Thursday, April 14, 2011
Glogster Explanation
The main theme that I chose for my glogster was darkness. All the quotes, pictures and the video are connected to the main theme. First off I thought the design of the wall paper was a great representation of the darkness throughout the novel, Lord of the Flies. The picture of the pig basically sums up the darkness of the hunter kids. They disrespect the corps of the pig by putting it's head on the tip of the stick, not only is this act a dark one but it's borderline evil. The other picture that I got was of the boys dancing around the fire after catching and killing the pig witch shows the dark personalities within the children when they celebrate after killing something. The quote above that just gives you a dark feeling when you read it knowing thats exactly how they feel about the pig. Also, I thought the video clip that is there has an amazing sense of darkness. The kids chanting and making fun of Piggy like that is horrible and rolling a rock off the cliff and killing him is absolutely astonishing. I would of never thought that just because there was no adult supervision that kids could get that out of hand and become such dark, evil children.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Articles on the Genocide
BBC/Children of the Genocide
The EQ I chose is How can a reader/viewer infer the author's intentions based on the text? It was quite easy for me to infer the author's intentions in the article 'Taken over by Satan'. It was written by Gitera Rwamuhuzi, a Hutu and a participant in the genocide. He wanted to inform us of the tragedies that happened during the genocide and how one could get so easily corrupted by evil. "We were taken over by Satan" was a way that the author put it.
Throughout both articles I had a sense of what was going on in my head. The authors had a lot of details of where it was taking place. In the article 'Taken over by Satan' the author was giving the readers pictures of what they were doing. He said "On the morning of 15 April 1994, each one of us woke up knowing what to do and where to go". The thought of that is mind blowing. Waking up and thinking about committing murder and being a part of a mass murder is disgusting............
The EQ I chose is How can a reader/viewer infer the author's intentions based on the text? It was quite easy for me to infer the author's intentions in the article 'Taken over by Satan'. It was written by Gitera Rwamuhuzi, a Hutu and a participant in the genocide. He wanted to inform us of the tragedies that happened during the genocide and how one could get so easily corrupted by evil. "We were taken over by Satan" was a way that the author put it.
Throughout both articles I had a sense of what was going on in my head. The authors had a lot of details of where it was taking place. In the article 'Taken over by Satan' the author was giving the readers pictures of what they were doing. He said "On the morning of 15 April 1994, each one of us woke up knowing what to do and where to go". The thought of that is mind blowing. Waking up and thinking about committing murder and being a part of a mass murder is disgusting............
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Dark Knight - Movie Project
The Dark Knight is based on evil against good. The Joker, who in my opinion is one of the darkest characters in all movies, is tearing Gotham city down to pieces. His enemy, Batman, is the good guy who does all he can to save his city. Throughout the whole movie Batman has to stop the Joker's evil mischief and at the same time hide his identity. There is some actual logic behind the Joker's evil deeds. He is trying to get back at the city for rounding up all the criminals in Gotham and stopping everyone else's dark, evil doings.
The first layer is fairly obvious in one of the main characters, the Joker. He is the definition of evil. His face covered in evil looking makeup and the crimes he commits shows that he is a true dark character. Also the setting for where most of the action takes place is at night. The plot is probably the most evil thing about the first layer. The idea of the Joker's evil, dark deeds is an awful thing to think about. Killing innocent people and blowing up a hospital is just pure evil.
Unlike the first layer the second layer is quite hard to describe. The voices of Batman is deep and raspy which shows him to be kind of mean and dark, but in a good way. The Joker on the other hand has a calm, whiney voice. You can never tell if he is serious or not because he is always laughing with an evil tone. Also the nick-name "Dark Knight" is given to him because he's only seen when it's dark, during the night. He is "dark" because he hides his identity from society because he doesn't want his personal life to interfere with his heroic life.
What motivates the Joker to commit the crimes he commits is sick. He is motivated to make Gotham city a real life hell because he wants to get back at the city for stopping all the other criminals. To me this doesn't make sense but to a sick, evil minded Joker it does.
The filmmaker conveys evil and darkness mostly through the Joker. His actions and his appearance is the ultimate darkness in the movie. The action scenes are mostly explosions and fires which also shows evil. The expressions of evil that had the most impact on me was the Joker's face and hair. He had evil makeup and greasy dark green hair. Every time I saw him in the movie it made me cringe.
