Sunday, November 24, 2013
What I See Is All in My Head
So I went to this website to check out a cool illusion and my first impressions about the illusion I chose was that it really changes your vision, but just for a split few seconds. Once you take your eyes off the screen, I looked at the back of my hand and it looks really wierd. It looks as if my hand were in some kind of liquid like form.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Research on Environmental Racism
This research paper turned into a blog post encompasses racism with the environment because we tend to place stereotypes based on how clean or dirty a certain country looks to be. The jump below this introduction will show you what I mean. Enjoy !
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Help Needed
I need help, my viewers. I want to add a few more things to my blog but I just can`t seem to find the way how. So if any of you know or would like to share some links to a special website, do so in a comment below. Thanks a lot in advance.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Melancholic Graduate of 2014
Take some consideration that this is Hamlet in 2014:
Will I be or won`t I be a graduate of Righetti High School during June of 2014? That is the question. The answer is yes and I am standing here before you giving a speech on how I accomplished my present goals and how I will go through "the road less traveled" (Robert Frost). It is mid-June and it is very hot, so here I go ...
We have all had bumps in the road. Some bumps are larger than others. My mom is having an affair with the "king", she is mentally dead to me, my father has been jailed or presumably recorded as dead by now, and my biggest task is to go to college? How does something like that happen? Well, we all have to do our homework and classwork at some point. Now for the selection of classes, you have to choose them strategically, almost like a game. If you choose the wrong one, you will lose points and would have wasted precious time in the process. Your scholarship packets are your swords and shields when going into battle with the 3 headed admissions officers. Your armory, if built correctly, will get you through the gate on to a better life. If not, you will be eaten up and spit back out to where you started. But, whose to say that we haven`t all defeated those beasts to get through that wonderful gate? Now what you do beyond that gate is up to you. Now you are a grown, well built man, strong enough to defend yourself. You have just started to live your own life and will be improving the lives of your future family from what you have learned in your childhood and adolescent years.
Will I be or won`t I be a graduate of Righetti High School during June of 2014? That is the question. The answer is yes and I am standing here before you giving a speech on how I accomplished my present goals and how I will go through "the road less traveled" (Robert Frost). It is mid-June and it is very hot, so here I go ...
We have all had bumps in the road. Some bumps are larger than others. My mom is having an affair with the "king", she is mentally dead to me, my father has been jailed or presumably recorded as dead by now, and my biggest task is to go to college? How does something like that happen? Well, we all have to do our homework and classwork at some point. Now for the selection of classes, you have to choose them strategically, almost like a game. If you choose the wrong one, you will lose points and would have wasted precious time in the process. Your scholarship packets are your swords and shields when going into battle with the 3 headed admissions officers. Your armory, if built correctly, will get you through the gate on to a better life. If not, you will be eaten up and spit back out to where you started. But, whose to say that we haven`t all defeated those beasts to get through that wonderful gate? Now what you do beyond that gate is up to you. Now you are a grown, well built man, strong enough to defend yourself. You have just started to live your own life and will be improving the lives of your future family from what you have learned in your childhood and adolescent years.
Declaration of (Learning) Independence
We the students of the classroom of Dr. Preston, will come together and revolutionize the learning institutions and teaching strategies for future generations to come. As an individual, I wish to learn more about the Internet and its other many functions
To know some of the acronyms and what is their significance in the Internet realm. To realize that blogging and the Internet overall is an untapped potential waiting to be discovered. To learn why the Internet has its pros and cons and how we can eliminate some of the cons to make the Internet the ultimate tool ever invented. To learn how to correctly type on a standard keyboard.
To know some of the acronyms and what is their significance in the Internet realm. To realize that blogging and the Internet overall is an untapped potential waiting to be discovered. To learn why the Internet has its pros and cons and how we can eliminate some of the cons to make the Internet the ultimate tool ever invented. To learn how to correctly type on a standard keyboard.
