IR Project #1- Digital Story Telling

All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque

http://voicethread.com/?#u204354.b1442424.i7618168

The voice thread was the choice I did for the project. The jist of it was to try to show the theme which were the horrors of war through the presentation, and i thought that using a cartoonish type of web 2.0 tool wouldnt have portrayed what i wanted well enough. I think the talking about Pauls time at home was the most important and his return back to war the second most.

I have never been to fond of voicethread, however for what I wanted to do it was the most appropriate choice. Though I think that I could have done better if I had thought about a different web 2.0 tool. Though I think the voicethread is pretty good, I do not think it did the book justice in how important its message is.

Overall I enjoyed my novel. It was interesting and having read it previously for a different message, it was a interesting change to read it to discern meaning out of the text.  For the next marking period I may chose another war novel, or a novel relating to or during the time period of a war.

Chapter 9 Wrap Up

"The lawn and the drive had been browded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption-and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them good bye."

This in the context of TGG, is Gatsby talking about the first party of Gatsby's Nick had gone to. It talks about how all the people there had guessed that Gatsby was corrupt in some way. And that even though everyone had been thinking about his being corrupt, he still stood and faced all of them and no one really new what he wanted and he just stood there and waved as if nothing was happening.

In reference to the 1920's, it talks about the corruption that everyone knows is around but everyone is content in just letting it be. Everyone could look at each other even though most everyone had some form of secret that they were keeping and still were able to look each other in the eyes and do something as regular and nonchalant as wave them goodbye.

It applies to my life as people being able to lie to your face and that you guess that they are lying but you do not know what about. It also has to deal with the world that has so many secrets to keep hidden and people are becoming less and less content with it and are asking questions about it which makes it more difficult to keep a calm face. Which ends up leaving the secret keepers a broken mess or dead like in Gatsby's case.

IDR-MP 1 #2

The Western Front of Germany during WWI

Paul and his regiment are seeing and experiencing the horrors of war and the death of friends
Almost all of the main characters have died, Kat is all that Paul has left. Though I'd guess that Kat is going to die, and paul is going to have to return home after losing all the guys he had grown close to and had considered brothers
The horrors of war, and probably the difficulty that Paul will have returning home after fighting and losing so many people close to him

Living the Good Life

Not many people get to live the good life. It entails a lot of things in order for it to be considered good. I think that some of these things would be not having to worry about where your next paycheck is coming, when you would be getting your next meal. People not having to worry about paying taxes would also be a thing to be considered in the good life. Someone who lives the good life probably does not have to worry about any type of real labor, all of their things are taken care by someone who hires them and they get to lay back and hangout all day. Their family lie is also an important factor in the good life in whether they are happy with their relationships to other members of their family and if the people around them are giving off a positive vibe.