Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Research Paper


THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY FROM THE DISNEY PIXAR’S FILM: WALL-E





A Research Paper Presented to
The Faculty of English Resource Center
School of Information Technology
Asia Pacific College
Magallanes, Makati








In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Course
ERESWRT – Research Writing










Charlene Mae A. Altamirano
September 2014






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Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION



A. Background of the Study

           
There are many films about the dangers of what will technology dependence do to us but among the other films, the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E is the most unique for it is made to appeal to both adults and children. The movie shows the futuristic, realistic and dystopic world view even if the main characters WALL-E and EVE aren’t talking, the actions of them make the message of the animated film clearer by Marshall Mcluhan’s theory that says, “Medium is the message”.

            Amarjeet Nayak wrote an article called, “Wall-E and the Environmental Apocalypse” In that article he explained why the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E is better than any other movies that tells about the future of the Earth, “In the apocalyptic movies dished out by Hollywood, the reasons attributed to such a fate have been varied – from alien attacks, spread of a lethal virus to nuclear annihilation.” (http://www.jgcinema.com/single.php?sl=apocalypse-consumerism-animation)
Which is true because unlike any other movies, the animated film is more realistic for it reflects what’s happening now and what will happen in the future in a realistic manner which has nothing to do about aliens but focuses about technology dependence, unawareness and carelessness of humans.

            As seen on the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E today is really connected on what happened on the animated film because before, people actually use their own body like walking and running for them to go to somewhere but now people can use vehicles that transfer them from one place to another without wasting too much time and effort so they could spend their precious time for more significant things like bonding with their family or friends, meeting their clients and more. As time goes by, they don’t need to meet a person physically, they can just stay at home, turn on the computer and webcam then talk to each other visually online specially when the weather isn’t that good, or it’s not safe to travel.

 As seen on the animated film, every person sitting on a floating chair doesn’t have to use their entire body to move, just by turning on the screen in front of their faces, they can talk to each other. As seen on the film, they don’t even have to spend their time cooking because the foods are already prepare as fast as a person’s blink. As well as for employers, they don’t have to spend too much money to hire people as employees, by purchasing robots and machines they can just use it for life with proper maintenance and are programmed to perform correctly like the teachers in the Axiom.


Jeffrey Tusker wrote an article called, “A Jetsons or WALL-E future”. In that article, he explains, “Thus, when it comes to the systems that guide our progress, we should ask ourselves which is best suited to deliver a version of growth that is not only real and lasting, but also real and healthy- one that maintains a proper balance of self-interest, moral priorities, and consequences.” (http://valuesandcapitalism.com/a-jetsons-or-wall-e-future/)

The problem on the animated film and the problem that you can see today is despite the advantages of technology people still fully rely to it which makes a lot of frightening disadvantages without even noticing the consequences because of its deceiving power, people’s misunderstandings about all the consequences of technology that the entire human being today and in the future might face and because of unawareness as well.

            There is a perception on some people that they are just using the Earth’s resources or what Earth has given them to make life easier and to accomplish tasks easier. People think that they don’t have time to work anymore but to spend their time for entertainment and just relax without thinking about any problems they have, must and will face. But think about something that people are still having a hard time to perfectly use computers, clearly robots and machines are not perfect. Therefore, having background knowledge and understanding deeply the negative effects of technology from the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E will add to the viewer’s perception on the illustration of the consequences that what we are facing now will continue to for us to face in the future if we are not going to make changes.

The purpose of this paper is to show the negative effects of technology from the Disney Pixar’s Film: WALL-E and to state the evidence to the contrary and prove that in spite of the benefits and advantages of technology, there will always be unnoticed bad outcomes and disadvantages in return and to move the readers as well.



B. Statement of the Problem

The study aims to answer this question:

            What are the negative effects of technology from the Disney Pixar’s Film: WALL-E?



C. Significance of the Study

Children or youth. This research would be beneficial for children and would allow them to appreciate the animated film’s real message. At an early age, they would be open to what’s happening and what will happen in the future.

