Jungle Fever and Reality

Okorie Haughton
Eng103
5-19-11




Social Life Between
Movies and Reality





In 1991 an American drama film Jungle Fever was made. This featured film Directed by Spike Lee takes place in Harlem and other parts in Manhattan as well as digging deep into the interracial dating era within the late-1960‘s to the 1980’s. Harlem was filled with abandoned housing and vacant lots ready for homeless people to trash it and try to take it over as there own. The story of Jungle Fever shows Harlem to be a nice place to live but having plenty drug addicts laying around every vacant lot. It was a century which people struggled to reform politics, yet never made much change. In this research I will show how the film itself portrays Harlem as shown in the 1970's to the late 1980's

Flipper Purify played by Wesley Snipes is an African American working in middle class society at an architectural firm in New York City. Angela “Angie” Tucci an Italian American hired as his temporary secretary at the place developed mixed feelings with Flipper working together catching feelings thats more then jus work. Working at the firm late one night they converse and end up having sex which u would hardly ever see in the 1970’s to the late 1980’s. Basically racism was still being demonstrated in the New York streets especially if dating is a factor. Having a racial setting into the story line showing that interracial dating can an should be expressed however the couple feels but Flipper used it for his own uses.

In reality interracial dating is not accepted in society nor the time period that is shown within the movies time frame. The movie displays similar reality within the mind frame that all races should only mate with their own race. Result to the dating of Flipper and Angie both sides of the family shows dislike with the whole dating between them. Angie’s father violently beats her for dating a black man and throws her out of the house, as Flipper suggests to get an apartment with Angie later suffering social problems with the police thinking he was trying to rape her. Eventually the relationship between the couple got worst which subsequently they broke up and return to their normal lives. Statistics say 25,000 black men married white women in the 1960’s, the numbers jumped by the 80’s making 122,000. Becoming involved in an interracial relationship was a way black men got to test a new sense of freedom.

As we enter the 1970’s known as the worst period in Harlem's history, many people were able to escape from poverty leaving the neighborhoods in search of safer streets. The federal government’s program spent large amounts of money to improve what certain families lacked in such as sanitation, health care, and education in over ten years. In a community with the highest crime rates in New York city, vacant lots contribute to the amount of danger within much of the area. Statistics say that drug addiction and housing quality were similarly gruesome. Losing twenty-seven percent of the neighborhood, no longer having a functioning economy in East Harlem. The city neared bankruptcy during the administration of Mayor Abraham Beame, which avoided the suffering with the aid of a large federal loan.

During this time period cocaine smuggling, causing lower prices, and higher quality. Within low-income minority communities were the first to receive the drug as it grew which was commonly called an epidemic. After the extreme decline of New York in the mid 1970’s, the crack cocaine trade also devastated portions of the city’s population. The wealth generated by such activities is used to buy popular and political support in the local communities. Social scientists provided equivalent perspectives on the rapidly changing crack culture. The city was running a huge budget deficit, due to decades of ambitious spending on public works and social services, combined with an erosion of the city's manufacturing base. The crack cocaine industry increased during the 1978 – 1989. It was not until the 1980s that extensive studies on cocaine users have begun.

The rebellious sixties captured the essence of the act of feminists demanding their rights. Socially women had no respect in the world which made it hard for them to gain the rights they deserved. Feminist theory focused on the issues seeking gender equality. The movement itself grew within the aspects of poverty and voting, promoting the work rights including careers for both genders rather then just one gender. Women have historically been victims of both direct and subtle forms by men. Feminist beliefs are widely as to the most effective way to end this mental block of success.

The role of women in society was deeply changed with growing feminism across the world. In the presence and the rise of women ahead of states outside of government officials, a number of countries across the world during the 1970’s women hold such positions being their first. Drawing inspiration from the civil rights movement, it was made mainly of members of the middle class, taking part of the spirit of rebellion. Hoping to defeat the actions by proposing an amendment to outlaw discrimination on the basis of gender and race as well. Later in the late 1970‘s it failed to broaden its attraction to the middle class divisions between moderate and radical feminists.


