Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Response to "The riddle of experience vs. memory"

It is true that people cannot strightly think about what is the happiness. The experience self guides what is the happiness for a person. However, this makes happiness becomes too actual, as people shows the definetion with happiness. For me, I think happiness shouldn't be too real. Everyone has different opinions to happiness, but most them want to be happy. There is the question, who doesn't ? People chose to do things because they want to, they feel happy apparently. If one says that experience self leads the happiness, it changes the meaning of happiness. On the other hand, I think that being happy could be very difficult, especialy these days. There are too many things which we don't have choices. We are forced to do things that we don't want, and pretend to be happy. This makes our lives much more harder. My father says that we should always have smile on our face, even though we meet the person who we don't like. However, in the internal feeling, we are not happy, but we have to pretend to be happy. In addition, I think it might be easier for children since they are innocent and they don't need to consider too much. However, if people try to think positively, they could be more happier. Positive thinking reduces lots of pressures from a person. In brife, just try to be positive for everything and appreciate.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

2001: A Space Odyssey

The movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" divides to three part : A Down of Man, A Mission and Juptor Misson. The first part shows pithecanthropus' lives. They fight for their territories and powers; also, they know how to pertect themsevlf by the bones. This bone is the symbol through the whole moive. It indeed appears in other parts. For instence, the pen and the shap of the space ship look like the bone, and it symbolize the weapon. On the other hand, the second part is set after many years, and the technology advances. As a result, people can fly in the space. The last part is the most important part becuase it manifests the main theme that is about the technology can instead of human; in the worst case, computer systems even can kill people. We can find it in the movie; after Hal knows Dave and Frank is going to disconect him, he kills Frank and all people in the ship.I was very shocked when I saw this view.
Personally, I think Hal doesn't want to kill anyone, and he just tries to defend himself. It is hard to imagine how afvanced the computer is. It even has hunman emotion. Especially, close to the end, Hal says "I can fell it". It sounds like he knows what is the death about. I have sympathy with Dave and Frank. Both they cannot be with their families. This shows another comparision. In the ancient time, most pithecanthropus live in a grounp. However, it turns to the modern times, even though there are lots of technology that helps people to comunicate, they are sill not spending time together. In fact, it is the issue in the recent days, and it happens everywhere in the world. In brief, the moive"2001: A Space Odyssey" is a great moive. As our classmates discussed in the class, they said that the ability of human is limited. People cannot predict and prevent what is going to happen. In fact, there is one thing that confuses me. I don't understand why Dave reborns in the end.
We learned another story in the class which is very difficult, and it is hard to follow. However, I think this kind of story is very interesting, the heros or the monsters. Of cause, the traditional palys: the heros kill the monsters and safe the world. It sounds very proud.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

To win a spring

When the sky is turning with the clouds, the sunlight is becoming scattered. Then we know that the winter is coming. What we can see is that full of withered leafs, and to feel the cold winds which shaves your faces. In the street, there are some squirrels which run around to look for a warm place or some foods. It seems like that they are not ready for the cold weather. People too, they pretend thet they do not detest the cold. In fact, they do, it comes suddenly that no one can predict what is going to happen. In the early morning, they still get up and go for their duties, never ends. Indeed, we all know that it takes long time to go through that days. During these times, some people may give up, and hide in their own worlds. On the other hand, other people may persist in what they need to do or what they have to. After the spring comes, people become truely excited. For the people who are hiding in their own worlds, they regreted, but it is too late to go back. Even though you want to change the way at the time, days are already gone. The only thing you can do is that pull you out and  (balke down ). For the other people, they deserved the whole spring.