Students. For students, knowledge of this is essential for they must know the situation of the Earth. It would help them realize that learning Math, Geography, Science or any other subjects are useless if they don’t know how to value the life they live on.

Parents. This paper would be useful to parents because even if the medium used is an animated film that usually people think that it’s just for children parents and their children would enjoy and appreciate the message and the film as well.

Environmentalists or tree huggers. For the protectors of the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities, knowledge of this is necessary for the discussion in this paper would give them more ideas about how too much technology dependence is harmful and how they will fight and prevent the dangers of it.

Future Researchers. Knowledge of this would help future researchers who are making studies about technological advances. This is so, as knowledge of these negative effects of technology from the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E  would help them realize that making perfect creations that will make people’s tasks and responsibilities done easily and perfectly will lead to dangers and harms for everyone and would help them realize before making something they must be aware of what will be the consequences.


D. Scope and Delimitation

            This study focuses on the negative effects of technology from the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E despite many positive effects and advantages it gives to people and how realistic the main point of the film is because the negative effects are practical and is slowly happening today.

            Due to time constraints, this study will no longer discuss the complete or all of the negative effects of technology. Therefore, this study would just discuss about the negative effects shown from the animated film as the medium for people already know the rights and wrongs or the content already but does not know the message which will make them think, act and move.



E. Materials and Methods

            The information accumulated in this paper are read and gathered from articles online, from the previous articles used. The articles are usually essays and news articles but occasionally, most of the articles are personal opinions, viewpoint and perspective regarding to concerns about the environment.

            By analysing the gathered information, they can be presented in this writing through the method of discussing issues concerning the negative effects of technology from the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E that will be useful for every human today and in the future.



F. Definition of Terms

1. Machine. Equipment with moving parts that performs or do work when they are given power from gasoline, solar energy or electricity and more.

2. Robots. Are electro-mechanical machine that looks like either a human or an animal, in other words, machines that looks alive and are computer-programmed that helps people with their tasks.

3. Technology. Technology is the application of science which makes complex things to be easier for human.

4. WALL-E. WALL-E means Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class according to Disney’s wiki, the protagonist of the film who cleaned the Earth and helped the captain and the people to go back to Earth and start again.


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Chapter 2
DISCUSSION


What are the negative effects of technology from the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E?


Negative effects of Technology from the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E


A. Dehumanization


            One of the negative effects of Technology from the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E is dehumanization. Dehumanization is the process that makes someone less human by making him forget about creativity, uniqueness, individuality and humanity and it is because of too much technology dependence.

            Huy Nguyen wrote an article called, “WALL-E: For All Ages, For the Ages”. In that articled he explains, “However, an over-reliance on technology could lead to a dystopian society like the one depicted in WALL-E, where humans essentially turn into robots while robots like WALL-E and EVE actually have more humanistic qualities than the humans themselves.” Because it could be seen that humans turned and looked more like robots that had been programmed to just stay in the Axiom, sit on the floating chair and get something without working hard and real robots like WALL-E and EVE showed more humanistic qualities for saving the Earth.
(http://www.cinemablography.org/wall-e.html)

            The dehumanization could be seen on the part when WALL-E followed EVE to the Axiom, and the scene was focused on WALL-E entering the place where people were sitting on floating chairs, moving without using their entire body or moving without running or walking.



1. Communication
                       
They didn’t even talk to each other personally, it could be seen there that they just have to sit on the floating chair, turn on and face the monitor to see and talk to someone. They are simply dehumanized because they forgot the value of having someone to talk with personally and the fun of walking and running freely as well.


