{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"28909035","dateCreated":"1287756393","smartDate":"Oct 22, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"mekster","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mekster","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1222961126\/mekster-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/28909035"},"dateDigested":1531973961,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"EL PAPI VUBSTAH","description":"A social message is a message that is intended towards an audience to create an impact and make sure that the depth of the message is received or impacted the audience. A film that I have seen that contains a deep social message is Inception. The movie is the story of a man who enters peoples dreams and makes them believe it is real life, so that he can steal something from their mind. Eventually he is faced with an objective to implant an idea into a persons mind. When the movie ends the director left suspense because we never know whether he woke up from the dream or if he stayed there forever. This impacts the audience because we are left with the choice to argue what happened. It also impacts the audience, or at least me, to wonder if everything we do is a dream or if we live in a dream controlled by someone else. The book presents the message of challenging ones depth perception and go beyond it to understand the movie and understand how our mind works when we are asleep.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"29044629","body":"Thanks Jaime,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1288041129","smartDate":"Oct 25, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"28892551","dateCreated":"1287714390","smartDate":"Oct 21, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"dmarin464","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dmarin464","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1225941095\/dmarin464-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/28892551"},"dateDigested":1531973961,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Social Message Response","description":"A social message of a book, film, or event is a connotative impact that aims to give a different perspective in the hope of raising consciousness of the general public to the issue at hand. The purpose of the social message depends on whether it is a contemporary or historical piece; a historical movie or book with a social message would hope to illuminate society\u2019s behavior at that time, where as contemporary book or movie hope to foster change in the attitudes of the public. A recent movie that has a social message is the 2008 film Departures directed by Y\u014djir\u014d Takita. This movie portrays Daigo Lobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a cellist in an orchestra in Tokyo. He loses his job due to the dissolution of the orchestra and is forced to sell his cello to get back home and find a job. Once in his hometown and desperate for a job, he is hired to \u201cassist departures\u201d for an \u201cNK Agency\u201d, which resulted in the preparation of the deceased according to ancient Japanese custom and tradition. Believing he was applying to work in a travel agency, he was himself deeply troubled to discover that he would be preparing bodies for cremation. In the rural suburbs of Japan, people who prepare cadavers for cremation are ostracized and considered unclean. As Daigo continuous his work of preparing bodies, he realized how the families, who kneeled before him watching the body be prepared, would give him contemptuous looks. This included Daigo\u2019s wife Mika (Ryoko Hirosue), who left him imploring him not to touch her as she viewed him as \u201cdirty\u201d because of having touched the deceased. She was disguised and repelled by her discovery of Daigo\u2019s true profession after he kept his job a secret. Daigo carries on his job and doesn\u2019t fully comprehend why these people find his profession to be so disdainful, even though he himself once viewed it the same way. He then late came to accept the fact that everyone dies in their lifetime, and became enraptured in the beauty and spirituality of the ceremony he preformed for the family. Months later, his wife Miko returns to his home with the news of her pregnancy, yet still try to persuade him to change his job. She asked him to leave the profession immediately for the sake of his unborn child whom otherwise would be teased and bullied at school. After events of conspire to Mika to witness Daigo performing the ceremony, she not only changes her views but his proud of his expertise. Reaching the denouement of the movie, Daigo is called to prepare his father, who he hadn\u2019t seen since his childhood and whom left him and his mother a long time ago. When he and his wife arrive to prepare the ceremony, his wife demands the local funeral representatives to leave because they are in the presence of an expert and professional. Her newly found pride is in stark contrast to her original opinion of the people who must touch the deceased for their work in the funeral parlor. The social message of the movie is clear when Mika, as a representation of the Japanese culture, is forced to confront her prejudices and preconceived views, and comes to realize that there is dignity in every honorable profession regardless of where it may fall among the social classes.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"29044449","body":"Thanks Daniel,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1288040986","smartDate":"Oct 25, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"28891431","dateCreated":"1287712945","smartDate":"Oct 21, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"ereiche","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ereiche","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1226183145\/ereiche-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/28891431"},"dateDigested":1531973961,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Erik Reiche","description":"
\nSocial message is a demonstration of human principles that carry the idea of change or impact to a specific audience. Its serves the propose of transmitting ideas of chance, self-help, and self-analysis that pose questions for the viewer to ponder about. This can be achieved in many ways, like a movie, a book, or a live speaker.
