FEED

The book i decided to read for the second semester is Feed a book about kids in the future and how they have a thing in their head called the feed. The main characters are Titus, Marty, Quendy, Loga, Link, and Violet. Titus is the narrator and the others are his friends. The struggles they go through are between each other dealing with relationships and with other people on the moon. The feed is this thing in their brain that they can basically do anything on its like an iPhone in your head you can surf the web, call people, play games, and this is were most advertisements are posted. The group of friends get their feeds hacked by some guy at the club and one of them (Violet) starts having problems with her feed her and Titus start dating and she teaches him about how the companies that control the feed are doing things they don't know about. This is kind of like Food Inc. teaching us about the food industry. They grow apart from each other and Titus breaks up with her. She continues to have problems and is close to death. Thats about all i can say without ruining the ending but i feel this is a very great book especially if you are into science fiction then this book is perfect for you.

the people that gave this book a bad review mainly said that they didn't like the book because of the language used by the characters i think this is dumb because the language isn't dumb its creative. most reviews liked the book because it shows how the future could end up. this book appears on a listmania featuring the book Brave New World a book about a world were babies are born in laboratories it is a science fiction novel.

Food Inc.

So in this blog post i am going to be talking about the movie food Inc. in this movie they talk about the dangers in the foods we eat. In the beginning they talk about the way chickens are raised and how they have no rights they just sit around in chicken houses all day, i say sit around because they cant walk. The reason they cant walk is because they grow so fast their bones don't develop enough to hold their own weight. I think this is bad because its inhumane and those animals should have rights. The reason they grow so fast is because their food is full of hormones that cause them to gain a lot of weight very quickly. These hormones then get transferred to us when we eat the chicken.

The second chapter starts talking about corn and the ways it is used. Corn is used in so many products that if you went in to an average person's house and looked through their kitchen you would see that it is used in almost all food products. This is dangerous because we are feeding it to animals also and most of the animals that we feed it to aren't programmed to eat corn. Cows for an example were made to eat grass but when we found out how easy it is to feed them corn that is what we feed them because it is inexpensive and easy to use. This caused cows to develop E-Coli a disease which can kill humans if they are diagnosed with it. The movie said that if a cow eats grass one time every five days it will get rid of the E-Coli.

Another chapter talks about how a company named Monsanto controls 90% of the United States' soy bean crops. The reason they control so much is because they adapted the soy beans to withstand pesticides and the mutation spread throughout the continent. Now they are slowly getting rid of people who farm their own soybeans by suing them claiming patent infringement. They also send out people to farms to look for saved seeds which are seeds that you don't plant but save them for the next year. They have a monopoly on the soy bean industry and no one can stop them because they will just sue you until your in debt for the rest of your life.

So in all i felt like this movie was really informative and although i didn't like some of the things they said i agree with most of it.

VLOG 4

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Lord of the Rings Final

In media communications we have started watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy. We have finished the first one The Fellowship of the Ring, and have started The Two Towers, the second installment of the trilogy; all of the films in this series are epic stories. Peter Jackson directs the movies. Some of the main characters include Frodo, Sam, Aragorn, Merry, and Pippin, I will be discusses some of these characters and others in this paper. Some good epic characteristics are the main hero, vast geographical setting, and the quest or journey that they are trying to complete.

First, I will talk about the hero of these movies, Frodo. A hero is defined by having a power or ability that no one else possesses. For Frodo this is his purity, he is the only hobbit with a soul that is pure enough to carry the ring without getting greedy and power hungry. The way this is shown in the first movie is when he first gets the ring he offers it to Gandalf, but Gandalf goes crazy and tells Frodo he cannot carry it because if he does he will become power hungry. In the second movie Frodo starts to fall victim to the ring’s power. He becomes unable to sleep and is becoming attached to the ring and the power it gives him. He also starts listening to Gollum a former hobbit that has changed do to the ring, he calls it his “Precious”.

Another very important characteristic for an epic would be the vast setting. This story takes place in different settings that combined all make up middle earth. The first movie is mainly based in the shire then when Frodo starts on his journey he comes to Rivendell the home of the elves. The story really gets better in the second movie because there are more places. For example after the fellowship leaves Rivendell, they travel through the mines of Moria the land of the dwarves where they encounter the Balrog. After that they go through mountains and eventually reach Rohan this is where Gandalf basically performs an exorcicism on Theodred. Then they travel on to Helms Deep where they have a battle with the Uruk-hai, a breed of super orcs, that lasts four days and on the fifth day Gandalf brings an army that helps defeat the Urak-hai.

The thing I think is most important characteristic for an epic story to have is the quest or journey of the characters. The main character is the one who is tested the most on this journey. In these movies the quest is to throw the ring into the fires of Mt. Doom. Frodo and the other characters are tested many different times along their journey to Mt. Doom. The first test for Frodo is surviving when the Ring Wraith stabs him. This is hard because it’s supposed to kill him. Other tests include fighting the creature outside of the Moria mines, fighting the Balrog, fighting the Urak-hai, and Frodo fighting the temptations of the ring. Fighting temptation is Frodo’s hardest test.