On Thursday, May 19th it _will be the premiere award show for the Making Movies That Matter that will be held at CSUN’s Performing Arts Complex. The entire junior high students has been split up into groups within their own grades. We all had to come up with ideas with our group and turn it into a movie that follows the topic, Movies That Matter. After three or four weeks of filming and editing, we have completed our movie. The topic we choose is a mixture of two important topics from three outspoken ideas we have had. My group consisted of myself, Ella, Dominic, Parker, Jessica, and Yosline. Our first idea was about suicide, until it was denied. Our second idea was the fear of God, as being in a Catholic school had a majority of the input on the idea. Later we had some disagreements and questions about what we could do for two minutes and began to think about other ideas. Our last idea was about the general issue of pollution which included littering and such. We then somehow added the topic about the fear of God into the discussion, and thus came our idea. Although, the movie was made to tell why we should not pollute and the entire purpose of how polluting our earth will affect us all, we did not necessarily do that. We instead made a nearly three minute narrative about how God is always watching us and the story of how he personally approached a litterer. We added humor in scenes where I, as a good person calls one person to call God. I went through trees, ran through the school’s black top, and popped out of a trash can. It was an enjoyable experience with much joy and laughs with my group.
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'NIGHT'My blog this week is about the in class book we,as a class, have read for the past month. The nonfiction novel, "Night" by Elie Wiesel is the true story based on his own point of view, experience during the Holocaust. His story of his experience includes various gruesome, excruciating, painful descriptions of his experience. He has went through through separation with his family, near death experience with his father, survived selection, hypothermia, and more to come. Along the way he and his father see people burned into ashes, trampled to death, frozen to death, and killed in some of the most gruesome ways possible. They have been transported places to places, some leaving their hope, faith, and even their lives. Elie goes through phases in his life when he lost his faith in God and questioned him, during the time he was trapped in the concentration camp. Slowly without realizing it, Elie began to pray in desperate times of aid and began to regain his faith into God. In the beginning we, as the readers and audience, understand how the Jewish people lived with no worry and hope still alive in their bodies. Even when the people were being transported into different camps and separated from their families, the people never failed to lose hope. Including the moment when foreshadowing was added at the time they were transported into a train car and Mrs. Shätchm screamed that flames and fire was peeking out. People treated her with annoyance, thrashed her and her child, and silenced her with a handkerchief. When the people arrived at Auschwitz and saw flames rising into the sky, they felt immediate fear go through their whole body shaking them like a sudden earthquake when they later learned it was the burning of dead bodies. SOCIETY'S IMPACTMy blog this consists of the focus about pressure and the impact upon people around the world, specifically teenagers nowadays. Teenagers have the pressure of being perfect from close family and friends especially parents based on grades to be the best and society. Society tends apply even more pressure when teenagers seem to judge themselves thinking they are “imperfect” and “worthless.” Society and its standards are always around us. When we have our mind set like a clock on becoming “perfect” without any single speck of a flaw, we become entitled with the pressure with it. Society’s standards have a major influence on young teens especially on their appearance, starting from the beginning of puberty to an adult. Especially when we are teenagers, we begin to be self-conscious and instead of depending on God for help, we rely on the world for information. Some believe that by following the expectations of society, we will feel pleased and happy. But, the reality of it is that we will be dissatisfied and the aftermath of the damage leaves danger physically and mentally. The influence of society states that the perfect person has the perfect body image, perfect academics, and any characteristic on the outside that defines “perfect.” Negative thoughts appear from the second we see and hear new trends from the internet and compare ourselves with what we see. We cannot resist being curious about society and its influence, but at times what we learn from society and the world, may take away our connection with God. “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” –Saint Augustine “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee. Elie Wiesel, author of “Night” and survivor of the Holocaust, stated in his interview with Oprah, "For me, every hour is grace." Each hour includes sixty minutes of moments, moments we must not waste. The hour that might have been filled with our lives completed with the Lord's grace, but instead wasted by being unappreciated of how we look and torturing ourselves. My blog this week is about the topic of grammar. Specifically, about the four moods in English, indicative, imperative, emphatic, and subjunctive. Those four are all verb forms that indicate mood in a sentence. The indicative mood is the form that states a fact or asks a question in the sentence. For example, “We are working on the project together today right now, at this moment.” The verb phrase in the sentence is, are working, and this helps discover which mood the sentence is. Additionally, the second example, “Have you ever painted a tie-dye shirt, that is extremely colorful and cool?” The verb phrase is, have painted, and this shows that this is an indicative mood. The first sentence is a simple command and the second is asking a question, therefore they are all indicative moods. Next, lithe imperative mood is the form of a verb used only for commands. The imperative mood is almost always in the second person. For negative sentences use do and don’t instead. Two examples are, “Plan your design carefully, or else I will fail you in this class.” and “Do not even start without a design in mind for the layout.” In the first sentence, the subject is not actually written but it is understood to be, which is, You. This is proof that it is second