Cara Newlon wrote an article called, “Study: Millennials find technology dehumanizing” In that article she explains, “[Technology] basically renders the person the other side very flat, like a one or two dimensional character rather than a live three dimensional character. So you lose out on all the nuances, those kind of get flattened out. It's easy to react to what is an incomplete interpretation of another person. We tend to filter things out a bit when we're dealing with a live human being.”
(http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/22/study-millennials-tech-dehumanizing/3151693/)

And from the part where a woman saw and realized that WALL-E and EVE were trying to do something for the Earth she tried to contact her friends but they misunderstood what she sent so when the woman who saw WALL-E and EVE turned off the monitors of the people near here they saw it. So from that part, it could be seen that there are not just the loss of uniqueness, creativity and humanity that have been gone but also the personal understandings between a person and another person that has been destroyed because of Technology.


2.  Transportation

From the part where WALL-E tried to find EVE, the creator focused the scene from where the viewers could see the ability of humans to go to a place as fast as a blink of an eye because of technology. Well, it’s good to see that people could now go to a place easily to save time and effort but at that time, the personal ability of humans became unnatural, they became superhuman which is not good.

They didn’t prefer to walk or run or to just ride a car, bus or any vehicles even if it would take them long they would enjoy it, walking and running will help them to be healthy. Riding a car or bus is better than just sitting on a chair clicking something from the screen and you will already be there before a minute, riding a car or bus is much better because you could actually enjoy the view.
           

B. Dystopian World

Definition of Dystopia

Dystopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Dystopia is the opposite of Utopia.


It could be seen at the first part while WALL-E was collecting garbage, compacting them in his tummy and turning it to a fit square and piling it up. In this part, the creator focused the scene to what the Earth looked like after being abandoned for 700 years. Basically, the Earth became a dystopian world which is unpleasant, creepy, filthy, dangerous and abandoned world while the Axiom became a utopian world because utopia is the ideal world.

Basically, it is because of technology why the Earth became a dystopian world and the Axiom became the ideal world because the reason why Axiom was built was because it was supposedly a temporary place for humans to live on while robots like WALL-E clean the Earth to make it a better place for humans to live on again but the humans became so dependent to Axiom where they didn’t even have to attend work, they already have an educational system, and the food there are free, basically Axiom really is the ideal environment and the dream place of everyone where they didn’t have to worry about problems, about anything, they just have to sit and relax.

Katalina Watt wrote an article called, “Studies in Dystopia: WALL-E”. In that article he explains, “When EVE returns the plant to the Captain, he learns the Axiom is supposed to leap straight back to Earth to let humanity settle back there, because life can be cultivated again." it's the proof for the humans in Axiom to stay there temporarily but the past officials made a decision to just stay there because they were blinded by the benefits of technology without even peeking at the consequences it could lead.”
(http://seenthefuture.blogspot.com/2012/08/studies-in-dystopia-wall-e.html)

Therefore, Axiom became a Utopian world because everything was free, ideal environment for lazy people or for people who was blinded or for people who took the advantage of technology, a Utopian world where everybody wanted to move for its nearly perfect qualities but then the consequence of this is the destruction of the Earth or the transformation of the Earth to be a Dystopian world. They didn't even have to walk or cook something to eat, not to worry about their job, they became lazy and unable to walk properly because basically they became the slaves of too much reliance to technology.

C. Consumerism and Health

The Wall-E movie showed a consumerism type of culture, and by consumerism which means and ever-increasing consumption of goods, materials, and services. Consumerism is the belief that it is good for people to spend a lot of money on goods and services. Consumerism is also the actions of people who spend a lot of money on goods and services.


Amarjeet Nayak wrote an article called, “The Perils of Thoughtless Consumerism”. In that article he explains, “Apart from such consumerist behaviour of human species and its never-ending greed, its gradually changing relationship with machines is another factor that can be seen to be ultimately leading to the environmental apocalypse depicted in Wall-E. The machines are initially there to help humans with their work. However with time, the dependence on machines grows to such an extent that machines become indispensable. This can be seen as a moment where the power dynamics changes. Instead of humanity controlling the machine, humanity starts being controlled by it.”



