Blog 11: Type CATW Practice

In the passage "The women who died in the waiting room" by jeneen interland, Esmin Green had been in a waiting room at Brooklyn's largest psychiatic hospital, no body was with her at her time in need when she had hopelessly fallen of her chair. Esmin Green was in a room with security cameras, no one had kept an eye on her, no body bothered to check on how she was doing. she had been trying to twist and writh for 20 minutes but it didn't help her , a nurse had walked into the waiting room after 40 minutes and had seen that Esmin Green wasnt moving no more she had checked by lightly kicking her. she was already dead by that point.
It was a surprise to them for how she had died, the city medicals had examined her blood and found out that she had blood clots in her legs which had been the cause to her death. psychiatric care was something that was hard to provide for poor, uninsured people in the hospital across the country. alot of people that are poor uninsured and undocumented have trouble with their health alot of people have chronic conditionns but because they don't have the money they can not be treated. there are tens of millions of people that need treatment with only 50,000 beds across the country.
I feel as if the authors main idea/point is when she says "public hospitals across the country have struggled to provide acute psychiatric care to the poor and uninsured since the early 1960's i think this is the mian idea because if they were able to provide psychiatric care for the poor esmin Green would not of died. for another reason i think that was the main idea was because if they offered that care for the poor , security and nurses might actually keep an eye on them see if they are okay

Blog 10: Hero and anti-hero in the movie Hero

In the movie "hero" there are two main characters Bernie LaPlante and John Bubber, Bernie LaPlante is not heartless but he is greedy he has two sides to him self he's a liar and tries to get money anyway possible he steals and sells, for him to be caring and giving is something that he doesn't always do. John Bubber is more of a giving caring person but he is a liar too, most of the time he will care for others. I dont know who i would call a hero because i think it depends from what point of view you see it from.
In some way Bernie LaPlante is a hero because we see how he is just driving down the road going to pick up his son to go to the movies and when he is going to cross a bridge he sees that a plane comes crashing down, he got out to see what had happend and heard that people were yelling screaming asking him to help them open the door Laplante didnt want to help at first but he thought again, so he did but first he had taken of his shoes because he said the cost him $100, then walked into the water to help out. when Laplante helped open the door people started to come out of the plane some little boy was crying saying his dad was in the plane (this is where his hero side kicks in), Laplante had gone into the plane with out thinking twice. Laplante went in there looking for one person and while trying to find the boys dad he kept on seen more poeple and he was just pulling them out one after one. Laplante didn't find the kids dad so he thought he died inside because the plane exploded every one had gotten out of the plane in time. He had save 64 people. After he helped  he just disappeard no interview or nothing. This is what makes me think that Laplante is a hero.
Jhon bubber is a hero too because he was in the vietnam war and he had helped carry out alot of his troops when they got shot, he had carried them to safety. In the movie I didn't really see jhon bubber be much of a hero I saw him be more of a romodel to do good to lend a hand and help out the less fortunate That is the only good thing about that. Jhon bubber is a liar too because he knows that he didn't help out the people from the plane crash but because Laplante told him what happend Bubber was the one that went to collect the reward because they had been looking for the hero who saved the passanger. Laplante lost one of his shoes when he helped out the people he was mad that he lost it so gave the other shoe to bubber so bubber used that as evidence that it was him even though it wasn't true. So this is what makes bubber a liar.
So I think that Bernie Laplante is the hero in this movie he saved people from a plane crash and then at the end of the movie he helped out a girl that fell into the lion cage. 

Blog 9: Type and post CATW practice 1

I think that learning, knoledge, school should be something that is available for everyone it shouldn't matter where you are frpm, it should be open to every one the article tells us that in "illinois" they had taken a vote to see if they would allow "young people who are in the u.s illegally to be eligable to pay in-state tuition at colleges and university in "Illinois". The vote turned out to be more of a yes than a no the vote was 112-4 , when they had agreed on it, a bill had been passed that would allow then to attend colleges and universities and having to pay instate tuitions as well.

If a student has been living in the U.S. Illegally i dont think they would be paying cheap they would of been paying $13,906, this is the out of state rate but because they had a vote , the students will only pay $5,302.

even if people that are born here do have equal rights it shouldnt be a reason to put inmigrants down, sure just because they are born here you got everything easy for you. but some people that are born here dont take advantage of what they have . even if some laws are  unenforced every one should get the opportunity to study.

there are people who are living in the u.s. illegaly that pay taxes and the goverment is more than happy to take their money away so why cant they allow them to attend colleges

Blog 8: Summary of "Red Pill or Blue Pill: Is Ignorance Bliss?"