The financial crisis, high crime rates, and damage from the blackouts led to a widespread belief that New York City was in irreversible decline. Many white middle class families moved to the city's suburbs and to other economically healthier locales. By the end of the 1970s, nearly a million people had left, a population loss not recovered for another twenty years. The fall of 1973 the crisis has spread to many areas of the U.S. monopoly capitalist economy, which has been racked with severe inflation of the dollar. Energy crisis in the winter of 1973 - 1974 was a severe over-production crisis in the industry.

By 1980, the City of New York owned 60 percent of all residential property in Harlem, and began auctioning these properties to the public in 1985. Only a small fraction would be sold at this time, and later scandals would temporarily halt the sales altogether. City's sale of confiscated houses was intended to improve the community by placing property in the hands of people who would live in them and maintain them. In many cases, the city would even pay to completely renovate a property before selling it (by lottery) below market value. About a third of the properties sold by the city were tenements which still had tenants, who were left in particularly miserable conditions. These properties, and new restrictions on Harlem mortgages, bedeviled the area's residential real estate market for years.

Spike Lee's film Jungle Fever displays a still photograph of Yusuf K. Hawkins, a young black teenager killed by a white mob in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn many summers ago. The boy was not shot because he crossed the line into a white neighborhood, he was shot because he was mistaken for dating a local girl who was rejected from society for dating blacks and Hispanics. Exploring the connection between race, sex and place that costs a 16-year-old his life. After touching this issue, the effects in his earlier work developed this film which driven to the concerns of the time period of interracial dating.

Blog 19: Reflecting

Working with the archives I learned that living in any neighborhood can b very complicated. Also I have learned that parts of New York were noticed to some individuals as the slums which is described as rundown. The New York’s programs that tried to help out the concentrated areas were actually making things worse for people that really needed their homes. The archives gave me reasonable information on the topic planned shrinkage but I didn’t feel like it was enough to do the actual paper itself.
The archives introduction was pretty informative. The instructor talked a lot about Roger Starr whose name was known for the planned shrinkage. Closing schools and subway stations were part of the South Bronx shrinkage. Having no knowledge of the planned shrinkage all of the information was new to me. Saving money from the financial crisis the city has gone through Roger Starr’s actions which resulted into protests in communities where his policies effected.
I say the major research paper was more difficult than the archives essay. The archive’s had a lot of useful documents that helped a lot with finishing and applying information. The major research paper process was very difficult, just trying to find specific information on the social, economic, and political aspects between the movie and reality. Adding certain historical events that happened during the time frame of what the movie tired to portray like the 1970’s for example. Then we had to discuss how the movie portrayed New York in that specific time era to see if it was good at representing or bad or in between.

Blog 18: Research Paper Process

The process of my paper was pretty stressful. My mind was to worried about getting the paper in on time rather than getting it done. If I had a better mindset to get my paper done then I think I wouldn’t have stressed it as much as I did. Finding my information was definitly not dat easy even when I tried using google. Google can find anything but the information I needed for my paper. I felt like google was getting tired of me using it almost everyday jus to find information on the social, political and economics of the 1960’s to the 1980’s. I pieced a couple things together which got kind of annoying that I had to do so but hey its for a grade right. I wasn’t really thinking on the lessons we did in class I jus tried my best on the paper honestly, but I remembered acouple things from some of the lessons tho.

Blog 17: Minority Report, Oedipus & Free Will

Free will is a self confident way of how individuals come to define their lives. Having the will power to do as they please at any given time. “Free Will and Determinism in the World of Minority Report” for example defines how if interrupted of performing free will would be unjust. Explaining how a movie directed by Steven Spielberg “Minority Report” takes away free will of criminals yet to perform violent acts. Using precogs’ to work for the police to determine crimes before they happen. “With the precogs’ insight, the police are able to prevent these crimes and imprison the would-be perpetrators. Naturally, the accused protest their innocence: they have not actually committed any crime at the time they are arrested.” If you ask me the free will to think violent acts would be a crime committed to that kind of system.
In the play Oedipus the King free will was very questionable. Many individuals believed in everything and anything the oracle says. The oracle is a priest and their job is to give people what they want to hear and tell them what can happen if they let it. Yet in the play the oracle tells Oedipus’s father that his first son will kill his father and marry his mother, which no one would have ever known or thought to have noticed til the end. Understanding the consequence if keeping the 1st born son the king sent Oedipus off for adoption so that he can avoid the problem. Having the free will to keep his son and try and change the future to come was definitely an option in which was not used. The free will to even have a baby was an option as well. With the free will to do as you please you have many options to change your thought process or what actions you choose you want to perform.

