Wednesday 5 December 2012

Khan Academy

















This image, Kahn with Bill Gates is a deep significant.
We eventually reached to the role of social media through the long journey.
Their main idea starts from the same root. Even if  their contribution to our society has a  huge difference, their destination is almost in a same circle.That is why Bill Gates supports Kahn.
I believe that their contact point is ' helping people for the better world '.
There are many people who are thirsty to learn more in many reason,(because of  money, better courrier, inevitable personal situation or health problem) in the world. These days, the finance is becoming a definit  poweful  key to decide a value of indivisual life even country.
Also the education is the same important key to understand people and the society .We cannot explain these issues with the money.Lastly, the science education is very important to progress our world in many ways , to prepare a disaster of nature, and to develope medications for cure and prevent.
Through the media studies, we realized that the social media has the most effective way to communicate with the people who are even in the opposite side of the earth.
 So Kahn uses this strengh of media (/quick ,wide,and democratic) for the people of the world. He
started this task just for his personal reason, now he is helping  people of the whole world.The power of the social media is that much strong. We have experienced that the media can change the individual life, also it can save the people of entire country like through " Arab Spring".
I really admire these two people and hope that we have more people like them for a good purpose.
I also belive that the media can wake the north korean people sooner or later. I am praying.
Thank you Mr. Chesser to give me a chance of experiencing media world !!

Tuesday 4 December 2012

Media walk

Restaurant & Gallery
Gregorian store & cafe

I  walked around Oakville downtown. It was very comfortable to look and see the store and their cozy, luxurious decorations made me feel holiday season. I got in the Gallery, the saleswomen were busy to pack the paintings. I was happy to enjoy the artistic works even in a short time.  They
had many beautiful paintings and cute size art work.
Luxurious spa, well decorated cafe,even real estate offices showed thier own colour and design.
Their banner and the letters of the store were making an atmosphere of the street nice and special. Especially the Gregorian store where I love the air and sound of  had a lot of brand new CDs.
I really needed a big patience to not to buy them.I wanted to listen to the new one like 'Il Volo'
but unfortunately I had to hurry for the class. If I had time, I would have walked  the street till the end of downtown. They had beautiful decorations in the show-window for the christmas . Oh, we really are at the corner of the year! Usually I prefer to walk street which has always something new, watch people who are fashionable ,look at the things which they sell  rather than surfing on the internet.
But I felt something that I was missing today on my way to school.
First, I wanted to get in the restaurant which made me have a curiosity about their menu.Their grand exterior made me diffident  to get in there to see inside. Maybe the internet could have helped me. Secondly, I only had to pick up  one or two cds. It was because of time and clerk's eye. ( I did not have any plan to buy them today.) If I surf on the internet?  That becomes for sure different story.Maybe I could have tried to listen all the cds. Even gallery was the same situation. If I go on-line, I really would have enjoyed all the art works. Hmmm....  both ways are not so perfect.
But,it was a good experience to promenade by myself.


INFAMOUS

  As we know, this film is about the story of Truman Capote.
He is known as an American author,many of whose short stories, novels, plays and nonfiction.  He earned the most fame with in Cold Blood(1966).
This film is based on the new book in "Cold Blood". In this film, we could see his tremendous effort and huge passion of his journalistic work.He spent four years on and off in that part of Western Kansas there during the research for that book and the film.
Fascinated by the news of family slain, Capote traveled with Harper Lee and visited the scene of the massacre.During his research, everyone knew him nad involved in the investigation in that small town.The interview is the most important to him so that he committed conversations to memory and immediately wrote quotes as soon as an interview ended.
Throughout the film, I felt his passion of his work as a journalist. He approached to the people even to the killers with a true heart. He did not have any barrier to reach to the truth.

 He treated the murder as like a friend  generously.  He fell in love with the murder, and he got a painfull wound in his heart eventually.
This film describes that Capote is a great american journalist as a passionate and honest human being.
I could see his friendship and taste, his passion, and his serious love as s successful author in 1950-1960s.