Thursday, December 9, 2010

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.


Monday, December 6, 2010

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.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

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.