Dallas Texas Buyers Club by Carolina Mejía Gómez

DALLAS TEXAS BUYERS CLUB
Ron Woodrof is an electrician and cowboy. In 1985 he in into a temerity kind of life and suddenly Ron has a diagnosed with AIDS And Doctors said that he only have 30 days left. In this moment of his life he found an improbable friend, Rayon, who has the same disease and is also transexual. They share their enthusiasts for keep alive and for that reason Ron travel to Mexico and where he do some researches about alternative medicines and he start to contrabanding with USA against the medical and scientists community. In this action Rayon work with Ron trying to avoid punishment from the government against the medicine sells an supplements. They organize "the buyer's club" where people with AIDS Pay monthly quotes to get access to alternative medicine. It becomes in a huge friendly community where Ron fight for the dignity, education and acceptability.

Carolina Mejía Gómez

Ghandy by Carolina Mejía Gómez

Title: Gahdhi
Year: 1982
Produced an directed by: Richard Attenborough
Lead actor: Ben Kingsley

It is awesome movie film that portray the important moments in India. It is a very touching movie because it represents how every human is possessed by the power, the evil, and wealth. And how he can do anything,even push down his relatives and friends.
In this movie Ben Kingsley shows clearly how the " no violence" movement can do great things in a country and how one man, Mahatma Gandhi, has the strength to over pass any adversity to defend the ideals that he sees as a path for the freedom.
Ben K.is a brilliant actor, I can say that the actor was Gandhi in person. People in the movie were very credible, the cloth, landscapes, guns, houses, any detail were analyzed and represented just as the real year when all happened.
The movie has 31 years old and sometimes the sound was not very clear. The light was incredible because you can already feel the temperature in India without being there. Sometimes the cuts between scenes were steep but must for the change in the sound. Some scenes were very quiet and the next one too noisy.
Gandhi's movie even with its technical fails reach its aim, showing the life of India before and during the independence. In my opinion this movie have to be watch for every president, leader a day guide in every country because this world is a chaos and not all can be resolved just with death and war. People like Mandela is a very good example to prove that is possible get a welfare thinking like just one country, not just one person. Some times in our life we forget that we are not alone, after this movie we will not do it again; there are many people to helping,  to hearing, to sharing and that could be the first stone to reach the peace and the equality that we deserve it.

Carolina Mejía Gómez

Dallas Buyers Club: Thinking with the hearth

By Daniela Gómez S.

We just need one movie to change our opinion about anything. The Vietnam War had different connotations after Apocalypse now (Coppola, 1979). The general perspective about genocide in Rwanda was not the same after Rwanda hotel (George, 2004). In this way, discrimination against AIDS patients and negligence from FDA to allow alternative treatments to the disease is different after watching Dallas Buyers Club (Valleé, 2013).

Obviously, filmmakers manipulate historical facts to magnify the effects on audiences, to move the viewers and connect them with the character`s drama. But this characteristic of all kind of art doesn’t replace honesty. Dallas Buyers Club shows a man with a disorganized routine who find his reason to live in rodeo, bettings, drugs, liquor and sex. Unexpectedly, he discovers that he has AIDS. The rest of the movie we see him trying to survive. It is the story of a man that wants to live. The movie is not about pharmaceutical industry, the health system or FDA bureaucracy, but those are the obstacles to win the race against death.

As a result of that, Dallas Buyers Club doesn`t disappoint the public. The main character, Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), falls and rescues himself to live with dignity. His effort to contradict the prediction about his mortal destiny (30 days of life), makes him memorable. Also, it is impossible not feeling compassion for his partner in the club, Rayon (Jared Leto), a desperate woman (a transsexual guy) trying not to die. Who would resist the vital impulse of this group of people sentenced to die, not just because of AIDS, but for the social indifference?

The real story behind the movie gives it more legitimacy. Journalist Bill Minutaglio interviewed the real Woodroof for an extensive report for the Dallas Morning News. Then, one month before Woodroof died, Craig Borten recorded hours of conversation with him. Borten wrote the screenplay and worked during almost a decade to find producers and actors. So, the interest of film is narrative, aesthetic and historical. Director Jean-Marc Vallée achieved to show a new angle of AIDS issue because he uses a paradigmatic example to tell the meaning of being sick, and alone, in an intolerant society. Simultaneously, he gives cinema another dark hero, a character with a mundane heroism that produces curiosity and solidarity.

Dallas Buyers Club is interesting, funny and touching. It is not the best movie of the year, but like the Oscar Awards demonstrated, it has the best performances of the season.

Opinion about Dallas Buyers Club/ future and tecnology

·       Opinion paragraph about Dallas Buyer´s Club:

Dallas Buyer's Club is a movie based on the real life of Ron Woodroof, a Texan cowboy drug addict and womanizer, who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986 and he predicted a month to live. He then began taking AZT, the only drug available at that time to fight this terrible disease.

