9/11 - The Movie

Summary

A few months before the tragedy on 9/11 occurred two brothers from France went to a New York fire station to film a documentary about a rookie starting out as a fireman, to become a man as they said in the movie. During the first months they were following their rookie, Tony, no fires occurred. One day, when tony was off work, one of the brothers practiced his filming technique on a routine gas leak. The gas leak happened a few hundred feet from the World Trade Center. Since planes don`t fly over New York often, every person in the street looked to the sky when a plane flew over them. As did the brother covering the gas leak. Suddenly, they see the plane crash into one of the towers. The firemen ran into the building with the camera man filming what he saw. The firemen in the building spent every breath they had saving the people that could be saved. 

A little later, both of the towers fell down, tower two first and tower one not long after that. Everybody still in the towers died. The firemen the film focused on got out right before the towers fell. The rest of the film was about how the firemen spent their next days. Working in shifts of twenty four hours digging for survivors. All in all, they found one person. The movie ended with pictures of every fireman that lost their lives in the disaster. 

What i thought of the movie

I should start by saying that the movie was shot in real life, this was not a reenactment. This fact made the movie far better than it originally is. To see the firemen and the civilians with tears in their eyes, blood running down their faces and the firemen telling stories of the terrible things they saw was hard to watch. Every little detail in this movie actually happened. 

The movie in itself is filmed with small cameras and is therefore not a high quality film, still, this is one of the things that made this movie so good. I would say the brothers filming this did a great job, catching the reality in the situation. I like the movie. I loved the movie.

Narnia by C.S. Lewis + Comparing the author with J. R. R. Tolkien

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) is an author. He´s most famous books is the Narnia books. There are seven books. The lion the witch and the wardrobe, prince Caspian, The voyage of the dawn treader, the silver chair, the horse and his boy, the magicians nephew and the last battle. The Narnia books and all of his other books show influences by his religious beliefs. The author has sold over 100 million books.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie)

This is the first Narnia books made into a movie. The movie is about two brothers and their two sisters: Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy. They leave to a professors house when their city is stricken by WW2. While they are at the professors house they find a wardrobe leading into a different world. In this world(Narnia), they meet a beaver who tells them to travel towards Aslan, their savior. Edmund, the second youngest of the siblings leave the group to go see the white witch and she captures him. The rest of the siblings decides to go see Aslan for help on getting their brother back. On the way to Aslan they meet Santa Clause and some other animals. The witch´s secret police(wolves) go to find the siblings and bring them back to the witch, but Aslans army Kills the wolves and follows one of them back to save Edmund. Later on, the witch travel to Aslans camp to explain to the group that Edmund shall die since he betrayed their brothers. Aslan sacrifices himself and the rest of the group goes to fight the witch and her huge army. The fight goes badly for the good guys until Aslan wakes up from the dead and brings an army to finally defeat the witch. They do, and the movie ends with the siblings (30 years later) returning to the real world.

My thoughts on the movie

I am a big fan of Narnia, so i love the movie. The actors does their parts perfectly, especially the actors that played the siblings Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy. I certainly enjoy the religious influences in the movie and how their were perfectly placed within the story at the perfect places. I feel safe saying that this movie is a masterpiece, nothing less. I must also say that i am grateful for obtaining the opportunity to see such a great movie in class.

Comparing J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis

Tolkien and Lewis were close friends throughout most of their lives. Tolkien was the one who converted Lewis to Christianity, which has always been a big part of his writing. Lewis repaid this by pushing Tolkien to expand his fictional writing, which you can see the result of by reading his book The Children of Hùrin. Both Tolkien and Lewis taught at Oxford university and they were both interested in literature(they were both members of a group called the inklings together with several other famous authors). One of the big similarities between these to authors is the Christian themes and principles. It has also been revealed over time that they often had disagreements. These disagreements were often about the quality of the Narnia books.

