Thursday, November 29, 2012

"The Dawn of Man"


Hello today I will be reviewing a scene from 2001 Space Odyssey for my computer class. I watched the scene the “Dawn of Man”. This scene is very confusing. Here is what happened in the beginning of it there are apes in a cave. They seem as though they are distressed. They are yelling at each other in what appears to be a language. In the next scene they are walking out of the cave when a loud noise catches their attention. There is a giant black object in the shape of a rectangle in the ground sticking strait up. The sound seems to be coming from it. As the apes go to investigate the sound gets louder and louder. The ape screech and jump around it.  Then one of the apes reaches out to touch it. Then the others follow its example. So they are all touching it then jumping back. Then they stop jumping back and they surround it and hold their hands on it. In next scene the apes are passing by a pile of bones when one of them stops and looks at the bones. He appears to be thinking then picks up a bone. With that bone it strikes the other bones. He discovers that it destroys the bones quite easily and hits another. As he is smashing through the bones music dramatic music is playing. This was really weird. I do not believe in evolution but that seem to imply that some alien object started the evolution of man. That is why I think the ape with the bone seemed to be intelligent. There looks like there is a logical sequence to the video though. The director of this movie seemed to just cut to the next scene. I think that they had the ape with the bone be the main character in this.

Sunday, November 11, 2012



Hello today I will visit and review an online news website for my computer class. I will go onto the site, read the post, watch videos, etc. I will describe what it was about and which article I thought was most interesting.
            
            I visited http://www.cnn.com. The article that I thought was most interesting was about a storm called a nor'easter hitting the hurricane sandy disaster area. A nor'easter and a hurricane are two different things. A nor'easter gets its energy from where hot and cold mix however a hurricane gets its power from the warm waters of the southeast.
                 
            Nor'easter typically happen in the northeast, but they can happen all the way into Tennessee and Kentucky.  Strangely this is not why they are called nor'easter  They are called nor'easter because they originate in the north east.

         
 Hurricane Sandy has left millions of people without power, gas, and other commodities that we think essential. Most of them are out of a home as well because of the storm. Without power they can not heat their houses or charge things like cell phones.With the nor'easter coming in on the wake of the Hurricane Sandy is one of the worst things that could happen.


People are showing how tired they are of this by protesting. Some victims have been talked to and say that they are tired of waiting for he power to come back. I think that since they were told to leave they should not be complaining about it. I feel sorry for them but they were supposed to leave and they did not.
          
This leaves them cold and without shelter. Also it is hard for them to get food and water.


          Things are starting to look up for them though. Some school are already opening back up and people in New York, New Jersey and everywhere effected by the storm are receiving help by the government as well as by the citizens.