\nThe Bucket List (2008) is a great movie that moves around an incredible social message. In this movie, Jack Nicholson plays a businessman who owns a hospital Corporation, while totally opposite from this, Morgan Freeman stars as a simple, loving, middle class family man. Even though both of this men would never interact under normal life circumstances, they are forced into a hospital room, due both of their terminal illnesses. As they interact, the two terminally ill men decide to live out their bucket lists, the list of things and dreams they want to achieve before they \u201ckick the Bucket\u201d.
\nEven though this movie is a \u201ccute\u201d movie with a great social message, it expresses reality as it really is and doesn\u2019t hide the negative, but at the end real, aspects of a terminal illness. Some scenes are even uncomfortable to watch, due to some honest and clinically accurate effects of cancer. Throughout the movie, the characters start to suffer from cancer and to lose both their strength and will to keep on fighting. At the end of the day, this crude reality of the illness and of the way it deteriorates a human being is what really ties up its social message.
\nAt the end of the movie, it is guaranteed that one is going to end up motivated, crying, or emotionally affected in a way. The Bucket List\u2019s social message is for both young and old-age beings; to find joy, excitement, and true happiness in life before it is too late. I have always believed this message to be true and really important. We all get caught up in the mundane tasks, and get stressed over simple and stupid things of life. This makes us forget the real purpose of life, to enjoy it day by day. Then, one day, we finally realize that we are aged, and live our life exhausted and stressed out. If you don\u2019t see life day by day, that day will inevitably come. However, after watching this movie, you will definitely reexamine your own life and maybe even create your own Bucket list.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"29044359","body":"Thanks Erik,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1288040928","smartDate":"Oct 25, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"28880197","dateCreated":"1287703822","smartDate":"Oct 21, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"AmandaTrejos","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/AmandaTrejos","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/28880197"},"dateDigested":1531973961,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"amanda trejos","description":"A social message is a statement that tells you an idea of great intensity and influence using an illustration such as a book or a film. This is mostly used for people to learn a lesson or even establish a question in a persons mind.
\nCatcher in the Rye, written by J.D Salinger is an example of a social message. Holden Caulfield is a teenage man who is at some state of depression. When his brother died, his life changed around and his teenage years fell into a hole. He holds a mentality accusing how phony and hypocrite people become once they grow up. Children don\u2019t care what other people think of them, they just do things for themselves and not for other people to look at them or envy them. Holden tells us that kids are honest and not fake. They are real, bona fide, and act for their own benefit, not for others. One example that Holden saw as an interesting artifact was when he saw a kid walking on the middle of the road singing without even noticing that cars were right about to hit him. This kid did this as an act for himself, if a grown up had done this it would have been so other people could see him and pay attention to the reckless thing he was doing. Children are not completely aware of their actions, and this is why Holden says that the only thing he actually likes would be to take care of them and let no danger approach them. "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be." This book sends us the message of how people change. From being an innocent and playful child, one becomes phony and fake.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"29040199","body":"Thanks Amanda,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1288037718","smartDate":"Oct 25, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"28873833","dateCreated":"1287698061","smartDate":"Oct 21, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"cfgonzalez94","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/cfgonzalez94","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/28873833"},"dateDigested":1531973961,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Carlos Gonzalez ","description":"A social message is a statement that presents or illustrates an idea of impact or depth upon the audience for which the message is intended. It can serve to propose ideas of chance, reform and self-analysis that pose questions for the viewer to ponder about.
