Religions Field Trip Reflection

The Chinese temple. In this picture you can see the red lanterns that I explained to you as a symbol that I saw repeatedly.

The Hindu temple. In this picture you can see some of the gods that they worship, as statues.

The Mosque. In this picture you can see the repeating arches that surround the hall.

Yesterday we toured a mosque, a Chinese temple, and a Hindu temple. These places of worship are located in the oldest part of the city of Kuala Lumpur. As a result, the area is very rich culturally and is full of interesting sights, sounds and activities. On your blog, post at least one photograph from each place of worship. Describe the photo and what it shows. Then in your reflection, compare and contrast the religious places we visited. What was similar? What was different? What are the common values that these religions might hold? Finally, which of the three did you find the most interesting and why?

Reflection:

In the three temples, Chinese, Muslim and Hindu, though there were many differences they all shared many things. If you were there you would be able to tell that all three temples where quiet and peaceful. They share the fact that in their place of worship it is very relaxing and calm, I think that most temples share this feature because the message, in most religions, of god is to be peaceful and be truthful and many other messages that god wishes us to follow. If the place that they worship their god is very load and 'un-peaceful' then people will not be able to concentrate while they are praying to god. Another thing that they have in common is that they all offer flowers, foods and other offerings. Though I will not go into too much detail in explain how they share this feature I will still explain why I think this. When we went in to the temples we saw shrines in most of them, where people were offering foods to the gods. This happened in every temple except the Mosque, though we did not get to see inside the Mosque I am guess they did they did the same thing. They were different in that they had different patterns and symbols. A pattern that I saw repeatedly in the Mosque was the arches around the prayer hall. All the arches were the same shape, but sometimes were different sizes. In the Hindu temple the pattern was that they had statues everywhere you went. There were statues of Gods and Demi-Gods. In the Chinese temple there were two main symbols that stood out to me. One was a red dragon that was attached around poles and another symbol was a red lantern that hung from the ceiling, they were everywhere. So as you can see though there many differences there were also many similarities. I, personally found the Hindu temple the most interesting because they showed the gods the worshiped through statues that were placed around the temple also because around China Town it wasn't very clean and when you step into the Hindu temple it was very clean compared to the rest of that part of town.

My Wordle

This is my Wordle

Read the selection "Auschwitz" posted on Moodle. Upon completion of the reading, complete an Identity Chart on wordle for an inmate at a concentration camp. Also, on your post, ask questions or make statements concerning your thoughts on the reading.

Questions, Concerns and Comments:

After I read this story I wondered, how can someone live with the fact that everyday when they go to work they are helping a cruel man torture other human beings for no reason, except for the fact that they are different? I don't think that there is any excuse for someone to kill someone because they are different. Everywhere you go you can find people from different countries and races, but that does not mean that it is acceptable for somebody to kill someone just because they were born somewhere different from you or because they believe in something different from you.

Opposites: Photo's from Field Trip

The first two picture I picked because the difference is living and non-living. The stone was man-made and was put there, it didn't come naturally. In the grass picture you can see that it is living and always will be until it dies. I think that these two are especially are opposites because we have been learning, in science, about living and non-living things.

I picked these two pictures because it shows varie in size of different animals. The second picture is of insects that give the impression that it is raining when they are just jumping on the water. The first picture is of a millipede that we saw on the track, it was very long and thick and the insects were small and thin. You can tell that, even though they are both living, they are opposites because of the size of their body.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

1. If you disagree with a rule, law, or public policy, it is better to remain silent than to speak out and risk punishment.

I think that you shouldn't speak out because like in Germany if you disagreed with what Hitler was doing then you would be sent to concentration camp. You could go to jail just because you spoke out about what you thought was wrong. It also would depend on what the rule, law or public policy because if it was a big one then they could do anything to you because they are the government and they could even punish you physically if you disagreed with a big rule, law, or public policy. But if it was just a small rule, law or public policy then they might just dismiss it but I, personally would just keep it to myself and not risk punishment.

What is a 'good' life?

Please respond to this question. Please be specific in your response. Use examples of personal stories if you wish!

I think that I 'good' life is life that there is no suffering. For example a life without pain or loss. A life with only happiness and peace. That is my idea of a 'good' life but I also think that a 'good' life could be anything if you think about it. It could be if your life is full of happiness and wealth or if your life is full of love but I 'good' life for me would be a life with peace, happiness and no suffering.

My Identity

Describe the Protagonist in your book-qualities that they have, including physical description, and personality. Use exact examples (quotes) from your book to support!

In my book the protagonist is called Bonnie. Bonnie is very curious because otherwise she wouldn't have broken into the garden in the first place or gone on the hot air balloon. That also shows that she is also very confident because if I were in her position, first I wouldn't have ran away at the start but also if I did then I would not break into somebody else's garden or their house. "Bonnie heard then coming and slid down the pole on the balcony and then ran out the her front gate to the forestry area in front of her house. She kept running and running all the while hearing grandbag and Doreen shouting her name." This quote shows two things that she is very physical and she can do many active things. This is also another example of confidence because she had the confidence to just leave and run away from grandbag and Doreen, I would have stopped if I were her and just ran back home. I think that Bonnie has many qualities such as she was able to ran so fast away from home and find a way to get through the wall without even knowing where she was, she found a spot with no rocks covered by poison ivy and went through to find a magnificent garden owned by Michael who she meets later on in the book.

Journey Book

I have chosen to read 'The Midnight Blue'. By Pauline Fisk. This book is about a girl who runs away from her home in her next door neighbor's house.

Journey Book Project: What is the Journey in the book so far? Find a passage or quote that best describes that journey, write it (with page number) then explain what it means and why it is an important description of the journey.

The book, so far, is about a girl that lives with her Mother, Maybelle. Maybelle is very afraid of her own Mother, Grandbag. So one day Grandbag came to Bonnie's, the girl, house, and Bonnie didn't want to be around Grandbag so she hid and her granny saw her and then Bonnie jumped out her window. Maybelle chased her and she kept running away. But she got a wall she found a part on the wall that was covered with ivy but there was no bricks behind the wall so she went through the ivy wall and it led to a garden. In that garden lots of secrets were revealed and she saw a man. When she went back that night the man was there but he was blowing up a big piece of cloth with heat. It went up into the air and landed somewhere else. She met the man that owned the garden and they had breakfast together. I think that the journey will be that she goes into the clouds to a magical world and then she prefers the magical world to her own and doesn't know whether to stay or go back.

Page 33 'I want to come too.' I think this is important because if she hadn't asked this question then she wouldn't have been going up to the sky and if she didn't go to the sky then she wouldn't have gone to the magical world and she wouldn't be stuck in a decision of going home or staying where she wanted to be. She wanted to go up into the sky but at first Michael wouldn't let her go with him.