Food Inc.

"Food, Inc.", a movie that I highly recommend to watch before writing our final essay. I believe it will help you come out some ideas about our nation's food industry, it does work for me. I have found the trailer video and even the whole movie from YouTube, which I linked below. Try it out!!

The trailer video:

http://youtu.be/5eKYyD14d_0

The part 1 of the movie:

http://youtu.be/ppL_UuN73Fc

There are all parts from the suggestion column next to the video. (from YouTube web page)

The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Controlled primarily by a handful of multinational corporations, the global food production business - with an emphasis on the business - has as its unwritten goals production of large quantities of food at low direct inputs (most often subsidized) resulting in enormous profits, which in turn results in greater control of the global supply of food sources within these few companies. Health and safety (of the food itself, of the animals produced themselves, of the workers on the assembly lines, and of the consumers actually eating the food) are often overlooked by the companies, and are often overlooked by government in an effort to provide cheap food regardless of these negative consequences. Many of the changes are based on advancements in science and technology, but often have negative side effects. The answer that the companies have come up with is to throw more science at the problems to bandage the issues but not the root causes. The global food supply may be in crisis with lack of biodiversity, but can be changed on the demand side of the equation.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

"Letter from Birmingham Jail" is written by Martin Luther King Jr. When all of the arguments King puts forth in both works have the ability to appeal to everyone in some way, the manner in which he shifts his tone and rhetoric many times throughout each text in order to address a specific audience is what makes these documents so power. Since so many of King's arguments are based on emotion and appeal to tradition and culture, it is most useful to look at the ways he uses rhetoric to appeal to certain subsets of his audience. King's letter actually addresses two audiences; the limited and precisely defined group of eight clergymen and a broader and less exactly defined group of intelligent and religious moderates. He uses rhetorical strategies and language that invokes a sense of these men's hypocrisy and once he accomplishes this, the argument for the protests broadens out and his tone shifts and begins to include the larger, presumably agreeing audience. King wrote this letter to the eight clergymen because these men clearly disagree with him and his notion of civil rights and peaceful protest. Therefore, King puts his argument on the same religious and academic level as these eight men claimed to be at, there would be no possibility of refutation since if they were to do so.

Final Thoughts on Information Technology

After the readings and class discussions, I still stand for that the Internet is creating an environment of misinformation. Because the most I heard and read is that the Internet technology makes people lazy on using hard copies such as books, dictionaries in printed form, papers, etc. They usually use Internet network to find information all the time, but is their information credible from the editors on the Internet? I think it depends on your own thought. If there is a misinformation appeared, people will pass that misinformation through one to another one.

More, let watch what this high school senior student says about the positive impacts of technology from the below YouTube video.

http://youtu.be/fx1cQX09wCY

I totally agree with her opinions about the advantages of technology on education, it includes the information technology, Wikipedia. But these advantages also make many negative impacts as my argument of my essay #2.

Amazing Technologies

Here are my video and website link sharing about some amazing technologies which were found in this few years.

Video from YouTube.com:

Sixth Sense Technology

The man in this video who Prarnav Mistry is a talented student from American Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. He is such a genius, invented an amazing technology in a combination of the physical and virtual world.

You have to watch this video for his awesome talk!

Website from Gizmodo.com:

Sixth Sense Technology May Change How We Look at the World Forever

http://gizmodo.com/5167790/sixth-sense-technology-may-change-how-we-look-at-the-world-forever

This website has more descriptions about this sixth sense technology from Prarnav Mistry's parter, Pattie Maes. It also provides another video link to watch.

This is an interesting sixth sense technology may coming out and use in human daily lives. I believe it will become real.

Information Technology

Information technology becomes more important in the field of business and education. Have you ever considered what our society would be like without the assistance of information technology? If we go back one hundred years, would we be able to survive without computers? Computers consist of Internet technology and information technology. How could the information technology affect on our society? These static plastics have made such a tremendous impact on our daily lives that trepidation overtakes us at the only thought of not having them.

How information technology has given independence and self-esteem to the elderly and the physically challenged. Active parents do not have to go off to college and leave kids with auntie or grandma. Information technology now allows them the ability to enjoy it all; continue earning their weekly/ monthly salary, play their roles within the family, and earn their degrees as the kids drift off to sleep. Some individuals take it a step further by searching for jobs and eventually working at home with the help of these stationary devices.

Other, information technology has allowed law enforcements to minimize, solve, and even prevent crimes. Many rental companies, for example, have tracking devices on their vehicles that, with the help of computers, can detect their exact whereabouts if they are stolen. Missing or wanted individuals can also be tracked similarly, once they are on the phone for at least a few seconds. Detectives present the dead by revealing how, when, where, and by whom their lives were taken. A fingerprint or a strand of hair could be all it takes to make the dead speak and put a criminal behind bars. This information technology will be a Smartphone or Iphone which affects that many things on our society.

Blog Essay Prompt

For essay #2, I picked my essay prompt as, "Is the internet creating an environment of misinformation or is it giving us access to a more diverse range of views and information?"

Rough Outline:

1st paragraph,

Introduction - describes what kinds of technology around us in this modern century. This technology makes our lives more efficient, but there are many disadvantages of Internet technology.

2nd paragraph,

Body - describes my personal example about my younger cousin doing simple maths with fingers. This is a problem which technology affected.

3rd paragraph,

Body - says technology has revolutionized the classroom such as Smartboards or computers, how they can affect on education.

4th paragraph,

Body - explains that there are two forms of laziness about technology - physical and intellectual.

5th paragraph,

Conclusion - concludes the use of Information technology in education has benefits and losses.

Google

Google, an information technology, is the No.1 searching website in the world. If anyone has a question, people usually just type it in words on the Google searching bar of the website. Google will give you the answers by using links and sitemaps to other websites where you can find information you need. Is it that easy and useful? This search engine can find some of the most obscure information and include it in the index. Since it becomes popular, people usually say "starts google it online". "Google" exactly means to search from these people's habit, it shows how successful Google website is. This type of deep search technology has some advantages and disadvantages.

The inner web pages consist of Google's pages that take several clicks before the user is able to view them. These pages may be product pages, content or a database of searches that web search engine spiders cannot normally crawl. The advantage of this type of crawl technology is that website owners can have products, shops, information and other valuable links included in a web search engine's index. This leaves more visibility on the Internet for the website owner.

But this deep search engine, Google, has one disadvantage that personal information being indexed regardless of privacy. Information such as social security numbers, financial information or geographic locations can be indexed even if it's posted to a personal website. Google has given users the ability to block some information from the index using a file. It allows users to remove URLs after the website owner has removed the offending information, which deletes it from the index. Further, this information technology also affects on traditional institutions negatively such as libraries and books. For example, when college students need information for doing their research papers, they usually find it on the Internet using this information technology. Because it's more convenient that they only have to type the keywords on the searching bar, they don't have to find on books in hard copies which they need to go to libraries. Then, people will start ignoring books and libraries because they don't need to go at all. People are becoming lazy through this information technology, Google.