Blog 5: A-Team

The A-Team movie is an epic new movie based off of the 1980's television series. This action packed thriller has a cast that appeals to the younger crowd, but the plot and similar storyline that attracted everyone to it in the 80's. Starring Quinton Jackson as B.A. Baracus, Sharlto Copley as H.M. Murdock, Bradley Cooper as Templton Peck, and Liam Neeson as John Smith, the A-Team is a band of ex-soldiers that are falsely arrested for a crime they did not commit. After they manage to break out and escape from a military prison, they become soldiers for hire essentially. The movie trailer has lots of action and explosions that draw you in to it. The trailer has lots of scenes in it and gives you a good look at what you can expect from it. The trailer runs through a small summary of the movie without giving away anything and makes you want to see what happens in between each scene. It shows just enough to get you interested enough to want to see more.

Bolg 4: Step Brothers

Step Brothers, starring Will Ferrel as Brennan and John C. Reilly as Dale, is an epic comedy. This movie is rated R for crude and sexual content. This movie is about two middle-aged men that still live at home with their parents. Brennan's mom marries Dale's dad and they become step brothers. They are forced to live together and their antics and nonsense combined with their laziness and immaturity create a hilarious movie, but take a huge toll on their parent's marriage. Their parents end up splitting apart, but the event makes them realize they need to grow up to get them back together. They part ways and make a new plan to get their parents back together.

Less Privacy is Good for Us (and You)

This article helps to see past losing some of our privacy as a bad thing. Losing some privacy sounds like it can be a great benefit and help to the community. If we lose privacy to HIV testing, then we may be able to save a childs life. Something like that has to be considered since so much is at stake. I think any mother would give an HIV test results to people to save their childs life or atleast better their life and get them the treatment they needed. Also the article talks about biometrics. The biometrics can be used to keep people from stealing money out of other peoples accounts by recognizing their face and not allowing a stranger to access your account. It can also help prevent frauds and illegal aliens from falsifying their identity to gain tax returns and parents from skipping out on child care. Over all i think small privacy losses such as these would be tolerable, however if we start invading on other things and all the little things start to add up, then there could be some real issues.

Immokalee

In the videos, Immokalee's community is very rich in diversity. They have steadily transitioned from different types of communities over the past generations. Immokalee was originally known for having huge ranches where cattle were raised. The ranching community was eventually taken over and converted into a farming community. The rich soil and higher demands brought a new crowd to the community. Ranchers were selling off their cattle to start growing crops. When farming was big, the farmers didnt have enough people to pick all of the crops, so they had to bring in migrant workers to help the harvest. Most of them were from across the country or Mexico. From there, the oil boom hit. The need for oil was in high demand, and oil derrigs were going up quickly. Pipelines were made to transport the drilled oil across the state to ports to be put on ships. Since then, the Seminole casino and the University have brought new wealth to the community and broadened their horizons and allowed for tourism to grow there.

I grew up in Bradenton. Bradenton and Immokalee both used to be farms and ranches, however, nowadays Bradenton has become way more developed and is filled with neighborhoods, businesses, golf and the beach. Neighborhoods fill the East side of the county and businesses, whether small or large fill in the gaps. It is a very crowded city and is continuosly growing.

Immokalee is an example of the old American Dream. The people of Immokalee are looking to gain wealth for their community as well as themselves. The American Dream is to gain happiness and be successful in life. The people of Immokalee are doing so by developing their community to bring in more revenue and make their community more attractive for tourists. Their diversity will help to make it suitable for all different cultures to fulfill their individual dreams.

I believe that Immokalee's future will be determined by tourism and their casino. The casino will bring in a new crowd of people to the area and will help to bring in alot of money for the community. The tourism will come for the casino, and this will allow for hotels and businesses to grow to fulfill the growing needs of the tourism industry.
In 10 years the city may be a huge place with tourism and an enlarging central city with big buildings and more attractions than the casino itself. They will probably maintain their heritage and there will be farms, but they will be on the outskirts of town and less recognized.

A Quilt of a Country: Out of One, Many?

"A Quilt of a Country: Out of One, Many?" by Anna Quindlen shows how America today is like a huge quilt. There really is not just America, but all different races, cultures, and ethnicities that come together to form the pieces of the quilt. Although racism and hatred towards others is frowned upon in todays society, it still lingers and is a big issue. However, when tragedy strikes, such as the attack on 9/11, we are able to put our differences aside to come together as a country and fight as a whole. Even with all our differences, we are able to become one and work together for our country.

I agree with the author's views on this. The way she represents America as a whole made out of all the little pieces is very true. Today there are so many different races and cultures that is hard to define what an American looks like or believes in. All we know for sure is that when bad things happen, we all have the same pride for our country and its well being. We are a very diverse group that is able to come together to work for our nation.