Ignorance about AIDS was for a long time, which was thought to be a disease of homosexuals nothing else but the surprise produced heterosexual infection also appears. 

Regarding the characters are excellent in their roles and help you understand the huge problem of the film.

It is a story of drugs, self-improvement, tenacity, and above all, how misfortune can make you better, as happened with Ron Woodroof, a real character who went from being a pathetic scoundrel to lead a revolution in defense of the rights of AIDS patients.

Rayon with his portrayal of travesti might have fallen into caricature, and does not, and do not stop even see a woman dressed in his one man scene, we see a woman dressed and uncomfortable.

Regarding the language seems to me to use many swear words, but is a time and a difficult situation that facilitates this type of communication.

  

Argumentative article about the future and technology:

To say that the advancement of technology is incredibly fast is nothing new. We're used to this reality and not surprised with the amount of news that arise every day.

However, the constant introduction of new products, platforms and concepts creates a number of opportunities and needs that did not exist in our lives. Who imagined five years ago is using a phone to access the Internet in the same way as we do with a computer?

In addition to the emergence of new resources, we have the evolution of those existing. Just remember what your computer at the beginning of 2000 and compared to current models, with speed humiliating performance. Not to mention the phones themselves, who "bricks" were transformed into small information centers able to be carried in your pocket.

Technology helps make life easier for people, and we can perform various tasks easier, efficient, comfortable, fashion and other qualities. The technology is used in almost every aspect.

Technology is an indicator of the degree of development of a society. A more developed society has more schools and universities therefore become more technological development. large groupings of people asking for more urban and educational services, that's where the connection technology - society gives.

The intensive use of biotechnology is the best hope to prevent the suffering of human beings and to sustain a healthy biosphere. At this stage of history, our civilization has the technological capacity to transform nature, as we want for ourselves and all living beings. However, the technology is so powerful that its use for certain purposes, generation after generation, can lead men to be involved in a post-human condition.

Lina Marcela Gonzalez Echeverry

“Dallas bullers club”

Jean-Marcvallee.

By:  Ana Patricia Correa Roldan.

It is a real movie about a womanizer man who was diagnosed as HIV positive and given 30 days to live.

It is an interesting movie, in that movie, there are different important aspects.

First of all, the main character face big changes as acceptance ok gay people when he was homophobic, because he had to share spaces with them, moreover the main character avoid infecting others and had more control of his desires. Also is important to rescue the concern for preserving owns life and that of others, seeking treatments and healthy foods that improve your lifestyle.

On the other hand, I think the main character was very irresponsible with his health since continued using drugs and liquor, affecting his recovery continuing its long critical condition.

Finally, I believe that the government and health officials should invest more money in research to improve the patients’ lives, because the current treatment is not enough.   

The film reveals how extraordinary it is fighting for life itself and for others, knowing that every day there are more benefits for all who seek it for you. It is the opportunity to believe that there is always something to do and we will put enough effort to achieve what we want, changing concepts and changing behaviors that keep us from reality, accepting others with their mistakes, problems and peculiarities. Life is to learn to live according to the situations we find in the walk.

Future

By: Ana Patricia Correa Roldan.

First of all it is necessary to define the future and technology.

The future is what will happen in the time period after the present.

Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of the time and the laws of physics.

The future and the eternity have been major subjects of philosophy, religion and science.

v  Philosophy says: only the present exists and the future and the past are unreal.

v  Religion says:  the future is when they address issues such as karma, life after death, and the end of the world.

v  Science says: the future is understood what is likely to continue, to change, and what is novel.

Technology is developed to reduce the effort of people; however at the same pace technology brings some threats to people.

On the other hand the technology is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques and methods of organization.

Human need change mental concepts because the technology is a double-edged sword it is needed in the work that we do, but certainly if not used the right way can bring many consequences.

According to the definitions about future and technology there are pros and cons that affect the future human beings.

When considering some future technology, we must be careful to consider no just the benefit, but also the downsides of introducing that technology.

For instance, the invention of arms especially nuclear was gadgets are extremely dangerous for the existence, in addition to increased use of motor vehicles causes the contamination of our ecosystem causing problems such as global warming and unsteady climates.

Nowadays; people began to depend of the technology and they become less self-sufficient, because they only believe the world can change with advances in technology and lose their identity every day.

In conclusion, the advantage and disadvantages of technology depend the way it is applied if it uses for goodness; then it gives good results.

How do you imagine the future?

The future is too uncertain, but I have two futuristic visions. The first and most important is the Bible says: It says that the lack of God in the world will generate natural disasters, wars and food shortages, the same man is self-destructing. God sent us intro the world to be happy with all things, but the man is insatiable and wants more every day.  

Furthermore, is likely that in ten years we will be traveling in flying cars, our homes will be automating and everyone use nanotechnology that will help us all, mobile rooms, tactile space, but the land will be affected and the destruction of the planet is already clear, that advances in science are being carries of dangerous and pollution material to human and the environment and the man is not putting limits on research and technology advance without control. Also, they will be continue to research  on cloning and deformities in humans and animals will became more apparent and the destruction will be total, because nowadays science advance faster that light, and the man continued his fight for power without  thinking in the creation.  

