Sunday, March 8, 2009

Twister Film Critque

(Tornadoes... amazing weather patterns that can occur, very amazing) Oh hello! my name is Professor Oak. I'm a weather specialist and a meteorologist and I study the weather. But the subject that I'm a specialist in and that I really specify in are tornadoes. I study where they come from, how there formed, and a whole lot more of information about them.


About a week ago I went to the cinema and I went to go see this movie called Twister. Twister (1996) was about some tornado chasers that made a(n) creation to study more about tornadoes. In the end of the film they get there creation to work and get all the information they need to know about tornadoes. Twister was written by Michael Critchton, and Anna Marie Martin. It was also directed by Jan De Bont.



http://www.impawards.com/1996/posters/twister.jpg

I went to go see it because the title just right then and there caught my eye. And also I went to go see it because I wanted to see if the facts were right or just plain fantasy. When the movie actually started (after I went to the bathroom from a kid spilling his coke on me) I was really pulled into it. Some parts were boring but for the most part, it was alright. When the tornadoes started forming then the action began! It was so intense when they formed because it felt like you were in that situation. Although it was cool and intense, there were some parts in the movie that were fake, but also there were parts that were real. For one, tornadoes can form in any server weather. (Tornadoes most commonly developed in thick cumulonimbus clouds. Those clouds are the same clouds that bring thunderstorms) But in the movie, sometimes the weather looked it was just any normal day. But also a tornado is a rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface and in the movie, that happened and that was true. A a tornado is formed when a warm moist air flows in at the bottom of a cumulonimbus cloud and moves upwards. And then, a low pressure area forms inside the cloud, thus creating a tornado.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/tornadoes/images/tornado_map.jpg

Another scene that I thought was a really impossible scene and that it was no way that that could happen was at the the HUGE Tornado. I don't think that a tornado can get that big because there would have to be a HUGE thunderstorm happening or it must of have absorbed so much deb re that it would just have to keep growing bigger. And also, I could tell that the tornadoes were fake compared to real ones but they looked pretty real to the naked eye.

http://weathersavvy.com/tornado10.jpg

I have to go, oh! we have just been reported that there is an F5 on route 22 on the highway look I;m so sorry folks I have go catch this one. BRING IT ON!




Thursday, March 5, 2009

Asian Religions



Asian religions are the most interesting and fascinating religions that you can learn about!

To the picture on the left you can see two women spinning a prayer wheel. A prayer wheel sits on a spindle made from either metal, wood, stone, leather, or even sometimes coarse cotton. According to Tibetan Buddhist tradition, spinning such a wheel will have a much bigger effect than praying originally. Also there are a lot of other spinning wheels. For example: Mani Wheel, Water Wheel, Fire Wheel, Wind Wheel, Stationary Prayer Wheel, Samurai Prayer Wheel, Electric Dharma Wheel, Digital Prayer Wheel, and today, there are even Internet-operated Prayer Wheel(via webcam)

In my picture, there are two women spinning the prayer wheel. They are spinning the prayer wheel probably for good luck and it is a tradition to do so and they are probably praying for a lot more. The environment that these women are in is isolated and also out in the middle of little towns and places. The feelings that this picture inspires me is to actually spin a prayer wheel myself and to ask more about the prayer wheel and its history.

These sounds that I can hear are very interesting and loud. I can hear the birds in the distance screaming away battling one another for food. I can also hear the grinding sound that the prayer wheel makes when one of the women spin it. I can also hear them speak to one another but i can't understand it. I can see the women spin the wheel with all there might trying to just spin the wheel just once all the way around. I can also see other people walking to where we are.