No Child Left Un-Tableted
I am truly up for going toward the usage of a tablet only as an all around tool. I like the idea of having the textbooks allin one device instead of carrying 2-3 pounds worth of bound up paper. Somehow I still feel like using the traditional pen and paper because then I know my work is written somewhere and it is not some where lost in the cyberworld. The pen and paper method works because your eyes don`t get really tired from looking at the screen for 7 to 8 hours more or less.
Vocabulary I didn`t understand:
Vocabulary I didn`t understand:
- Adept
- Luddite
- Feasible
- Repudiation/ Kneejerk
- Competence
- Accrued
- apostles
- Caveat
- Dilation
- Raptly
- Besieged
- Bureaucracy
- Conceding
- Clamored
- Metacognitive
- Cognitive
- Consortium
- Plausible
- Proxy
- Ideological
- Ascendant
- Blubious
- Commodified
- Transformative
Will Study for Food
My plan is to attend Allan Hancock College first and then maybe transfer to a four year university such as California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo or California State University, Northridge. I have visited CSUN two or three times with one of them being the time my middle school hosted the graduation ceremony in one of the auditoriums. I have not visisted CP SLO but from the pictures it looks pretty nice and swell. My only concern is that I have heard that California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo is a little racist toward other races, not be full American. I know for a fact that CSU, Northridge is more diverse with their students and their ethnic backgrounds.
My two main majors that I want to pursue are a Business Management and an Environmental Engineering degree, specifically designing and building new ways to produce renewable resources so we no longer have to use fossil fuels. This includes not using coal to generate electricity. My overall pinnacle goal is to completely erase the use for fossil fuels even for objects that claim to be environmentally stable. Environmental stabilty/sustainabilty/ friendly all mean emitting very little or no greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
My only knowledge of the two schools is that Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a very hard school to get into. on the other hand, CSUN seems like a more affordable choice considering that I know more about that school and that I know more of where that school is located.
My two main majors that I want to pursue are a Business Management and an Environmental Engineering degree, specifically designing and building new ways to produce renewable resources so we no longer have to use fossil fuels. This includes not using coal to generate electricity. My overall pinnacle goal is to completely erase the use for fossil fuels even for objects that claim to be environmentally stable. Environmental stabilty/sustainabilty/ friendly all mean emitting very little or no greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
My only knowledge of the two schools is that Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a very hard school to get into. on the other hand, CSUN seems like a more affordable choice considering that I know more about that school and that I know more of where that school is located.
Tools that Change the Way We Think
Passage from Dr. Preston`s post:
From In the Plex by Steven Levy (page 67)
"Back in 2004, I asked [Google founders] Page and Brin what they saw as the future of Google search. ' It will be included in people`s brains, ' said Page. 'When you think about something and don`t really know muchabout it, you will automatically get information.'
'That`s true, ' said Brin. 'Ultimately I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world. Right now you go into your computer and type a phrase, but you can imagine that it could be easier in the future, that you can have just devices you talk into, or you can have computers that pay attention to what`s going on around them and suggest useful information.'
'Somebody introduces themselves to you, and your watch goes to your web page, ' said Page. 'Or if you met this person two years ago, this is what they said to you... Eventually you`ll have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer."
RESPONSE:
At first glance and some thoughts, the Internet seemed like a really good idea, especially after having included it into the first smartphones. The Internet is where it is a global library, where you can look up any records for a research paper available online and maybe print out some famous paintings from the cyberworld`s grand gallery choices. The Internet is also where you can buy whatever you may desire, from clothes to shoes to electronics and even pre-order food items that are needed in your refrigerator from your local supermarket to be shipped to your house no time flat. Some examples of online shopping are Amazon or eBay, or just search for your preferred retailer and possibly they will have items to be sold online. People now and before, have gone to the library once or more times to check out some kind of book, newspapers, articles, DVD`s, CD`s, and maybe a cassette. But the Internet has its flipside. The very well known hackers are people who get into the Internet mainframe and rearrange some codes or of the like to be rich or to cyberbully or to create a new identity for themselves to not get caught by the federal authority. The hackers are also who make it difficult to decide whether the Internet should be a "free" place to roam or be very enclosed and locked up very well. My suggestion is to for the government to hack into their mainframe and shut them down, so that way we can live in two "free" worlds, one virtual and one in the reality.
