2040: The future

Today is April 15, 2040 and I'm a freshman in college. I wake up and my alarm tells me it's raining outside. I go to my closet and based on the weather, it picks out my outfit for me - including an umbrella. When I turn on my T.V., VH1 is blaring all of the music videos I have chosen for it to play for me. After I'm all dressed and ready to go, I go out to my kitchen and my stove has already prepared me my eggs and toast; it's what I've been craving all morning. I hop into my car that runs on algae, and I tell it to take me to class. Everyone's laptop's are one-sided (think iPad), and automatically writes down everything our professor says. After all of my classes, I get back into my car and it takes me back to my apartment. My dinner is waiting for me when I get back- a nice juicy steak and a baked potato- still hot. Once I'm ready for bed, I tell my alarm what time I want to get up, it tells me goodnight and gives me a forecast for tomorrows weather.

The Internet: A Clear and Present Danger

After reading this article I think that the scenarios listed in the beginning of the article should be illegal. If someone breaks through my firewall or if a pedophile tries to e-mail my son I would want the authorities to do something. But how the laws are now, no action would be taken to ensure my security. Legislation should read this article and see the holes that are in their laws. I think it's a very effective way to start the essay because you put yourself in the specific situation and it makes you think about what you would do if that happened to you.

Blog 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBPBTlOsf-g

This is a trailer for "Sleepless in Seattle". Most people have seen or have heard about this movie, but the way it is portrayed in this particular trailer makes it look like a thriller instead a romantic movie. It uses the same scenes from the movie, but sets it to scary music and uses graphics to make things look menacing and dark. Instead of a little boy trying to find a wife for his dad, the trailer makes the movie look like there's a stalker woman trying to kill the family. I think it will want to make "Middle aged folks" want to see it because it leaves you curious and wondering what will happen. I know my parents would want to see it!

"She's Out of My League"

"She's Out of My League" is about an average Joe named Kirk (Jay Baruchel) who finds the cell phone of a "ten", Molly (Alice Eve) at the airport where he works. When she finds out that Kirk has her phone, she invites him to go see a hockey game with her as a reward for returning her it. At the hockey game Molly's friend tells Kirk that Molly has feelings for him. As their relationship starts to flourish, Kirk's friends and family make him feel insecure, saying that she's "too hot" for him and that she'll most likely leave him any minute. Although Molly thinks he's a sweet, funny and honest, and she wants to further their relationship, Kirk's insecurities get the better of him. Will they be able to make their relationship last?

Less Privacy is Good for Us (and You): Question 1

Etzioni believes that violating privacy for the common good of public health and safety is a "justifiable diminution of privacy". He uses the HIV testing of infants and people hired to work in child care centers or schools as examples for this common good he refers to. I agree that both of these situations can be justified to violate privacy. If mothers are tested for HIV in the delivery room the rate of HIV in infants would drop. "Two-thirds of infected mothers are unaware" so if they're tested, they can become aware and save their babies. When told of their situation, as long as mothers do not breastfeed and give their babies AZT, the probability of the infant getting HIV is lowered immediately. Right now, people hired to work in schools or day cares cannot be properly background checked to keep out child abusers and sex offenders because criminals use false identification and aliases. Using something called biometrics, a method for recognizing humans based on fingerprints, facial scans, eye-scanning, etc, people can have their background checks connected to their physical characteristics that cannot be changed, therefore they wont be able to cheat the system. Our children will be safer and parents will be at ease knowing that the people they are leaving their kids with are safe and will not harm them.

Untold Stories

In the videos they talk about how Immokalee used to be the land of the Seminoles. But after the government ordered for the water to be drained the land became hard and the lack of water killed off a lot of the animals they hunted. The new dry land brought about railroads and better farming, which in itself brought about new jobs and industrialization. As more jobs came about, more people from other countries came in and took the farming jobs, and the Seminoles slowly adapted or left. To this day Immokalee is still strongly based on farming
I grew up in a town called Brandon, a little south of Tampa. Where I live is very rural and very different than Immokalee. Although it is very different, I can relate to it because near Brandon is a place called Plant City. It is also highly reliant on farming and most of the people that live there are Hispanic. Plant City mostly farms strawberries and every year we have the Strawberry Festival. I go to Plant City a lot because my mom works out there sometimes and when we drive out there I stare in amazement at all of the strawberry crops and orange groves; there are just so many! I can't imagine going out there everyday to pick fruit off of a tree or bush. I don't think I would ever so it, but I'm thankful for the people that do. I can only imagine how hard the work is.

"A Quilt of a Country: Out of Many, One?"

In Anna Quindlen's article "A Quilt of a Country: Out of Many, One?" she points out how America is just like a quilt. We are made up of different ethnicities and different religions, we can be white or black, straight or gay. America is made out of different pieces and different fabrics, but we are all one united front, no matter what our differences are. People of these different religions and ethnicities may hate eachother, but in times of need we all come together to support one another.

I agree totally with what she's trying to say. Take September eleventh for example, our nation was targeted by terrorists and even though they tried to bring us down, we became a stronger country for a period of time. We all may have different backgrounds and we may hate eachother for one thing or another, but when our country is in trouble we forget our differences to help those in need.