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Owner of Blog: Katya Roos
In Katya's blog entitled "

"iMedia: Stand for Darfur" , she uses a picture of a Darfurian child to describe how innocent and hopeless the people of Darfur are. She talks about how these victims need attention and most off, they need our help but the sad part is that no one is doing anything about the genocide in Darfur. Katya asks whether those who help others out should be called heroes or whether it should just be human nature to help out others.

Ligia Hotca said...

Katya-
I definitely agree with everything that you said in this blog entry. And to answer your question, I personally believe that it should be simply human nature to help others. I don't think it's right to just stand by and watch the millions of innocent victims in Darfur be slaughtered just because they had the unfortunate luck of living in the wrong place. Everyone should realize that these people need serious help because if we all just neglect the fact that innocent people are being killed then we must be pretty dumb. We all need to realize that in order to survive we need to help each other out because every single one of us deserves and equal opportunity at life.

December 13, 2008 11:05 AM

Owner of Blog: Shion Payne

In Shion's blog entitled,

"Carry it Forward: Visions of Light", she gives a brief summary of the film "Visions of Light" and connects the idea of using light a means of distorting a person (or outfit in her case) to make them seem more appealing.

Ligia Hotca said...

Personally, i think this idea is awesome. I've seen some of your art work and sketches of different outfits and you are seriously an amazing artist. The whole idea of using the city lighting is great and it will really help highlight your urban styled outfits. Having the city in the background is also a nice touch since your portfolio is called "urban style", the urban surroundings will really make it more appealing. Oh and if you really stick to this plan of using lighting as a means to make your outfits more appealing, your portfolio will definitely get into your dream college.

December 13, 2008 11:25 AM

Research: Hildegard of Bingen

http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/09/17.html

In the novel Sophie's World, Hildegard of Bingen is first introduced to us and one of the earliest woman philosophers and thinkers. Hildegard lived as a nun in the early years of the Middle Ages and was widley respected for her different works in theology and visionary writings. At the age of eight, she went to a Benedictine monestary at Mount St. Disibode to recieve an education. Ten years later, at the age of 18 Hildegard decided to be a nun and at the age of 38 she was the head of the female community at the monestary. Soon after she become the head of the monestary, she had a series of visions and devoted ten years of her life to writing these visions down, describing them in full detail along with maticulous illustrations of what she had seen. Since the number of nuns coming into the monestary were growin rapidly, Hildegard moved the location of the nuns to another monestary in Bingen.
Throughout the next several years of her life, she spent her time traveling around Europe, preaching. After many years of preaching, Hildegard passed away on September 17, 1179, leaving the 100's of letter that she had written to emperors and popes behind, along with the 72 songs and 70 poems she had written. Most of the books she had written dealt with theology of ethics. She was concerned apparantley, with how exactly the human body and mind functioned and how the nervous system can affect our ways of percieving reality. Her books also dealt with insight on nature and of God and his relation to the universe. Hildegard's interests in biology, naturalism and botanism all tied together to influence the hundreds of people that she had given advice to and preached to throughout her life.
As you can see Hildegard of Bingen was not only recognized in the Middle Ages as one of the first and most courageous woman philosophers and thinkers of her time, but she has ended up playing a significant role in world history ever since. After her death, composers went on to expand her compositions and songs and eventually created a type of music. Hildegard helped inspire many generations of women to not only be more practical and scientific but to be more philosophical.