Blog 8

The most important thematic for me during the class it was the movie “Gattaca” and the text “The Man of the Moon” by George J. Annas. The movie helped me to believe in my personal goals as a better person. Also, the message that the text provides about perfect humans give me more confidence to help others whenever they request my help. Indeed, I love the most in the movie it was when Vincent knowing that it was inactive, he had the chance to succeed by himself, even when his family suggested of desisting about his dream to travel in the space.

I do believe that this movie assumes many identities with the expectations that we do not know that they exist. It helps to understand that many perspectives in life could be made. Moreover, they are possible in many way with some limits that unknown, they just need to be discover.  

Reflection on blogging

In my personal experience, I do believe that using blogger in my class Eng101 at LaGuardia Community College is helping me to improve my writing skills in many aspects. The first advantage is the benefit to develop new strategies and improve better techniques by taking an example from the best writers in the class. Secondly, is that people is challenge to write positive post in a way that the public could give you a better criteria about what you are missing as a writer.      

Students sometimes do not support each other in many times. Using blogger permits many students to compare and improve their writing skills without being embarrass to ask for help. In many cases when a student needs help 25% at the time fells that the other student is going to denied to help you out. For Example, my friend Nicky is an excellent writer at the New York University.  What I admired in Nicky is that he loves to help students to develop new strategies according peoples personality but none of his English classes could get the change to share his talent using blogger like my English class. My friend said that “I was very lucky to have this opportunity in a way that I could change many people minds”, which I do totally agree with my friend because I enjoy every assignment that we blog into the class.

Positive thinking brings a powerful force in our lives. Writing a blog is very challenge for some people at the time to make a positive post for the simple reason that every post goes public. Sometimes it can make it easier for many people to write a simple post without making a good combination. For example I do believe that positive post can transform people minds and be more popular in this social network. Moreover, I think any kind of positive post are more worth to read it because increase personal recognition in different set of skills. Both aspects of blogging are wonderful especially the activity that public could make comments to help me out or include information that you probably forgot by mistake. Blogging gives you the excellent benefit of establishing yourself as an expert in your chosen area of work where I discovered that I would love to put it in my own business as soon as possible in a way that my clients start to know about my passions, likes, hobbies, sports and dislikes.

Everyone has many different ways to write, but believe me when I said that “blogging could connect potential readers to motivate me to write more and more in my Eng 101 class”, with the benefit to create new career opportunities just for me and help others in the future to believe on this social network from my own experiences. 

Blog 6: Free will and determinism

People love to think that whatever happens in our lives is for a reason.  The act of seeing determinism is by putting some illusion where all the events are ultimately determined by causes external to the will. According to the article “Free Will and Determinism in the World of Minority Report” having free will is thought to require two things. The first support is the alternative position, where people think that “God is all knowing. If God is all knowing then he must know everything that is going to happened in the future” (104). This means there are no alternative possibilities, and must of the events are as God has foreseen them. The Second support is self-control. This is a person who controls every action so any alternative possibilities realized are up to him. In the same way, “Many scientist and philosophers have thought that the laws of nature are deterministic. These laws include Newton’s laws of motion, the law of gravity, the laws governing the electric and magnetic fields, and so on” (105). This makes some reference at some point that these laws prescribe a unique future evolution into our lives.   

In many cultures people believes the future could be predicted with a simple prophecy. A clear case is the play “Oedipus the King” by Plato. We could see in this event that Oedipus was very determined to find out about the future of Thebes. But his own future was already marked by the Gods by predicting that he will kill his own father and end up married to his own mother. Hard determinists could be present in the argument that “Jocasta, finally realizing that he was her son, begged him to stop his search for Laius' murderer” (895). In fact, some truth could be very painful by giving the importance of some consequence in many different ways.

Free will is treated very skeptically in the movie “Minority Report” because is governed by a state of Determinism. Determinism is the philosophical doctrine that most of the events and situations during this movie  are made with the decision that the criminals are prosecuted with a perfect system due to the process  that they are predetermined  to commit a crime. In addition, it seemed that the criminals have no choice in the matter, for the fact that everything is predetermined. This system stops many crimes in Washington D.C and the citizens are happy that it works 99% of the time with the help of the U.S Goverment. However, John Anderton was predicted to commit a crime but he tries to establish that he has free will and determinism to easily prevent committing the crime. Both stories are similar in the point of view that reflects truth as a variety of meanings, such as the state of being in accord with fact or reality.

I do believe that many of our actions are free or without intention but they must occur soon or later in our lives because in many situations we express the notion that every event is caused in accordance with causal laws. Following this further, we do something because we want to have a unique future better than others.