Blog # 12.. CATW 2 second draft

      Do we believe and know how cell phones hurt our relationships ? Many studies reported that our cell phones powering down our relationships step by step. In," How Your Cell Phones Hurt Your Relationships," Helen Lee Lin reports that our smart phones harm our relationships. A recent set of studies by University of Essex, researchers found that can hurt our relationships many ways. Besides, smart phones also may be reduce our consciousness and distract our mind during an important work. I know Helen Lee Lin is right when she describes cell phones powering down and hurt our relationships because it harm our relationships and distract our attention. 
         At first, cell phones harm our relationships everyday in our lives although many believe our smart phones boosts interpersonal connections, by allowing people to stay in touch constantly. I believe create distance between our family members and love one's by killing our times. In article, author reports that many studies point out and illustrates how smart phones kill our times and kill relationships with our beloved persons and families. Nowadays, if we ask anyone, what things he/she love the most and spend time with? I believe most of the people will say they love their smart phones and they spend much their spare time with it by playing games, browsing net and listening music instead of doing those together with family members. Most of us are now stranger to this scenario: a family members sits down together and have meal, laughing, talking to each other, telling stories or watching movies. To tell the truth, sometimes we seat together but we keep busy ourselves by using our cells and even spend hours not talking to each others. Consequently, it create distance day by day when we spend much of our leisure time with our cells instead of our love one's. Thus, cells create many family problems in our society and make people unhappy; on top of that, destroy many relationship and families. For examples, one of my friends has been married for 12 years and has a kid. They were very happy in their lives except last 3 years. Nowadays, they are having many troubles and fight with each other most of the times, blaming each other not giving enough time with kid and family. His wife complained to his father in law that he does not give her and kid enough time because he spend much time with his smart phone even though he works 3-4 days a week. Besides, she also complained that he browse net , play games,listen music, watch movie alone on his smart phone. Moreover, he can not get enough sleep at night because he spend a lot of time with it and it might create mental problems. Likewise, sometimes he play games on internet for 3-4 hours continuously. I realize and believe that cell phones powering down their relationship and making their lives miserable; besides, distract his attention to family and reduced his affection to his wife and kid. Thus, i believe that if he spend his free time with his family instead of his phone; without doubt, he will able to fix their problem and will have a happy life.
        Next, our smart phones distract our attention during works and important conversations. Cell phones put us in danger by distracting our attention. For examples, Every year many people die around the world in car accidents, only reason is during driving they text or talk on the phones. The lose their beloved person or member of family in those accidents. In this case, we can easily point out the reason of the accidents; obviously, the cause is cell phones distracted driver attention during driving. Moreover, cell phones put us many problems and hurt our relationships by losing our love one's in accidents. We should not talk or text while driving to stay alive with our love one's.
        In conclusion, cell phones makes our lives sometimes miserable by creating distance and destroying our relations instead of boosts our inter personal connection. we must be careful of using cell phones in our daily lives. We should pass our leisure times with our families or the love one's to built a stable beautiful relationships. We should have fun by gossiping, telling stories, going out with family or doing activities with beloved person instead of cell phones. We should use cell phones when its needed.

BLOG # 11.. Happy Meals... ....

