How Hollywood shapes our perspective of movies!

Lord of the rings

· The monsters are obviously the mean guys.

· The monsters try and rule the world which means that they are the mean guys.

· The monsters are directly attacking the humans therefore they are bad.

· The humans are simply human thus more accepted

· The humans try and defend their land and before they only do peaceful farming

· The humans do not have disfigured faces therefore we like them better

· The humans don’t fight for the purpose of killing but for the purpose of defending themselves.

· The humans don’t sound mean with their voice and their words; they don’t say mean things or have very low or very high voices that sound bad for the ere.

I don’t believe that people only believe that monsters are bad because of Hollywood. Instead, I believe that children are naturally afraid of what they don’t see in real life. Another example is when parents tell their children about the boy that lives next door and does bad things, just to get their own child to behave well etc... This relates directly to the Hollywood movies such as lord of the ring because what Hollywood is doing is showing people that there are monsters and that they can come and attack you. We are humans, so naturally, what Hollywood would make us see as being attacked by monsters is humans. We now know that this subject is not completely only for adults but also for older children. This doesn’t mean that Hollywood does not have anything about wars in store for kids. Hollywood’s Monsters vs. Aliens is another movie, but this time to prevent young children from being too scared and eventually getting traumatized by monsters, the monsters are being attacked by aliens. We can see again that the bad guys are the ones doing the attacking. One thing that Hollywood does for all of its movies to show who is the bad guy and who is the good guy is play with the music. Bad guys get music connoted to the bad guys and good guys get music for the good guys. Most of the time, the good guys are the ones in the front picture. Because Hollywood knows that people love the main character, usually a good guy or at least the one with the better reasoning, and that people will look at the casing before they watch the movie, they try to give a brief introduction to who the good guy, so to speak, is before the movie is usually witnessed.

WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT ?

Thousands if not hundreds of thouand of children are being abused every year. Child abuse can be sexual. Another form of child abuse is when parents force their children to work in their place especialy when underaged. These problems occur all over the golbe and have been occuring for centuries but have lessened over the years because of several reasons. Some of these reasons are law inforcment, diminishing of povety, and the spread of education. The key to stoping these problems is education. By education everyone, including the people who abuse of their own children or other's childre, people will become aware of the troubles this brings. Some of the problems are pre teen mothers and aldolecent felons. The bigger problem though is that the children abused now might and have a larger probabilty of becoming abusers themselves. To help control some of these problems, governments have set down rules for people to follow. In an example of childlabour, Canada's law is that there is no childlabour permised and children under the age of 14 years old are not allowed jobs. This was the olny child labour in Canada will be inside a home because noone will employ a child under the age of 14 anywhere else. To help us stop this madness please visit: http://www.invisiblechildren.org/ and search for "April is Child Abuse Month" and write your response. Hope that you write me some constructive comments about my blog and this issue. Thank You and until next!

Where to start peace

In the world there are many places where there is no peace, infact there is noware where there is total peace even if your in a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th world country and it does not even matter the governement of that country. I beleive that global peace in this world can not be acheived. Ask yourself this: when is the last time I heard about total peace in the world any time in history? Your answer is NO, NEVER. Thats because humans are not made in the way that they make peace with everyone. We love ourselves more than anything, and they only make relationships with others for their own benifits- This can also be seen in how countries behave because they are based on humans, countries base their relations on what will help them later ( ex: Morocco is friends with sends help to other countries while its people suffer- Why?- it's because they could help them keep the sahara desert). All the laws and rules we follow will not bring us to tatal peace ( or any other form of governemet) , it only delays the wars (disagreements) that will happen, for the way people think will never change.

In the socratic seminar, we discused other wise, but my team mates were all agaist me so I had to agree. We discused that they are ways to atain and keep peace. Some examples are that we could reinforce the law and educate the people. I did not attend the entire seminar, so I don't know what we discused after the first question, but if I were there then I would of wrote something.