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Thursday 2 May 2013

Movies 101

I chose movies that were classic and kid - like because I grew up watching these movies and they allow me to see the world looking through a fantasy microscopic and imagine things that are not ever going to be a possibility. 





Themes that keep coming back in our movies are always things that everybody can relate to, family, friendship and things along the lines of that. I think that it is important to keep doing this because it allows everyone to think about how they would feel in the situation of the character. 

We do keep telling the same stories but I wish that some of them were different and allowed the audience to think more and go into worlds that have never been possible before. 

Fundamental themes include, family, friendship, good vs. evil, hope, faith etc.

xo

Sunday 24 February 2013

Rosa Hubermann

The Book Thief first introduced Rosa as a squat shaped figure, who looked like a wardrobe with a coat thrown over it. (pg 27) She has a distinct waddle to her walk (pg 27) and she is five feet and one inch (pg 24).

On page 34 we learnt a lot about the character in the mini - chapter titled, Facts about Rosa Hubermann, in this the author informed us that she wore her brown gray strands of elastic hair in a bun. Her job was to do the washing and ironing of the clothes of five wealthy families living nearby. She did this so she could put her very poor cooking on the table for the Hubermann household. She loved her new foster child, Liesel Meminger but her way of showing her love was by bashing her with a spoon and using words at various intervals.

Through the book I learnt these things and that she did not like richer people. She found them obnoxious and annoying. "This is what I have to put up with. These rich bastards, these lazy swine..."

The passage that I found that swayed towards a certain mood was on page 43, when she finished berating the people she worked for, Rosa Hubermann would have usually move on to her other favourite theme of abuse. Her husband. Looking at the bag of washing and the hunched houses, she would talk, and talk, and talk. "If your papa was any good," she informed Liesel every time they walked through Molching, "I wouldn't have to do this." She sniffed with derision. "A painter! Why marry that Arschloch? That's what they told me - my family, that is." Their footsteps crunched along the path. "And here I am, walking the streets and slaving in my kitchen because that Saukerl never has any work. No real work, anyway. Just that pathetic accordion in those dirt holes every night."

I found that the mood of this passage was angry and sad at the same time. Rosa was angry at her husband and releasing her anger to Liesel. I also felt quite sad as they are married and fighting.

Saturday 12 January 2013

WE DO THIS TO MAKE A CHANGE ...

Why do we care about girls, education, Daraja Academy and Africa. Well, we do all these things to make a change that we wish to see in the world and we do all this because we care and because we want to. You might think that by doing all this is a waste of time but my ultimate goal doing this is to see the smiles on the girls faces and know that you have made the happy for once in their life. 

I think that people should care about Africa because even though it is far away and does not relate to us in any way, shape or form, we should care because they need our help and support so that they can live a better life and so that they can achieve their dreams, like we want to.

I think that people should care about the Daraja Academy because they are just like the girls that we talk to every single day and just because they are less fortunate than us does not mean that they can not be accepted. They have dreams which they wish to achieve, they are just like us and we should care because everyone has the right to an education, everyone has the right to freedom and everyone should live how they would like to live.

I think that we should care about girls because in the olden days and how it used to be girls did not get the chance to go to school, unlike boys who were the more favored in the household. The world is changing now and we need to accept that because girls have been going to school for years now and if we embrace it, more girls in developing countries will get the opportunity to go to school as well.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/daraja-academy/7163444633/in/set-72157630075081666

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The Important Things In Life

Reading this article makes me understand why news is so important because if we did not know this, people would be ill and sick and because we do know this, it can be prevented. 

The article is set in Beijing, China and has left people coughing in the capital of 20 million. In the inner east of the city at the United States' Embassy have told newspapers that the airborne PM 2.5 particulates have reached 845 micrograms per cubic meter by Saturday afternoon. These fragments, 2.5 diameter or smaller, are very dangerous to our health as they can slip into human tissue, which is very harmful. The toxic air reduced people's vision to only 200 meters and not any further. The air that was in Beijing yesterday was 35 times higher than it should be, according to the World Health Organisation. Readings that are above 100 are considered dangerous to certain groups of people, readings of above 300 are considered an emergency condition. 

People have said that the air tasted like burning tires, chemicals and car exhaust and the air caused many people's eyes to hurt and most people stayed indoors, which they thought was safer. They were different perspectives within the United States' Embassy and the Chinese Government, the Embassy putting the reports out there that it was PM 2.5 but the government saying that it was a less dangerous, PM 10. 

Latest reports have cleared up our confusion, with the reading at PM 2.5, which is highly dangerous and different places of testing throughout the city have been read as 456 which is well above what is known as an emergency situation. Due to the cold and moist airs, reports have said that this could last until Tuesday. Children have been warned to stay indoors, adults to stop exercising and all citizens to eat more pears and fungus soup. 

The difference between the truth and the facts in this article are :

-- the readings that have been taken about the air (fact)
-- what residents have been breathing in and what is was like (truth)
-- how long this could all last (truth)
-- what people have been advised to do about the situation (truth)

I do not think that anything has been made up in this article as I think that it is a serious cause of concern and that it is not something that can be exaggerated because it is a real life emergency situation that is happening. 

The three articles that I read are here, here and here.

The there different versions vary in style, design and language by the digitaljournal.com is more of a relaxed and the reader has to think article whereas the other two articles are more just telling you the facts up front. The design of theage.com.au and thestandard.net.au have the same pictures and pretty much the same captions but the other article includes maps and other images. 

Hugs. 

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Sunday 6 January 2013

New Year. New Beginnings.

You have to start fresh off the first clean page of the year, you have to erase all the negativity and down sides of last year and focus on the fresh start that we are all about to endure. 
So, the word is fresh ...

fresh |freSH|
adjective
1 not previously known or used; new or different: the court had heard fresh evidence.
2 recently created or experienced and not faded or impaired: the memory was still fresh in their minds.

The act of something new and different and starting on a different path and where that may take us is not known but it will be discovered. My word for last year was explore because I wanted to explore life and all it has to offer, I wanted to explore my options as I looked to the future and I wanted to explore the people who surround me and the new school year started, so I wanted to explore that. It has changed because now that I have explored everything and now everything makes sense, I want to start fresh with all those options in mind.

A blank page is before me, not yet written on with ideas, big, bold and beautiful, not yet painted on with all the colours of the rainbow, it shines white and that is what I want my life to be for a little while as the holiday season dies down and reality comes back.

Fresh to me is starting new and starting differently, old habits are blown out of the window and new ones will fall into place. I will start to think about the future and reflect on the past and think about everything but have a fresh mind.


my visualthesaurus...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashylee/8332503337/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yury-prokopenko/3159008411/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davegray/154164029/

happy new year everyone.
xx