1. Food(Obesity Problem)

            Tamara Mannelly wrote an article called, “Mobility Scooters, Obesity and Wall E…what is happening to our health?” In this article he xplains, “WALL-E indeed seems to be making a statement about fitness and the obesity crisis. “It shows a future in which mankind literally spends all day on a giant starship moving around in floating chairs, drinking liquified food from Big-Gulp-esque cups, and forever surfing (and chatting) on chair-mounted video screens,” says the source.”
(http://calorielab.com/news/2007/10/31/pixar-wavering-over-wall-es-portrayal-of-our-superobese-descendants/#sthash.trug8wzU.dpuf)

From the part where WALL-E finally entered the Axiom, it could be seen how humans took the advantage of getting food more and easily, it could be seen how technology could create food and goods easily without humans having to work hard for them to get food and goods.

            Tim Shipman wrote an article called, "WALL-E's 'fattist' satire angers fat pride groups”. In that article he explains, “WALL-E has garnered rave reviews for its satire on consumer culture, in which future humans are depicted as a group of obese gluttons who never leave their padded floating arm chairs.” Well, as the author says, the effect of technology which is consumerism was shown, without the practice of consumerism people wouldn't be like that, the Earth wouldn't be like that and there wouldn't be a problem without the practice of consumerism.



2. Services

            From the part where WALL-E finally entered the Axiom, the humans taking advantage of being lazy by relying to the services robots and machines were giving them could be seen. They didn’t have to pay for the teacher that could teach their kids because the teacher is a robot and programmed to teach the kids about how BNL is the greatest company and friend. They didn’t have to worry about job, because having a job was pointless because you could get everything for free, everything with ease.

          Daniel Engber wrote an article called, “Fat-E” In that article he explains, “But the metaphor only works if you believe familiar myths about the overweight: They're weak-willed, indolent, and stupid. Sure enough, that's how Pixar depicts the future of humanity. The people in Wall-E drink "cupcakes-in-a-cup," they never exercise, and if they happen to fall off their hovering chairs, they thrash around like babies until a robot helps them up.”
(http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/green_room/2008/07/fate.html)


D. Extreme Capitalism

From the film, capitalism is connected to consumerism because private owners encourage people or the consumers that their goods or products are the best and most of their goal is to be the number one and existing largest company in the world. Capitalism is an economic system where trades and industries are controlled by private owners but extreme capitalism is different from capitalism only, extreme capitalism is an economic system where trades and industries are controlled by private owners only without the concern of the government.

J.A Carizo wrote an article called, "Wall-E and the Dangers of Capitalism". In that article he explains, "Capitalism and consumerism has a price. And this becomes worst when coupled with greed. And if uncurtailed, the price may include the earth."
(http://biklish.com/2008/07/07/20080707-01/)

            All the property is owned by a single company which makes the Buy N Large the kind of capitalist entrepreneurship because it controlled people by giving them their satisfactions and desires without experiencing any hard times.

As seen from the animated film, Buy N Large which is the biggest private company ruined the world by making the people experience and encouraging to consumerism which is consuming big amount of food, materials and abusing the technology, since they are the largest company there they have enough money to build the Axiom and encourage people to move to Axiom which later on the Earth has been forgotten about the people who stayed in Axiom including the recent captain. As the owner of the Axiom which makes people’s lives easier which is the job of technology, BNL was considered as an extreme capitalist.


Mande Wikes wrote an article called, “WALL-E: SLAYING CORPORATIONS OR SAVING CAPITALISM?" In that article he explains, “Directed to 'consume, consume, consume' by B & L, humans are corpulent slobs confined to floating robotic chairs, mindlessly relying on automation and these 'flying La-Z-boys' to meet their every desire."
(http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/07/14/wall-e-slaying-corporations-or-saving-capitalism-2/)

Therefore, because of Buy N Large corporation's capitalist entrepreneurship by being the number 1 company in the world, it became so powerful that it created a life in space that the government couldn't do anything because of Buy N Large corporation's wealth. The corporation did ruin the lives of people including the government as well.



