Monday, April 19, 2010

Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof
Released November 3,1971
In Russia, Jewish family.
They sing about all the traditions for each person of their place.
The matchmaker comes to marry off the daughters.
The daughters sing a song about the matchmaker, they want a good guy but they are from a poor family so they probably won't get exactly who they want.
They marry the daughters off in order, the younger ones cant get married until the oldest one is.
The guy the matchmaker picked out is older, but he is rich.
The guy sings a song about how if he was rich he wouldnt have to work, and he would have a whole lot of stuff, nice house, and his wife would look very nice.
There was a paper talking about Jewish people in other parts of Russia where they had been kicked out of their homes.
A new guy comes into town and offers to teach they mans daughters the Bible.
The oldest daughter and this guy have a secret relationship and she tries to get him to talk to her dad to ask for permission, but he is too scared.
They sing a song about the Sabbath.
The dad ends up giving permission to the older guy to marry his daughter, he decided that he is a nice guy.
The teacher likes the second oldest daughter and tells her that everywhere else they dont follow traditions and he had her dance with him.
The daughter begged her dad to not have to marry the older man and the tailor showed up and finally asked her dad if he could marry her.

Friday, April 9, 2010

non verbal communication

Part One.
Examination.
Mr. Bean goes to an examination place. When he gets there he gets in a slight competition with the guy sitting next to him. He started showing off the fact he had more pens and stuff then he did and was so proud of himself. Then when they said he could start the test he realized that he didn't know the answers and the guy next to him did. So he started getting nervous and trying to cheat off him. Then when they were told that two minutes were left he saw that he had been trying to work on the wrong test the whole time, and when he started working on it, his pen stopped working.
This video has a whole lot of non-verbal communication. With his facial expressions and many gestures you could see his arrogance, his realization of the other guy beating him, him being frantic to get the answers, and how stupid he felt when he noticed he was taking the wrong test.

The Beach.
He worked so hard to get his speedo on without taking off his pants first, and he was worried about the guy sitting next to him. So the whole time he's trying his hardest and by the time he finally did it, the guy stands up and he is blind.
You see non-verbal communication here by seeing the nervousness of him trying to do this without being caught, and the relief of when hes done, then the feeling of stupidity when he realizes the guy is blind.

Church.
Mr.Bean has a problem with not being a disturbance. He starts by sitting right up close to a guy and starts looking around everywhere during the sermon. Then he starts to sneeze and after he does he can't find a tissue so he uses his jacket pocket. Next, he gets so bored he starts to fall asleep. The first time he just makes a loud noise to wake himself up, scaring the guy next to him, but then he gets up kind of sleep walking, and lays on the ground. The guy is very confused and when Mr.Bean finally gets up and sits back town, he holds his eyes open with his hands to keep himself awake. Then he opens a peppermint, which is loud in the process, but when putting the wrapper in his pocket, his hand gets stuck and in pulling it out he hits the guy next to him. Finally, he stands up and sings obnoxiously, when he realized that the peppermint he had dropped down his shirt was going down his pants.
With all of these things, you can see the story perfectly, and there aren't even any words. You can see how Mr.Bean just gets wrapped up in things and you can tell every emotion by his face and gestures. You can also see the innoyance in the guys face sitting next to him.


Part Two.
The sax guy.
Mr.Bean wants to give the guy a tip for playing but he doesn't want to give him the full bill that he had. So he tries to get change out of the guys case, but there isn't enough. Then he puts a cloth down and starts doing his own little act and the lady walks by and puts down a coin, so he took that coin, put it in the guys case and left.

Shopping.
First he walks through had can't stand the girls perfumes, to a point of getting on his knees choking.
Then he goes on to what he's getting. When he gets to the toothbrushes he has to try them out to see which one he is gonna get and when he gets to the towels, he pretends he just got out of the shower and puts in around him. Next comes kitchen appliances. He gets a potatoe peeler and pulls out a potatoe out of his pocket and tries it out. Then when he gets to the skillets he pulls out a fish and tries that. Then he takes the secretarys phone because it works. The funniest part though would have to be when the guy accedentally takes Mr.Beans credit card instead of his own so Mr. Bean tries to get it back and in the process gets his hand stuck in the guys back pocket and has to follow him all the way into the bathroom when the man finally realizes.

