BBC Shakespeare’s Animated Series: Julius Caesar

Do you agree that Brutus had a noble motive when murdering his adopted father, Julius Caesar? Discuss.

       
        After I have watched BBC Shakespeare’s Animated Series: Julius Caesar, I am agree that Brutus had a noble motive when murdering his adopted father, Julius Caesar. In the movie shows Caesar was killed in 15th March 44 BC by 60 of Roman senators that led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and his adopted son, Marcus Junius Brutus. They stabbed Caesar about 23 times until death in the Theatre of Pompey. In addition, Brutus did like that because he loved Rome than Caesar and it shows that he wanted to save Rome from Caesar domination. He knows that his adopted father is very cruel, also had done so many immoral acts towards the society by sleeping all the wives of the senators and he did not show the good attitudes for being a great leader to his country.

       
        Other than that, Brutus does not hate Caesar but he is just afraid that Caesar must turn into a tyrant and it will make Rome become more suffer. That is why Brutus killed Julius Caesar and it is show that he had a very noble motive by killing Julius Caesar  and he also thinks about others.

Ancients behaving badly: Julius Caesar

Based on the documentary A.B.B, do you think all the vices committed by Julius Caesar were necessary in order to safeguard the superiority of Rome as the greatest civilization in the ancient world?

          
          Based on the documentary that I have watched I think all the vices committed by Julius Caesar were unnecessary in order to safeguard the superiority of Rome. He is actually was a great leader, he manage to guide Rome in a supreme place before century. Other than that, he knows how to handle the politics and armies but Julius Caesar behaviour in order to protect Rome can be classified as cruel. He does not care what people say, he’s doing an immoral acts by sleeping all the wives of the senators to show to the other man that he is immortal and no one dares to fights him. Besides, Julius Caesar also watched 20,000 of women and children died in starvation just because he did not let the people passed the circumvallation to protect his army.

          
          In conclusion, even though Julius Caesar was making Rome a powerful empire during his time but I think Julius Caesar’s vices were unnecessary in order to protect Rome and he has no humanity and morality. He enjoy himself by seen other people being suffer.

Jack the Ripper - From Hell

Distinguish between facts and fictions that are portrayed in the movie @ Which aspect of the plot that is accurate to the historical fact in the JTR murders and which aspect of the plot that is based on the filmmakers' own imagination.

         
        I have seen the movie, From Hell starring Johnny Depp and Heather Graham that given by Mr. Kama and read the story about Jack the Ripper in Study Guide of Critical Literacy. I notice that there have different between facts and fiction  that are portrayed in the movie and historical fact in the Jack the Ripper.

           
           In the film, Jack the Ripper is a cruel murderer and his case never solved until now and it has been more than 100 years passed and shows all the Ripper victims as being close-knit friends, but there is no evidence to support that all of the victim are friends even there came from the same area. Besides, most of the suspects are wealthy and educated men such as Prince Albert, Dr. William Whitey Gull, Walter Sickert, and other 25 men. Jack the Ripper killed five women which is all of them are prostitutes. Prince Albert has been accused as Jack the ripper because people believed that he is married to Annie Crook. However, later people found out that there are no marriage record listing Prince Albert is Annie’s husband.

 Other than that, it appears as though an "Annie Crook" did in fact exist, there is no evidence that she ever knew any of the Ripper victims, or that she had an affair with Prince Albert Victor and had his child. There is also no evidence of any lobotomy. This first appeared in Stephen Knight’s entire Jack the Ripper, and no other researcher has ever been able to corroborate his findings.

Jack the Ripper in America

There were many suspects in the JTR murders over the years. What is the evidence that supports the claim that James Kelly was JTR? If you are a rival detective, how do you eliminate all the evidence that you've identified in the documentary?

          
          I have watched documentary "Jack the Ripper in America" that given by Mr. Kama. From what I have found from this case, I would say that James Kelly was JTR. It is because I have found something similar about the suspect and James Kelly.

        
        James Kelly suspected as Jack the Ripper because the way he killed his wife is the same as the five canonical were killed. He was sent to asylum because he killed his wife by stabbing her in the neck. Then he manage to escape from Broadmoor Asylum using his own fashioned key in 1888. During him in the asylum, there is no news about the killing. After he escaped and being a fugitive, Ripper's activities become active. This is become confident when the police found a prostitute named Carrie Brown was found that in year 1888.

         
            The character of James Kelly make him as Jack the Ripper because he worked as a furniture upholsterer that requires people who is expert in handling knife. Other than this lingering question I do think James Kelly fits very well as JTR. He could just possibly be one of the worst serial killers ever in history.

ANCIENT ALIENS: THE EVIDENCE

State several evidence which support the ancient astronaut theory. Discuss whether you agree or disagree to the evidence that you have identified.

          I have watched the video about Ancient Aliens: The Evidence and I found that the video is very interesting that ancient people have the knowledge and their capabilities to build something that we have today like space shuttle and aircraft. Is not it awesome?

