9th blog post

I really enjoyed the exhibit "Types and Shadows." It was so interesting seeing, sometimes, everyday objects turned into a reflection of Christ. It was also nice to have the tour guide with whom we could bounce our ideas off of. She also pointed out some of the symbolism that I didn't pick up on when I first saw the exhibit. The comments of my classmates were also insightful. Someone pointed out how the women with the bread looked like Michel Angelo's Pieta and the whole painting just clicked with me. Before I just saw an middle age women offering me bread I now saw Mary offering me Christ. I wish we had had more time to go through the rest of the exhibit.

8th blog post

I really like the movie Amistad. How in the beginning they have the dialog in the original language was a good reminder to me that not all the world speaks english. It is easy to forget how different people are from clothes, language to mannerisms. Having everything historically accurate brought these realizations home to me. The graffic scene on the slave boat brought home to me how terrible slavery was. It is different to see scenes in the movie in comparison with words on a page. I had read a lot about how cramped the slave boats were but, to see it is very different.