The reason I have put the word "free" in quotations is because not everything is liberty or of no monetary value in this life. You have to realize that life isn`t handed to you on a silver platter.
From In the Plex by Steven Levy (page 67)
"Back in 2004, I asked [Google founders] Page and Brin what they saw as the future of Google search. ' It will be included in people`s brains, ' said Page. 'When you think about something and don`t really know muchabout it, you will automatically get information.'
'That`s true, ' said Brin. 'Ultimately I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world. Right now you go into your computer and type a phrase, but you can imagine that it could be easier in the future, that you can have just devices you talk into, or you can have computers that pay attention to what`s going on around them and suggest useful information.'
'Somebody introduces themselves to you, and your watch goes to your web page, ' said Page. 'Or if you met this person two years ago, this is what they said to you... Eventually you`ll have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer."
RESPONSE:
At first glance and some thoughts, the Internet seemed like a really good idea, especially after having included it into the first smartphones. The Internet is where it is a global library, where you can look up any records for a research paper available online and maybe print out some famous paintings from the cyberworld`s grand gallery choices. The Internet is also where you can buy whatever you may desire, from clothes to shoes to electronics and even pre-order food items that are needed in your refrigerator from your local supermarket to be shipped to your house no time flat. Some examples of online shopping are Amazon or eBay, or just search for your preferred retailer and possibly they will have items to be sold online. People now and before, have gone to the library once or more times to check out some kind of book, newspapers, articles, DVD`s, CD`s, and maybe a cassette. But the Internet has its flipside. The very well known hackers are people who get into the Internet mainframe and rearrange some codes or of the like to be rich or to cyberbully or to create a new identity for themselves to not get caught by the federal authority. The hackers are also who make it difficult to decide whether the Internet should be a "free" place to roam or be very enclosed and locked up very well. My suggestion is to for the government to hack into their mainframe and shut them down, so that way we can live in two "free" worlds, one virtual and one in the reality.
The reason I have put the word "free" in quotations is because not everything is liberty or of no monetary value in this life. You have to realize that life isn`t handed to you on a silver platter.
Filter My Bubbles
The responses to the questions:
A) I learned that privacy is no longer private in this country. Also that the government has been eliminating our freedom to speak or publish little by little.
B) Doing any engine search changes my way of what I am looking at on the Internet because now I know that the government is looking at it and can be used against me in any way.
C) The questions that rose from this video about the Internet in generalis that we have left our faith to technology to protect us from the harm of the Internet. In some ways it is good and in other ways it is really horrible. It is good because you don`t have topay for a human being to be controlling the computer processors and that "gatekeeper" as the video called it works intelligently. In another way the "gatekeeper" isn`t that all intelligent because the algorithms it uses sort of are like bribing a security guard to let you in to that really high end restaurant. the system that Google and Bing and Yahoo are using should be changed for the best of humanity for such reasons as Edward Snowden.
D) I can improve the effectiveness of my searches by going to websites that don`t care who you are or what kind of job you have or what are you are looking for. Those websites I prefer the most because they are there to help and aid you, not to profile you based on the searches. An example of that would be DuckDuckGo.
A) I learned that privacy is no longer private in this country. Also that the government has been eliminating our freedom to speak or publish little by little.
B) Doing any engine search changes my way of what I am looking at on the Internet because now I know that the government is looking at it and can be used against me in any way.