In" Happy Meals," Pollan's suggests why should we avoid junk and unhealthy foods and make habit to healthier foods every day in our lives.  We need to follow Pollan's suggestions for eating better and live better.
      I believe all of the Pollan's suggestions for eating better are good for all the people including me and my family for a healthier lives. Most of the suggestion can be followed by my family and me everyday. Pollan's suggested that avoid food product containing ingredients that are unfamiliar and unpronounceable. I can do it easily and persuade my family to do it, whenever we will go for groceries we just need to look labels on products, there are many products so we can do it . She mentioned in her suggestions that always buy fresh foods and avoid foods that makes health claims because that kind of foods might cause heart attacks and many diseases because they contain chemicals, sugar e.t.c. Moreover, she reports that eat plants, specially leaves. I always love to have some plants and vegetables in my meals, i love salads because most of the salads are made from fresh plants, vegetables, fruits, spinach, olives, and other kind of plants and veggie; moreover its really good for health, it also lower sugar and it doesnt have much calories, fat. I always persuade my family to have more plants, veggie, fruits instead of taking meats and high calories GMO foods.
    Next, some Pollan's suggestions will be little hard to follow not only me and my family but also for other American such as she suggested to spend more money to buy organic and fresh foods. We can not afford all the times but i will love to do it . Organic foods are way better than other GMO foods in the supper market. On top of that, we can not find organic food in supermarkets because it is expensive so supermarkets owner's do not keep all the times. She also suggested get out of the supermarket whenever possible because as a New Yorker we do not have much time to go to farmer marker to get fresh and organic foods. I love gardening all through my life. when i was in Bangladesh i had a vegetable garden, i used to grow many vegetables and plants. Nowadays, in New York it not possible for most of the New Yorker's because every one including me and my family are busy with jobs and we do not have time for gardening; on top of that, there is no place for gardening. She says to cook, i try to cook whenever i get chance but i believe people in USA are very busy to cook, even though some people have time to cook but they do not want to cook because they love to go to restaurants. Pollan's suggested that to eat slowly i always do it and love it; besides, most of the time i have my meals alone because i live alone here in New York.
    Finally, i believe all of the Pollan's suggestions can be followed, none of them are impossible. some are little hard to maintain and follow everyday in our lives. I believe, if me, my family and other people who want a better and healthier lives must be follow her advices as much as we can.

Blog # 10..Bottled water safer than tap water....

Is bottled water safer than tap water? Many people believe that bottled water is safer than tap water(purified and cleaned tap water). Likewise, people also believe industrial bottled water goes through many filtration processes that enhanced bottled water taste and removed bacteria and odor; moreover, filtration removed other possible contaminants such as lead and parasites. Consequently, people ( because of advertisements by bottled water industries ) bottled water is safer than tap water. In contrast, people do not know U.S tap water filtered and also remove bacteria, odor and other harmful elements from public tap water. only difference between tap and bottled water is department of US water safety do not advertise alike bottled water industries. In US tap water during the filtration processes they add chlorine and fluoride and purify it for the best drinking safe water for public. On top of that, according to article "In US tap water is regulated by EPA, while bottled water is regulated by FDA. Besides, EPA requires annul water quality reports; on the other hand, FDA does not requires. As a result, we can easily understand that tap water is much batter than bottled water, buying bottled water is just wasting of money and support pollutants by empty plastic bottled in the world. I have been living in the United States for 7 years and drinking tap water, i never had any problem or disease because of tap water . I believe bottled water industries advertise and inspire people to buy bottled water for making profits. To tell the truth, it is just a rumors that bottled water is better and taste good. We all know that many beverage industries use and sell tap water just using nice labels on the bottle and by fancy and attractive advertisement; moreover, people helping them making more profits and increasing their expenses by buying their products. We should stop buying bottled water and make habit to drinking tap water and save money for a nice future.

BLOG #8

We are about to take our final exam ending of this month. we got a great professor called Dr.X for this ENG class. Her teaching style is totally different from others, which helped us a lot to learn. Consequently, i have learned many writing skills from her such as, how to write and start a nice introduction, about easy summary, how to develop idea in the easy, about body paragraphs; like wise, about well written easy structure. Next, i learned from her about grammar, words and effective sentences; moreover, how to write a high score easy. Finally, CATW practice test helped the most to correct my writing mistakes because the way she evaluated the easy, i figure our my mistakes. At first, i used to think i have problems with grammar, words and sentences.Unfortunately, i found that  i have problem with easy structure and developing ideas; thus, now i am working on it to correct those mistakes and i really need to work on it to pass the exam. Brave new world book and its web tutorials helping me a lot. web tutorials taught me about organizing the easy and about effective sentences. I believe we should give more CATW practice tests ; as a result, we can be confident and correct our mistakes and ready for the exam perfectly.

blog 4The Allegory of the Cave

Because of our lifestyle and our limited knowledge, some times we can not realize the right things and do not understand the right the realty and truth. Apparently, we  make many mistakes because what we see, believes and hear are different from,  reality and truth. This is the main teaching of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, in which prisoners chained down in a cave wall, watching projection of shadows  on the wall  by passing things in front of fire behind them.They reality and they are unable to grasp their overall situation: the cave and images are a ruse, a mere shadow show orchestrated for them by unseen men. At some point, a prisoner escape and he was able to see the situation and realty of out side world and he come back to the others prisoners and explain to them ,what he saw but no one could not understand him because they had knowledge about shadows. Plato's Allegory of the Cave representation of the human condition, the circumstances we as humans presently encounter, circumstances such as conceptual frameworks, or basic beliefs, and our typical behaviors in society. The allegory metaphorically describes our situation as human beings in the world today. In his story, Plato utilizes several key elements to portray his metaphor of the human condition. Plato's image contains pertinent ideas about society that are relevant to my everyday life. Through his reading, I have begun to discover the ideal form, the use of reason over perception to approach, view, and judge all things.

