Effective Communicator-LA

Effective Communicator is people who can well communicate. They know how and when it's the time to talk.
Effective communication is important because we always need to communicate with people. We need to know what are people thinking. And also tell them what we are thinking,
Talk more with your classmates and teachers, know when to talk, and talk about what in the right time.

Ben-Hur Reflection on culture

From Ben-Hur, I've learned more about Roman culture. Hereunder are some aspects I've learned and analyzed;  

a. Religion- I think that Roman people didn't believed in Christian at the beginning, but some people converted their religion to Christian after they witnessed the miracle of Jesus Christ, because there was one scene of the movie, Jesus Christ saved Ben-Hur's mother and sister, and taught Ben-Hur to learn from forgiveness. Moreover, Ben-Hur was like Job in the Bible, he was tested through different harsh life experiences.

b. Costume- The male characters in the movie all dressed in short robs, and had shepherd long gowns, and wore headscarves. As for the female characters, they dressed long robs, even touched to the ground, and they had headscarves when they were out. The most interesting and characteristic is the warriors' outfit, they had helmets, shorts, and spear and shield in hands, which made them look pretty bravely.  

c. Architecture- The great and magnificent Colosseum, there were many tall arches , the platforms with stairs, which could content a great many of audiences, different kinds of pathways for people and animals to enter and exist the Colosseum. Moreover, the techniques of sculpture and carving. On the scene of the banquet of the commander adopted Ben- Hur as his son. I saw many columns with many breathtaking craving artworks on the top of them, 

it made me feel very luxurious.  

d. Decoration- From different scenes, the kitchenware that Roman people used were very dedicated and they looked priceless, like the wine container they used to drink wine were bronze-made, even the oil-lantern, they looked pretty heavy.Obviously, Roman people like to use Bronze ware in their daily life.

e. Charioteer- the horse-wagon racing in Colosseum, its brutality represents part of Roman culture. Like Messala was killed from this kind of racing based on Ben-Hur's revenge. But personally I really think it's far too cruel and inhumane. 

f.Slavery- When Ben-Hur became a slave, which made me realize that slaves had 

no freedom at all, they were simply part of their masters' property, and they couldn't stop working, when I saw that scene of the ship was on fire, I felt very sorry for those slaves. 

g.Currency- From the scene, many people were betting on the result of the horse wagon racing, they used "gold"and "sliver", which should be their currency at that time.

Obama likes hot dogs ?

Where do you think the new the USA president will go to eat ? He could just go to a big hotel for meals and pay for a pricey meal, but Obama didn't. He chose a little restaurant along the street.
The president ordered a sweet tea and hot dogs, he also talked and took a picture with the other consumers  who were also eating in the store.
Some people asked him " Why would you think of  coming to this store for meal? He replied " I just want to grab hot dogs." Well, from this news, apparently, Obama is still keeping his ordinary diet habit just like an American civilian. No wonder his supports admire him so much, not only hie capability of being an America president, but also his personality of down to earth. I think that it's what every American would glad to see and the positive position everyone should stand in order to face the sever global economic recession. 

Stop following me!! Media!

Stop Following me! Media!

Today, Obama's daughters' school got started after New year holiday. Both of them have to go back to their new school. The first thing they have to learn is how to protect themselves from the media; stay away from those aggressive reporters and cameras.

How to protect the privacy of president's kid is a tough challenging. Nowadays everyone has a camera or video cellphone, and a lot of high advanced teleology, products that can watch people.
The school always have the responsibility to protect this pair of sisters from the Obama's family. This is going to be a hard work for the school authority.

School Bus

There is a six year old boy in US. One day he wake up late and miss the school bus. He wants to go to school. But his parents are still in bed. So he take the key of the car and decide to drive on his own. He drove about ten miles. and he crash the car. The police come and take him to the hospital. After that. The police take him to the school.

Ben-Hur Reflections of Culture

Ben-Hur 

We watched a video called “ Ben-Hur” in Humanities class, from that movie, I learned Jesus Christ from the Bible, but in this movie, the story of Jesus Christ was in it, which made me feel that I was watching a historical and religious story. From the movie, I saw how Jesus Christ saved and forgave people’s sin. Unfortunately, there was the front scene of Jesus Christ but the back. 

Moreover, I realized the features of ancient Roman archetier, costume, and the spectacular of the magnificent Colosseum. More than that, I also learned slavery from this movie. Ancient Roman hold the slavery system, to those slaves, they were simply the property of their owners. They had no freedom, no human right but do whatever their owners told them, which I felt deeply sad for those poor slaves. 

There are two main leading characters in this movie, one is Jewish Prince “ Ben-Hur” who lives in Judea with his family. And another one is his childhood friend “ Messala”. Since their close connection, Messala once asked Ben-Hur to persuade his people not to be against with Roman authority, yet, Ben-Hur refused his request, which caused the end of their friendship since after. Consequently, Ben-Hur started his long pain-staking journey as a slave being forced to be away from his homeland, then he came back for revenge in the battle with Messala in the race of Colosseum. At the end, he tasted the fruit of revenge, but I was wondering whether his anger and hatred had been gone after his victory in the Colosseum.

After the great triumph of his revenge, Ben-Hur finally found his mother and sister for reunion. But unfortunately, they lived as lepers. With Ben-Hur’s strong believe on Jesus, and granted the forgiveness from Jesus Christ. Their family eventually reunited again under the bliss and save of Jesus Christ.

      

A five-year-old child with a gun?

A five-year-old child with a gun?

There is a five- year-old child in USA. Taking a gun and tried to aim at his babysitter, how come? Because he was angry at that babysitter, since she didn't give him candy so he took a gun from the desk and shot the poor babysitter. Fortunately the babysitter did not get hurt. Nowadays, children are greatly influenced by those violence scenes from TV, movies, and video games; therefore, they are confused on how to distinguish the differences between reality and imagination worlds, then they try to emulate those actions and behave improperly in their real live.