C) The questions that rose from this video about the Internet in generalis that we have left our faith to technology to protect us from the harm of the Internet. In some ways it is good and in other ways it is really horrible. It is good because you don`t have topay for a human being to be controlling the computer processors and that "gatekeeper" as the video called it works intelligently. In another way the "gatekeeper" isn`t that all intelligent because the algorithms it uses sort of are like bribing a security guard to let you in to that really high end restaurant. the system that Google and Bing and Yahoo are using should be changed for the best of humanity for such reasons as Edward Snowden.
D) I can improve the effectiveness of my searches by going to websites that don`t care who you are or what kind of job you have or what are you are looking for. Those websites I prefer the most because they are there to help and aid you, not to profile you based on the searches. An example of that would be DuckDuckGo.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Environmentally-Friendly Connecting the Dots
We, as humans tend to connect the dots for everything, from finding the solution to a crime and trying to find the things in common. With that, the paper that we are supposed to write has to link somehow to our future careers and majors to racism, one of the issues facing our world very often.
The career that I want to pursue is being an environmental engineer. Environmental engineering, in general, is the integration of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment, to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate pollution sites. The engineers are also concerned with finding plausible solutions in the field of public health, arthropod-borne diseases, and to implement laws to remediate and adequately place correct sanitation in urban, rural, and recreational areas such as playgrounds or national parks. Female and male engineers also are in charge of waste water and waste disposal management, the control of air pollution, recycling anything (especially shipping containers), radiation protection (for those citizens that live next to the nuclear plants), the rights to industrial hygiene, environmental sustainability (energy efficiency, water and gas conservation, waste reduction, etc.), and take care of public health issues. You should have some kind of environmental engineering law school degree with you before you leave college. It is basically the same thing. The only difference is that the law degree gives that person the right to be the lawyer for the better future of the envionment. The "green" lawyer protects any of the above laws if they are broken. The "green" lawyers have to have both environmental engineering and law school to address complex environmental problems, most frequently include land transactions.
I chose this career as my main career because I am concerned for the environment, that we are burning off tons of fossil fuels and that our present leadership doesn`t seem to look at that. I do believe that renewable energy is the future for the United States, economically as well. We already have some electric cars coming out of motor companies such as Ford, Chevy, Nissan of America, and Tesla Motors just to name a few. The United States could once again be the the giant powerhouse of the world. All we need is for someone to believe in this type of future and implement it into everyday life.
The way that it fits into racism, profiling and discrimination is how some people are placed in categories depending on the location of their home, either being from a dirty farm or coming from a sleek, industrial-designed megacity. Also race has to do with how sanitary an ethnic group is and how I can help them meet sanitation codes, as the engineer that I will be in the near future. Race and ethnicity has to do with environmental sciences in general because we tend to segregate those that we think are filthy and don`t pick up for themselves to those that want to leave a pretty, clean, and manicured park the way it is. Also it can be on the city funds, too. Maybe some cities have money to keep the city clean but it is just not enough to keep up with the city`s demand for more street-sweepers and rainstorm drains.
The career that I want to pursue is being an environmental engineer. Environmental engineering, in general, is the integration of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment, to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate pollution sites. The engineers are also concerned with finding plausible solutions in the field of public health, arthropod-borne diseases, and to implement laws to remediate and adequately place correct sanitation in urban, rural, and recreational areas such as playgrounds or national parks. Female and male engineers also are in charge of waste water and waste disposal management, the control of air pollution, recycling anything (especially shipping containers), radiation protection (for those citizens that live next to the nuclear plants), the rights to industrial hygiene, environmental sustainability (energy efficiency, water and gas conservation, waste reduction, etc.), and take care of public health issues. You should have some kind of environmental engineering law school degree with you before you leave college. It is basically the same thing. The only difference is that the law degree gives that person the right to be the lawyer for the better future of the envionment. The "green" lawyer protects any of the above laws if they are broken. The "green" lawyers have to have both environmental engineering and law school to address complex environmental problems, most frequently include land transactions.
