Theme Notebook

My theme of study is: Compassionate + Cruelty     

Paintings: 

The photo I chose to represent compassionate is below. 
It is by Janette Dengo called Compassionate Fury and was taken in unknown.
This painting shows how the 2 fury are coming close to each other.  In one of the Fury eyes it shows compassion because the eye looks like it's smiling. Even thought the background of this painting is solid and srong the painting of the Fury shows compassion and love for one another.


The connection to my theme is Cruelty.
It is by Mony Sim called Animal Cruelty and was taken in 2007.
In this painting you can see 3 dogs. If you look into there eys it seems sad and almost like there about to cry. In the background of this painting one of th erows says Animals right which meann we should not harm poor animals.





Qoutes:
Compassion
" If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
Written by: Dalai Lama
I think this qoute means if you want others and yourself to be happy then you need to show compassion to them and yourself by practicing and practicing so that you would become a better perosn to make others happy or just smile and laugh maybe.
The opposite of Compassion is Cruelty.
Cruelty
" Cruelty and fear shake hands together."
Written by:  Honare de Balzac
I think this qoute means that if you try to be cruel to others the fear of the victim is going to be shaking because they are nervous of what cruel thing your going to do. The qoute where it says " 
shakes hands together" I think it means how you would get a feeling inside of you of unhappiness and afraidness and how you shaking and waiting for that to not happen to you.

Short Story:

In the Blokes by Alan Gibbons it shows Compassionate and Cruelty. 
It is compassionate because he was able to tell his friend that he squash his village instead of wait till he come over to get it but he was cruel to take the Blokes advice and squash his friend’s village, that they have been working on. This sentences from the story shows compassionate, “You’ve got to phone Hashim and own up to what you’ve done. When I phone Hashim his voice dies at the end of the line.” And a sentence from the story that shows cruelty is “I’ve done it. I’ve don’t the Blokes dirty work.” This shows cruelty because he didn't want to do it but the Blokes told him that if he didn't do it he would tell the secret of his dad. So instead he took saving dad instead of a broken friendship that might happen.

Video Song
In this video song by Micheal Jackson it shows both Campassionate and Cruelty. This song shows cruelty because the animals, trees and people are being killed because of how the earth is changing and what people are doing. This explains what people are doing and in the end of this video song it shows campassionate because it is rewinded to show how people whee happy when cruelty of animals, trees and people where not dying. Please watch the video to understand how this is campassionate and cruelty.


News
Egypt: In the city of Cairo, Egypt, a protest has been going on. The protest was to get President Hosni Mubarak to step down, since he was the president from 1981 to 2011. This situation shows both compassionate and cruelty. It shows cruelty because the people of Egypt wanted the president to step down but he would not until , and so the President must have felt disapionted and his feeling where crushed. This shows cruelty that everyone was going against him. This also shows compassionate because since this protest agianst him lasted for 18 days, he decided to step down, so the people of Egypt where happy and compassionate that they will have a better leader that will help them more. Now the people of Egypt are very compassionate that President Hosni Mubarak has step down from becoming president. 

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/18/egypt.victory.day/index.html