II. Conclusion

          It is amazing how an animated science fiction film helps the viewers to understand what’s happening today and what will happen in the future if people continue relying to technology and how using an animated science fiction film as the medium useful. Yes, everyone knows the obvious content of the film that it’s going to be about saving the Earth, but watching animated science fiction films will help to get the real message of it. As what a classic media theorist Marshall Mcluhan said, “The Medium is the Message.” He also said that everyone knows the content, what’s right and wrong but the message will touch anyone.



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Chapter 3
SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS
AND RECOMMENDATIONS


SUMMARY


          This paper attempted to determine the negative effects of technology from the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E.
            The research design used in this study is the descriptive research wherein the articles found in the internet were used to discuss the issues concerning the negative effects of technology from the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E. The research findings are the following:

1. There are many films about the destruction of the Earth because of technology dependence and one of them is the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E.

2. The animated science fiction WALL-E shows how technology fulfils people’s need and satisfies them without working hard.

3. As seen on the animated science fiction film, people are easily blinded by the deceiving power of technology.

4. In spite of the advantages of technology, there will always be unnoticed bad outcomes in return.


CONCLUSIONS

            Based on the finding of this study, the following conclusions are drawn:

1. It is amazing how an animated science fiction film helps the viewers to understand what’s happening today and what will happen in the future if people will continue relying to technology and how using a science fiction film as the medium useful.

2. As seen on the Disney Pixar’s film: WALL-E, the negative effects of technology are the dehumanization, dystopian world, extreme consumerism which affects the health and extreme capitalism.


RECOMMENDATIONS

           
After drawing the conclusions of the study, the researcher hereby makes the following suggestions/recommendations:

1. Children and students should continue watching films like WALL-E for they give them ideas and they make them aware about what’s happening and what will happen on the Earth if everyone, including them, will continue to rely and take advantage of the power of technology.

2. Parents should not only encourage their kids to watch films like WALL-E but they should also watch films like WALL-E albeit films like WALL-E seems like for kids but no, films like WALL-E are only used as medium to show the real message in a unique and great manner.

3. Environmentalists should use films like WALL-E as their medium to show everyone how standing up for the Earth against technology dependence is important.

4. Future researchers should research more about the negative effects of technology through films like WALL-E for it would help them to figure ways on how to stop and prevent the Earth’s destruction like what happened on the film because of technology reliance.



References:

A. Electronic Media

Amarjeet N. (2010, April 13). Wall-E and the Environmental Apocalypse. Retrieved August 02, 2014 from http://www.jgcinema.com/single.php?sl=apocalypse-consumerism-animation

Jeffrey T. (2011). A Jetsons or WALL-E future. Retrieved August 02, 2014 from http://valuesandcapitalism.com/a-jetsons-or-wall-e-future/


Cara N. (2013, October 22). Study: Millennials find technology dehumanizing. Retrieved from August 09, 2014 from http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/22/study-millennials-tech-dehumanizing/3151693/


Katalina W. (2012, August 12). Studies in Dystopia: WALL-E. Retrieved August 09, 2014 from http://seenthefuture.blogspot.com/2012/08/studies-in-dystopia-wall-e.html

Tim S. (2008, July 12) WALL-E's 'fattist' satire angers fat pride groups. Retrieved August 10, 2014 from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/2391531/WALL-Es-fattist-satire-angers-fat-pride-groups.html

Daniel E. (2010, July 10). Fat-E. Retrieved August 09, 2014 from http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/green_room/2008/07/fate.html

Monday, July 7, 2014

Blogpost 8: Google and Apple

When we are talking about the largest companies in the world we often think about Coke, Google, Samsung, Apple, Mcdonalds and more when it comes internationally. And by searching and reading through articles, I've discovered that two of the said companies are very powerful and creating stuff that could make or break the Earth. In this blogpost I'm going to show you the articles and theories that are connected that I've read.
According to an article by Jolie Lee entitled  "What's with those Google barges? Theories abound" from usatoday.com it says that there are barges on San Francisco Bay and Maine's Portland Harbor, floating barges that looks like the fictional largest company in Disney Pixar's film Wall-e, the Buy N Large. It also showed a connection from the film since the code for those barges are in binary codes. And the thery goes on.

