Da big Project

I have enjoyed all the presentations so far, and have learned alot from them all. They are all unique in their own way.
For my own project I think it went very well and I hope it was informative and interesting. I hope they enjoyed learning about Child Labour and being informed of what we can do. I think my youtube clips helped me in my presentation and I think I kept it simple (not confusing) but infomative. I kept the presentation flowing and organized I learned so much on this topic when i was researching it. I learned some of the companies being questioned for Child Labour which some surprised me. Also the facts and statistics i learned absolutly blew me away and i was shocked. The lifestyle of a child labourer i sort of had an idea for but didn`t know how extreme it was untill i researched it. This was a great learning experience for me and i really ewnjoyed doing this presentation. I learned alot and what are the key steps we can take to help end child labour. I learned alot not just from my own presentation but from many of the others aswell. I will take alot of this information into my everyday life, I really enjoyed listening to the presentations and how every one was different. I think i would deserve and 83% on this project for the overall work i put into it and the topic i chose.

Angels And Demons Movie

Hmm.. This movie was well done and very intense and for people who have not read the book, i think it would have been an awesome movie full of crazy hardcore action... for me i have read the book so i have other views.... Yet again the saying of the book is always better stands true... did they read the book, it was amazing so how can you totally change it when the book is that good in the movie? Man, common i was so dissapointed.... When a guy dies (water) in the book he cant surrvive in the movie! And when the sweetest brands of all is changed in the movie to just keys like common. Other than that ya it was good.. lol.... It was a sweet book which makes a sweet movie just you cant change a sweet book like that.. ruins the movie. But i enjoyed the class trip and glad i saw the movie..

Pope 2.0

I think this is interesting to see what the Pope has done. The Pope is trying to make religion more open and trying to attract and appeal to younger people. He sees the trend of less younger people in church i hope, which is probably why he has done this. Now he is trying to be more 'cool' and 'hip' by going to more of the newer ways of the world with Internet and facebook etc. By going to these new technologies they attract a different audience. I do believe the Vatican may be changing, to newer ways AHHH no way. They must change in order to keep people coming to church, the trend is going down. Our society is changing and so the Vatican and religion must change with it in order to be appealing. Going to Internet and facebook is a good start. If you ever wanna know what the Pope is doing right now...it is possible... if you ever do have that urge to know

What went wrong?

I think that the Da Vinci Code movie had so much heap about it that it had huge expectations from the viewers that it could not possibly meet. The expectations exceeded the real movie. This disappointed the fans because they were expecting so much. Also, it was one of the first movies to do what it did with religion and so it had a lot of controversy behind it. Society loves controversy and so yes it did make tons of money which is probably mostly due to people wanting to see it for the controversy and big expectations behind it. They then saw the movie and saw how extremely long it was and were not impressed but already spent their money. Therefore yes It made lots due to the controversy and expectations but once people actually saw the movie it did not meet their standards.

Movies, Money and God

First off, that is one interesting pastor to do what he did. This article talks about similar stuff to the one about Angels and Demons and Hollywood. Slowly more and more faith related movies are becoming more popular and are being made. As this article says the directors see a profit coming from movies like this because the movie can get lots of publicity. Also with so much of the world being in some way affiliated with religion it is a market to try and get good at if as this article states you want to make money. I think after Angels and Demons comes out you will see many more religious affiliated movies come out in an effort to make the money, sad to see that's the reason though.

An Inconvenient Blog

I believe we do need to listen to Al Gore and his talks about climate change to make us all aware of whats happening in our world. I believe though that not much has changed since his first talk. Yes some governments and companies have taken steps to help but we need drastic change which takes cooperation from everyone and governments in order to make it happen, which has not happened. I do not believe countries have meet there promises set in the Kyoto Protocol and when time expires as it does soon, will countries still do it and believe in it that it will help? Who knows. Governments and our world need to be all on the same page in order to make drastic changes to help our world and until that happens no major progress will occur. I give credit to those who push for governments and companies to start helping and credit to those who already have. These are the people who need to influence others. You see Al's talk you see the effects, there's numbers, stats, diagrams how much more convincing do people need to see something is happening to our world that is going have have drastic effects.

Angels and Demons And Hollywood

This was an intense article, and talked about alot of detailed stuff. I do believe it is very true that many Hollywood movies do not talk much about religion and dont make their movies appealing to firm believers. I feel this is because religion is such a touchy subject and it is possible to disrespect or satire religion which people may find very offensive. This causes lots of controversy and can ruin people careers, so why not save the hassle and just stay away from talking about religion. I do believe that it was interesting as a religious man he was to talk about how he and many Muslims believe science and religion and how they do not contradict each other. Another thing i felt was very true he said was: 'Science is about how. Religion is about why.' which i feel is very true. Angels and Demons is a breakthrough movie that talks about both science and religion and does it in a respectable manor.