Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Creative Spirituality Reflection



1. How do you define “spirituality”?

It can be defined any kind of mental idea. We can say that is all kind of mentality belief. That does not have fomal or fixed form. How about this definition: Persanal belief about themselves. It is hard to define. However, it can have the fixed form by expressing our spirituality. For example, different kind of art works that include individual spirituality can be fixed form spirituality.


2. Does spirituality differ from religion?

I think spirituality is different form religion. First of all, spirituality does not have regular form that religion has it. The spirituality totally depends on individual idea and belief. Also, spirituality can creative freely, but religion is not. For example, my spirituality is really valuable to me, but it is not to others. On the other hand, other's rpiritualiy could not give impress to me. It depends on each persons. The object of spirituality can be any kind of idea. If it exsists to be spiritual, any kind of fomality stuffs is not really important.


3. How do you define “creativity”?

I want to define creativity as the ability of express our own idea. I think everyone has their own thinking and idea. the only differences are how to output the idea. For this reason, I think the creativity is the power of outputing own idea. Another definition of the quality of the idea that is made by personal own idea. That is how the idea includes specific information or originality thinking.


4. What is the source of creativity?

It can be any kind of sources. For example, it could be media stuffs, or it could be even other's art work. Such as book, movies, TV, or magazines. If we can create our new idea or develop the thinking, the material could be everything. By watching and hearing evrty different kind of sources, the ability of creativity can be improved. It looks like interactive activity.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Why could be scared?


Misun Lee
AAD 250
May 3, 2007


What Is Horror Literature?


Horror is based on fear. Different ages will have different feeling about horror, for example, children afraid of some monsters or ghosts that they heard from a story. They might think in their closet or under the bed, there is a monster or ghost is waiting for the lights off, and takes them away or hurt them. For adults, it could be many different reasons to make them feel horror, such as, death, jobs or other things that relate with their daily life. Those things which makes people feel scare could be different in the different generation, like terrorism, or nuclear war. Also, the point of view of horror is depending on personal emotion, some people like it, but some people don’t.
It is hard to make people to like horror or dislike it. As horror is a very emotional feeling everyone has their owe opinion about horror, and they all have different reasons to like or dislike it. According to the article, Stephen King wrote "We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones." It is true that people can be stronger by watching some horror or reading horror novels, because if we can deal with those horror fiction, then what else we can not deal with in our real life.
Reference

Justin D. Davis. (2007). What Is Horror Literature. BellaOnline's Horror Literature
Editor. Retrieved http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art21188.asp

Horror? Is It Scary Things?

Misun Lee
AAD 250
May 3, 2007


What Is Horror Fiction
What is horror? According to the article, What Is Horror Fiction, the author says the horror is about fear; people feel scared. Because of something that is not real, but random scary factors such as sound from movie. For example, in the horror movie, there are a lot of sounds. The point is we don not know where the sounds are from. We feel scared or sometimes thrill by hearing the sounds.
How about the actors’ customs and make-up? Why people scared more about sight effect? In my opinion, people remind their bad memory and horror experience from their memory by seeing the images. Even though ghost do not exist in the real world, people can create their own ghost in their mind. Besides, many factors such as many realistic skills make people more scared.



Hopper, T. (2001). What Is Horror Fiction?. Associate Editor. Retreived
http://www.fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue%202/horror.htm