(c)digitaltrends
Moving on, as the article says, "The San Francisco barge belongs to a company by the name of By and Large LLC, perhaps an homage to the fictional company Buy N Large in the animated film WALL-E" You see, even the barges belong to a company named By and Large LLC, not exactly as Buy N Large but it's really close enough.

For this first article, I can say that this isn't impossible to happen since Google is one of the largest company in the world from, search engine, android operating system and more. They have enough money, and power to make the impossible possible.

Moving on, another article by Matt Novak entitled  "What if Google is Building WALL-E Robots Under the Name "By And Large" from gizmodo.com it says that it is still a mystery of what Google's real plan for the barge, for the floating, barge and as we can see the partner of Google is the By N Large LLC as mentioned above, it's a shell company, together with Google they are building something super secret. And by looking at this photo from Disney Pixar's film Wall-E, Buy N Large had a gasoline station that fuels the robots:
(c)gizmodo
As the article says, "Only time will tell. But if Google has plans to set up an artificial island nation in international waters, I'd say the least they can do is build us a WALL-E or two to help clean up the mess we've been left with here on land." Well, I hope that Google and By And Large LLC's intention is to really just clean and fix the mess in the Earth soon and not trick the mind of the people that in the end will be the cause of the destruction of the Earth like what happened in Disney Pixar's film Wall-E.

For the second article, I can say that it is connected to the last article that I've read about Apple because in the end, Matt Novak said that "Though I'm sure if Google is building WALL-E, Apple's EVE shouldn't be too far behind." this is why I conducted a research for articles about EVE.

An article by Alex Billington entitled "Apple's Designer Actually Helped Design Wall-E's Eve Robot" from firstshowing.net it says that the designer of EVE is from Apple, Jonathan Ive, the great designer of Mac, iPhone, iPhone and other Apple's products. It says that Jonathan Ive helped Andrew Stanton, the director of Wall-E design EVE.

As the article says, "I wanted Eve to be high-end technology - no expense spared - and I wanted it to beseamless and for the technology to be sort of hidden and subcutaneous," Andrew Stanton, Wall-E's director, told Fortune. Well, there's no wonder who was the designer of EVE, or there's no doubt who designed EVE since EVE looks like the Apple's Products like the color of the latest white iPhones, Mac, and iTouch.

In summation, everyone wants and dares to make the possible impossible in every ways, there's no exact time of when will this really happen. But there are possibilities since the technology is really advance now. And it would be awesome if Google and Apple will work together not just to fix the mess in Earth but to provide it before bad things happen like what happened in Wall-E, because I believe that prevention is always better than cure.

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Blogpost 7: Nostalgia connected to Nature.

As what I know about nostalgia, nostalgia is a memory usually triggered by our senses that brings back memories you want to relive the whole past in your mind with tearfully smile on your face. Well, I know everybody has already encountered this yet but most of them have no idea what is it called. Most people hate feeling nostalgic and think it is bad because if you keep thinking of things that happen to you or how you were feeling such happines back then, it slowly destroy your normal life that you are living in the present. For me, nostalgia is good, but with little remembering. And in this blogpost, I'm going to show you how nostalgia is connected to Disney Pixar's film Wall-E and how Nostalgia is good.

(c) 3.bp.blogspot

Moving on, according to an article by Robin L. Murray entitled "WALL-E: from environmental adaptation to sentimental nostalgia" from ejumpcut.org it says that Disney Pixar's film Wall-E is a one of kind because it was able to connect nostalgia with nature. As Wall-E collects trash you can see that most of what Wall-E collected seemed so precious to him, probably because of his programmer. And remember when Wall-E was watching Holly Dolly? He was hoping to see people again doing stuff like what the people in Holly Dolly did. This is why Wall-E treasures every trash he collects that seem so valuable because he also doesn't want to be alone.