(T-T) A connection that I made with the Dark Knight was with Spiderman 2. Both movies had good guys with hidden identities trying to defeat their enemies to protect the city they live in.
EQ: What does power have to do with fairness and justice?
An example that I found of how power has to do with fairness and justice in the Dark Knight was how Batman had just enough power to enforce fairness and justice againts the Joker. He did everything in his power to set things straight and make sure the Gotham city was safe.
The Dark Knight connects really well with Jordan's movie the Gladiator. Two of the main characters in each movie are almost identical in their actions. In the Gradiator, Maximus takes down people that the emperor, Commodus, is close to and thrives off it. In the Dark Knight, after Batman decided to save Harvey Dent instead of his girlfriend, Harvey took this the wrong way and things got out of control. He kidnapped people that were close to Batman as well and makes him suffer as he claims he does.
The first layer is fairly obvious in one of the main characters, the Joker. He is the definition of evil. His face covered in evil looking makeup and the crimes he commits shows that he is a true dark character. Also the setting for where most of the action takes place is at night. The plot is probably the most evil thing about the first layer. The idea of the Joker's evil, dark deeds is an awful thing to think about. Killing innocent people and blowing up a hospital is just pure evil.
Unlike the first layer the second layer is quite hard to describe. The voices of Batman is deep and raspy which shows him to be kind of mean and dark, but in a good way. The Joker on the other hand has a calm, whiney voice. You can never tell if he is serious or not because he is always laughing with an evil tone. Also the nick-name "Dark Knight" is given to him because he's only seen when it's dark, during the night. He is "dark" because he hides his identity from society because he doesn't want his personal life to interfere with his heroic life.
What motivates the Joker to commit the crimes he commits is sick. He is motivated to make Gotham city a real life hell because he wants to get back at the city for stopping all the other criminals. To me this doesn't make sense but to a sick, evil minded Joker it does.
The filmmaker conveys evil and darkness mostly through the Joker. His actions and his appearance is the ultimate darkness in the movie. The action scenes are mostly explosions and fires which also shows evil. The expressions of evil that had the most impact on me was the Joker's face and hair. He had evil makeup and greasy dark green hair. Every time I saw him in the movie it made me cringe.
(T-T) A connection that I made with the Dark Knight was with Spiderman 2. Both movies had good guys with hidden identities trying to defeat their enemies to protect the city they live in.
EQ: What does power have to do with fairness and justice?
An example that I found of how power has to do with fairness and justice in the Dark Knight was how Batman had just enough power to enforce fairness and justice againts the Joker. He did everything in his power to set things straight and make sure the Gotham city was safe.
The Dark Knight connects really well with Jordan's movie the Gladiator. Two of the main characters in each movie are almost identical in their actions. In the Gradiator, Maximus takes down people that the emperor, Commodus, is close to and thrives off it. In the Dark Knight, after Batman decided to save Harvey Dent instead of his girlfriend, Harvey took this the wrong way and things got out of control. He kidnapped people that were close to Batman as well and makes him suffer as he claims he does.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
response
How true that we do need a balance. Unfortunatley that is what are society since the beginning of time has created the need for. That is all we know. We have never known a society that is all pure. It is something sometimes that one would like as an ideal do you not think.
You have raised many good points in your reflection. Can you think of any specific examples to further develop your writing next time?
You have raised many good points in your reflection. Can you think of any specific examples to further develop your writing next time?
Monday, January 10, 2011
Why is there darkness in humanity?
For there to be a good there has to be a bad. Darkness is a type of bad that supports it in different ways. There will always be people or things that contradict one another. All day everyday can't be light outside and there not everyone is a happy person. There are people that are always going to be against what other people think. It's just the way life is. If everybody agreed on the same things life wouldn't be exciting. The world would be too plain. Some people believe that darkness is a bad thing but there are others that live in darkness and fear light. Darkness is what makes some people the way they are. In some cases people can't help staying in darkness, they think the sun/light is evil. Darkness is in humanity because it's a way of life. Things wouldn't work out the way they do if there was no such thing as darkness.
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