Religions Field Trip

On the field trip to Chinatown, we visited three places of worship, the Mosque, the Hindu Temple and the Chinese Temple. All three were similar but also different. Something that all the places of worship have in common is that they all have symbols and Gods that they worship. They all have monuments that they show their culture and religion. However, they worship their Gods in different ways. In the Mosque, people have a time where they all gather and pray together and when it is not that time, barely anyone was there. But, in the Chinese Temple, they come in at anytime and pray, buy joss paper, and burn incense by themselves. In the Hindu Temple, some people were there and they left offerings and prayed to he Gods. But when a time came, there were people who came and played music as a form of worship for the Gods. So the three places we visited all had Gods and Symbols to represent their religion but their form of worship and what they gave to the Gods were quite different.

Photo of the Chinese Temple

Photo of the Hindu Temple

Photo of the Mosque

I though the most interesting place of worship we visited on our Field Trip was the Hindu Temple. I think the Hindu Temple was the most interesting, for me, because it was very colorful and there were lots of different statues and paintings of Gods with a story behind each of them. I also found the prayer rooms in the Hindu Temple interesting.

Auschwitz Inmate

After reading the story, I cannot believe what happened and what they did to people who they thought of as they don’t belong here. I still don’t really see why people would do such a thing, especially the gassing bit. Everyone is different and it has been so as far back as the earliest history. At the camp, everyone told lies and treating people like they weren’t humans. They tortured them and they didn’t seem to mind but was happy doing that. They killed anyone they wanted without a very good or convincing reason but simply for the fact that they are different and don't belong with the others who were better.

Opposites

I picked these two pictures from our field trip to symbolize opposites because I think they represent what opposites are very well. In the first image (above), you can see the leaves are green and they look somewhat healthy to stand for that that plant is alive and well. In the second image (below), you can see the leaves are precisely the opposite of the other. The leaves are brown and they look dry and rotten illustrating that it is dead. The difference between the two photographs show that one is alive and one has died or is dead. Something living and something nonliving is the exact opposite of each other and so, these two pictures demonstrates opposites very well.