Blog 16

1) the movie's basic plot
The movie Jungle Fever directed by Spike Lee is about a middle class African American named Flipper working as well as looking for a secretary to handle office work for him. The company Flipper works for hires an Italian American named Angela which wasn’t the kind of race he was looking for to handle his filing and office work. As the movie goes on Flipper gets along with Angela finding a specific bond he hasn’t had in a while at work.
2) how it relates or is situated in NYC
The time period saw great social, economic, and general change as wealth and production. Increasing multiple corporations with manufacturing industry into the Eastern markets
3) how do we see NYC (outside shots, characters living in it etc) visually in the movie4) what does NYC look like in the movie
Outside shots of NYC in this movie are totally different from how we see it now. NYC looks very realistic in the movie which gave it a look that people outside of NYC can see an get a better understanding of the outside view.

Blog 15: Minority Report response

Stalker or Security you decide

Society should care for security yes but above all no. Being safe is one thing but having the government watch your every move is another. It’s like an upgraded version of stalking individuals digitally. I support the safety but not if I have to sacrifice my privacy to keep living, I think that’s just pushing it. I’m sorry but I don’t see how great stalking people can be like its not amusing to find out what they’re doing or where they’re going to be. If that’s the case be their friends, marry them, something that’s normal at least. The whole point of free will is self-control and self-confidence. And privacy is your personal stories to share with yourself it deals with a lot of self it was self-made so therefor there should be no one looking to get to know myself by searching me on the web to see what I like or what I do its creepy. You might as well just hire a personal stalker to follow u around and not make a sound behind you and see how that works out for you.

Archives Essay

The Ideology Of Planned Shrinkage



A new game of monopoly during the days of our lives. Planned Shrinkage something that turns heads like “What is it?” A way to kick families out of their own homes and transfer them to other places so that the government makes more money off of them. Is that the way we go about getting things that we want now a days? Roger Starr feels that its ok why not you?
Roger Starr, an outspoken thinker on urban affairs who mixed an integrated a lifetime of rational research with public service and of his New York City public policy for decades. Proposing that the city should consider the limits and the movement of people from these slum neighborhoods to more concentrated areas. Responding to the decrease that troubled many areas in NYC such as The South Bronx and Harlem proposing a policy now known as "planned shrinkage." In the early 1970s, RAND performed a study that displayed how city services relate to population in a large city. They concluded that when services such as police and fire protection were withdrawn, the population in that area would decrease and lower its finances.

 In response to the Rand study addressing the shrinking population in New York City, Starr's policy of planned shrinkage to reduce the wiped out population and better preserve the tax base. Starr gave a speech at the real estate industry lodge suggesting that the city should "accelerate the drainage" calling it the worst parts of the South Bronx through a policy of "planned shrinkage." Closing subway stations, firehouses and schools were part of the proposition on the shrinkage of The South Bronx, the city was in a deep financial crisis and Starr felt these actions were the best way to save money. Starr's arguments soon became frequent in urban planning. The people who lived in the communities where his policies were applied protested, without adequate fire service and police protection they faced waves of crime and fires that left much of the South Bronx and Harlem devastated.
A public policy was made taking away necessary services of the city to keep the community balanced. Police patrols, street repairs, and garbage removal was taken from areas suffering from urban decay so that outside interests offer to start a new development in neighborhoods that have a loss population of white citizens. Causing problems with the health of the public in the communities the AIDS predicament affected african americans directly. President Nixon's Advisor sent a memo to the Administration saying “Benign Neglect” taking the stance of moving money from the inner city to the suburbs using block grants. After the neglect many houses burned down Starr chose those lands vacant until a new use could be made. New York's massive urban renewal programs were set aside as in was made vacant and gave way for highways, and other developments happening on its own the ideas that cities can shrink. Civic leaders felt that urban decline was a natural process in which the population loss would be greatest.
After World War II working for his father which was a barge business transporting an building materials on a large scale. Working with his father someone suggested Starr join the Board of Citizen Housing and Planned Council, starting his career becoming an executive director of council. Although Mr. Starr's beliefs were strong and dedicated to slum clearance, public housing and urban renewal in The South Bronx and Brownsville area Robert Moses has molded. The Bronx had up to 120,000 fires per year, percent up to 40 of the housing in the area was destroyed, a dramatic rise from 60,000 reported fires in 1960 to rates of over 120,000 per year throughout the 1970s. Residents felt the city was doing nothing to stop the fires. With the population decreasing only after two decades the city started to invest in these areas. New developments were built and each of these neighborhoods has come a long way. Bringing the people from the Brooklyn slums to the housing built in Rockaway on vacant land and then when the housing in the brooklyn slum is empty turn it to a vacant land an build better housing to make more money.
“I was one of the few outspoken people other than owners of property who was bitterly opposed to rent control, because rent control was destroying New York City's private housing stock from the middle ranges down to the lowest ranges,...” I think that rent control has a greater quality than planned shrinkage, reason being is that the shrinkage throws people out of homes rather than change up the money process. Starr completely disagrees with the ideology of the controlling of rent which doesn't bring enough trust between the money and the tenants. Seeing this as a solution to the issues, moving people from place to place. Believing those actions were saving the city's budget which was suffering at the time. In the housing business there was so much mythology that problems established on a large scale which the government programs found themselves having to take extreme measures specifically with public housing.
In Conclusion you can see we're losing our lifestyle while the housing comity begs to differ. Roger Starr proposed that limits should be considered within the slums of NYC. As RAND studied how city services relate to population in the large city that services would decrease and lower in finances. Where as the 1970's concentrated areas such as the South Bronx and Harlem were the first areas to discover the means of planned shrinkage. Practiced mostly in New York City withdrawing city services from neighborhoods suffering from poverty so that they may claim an interest for change.

