Service learning 4/25/08

 This week in service learning we talked about possible options about what we could do and talked about what could be the start of people being homeless. Then we went to the Federal Reserve bank and found out about money or the things we didn't know about money. This week we are planning on finding possible options what we are actually going to do as our actual project.

empire of the sun

In the movie Empire of the Sun the character Jamie changed so much throughout the movie you would've never thought he was the same person except he was still annoying but he learned to survive on his own. In the begining of the movie he was a rich snotty nose boy who thought he could talk down to anybody that was below him. But something happened where as though he got seperated from his mother and father when the war started. He had to learn how to make it on his own without the help of others. In the middle of the movie you would see he has changed a lot he makes a living by trading with people for certain things. He also has made families everywhere he went and someone he was close to named Basie changed his name to Jim so thats what they called him. By the end of the movie he has improved so much as a person he wasn't selfish no more he learned how to share with others and helped people who needed help even if he needed help him self. 

 In the begining of the movie he was very stuck up and pretty much did what ever he wanted. Like in one part in the beggining of the movie he was riding his bike around his yard and even though his parents told him to stop it he didnt listen  he just kept going and his parents did nothing to disipline him. He also was obsessed with planes and as the war was about to start so him and his family stayed in a hotel and while they were there the war started and thats when Jamie got seperated from his mother and father. 

  Towards the middle of the movie he started being something like a hustler when he met the Man Bassie and since this was Bassie Lifestyle he started to get used  to it and it became how he lived. When the war started to get very bad Everybody who have once lived in China had to live in some sort of camp, and that's where Jamie made his family at. He also helped old and sick people by trading to get them certain things that they needed and he always got their food since people were to sick or old to rush to get it since it was first come first serve. So by this part of the movie his name was Jim which was the name Bassie gave him.

  

As you get near the end of the movie it starts to show you how much he has changed as a person and started to think of other people before he thought of hisself which was never an option for him in the begining. He even became more mature in many ways. Even though he didnt remember his mother or father he knew certain things about both of them