blog 5..truman and me

Nowadays  the world we are living is not much different from Truman's artificial world seahaven. In Cristof's world Truman had many things for a good life and a healthy lifestyle; in-contrast, he didnt have enough freedom and he was unhappy with his life because of doing same thing everyday life. To tell the truth, we are living in a world and a society which is ruled by the rich people like Cristof and our life style are not much different from truman because Truman had to follow everything Cristof wanted; likewise, we are following the order of our freedom. we do not have enough freedom to speak truth and do the right things for good purpose all the time. Truman did not have free life and he was unhappy with his life. In some point of views i have little difference from Truman, i have a nice and happy family even though i have many needs; moreover, i raised up with my brothers and sister and stayed long time with family and parents but the Truman didnt.

i would not choose to live in Cristof's artificial world called Seahaven, although there are many opportunities to have a nice life because i would love to live a free life and i dont want to listen someone's command all the time, let anyone play with my life. i love my freedom and want to visit around the world, not to stuck in a place like Truman. i believe Cristof's world is like a giant jail, eventhough its looks great place to live. Truman didnt has freedom of his life, his choice and because of those he was unhappy with of his life;as a result, he wanted to escape from that arificial world. i dont want to live my life like Truman.

Have you ever believe in any rumors ? Does anyone has any idea what rumors can do to our society? How dangerous it can be ?  At this time, we believe in rumors and flat out lies or unverified information, even [though] we are living  in a modern society.  People has been deceived by rumors since the ancient time. In" I Know the Truth, So don't Bother me with Facts," Jeffery Klugar states that human have long been deceived and fraud by rumors and flat out lies [copying the reading]. Human easily believe in rumors but they stay their beliefs, even though they know its a lie. Ohio State University researcher conducted a study upon 750 people by two assistant professors and they found it is easy to manipulate people's belief systems with insinuating picture or inflammatory quotes and  even in the best circumstances, fewer than a third of a people were willing to reverse their position on thing, regardless of the contradictory evidence they were given. [copying the reading] I know Jeffery Kluger is right when she states that human have long been influenced and cheated by rumors because we don't really care how much proof or evidence we have for the facts of rumors to believe in it and no one like to be proven wrong.

At first, we don't really care, no matter how much proof of evidence we have about the rumors, we just believe in it without verify it. everyday in our lives, we believe in rumors; besides, we forget to verify it. we don't realize that it might be wrong, we just believe it and spread out lies. Most of the rumors spread out by different media, it might be tv, news paper, movies, or by human. whatever we see on tv or we heard from any kind of medias, we just believe in it. we think they are always right. At the present time, electronic media is one of the best medias to spread out different kind of rumors and lies because it is very powerful ; moreover, it is easy to deceive people by it. For example, during the [administration of] president W.Bush and before [the] Iraq war, all electronic media spread out rumor that president of Iraq has mass destruction of weapons and Saddam Hossain threaten the world by his weapons and we all believed in this rumors. we support him for war, but most of the people, including us, didn't verify this information about the Iraq. As a result, he went to war and we lost our soldiers and millions of Iraqi were killed, and all Iraqi structure and their freedom were demolished by us. At the end we figured out that Iraq didn't has any mass weapons. so that rumor and lies caused millions people lives and destruction, and it created many good men to a terrorist and it created more  enemies of us. We can easily realized that how bad that kind of rumors can be, and how it effects in our lives and how it spread out. we should verify and justify any kind of rumors before believe in it. [good evidence + explanation]