Special Activity: MOMI

-Stop pause images
I learned that Flip Book Art is much like a movie.
-Baseball booth controlling how ppl @ home watch baseball on tv
-Different type of tv sets: I learned that the old and 1st tv sets were considered as look alikes 2 household equipment such as washing machines and stoves. Making things seem as if they were just like the household items but with images 2 watch.
-Pictures of famous actors and actress that show a character they can play by their pics
-Masks, special effects and make-up
-Suits different clothing to specify how certain type of ppl dress. Such as the classic patterned sweater Bill Cosby wears in the Cosby show. That Specific sweater contains the look of a father like man

Blog 12

I agree to this hypothesis where the ideal genetically engineered humans will come to represent as “the other.” As humans we have we try to be the best or seem to be dominant in life. Watching the process or seeing other humans that are superior then ourselves we get over protective to our egos. In the movie Gattaca at birth the newborn were checked to see its pros and cons, strengths and weaknesses. Looking at the chances that the newborn would have living through out its years. To give change and service the cons within the child scientists can genetically engineer the flaws of the child, which would only be a minor set back. As the main character Vincent seemed to be “the other” between him, his brother, and in life he later on found out that he could genetically change that. George J. Annas’s hypothesis sounds accurate to what I think, which if engineered genetically either they will find us as the other and attempt to destroy us to reach control. As they are genetically engineered they would probably think they are better then us (which they are) and treat us lesser or destroy us. We as regular humans will think bad of those who are genetically engineered thinking they will kill or murder those who aren’t and seek to take control. Only finding them to be better triggering our jealousy automatically making them “the other” causes conflict between the two genes.

Blog 11 "The Other"

A) "The Other" to my understanding would be people being overly concieted if that makes sense.
B) People that are concieted get on my nerve. They just bring an off vibe that they can do whatever thet want when in the real world you gotta work for everything. That action alone is ok but sum people take it to the extent where its just annoying like alright stop being full of yourself. Always comparing yourself to people lower then them. >.<
C) If i was to interact with that someone who belongs to "The Other" i jus turn my head or look at them with a straight face like -__-'. while there talkin i act like im interested in what there sayin unless they give compliments to some people or says saomthing nice at some point then ok but other then that i wud rather stay quiet and jus leave them be so they can leave me be.