Though Tolkien liked the concept of the Narnia books, he did not approve of the obvious Christian references in the book, the way Lewis struck the reader over the head with Christian symbols. The character Aslan for example who sacrifices himself for a traitor and rises from the dad for a last battle against evil, and then saves the world. Tolkien`s books also contain several Christian symbols and references, he spent far more time hiding it withing the writing, and therefore made it more invisible for the reader. Tolkien also complained about the characters in the Narnia books,there are talking animals, children and witches, while Tolkien designed his own creatures and therefore made it more original. 

All in all, Tolkien did not approve of Lewis`s books, since it could give the reader a false interpretation of the his Christian beliefs and therefore giving people the wrong idea about Christianity and the beliefs it contains. Another conflict also came to fruition when Lewis became a protestant Christian instead of following Tolkien`s beliefs, which lay with the catholic church.

Christmas Poem

High expectations

It's almost dark

let christmas start,

look everywhere

he's got to be here.

Prancer's hungry

need some food,

the gift's must be ready

Wrapped and glued.

Empty bed

Santa's in his sled,

smiling to the night

do you see the blinking light?

Time is here

open presents everywhere,

another sock

what a shock.

Take down the decorations

i guess i had to high expectations,

all in all I got some socks to wear

now it's time to look forward to next year.

26. November

English class 26. november 2010 were interesting. We learned about different types of English. Indian, Chinese ad Japanese English were the main subjects. We learned why people in these countries need to speak English. For an example we learned about Indian Call Centers which employs thousands of Indians and how these employees  need to speak English without any trace of their mother tongue.

We also learned about how japan has changed how the world sees them from ''childish and immature'' to the leading country in technology. We have learned about Japanese comics or ''Manga'' and Japanese animation called ''Anime''. I think this English class were one of the best we have had, because i could work in whatever manner i saw fit for myself.

I learned a lot this class(it was a good use of time). I learned a lot of things i find interesting, like for an example why franchises like Pokemon and Digimon is as famous as it is(i probably find this interesting since i used to be a big fan when i were young.) When i worked i worked with my sidekick(Robin to my batman if you will). We read the texts, did the tasks, and succeeded with a smile on our faces. Even though neither of us could access the one note file and write how we worked, i hope this is an acceptable way to do so.

Facebook hits exam results

I read an article about Facebook affecting exam results. The article focused on a test on students during school time. They looked on the students using Facebook during their school classes(even if they just had it open without looking at it more than once) and the students not using Facebook. The students with minimal Facebook use scored 20% higher on their exams than the students heavy users of Facebook. Students have been asked and most of them says they don't think Facebook is affecting their school work. This have now been proven wrong. The statement that Teenagers can work on several things at once have now been called in to question. I personally believe the use of Facebook during class is a big problem, even though i at times do it myself.

                      "While people may think constant task-switching allows them to get more done in less time, the reality is it extends the amount of time needed to carry out tasks and leads to more mistakes." - Professor Paul Kirschner.  This is a comment by a respected professor. What he says is very true. Most teens believe as far as i know that multitasking helps you do things faster. It has though been proven by psychiatrist and other researchers that people in any age have problems with switching what you are doing often. 

                      The test was taken on 219 students from the age of 19 - 54. Facebook users scored a 3.06 out of four while the non-Facebook students scored a 3.82. The article itself was written very well and understandable with relatively mature English, but still in a sense that most English speakers can understand it either they speak English as a 1. or 2. Language.

Kilde:

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo

This should have been posted in week 37, sorry for the delay

Kite runner... so far

I started reading The Kite Runner a few days ago, the book is mostly interesting. I haven't read far enough for it to make me excited. I've read the book before so i know exactly what's going to happen, this takes away most of the excitement in the book. Still, i know the book will entertain me when i really get into it.
so far, the main character Amir has been hanging around with his best friend/servant Hassan. Amir and Hassan has mostly been talking about the upcoming kite competition where Amir controls the kit and Hassan is the kite runner. through the parts i've read so far, Amir act as if Hassan is only hes servant.
That's how far i have read. by the way, there is some kinds of war going on, i don't really know what's going on yet.