Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Hi All,

Here's another installment for our blogs!! Some of you have seen this powerful video in class already, but I would love to further discuss it's effect on us throughout this week as well.

I have a few questions that might help direct our discussions as we go along.

1) What do you think about the portrayal of the video?
2) How do you feel about it's message? Are you surprised that this kind of thing still happens
today? Why?
3) The issue we talked about in class was about how basic human rights and workers rights were slowly formulated and championed by people in the Victorian era i.e. people like Charles
Dickens. How do you think we can be part of ending this problem in our era?

Friday, July 23, 2010

The Story of Stuff


Hey there everyone. If you're reading this. Thank you for taking the time to look at this video besides looking at the Story your peers have written.

This video is connected to the next class we are having this coming week. It's about civilizations and the impact they have on the world we live in today.

I'd like you to watch it and tell me what you think. I will be showing it again next week when we have class together but I was hoping that you'd get a head start into thinking about whether our Civilizations are really civilized.

Think about what makes a civilization civilized. What does a civilized society do Socially, Technologically, Morally, Religiously and Environmentally? These are all questions we should ask ourselves as a community of people living together.

Group 1's Mutant High

All the students were trapped. They were tied to a pole and trapped in an invisible force field while 20 other ordinary humans who lived in Jeff’s neighborhood were trapped in another force field. Kronos smirked as he said, “ Choices are what defines a person, Jeffrey. Would you sacrifice your fellow mutants for the weak humans you admire so much? Or will you become my apprentice and save both the mutants and those weaklings?” Jeffrey took a deep breath and answered……

24 hrs earlier….

An alarm clock flies out the window. That’s normal in the life of our impatient and temperamental hero. He gets up sluggishly and drags himself to the study-cum-dinner table, covered with fast food wrappers and empty drink containers. “ Wake up you fatty!!! Let’s go!” shouted a voice from the outside of the fatty’s room.

It was none other than Steven, who as it turns out is already tall but had the ability to extend his body to great lengths like a rubber band. Jeff (here onwards referred to as Fatty) and Steven made their way to school in a rather relaxed manner after all Fatty was a complete slob. Anyway when they reached school, they met Daniel who arrived at the scene with a *poof*. “Hey Jeff, hey Steven” greeted Daniel as he magically appeared in front of the both of them. “ Ah our Fatty has a name now it seems” Said Steven. “ “ We have sports right now, let’s head to the field” Said Daniel.

Multiple sporting activities were happening on the field at that time. Fatty and company decided to walk through the field because their class was on the other side. Suddenly an arrow flew right in front of Steven and hit a tree. The arrow came from the school’s biggest prankster Dev, known for his supper human reflexes and speed, he always felt the need to humor himself and everyone else with his pranks. “Aw I shot the wrong arrow, the one I wanted had a bag of dog poop in it!” Dev said with a laugh. Steven was furious and stretched his arms all the way to dev but couldn’t punch or grab him because Dev was just too fast. Suddenly a bolt of lightning strikes the ground in front of them. “ Cut it out you two!!” “ Jeffrey, Steven and Daniel, get to your class before I write down your names in the disciplinary book” commanded Wilbert the head prefect, who has the ability to manipulate lightning. The three of them nodded and continued their walk to class.

Mr. Feng, the history teacher begins class and according to tradition, 30 minutes after Mr Feng’s class starts, all the students begin to yawn or fall a sleep. Actually it’s not the student’s fault; it’s just that Mr. Feng tends to unintentionally use his power which makes people sleep. As Mr. Feng continued to teach Fatty noticed the students in the class slowly slip into unconsciousness, suddenly he blacks out.

Jeffrey wakes up with a headache and finds that his hands and legs are bound to a pole. All the students are trapped in an invisible force field while 20 other ordinary humans who lived in Jeff’s neighborhood were trapped In another force field. Alvin(Kronos) smirked as he said, “ Choices are what defines a person, Jeffrey. Would you sacrifice your fellow mutants for the weak humans you admire so much? Or will you become my apprentice and save both the mutants and those weaklings?” Jeffrey took a deep breath and answered……”I choose to FIGHT!!!!!!”

Kronos summoned a furious monster Scylla!!! Jeffrey breaks the pole and everyone is released. Steven, the rubberman tied the monster and Dev fired some shoot at the monsters head from his bow. “ It’s not working” Dev cried out. “Buy me some time” Wilbert shouts!! A thunderbolt is growing in his hands. Meanwhile Dev continues shooting and Steven tightens his grip. It seemed like forever but Wilbert cried “Move out!!” and Steven loosed his grip as Dev the speed demon quickly pulled Steven to safety. Wilbert quickly fires his thunderbolt. “Agh!!!!” the monster is dead.

Kronos witnessing the battle shouts “ Time for the ultimate ….Fire Fart!!!” Turning his butt towards our heroes a fire ball begins to emerge!!! Quickly Dev hauls a huge tank of water to Jeff. Jeff with his amazing strength throws the water at Kronos and in an instant the battle is over. With Kronos down, drenched by the liquid force.

Tied up by Steven, Kronos hears the police sirens in a distance. It’s Daniel the teleporter who in forms the police. Kronos is caught and sent to prison. The gang unties their school mates. They’ve saved the day!! The next day they are awarded the title of the schools best students. The best in a school of mutants.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Welcome to PAFlog CUL & IDS 3

Hey everyone! Welcome to the PAFlog CUL & IDS for July intake 2010 Group 3.

This blog allows you to give comments and share ideas about our class.Every once in a while I will be adding articles, pictures and sometimes videos that you can comment about.This is a great way to participate in our class discussions even when we aren't in class.

Here are some basic rules:

1. This blog remains a safe haven for students to share their ideas. DO NOT INSULT, PUT DOWN OR MAKE FUN OFF people on this blog.

2. Respect the rights of your friends to have an opinion. If you do not agree with their ideas let them know respectfully and explain why you disagree.

3. Always use your official name in your i.c. NOT a nickname or online name. i.e. Weng Kit NOT loverboy92

4. Your comments can be light hearted but remember the aim of this blog is to share ideas and opinions on your lesson in class. So please try to focus on the lessons. If you have something funny that's related to the topic to share with us, by all means share it.

5. Vulgarity is not permitted on this blog So no swear words.

6. Racist comments are not tolerated on this blog and will be considered grounds for expulsion from the blog.

If we are in agreement to all these ground rules then we can definitely dive in to this project and hopefully by the end of the semester we can have a good body of work that reflects our thoughts and ideas about various topics.