As the article says, "Although many reviewers note the film's nostalgic appeal, however, none of them connect this nostalgia with nature. Instead, they highlight WALL-E’s nostalgia for human." it only shows that from what Wall-E had seen in the Holly Dolly was all the happy memories that people have had in the Earth when they were here. In the Holly Dolly clip, there were people smiling, dancing and singing and the place is far different from what Wall-E had seen.

(c)mootpoint
I can say that nostalgia helps everyone to be reminded what happened, and by knowing what happened, people will learn from it, deal with it, face it and give it a solution.

Moving on, according to a very long article by Kathleen Stewart entitled "Nostalgia- A Polemic." from jstor.org page 227 it says that nostalgia is essential because it is a tool that can make anyone to move about what to do. It gives anyone a reason to do something.

As the article says, "Nostalgia, like the economy it runs with, is everywhere. But it is a cultural practice, not a given content; its forms, meanings, and effects shift with the context — it depends on where the speaker stands in the landscape of the present." Without nostalgia there would be no futurel, you see, without the past there would be no present and future, nostalgia is very important since it helps someone values the culture and know where they came from. Remembering when Captain saw the plant, he experienced nostalgia which drove him crazy and searched for images and informations about the Earth.


In summation, Disney Pixar's film Wall-E showed how nostalgia was connected by the nature, once you smell something like the trees or flowers, it takes you back from that moment, like what happened when people in Axiom saw the plant as well. No one can go forward without looking back.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Blogpost 6: It's happening.

After watching Disney Pixar's movie 'Wall-E' a lot of realization came through my mind such as did this happen before? Did this happen before in other planet? And is this going to happen soon? And am I going to be a part of it where I'm going to be witnessing that kind of situation? Well, through reading some articles I've found out what happened in Disney Pixar's movie 'Wall-E' is possibly going to happen in the future.

(c)ohlardy
Moving on, according to an article by Jeffrey Tucker entitled "A Jetsons or Wall-E Future" from valuesandcapitalism.com relating to my previous blogpost about Capitalism it says that the people could specifically chose life with struggle, risk, work-harding but yet so rewarding but no, because of what Buy N Large corporation offered, people chose satisfaction, desire and comfort over the life with pain yet with prize and as we can see now and now as we can see, it really is happening because of people's too much reliance in technology.

Moving on, as the article says "Thus, when it comes to the systems that guide our progress, we should ask ourselves which is best suited to deliver a version of growth that is not only real and lasting, but also real and healthy — one that maintains a proper balance of self-interest, moral priorities, and consequences." indeed, you see, before people must use their own body literally like running and walking for them to just go to another place but now people can use things that can transfer them from one place to another without wasting too much time and effort and they are cars, motorcycles, scooters, and more. Basically, people can rely job on some machines but most people choose to give all the tasks to machines.

Therefore, as the technology is improving the higher possibility it will be happening.

Moving on, another article by Brian Krier entitled "WALL-E issues a stark warning about Earth’s future" from nextcity.org it says and shows what people could give and sacrifice in order to fulfill their desires and satisfactions. You see, there are a lot of big companies that their goal is to be the only existing company like what Buy N Large corporation's goal.

As the article says, "The film cleverly illustrates that things previously taken for granted, even things as simple as the color green itself, will not last unless respected." But no, as you can see now, most people do not respect the environment, deforestation for buildings, dynamite fishing, deceived by how technology can make life easier without you even moving, with you feeling like you're a powerful god. Getting something with pain and struggle yet rewarding will be more valuable. I believe.


In summation, due to too much reliance to technology and not even giving a damn about the Earth. It will happen, and now it's slowly happening. And even if it's SLOWLY happening, it's still happening.

Monday, June 30, 2014

Blogpost 5: Harms of Extreme Capitalism

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As we all know since we were in high school, we studied about economics and in economics we learned about capitalism which is an economic system where trades and industries are controlled by private owners. And through looking at some articles about Wall-E, I've read about articles which tackled about politics and ideologies and a topic about Capitalism caught my eye.