In the article the authors compares diffrents stories that have the same meaning in some way. For example the author had compared "the matrix" , "alices adventures in wonderland , and "the allegory of the cave. The author takes a small piece from each of these stories and compares it, for example in the movie matrix morpheus offers neo two pills a red pill and a blue pill in this case one pill will allow him to see what the real world is and what he has been living in the other pill would allow him to forget about everything that happend.
Neo gets questioned by morpheus and in "alices adventures in wonderland" alice gets questioned by a catepeller. The questions they get asked are some what similar as in who they are. The other story that they compare it too was " the allegory of the cave" this part can be compared more to the matrix because in the "allegory of the cave the prisoners get chained up in a cave an face the walss not allowed to see the opening of the cave and they live an illusion for most of there life, when they are set free they don't know what to believ or what is what. In the matrix neo had been living a lie as well he wasn't a prisoner physically but he was a prisoner mentally.
Neo was plugged into the matrix which was a comouter program that makes every feel real. But when he gets unplugged from the matrix he doesn't know what to believe anymore. Just like in "the allegory of the cave" when the prisoner gets released from the cave he doesn't know what to belive anymore. In "alices adventures in wonderland" she wakes from up from her dream.

Blog 5: Review summary of the allegory of the cave

In the reading “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato, Plato had given a situation in which two men had been having a conversation. The reading includes two men, Socrates and Glaucon, Socrates had been talking to Glaucon about a situation that people had been taken from their homes during their childhood and thrown into caves chained up, from their necks and ankle they had been restricted movement and were not able to turn around and had the heat of the sun hitting their back, the only thing that they could have done was face the wall. They never saw the entrance of the cave they were only able to see the shadows of objects. People would be walking behind them with cut out shapes of animals etc.  From the outside of the cave, allowing the sun to make a shadow of the shape. They prisoners never saw any type of animals or anything and when they the shadow of a cow and how it sounded they would just see a big circular shape. Socrates told Glaucon that what the prisoners thought was real was just an illusion.

The prisoners had been living in this illusion and they didn’t know because they thought that everything that they had been seen while been in the cave was real. After a while the people that had kept the prisoners in the cave for so long had released them at a point in their lives and showed them the objects that they had seen while they were in the cave. They had been going around and showing them different things to see if the prisoner recognized it but they would deny it because in the cave all they saw was shadows. After a while they realize that they have been living in a lie for their lives. When the prisoner realizes that all the people that are still in the cave are living in that same lie he was he feels bad for them.

What I think that the author tells us is that there are so many ways to view something it’s just up to you and where you have been for most of your life, to believe in what they say.

Blog 4: "The Allegory of the Cave"

In The reading “Allegory of The Cave” the author tells us that there had been prisoners that had been thrown into a cave since their child hood. They had been chained up from their ankles and their neck so they were restricted from turning and moving around. The prisoners were chained up and forced to look at the wall only and were not allowed to see the opening of the cave, they hadn’t see the light of the sun for a long time. People would be walking behind them and they would have shapes of animals etc from the outside of the cave allowing the sun to give a shadow the prisoners thought that the shadow they saw was the real thing. Because they were not educated and did not know what was the real world they had been living in this illusion for a long time. For the prisoners a cow was just a round shape because that is what the shadow showed them? After a while the people that had kept the prisoners in the cave for so long had released them at a point in their lives and showed them the thing. They had gone around telling them what a real cow would look like and they would deny it because in the cave all the saw was shadows and for them a cow is just a big circular shape. When the prisoner’s instructor had been pointing at things the prisoner didn’t recognize any of it at all because for him that’s a lie and what he saw in the cave was real. The author just tells us that the prisoners in this reading had been living in an illusion for most of their lives and it is hard for you to accept what you are not used to.

Blog 3:“I Know the Truth, so Don’t Bother Me with Facts”

           The reading tells us that even thou people of a higher authority tell us something, it doesn't mean that its true.when ever you tell someone anything with false information about real events they would believe it and then other people would hear that information make rumors about it. the media, government tell us a lot of things, they say that people have been to the moon, basically they say something will or has happened on a certain day. there are times they are wrong. so it doesn't matter what they say. the only way that you know the truth is if you do research, and not listen to what people say.