In addition, [What is more] no one like to be proven wrong about anything they talk and believe as a human being. To tell the truth, most of the time people wanted that as a person proves what you believe in without saying or verifying anything, even though you know that it is completely wrong.We always like to stand beside in our believe and we dont want to be proven wrong even though we get all the justified information that we are wrong in our believe of rumor. we human do it on purpose because we want to proof that we are  superior than others peoples although we know that we are in lies and we are totally wrong and we do it because some people or country has more power or superiority over other peoples and countries. For example, in our country we say that this is the country of freedom and it is established for freedom of religion. our country amendment says every one in the United States has right to perform their religions perfectly. but in my neighbor in our mosque we are not allowed to perform athan( calling muslims to the prayer)  loudly, but people are allowed to play music loudly or churches are allowed to ring the bell loudly. whenever we claim about it and ask for permission to the city, they showed us many reasons, even though they knew that they are totally wrong and they have power and they dont wanted to be proven wrong to us. we should have respect to all religions and care about their right. we should get rid of stubborn idea. Most of the time, media shows that muslims are terrorist because some so called muslim may be accused of attacking the world trade centre and till now it is not 100% proven. maybe it was a rumor by government or maybe it is something else. [Jump in ideas--you need a transitional idea here to move from prejudice against Muslims to Hitler] Hitler. Mussolini killed millions of jews and people , they were Christian , because of it we cant say all the Christian are like them or they are terrorist like Hitler. most of the time, rumors area full of lies and its proven. Nowadays many people say muslim are terrorist even though they dont have any kind of true knowledge of islam, they say because they have power and money and they dont want to be proven wrong; more over they are doing it for their own purpose and their greediness [do not leave a strong claim such as this with no evidence+ explanation].

In conclusion, i think beliefs have a big influence in our lives such as how we live , dressed, how we work, i believe that we good to have beliefs that could be supported by truth or verified facts. we always should verify the facts or any rumors because false beliefs could be dangerous for human lives , for our society and for our country.

HYPE rewriting ( mamun)

     These days, advertisements are everywhere. Besides this, these all ads (advertisement) represents some kind of product or service informations and they pursue us to buy those products and services. Even though, advertisement are helpful to get information about products and services; undoubtedly,i believe that it makes mental pollutants,distract our brain and has many negative effects in our lives,society and the country.
     
       First, advertisements pollutants our mind and distract our thoughts everyday. everyday moment of sun rising, Newspaper, TV, radio, phone, store, shopping mall, gas station, and transportation systems commercial ads for services or products pollution floods, pollute and distract our brains till the moment we fall asleep. Because of these kind of pollution we are being scatterbrained. For example, we inspire by watching those commercial ads and we just buy their product without thinking or verifying it, Moreover, sometime these ads make us confused by pollution, then we could not make the correct decision and would not able to buy the right product or service. Most of the time advertisement distract and pollute children; moreover, by watching ads children learn some stuff dangerous ( the ad contain dangerous stunts) and fall in many bad situation when they try that at home. For examples i saw some kind of candy,cookies and toys ads on tv, on that tv ad i saw by eating or having that candy or toy they can get power like superman or hulk. Therefore, they can fly, jump and can do many impossible stuff. children try those things at home; surely, the get in accident. On top of that, advertisement make us made when they thrown in between interesting tv show or important news.
     
          Next, advertisements has many negative effect in our lives, such as its misrepresents, unrealistic expedition, false image, not providing the same product as advertise, waste of money and time; moreover, it change and block natural views. For examples if you look out at the window in Manhattan; obviously, you will see hundreds of sign boards or billboards or giant size of tv where are some king of advertisement instead of watching trees flowers. City puts many tv in the city instead of planting tree or flower.
 Advertisement wast lot of money, companies are spend a lot of money for making advertises, which represents their product or service to us. Author Kally Lans states that ,"everyday an estimated 12 billion display ads, 3 million radio commercial, and more than 200000 TV commercial are dumped in to North America's  collective unconscious,"  so just imagine how much money they spend? To tell the truth, have we ever think that who paying those money? Consumers pay all the money because they add all the ads expenses to the products. Hopefully if they wouldn't spend much on ads, we would get the same product in more cheaper price. Finally, i just want to explain one more bad effect of advertisement. Some time we dont get the same quality of product as they advertise and by doing this they cheating the people and deceive the society. For example, beauty and health product, nutrition may not live up their promise, resulting in waste consumer money. Disclaimer are often hidden in very small print on the product.
     
        In conclusion, i just want to say that, the way advertisement help us at the same way they causing many problems, negative effects and polluting our mind, society; besides this, it waste time, paper, money and polluting our mother earth. companies in the world should be honest about their product or service advertisement; on top of that, should cut some expenses on it. The way we can be happy and have a nice society and world.