sent to teach them and free them, but to others he was this regualr man. People just wanted to break free from this evil world.
I see how Allegory of the Cave is related to Gnosticism. In Allegory of the Cave, the people stuck in this cave that try to break free are Gnostic people. People who want to break free from the ordinary and what they know because they know there is more out there then what they are taught. They are living in this cave created by people, the ordinary people. Just like movement felt the world was evil, these people in the cave felt the same way about the cave.
Tieing all of this into The Matrix, The Gnostic people are like Neo and the Nebuchadnezzar, and the agents are just like the ordinary people that created the materialistic world trying to make everyone same. The Nebuchadnezzar felt Neo was "The One" like a supreme being role Jesus played in Gnosticism. He was here to free them and make this movement possible. They wanted to free themselves from this materialistic world the agents created, and free themselves from what the only knowledge they are taught, as in Allegory of the Cave. All of this makes sense.
I see how Allegory of the Cave is related to Gnosticism. In Allegory of the Cave, the people stuck in this cave that try to break free are Gnostic people. People who want to break free from the ordinary and what they know because they know there is more out there then what they are taught. They are living in this cave created by people, the ordinary people. Just like movement felt the world was evil, these people in the cave felt the same way about the cave.
Tieing all of this into The Matrix, The Gnostic people are like Neo and the Nebuchadnezzar, and the agents are just like the ordinary people that created the materialistic world trying to make everyone same. The Nebuchadnezzar felt Neo was "The One" like a supreme being role Jesus played in Gnosticism. He was here to free them and make this movement possible. They wanted to free themselves from this materialistic world the agents created, and free themselves from what the only knowledge they are taught, as in Allegory of the Cave. All of this makes sense.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Allegory Of The Cave & the Matrix
When I reaserached Allegory Of the Cave on wikipedia, I found out this a theory from a Plato the phliosopher. Plato thought that one only knows what he taught. So he made this whole thing about keeping some people in a cave and playing mind tricks with them with imaginary stuff, and then letting them out into the world so they can see real things. In the cave there were chained and faced one way to see no sunlight, but only shadows made by puppets. So when they were out of the cave in the sunlight they found it unusual.
The Matrix showed us the same theory as Plato's. The Matrix made us see that society only tells us what they want us to know and learn. They feel that the more we know the more powerful we will be. And Morpheous in the movie along with his fellow followers felt that way in the movie, so they thought they had to break this. And they started programming their brain to break this shell that the ordinary people were living. They felt they weren't thinking for themselves.
It's the same as Plato was trying to explain. It's true that it's only what they teach us is what we are going to know. For example if i don't get taught how to write i won't know how to read and write.
The Matrix showed us the same theory as Plato's. The Matrix made us see that society only tells us what they want us to know and learn. They feel that the more we know the more powerful we will be. And Morpheous in the movie along with his fellow followers felt that way in the movie, so they thought they had to break this. And they started programming their brain to break this shell that the ordinary people were living. They felt they weren't thinking for themselves.
It's the same as Plato was trying to explain. It's true that it's only what they teach us is what we are going to know. For example if i don't get taught how to write i won't know how to read and write.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Matrix
The Matrix was a good movie, considering i don't like fictional movies like that. I was expecting to fall asleep or just get antsy in my pants. But the movie was intriguing. I liked how the directors; Wachowski Brothers, did all the special effects. I felt it raised the bar for more recent films. I thought it was crazy when Neo took the Blue Pill and ended up in some sort of bowl full of slime with all these wires attached to him. Then how Cypher betrayed them. I was so angry. I thought the outcome of his betrayal was well deserved. The movie was well put out, it made me feel that things could really be like that in the future. I enjoyed the way they were able to add intelligence about something to there mind if they needed it. The movie also had me thinking Neo wasn't THE ONE, but i guess the old lady knew, she just wanted Neo to figure it out on his own and believe. The movie was well put out, it made me think it was gonna be over or someone was gonna die, but the main people survived, and the movie ended awesome. The Matrix is a movie I can watch again.
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