Documentary Project

..Wuthering Heights on the screen..

Rapist's donation!

condemned mans wish raises ethical questions

I don't know what's there to question! can't they bend the rules a little bit!

Okay this man has raped and killed a 3-year-old. Executing him won't bring the kid back, won't make it easier for the family's victim and definitely won't be a revengeful move. However, it will save two people's lives and maybe more. He is a criminal, and he deserves to be punished but I don't see why can't he donate his organs. "The medical ethicist Arthur Caplan of New York University said organ donation is incompatible with the goals of punishment. Punishment and organ donation don't go well together. I don't think the kinds of people we're executing we want to make in any way heroic." I have to disagree with him, even though that I don't know how the family must feel about this horrible criminal's act but I still think it's going to be a good move, encouraging organ donations maybe or just an act of mercy! (disagreement)

  

Obamacare false promise?

I really pity Obama, I am starting to think that no matter what he does is just not going to work!

So, the majority finally agrees to the ACA. Since the law was passed troubles were waiting in line. Starting with the Republicans still attacking Obama and his plan, specifically talking about Ted Cruz who is completely against the Obamacare (and everything that Obama says or do). Moving to the complete failure of the website. And last but not least American's approval of the health care law drops which is the result of lack of confidence in Obama after not keeping his promise that people who already got a health plan satisfied with it, they can keep it. Now most of them lost their insurances.

A lot of people now aren't satisfied, and this is actually frustrating to vote for something and instead of benefiting you suffer from it. I think I can understand how those people are feeling, and from what I've heard and read, Obama has given false promises and it's not fair to them! 

I guess the ACA isn't doing any good for anyone? I have been asking myself, was Obama ready for this? was Obamacare ready to launch or was it too soon? and if the start was bumpy does it condemn the whole plan to fail? (surprise)

Movie Review: Memento

The movie Memento is one of the best Psychological thriller movies out there.

There are three main characters. Leonard starring Guy Pearce, a man who suffers from a short term memory loss, Teddy (Joe Pantoliano), and Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss), a woman Leonard met and promised to help him get his vengeance. The narrator of the story is Leonard, and because of his condition we can’t say that he is a reliable one. Throughout the movie, he keeps on repeating the sentence “I have this condition, you can’t trust someone with this condition” so he is basically telling us that he is unreliable. The movie is in the present and the events happen in ordinary setting, Motel room, Natalie’s house, and an abandoned house.

A simple man who suffers from short-term-memory loss seeks vengeance from the man who killed his wife and destroyed his life, that’s how the story seems at first. The first scene of the movie is of Leonard holding a polaroid picture which is part of his system to keep track of his memory, a man shot on the floor with blood all over the place and a bullet, then the Polaroid pictures gets undeveloped, and everything else moves backward. The second scene, which is in black and white, Leonard is in a motel room, confused, asking himself questions and trying to track back his memory. Most of the black and white scenes of the movie seem to be flashbacks of Leonard talking on the phone and telling his story, justifying his actions as if he is trying to reason with his own brain.

As the movie goes on, most people would think that the movie progression is backward. So at the beginning they see the main character Leonard shoots someone. Later on, the plot twists and the movie looks like pieces of distorted memories are cutting their way through each other.

One of the best scenes of the movie is when Leonard looses his 15 mins memory and stares at himself, tracing his tattoos, surprised and terrified at the same time. Everytime to him is a first time.

Overall, I think it is a great movie, a well done mind puzzling piece by Christopher Nolan (Inception director). It’s a simple story that was presented in a brilliant way which makes it seem impossible to get the pieces of the puzzle together until you watch the movie again. However, you would still feel that you are watching it for the first time.

Responses.

1. "8 PLACES THAT DO HEALTH CARE BETTER THAN US"
http://letsgogatech.blogspot.com/2013/10/8-places-that-do-health-care-better.html?showComment=1384142850414#c3699254550341025936

2. "TASTE RECEPTORS"
http://currenteventsfall2013.blogspot.com/2013/11/article-05-taste.html?showComment=1384144755731#c3743531427075978882

Olympic Torch Carried on Spacewalk

Even though the Olympic torch was already taken on the space shuttle Atlantis in 1996 for the Atlanta Summer Olympics.The Russians think it would be more impressive to take the torch out of the space shuttle on Saturday by two cosmonauts as it orbited above Earth. However, the torch was not burning because lighting it would consume a lot of Oxygen.

The Torch will stay in a special box on ISS (International Space Station).

Response #2

http://patriciachung.blogspot.com/2013/10/blog-post_22.html?showComment=1383408228853#c8270960798116962879