\nA book that holds a profound social message would be \u201cAll Quiet on the Western Front\u201d by Erich Maria Remarque. The book tells the story of Paul Baumer, a young soldier dragged to the horrors of war in the name of patriotism and glory. Surrounded by death, pain, and suffering, Paul loses all hope and finally comes to the conclusion that his generation had been destroyed by war. "We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war."
\nThe book presents the message of the aftermath of war, not literally, but instead, psychologically. Young boys left behind by a society that pushed them aside as they beg for normality to return. Begging for the normal conflicts of everyday life instead of the constant fear of death that lurks on the battle fronts.
\nThe book gives us the following message: Nothing good can come out of war. What do we do then, when we destroy the same humanity that we sought to protect? What do we do when we send young, na\u00efve men to the battlefield in the name of their country only to get in return a \u201clost generation\u201d? These statements not only propose but illustrate how humanity can be affected by warfare.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"29040113","body":"Thanks Carlos,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1288037644","smartDate":"Oct 25, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"28846833","dateCreated":"1287675527","smartDate":"Oct 21, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"arifishman95","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/arifishman95","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/28846833"},"dateDigested":1531973962,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"MR WUBSTAH","description":"Social message is a demonstration of human principles which carries within the idea of change or impact to a specific audience. It is true that all sorts of media can carry a social message, whether it is expressed in written form or we see it in a movie. They carry the weight of change and reform within them and social messages serve as a gateway for people to communicate with each other in topics that matter for what makes us human and what truly matters.
\nA movie that sends a strong social message would be \u201cI, Robot\u201d starring Will Smith. The movie tells the story of a detective that has grown to hate the robot population in the planet. Robots have taken over the most basic jobs of human beings and they serve as the constant servers for mankind. The movie depicts the story of this detective trying to solve a murder, the suspect being a robot. Near the end, the robots start taking control of most of the world. The movie therefore proposes the idea: What makes us human? Is it our human nature, what we do, who we are, that define us? Or is there something else? Can a machine be human for the very primal instinct that fuels us? \u201cDetective Del Spooner: Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a... canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?
\nSonny (robot) Can \u201cyou\u201d?\u201d.
\nAs human beings, we are capable of great cruelty; it is part of what we are, as a society, as a culture, as a species. If a machine is capable of such cruelty, what makes it different from any of us? There are people who life day by day in a truly robotic manner, monotonously, schematic, with every step mapped out already, with no change, only constancy. In such case, what makes that person any different than a machine? Is it their beating heart? Their soul, if in the end, there is any?
\nThis is the social message the movie sends. What makes us human? What we do as a society matters and that is what makes us different. It is our ability to make decisions, to forgive, to feel. Can a machine be capable of all this?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"29040051","body":"Great Ari,
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1288037588","smartDate":"Oct 25, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"28723015","dateCreated":"1287518153","smartDate":"Oct 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"melafavini","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/melafavini","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/28723015"},"dateDigested":1531973962,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"melanie favini response","description":"A social message is a book or a movie that has something to say about society in which it guides you to do or create something in which it gives a message on world peace or a social message talking about war and its consequences. A movie I have watched that contains a social message is To Kill a Mockingbird. This movie has the social message of the futility of racism. This movie basically revolves around a family. The head of the family, which is the father named Atticus is a lawyer. Atticus is appointed by the court to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. Tom Robinson loses his case because of the fact that he\u2019s a black man. Atticus defending Tom\u2019s innocence earned him discrimination from local townspeople and from his family. Atticus is later called a \u201cnigger-lover\u201d for his act of defending Robinson. The social message I interpret from this conflict is how Atticus is defending Robinson regardless of what society claims. It gives the readers a view on how peace is trying to be made from Atticus\u2019s point of view. Even though Robinson lost his case, there still was the social message of at least one person defending a black guy and being against racism. Also, Atticus is cursed at and being continuesly fought at regardless of him being a lawyer.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"29039995","body":"Great Melanie,
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1288037533","smartDate":"Oct 25, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}