December 1st 2010 12:46 pm Fighting is not an option Emotions is the way you follow.
Arn Chon Pond, run away from war, following his heart, his emotion. He can't hurt, he can't stand to see the dead people, his friends, running away from his fear, he can't stop getting the war in his mind.
Arn Chong Pond is similar to Fatmire Feka because their journey was based on inner but Fatmire had little bit more outer journey.
Fatmire had a hard decision to forgive or hate. She could of forgive but then that would betray her brothers and sisters. She could of hate because they killed or might of hide them and have a long hated to Serbs but that would cause more bloodshed. So she had faced many things in the 10 years. Arn Chong Pond was at the place where people were sentenced to death each day, seeing his friends or other people getting killed right in front of him. He was powerless as he saw each person die in front of him. If he did then would got shoot too, he knew the consequences if he did that. Fatmire and Arn Chong Pond has been in the same type of journey and thinking.
The big part of Arn Chong Pond was decision. Decision to stand up or fall? Decision to fight, or run? Arn Chong Pond made many decisions, not hurting others, being nice when people taunted him, trying not to hate others, and mostly during the time at Cambodia. He could of made the right choices, or the bad choices. But in the end, he makes it out, causing no trouble, no hatred, no war.
This image of a person being caught by light is significant, he or she being turned into light, turning themselves to good. When the light is going to her, the contrast of the dark is being gone because in Arn Chong Pond's days, he was being fought by the good people and he did not want war so he didn't even try to do anything, he wanted to be free. This image is really significant because of the contrast of light and dark, and how the woman stands to the light.
Arn Chon Pond, run away from war, following his heart, his emotion. He can't hurt, he can't stand to see the dead people, his friends, running away from his fear, he can't stop getting the war in his mind.
Arn Chong Pond is similar to Fatmire Feka because their journey was based on inner but Fatmire had little bit more outer journey.
Fatmire had a hard decision to forgive or hate. She could of forgive but then that would betray her brothers and sisters. She could of hate because they killed or might of hide them and have a long hated to Serbs but that would cause more bloodshed. So she had faced many things in the 10 years. Arn Chong Pond was at the place where people were sentenced to death each day, seeing his friends or other people getting killed right in front of him. He was powerless as he saw each person die in front of him. If he did then would got shoot too, he knew the consequences if he did that. Fatmire and Arn Chong Pond has been in the same type of journey and thinking.
The big part of Arn Chong Pond was decision. Decision to stand up or fall? Decision to fight, or run? Arn Chong Pond made many decisions, not hurting others, being nice when people taunted him, trying not to hate others, and mostly during the time at Cambodia. He could of made the right choices, or the bad choices. But in the end, he makes it out, causing no trouble, no hatred, no war.
This image of a person being caught by light is significant, he or she being turned into light, turning themselves to good. When the light is going to her, the contrast of the dark is being gone because in Arn Chong Pond's days, he was being fought by the good people and he did not want war so he didn't even try to do anything, he wanted to be free. This image is really significant because of the contrast of light and dark, and how the woman stands to the light.
By: Darlene Keeffe
December 1st 2010 10:45 am Every Religion is equal
Eboo Patel, a man who wanted to become a white, who wanted to play with the whites. This effected his college 13 ago. When he talked in the conference he talked about himself in America playing for the whites, destroying his Indian ways, people can't talking religious beliefs in conversations in seminars, people doing it for the religion especially Martin Luther King, going and study Mahatma Gandhi, his way of leadership.
When he talks about 5 times they talked religion in seminars, I think there was a reason they don't talk about it, fear, fear of people in college going to bully them since 1990 was a war of religious acts. Most people want to belong to a group mostly in America, white people don't wanna hang with people there people because of their looks and religion. Religion could be used as a knife to the victim, and to leave the victim outside the circle. It made sense that Eboo Patel went to go to the white side because he didn't want to be teased in America and where most people are white, and in college there are maybe more white people in college so it mean's total discrimination.
Eboo had to go on many choices in life, wanting to be Indian? or a American and not be teased? detroying his Indian and Muslim away and just to be white American so he would flow in the society? He knew that it was the bad choice in America, he couldn't stand up to be Indian or Muslim in front of people in America.
