Sunday, March 31, 2013

The new concept of education

This documentary was created by group of people interested in the education and the way to make the process of learning free. The message was created by all people who consider the education must be different.

Some people could understand this message as an opinion about the educational system is doing it wrong and what things the governments should change about education. Other people could appreciate this message as a creative expression form to demonstrate their disagreement in terms of education. Also, they can understand this documentary as a form to make people aware about the problems in the educational system. Or people could understand this message as a joke and could differ with the video´s opinion. 

 I think there are values of freedom, honesty, diversity, integrity and cooperation. The problem is taken from teachers and students, because they are the main influenced people. 

This message is being sent because many people think that the education must change. There are a lot of problems that don´t allowed to make the education better. We need to recognize the education differently, we need to transform the point of view about the education.


life lessons

The Butterfly Circus 

It is an analog short film directed by Joshua Weigel. The director uses the emotion as a central resource, makes the audience to involve with the character and uses moral lessons as the development of the story.
At the end of the short-film the main character overcomes
all his difficulties as the audience expects and he finally “obtains” the
condition of human being.
The film situates us in the Great Depression era at, in the time when someone weird or different was often discriminated and used as entertainment, as we can clearly  see reflected in the movie and that resembled a movie filmed in that time called Freaks.
The short-film is an emotional story about personal growth, the pursuit of our place in the world  and about people who are like  butterfly, these  creatures began their lives as lesser beings who experienced a metamorphosis that revealed their innate beauty and allowed them to fly.
The main character (Nick Vujicic), a  limbless man, worked in a freak show, he had no faith, all his life people  made ​​him feel as an oddity and he used the feel the same way "Even God turned his back to him”
Then life itself puts different people on his way, rejected people like him, members of a traveling troupe called The Butterfly Circus that taught him not to feel self-pity because of his condition, but to realize how great he could become if he want to, they taught him that the soul of a man is so great  that it can overcome any problem or obstacle just with our willpower that is bigger than any trouble.
"the bigger the fight the greater your glory"  is the powerful phrase in this short film than tells us that the more difficult your life is, the more beautiful your reward will be.

                                                                                                       

Saturday, March 30, 2013

How can we escape from all this craziness?


-Runaway Love-




This song was written by Ludacris featuring Mary J.Blige. It was published in the album Release Therapy on 2006. The central subject of this video is the child abuse, drugs problems inside of family, but more than that, this kind of trouble continued through this kids, because when they grow up they do the same with their own sons, so this problem is like a lifecycle but is not their fault , they learned from his parents and environment where they live. It very important give this message through this kind of music, many people with this trouble listening hip-hop or R&B (well, maybe is a stereotype), they can reflect and change this situation.

Each one of the three verse telling us a realistic situation of different kind of families. The first teenager is Lisa, she doesn't know nothing about her family she only has her mother but she is an alcoholic and drug addict. Her stepfather abuse her but her mother don't believe her; this situation is critical because she has no one to turn to. She then decides to run away. Where can she runaway? The second is Nicole, his stepfather is an alcoholic and physically abuse her and her best friend dies in a drive-shooting, she is alone. Where she can run away? And the last one is Erika, who became pregnant at her young age with no money, she is afraid to her mother, so where can she run away?

I have this question when a saw this video, what will they do? they don't have family, maybe they don't trust anybody.  How can we change this situation? Is very hard find solutions but we can start changing our own lives, if we decide run away, we can change our future. Perhaps this video doesn't show our reality but for other people is their reality. If this isn't our reality, the only think that we can do is thank because we are fine and we have someone and we aren't alone but if we are in this situation, we need to run away.

Katherine Cortés A.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

education v/s easy money




-This video is about a poor kid, from the lower class neighbourhoods, who needs money to help his mother and his family and is thinking about quitting school because the capitalist society tend to tell us that is all about money and that's not far from reality because without money you can´t do nothing. Then kerry james(the artist who wrote this song) begin to tell the kid about how is it to be like that, involved whit drugs and gangs earning fast money. In the beginning is all sweet when you rise up on the streets, make a name, meet contacts, climbing up to become a major criminal and drug dealer but all these attracts envy jealousy sometimes they kill for the money for respect and there ´s a stereotype of the young boys thinking that they know everything and saying no that's not going to happen to me. But when you live that way problems are around the corner and the police too, all the streets legends end the same way, in jail, in a sanatorium or in the cemetery. Meanwhile you have money friends all around you but in the time of need they all disappear none of them will help you and in that moment at the rock bottom you will envy those who doesn´t quit the school.


This message is really strong because is something that happens all over the world kids quitting school´s to became a criminal also the director of the video includes some creative techniques such as problems reversal (turn defeat into victory or victory on defeat) another one is ask questions to make the poor kid thinks about whats going to be of him if he choose that lifestyle.