Module #5

This video influences our Limbic and Neocortex brains. Limbic – because it is a pleasure for us to see all these famous people in the video. And Neocortex – because we listen to the message of the actors, think about their “advice” and then we read the web site addresses (and will probably register).


BANDWAGON – There are lots of people involved in the video and in the end they all say that they will vote. It makes us want to be in the group and it persuades us to vote.

RHETORICAL QUESTIONS – The main question of the commercial is like “Do you care about our future?” It makes us to think about the answer, which brings to the result that we need to vote.

FEAR – When we watch this video we understand that if we do not vote it will NEGATIVELY influence our future: education, economy etc. and it makes us feel the fear and vote.

TESTIMONIAL - All “participants” of the video are famous and respected people and of course we will trust them and will be sure that voting is important.

DENIAL – Even the name of this video is “Do NOT vote”, though its aim is to make people vote. While saying “don’t vote” they manage to explain that it is better to vote.

HUMOR – This video is not funny, but it has humor, especially in the last few seconds.

We must help them!!!

Some days ago, when we went home from school we saw a man who tried to find something in the trash. It was very regrettable view, but we didn’t know how to help him. Then we went to him and asked some questions. He said that he has a family: wife and two adult children. He said that nobody works besides him, but when we asked why, he answered that they can’t find a job but they want it very much.
While we were talking to him some of his neighbors offered him to clean the yard for money - just 100 AMD (about 0.3 USD). People were behaving with him with contempt.
Here is a snapshot from the interview video…


What I want to say is that I think if a person really needs and wants to work he/she will find any job for sure. We MUST help them!!! What can we do to for it??? If you have any ideas and suggestions leave a comment please.

Skiing

I like extreme very much!!! For me skiing is sport, extreme, hobby and fun!!! My father taught me to ski, when I was over ten years old. Every winter I go to Tsakhkadzor (in Armenia) with my family, but this year we went to Austria to ski. It was very interesting travel for all of us!!! Nature in Austria is very beautiful. There were three lines for skiing: blue-which was easy, red-which was not so easy but not so hard too and black-which was very sloping and very hard!!! My mother started to ski this year and she always went by the blue line. My father skis very well that’s why he could choose the line he wants. And what about me: I ski well and I always went by the red line, but one day I asked my father to take me to the black line. It was so fun, you can’t imagine:)But I can’t say that it was easy for me, it was really very hard and even I thought that I would not reach the end. After skiing we were always very tired and very hungry :)

There I wanted to learn how to ski "sitting", but every time I fell down. This is a video, where I managed to ski "sitting" without falling down.Here I passed between my father’s legs.

Module #3

Our brains on media



Our brains has three parts: Reptilian, Limbic and Neocortex.
The first video is influencing our Limbic Brain, because during this video we see many different colourful images: rainbow, clowns, animals, flowers, balloons etc. and hear a music which gives us a lot of positive emotions. Than we read the massage and understand. So it is influencing our Neocortex Brain.
I like this video:)

Module #2

1. BOOKS

Though media is very developed in our century, books are still one of the most important information sources. Each country has its own history, which usually passes to generations through books. Though today many families have computer and Internet at home, and many of them read lots of newspapers and magazines, anyway for school education people use books for each subject. Students can use different information sources for additional education, but still book is the base.

In Armenia there is a place, where all Armenian old books are kept as treasures. The place is called Matenadaran and it usually has lots of tourist visitors.










I also like to read books, though I don’t have much time for it. I like to read books in Armenian and English. Though I prefer detectives, my favorite book is “Ogyust Roden”, which is about a little boy, who became a world-famous sculptor in spite of his poor and difficult life.

2. NEWSPAPERS / MAGAZINES

Nowadays magazines and journals are more preferred by most of youth. I also like to read journals, but unfortunately I can’t find one, which includes everything I need. Today I read “Yes”, “Glamour”, “Cosmopolitan” etc. In the photo you can see my collection of “Yes”.


3. MUSIC

For me music is on the first place. I LOVE music!!! I love to listen to music, to play myself and sing. As I’ve already mentioned in my previous posts, two years I sang in a choir Armenian little singers. I sang with many famous singers and gave many concerts in different cities of Armenia. Here is a photo from one of my concerts.




Seven years I played classical music on the piano. Then I graduated from the music school and started to play JAZZ. I already had few concerts with saxophone. Here is a video of me playing jazz at home :) Though the file is big, I hope you will like it :)




I think that music is a very POWERFUL thing, which can unite different races, nations and countries. Though we have our Armenian world-famous composers, like A. Babajanyan and A. Khachatryan, and lots of world-famous singers, like Charles Aznavour, we also listen to masterpieces of foreign composers and singers. My favorite foreign musicians are Ray Charles, Norah Jones, James Brown etc. I also very much like to listen to Aziza Mustafah Zadeh, who is a famous jazz-woman from Azerbaijan. Here is a video of Aziza, playing “It Ain’t Necessarily So” of genius Gershwin.




4. TELEVISION

TV plays an important role in our life. As we know, people usually remember better if they see something rather than they listen. Therefore, TV is a powerful tool. Unfortunately today we cannot trust news programs, because they are not the same on different channels. You can get different versions of the same information on different channels and programs. I don’t spend much time on watching TV. For me it is usually a way to spend my time with my family in the evenings… we like to watch interesting programs on Discovery channel. We also like to watch different movies.

5. VIDEO GAMES

To be honest, I don’t like to play video games. If I have some free time I prefer to spend it for something else.

6. COMPUTERS

For our family computer is not just an entertainment. Each member in our family has his/her own computer, which is used mostly for the work. As I`m not working yet, I use computer to prepare for my school. I use different programs and tools. In most cases, of course, I need Internet.

7. INTERNET

Internet is one of the latest useful and important discoveries. It is the biggest source of information today, which is available for everyone, everywhere and always. Internet is used for everything: work, education, entertainment etc. For example, Internet is the core of the DOTCOM program, which is able to gather about 90 students from different parts of the world, give them opportunity to communicate and educate them. I spend much time in Internet, almost for everything. Usually I look there for lyrics, for information about writers or something else. I also use Internet to find notes to play on piano. Internet is also a great tool for communication. I use e-mail and chat programs to communicate with my friends and relatives, who are in Armenia or abroad.


1. Music
2. Internet
3. Computer
4. Newspapers / Magazines
5. Books
6. TV
7. Video Games

In exhibition

The announcement of photo exhibition "Poisoning" interested all DOTCOM Am participants. We divided into groups to visit the exhibition. Our group visited the place today. We saw many photos of our nature, lakes, rivers. The guide told us about the meaning of the photos, about the problems of our country. So we understand that we have many problems which concern to each of us.



And what about our group?! We met each other for the second time. Our group has very happy and interesting participants. Each of us has her/his opinion and viewpoint of different questions. I'm sure it will be very interesting to work together!!!

my music

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