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I think that the makers of The Meatrix films used The Matrix as basis of their arguments to show a world that we don't know. The Matrix movie show Neo the truth about the real world and The Meatrix show the Leo(the pig) the other world for the animals. A world where they were born to die and they are treated very bad.

"CAT essay Blog entry 11"

The article “The dangers of a Reality TV”, talks about how these reality shows have a strong influence in our society. Also, points out that these kind of shows want to send the same message about how competition is important in someone’s life, how “the value of image over ability and the obsolescence of education”. I agree that to be a winner or to play a role in one of these shows, your beauty counts more than your ability and also, that these kind of reality shows incentive a lot of competetition among people.

 First, have you ever noticed that the winner of a Reality show is always the pretty one? And not smart one. The media is not interesting in put an ugly person who will never call someone’s attention to win a Reality Show. Nowadays, people are so superficial that being a smart person is not a quality anymore.  Inside of this world of television, who has the nicest body and prettiest smile will be a winner?

 I remember once I was watching one Reality show which happens in my country Brazil. The reality show happens in a house during 3 months with 12 people. While they are living in this house, there are lots of games and competition happening to eliminate them. So, first they selected only beautiful people to participate, everyone very attractive. Second, the ones who are not that cute get the less number of votes and they are eliminated of the show. The winner is always the more attractive. It s something so obvious, that since the beginning of the reality show, everyone can figure out who is going to be the winner.

Second, this reality shows always create an environment of competition among people.  It gives an example to people that to be good you need to compete with others which is not true.  Nowadays companies are voiding competitions inside their environment because competition is a kind of feeling that put people against people and to have a good time where people work together to reach the companies point, competition are not recommended. I can see from the company where my best friend works, every week the company buys for the group lunch and happy hour. They get together to avoid the competition and to create a friendly environment among them. Competition is for the reality show and not a good example for real life.

In sum, Reality TV shows don’t bring anything interesting to someone’s life. Reality shows are all about competition between them to be the winner, and also to show who has the best image. At least the smart win because he/her deserves and not because of an “image packaged”.

"Blog entry10"

Claim : Take the blue pill and stay in the same world or take the red pill to live in a different world? I would go for the blue pill.
Reasons: I will take the blue pill and stay in the world that I know which I have totally control of my freedom.
Evidence : Because just to have the feeling that I can't control my life and my feelings scars me and I don t like to make a decision when there is no way back or no way to correct the decision that I made.

Blog entry 8 "The Truman Show"

  Question1.

           First, at the beginning, I thought that the world which was created for Truman seems to be a nice, peaceful one without any problems and stress but I would never like to live in a world like Christoff created for The Truman show because it is a fake life and world. People who were around him were never his friend; they were acting all the time and being nice and kind to Truman just because they were on TV and not because they were spontaneous. Truman never noticed that people around him like his mother, wife and best friend were lying to him all the time. Therefore, there  is no reason of been living a life which hasn’t belong to you, where the control of your thoughts and feelings are manipulated to someone else who is taking advantage of this situation and making money.

            Second, I believe that Christoff created an imaginary world where everything is under control and nothing bad can happen to him. A world where problems, violence, war, politics problems don’t exist. In this world people are happy all the time, no stress, no sadness, no dangerous. The creator intention is to make Truman to believe that he has a great life, a good job, nice people around him. He wants to eliminate our real society problems from his life, to protect him from everything. Besides that he wants to eliminate all the problems from Truman’s life he still leaving one, and I believe is that Truman is not happy with the world that Christoff thinks is perfect for him. Christoff forgot that what is good enough for him because he is leaving his dreaming of being the creator of the biggest live show ever and making thousands of money, it doesn’t mean is good for Truman. The creator forgot about the ethics; play with someone’s life without authorization is a crime. It is a life; Truman was treating like a doll, like a play role without knowing that he is actually acting for thousands of people.

            In sum, The Truman Show was a great movie, I could see that a life is not so perfect when real problems is not in it, we need to go out and see the real world and feel the freedom.