The Resturant.
He finds a way to mess with everything. When he first gets there he messes with everything. When the guy pours wine for him he says he likes it, but stopps it from pouring cause he has to drive home. When waiter puts the napkin in his lap you can see how much fun he thinks it is because he tries to mimick him and in the process throws it in the ladys lap at the table next to him. Then he gets his food and you can see the disgust in his face. So he starts trying to get rid of the food. He puts it all over the place. And after the guy comes and plays happy birthday to him on the violin he shows them how his food is all over the place so they move him and when he gets there the food is the exact same.

Dressed up occasion.
Mr. Bean gets all dressed up in his tux and is trying to do his best to look nice. So he starts to make gestures of what he is going to do. When the guy next to him checks his breath, he figures he should too, and he put in a whole lot of breath spray and takes a string of the lady next to him to floss. Next, he realizes he doesnt have a pocket tissue by putting his hand where it was you can see that he wanted one so he tried to take someone elses at first but then when he couldnt he made one with paper. He also had to clean his nails with his zipper. Then after going through all of this the queen finally arrives and he bows and knocks her out. Sad story.


Part Three.
The Swimming Pool.
First off he runs over to the little kids play slide, and when he starts to go down the guy blows the whistle so he climbs back up and gets out. Then he sees the big diving board, and you can tell how excited he is because he runs over there and kind of hops around and has big eyes. When he finally gets up there though he looks down and gets scared. He holds tightly to the rails until he was laying down. When the other kids came up he tried to act all cool about it by putting his hand on his hip, but as he walked over he was still shaking. He got a diving position but he rolled backwards instead, so he tried lowering himself over. He was holding on just by his hands when the little kid came up and stepped on his hand making him fall. After the initial shock he realized that his swimming trunks were gone and that is when the lifeguard told everyone to get out, so he hid underwater. Then when they left he got out running only to see the girl lifeguard so he hid and a whole group of girls came by seeing him. When he gets to the parking garage he doesn't want to pay for his ticket so he tries all sorts of tricks to get out. When he finally got under the gate, a car came causing him to start all over, but another car came opening it and he got out.

Lunch On The Bench.
The guy with him has a nice already made sandwhich. Mr. Bean pulls out a big loaf of bread and starts making one himself using random utensils. For example, a ccard was a butter spreader, he washed the lettuce in the water fountain and put it in his sock to spin it. He pulls out little fish to add and had to knock them on the bench to kill them, then pulls out his shoe to crush pepper for it. Next he pulls out his heater to make some tea. In the end, he is all ready to eat when he puts on his napkin and it makes him sneeze losing everything. So the guy gave him the other half to his sandwhich and you could tell Mr.Bean was very thankful.

The Movies.
He starts messing with the girl next to him. He takes her popcorn and won't let her take his back then he taps on her shoulder and scares her when she turns back around. Then when the movie starts he gets really scared, moves down in his seat and covers his face with his hands. He tried to leave but couldn't and when it was over he was acting like he was perfectly fine but when he went to grab her hand, she hadn't put her arm though yet and he yelled.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Online Classes

Many people, including the state department of education, believe that online classes might be the future. In my opionion, online classes are not the way to go for various reasons. Lack of social interaction, distractions, and no motivation are three of those many reasons why the states should not change from the traditional classroom to online classes.
First, online classes causes lack of social interaction. Most kids become who they are by the peers that they meet, and if you take away school you lose the interaction with other people everyday, making it hard for the kids to grow socially. Not only do online schools take away the social interaction for the kids, but for the teachers too. The teachers, also know as the sender, would not have the kids, also known as the receivers, in the classroom for feedback.
Next, many distractions come about when taking online classes that wouldn't be there if in a traditional classroom. For example, if you have a younger sibling in the house, they might be unwilling to be quiet, making a lot of noise, for you to concentrate on what you are doing. Also, I know that if I were doing online classes, I would want to take a lot of breaks to get food or take a phone call. So all of the distractions makes it hard on the communication process between teacher and student.
Last, in an online class, there is no motivation provided for the student. As the students sit there learning, they may become discouraged, but there is no one there in person to encourage him or her to keep going. Taking online classes causes isolation, and that makes it hard to communicate with the teachers, which can be discouraging.
In conclusion, lack of social interaction, distractions, and no motivation are the three reasons I think we should not get rid of the traditional classroom for online classes. I definatly believe that we should continue to go to regular schools because they are much more efficient in teaching kids.

http://www.articlemyriad.com/3.htm
http://www.essortment.com/articles/arguments-against-online-schooling_103256.htm