non-fiction critical analysis

In the article “Turning up the heat” the author Patricia Smith explains with facts and quotes from scientists that if nations don’t act quickly, climate change can have drastically negative effects on the Earth and everything on it. Smith gathers information from the world’s largest scientist organization and claims that the “result could be severe food shortages as crops become harder to grow , rising sea levels make many major coastal cities unavailable and large – scale extinction of plants and animals.” She also explains how it can “slow down economic growth can bring us to violent conflicts over resources, large scale migrations and more people being displaced.” Later on the article she explains what global warming is which is practically green-house gasses which are made from burning oil and coal that lets sunlight inside the atmosphere and trap most heat inside of it, too much of this is being created and not enough heat is being released. She then gives examples of places affected for example: Norfolk Virginia, Chesapeake Bay region, New Jersey, the Philippines, etc. by hurricanes, coastal flooding’s, and more. In the article Smith mentions that some people don’t believe in global warming and think it’s all a lie, but actually there’s a lot of evidence to prove it’s true. This problem has already gone too far and we’ve already been warned a lot of times and for long enough, yet people are still trying to spread the word although probably most people know about this. Most people are avoiding this problem and practically being ignorant.

“The Matrix” is a science fiction movie from 1996. It’s about how humans are “enslaved” in a world called the matrix making them believe they live a normal life in the real world. Neo a computer hacker is freed by a group of people rebelling against this computerized controlled world. Freedom is a philosophical theme that “The Matrix” connects to. In “the Matrix” the main reason that Neo and the others are rebelling against the Matrix is because they believe they have no freedom. Morpheus the leader of the group explained to Neo that “… a man born inside who had the ability to change whatever he wanted, to remake the Matrix as he saw fit. It was he who freed the first of us, taught us the truth: As long as the Matrix exists the human race will never be free.” Demonstrating that he thought the matrix was a jail and no one was free. Also, agent Smith,who was fighting against Morpheus and Neo, even said himself “hate this place, this zoo, this prison, this reality, whatever you want to call it. I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell. If there is such a thing. I feel... saturated by it. I can taste your stink. And every time I do I feel I have somehow been infected by it, it's repulsive. I must get out of here. I must get free and in this mind is the key, my key.” He feels as if he is not free also. In “the matrix” a philosophical topic that connects to the movie is freedom because practically there’s a group of people rebelling against is because the believe they aren’t free.