          One of the evidence that I found in the video which support the ancient astronaut theory is the discovery of a bird model that symbolized “I Want to Fly”. This is found in Egyptian pyramid located in Egypt during the pharaoh reigned. One of the items that the archeologist discovered was a small wooden model of a bird flying besides the pharaoh with the description “I want to fly”. The artifact was later sent to the museum ad was placed with other birds collection. In 1969, they examined the birds collection and found something different about the pharaoh bird. It was discovered that the model of bird had aerodynamic design which the wings thicker from the middle to the inside and gets thinner towards the end of the wings. According to experts, this symbolizes a flying aircraft. This statement was supported by Dr Algund Eenboom who the CEO-Author of Aircraft of the pharaoh. Later in 2006, they built the model of the bird but five times larger in order to test its capability to fly. The end result showed that the pharaoh bird was actually a glider. Therefore, it is a fact that our ancient ancestors are intelligence and have the abilities to build what we have today in modern world.  

          Another evidence that I found from the video which support the ancient astronaut theory is the discovery of dozens of objects that look like an insect or fish that epitomize fire jets. This happened in Columbia around 1500 years. The experts found hundreds of small objects that look like insect and fish. But out of those hundreds, they found about a dozen of early reminiscence of modern day fire jets. These objects had triangular shape, upright tail fin, stabilizers and have nothing in common or similar to anything in nature. I agree with the evidence identified as it is not easy to create a model with aerodynamic design and it is a surprise that people in ancient time actually have that knowledge. German experts built model without change anything and to their surprise that pre Columbian culture know about aerodynamic. It was found that the shape of the objects similar to aerodynamic space shuttle with high speed aerodynamic body. No single insects have that kind of body.

          I definitely agree with those evidences presented above as the shape of the model and objects are perfectly created by the native people. It was a very successful test that the place was able to take off. This suggest and shows us how ancient people working on aerodynamic designs. 

SUPER SIZE ME

Based on the facts presented in this documentary are you convinced that fast food is the main cause of obesity in United States and around the world?

          Obesity is an epidemic in the United States and in other developed countries. More than two-thirds of Americans are overweight, including at least one in five children. Nearly one-third are obese. Obesity is on the rise in our society because food is abundant and most of us are employed in positions that require little to no physical activity. Based on the evidences in Super Size Me movie, I believe that fast food is not solely responsible for obesity because but rather it is caused by the laziness to involve in physical activities, the genetic, people demands, and also poor mentality and sedentary lifestyle of the people nowadays.  

          As we can see, televisions now outnumber human beings in American households. Thus, people on average are much more involved in sitting and playing video games instead of using their bodies to play outside. Besides, people use power tools like leaf blowers and machines such as riding mowers far more than rakes or push mowers and that women have taken on non-physically-oriented jobs in the workplace in record numbers. These examples are succinct enough to tell us what are the leading causes for obesity and heart disease epidemics. I believe that sedentary lifestyles and not fast food are the true biggest threat to health.

          In the Super Size Me movie, the documentary maker Morgan Spurlock himself chose to switch to unbalanced food and all Mc Donald’s diet for 30 days, but when did so, he stopped his former regular workout at the same time. Evidently, the biggest culprit behind his quick deterioration of health was his suddenly sedentary lifestyle not the fast food diet. If a person is physically active, he can eat whatever he feels like eating without worrying about becoming obese. Intense physical exercise causes the body to burn away stores of fat, leaving behind lean muscle that efficiently uses the food the body takes in to rebuild and sustain itself.

In Al Jazeera 101 East : Malaysian Affirmative Action

Choose 1 of the 3 guests featured on the talk show 101 East. Then apply discourse analysis. State whether you agree or disagree towards the proposition, premises and arguments that you have identified.

               
               Based on talk show 'In Al Jazeera 101 East : Malaysian Affirmative Action', I am choosing the first speaker Chow Kon Yeow who is a senior Democratic Action Party (DAP) representative from the three guests. The other speaker is Datuk Seri Dr. Ibrahim Saad, former Deputy Chief Minister of Penang and Professor Azeem Farouk, a political lecturer at University Science of Malaysia (USM). By using discourse analysis, here are the conclusion, proposition, premise and argument.

Conclusion : Most Malaysians are unhappy and not agree about the approaches of NEP.

Proposition : NEP is not a bad policy as the implementation is the one that is unsuitable to Malaysian.

Premise 1 : NEP has many abuses and corruption is one of it in terms of giving the speciality.

Argument : NEP mostly is given to politically connected people rather than the other Malays and Bumiputras.

Premise 2 : Keadilan will set Malaysian Economic Agenda (MEA) to replace NEP.

Argument : Make new policies by comparing to NEP performance in the past two or three decades.

         I am disagreed with Chow Kon Yeow preposition about NEP because he just gives opinion for Chinese advantages and not for Malays. Therefore, people believe with UMNO and NEP because it helps them and not like he was trying to convey. Besides, he said that NEP just has many abuses and corruption, but other parties also have corruption.