Blog 16: Type CATW practice 3

    In the passage "How to Do One Thing at a Time" from Women's health Magazine, the author presents the harmful effects of multi-tasking on humain beings.  He explains that multi-tasking including the ones that aren't considered dangerous, hurts human beings and causes us to be less productive.  The author states, nevertheless, that it is possible to do multi-tasking and remain safe by practicing our ability to concentrate

   As far as I am concerned, the idea"we are less efficient after we shut down e-mails and turned off our phones" is the most believable because we are not focused on any of the tasks we are doing to make the best out of it.  As a student, I always try to do many task at the same time, but I always end up making a mess of all of it because I am not focused  In my previous English session on Thursday, I was fixing the table and trying to make a summary for a movie we watchedin class.  As a result, I didn't finish my assignment on time because I couldn't focus

    We are also less efficient when we are doing things simultaneously because when we must accomplish tasks in a given amount of time we don't make a good usage of the time we have, and we always finish late or we just don't finish.  Last sunday, I tried to finish an assignment for my french class in one hour then go to work just that, but the visit of a couple of my friends disturbed me because we started talking  I ended up with an assignment not done and I got late for work  This example illustratre perfectly how multi-tasking can cause us to be less efficient when we are trying to finish things on time

   Yet we all know that multi-tasking can be dangerous, people still manage to do many things at the same time.  We should be more careful because multi-tasking can be as deadly as a disease.

Blog 14:" Learning From Another ENG 099"

In my opinion, the best post is post 3 because,unlike the others, it has a significant idea, which is well developped and supported by a specific example. I like the example; it is specific and helps understand what is the main point it talks about. Though I thing it is the best post, I will say it needs works on the summary because it is too long and the organisation is not fine.

RANKING:
1.Post 3
2.Post 1
3.Post 2

Blog 12: Consequentialism

      In the movie "Gone Baby Gone", we are invited to join the quest of Patrick, a detective, who is hired to bring back a daughter of an addicted women who has been kidnapped.  Patrick along with Angie, his girlfriend, are looking for Amanda, who is kidnapped in misterious conditions in her mother's house in Boston.  With helps from his friends in the street, Patrick finds proofs that could lead him to Amanda; however, Amanda's death is announced after Patrick attempts to bring her back.  One year later, Patrick finds Amanda in the Police captain's house, who explained to Patrick that it was a story entirely made up by Amanda's uncle, Lionel, to provide Amanda with a better life away from her addicted mother, but Patrick brought her back to her mother.

      In the movie, we are presented with two different sides, which go against each another as to their belief about Amanda life.  We have the consequentialists with the Police captain, Remi, Lionel and Angie that believe that Amanda should stay with the Police captain that will provide her with a better life. Therefore, it doesn't matter how immoral the kidnapping was, it is justified by the fact that she will have a better life. 

     On the other hand, we have the ethical absolutism with Patrick who brings back Amanda to his mother though Angie tell him she will leave him if he does so. What he did.  He also refused to kill anybody else even if he will face the same circumstances that made him kill a guy in the movie.

    As far as I am concerned, I believe that the movie supports the idea of leaving Amanda to the Police captain because at the end of movie a scene between presents Helene who leave Amanda to Patrick because she had a date and couldn't wait for Amanda's nanny, but the most relevant thing in this scene is that we can see that Amanda wasn't as happy as when she was with the captain.    

Blog11: CATW practice 2

        In "The Woman Who Died in the Waiting Room", Jeneen Interlandi explains that there is no place in hospitals for the mentally ill.  She presents the outrageous circumstances of Esmin Green's death, a disable, which she pointed out as unsurprising since most mental hospitals are closed.  Jensen supports that we should have a place in the society for disables.

         In the passage, I support the idea "Rather than lock them away in the cold, uncarring instutions, the thinking went, the mentally ill should be offered a place in society." because in psychiatric hospitals they often treat disables as people with no will instead of helping them get back on the right track.  I believe that keeping people in rooms with their legs and hands tied up, with no windows on the walls and a poor diet filled with pills can't help anybody feels better, but it will rather make them act crazier; this is the atmosphere in which most disables are kept.  For instance, last year, I visited a friend of mine in an hospital.  He wasn't in a mentally ill condition, but as I was walking to his room I stepped in a room filled with people that are mentally ill.  I wondered why they were kept in a room by themselves because I believe that if we want someone to well behave he should interact with people who behave correctly.  So why do they keep them by themselves.