November 27th 2010 2:20 pm Picasso, paint as a weapon
Picasso, his drawing of dark, where people can't see, the fire overcame them, some actions in the picture shows the people being beaten up by things. A very dark room where this shows the fiery of what happen in Guernica, how dark it was only the light from the fire. You can see the not a lot of contrast in this picture because its showing the war, each little part that he would imagine. The horse which is being strange, wild, is showing the how much terror it was when Guernica was being burnt. Each item in the picture represent many things.
In this picture is about terror in Guernica, by this this is like a sharp knife to the Guernica which is also related to The Shadow of the Minotaur and The Blokes. In the book "The Blokes" John is being intimidated until he can't stand up for himself so he is weak. In the picture, the people are being killed which is showing horrifying to the people who attacked Guernica, this making them scared. John was scared because the intimidation, the victim who destroyed Guernica is being scared, because the painting is intimating them as if it were ghost.
When I saw the painting, it gave me the look of confusion. What gave me the look was the transform to white then dark, it was hard to see the horse, which could of mean it was in the dark while the fire making you can see the horse.
November 15th, 2010 7:01 pm Aung San Suu Kyi the leader, following her fathers foot-steps.
Aung Sung Suu Kyi is significan to Burma because she loves her country, and sacrifice many difficult tasks in her way to bring Burma to a new path of light. Aung Sung Suu Kyi is alike to Prometheus and the painting by the darkness and the light. The haractars in the myth and reality has the same roles. When Aung Sung Suu kyi came to Burma when her mother is sick, she came like Prometheus to the dark earth to give new hope and light which is Burma which has no power to do anything, because the dictators have more power than the people. Zues and the dicator is powerful which can't be over taken.
In the painting of Prometheus were the strong the weak and the dictator or the powerful. The strong was Aung Sung Suu Kyi since they can deify the strong even though they know the consequences of anything. Aung Sung Suu Kyi knew the consequences of the cost what might happen since the country was a dictator state. The weak is the people, the people who is widely separated from power and weak. There is a huge gap which no one ca process if they deify the gods or the powerful.
I choose this significant picture because this is where she is giving her power of speech, to help her the journey to democracy, freedom. Her voice is stronger than guns.
November 12th, 2010 2:30 pm: Fatmire Feka Journey to Forgiveness
Fatmire was a victim of war in Kosovo who lost a brother and a sister, and became a woman who took many years to forgive the people who destroyed her world, the Serbs. I felt destroyed when I heard her speak about forgiveness. When I watched the video, I knew many other people were in war, many people had many bigger problems to over come, more important then mine. Her story was like a bullet to my heart, I never forgive the people who dd bad things to me, I knew what she said was right, hating would make it worst. When she talked about her story, about her brother and sister, I knew that there was no way she can forgive the Serbs for separating the family, or killing. How can she forgive the Serbs? How can she forgive the long 10 years that even separated her family? Wouldn't this create what another Hitler who hated the Jewish? She knew that it wouldn't do anything. Her response to the war was shocking, her speech was amazing. I really know that if someone who hated things saw here, he would know the meaning of hatred, he would know the meaning of forgiveness. I can't remember anyone familiar to her, who can speak a trembling memory. I would even not try to bare and remember the memory like that. It would be a long long time or even I will never forgive if that happened. I can see if a had a friend like that, who will carry their hatred to school, hating Serbs.
October 1st, 2010 12:57pm: MICHEAL MOORE
Micheal Moore is a documentary/director who made these documentaries: Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Capitalism: A Love Story. What made me into his documentaries was Fahrenheit 9/11 where it tells before 9/11 and what happen in those years when Bush was in office.
During his documentaries is that in Capitalism is that banks who have your house membership can use that to gamble for other things. It was shocking living in America in those dark days. He made me like politics, documentaries, and many articles. Capitalism made me sad since people who were bankrupt went and slept outside the neighbor-hood. This made me a person who ague's many times till I win or sometimes agree.
He is like Socrates who makes tons of questions which makes people want to make blame him. One time Micheal Moore could not go 100-500 meters from a man he documented and probably embarrassed. But Socrates didn't have that. He just got sentenced to death just because he was the one who asked the questions. At least he had a second chance.
This is important because a person who questions to much is always blamed, chosen for bad things, and punished. As noticed you always need to blame someone in real life if you lose something.