person. The emphatic mood is the form of a verb that gives special forces to a simple present or past tense verb. For present tense, it is best to use “do” or “does” and for past, use “did.” Both tenses should be used before the base form. For example, “I do love food.” This states that the verb gave a special force. ELIE WIESELThis week of class, the main focus of my blog is based upon the interview we heard in class by Richard D. Heffner. Heffner interviewed Elie Wiesel about his hardships he experienced when he was just sixteen years old, extremely horrifying unimaginable events, and the pain of seeing his beloved father be beaten to death as he sat silently watching. In the interview, “Open Mind: Elie Wiesel” the interviewer by Richard D. Heffner questioned Elie Wiesel in his interview. Elie Wiesel is the award winning author of, “Night”. Wiesel has written many other books in his life, but this is what he has chosen as his most favorite because He questions about how he felt and survived during the Holocaust. The pain and the mourning he went through, each day when he realized hope was scarce. The power of words shown with Elie Wiesel was the most importantly the book he had written. “Night” consists of his own experience of hardships he went through. The book demonstrates how we should not take anything for granted in life and be appreciate for the time we have for everyone, especially our family. In the interview he states, “Life is made of moments, it consists of special occurrences…each of these moments consists of life.” I was inspired by the strength he showed to the audience and bravery for writing this book about his experience. I was inspired by his determination to write the book ten years after the Holocaust, he stated that he needed to wait ten years after in order to explain to the audience his story. In the preface, it begins with how he cannot express any words over the horrifying scene when he sat silently as SS soldiers beat his father, even when his last words were used to call his name. This is something so unreal to even hear, let alone experience everything. The death of his father was only the beginning of their difficult hardships. "ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBER"My blog this week is about the video shown in class on Tuesday. The short film, “One Survivor Remembers” is about an untold story of what happened during the holocaust on her own point of view. Gerda Weissmann tells her own story on her view of what happened form living peacefully with her family, to living in the basement when Germans took over their house, to her brother taken away from her, her family and her separating, labor camps for three years, to “death marches”, the death of her friends, and her savior is her husband. The image when the dead bodies were piled up or laid on the ground with people walking next to it and the image of the vast land covered up in inches of snow were the most powerful out of all. Those images were the most powerful because the dead pile of corpses was an event that was real and the bodies shown were just a small majority out of the rest. The lessons or messages form the images was that we should always be grateful for our lives, to eat properly, and everything we have now is to always be grateful. The Nazi’s dehumanized the Jews by taking over their homes, forcing them into labor work, forcing them into gas chambers, and the murderous killings. Gerda Weissmann worked to overcome the dehumanization by aiding the girls at camp with her and staying strong. The person that had helped her stay strong was the lady in charge, she looked terrifying but her personality was the opposite she was an inspiration to her. The heroes of the film was Gerda’s family, the lady in charge of the labor camp, and her own husband. Gerda’s family helped her stay alive through everything she went through. Her father told her to wear snow boots that day when everything began, at first she refused but later she agreed. But, she didn’t know that the shoes saves her life. When the 4000+ girls were all on the “death march” freezing on the snow, her snow boots saved her form freezing while other girls wore sandals or an unprotective shoe. When the Germans took over her home, she looked outside and considered suicide. Her father came up to her and told her to promise not to consider anything like that. The lady in charge gave her hope and inspiration to live through everything. Her own husband rescued her when her friends all died when they were abandoned by the SS in the bicycle factory. My blog this week is about my one paragraph narrative. This story is about a trashcan whose name is, Tim Can, because Tim… Can. Yes, the name is meant to be a ridiculousness pun. The narrative was based upon an assignment from taking notes on a prezi. The prezi shown to us was to know how to write a excellent narrative with a few extra pointers. We were asked to choose three facts from the prezi, and I chose similes and metaphors, vivid verbs, and appositives. “You can do it, Tim!” “You are Tim Can.” “And you are a trash CAN, not a trash can’t.” Words of encouragement blew into his head like fireworks into the sky even when he knew he couldn’t accomplish his dream. His biggest dream to somehow become a fish in the ocean. But, living in the corner of street made him feel like a dump. His name is Tim Can, the trash can, living the most of his murky life in Australia. The worst part of his life is whenever his best friend, Steve, comes along just to sleep for up to nineteen hours. Steve is known to be one of the worst pilots in the entire wildlife, reviewed by other animals as he has the ability to fly. The use of his ability comes into waste when all he does is to fly for food and sleep. He flies like a snail trying to crawl on land and sleeps like he is dead. On the rare days when Steve was conscious, Tim came to him with a solution to his unaccomplished dream. Tim’s idea consisted of Steve flying Tim into the sky until dropping him at the pier where he will then drop to the ocean to live with the fish. The moment Steve had agreed, Tim dragged him to the jungle airport where they would take off. Five minutes into the air and ten until the drop off into the ocean, an error occurred. Steve began to feel fatigued from the breeze brushing against his face like a soft pillow. Hastily, they began to descend closer to the ocean, but they were closer to the ground before they could even react. What had happened soon after was a similar to a scene of a movie, but with a trash can and a sleeping koala. All that was left was Tim laying broken with a large dent on his side, and Steve happily sleeping on the floor as if nothing had happened. But, slowly the breeze came and moved Tim to slowly roll into the ocean and then he disappeared. 