The Truman show

            It his world we are just living in it, this phase is one of the best way to describe the movie “ The Truman show” starring Jim Carey. In the movie Carey’s character is unknowingly the star of his own TV show. During the course of the movie series of events happen causing him to question his reality. The movie share similar characteristic to the story “The allegory of the cave” in that the character views of reality is being control. In the movie Truman is cut off from the outside world and perception of reality is being control by his surrogate Father the TV director Christof played by Ed Harris. Eventually Truman conquers fears and breaks free of his paper and plastic world and enter the real world. I own a copy of  the movie and have watching the movie five times and I see new things everything time I see it; but there is always  one questions that always that both me about the ending.  

1.3 essay Knowledge

Knowledge is power and it can take many different forms. Knowledge can be use as commodity and be exchange for the knowledge of others. Knowledge can also use as a weapon against lies, deception and ignorance but knowledge can also be use to manipulate the minds others. In the end knowledge is power but it depend on how you use it that is how it value is determine. In the allegory of the cave a story from the Republic by Plato, Socrates tells a story to Glaucon. The show how knowledge can take different forms. In the story a group of men are held imprison a cave, their arms, legs and head are bond by chains and have no knowledge of the outside world. Their only source of entertainment is the shadows on the wall in front of them. One day of the prisoner is set free and find that there an outside world Amazed by what he find he feel that he must share it with the others. However when her return to his comrades and tell let what he saw they believe that he is has gone mad. This story was a way for Socrates describes the process of learning. In the beginning of any process of learning we all are chained down by something it could be stubborn pride, fear or ignorance But once we become free we are amazed what we have learned and we can do if just put are mind to it.    

To Jersey and back again

Well my “call to Adventure” actually happened on Thursday evening while I was in class. My friend had left me a message asking for my help to move a dresser that he brought on craigslist from Brooklyn to his in Jersey City on Sunday at 11:00am. Now normally on Sunday I watching football on TV but I figure that if we started early enough we would be done with the move in time to see the 4:15 game so I agree to help him out. Sunday morning I woke up round 9am to catch the pre game show, get some breakfast and prepare myself for the task at hand.  At 10 am I call my friend to see if he was on his way to my place so we could get started but  when call him I didn’t get a respond. I figure that he was on the path train and he could get single underground; an hour later I call him still no respond.  Normally   he is person that is on point when come to time so for him to be late is unusual, not a good start.

                At 12:30 my phone rings it my friend and sounded like he was half dead. The first words out of my mouth where “you didn’t leave your house

essay 1{The four horseman of the apocalypse War, famine,pestilence server crash

                On August 5 2003 the city of New York The city that never sleeps stop cold. On that day a blackout affect most of the tri-state area; the blackout left most of us without power for 24hours. Basically that meant No TV, No Lights no computers and No cell phone {well unless you had a version phone} but for the most of that day the people of New York where cut off from the outside world.  On that day I was heading out to union square. Half way to the subway station I just realized that I had forgotten my headphone.  So I rush back to my apartment to retrieve them when I got inside I turn on the lights; they flick on for moment and then turn off. At first I thought that light bulb in my room had blown out and I had replaced the bulb.  However when I replace the bulb it still wouldn’t turn on; I thought that fuse had blown in the building. So when outside to look to the superintended to find out what was going on; when I got back outside I saw that the traffic lights were out too. A person came out of the building and told me that he heard on the radio that whole city was blackout.