Activity # 4 Modern Day Police Using Electronic Devices To Track People

Police have so many ways that they are able to track people. They can track you through your credit cards, your phones, GPS, Facebook and other social media networks. Also by using the cameras in their police vehicles on the dash, and the cameras that they now have at the lights. They can track your GPS systems and find out where you are and where you are going. In 2010 Police were actually taught how to track down killers and other criminals on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. They also took training exercises to examine how to gather the best information from computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices. The cameras in their police vehicles can get license plate numbers, and videotape footage that may turn out to be good evidence to help solve a case.

Activity # 8 Blogs/Twitter/Facebook Used To Resist Totalitarian State?

 Whatever you post on the internet meaning a Blog, Facebook, or Twitter is going to be out there for the public and could get around very easily and spread far around the world in the matter of no time. If someone wanted to get something out and spread it so other people could see their opinions all they would have to do is tweet, or follow someone higher then them and then tell them about there feelings and opinions towards that specific topic. They could start a group on Facebook and get a lot of people to like it, share it,  and join the group so that they can make comments and express their feeling and strong opinions on the topic. Some people even make blogs just so they can get a point of a certain topic that they feel needs to be heard and recognized. People post whatever they want on the internet nowadays. They post pictures of them doing things that they know they shouldn't be doing or even post updates that should not be posted. People feel that they are free when they go on these sites because unless it is something really threatening then you get away with it. Everything is done over the sites pretty much nowadays and in my opinion people usually do not follow the rules and understandings and agreements for these sites. To me that would be considered a resist to totalitarian because they are not listening to the rules and still post pictures and write things that are inappropriate for the internet. Things that you normally wouldn't be able to do in public or even say to someones face because then you will get in trouble if they actually saw you were doing that in person.

Activity # 9 Photo Essay ...Protest In Libya Against Gaddafi

 

Level of Language

1. All three of these articles are talking about the new omnibus bill being passed. They are all writing to share their own thoughts and opinions about this situation.

2. I found that Toronto Sun was the least confusing and the easiest article to read. I found this to be because they didn't use difficult words and they made it very understanding to read and to get what their point across.

3. I found that the most complex and difficult article to read was the Globe And Mail. I found this because I thought that it was a little harder to understand and that they didn't really get there point across as easily.

4. I think that the pigs in Animal Farm got subscriptions to newspapers and magazines because they wanted to learn more and learn how the humans were doing things. The pigs are higher up then the other animals and they wanted to know more ways that they can control the other animals and ways to keep themselves higher up then all of them. They even start acting like humans and become more educated and learned how to be like them.

5. I find that vocabulary already limits us because even though there are so many words out there not everyone knows them and knows the definition to them. For me I only know what I would call the basic forms of vocabulary. I find myself already shortened on knowledge with words and vocabulary. If somebody asked me how I was feeling I would express to them how I am feeling by saying I am great, wonderful, excited, or mad, angry, anxious, or upset and then go on to why. It is a way to express yourself and your feelings and thoughts. That's how people are different and unique and If they shortened vocabulary or took words out then it would make it even harder because you would be forced to a short limit of words and that makes everybody pretty much all the same. You wouldn't be able to express you true self your are limit to what you are actually feeling or thinking.

6. I find that Facebook, Twitter, and texting can really mess up someones vocabulary. I would say this because you always find that people are using short forms. It seems that there is a short form for every word now. You also see that there is a lot of spelling mistakes on Facebook and when people text you. I even notice that when people are writing homework or writing something down they don't realize but they are writing short forms of words and using u instead or you or b instead of be or also 2 instead of to. I have even caught myself doing it a couple of times. Then if you go and talk to your grandma she is using full words and using very good choices of words. My grandma has Facebook and i have noticed that her page all her spelling is correct and she uses full words not short forms. It all depends on the person, not everyone does that but i have noticed that recently my dad started texting and at the beginning when he would text it was talk to you later, how are are you, be there in five minutes.  Now its ttyl, how r u, and b there in 5 because he is getting more used to it and learning more about it all. So I find that these things  can effect your vocabulary.