Blog 10: Reflection

During this course I liked basically everything. I learned a lot which opened my eyes to more then just looking at life one way. After putting the pieces together (which I do in the classes I don’t really understand) I’ve found out and believed more that the illusions are made in many different ways. I respect this course due to have the studies and information that gave me a new eye to life.
My strengths I would say are giving my own opinions while writing, and also having information to back up my thesis. As my weakness I can doubt myself while in the process of writing, I start to look for help even when I write about myself alone, my grammar can improve.
Using a blog kind of helped me type a little better and I felt comfortable since all I do is use a computer to do things now. I’m glad I don’t have to write because I’ve had horrible penmanship for the last 18yrs of my life going on 19 now and that’s horrible. But I’m glad that we’re using blogs also because I hated blogs until this class started I caught an interest in them now.
I think that my weakest piece would be the very first blog I had to do when I first got to this class. I was still getting used to the blogging and typing about myself and how I felt about stuff. My strongest piece would have to be Blog 7: Matrix Essay. I felt comfortable about writing and doing research on a topic that caught my interest. As blog 6 the idea of the prison house language didn’t give me much of a drive to work as hard as my Matrix Essay. The fact I got feed back from two of my classmates which I thought was helpful.

Blog 9

Thesis: Television exposes a great deal of violence which has increased in crime over time.

Intro1: Introduce how television violence came about.

Intro2: Speak on how television has introduced the violence in society.

Body1: Situations where people blamed television for crimes being committed.
Body2: Crime during the start of televisions birth.

Body3: Crime uprising as the years of television grows.

Body4: Bring up some research on if the violence in the media exists. Giving broad examples of the aggression people used through out time. The results were drastic, this link brings good information to my paper.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_violence_research

Body5: The statistics within the violence that the media promotes. Statistics within the television era and the violence are bein show boated and revealed to the audience 17 and under. Given a social realization to wat happend as a result people came up to find these specific statistics.
- http://www.jacksonkatz.com/PDF/ChildrenMedia.pdf
- www.nccev.org/violence/statistics-media.html
Conclusion: In conclusion Television brainwashed people on one side of the violence rather then the three sides of the effects of violence. Some feel good from you get what you want out of it an getting away. Some feel bad as in they don't get what they want an they get caught and put straight into jail. Others tend to view the side which people don't tend to see which is the people in the process of the violence that they're hurting.

Blog 8

Discuss what ideas there are in the two texts (The Matrix and Oedipus the King) about the concepts of ignorance, bliss/happiness, and knowledge. Discuss both common elements you see and differences.

Similarities
- They both deal with wanting to know thier future or at least to get a heads up in what's coming up that they should look out for.
- In the Matrix Neo is known as the one, the messiah, the one to guide the people of Zion to victory. During this time he didn't understand or know if he should believe in the prophecy that was told of him but later on in the film he believed as everyone else did as well. Similar to Neo, Oedipus the King went to the oracle and was told he would kill his father and marry his mother. he refused to believe in the oracle while later in the play he found out that what he was told was true and cut his eyes out in the result.
- Both Neo and Oedipus went to the oracle lookin for answers unsure of who they are as a person.

Blog 7

Thesis: The violence shown on television is the problem in most cases. Sending a message to people through a world wide network is what causes most problems.

En.wikipedia.org/wiki/john_thompson_(sociologist)
-This source basically talks about John Thompson a sociologist's meaning of the medias development of mass communication over the years. He discusses how the media its self effects the minds of humans.

Title: Violence In The Media by LeeAnne Gelletly
Publisher: Detroit : Thomson/Gale ; Farmington Hills, MI : Lucent Books, 2004.
112p
-The Book "Violence In The Media" is self explanatory. The book talks about how the media itself promotes and market the violence seen in the world which doesnt send out good personal ratings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_violence_research
-This link brings up some research on if the violence in the media exists. Giving broad examples of the aggression people used through out time. The results were drastic, this link brings good information to my paper.

http://www.jacksonkatz.com/PDF/ChildrenMedia.pdf
www.nccev.org/violence/statistics-media.html
-Both of these websites show the statistics within the violence that the media promotes. Statistics within the television era and the violence are bein show boated and revealed to the audience 17 and under. Given a social realization to wat happend as a result people came up to find these specific statistics.

Outline:
*Introduction: more violence increases the Debate
-"In April 1999 two teenage gunman stormed into their high school in Littleton, Colorado and started shooting their classmates"
-"the media violence is not new"
-"in the aftermath, as other troubled teens committed copy cat crimes,..."
-"Before the age of eighteen, the average American teen will have witnessed 18,000 simulated murders on TV."
-"The news media are blamed for focusing about 80 to 90 percent of the time on violent stories rather than on hopeful ones."

