The Giver #2

Why does The Giver say that making choices would be frightening for people?

Ever since the community had started the 'unique' rules. The society had learned just to trust the 'great' committee. What if the community made a mistake, would everyone follow? Or would they make their own choice? They might be frightened, for the committee might supply a consequence, for the person to have taken the 'leaders' place. They might have been under pressure to make a decision, if to contribute time to one

friend, and leave out the other? To save one person, and to leave the other to die? This would be examples of pressuring choices. The Giver might have went back into his memories, just to watch people suffer from decisions.

"Or what if," he went on, almost laughing at the absurdity, "They chose their own jobs?"
"Frightening, isn't it?" The giver said.
Jonas chuckled. "Very frightening. I can't even imagine it. We really have to protect people for wrong choices."
"It's safer."
"Yes" Jonas agreed "Much safer."

This shows how Jonas and The Giver, feels about the choice of jobs. If they choose by them self, they have their OWN choice, they would have chosen what they wanted the most. When if the committee chose for them, they might have chosen a job that the person liked, but not loved. What would happen if the committee, released a person who only depended on the committee for choices? Would he die, because he would not know which way to travel? How would he survive?

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

(http://thinkexist.com/quotations/choice/)

The Giver....

The Giver is an interesting book. Focused on a boy named Jonas, in a society where there is no pain, no hunger, and hardly any death. A 'unique' society. These people are living in a town, where there is no color but black and white, and no pain. This is controlled by a group called 'The Committee'. The group controls everything about Jonas's and the other citizens life's. Ever since I have started to read the book, millions of questions had popped into my head, but I have been assigned a new question:

Why is interdependence fostered in the community?

In a 'unique community', where there is no pain, no hunger and barely any deaths. People still depend on each other to keep safe... Ever since the community, had created their 'unique' design. Young children had been taught how they can depend on others, to complete an assignment. Some depend on the other to complete simple tasks, for example, tying bow ties, helping to finish a sentence, etc. From this, people are able not to get into fights about small things. Therefore, creating a safe society.

All of these rules are enforced by a powerful group called "The committee". When a rule is enforced, the 'ragdolls' (community) follows. This shows that the society depend on 'The Committee' to know what there is to do. An example from the book; "He remembered the cheerful voice calling out, "I want my smack!"

The other Threes, including Jonas, had laughed nervously. "Snack!" They corrected. "You meant snack, Asher!" But the mistake had been made. And precision of language was one of the most important tasks of small children. Asher had asked for a smack." (Page 55) This shows how mistakes might be taken as granted, and sooner, punished.

Interdependence may have variables. Albeit small, they can be important. Jonas's community, has shown that they have a very controlled society, and look into the new rule before they publish it. What might go wrong is, if they don't look into the question, there might be some type of variable. Therefore, creating mischief or pain for the citizens. So if the committee is not careful, they might lose their status as the leaders.

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1. Why do you think Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs created monuments?

I believe that there could be many answers, but the most common would be that they built monuments to show how powerful, or special they were. They might have wanted to show to the

future people that they were in power in a certain time. My pharaoh, Senusret 1

built 'The White Chapel'. This he built in a unique fashion, just to celebrate his 30th year as a ruler. So I believe there could be a variety of reasons for this.

2. What monuments in our society are similar? (be sure to provide explanations and graphics).

Societies around the world, have monuments to keep in memory of a time. The pyramids of the ancient Egyptians,Pyramids of the ancient Egyptians could be compared to the Eiffel Tower which is similar in shape to the pyramids. I also believe, coffins that we have nowadays are similar to sarcophagus's, for they both hold corpses and they are both buried. (Either in a pyramid or the ground)

3. How did the using google docs as the main portal for collaboration help you with this assignment?

Google Docs proved itself useful from when we created the Imovie, because it held the script of what we should say. It held all the facts that Shin Young and I used to create the script. Google Docs was also easier, because first of all it was connected to our email, and second our script or facts were almost impossible to

lose, because we would not have to save it on a thumb drive, (a thumb drive is easy to lose work with).

4. What did you learn from this assignment?

I learnt mostly a lot of facts about my pharaoh, Ex: Senusret the first, built the White Chapel.People believe that the White Chapel was covered in gold on the inside, and covered in script on the outside. And was built for the celebration of Senustret's 30th year of ruling. There were also interesting facts, ex: Senusret had possible daughters, Nensed, Itakayet, and Neferuptah. Nensed's name appeared on a plate frag

ment that was found outside of a temple. Itakayet's name was inscribed on a bowl found near his pyramid. Finally, Neferuptah's name was inscribed onto an ivory wand found near his pyramid. I also learnt a few facts of how to solve an Imovie problem.(Shin young and I had a problem to record sounds for our I movie, so we spent a long period of time figuring what the solution was).

5. What was challenging?

I presume that the hardest part was that Shin Young (my partner) and I had problems to record the sound from the Imovie. Because of this we spent 3/4s of the time we were given in class to find the solution. Luckily we managed.