        I also believe that people that are mentally should be offered a place in society because they may recover their sences if they are not kept motionless in rooms.  It feels good to see a disable well behave after his madness.  I experienced myself living with someone mentally ill.  It's really not an easy task to take care of them, but when they feel better it makes you happy.  My oncle, who was mentally ill  used to live in our house in Africa.  My parents refused to send him in an hospital because they believed that in an hospital he would be mistreated.  It was hard to take care of him, but when he started feeling better we were all happy.  Unfortunately, he died last year. I believe that if he was in an hospital, he would have died earlier.

        As Jeneen Interlandi presents, the places aimed for the mentally ill are drastically dimished, but we should strive to find them a place to be in the society.           

Blog 8: Summary of"the red pill or the blue pill"

   In "The Red Pill or The Blue Pill" Christine Cornell and Patrick Malcomson present common points shared by Neo from the film The Matrix and Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  The red pill or the blue pill in The Matrix and the drink and the cake in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are similar points to both protagonist because they help them reach the other side.  However, the authors say that Alice's story only matches the beginning of Neo's adventure tu find the truth.  A great number of readers associates Neo's awakening with " The Allegory of The Cave'" by Socrates in Plato book The Republic.  As pointed out by Socrates, it is not an easy task to get used to the truth and to share it to others. For Neo, the reality hurted his eyes and he was i some point sick because he couldn't believe the reality.  The only difference between both The Matrix and Socrates's allegory of the cave is the appearance they give to the reality. The authors adds that the red pill or the blue pill were indispensable tools to Neo's quest because it said him free and allow him to set apart truth form lie.  The authors conclude with John Stuart mill, a philosopher wrote about the question why people need to know the truth and concluded that it is better to be n human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

Blog 7: The Heroic Choices in The Matrix

In the story, Neo had to make many choices which affect both his life and others. He chose to find out the truth by taking the red pill.  He chose to save morpheus even though his action was supposed to threaten his life.  He also chose to face the agent though Cyrus advised him not to do so.  I think the choices that show that Neo is the hero of the story are the one he made as to his life or the life of morpheus because the oracle told if he chooses to save morpheus he will die, but he withstood the oracle foretells and made the choice to not only save morpheus but also bring him back and when he faced the agent in the metro station instead of running away because at that point, he started to believe in his potential.

Blog 6: Response to "I Know the Truth"

         In "I know the truth", JEFFREY KLUGER believes people have often been easily fooled by untrue statements or beliefs such as President Obama was born in Kenya or HIV is a government invention to remove unpleasant minority groups.  JEFFREY added that among those nonsense facts were those as to the Islamic Cultural Center planned for Park Place in Lower Manhattan at which researchers, R. Kelly Garret and Erik Nisbet from Ohio state University have conducted a study to determine how sticky were those assertions and what it might take to disabuse people from them.  For the study, 750 people who knew about the topic were selected to read rebuttals of rumors from two different news papers.  Among them, 28% rejected the rumors and 35% acknowledged that the new information had some merit.  As conclusions, the reseachers found out that people beliefs could be easily manipulate with pictures and quotes, but the most disturbing facts was that only one third of the subjects were willing to reverse their beliefs. JEFFREY KLUGER concludes by saying that it was up to people to make up their mind as to facts.

       From a body of studies, it s been shown that when people face facts that contradict their beliefs, they often respond by cleaving to their biases even more tightly. I believe that the way they behave  comes from the habit they have developped ever since they were younger.  According to Plato in "The Allegory of the cave",people refuse to embrace the truth and are willing to maintain their opinion regardless the true facts.  He presents a group of prisoners who had lived in an obscure cave all their life.  They were motionless and could only face a wall at what was projected shadows of people, materials and animals.  All their lives, those shadows were for the prisoners the representation of reality until one of them went outside the cave and discovered that everything he stood for was unreal.  When he returned in the cave, he was threatened to share the truth with the other prisoners because they were unwilling to accept it.  Socrates concluded by saying that when the truth is presented, it will be difficult to accept it, and those who found it are most likely to face troubles. 

 

      Another fact I would like to point out is that people often reject facts that contradict their beliefs because it is not easy to accept the truth.  What would you say if someone told you that the man you thought were your father is not?  Of course, you wouldnt believe him because it would mean a lot more than the fact that you do not know your real father.

 

      Rumors will always be part of the society.  While others are unwilling to embrace the truth, we should think carefully of the facts that are presented and be open minded as to them.