Monday, November 23, 2009

The School of Athens

"The School of Athens" represents the action being done in the school mentioned. The world gains more knowledge by sharing information, communicate, and passing down knowledge. As the action shows on the fresco, teachers are shown showing things with a black boards and books, and some studied about the architecture of the school probably to get more ideas to improve the architecture style of the country and to the world. This fresco is also representing the architectural style in the renaissance which Raphael had probably done it purposely to show the architecture in the time. The statue of Athena and Apollo was shown on both side of the fresco, that would probably represents their believe system in gods.





If I was in the painting "The School of Athens" I would be Aristotle, right on the center of the painting with Plato standing next beside him, not because he is the focal point, but because of his intelligence. He knew many more things about the world than other people. He had many interesting theories on things that are not noticeable, but still interesting to know such as physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics biology, and zoology. I think most of those topics weren't really useful on his time, but in our time it is, for example, we might have some technologies that need evidence from his theories, and I think that his thoughts were rare so it seems to be interesting to me and it is also good to know about it. Most of his experiments are to correct his theories, and also other people's theories about things, and it helps the world to gain more knowledge for the people to know and make more useful technologies as time goes on.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009



The Journey

Journey, waking the humans to accomplish their destiny
journey, coated in patient
"people of the world, know what you are here for, create an adventure for your life!"



In the story called "The Alchemist", Santiago, who just knew his destiny from a dream interpreter and the king of Salem, Melchizedek. He had to find his treasure in the Pyramid of Giza, Egypt. so he had to travel from Andalusia to Spain. On his journey of that, he met new people, such as the Englishman, Fatima, and most importantly The Alchemist. The Alchemist thought the boy about magical spirits and other important teachings to accomplish destinies such as being courage, taking an extreme risks on his journey. Santiago also found his true love, Fatima, which he met her in his journey at the Oasis. At the end Santiago didn't find what he was looking for in The Pyramid of Giza, but his feelings found out that his treasure was back at Andalusia from where he had started. Then he realised that it was not the treasure that is important but it's the journey, so he knows that some things are not straight to the point, but the methods that we use to find the point is the most important of all.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Things Doesn't Always Happen the way you want it to Happen

"The bands of the wicked have robbed me" "psalm - cxix. 6r



In the story "The Alchemist", Santiago, the main character says "I'm like everyone else - i see the world in terms of what i would like to see happen now what actually does happen". The boy followed his thoughts too much, but after those kind of mistakes, he would know that he would never do the same mistake, so he always learns from his mistakes through out his journey. The Author of this book "Paulo Coelho" probably wrote this sentence for a message to us, which is to learn from our mistakes, and never to do it again. But we also has to believe in ourselves in order to achieve our destiny, because if we just rely on other people, we are just living in people's life but not our own.