Science Fiction

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

Class Thirten,
TOday was the last day of class and i have had a great time in here learning about how different the science fiction world was then what i thought about it. So I am really glad and took because i have meet some people that i would have never ever meet in my life if i hadnt have taking this class. I also found out that SF is a genre for everbody not jsut geeks

2004-01-22T13:14:00.000-08:00

Class Twelve,
WOW is all I have to say bout the movie trekkies because i have really not laughed so hard in my life. I really jsut felt kinda bad for laughing at all the people cause I mean Ireally felt bad , but i mean its something that they really enjoy doing and i guess i cant really knock someone for doing something that they love to do

2004-01-21T12:46:00.000-08:00

Class eleven,
Today we talked about the matrix and disscused the neuromancer which i really didint like at all cause for some reason i really just didnt get in to it so i dont know...but i really do love the matrix cause my dad is a philpohey and reglion major in college so i have always been around a strong anilitical mind so i enjoy discusing problems and topics

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

Class Ten,
Today we watched the Matrix and to me it seems like this is one of the most influencial movies of our time and i fell that it created many many people to think about what reality really is. Do we really exist or our we jstu a program? those are question that everyone asks themselves after watching this movie and it seem very real that the movie could be true...but what is real?,what is the truth?

2004-01-16T13:18:00.000-08:00

Class Nine,
Today we discussed the stories which to me didint make sence to me, but oh well. I got alittle bit upset when i thought about how they portrayed the farmer in the MIB movie because i live in a place like that and i know many people who live on and run a farm and none of them are really like that. We aslo tired to work on our story but we had some contrasting people im our group but we managed to get some decent work done.

2004-01-15T11:57:00.000-08:00

Class Seven,
Today we talked about race in SF and with my background of a small southern town that has an african american population of about 6 it had never every really occurided to me how much race is a factor in SF. but if you think about it you can find something racist about ever movie, for example Lord of the Rings, there are no blacks in that movie and to me the orcs would symbloize the African American so sometimes the race topic bothers me but im am beinging to open my eyes more now that im in school

2004-01-14T13:20:00.000-08:00

Class Six,
Today i was feeling really bad, but we talked about the female influence on SF. Until today i did'nt know that the biggest base of SF were Females. The story we read was also very enlighting about the ideas of women in the science fiction world. This class has really helped me open my eyes to new ideas about different people and races

2004-01-13T13:21:00.000-08:00

Class Six,
The Star Trek movie that we watched today was very good, I feel that as in the article that we read that the borg did infact represent a communist goverment. The way that they all worked together as a a collective group for the betterment of the people. The queen seemed to represent a dictator though so i feel their community was a combination of both a communism and dictarship form of goverment

2004-01-12T13:10:00.000-08:00

Class Five,
I really realizied how closed-minded i was today after reading the article "The Golden age of Science Fiction is 12" made me realize that even though i made fun of the SF kid in high school i was really one of them and i was just hiding it cause it wasnt the cool thing to do.....but now that i take this class i am know that it is ok to be different and that it doesnt matter what people think about me. I shouldnt hide the true way that i am jsut because someone might make fun of me

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

Class four,
The movie Blade Runner was a good movie, a bit slow, but good. It really made me think of how the world might end up in a few years. With all of the escalation in technoilogy and urbanization it was a scary peek at the possible state of the U.S. After watching this movie I have a better understanding of how technology and urbanization can ruin the future if it is not controled. Possible topic for my responce would have to be how the hightened technology and urbanization has lead to the downfall of man and the rise of machines

2004-01-08T13:03:00.000-08:00

Class Three,
In the article we disscused today the idea that alienation is all around us was a new one to me and i never really have thought about it at all, But after reading the article i have come to relize that im a a closed minded person. The only way that i can learn about new thing is to "peak behind the curtain" Many people are fearful of what they don't know and that creates major problems in the type of society that we live in today. I mean with all the cultures that live in the U.S. and attempt to coinside here together the possiblites of alination are far greater that that of another country. WIth the goverment that we have and the way that we have been brouth up in this society we often view change or difference as a threat to our way of life, even as they may be we need not alienate our own people, but we need to understand ad best as possible everything

2004-01-07T13:10:00.000-08:00

Class Two,

Today was fun in class we discussed two SF stories and two articles in groups which was very fun because it helped us get to know the other people in the class. While i was atching the animatrix I found a good topic for my research so i belive im going to do it on the evoultion of machines and the destruction of man. I think that is a very very good topic for todays world

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

Class One

This class seems like it is going to be very interesting. I am looking forward to studying Sci-fi movies, and short stories. I would like to disscus the idea of man's creations ultimatly causing their distruction, by looking at the evoultion of man's techonology and the evidence of man becoming dependent on their own machines