Multi Media Poetry Evaluation

Evaluation

My Final MMP (Multi Media Poetry) was based on a poem Weeping Willow that I wrote for my English A class previously. My project is around two minutes long, and pictures correspond with the text, and the mood of the poem, which is sad. It didn’t take much time to finish the whole project (the Multi Media part, because it usually takes me longer to do evaluation and written parts of the project). I did have some problems at the beginning, because I wasn’t fully familiar with the programe, but after a while, it was pretty easy. Before I started working on my final product, I planned to include a few short videos in the middle of my poem presentation, but I quit from that idea, because I realized that my video is long enough, and that I do not have enough time to work on that as well.

My project could have been better If I started working on it a week before the presentations, not the day before, because I was in a hurry to finish it, and I didn’t worry as much about the quality of it, as I could have if it was done before. It could have also been better if I had completed all the written assignments that my teacher, Mrs. Katarina Knezevic assigned us to do (Create, Design and Plan), because I could use those as helping devices during the process of making my Multi media project.

The programe I used for making my project was Windows Movie Maker. This programe is not very sophisticated, but it is the easiest for beginners to work on, because everything is very clear, so I chose that one. Also, one more factor influenced my choice. Last time I worked on a Video project, I used iMovie, the programe that Mackintosh computers use for making video presentations. Because it is one of the most sophisticated programs and is also very easy to use, even more than Movie Maker. The only problem with that was because school computers couldn’t read a video that I made in iMovie, so I didn’t want to risk my entire grade for the project just because of one programe.

The first step in making the project was reading the poem a few times over, and looking up images on’ Google’’ that I could put in my presentation and which would go along with the poem, because for every slide I need a good picture that can explain the text that is floating over the image. When I downloaded most of the images, I imported them in the Movie Maker, one by one. The process is now starting to go slowly, because I needed to import picture by picture and cut the text from the poem and import it with the image. That needed to be done image by image, row by row. Also, I needed to put some effects when images change from one to another. Color of text was also a slight problem, because not all my pictures are the same color, and when I import the text to float over the images, sometimes they are the same color, so the text can’t be seen clearly. If an image has many colors, I have to pick the perfect color of the text that wont mach any color that is on the picture.

For the Multi Media presentations, I unfortunately broke my leg, so I was stopped from coming and presenting my poem. As I found out the next day, my teacher Mrs. Knezevic didn’t let Garic present my poem, because she wanted me to come personally, so the audience didn’t have the benefits to see that piece of art. I am sure they missed the best poem that evening, but, life isn’t fair, is it? :)

Overall, I am happy how both my project and poem turned out in the end, and can match some of the others. But, it can always be better, can’t it? :)

Terrorism

Marko Colic

10A

Humanities

 

                                                           Terrorism

 

 

Terrorism is random acts of violence committed by individuals or groups that usually have a political goal behind them. The purpose of terrorism is to intimidate and cause fear in the general population, and to put pressure on authorities and official bodies. Although acts of terrorism are considered criminal, and many governments liberally label even those that do not qualify in order to discredit groups, those who commit them do so for ideological reasons and often because it is the last recourse in their political struggle. It is mostly marginalized, oppressed groups fighting against greater structures who commit terrorist acts. As they say, “One man’s terrorist is another’s man freedom fighter”.  

The main plot of Bourne trilogy is the fight survival and pursuit of knowledge of an individual against a secret operation whose ranks he once belonged to. Through episodes of flashes of memory, his life as an assassin is reconstructed. He is at the same time trying to recreate his past and separate himself from it.  Many of the subplots include elaborate schemes of terrorist acts, in order to achieve a political goal. Whenever knowledge of this organization leaks out, an operative is sent to eliminate the threat. But, since Bourne is the only major threat for the organization left, he as a former operative becomes one of the victims of the same.

One of the most significant acts of terrorism in recent history is 9/11, when several planes were hijacked and flown into different important buildings in USA, such as The Twin Towers and Pentagon. The act was carried out by an Islamic militant group. The goal behind these actions was politically motivated, and was supposed to introduce fear to the American Government and people. The people who committed these crimes did so because of their belief, that American politics was wrong and highly harmful to their nation and their way of life. Because they felt that their own governments were not doing enough to change the relations with USA, they had to take matters into their own hands. The only way to call attention or to be noticed was to carry out such a drastic measure.

In the area of Israel – Palestine, terrorist acts occur on a daily bases. Disgruntled, impoverished, frustrated, helpless Palestinians sacrifice their lives and those of Israelis in order to prove a point: that they are fed up with their situation. Pushed out of their territory without basic amenities, no prospect of a normal future, terrorism becomes their only weapon. At the same time, innocent Israelis are victims of these rebellious acts, impose on them by their government.  Undergoing heavy training, sometimes manipulated, offered promises of a beautiful eternal afterlife, young men and women agree to do these horrible things to themselves, and to their fellow human beings.

 The most recent large scale terrorist attack occurred in Mumbai, India’s financial capital. About ten terrorist staged explosions at several of the cities prominent locations including a hotel, and a Jewish center. There were around 170 victims, many of them foreigners. Of the ten assailants, one was caught thanks to whom the provenance of the attackers was disclosed. They belonged to a Pakistani militant organisation, and received extensive training as well as monetary compensation for their mission. The goal behind the attack was fear and intimidation. They sent the message to Indian politicians that they disapproved of their alliance with the West and clearly showed their aggression towards Jews and foreigners, by choosing Mumbai as their target.  

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