Lost Boys of Sudan Collage Reflection

Think Creatively:
My collage demonstrates thinking creatively in how I organized it and the items I thought of putting on there. I organized my pictures to make it look confusing and messy because that is exactly how the lives of the refugees were. I think it is quite creative how I took a piece of cloth and made it look bloody to cover the images of death caused by the war. I also thought creatively in the way I showed their journey with the maps in order and the string showing their journey.

Reason Critically:
My images really showed the devastations they went through but then it also show that they used to be happy and really wish to go back to how it used to be. My text shows the same concept, but it also shows how they question why they had to survive while everyone died. Some of my pictures are also more symbolic and they are not pictures of actually Sudan but symbols that represent their issues.

Communicate Effectively:
My collage really shows everything the ‘boys’ had to deal with. I shows much of the devastation, which really shows people the truth of their story and makes them want to do something to help.

Live Ethically:
The pictures in my collage might evoke empathy in whoever is looking at it, because they can really see what is going on and it can make them want to take action to help the people that had to go through this. I might also make people very sad that people would so vigorously destroy so many lives.

ISKL Mission Statement for band

Part 1
The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides an exceptional education that challenges each student to (silence) develop the attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to become a highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen.

I think putting the VOID in this place causes the most tension because because it leaves the listener to wander what it challenges each student to do. When the listener is able to wander for a few seconds they can make maybe think of what they would put as their mission. At the same time it gives the listener time to take in what was just said, and interpret it. If the listener was someone who has never read or heard the mission statement before, they would probably be anxious to hear what comes next.

Part 2
A composer can create tension in music by taking away elements of the music, such as, rhythm or melody. This causes the listener to wander what happened to the music or if the song will regain its wholeness. The more elements taken away, the more tension is created. It also usually causes a more unpleasant sound. The composer then releases the tension by putting each missing element back, bringing the song back to it's original form.

Lost Boys of Sudan

1. Discuss the difficulties “Lost Boy,” Peter/Santino experienced while assimilating into the American culture?

Peter faced many difficulties settling into the American culture, as it was very different from their own Sudanese culture. In Sudan Peter did not have to work hard or worry about money, while in the U.S. everything is about money. But Peter is not as interested in money as he is in education. The reason the “Lost Boys” were sent to the U.S. was to go to school so they could help the people back home. Peter has a hard time getting education and a sufficient paying job in Houston, so he moves to Kansas so he can have a better life. He finds that many times people can be racist against their culture or ethnicity. At one point even a teacher judges Peter by his first appearance, but Peter quickly proves himself a much brighter person. Peter mixes with some different cultures, but he finds it hard to adjust to their ways. He doesn’t know how to act so that he can fit in with his group of friends. To prove himself bright and capable of being educated and at the same level as anyone else Peter finds that he has to strive further than the average.

Band

1. I would call this story Lottery because the whole story is just about a lottery.

2. I was not sure what was going to happen but I knew it was something bad. What led me to think this was the tension and nervousness within the whole crowd and the way Tessie kept saying it was so unfair. Throughout the story, the crowd's mood sways. one moment they are all laughing and having fun, the next they are serious and nervous. This warned me that something bad was going to happen.

3. I felt very frustrated and anxious but I calmed down after a while.

4. I felt anxious but nervous to know what was in the folded paper. I was nervous because I had a black dot on my paper. I thought the end of the story would be in it but I also thought there would be something else that we would not like. I did follow the instructions because once I found out what the black dot was, I got a lot calmer and wasn’t as anxious to know what other ‘punishments’ were inside.

5. I felt curious at first, but then as the story went on and I began to figure some more things out, I started to feel a little afraid for the people.

6. I felt angry that they would just do that to someone because of a lottery and I felt sad for Tessie because she hadn’t done anything to deserve that.

7. Most of my predictions were correct but I didn’t think the punishment was going to be that bad.

8. If the author had given some more away in the beginning then it would have been easy, but it wouldn’t have created as great a void.

9. To make the reader want to read on and find out what would happen.

10. a) You really had no clue what the story would be about.

b) It made you frustrated and curious to know what will happen.

c) It draws you to think and ponder on what will happen.

d) It makes you even more curious to find out what would happen and also frustrated that I couldn’t find out.

e) It makes you frustrated because you want to know what will happen in the story.

f) The fact that I had a black dot on my paper.

School of Athens

They painting, School of Athens, Raphael is a fresco located in the Papal palace. It depicts of all the greatest mathematical, philosophical, and scientific minds in Greek times, but they are all placed in a Roman setting. The renaissance was a time of rebirth of curiosity and knowledge. Most of this knowledge came from Greek and Roman times. I believe Raphael put all these great minds in this room to show that these were all the people the modern knowledge has come from and to show how all this passed knowledge has now come together in one society. Most of the architecture in the renaissance was also from Roman and Greek times and so to show this he created a roman building and decorated it with Greek statues and figures. This all comes together to show the rebirth of all the knowledge and architecture that has now been woven into the renaissance.



Hypathia

If I were part of the painting, School of Athens, by Raphael I would be the mathematician Hypatia. Hypatia, the daughter of the philosopher and mathematician Theon of Alexandria, is said to have learned her knowledge from he father. She was brave and stood up for what she believed. I think I am like her because I do not care what people think is right or wrong, I stand by what I believe. She went against many traditions and was often shunned but she kept going and ignored anyone who tried to stop her. If I think something is unjust I will stand up for it and, like her, will do what it takes to make myself heard.Although it is not mathematics i stand up for i do stand up for matters of my own and will continue to do so.

Interest in People – Mythical (Jupiter and Io, Correggio)

This painting shows pagan beliefs of Roman mythology by depicting the story of Jupiter (God of Gods) hiding behind the dunes while seducing Io (Daughter of the first king of Argos Inachus), in fear of hurting his wife Juno.