The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Yesterday Usman, Tshering, and I visited The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The library is located on 66th street Lincoln center. The library consist of three different floors. On the first floor there are computers that you can use to serf the web. There are also many librarians that are on the first floor to answer questions. On the second floor we found many interesting videos. All the video and DVD are based on musicals and theaters. They also had many books that are about theater and dancing. They also had many painting on the walls. On the third floor there was a stations of TV. On the T.V. you can view the different dance performances. You can see the evolving the dance from before and now. There were also nice drawings and pictures on the third floor.
The New York Public Library was a nice place to visit. It was a fun experience for me to see all the different paintings and drawings.

Going Green

There are many things that our family is doing to go Green. My mom changed all regular lights in the house. Instead of having regular yellow bulbs we now have white florescent lights. The florescent light uses up less electricity. At first I did not like the lights because the lights are not as bright as the regular light bulbs. But as time passed I got used to the lights. My father also likes the bulbs because he is paying a little less on the electricity bill.
We as a family cut down on driving the car. We feel that all less car on the road can cause less pollution. Now we walk a little more. This has benefited the family. My father has lost seven pounds in the last two months. Since the gas price went high we also save in the pumps. Event though it is a low to recycle now, we always recycled. My mom always had two different cans in the house, one for garbage and one for plastic.

VIsit to the New York Public Library

There are many things that I learned in the New York Public Library. This was the fist time that I visited this New York Public Library. The Library had five different floors. Different floors had different types of books and genres. As I explored the Library I found a lot of different and interesting books. There were many books about religions and different cultures. I also found books about my country. The library also had varieties of videos and DVD. After visiting the library we went to a different library. This Library held all the books that have ever been published. This library was also big. You can see thousands of books that were in the selves ready to be read. I found it interesting to walk around the building and watch the different art works in the wall. They also have books that are on display that can’t be taking out such as the Bible. Also in the library, they had classic baseball and basketball cards. I also learned that there is a special library card that you need to have to read the books.

NBA

The 2008 playoff just began to get exciting. The Horets lead by Chris Paul defeat the Mavericks on the first round. As the result of the defeat the Mavericks fired there couch Avery Johnson. This is the second time straight that the Mavericks has been defeated in the first round of the playoffs. The Spurs played the Sun on the first round of the playoffs. Lead by Tim Duncan the spurs defeated the suns in six games. The Lakers lead by Kobe Bryent defeated the Nuggets in 4 games straight. As we know Kobe Bryent Wanted to leave the Lakers earlyer this season because he felt the team wasent going any were. After reconstructing the team they finished the season first place in the west. The Jazz deafeated the Rockets in the first round. McGrady have yet to advance to the second round of the playoff in his career. I do not want to talk about any team in the east because i think there is only hope for 2 teams the Celtics and the Pistons. I believe that if some of the west teams played in the east they would have an oppertunity to go to the playoffs.

Our trip to the Museum of Natural History

Last Wednesday my class visited the Museum of Natural History. We were split up into group to research about the museum. As we entered the museum there were a lot of different interesting exhibits. The first place we visited was the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth. There were many exhibits that I found very interesting in that room. One of the interesting exhibits that I liked was the ice sample. The ice sample can go back may years and determine the how much snow fall on a specific year and how cold it was by the bubbles in the ice. We as a group also viewed the cloud diagram. There was also a video on the effect of global warming. Which discusses the effect of carbon dioxide on earth. It also discusses the increase of carbon dioxide on earth.
The museum and the movie “Inconvenient Truth” are have a lot of similarities. By watching the movie first I had a basic idea about the world and global warming. In the movie Al Gore also discuses about the ice sample. He also added that you can also determine how much carbon dioxide was in the year by looking at the ice sample. The movie also explain that as the years passes there are more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This is what casing the earth to be warmer. By the earth getting warmer there are major amount of ice that is melting. As a result we will have limited supply of fresh water to drink. The museum has a diagram that shows how the sun ray is being trapped on earth. The movie also discusses the about sun ray trapped on earth. Al Gore discusses that the sun ray hits the earth. As it goes back to the atmosphere it is trapped by the thick clouds. This is how the earth is getting warmer.

Allegory of the cave

The allegory of the cave is a understand that there is a group of people in a cave. There is a fire right behind them and what ever passes by the fire they see the shadow on the wall. Many years passes and they truly believe that this is the real world. One day one of the prisoner escapes from the cave and sees the real world. He sees the sun and the real world . He goes back to the cave to tell the other prisoners about the real world and how it is. Since the other prisoners are adapted to there environment they do not accept the truth.
I believe that the allegory of the cave and the Matrix are very similar. Both of the stories have two different world. One world is a elusion and it in prisons the people from the real thing. And here is a real world which is hidden from them. In both stories there was a person that escapes from the delusional world and sees the real world. In the matrix neo is chosen to be the “one”. He is the main character who is suppose to free the world and free the people. In both stories they quickly realize the difference of the two world and try to go back and free the rest of the people.

The Matrix

I am really not interested at science fiction movies. This is the fist time that I watched The Matrix. The Matrix was a very interesting movie to watch. There were many parts of the movie that I liked and there were also many parts that I was confused about.
Some of the parts of the movie that I liked are in the beginning when he gets arrested by the agent. There was a nice affect on how his mouth was closed and also when they infected him with the bug. There were a lot of nice action parts. At the beginning were he trains with Morpheus there were a lot of nice Kong fu moves. There were a lot of good marchel arts when Neo fought the agent in the train station.
Some of the parts that confused me is when he was taken into the ship, and they gave him a shot and all of the sudden he is in a pod full of wires. What was that all about. Another thing that I did not understand was when he was killed in the matrix, how did he come back to life.
One thing that this movie does is make you think. It reminds me about how the government contol us. There are many ways how the government control us such as tapping into our phone call. They also contol what we watch by giving rating to all the shows. This movie really makes me realize how the higher power use tactics to run things.