Saturday, March 14, 2009

Film Critique (Twister.1996)

I am Dr. Lola Snitzelarion Fitsxhwagen, I am a meteorologist and I major in the studies of Tornado's. I've only ever been in one tornado and was that a big adrenaline rush! My team and I have studied more than 3,800 U.S. tornadoes and I have never seen an F5 so close! We analyzed 3,828 tornadoes that were spotted in the United States from 2000 to 2009. Although 79 percent of these tornadoes came from cells, my co-worker trapp said "18 percent came from nationwide line storms ( which means : a nation wide violent rainstorm near the time of an equinox). In the Midwest the origin and numbers of tornados varied very widely" In Indianna for example.. about half of the tornadoes came from line storms. My team and I are getting closer to improving the ability to predict when and exactly where a tornado will hit. In the movie Twister which I showed a couple of wanna-be meteorologists the showed that people only get a couple of minutes warning before the tornado strikes and cause damage and destruction. this can cause death, if you are dead you are gonna be seriously hurt. The movie is realistic yet unrealistic. The realism is that tornado's can cause total damage. Tornado's are bi,g change pattern quickly and sometimes you cant really do anything but waitto be sucked up and killed by the strength and power of the tornado's eye. The unrealistic part is how can Jo ( main character) and Bill ( other main character) survive all the tornado attacks they kept entering and getting stuck into? Also, they tie themselves to a pipe, they sit in a truck in between 2 tornado's, and they are fine? No damage at all? Nothing? I mean, their car got messed up. Everything around them gets damaged and hurt except them? That is nonsense because when a tornado comes it will hurt you badly you might not be able to move for a long time . .

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Praying? How many people pray nowadays .. not a lot,I think.
People would mostly pray because they are part of some religion that you are totally devoted. Like certain religions even have special prayers. In Srinagar, a city in India. There a group of people called " Devout's". A Devout is a highly religious person, this person would probably be law-abiding and God fearing. So technically "The Devout's" would be a group of people that are Law-abiding and God fearing citizens.
In my picture, there are a few men from the devout's that are praying in the mosque called Jamia Masjid. Jamia Masjid is a large mosque, in fact it is the largest mosque that Srinagar has. Jamia Masjid is among the most sacred shrines of Muslims. This mosque has 370 pillars (columns) of wood. Thousands of Muslims attend on Friday's to carry out their prayers. The way Muslims pray is very special and has special significance, they do not bow down simply because they feel like it. They bow down because in the Koran their prophets always bow down to the earth with their head's tilted to the ground whenever they prayed. This shows reverence to Allah. In Islam prayer is one of the most important duty of a Muslim. Prayer is performed 5 times a day.