'A HEART ON FIRE"This week of my blog, my topic is based upon the booklet about St. John Eudes and his devotion to God throughout his entire life. The year, 2016, is called the “Year of Mercy” by Pope Francis which also in some way alludes to the booklet, as it describes St. John Eudes’s journey to aid and care for other sick a “missionary of mercy” (14) Saint John Eudes is a missionary who had devoted his life to God the moment he realized it was his calling as a young child. He had not only become a missionary to devote his life, but to help others and preach the good news of the Lord. From pages fourteen through twenty-one, on chapters four and five tells us, the readers, about some of the good works he had done in the name of the Lord. Firstly, the first page describes the scene in the year 1629 in Normandy when a plague had broken out in his native diocese. Ignoring the risks and the potential death he could’ve encountered, Saint John Eudes continued on to aid and assist the people contaminated from the plague while preaching about the good news. As the plague progressed to Caen in 1631, he went on to help aid and cure the sick, meeting two other people who were just as devoted to Christ even when they were not priests. One was Gaston de Renty, a father of four with the same mission as Eudes, to aid the sick. The other was Madame Laurence de Budos, a young abbess who brought meals to the sick for everyone wanting to help in a way. Soon, after the plague had ended he went on working as an Oratorican, with others he went on to preach children, adults, and lapsed Catholics to just go to confession, receive the Eucharist, and restart their relationship with God with a stronger faith. Throughout Saint John Eudes lifetime, he had not only spent fourth-five years of his life working in this apostolate, but preaching over a hundred missions with thousands of people to watch and hear him. St. John Eudes is not only a model to people all over the world, but a role model to the church representing what we, Christians and Catholics, should be doing in our life even if it is as little as a prayer. GOLDENFifty years old. Fifty years closer to being more ancient than I already am. Being fifty years old is an age where you are either able to work or choose not to and enjoy life. Although, I would rather choose to be sleeping through half of the day and traveling around the world. In reality, I would most likely be working a few more years even after I turn fifty. I am now thirteen years old, almost fourteen and a student in eight grade in the moment. By the time I turn fifty, I would already have chosen my career choice and have my life set from my retirement to my will ready. I believe my choice of profession would have been to become a neurosurgeon. The profession of becoming a neurosurgeon deals based on the human brain and body to treat and cure diseases affecting the nervous system and brain stem. The career of choice to treat patients suffering from physical and emotional pain from serious brain illnesses. Being a doctor for patients would provide my family of and I wealth which would hopefully mean retiring faster. Other than my profession, I would wish to have a family of more dogs. If I were to have a family of my own, I would be married with a husband and I am still debating whether I would want children. But, most likely I would rather not have any screaming, whiny, bratty, annoying child. Being a neurosurgeon in requires a majority of my time and lifestyle and while my husband would also have a profession so we could both earn a living which would mean a quicker retirement and an even happier, relaxing life to live. Driving in a sports car in my fifties looking like those good looking characters after driving away from an scene with explosives and fire, except with grey and wrinkly skin wearing shades. If I don’t have any children, I would love to have one to three dogs in my family. The perfect spot for a home would be near the beach to live a relaxing, easy life. In some occurrence I would enjoy doing volunteer most likely at an animal shelter once in a while if I have nothing better to do. Turning to the year of my golden age, I would desire to travel across the world before turning fifty years old as I have always loved traveling as a young child. Living my life with a busy job taking a majority of my time and coming home to my husband and dogs would be the preferred lifestyle of my choice. "THE ROAD NOT TAKEN"What might have happened if the poet had chosen the more traveled route is that he may have most likely experienced a new journey through the way and spending more time around the woods than the other path the poet had taken. For example, in the poem, Robert Frost directly implies that the road he had taken was what he had assumed was better because it filled with grass covering the floor showing life. “Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear;” (L. 6-8) The difference would have also included for the readers to infer that Frost is stating that the other path may not have been so full of life as the other. “And both that morning equally lay – In leaves no step had trodden black.” Along the lines of the first example written in the second and third sentence, Frost indirectly describes to the readers that the first road he took is grassy which we as the readers can assume is also filled with trees and other plants around it. The line twelve, “in leaves no step had trodden black.” It implies that the leaves weren’t decaying or have never been stepped upon. The poem is based on Frost comparing the two roads based on what he sees and experiences. Therefore on the occasion of when he states the first road included a grassy land with no leaves that had been stepped on or decayed, we can infer that the road the poet had not taken is filled with no life all around him. With the vision of one road brimming the land with bright colors all around that not even a leaf had turned black, compared to a land that would be loaded with possibly dark and gloomy colors that includes very few life in the land. Which led to the poet stating in line seven, “And perhaps the better claim,” that the poet is glad he took the road with more vibrant life than the dead. The difference in his life if he hadn’t taken the road he had chosen but the other, he might have been lost as it is a more expanded route, encountering dangerous species along the way, a handful of threatening occasions, or possibly a boring ride through the path with dead and gloomy plants and colors surrounding him. |
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