Gladiator

The movie Gladiator takes place in the Europe in the Roman Empire. The main character is a general for the Roman Empire and is going to take the throne after the Roman leader dies. The son of the leader does not want him to take the throne because he is his son so he sets the general up and kills his family. The general is then put into slavery and has to fight for his freedom. He fights several fights and is victorious throughout all of them. The man that set him up notices that he is doing well and decides to fight him. The general kills the son and becomes leader for a short period of time. He sets all the slaves free and does away with the monarchy system they are under.

My opinion of this movie is that it was a very exciting movie that kept you on the edge of your seat through about the last two hours but the first thirty minutes are kind of slow. Gladiator has a good lesson behind it that you can overcome anything and I believe that they illustrated their message very well with this movie. There was a lot of action which I think is what made the movie so interesting. In my opinion this movie is one of the best action movies I have ever seen. It is a must see for everyone. 

Prayer

Prayer is more than just worship of a certain religion it is any hope or dream that someone might have. Prayer is something that I think everyone in the world uses on a daily basis. It is a more broad term than I think people take it as. When I was a little kid my parents taught me to pray every night, but I don't necessarily believe that it is all it means praying for a certain religion or religious idol. I think it is great for people that have a strong religious belief to pray, but for people that are not religious pray means something else like wishing for good or anything else they might be hopeful for.

Orwell Hitler

The reading we had for thursday was an interesting piece because it talked about propaganda and the rights that animals have and how the world would just be a better place if human beings weren't going around making everything complicated. I didn't understand the second part of the reading as much as I did the first. I agree with the first piece about how humans complicate things and treat other species wrong because we do. We also treat other human being with disrespect and its wrong that we do that, but at the same time that is how humans are at the top of the food chain and not somethings pet. We have to stay strong, but at the same time respect what and who is around us. The second reading was over Adolf Hitler and the use of propaganda. Propaganda was used in the war with the GErmans and the second reading just went over and asked who should be a target for propaganda and when it should be used. It didn't catch my attention much and I didn't enjoy reading it.

Group Project

Doing the group project this week was fun because it was different from our regular class setting, everyone got along, and we worked fast and efficiently to do the best job that we could. The Colon was our subject and we found that it is used everyday whether it be in language and grammar or in bible verses or ratios in math. It was a good experience that I had a lot of fun with and I hope that we get to do a lot of the same types of stuff the entire semester.

Did You Know?

I am writing my blog for the week on the YouTube video Did You Know? we were supposed to watch for thursdays class. The video was really cool I thought it was a really good way to get their point they were trying to make across that the world is growing so rapidly and that we need to step it up so we are ready for the twenty first century. Most of the facts were really hard to believe, but they all makes sense the video just brought them into light. That was a great example of something that we have been learning about in class too. The multimedia used in this video is a good example of how we could approach our literacy narrative. Overall my view on the video was a good one i thought it showed some really good points and at the same time used some really good multimedia examples for us to look at for our upcoming projects. The name of the company that made the video is called Xplane The Visual Thinking Company. They make videos and publications to make things simple and get messages across to people through visual techniques like the same multimedia we will work with for our projects.

Rough Start

For my first blog of the semester I would like to talk about the reading for the last class. The Shitty First Drafts really was a good piece of reading for us because it helped us see where some of the better writers have to come from when they decide to sit down and write or what it looked like when they first get started. I learned from the reading that writing something isn't always going to just come easy to me you have to work at getting the right technique or you will not get very far. Also, don't be afraid to mess up everyone does it including the writers that get paid to write everyday and all the great authors. Shitty First Drafts also just went through ways that you can get yourself ready to write and how to keep your mind clear to thoughts that will help you along the road, and also to just keep building on your writing. Write everyday to improve and proofread everything you do and if you do these steps over and over again and truly work on your writing you have a chance to be a talented successful writer.