week fourteen

Today, I went the a few friends to see a movie. After a long time arguing we settled on "Knowing" with Nicolas Cage.

I thought the movie started out good, but jumped off the deep end of Si-Fi in the last 45min. I won't ruin the movie if you planned to see it, with details, so I'll give a brief overview.

The end of the world is predicted, but this time no one can stop it.

That's all you need to know.

The movie took on a thriller feel with a real life, or at least plausible, story. Then the producers let their imaginations run wild and got carried away with the special effects.

I didn't care for it, but talking to others who have seen it, the responses varied (like with any other movie).

week thirteen

I know the post is late, but I didn't realize we had to complete an entry over the week we had off.
I was busy that week with the project for this class, and my history class.
I won't go into this classes project as that will be shown later. However, the topic for history could be related back to this class.
I am looking into how history is taught; basically one-sided. An example would be, how students are taught about WWII from the American side, and rarely the German side.
Apparently the unwritten rule was, the winner got to tell the story. It wasn't until very recently, historians have gone back and started look at history differently.
This could relate to this class (or at least my project for this class) in how historians are starting to develop their own literacy; understand fully what is going on underneath the big picture. Kind of like media literacy.

week twelve

It has been a busy week for me, so I haven't had time to watch much television or be on the Internet. However I took time off to read, which is something I haven't done in a while. The book is called Shantahram. The man who wrote it lived these events but wrote the book as a novel. He escaped from prison to live in Bombay, India where the book takes place. Here, he learns to let go of his dark past and live in the present. The first line of the book is "It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while i was chained to a wall and being tortured."
Surprisingly the book has a lot of subtle spiritual aspects to it. Something many people could benefit from. Check it out. I'm only half way through it, but I love it so far. It's written by Gregory David Roberts and published in 2003 in Australia and New Zealand.