Science Fiction

2004-01-27T12:35:00.000-08:00

Class Thirteen - I was unable to come to class on Friday because I was ill. However, I did work on my portion of my group's short story that I was to do. I think that our short story is good, but I think that those people reading it may get confused because it changes perpsectives form one person to another. It is hard to work in a group while writing a short story and it is also hard to write a well written story in a week or two.

2004-01-22T13:13:00.000-08:00

Class Twelve - Today we watched "Trekkies", which was very entertaining ad funny and made my day. The people in the movie were a little over the top for me. I can see them trying to fit in with society and through Star Trek they do so, but some of them were too extremem in thinking they were something that they are not. I also think that some of the people who are involved are not as socially mature as other people. For example, the guys at the dinner who were so excited about a girl coming to their party. That is not normal to be excited about just having contact with a girl when you are in your thrities. In conclusion, I just think that the Trekkies are not wierd, but different than the social norm.

2004-01-21T12:44:00.000-08:00

Class Eleven - Discussing Neuromancer in class helped me understand it a lot more. I think if I read it again I would get a lot more from it, but I do not think I would have any interest to try and reread it again. We also discussed The Matrix and I could definitely see a parallel between the movie and Neuromancer. After talking about it in my group I could see a lot more similarities. In my paper, I discussed the theme of drugs in The Matrix. Although there were not as many in the movie, the impact of the blue/red pill had a bigger impact on a person.

2004-01-20T13:08:00.000-08:00

Class Ten - The novel, Neuromancer, is very confusing to me. I understand the basic plot, but all the little details I have missed. I think it is because the novel just does not interest me at all, so I have no desire to look back over details that I may have missed. I can not visualize the scenese that are going on so I get lost in the pages.
However, I did enjoy The Matrix. I had never seen it before so it was a bit confusing to me but I did see some overlaping themes between Neuromancer and The Matrix. Some such themes are violence, race, love, and the theme of dystopia.

2004-01-16T12:42:00.000-08:00

Class Nine - The beginning of class started with the elementary fight. This childish act involved Billy and Dan. Dan, apparently sat in a seat other than his. Billy did not like this and got angry. This related to the story we read last night. There were hierarchies in both situation. Billy felt he was stronger than Dan and would not allow him to sit in his friends seat. The humans in the story were hierarchial to the bears.
We got in our groups for writing the short story and our group decided to do a story based on the life of Michael Jackson. There has been a lot of controversy about his child molestation trial so we are looking into that. I am really excited about this story because I think it will be a lot of fun. We didn't work on our web projects but tried to move along with our story. I think we are going to work on it a lot in class while we are together.

2004-01-15T13:29:00.000-08:00

Class Eight - I really enjoyed the chapter on Race and like discussing it with the class. I felt like a lot of people had the same view on the chapter as I did. I think that people may be looking a little too much into movie, but I can definitely see where they are coming from even though I do not agree.
I have seen Men In Black before and today I watched it differently from a science fiction perspective. In the review, I am going to talk about race in the movie and how that can be interpreted.

2004-01-14T13:23:00.000-08:00

Class Seven - The story we read last night, "Boobs", appealed to me a lot. I enjoyed it more than any of the other stories we have read and I could engage in the class conversation today.
While working on my web project I discovered that I did not save my science fiction definitions correctly yesterday so I had to redo them. While saving that I rewrote over my movies I want to see and books I want to read, so I had to redo that page too. In concusion, I am getting so frustrated with Dreamweaver and do not like it at all right now!
However, I think I am going to do time travel for my topic and possibly look into the movie Back to the Future because it deals with time travel a lot.

2004-01-13T13:20:00.000-08:00

Class Six -- When I read the short story "Them Old Hyannis Blues" last night I thought that I completely understand it, but after discussing it in class I realize that I did not understand much of it. For example, I did not think that the story was supposed to be a alternate history.
I was not that excited to watch Star Trek today. After watching the movie, I did not think it was as bad as i thought it was going to be. In the paper we are supposed to write about the movie, I think that I will focus on the relationship between the borgs and how the woman is a leader for the rest of them. I also want to discuss how people in the past focus on money being made thourhg scientific experiments, but in the 24th century, there was no focus on money but the pure satisfaction of discovering something.

2004-01-12T13:19:00.000-08:00

Class Five - When I was reading the two short stories last night, I really understood them more than any of the other stories that we have read. That made it easier for me to participate more in the class discussions. The article that we read for homework just seemed redundant to me and did not touch on anything we havent already discussed.

We also worked a lot on the web project and I think that once I have done research and finish my short story, it will not take much longer to finish. I still have not come up with a topic that I would like to research and am unsure of what we are exactly supposed to research.

2004-01-09T13:15:00.000-08:00

Class Four - Talking about the three short stories in class for a little helped me understand them a lot more. I really did not get them at first when I read them. The movie BladeRunner was interesting, although I did not like it that much. From my reading last night, I can see that the movie is a film noir. For the response that I have to write, I think that I will write about how the darkness, rain, and smoke impact the emotion of the person watching the movie. Throughout the entire movie, these characteristics were present which set a particular mood and feeling of a viewer.

2004-01-08T13:22:00.000-08:00

Class Three - After discussing the stories we read last night with my group, I found that many of us had the same ideas about the stories. They were a lot more straight forward than the Poe and Shelley stories and I really understood them more. We also talked about the movie Deep Impact which sounds interesting to me and I would like to go see it. I added it to my page on Dreamweaver that list movies I would like to see. I think my progress on the web project is going real well. I have already done the science fiction definitons page, science fiction timeline page, and the future movies to see or books to read page. I still need to add more to each page, but it is coming along very well. I still have not come up with a definite topic to research yet, but I am still looking for one that really interests me.

2004-01-07T12:59:00.000-08:00

Class Two - The two articles that we read last night were pretty much clear to me and helped me better understand what science fiction really is. Getting into the groups gave me a opportunity to see what the other grouup member thought were important terms and ideas discussed in the articles. The two stories: The Fall of the House of Usher and The Mortal Immortal were cleared up through the discussion with my group. Talking about it really helped me out a lot to better understand the stories. We started the Dremweaver but I really do not like it at all. It is just so complicated and I would much rather just write a paper or do a powerpoint rather than posting it on the web which is just confusing to me.

2004-01-06T11:35:00.000-08:00

Class One - This class seems like it will be more interesting than I thought. I have never really been interested in science fiction but after this class I think I will want to read more science fiction novels or watch more science fiction movies. I have already read some of the short stories that we will be reading in middle and high school, but I never really enjoyed reading them. I hope I will be able to find more meaning in them after taking this class. For my research topic, I would maybe like to look into cloning.