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2004-01-24T03:02:00.000-08:00

Day 13
Today we discussed the story Getting Real. This story in my opion put a real emphisis on the "class" stuggle within our socity, and how real it is. It showed how homeless and how they are in a way alienated and not even looked upon from the middle and upper classes. It also showed how we just treat them as inanimate objects in our society, and how they are not important. This story tells why these people should be noticed and appreciated, and ways we can help their lives be a little like ours.

2004-01-23T13:13:00.000-08:00

DAY 12
Today was a "humerous" class, we watched the movie "Trekkies", wow is all I can really say, the movie was not supposto be humerous, but it had the whole class busting out loud laughing. The movie was about Star Trek fans and their love for Star Trek conventions. Some of the people were a little extreme in the way they did stuff, one guy was a dentist and had his WHOLE office decorated in Star Trek stuff, he even had the receptionists in Star Trek Uniforms. Wow, some crazy people out there today. At the begining of class we took a quiz, I think I might have done well on it for once, hehe.

2004-01-22T02:59:00.000-08:00

DAY 11
I found it interesting talking about The Matrix today in class. When Neo is talking on the phone in the final scene, someone in class said that he was talking to the audience. This gave me the idea that we, as a society are living in our own "Matrix." There are many things in our society that control our lives, I think many of these are money, power, and technology.

2004-01-21T12:47:00.000-08:00

Day 10: 1/24

Today was an enjoyable day, we did some discussion on the Neuromancer readings, then watched the movie The Matrix, this has always been a favorite movie of mine, the themes in the movie always have a deeper meaning. This is a movie for people to enjoy for all time. The class had some more discussion on the movie, then we left.

2004-01-20T02:56:00.000-08:00

DAY 9
Today we got into groups and dicussed some of the reading from the night before. We also decided on a story and what we are going to wrtie it about, we decided to write a story similar to that of the Holocaust, the rich people are going to take the poor people and put them into camps to work for them, so they don't have to pay people to do it, the poor people will try and take over the rich people. The fail and all die. I think it sounds like a pretty cool story overall, should be fun writing it.

2004-01-16T13:11:00.000-08:00

DAY 8
Today was a low key class, first we talked about the reading we did last night, I did not like the stories....one of them actually really started bugging me. We then took a quiz on these mundane readings we had to do last night. I don't think I did to well...:-\. We then got into groups and discussed ideas for our stories we have to complete by next week. Our story will be "interestning", we are writing about homeless people taking over the world. This should make for a good write. I found it interesting today as we talked about the stort story Boobs, I really enojoyed this story, and it opned up my eyes on how women are depicted in society, as objects.

2004-01-15T13:30:00.000-08:00

DAY 7
Today, yet another fun class. We started off for the first half of class talking about the stories we had read the night before, I didn't like any of the stories we read last night. We watched Men In Black today, this has always been a favorite movie of mine, just an easy enojyable movie to watch.

2004-01-13T13:27:00.000-08:00

Day 6:

Today was a really fun day, we watch the movie "Star Trek First Contact". I thought this was a great movie, I have always enjoyed the Star Treck series. One idea I found to be very interesting was making "first contact" with an alien species, the Vulcan. Hopefully oneday human can interact with a peaceful non-human species.

2004-01-13T13:24:00.000-08:00

Day 5

Today I was absent from class due to my not feeling well. I did howerver do the work that was required. I did not like the stories we had to read very much. The only one I liked was Blood Music, it was a tale about a crazy scientist who injected himself with some sort of substance and changed his body.

2004-01-09T13:29:00.000-08:00

Day 4:

Fun day.....The movie was "interesting", it wasn't what I had expected, I thought it was going to be more of a typical sci-fi movie where it's blow em up, alien killing movie. But I was wrong. The readings last night were pretty long, but I enjoyed 2 of ther stories.

2004-01-08T13:08:00.000-08:00

DAY 3
Raymond Bradbury and Judith Merril's short stories really taught me about the very real chance of technology one day destroying mankind. These thought had never really entered my head before, and now that I ponder deeper that this might actually happen....it worries me.
There Will Come Soft Rains depicted a world without humans and a lonesome house full of technology running on its own. The house does all the proper things to maintain a good household eventhough the owners arn't around anymore. However, a fire begins to engulf the entire house and the house does everything in its power to save itself but is unsuccessful in doing so. In reading this, I know how strong technology is, it's much stronger than machines.

2004-01-07T13:23:00.000-08:00

CLASS 2

For homework we had top read a series of articles about the history/origin of science fiction. We also learned about what people thought about it. People my accept the change that is present in science fiction, and learn that most of it is real. I did not like the older science fiction stories, especially the Edgar Allen Poe.

2004-01-06T11:37:00.000-08:00

Jan. 6, 2004 CLASS 1

I think the first class sounds very interesting, and I think we will be learning about lots of useful information. I think this class will expand my science fiction horizion, and will help me to find out "Just how deep the rabbit hole goes." After learning of the content and description of this class, I am really interested in the theory and concepts behind science fiction in all forms of media.