I chose this career as my main career because I am concerned for the environment, that we are burning off tons of fossil fuels and that our present leadership doesn`t seem to look at that. I do believe that renewable energy is the future for the United States, economically as well. We already have some electric cars coming out of motor companies such as Ford, Chevy, Nissan of America, and Tesla Motors just to name a few. The United States could once again be the the giant powerhouse of the world. All we need is for someone to believe in this type of future and implement it into everyday life.
The way that it fits into racism, profiling and discrimination is how some people are placed in categories depending on the location of their home, either being from a dirty farm or coming from a sleek, industrial-designed megacity. Also race has to do with how sanitary an ethnic group is and how I can help them meet sanitation codes, as the engineer that I will be in the near future. Race and ethnicity has to do with environmental sciences in general because we tend to segregate those that we think are filthy and don`t pick up for themselves to those that want to leave a pretty, clean, and manicured park the way it is. Also it can be on the city funds, too. Maybe some cities have money to keep the city clean but it is just not enough to keep up with the city`s demand for more street-sweepers and rainstorm drains.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Notes for the Racial Profiling Research Paper
These are the notes that I took the day we discussed over the paper:
(NOTE: THIS IS A FUSION BETWEEN MY OWN RESEARCH FROM ONLINE SOURCES AND THE NOTES TAKEN IN CLASS THROUGHOUT THE ONE TO TWO WEEKS.)
(NOTE: THIS IS A FUSION BETWEEN MY OWN RESEARCH FROM ONLINE SOURCES AND THE NOTES TAKEN IN CLASS THROUGHOUT THE ONE TO TWO WEEKS.)
- Limitations on the first amendment
- Hate speech
- Obscenity
- Copywriting laws (plagerism, pirating DVD`s)
- Guarentees freedom of speech, press, and religion
- Outlines what Congress can`t do but it limits on what we can say
- Another thing not covered by the First Amendment is any speech said that has immediate or irreperable harm to the nation or its individuals
- en loco parenti "in the place of the parents", for school purposes
- En loco politico "in place of the politics"
- Schema-a representation of a plan or theory in the form of an outline or model. In psychological terms, it is when a cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information
- It can be useful because it allows us to take shortcuts in interpreting information in the available environment
- Dangerous because it excludes pertinent information that is available to that environment
- Focuses on things for confirming pre-existing beliefs and ideas
- Can contribute to stereotypes and make it difficult to process new information when it doesn`t go with our personal beliefs
- Stereo types used such as ethnicity/race, religion, gender (the in and out groups)
- Definition: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image of an idea of a particular person or thing
- Common stereotypes used today are toward politicians, tattoed persons, the elder, and feminists
- The value of life - who is greater / lesser than in life (could be money, status, etc.)
- Verbal, nonverbal, peraverbal communication (used on a day-to-day basis and can offend other people who take a particular thing the wrong way)
- Verbal-to convey a meaning
- Nonverbal-body language, hand movement, distance between people personal space, eye contact with one another
- Peraverbal-qualities of voice, volume, speed and pace used by the speaker, tone, talking fluently and then abruptly pausing
- the right to your opinion-how you should question and validate other`s opinions based on cold hard facts provided by them
- type of experimental ideas:
- theoretical-it is the "world" of ideas and information provided
- Applied- that it can be used and tested in the real world and where there will be results
Questions that we came up with:
- How do we know racial profiling when we see it?
- Why is racism such a huge problem?
- What are the causes of racism and how can it be fixed?
- What forms can be found in racism?
- Why are people racist?
- Describe the history of racism in this country going back to about the 1800`s.
For more info, please go to Dr. Preston`s website. It should be under the Research Paper post.
UPDATED November 20th, 2013:
Content to the Introduction
UPDATED November 20th, 2013:
Content to the Introduction
- The author should point out the important issue
- Point out that whatever being said, it is contributing to the issue, and helps to fill in the gap
- We ask a question to see how it can be done
- How can you answer the question
- what is my strategy to examining the source I am looking at
- Where do I find the sources I need
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