My day 2day

damm im tired.. lol

Did a 4 mile run to help support lung cancer research Central park... wayyyyyy more ppl than I expected there were over 11,000 participants in the event... yours truley started with Number 3766 and Passed a couple hundred people but the beginning was slow.. it was like trying to get out of the city using the holland tunnel on a weekend. Over all it was pretty cool and after the run we got a bagel/apple and water oh and I got this pretty cool t-shirt thing too.. lol yep so now im off to posting my assignment(4 Louie) and then a nice long Nap....Oh and one more thing.. I really want to do the AIG New York City Marathon last year... I missed out on it last year because I found out about it too late...

103 Research Project

Well im still a little undecisive on what exactly it is I want to do for the project. As for the presentation though, I would like to speak to the class in a way other than reading a piece of paper like if I was filibustering in congress so im leaning towards writing a paper and doing powerpoint to go along with it. The topic is still too broad in my mind though I know I want to do something on the Topic of race but im not sure where im going with it. At the same time I dont want to kill the topic since im already doing race for the other class. So here is a sketch of my possible topics and ideas

Race in the News Media

• the ethnic background of news anchors
• the ratio of white to minority newscasters

Race in Movies

• the portrayl of Hispanics in movies
• the portrayl of Asians, Blacks, and other minority groups
• the stereotype for each of these
• language used to describe a minority or even a white person in these films and how it affects our outlook conciously or unconciously

Another way im thinking about it is.. mabye in a more modern way.. if you will...

Mabye asking the Question why is it that everything must be politically correct these days. Why must a show always have some kind of minority group represented, why cant it just be what it is... something a classmate brought up to my attention (i forgot exactly who I think it was Saquaya) but they said that in the show "Boy meets world" there was not a black person until they introduced a black girlfriend to one of the charecters. Now was this later adding of this charecter to be politcally correct.. personally i never really payed attention that the show was all white.. i watched it for what it was.. entertaining and funny. Even in my experiences from the Army.. during Ceronmonies and important events they kind of all ways wanted to be politcally correct and would make sure to include a minority group in the mix just about everytime... I know this because out of a company of 80+ ppl their were only like 5 spanish ppl yet the Guide-arm bearer was none other than yours truley, the person before me was a mix and looked spanish and the person i passed the torched to was Black. The other companies followed the same kind of formula because if you look at us during ceramonies of the batallion or brigade just by the Guide-arm bearers you would assume that their were alot more minorities than their actually were.. so mabye we are doing this politically correct thing a little too much.

I dont know Im even thinking about the portrayl of Food for certain groups.. lol

One thing im considering is why is it that Taco bell is marketed so heavily as "authentic mexican food" lol its not in anyway mexican....

Im a little excited about this event on April 19th in Central park its basically a 4 mile run to help support lung cancer research. To participate a 25$ entry fee is required and their are cash prizes for top runners in the race, broken down by age categories. Personally I'm doing it just for the fun of it and if anyone would like further information on it you can visit their website
http://runasone.com/ and just click on the runasone tab

Time and Place: April 19, 2009, Central Park, 72nd Street Transverse
4-Mile RUN [scored]: 9:00 a.m.
1.3-mile health WALK [non-scored]: 9:20 a.m.

hope to see some of you there

Similarties

The Royal

The similarities between the Matrix and The Royale that I observed is that both stories are about an alternate reality. The characters in the book the Royal play out their story but they aren't complete robots because when the crew of three first got there they were able to respond to their questions which had nothing to do with the story (the yellow guys remark about them not having DNA or being real). Another similarity I found more clearly in Royal is the topic of race. The Leaders were white men; the lower ranks were played by a black man and a weird looking dark alien looking guy.

Farscape: "The Human Reaction"

Human reaction is similar to the matrix in that they also include a fake reality. The matrix is controlled by a CPU which plays out a life for the people hooked up to it, the same is with John and his thoughts being read and controlled to create a reality for him. The Matrix and the "real world" are only a phone call away weirdly similar to "Human reaction" in where they were only a worm hole away. One thing that stood out to me in Far Escape is that the Alien which created this reality from a book didn't understand human beings and Agent smith talked about how the original matrix that was created for humans also failed to satisfy human being because it was too perfect, I'm not saying that royal was perfect at all but I think human beings are almost impossible to satisfy.


But overall what I walk away from these episodes with the impression that reality isn’t necessarily black and white. It goes back to the question of Morpheus from the Matrix.. “What is real, How do we define real?” the charecters in the “Royale” weren’t limited to the writing of the book itself as they responded to questions from the crew that the scenario they were in didn’t necessarily fit. How does the Crew know that even their lives and their existence is real? What if they are a part of another book without them knowing (I don’t know much about Star Trek) but what if their constant wandering around is written in some kind of sick book.. lol

Then you got Farescape where John believes he is going back to earth but at what point had things stopped being real and turn into this artificial world of his thoughts. Are not our thoughts what make things real? How does John even know that he even figured out the truth.. Maybe his finding out about the aliens and the whole ending isn’t true… maybe its level one if you will… So overall I made a little bit of a circle since the beginning of the semester… its like that saying goes the more you know less you know.