According with the movie  “Blade Runner”.  A sort police who has the mission to kill some replicates “androids” almost human, and they have been revealed whit their short existence.

The movie is compared to real life, allowing see a future filled with technology, but overwhelmed by lack of fillings. Animals are articles and humans do not have enough feelings to live happily.

The plot allows identifies some aspects of real life that happen in the future such as: there will be a lot of technology, genetic engineering creates new beings, changes in beliefs and values, but the real transformation of the world will be gray, sad and hopeless, self- destruction continued progress. The man believes that the technology is the best option to improve the life, but the man not has time to reconsider the consequences. 

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

BY SARA VERGARA OLIVERO

May 19^th, 2014

The movie talked about the story about someone who had to change his life due to AIDS, one of most dangerous disease that people fear for its physical, emotional and social consequences.

The movie showed the prejudices that people had about HIV in that time. Ron was a selfish man who had carefree and libertine life, but when he faced the reality, he had to change his lifestyle. This situation brought to him rejection for his friends and the world where he lived. He knew people who received and tried to him as anyone. This people ironically were people who he hate and discriminated but also they were who help to him to give sense to his life.

Also I could notice how the pharmaceutical companies took the control about hospitals and doctors, and how people died because they didn´t have access to medicines to they needed to treat the diseases. These situations still happening nowadays the pharmaceutical companies dominated and takes control about the market and treatments that patients require.

Ron tried to find the solution to his diseases, he studied and learned about treatments to him and the other hand he found the way to give money helping others with the same condition. Although people who worked for these companies made everything to prevent it.

Also, I think that is amazing the way that Mathew McMaconaughey and Jared Leto performed the main characters in the story, how they changed their physical appearances and lifestyles and gave an excellent job, doing those winners to the most important award about movies in whole world.

In general, I liked a lot the movie the point about corruption from pharmaceutical companies and discrimination are topics to we still can see in the society and affected it. I think many people should be this movie and understand how the life of people with AIDS is and don´t judge to people without know what is the real part of the story.

WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR US?

BY SARA VERGARA OLIVERO

May 20th, 2014

Nowadays, the technology allowed creating connections between people with long distances, but that technology is creating walls even people who live in the same house.  Technology everyday move and the life are easier but the consequences for the earth are terrible and many of us are not aware about it. Nowadays, people lose the way to talk face to face, but they prefer to use smartphones to communicate than talk and share time with them.

The other hand is the way that companies attack the environment to make more and more products every day. I think that our future will have bad consequences for us. Technology do easier things, human don’t need to move to have that they want, communications are easier too, people don’t have to move to talk what they want, if that things follow like that the results will be like the movie Blade Run, where humans have machines similar to them to do activities in their place and even try to take their place.

People may live alone in their houses and they won´t keep contact with others, they will eat with a machine and they will do everything with a machine too. Maybe in the worst case the environment will reveal and provoque big disasters and people will have to fear and live hidden to protect their life.

We don’t know about the future, but we can see what the road that our earth follows is.

The Future- Maria Cristina

GLOBAL WARMING FAKE

Global warming has become one of the central political and scientific issues of the future, but there is not a scientific consensus on its long term effects. In fact, some circles do not agree with the generalized conclusion that global warming is caused by human intervention.

The correct prediction of the climate change in the future has a high impact on aspects like government planning, environmental regulation, social customs, and even the geopolitical issues. These situations are more near of the reality in a community, and they may affect the way that people live in future. It therefore made no sense to think in high technology if the planet cannot support human life.

Taking into account the importance of accurate prediction it is also necessary to evaluate the real global warming causes, and avoid that political or private economic interests deflect public attention.

The first argument against global warning caused by human intervention is that forecast models have failed with temperature trends below even the assumed zero emission scenarios. Furthermore, predictions as tropical troposphere temperature increment has not been observed in the last 30 years. As a result, if models are not reliable, conclusions are invalid or at least incorrect. 

The second argument is associated with the ice melted rate; uses data linked to artic ice tracks acquired by Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) program to prove that the ice cover was similarly reduced in the 1950s, when the Atlantic was last in a similar warm mode. In the same way, sea levels actually slowed in the late 20th century and have declined in the last few years

Finally, local effects attributed to global warming can be associated with other phenomenon, which explains better the data. For example, Mount Kilimanjaro's ice loss is due to land use, and deforestation according to the last data.

Alarmist had predicted a permanent El Niño phenomenon, and drier summers in Northern hemisphere. However, the last decade has featured, 7 “Niña” and just 3 “Niño” years.

In conclusion, a model that cannot give exact predictions should have to be evaluated with care, and not to believe without all the evidence.

      

Maria Cristina Henao Ruíz