*Body: The violence shown within the early television network didn't focus on it as much as they do now of days.
-Censors would view an monitor programs for violence and offensive language then tell the producers if the content was strong. Yet in the 1970's and 80's violence increased which gave viewers a more realistic view.
-Violence can be seen in almost every show on television causing easy access to all ages. As told by Kathleen "About 75 percent of American homes have two or more television sets" which shows that the media lowered their censorship.

Body: Warnings about the violent content is nothing but interest to people. It does nothing 2 stop who watches nor who can watch the ratings of certain channels. Giving TV ratings to protect the kids from the violence.

Body: Concerned of the aggressiveness shown the government was urged to lower the amount of violence shown on television.

Body: Violence also comes in the form of a video game. Murder Simulators is what Lt Col. Dave Grossman calls it. In first player shooter games they teach how to shoot like soldiers. A Fourteen year old boy Michael Carneal stole a hand gun from his neighbor bringing it to school and fires eight shots. An average law enforcer hits about 1 bullet out of five, Michael hits all eight shots fired at each different student. All practice from a video game.

Conclusion or Last Paragraph: There was an incident on "The Jenny Jones Show" where the discussion was about "same sex crushes" guest Scott Amedure surprised Jonathan Schmitz with news of having a crush for him. Days later Schmitz who was embarrassed about the situation shot down Amedure at his house. This violent act brang the media to realize violence is not a joke its reality in which we live.

Matrix Essay

Myth a word used to describe something to the human eye as unreal. Originated through grease in which developed through the ears of the people presenting a form of belief. Relatively characterized for gods or the supernatural existence that many people still seem to believe such as Zion in the movie “The Matrix.” In the movie Zion was known as a god, a higher power to the real world rather than in the Matrix to the eye is a system.
What is the Matrix? Is it real? Is it considered to be a fake? I believe that the Matrix is an interpretation made by each and every individual to come to a belief on how the world works. Everybody has their own general idea of how the world is and how it works, but whose to say that they're right or wrong. The Matrix is a system, a known feeling set within the mind. It’s like a mystery existing within the brain cells making and creating a world that’s commonly related to a simulation. Appearing as an illusion Morpheus the visionary believes that the world is our dream that we have come to believe as the real world. The symbolism behind the character Morpheus is known as the god of dreams within the greek mythology.
The mythology within the Matrix reaches the meaning of our living. Picturing life as it is, giving its significance to reality. Considering seeing people able to imagine their own existence, their own self. A feeling within one's presence but not understanding it themselves. Co-creator of the Matrix the Oracle, represents the compassion, help, and guidance. Not much of predicting the future but giving a concept used to interpret within the help of others that want it.
In conclusion myth comes in all shapes and forms. Shown that even this world that we live in can also be a myth, what do we know is real? The Matrix? Society will never know whats real or not real until proof is shown. Some believe in the known unknown even without proof and just with a good explanation that was given. The message of the matrix films are that people have different stages and they don't understand how its gonna end up and what will happen in the end. What do you think?

Blog 6: The idea of the prison house of language

The concept of “The Prison House of Language” is the illusion of only using words that everyone would use rather then others. Instead of using words us as people normally use we would use words everyone knows and would appeal more. Basically keeping the mind set to using easy ways to get out of situations. For an example let’s say I ask u a question such as “Do u believe in magic?” your obvious answer would be yes or no, yet there can b more then just a yes or no answer. As people we tend to believe the easy way out of things is the best way to deal wit things. When you look at the world there is more then just New York City and the States of the U.S., there are other countries and other cities. Similar to questions you can always explain the reasons you like or dislike, agree or disagree with something.
Fredric Jameson an American Literary critic and cultural theorist has realized and studied the development of human behavior within the language of English. He has easily figured out that we rather take the time out to use short answers to send off quick solutions. Essentially getting lazy with the smallest things such as answering questions and talking to our peers bring out “The Prison House of Language.” Jameson’s ideology discusses the cultural production as an understanding of present time society.

Bllog 5: Allegory of the Cave Summary

            The Allegory of the Cave is a description of an illusion of how people were brought up and controlled. The description of the cave sends off an illusion in which gives us a brief meaning of how society treats us as human beings in this world. As we grow on to a new age of knowledge we are taught to stay where we are and seek information due to what surrounds us rather then seek ourselves. Looking at the shadows of others that surround the people in the cave an anything that passes by them is what they believe exists only through the shadows.