Animal Farm and Fahrenheit 451

1. After reading the two pieces about Animal Farm and Fahrenheit 451 on Wikipedia I feel that they are accurate. They got the point of both stories across. They even give a description of all the characters and their parts in the stories of which were correct as well. I found that they were very descriptive on the plot and got all the main things across especially for Animal Farm. They put things like the 7 commandments and how they end up getting changed.


I checked 3 references on both Animal Farm And Fahrenheit 451.
Here is one for Animal Farm and one for Fahrenheit 451.


2. We include these two pieces of literature in a course where we also study 1984 because they are all based on the same concept. All three of them the people or animals are forced to do things that they dont want to or even believe in doing. They are being lied to and being treated like they are nothing. They arent allowed to do anything and they are always being watched. In all three stories the people/animals do as they are told and dont speak their minds because they are not able too. Their lives are lived pretty much by other people telling them what they have to do weather they like it or not.


3. The term "dystopia" means the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state. A society characterized by human misery,as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
An example of this from real life I think would be China.


4. "Mindless entertainment would replace recreational free thinking" to me this statement means that you are to busy with entertainment and letting it think for you instead of thinking for yourself. Your thoughts are taken over by someone else.

For example in Animal Farm Snowball and Napoleon take charge and start thinking to highly of themselves and start making it hard on the other animals. They have control over the farm and dont let the other animals think for themselves because they are more educated and have more skills then a lot of the other animals.
Another example would be in Fahrenheit 451 when the wife is drugged up on pills and she watches the show "The Family" and believes that she is actually on it and that they are really asking her the questions. While on these pills she forgets everything that is important and starts worrying about little things like the t.v and being popular.


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  Animal Farm

Author's/Director's opinion of free speech - George Orwell believes in free speech.
I found this quote - "At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals."
George Orwell, 1945, Introduction to Animal Farm

Government's opinion of free speech - All desicions must be taken to Napoleon and he is always right. The other animals have no free speech and have to do as Napoleon says.

How the lead characters resisted - When Snowball announces his idea for a windmill and tries to make the farm a better place. Napoleon Gets the dogs to chase him out of the barn. Or to all the animals that disagreed with what was being said and Napoleon tried to have them all killed.

 Fahrenheit 451

Author's/Director's opinion of free speech - From what I read Ray Bradbury does not believe in free speech.

I found this saying - "Ray Bradbury has given a disappointing speech in which he claims that his inspirational novel Fahrenheit 451 has nothing to do with censorship -- as has long been held. Bradbury says that the book was intended as a jeremiad against television."

Opinion

Government's opinion of free speech - They also believe that books are bad and they put the thoughts of books being bad and makes people non equal in their heads.

How the lead characters resisted - Montag starts reading and hiding books. By the end Montag and Clarisse go join other people where they become the books. They recite thenm and then after they finish they burn the books cause so that they cant come and take them away from them. 

How To Vote

1. The last federal election was held on Monday May 2,2011


Kyle Seeback won

2. There are 21 political parties in Ontario.

The one that I totally agree with is the Family Coalition Party of Ontario.

I agree with this one because I am all about family and I think that they are the most important people in my life. After clicking on it and reading about it I also learned that they are about bullying too and I think that is awesome !!!

3. The Mayor of Brampton is Susan Fennell

She was last elected on Monday October 25,2010 

4. I  found that Susan Fennell has Facebook, and Twitter.

I also found that Kyle Seeback has Facebook, and Twitter as well.

5. I found that this assignment was pretty easy and straight forward. The only problem I had was putting it on my blog but after I got help with that and learned then it was just then pretty much Google, search, read, type and publish!!!

 

 

Chesser Told Me To Write This !!!