6. Which schoolwide learning results were evident in this assignment?

I believe that there were a few Schoolwide Learning Results, (6 SLRs), evident on this assignment. The most explicit SLRs were Communicate Effectively, Collaborate Constructively and Learning Enthusiastically. There are some other

SLRS that were used, (the fourth one) Reasoning Critically, but the three (Communicate Effectively, Collaborate Constructively and Learning Enthusiastically) were the most important.

https://docs.google.com/a/iskl.edu.my/present/edit?id=0AUP1eF_nA4e6ZGNubjYyZjlfMjJjcndtYjdocg&hl=en

1) What you believe you did well on the project?

I believe my project responded well to the title " The place I call home" and some extra, interesting facts.I chose the city Landsberg, Germany.This presentation was hard, for some sites were in German and held little facts. Germany holds many little cities, Landsberg being one of the smallest. Most of the pictures that I had in my presentation were a little blurry but still fine.

2) What you would improve for future presentations/projects?
I would improve by having more facts in a project or presentation next time. I would also improve my speech,(to try to memorize my facts, so I can look at the audience while talking). Other than that, I felt confident in the end, as I was scared to make the presentation in the beginning

3) What did you learn from your preparation (for your presentation) in addition to the presentations of others?
From what I learnt from other presentations I feel that I can now carefully understand other countries/city's religions or their culture. Some things I learnt was that, Colombo was used as a trading belt by the Portuguese in 1540 and that the population of Malaysia is so high! I also learnt facts about Germany too, for example I learnt about Der Jung Fern Sprung Turm, ( The Virgin Jump Tower). Where girls jumped off the top of the tower to escape from Swedish solders.

4) What is your analysis of your performance?

I believe that I did good and should receive a O.K grade for my performance, because I could have memorized my facts and possibly added more facts for the presentation.

Thank you for reading my blog post....!

My New Year Resolutions 2011!

Welcome to the new year 2011! Feeling any different? Resolutions can be hard to compile , but even more difficult to fulfill. Some resolutions might be easier to accomplish, for example: lose weight, go to the gym, Etc.. Some might be harder,: See snow during Christmas, buy a new car, Etc. My resolutions are somewhat simple: Learn some physics and be more organized... 

My first resolution, : Learn some physics. I choose this resolution because, ever since 5th grade I have been wanting to learn about air pressure and how it works, which is part of physics. Physics, in my opinion explains the work of atoms, motion, air pressure, surrounding momentum, pressure, gravity and many, many other aspects. My second resolution: Become more organized. I choose this resolution for, I often lose my stuff..With a world of disorganised people, the world would be lost... 

                                  

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.~Salvador Dali

To add on to 2011 the new year, I will speak of the favorite part of my holiday... Snow. In all my travels to Europe I have only experienced a little bit of snow, 2 times to be exact. This time we went to Düsseldorf, and what a surprise to see snow in a place that rarely snows. I was still missing school but this was a dream come true.. After a while the snow started to melt and the roads turned into ice. We tried to skate on the roads..! This was not the end of snow. The snow emerged again a few days later, but even higher Even the snowman we built days before was covered in snow until his hips! 

From that came Hence my first white Christmas, and a great New Year celebration.What I love more than snow, is the feeling of the start of a new year. You get to start off fresh. Who knows what you will achieve? What special goals have you completed last year? What have you left behind you? It gives us a chance to contemplate and to perhaps learn from our past achievements and failures. 

My Zeitgeist

Learning Profiles - How do I learn best?

Have you ever pondered if you are in the right position of the classroom to concentrate? Have you ever disliked/ misunderstood because the teacher is not teaching a topic you enjoy?


I beg to differ with these questions, I do ponder if I am in a comfortable position but I enjoy the seat. I don't judge classes because I enjoy a Gestalt learning class, but I do not understand why we can't maybe try a mix of both the gestalt and logic side. I think this makes me a profile J, examples of how I learn best is when I focus on the full picture, The parts of a statement that surrounds a particular word, and Movements tend to be spontaneous and fluid when relaxed under stress may move forward with caution feeling clumsy, and stuck. 






I believe that I will benefit from sitting on the right side a few rows back where I hear easily by turning my left ear to the front. This would also keep me thinking to stay focused because I would know that the teacher is watching me. I also need to learn through the full picture, context and emotional relevance, and I enjoy a bigger picture for I am a Gestalt brained person. I interpret language by its tone, pitch or rhythm. 


I believe that the strategies that can benefit me,  sitting on the right side a few rows back where I hear easily by turning my left ear to the front, I also need to learn through the full picture, context and emotional relevance, and I enjoy a bigger picture for I am a Gestalt brained person, Movements tend to be spontaneous and fluid when relaxed under stress may move forward with caution feeling clumsy, and stuck... Etc. I believe that the above strategies are benefiting me for now I would know what to improve in my choice of seats, learn through the full picture and try not to go under stress. Many times before I had been under stress for I had no partner to work with, and so I would just give up feeling I was stuck and unable to complete my project  This helps me to know that I should never go under stress. 


I would like my teachers to know this about me because, if I make a wrong decision they could stop me from continuing. They could also help me by putting me in the right position of where to sit, to calm me down if I get stressed and Etc. I hope this assignment benefits me and others who have found out about their weaknesses! We should all learn that weaknesses are opportunities to learn about ourselves and to grow become a better person

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