            Stating that as humans we follow one another, although in the book one of the humans in that cave saw the illusion. Understanding the vision of what really existed by parting ways out of the cave and seeking information believing to conceive the real light ahead of him.

The Allegory of the Cave Through History

The Boogeyman, a common story told by most parents to get their children to do the right things such as go to sleep on time, do their chores, things of that nature. The name "boogeyman" has originated from Scotland grown on from other names such as bogles, boggarts, bugaboos or bugbears. Having no appearance in the minds of any eye the unknown roams from closet to closet enhancing fear within children’s minds. With this unknown creature lurking about in the household or the closets of where the children’s rest their heads, this creature has no set gender. In some regions of the country it is a man, in others a woman, else where maybe even both.

The illusion of the boogeyman was that as a kid you think that whatever your parents tell you is real no matter what it is, and that so called character will do something terrible if u don’t follow the rules to keep it out of your household. The boogeyman who had no real structure or features to begin with, just a made up fictional tall tale used for parental advantage to get what they wanted. In some countries the Boogeyman is known as different names such as Sack Man, El Cuco, and Talasam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman

Blog 3

- That my father was superman – I kicked I'm an he said oww so I knew he wasn’t superman.

- That I didn’t have a father  - I asked my moms an she sed dats ur father.

- That my father was God - I went to church an everybody was sayin god was white an my father is black.

- The world was only Brooklyn – went to skool an heard about other states an countries.

- I thought Dinosaurs still lived in our day in age - i read a book on dinosaurs and learned that they died a long time ago.

- I thought i was adopted an my other so called "Family" was cool an had a house filled with parks and other outstanding things - my mother showed me my birth certificate and since then I was forced to believe that I'm hers.

- I used to think I could walk through walls - I tried it an i was definitely unsuccessful.

- I thought that I could go into the TV - I also tried an was unsuccessful.

- I thought Elmo was like my cousin - I asked my brother an he was looking at me weird so I knew I was wrong.

The Allegory of the cave

                The Allegory of the cave represents how the people chained in the cave grew up knowing, which was nothing but shadows and the shadows of others. Growing up in a cave chained to the wall symbolizes a society of people learning off of one another and living to believe what’s in front of them exists. “…, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets,” as Plato said they were forced to believe and have an understanding that there is nothing but an illusion around them.

Blog 1

            Many individuals that can see my actions view my Public self. What I do from outside of being home all day is the side where I show my individuality to the world rather than keep it to myself. I know how I am and what I can be but the world doesn’t. I show that I’m more outgoing to meeting new people and kind. Brought up in this world as a nice young boy was what my parents wanted and they also watched it progress as I got older. The more I grew the more I grasped other traits that went along with my Public Self. Learning these traits gave me the confidence to walk around knowing the rights and the wrongs of being myself in this world.

My private self is myself as a person living the days of life how I like as in listening to music, watching TV, and being on the computer which those three things are mostly what I do when I have alone time. When I’m by my self I feel unique, free, calm and less stress with jus being me. Nobody judges the way I am or how I see myself as a person while being alone.

            The difference that I have with both my public and private self is confusion. Most of the time I know who I can b an what to do but at the same time I find myself lost an wondering what is my next step into dealing with this problem. Most days I wonder y there is no change when my private self comes along. When I'm wit my public self I get more in depth an get closer 2 understanding what I need 2 do an how I have do go about it. Learning might b hard in school but it’s even harder when I try 2 find yourself thinking u found something. Each step I take gets more challenging but I guess that’s what the world wants us 2 do is 2 challenge ourselves day by day.

Challenging yes, yet in this life we will always find a challenge 2 bring us down as individuals. While walking thru this path we have 2 realize that it’s a part of how we grow. Brightening our way thru so that no1 can stop nor prevent u from failing 2 get 2 where you’re going. Noticing that as something as small as time can make us as humans worry and lose control. As I watch myself in this awkward situation I would have 2 say that it can get a little tricky but in a way it’s also a good thing. The confusion an getting myself lost will bring me 2 steps back however u can always find a way 2 push yourself 4ward toward your goal.

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A little something about myself is that I'm fun, cool, and mostly hang in manhattan with my friends and act a fool together.