Respone on poster Manson/King

The poster kind of wants to stop discrimination by presenting Martin Luther King and Charles Manson. Manson was a person with a criminal mind, not everyone knows him. Martin Luther King however is very famous and a good and kind man.  The fact that Martin Luther King is 75 times more likely to be stopped by the police is shocking. It's kind of upsetting this poster because it's horrible that the police won't stop this bad white guy but they will go after the kind man who hasn't done anything wrong. The ad might be a bit dramatized but still they want you to feel angry about it I think. The big photo's attract people so people come up and read the poster, the poster looks kinda like a wanted poster, I don't know if that's positive or negative. 

Response on This Place That Place

This Place That Place is a painting by Kiran Chandra, she was born in India. When you find out about this the painting is already much more interesting than it looked like at first sight. The right side of the painting is probably Kolkata, a place in India. The image is very dark en shows us the contrast between a poor city and a richer society. The use of language is very funny, she actually only uses two words: 'this' and 'place' and she painted these two words in a couple of different ways. She probably ment to show that India is a very poor place to live, there's not enough food, not enough space and it's just not healthy.

Is the role of socal media overestimated?

Social media is everywhere. Look around you and see it for yourself. Everybody is influenced by social media. All those ads on TV, in a newspaper and even posters about all sorts of things in school, it's not possible anymore to avoid social media. Nowadays parents talk to their children to twitter/facebook etc. It's easier to make friends with people because of these social networks. You can find people who have the same hobbies as you and talk to them. It's easier to stay in contact with your friends because if you haven't seen someone in a while you just post a message on their profile and there you are! It's possible to share pictures, videos or messages with each other so everyone knows what your up to. Besides exchanging things with friends the social media is also useful for other things. For example: some time ago there was an earthquake in China and the world knew this first because people tweeted it. China blocked twitter.com eventually but still people are very up-to-date nowadays because of these websites. Social media is global, cheap and  accesable for everyone.

What's more important: the past or the future?

I personally think that the past is more important because it influences your future. Without a past you can’t possibly have a future. You need to have something in life before you can build on that anyfurther. For example if you don’t have a job you can’t get promotion, and if   you don’t have a boyfriend you won’t get married. However, your future will also become the past later on so that’s important as well. You can’t change the past and you never know what will happen in the future. Some people might say it’s better to focus on the future and make the best out of it and try to achieve your goals but you can’t do that without a past. I think people should learn from good and bad things in the past. 

Why are we taught history in primary/high school? We need to know our past to maybe prevent or know what lies ahead of us. We are taught about world wars, monarchies, democracies and much more. If we wouldn’t know about this there might start another war soon because we haven’t learned from mistakes in the past, or we still wouldn’t have learned from different types of kingdoms. In one sentence: if we don’t learn about our past our future is doomed.

Response to Phileas Fogg

I really liked it, I had to play a soldier and I had to shoot people and it was really fun. I think I liked this one better than two years ago, but just because I liked my role better. In the second year the only thing I had to do was playing a wheel or something. The funniest part was in the end when we all had to lay dead and Ben was the last man standing. Everyone was laying on the ground and smoke was everywhere and he stood in the center with his gun and I had to laugh because it was so funny seeing him and the rest of the class laying dead. I also liked the part where I had to shoot Venny because the gun was kinda real, except for the bullet then, but there was a shooting sound. I learned a lot about World War one, it would be awesome If we get to see the people from Phileas Fogg again in 6th year or something.