Blog 11: CATW Practice Test #2

The article titled "The women who died in the waiting room" is about esmin green's death. She was a poor, uninsured woman in her very late 40s waiting in a psychiatric hospital when she fell out of her seat and no one paid attention to her until she was already dead. There is alot of people like Esmin Green, poor and uninsured, And the article states these people should have a place in society.

I believe the death of Esmin Green was very unstoppable. I agree that just because a person can not afford insureance they should still have a place in society and not be ignored, even so left out to die. This reminds me of when I was pregannt, Since i was 21 years old my insurance was cut off due to my age. I was not about to get the prenatal care that i needed the first 13 weeks of my pregnancy. It had taken 6-8 weeks to get insured and covered in order for doctors to see me and make sure everything with my pregnancy was going swell. I was completely annoyed, perhaps more frustrated with how complicated it was the first couple of weeks without seeing a doctor and wondering about the health of my unborn child and mine.

I also believe that sometimes nurses, doctors, hospital staff etc.. can be very ignorant. Through the security cameras it was stated in the article that it had shown two guards and two other staff memebers see Esmin Green on the floor and did not bother checking on her. Absurd. Reading this also reminds of the many times i have been in the hospital or have gone to a hospital and waited hours, even in the emergency section without anyone checking on you or asking you questions. Something so serious like Esmin green's death should be a wake up call to all hospital not to serrogate those who have money and those don't, It should be based on their health. At least that is what i believe.

Just because some people cannot afford to pay for the hospital expenses does not mean they need to be ignored like Esmin Green. There are alot of unwealthy people with alot of health conditions that should be taken care of.

Blog 10: Hero and Anti-hero in the movie "Hero"

I believe that in the recent movie I have watched in my Eng099 class titled "Hero", Bernie LaPlante is the Hero and John Bubber is the Anti-Hero because although LaPlante who has a family and lives in a house, a very traditional man i might say was the one who went in that airplane and saved 52 people he made us forget how self centered he is, he cared about his shoes so much but he took them off and put his life at risk to save the people on the plane. His wife says " it was against his religion to save people" but he was not afraid to go in that plane, a plane that was mins or even secs to blowing up. John Bubber due to the life he was living, a homeless man living in car claimed he was the hero because of the money that was being offered to the man who saved all those people. That is very selfish in all ways because he continued his act knowing the truth is he was not a hero. He was tormmented by that and he tried killing himself which i believe is very imperfect. He Of course Laplante just did not want to deal with all of the publicity chaos which is why he did not want to come up front that he was the hero they were looking for, Once money was offered, He wanted to but who would not want to be rewarded money. LaPlante just didnt want publicity because he is just very traditional man, too self centered to deal with so much attention.

Blog 9: CATW Practice

I have read an article titled "An Education in Citizenship" This article is about an argument on how legal ciitizen have to pay more money out of their pocket to pay for their tuition In-state, While non-citizen immigrants pay alot less.
In this article the writer questions "Why will we charge legal citizens from other states more for a tuition than we charge non-citizen immigrants?" Their parents i.e legal citizen's parents are already paying federal taxes to help support the pell grants In-state. Why make these parents pay more of their money?
I personally believe this is not fair at all because why make U.S citizens pay more for an education? what are their benefits when it comes to their education? I feel this is truly wrong and I can't seem to understand how many people took a vote and allowed tge Illinois House to pass the bill that allow young people in the U.S to pay these expenses, annd allow someone with No Legal Rights to pay less.
Why do I have a citizenship? I am in College now and I really hate having to pay for everything on my own, when i should be entitled to benefits due to legal citzenship. Am I right? As so the article questions the same thing. I, too argue the same.

Blog 8: Summary of Red Pill or Blue Pill: Is Ignorance Bliss?

The article "Red pill or Blue Pill: Is Ignorance bliss? is about the movie 'The Matrix' being compared to the movie "Alice In Wonderland" for their similarities between the real world and wonderland, In these movies, both characters Neo and Alice were confused by what is real and what is not real. Have you ever read the short story 'Allegory of the Cave' this short story also relates alot to the concept of these movies in which the characters in Allegory of the Cave were chained by their necks and legs in a cave filled with only darkness since their childhood.

When one of the prisoners were able to escape, he saw the light. he saw our world. and was confused because he had only known darkness. The darkness was the only truth as The Matrix was the only truth Neo thought he knew although he felt different and was given the chance to leave the matrix (which is another name for our world) to know the real truth and how our minds are trained to believe what we want to believe. that our body would be complete nothing without our mind. It took a while for Alice, Neo and The escaped prisoner to get use to this new life, The real world. The truth that ignorance cannot be bliss.