Moving on, according to an Article by Mande Wilkes entitled "WALL-E: SLAYING CORPORATIONS OR SAVING CAPITALISM?" from ftisnews.com says that Buy N Large which is the biggest private comany ruined the world by making the people experience and encouraging to consumerism which is consuming big amount of food, materials and abusing the technology, since they are the largest company there they have enough money to build the Axiom and encourage people to move to Axiom which later on the Earth has been forgotten about the people who stayed in Axiom including the recent captain.

As the Article says, "Directed to 'consume, consume, consume' by B & L, humans are corpulent slobs confined to floating robotic chairs, mindlessly relying on automation and these 'flying La-Z-boys' to meet their every desire." which is true because the Buy N Large corporation did ruin the lives of people including the government as well.

Therefore, because of Buy N Large corporation's capitalist entrepreneurship by being the number 1 company in the world, it became so powerful that it created a life in space that the government couldn't do anything because of Buy N Large corporation's wealth.

(c)gajitz
Moving on, another article by J.A Carizo entitled "Wall-E and the Dangers of Capitalism" from biklish.com says that all the property is owned by a single company which makes the Buy N Large corporation showing kind of capitalist entrepreneurship because it controlled people by giving them their satisfactions and desires without experiencing any hard times 

Moving on, as the article says "Capitalism and consumerism has a price. And this becomes worst when coupled with greed. And if uncurtailed, the price may include the earth." which is true because too much capitalism without the control of it has a lot of consequences.

Hence, if capitalism continues not only the people will suffer and will face the consequences but also the place which is the Earth because people and the Earth have intimate connection and if capitalism continues the government might not control it anymore.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Blogpost 4: It's not fattism after all.

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As we all know, The Wall-E movie showed a consumerism type of culture, and by consumerism which means and ever-increasing consumption of goods, materials, and services. So while I was looking for a great article, I saw an article consisting a bad message that the Wall-E movie showed which destroyed the image of fat people and I've seen and read articles about clearing the misconception they've seen. And I'm going to share to you what I've read and what I think about it.

Moving on, according to an article from Tim Shipman entitled "WALL-E's 'fattist' satire angers fat pride groups from telegraph.co.uk it says that many fat people were mad because of the fattism practice and fattism treatment which means discrimination against fat people was shown like how weak and useless fat people were in the film.

As the article says, "WALL-E has garnered rave reviews for its satire on consumer culture, in which future humans are depicted as a group of obese gluttons who never leave their padded floating arm chairs." Well, as the author says, it's not fattism that was shown in the film but the effect of consumerism, and I totally agreed with that because without the practice of consumerism people wouldn't be like that, the Earth wouldn't be like that and there wouldn't be a problem without the practice of consumerism.

Therefore, fattism wasn't shown after all, the effect of lazy logic and consumerism which people in the Axiom don't have to worry about job, about food, and about education because technology will take their responsibility were shown and by those effect, they caused the people to be obese which is the fault of mankind's practice.


(c)andrewsidea
Moving on, another article from Daniel Engber entitled "The new Pixar movie goes out of its way to equate obesity with environmental collapse." from slate.com it says that it's the Buy N Large megacorporation's fault why this happened, the megacorporation made the people practice consumerism which destroyed the Earth and after they'll be sent to the space while cleaning the Earth which shows how selfish Buy N Large is. 

As the article says, "Once onboard, their self-destructive tendencies only get worse: After 700 years adrift, humans have grown too bloated to walk and too lazy to think." that was the plan of the Buy N Large not thinking about what would be the consequences, it's not fat people's fault because they were ignorant for 700 years, it was the first batch's fault because they have the idea and the chance to stop Buy N Large. In the last part of the movie, we saw how the current Captain amazed of what he saw about Earth since he was ignorant and doesn't even know that Earth existed.

In summation, it's not the fattism that was shown but the equality because after that the Captain made a move to let the overweight people to make a move to and go back to earth, the humanity came back, and fattism didn't matter there because in the last scene overweight people stood up as well as the Captain and everyone of them had their part to help.