Planning for the Future (My Own Perspective)

Yes, I'm planning for the future like all of you. But I'm not planning to save money until, at least after a year or two after getting out of college. I am getting my English degree with a concentration in Literature by December of 2009 and after that, I'll start with journalism again to finish the one year left I have to get my second degree. I'm bilingual in both Spanish and English and I was planning to study Chinese, but I realized I'm not the typical type of person who is not satisfied to learn just the basics of another language. That's why I preferred to stay in the U.S. to go to college, so I could not forget the new idiom I learned with ESL classes. After thinking about learning Chinese, I was like no way. I would need to live at least for at least a year to master the language.

So the moral of the story is that if you want to learn a new language, you would need to live in the country that is being spoken.

Online Class Activity #1

Barlow’s article reminds me of the movie Eagle Eye that was in cinemas in December of 2008. This movie is about two people whose lives are commanded by a computer. The computer - she - has its own aesthetically laws. Barlow article says the following below:
“We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.”

Maybe in 1995 there was a fear that cyberspace was to control us. Or that we people were going to have the capacity to command through online communication, which is what we do today through online banking, purchases, e-mail, IM, etc. But Barlow was speaking through the cyberspace’s voice which it indirectly said that it was going to control people’s lives. His article does not have sense of freedom for humans. As of today, that has not happened and we humans still control cyberspace and not vice versa.

On the other hand, “Whalen’s description of Joe Matheny and other ‘culture jammers’” (Heenan) talk about how destructive freedom can be for humans. Matheny is one of the many who could do “pirate radio and TV, computer hacking, counterfeit desktop publishing, media hoaxing, and, of course, billboard editing.” Whalen is placing a fear to readers of 1996 all the bad stuff that could happen if people start using cyberspace which is a wrong freedom. It is still seen as a wrong freedom. But the Telecommunications Reform Act “is to let anyone enter any communications business -- to let any communications business compete in any market against any other” (fcc.gov). Maybe this is the only good thing they were doing, but the Act should be rewritten to protect us from wrong deeds that harm us from wicked people who use the internet.

“Matheny and other ‘culture jammers’ are doing fit with Barlow’s idea of freedom in cyberspace” (Heenan) because they can “spread … across the Planet so that no one can arrest” (Barlow) their thoughts. But these culture jammers would go too far if they did hacked or used someone’s bank account to purchase online.

therottenlittlegirls.com

This website address the issue of feminism. It is interesting how they address it by publishing a "Guest Post". This website really cares about what their blog watchers comment on, as well as, they try to get the most of their website. This guest's posts tells his experience about why he enjoys being a feminist and what were the circumstances that led him to make that decision.

Also, if you scroll down there's a picture about Michelle and Obama planning to have sex on the big day of January, 20. The blogger gives us a website where she complains about the lack of respect they show for Michelle Obama: They only talk about her ass and not her intelligence or morals. But it's interesting that the blogger does not address that the website she/he is complaining about can be also play the role of being a feminist - althought his one tells us in a broader sense - because it tells us about "Analytically speaking, what Mendible wrote is what Aubry Kaplan should have written: a more nuanced reflection on the history and meaning of the colored butt in the erotic imaginations and racial and gender definitions of white people and Black men and Latinos and how that loaded image became a policy of exploitation for both groups."

This is my first blog at blogger.com It's exciting!

This is better than myspace and facebook. Yes, it is. We can play around with it and find out that we can have our e-mail adress, our favorite websites, our Online Bank Accounts - hopefully, I'm new to this, so I'm not sure - and so many other things as online tags.