Writing For Multimedia And The Web - Reflection Week 7

It seemed I was misinformed regarding last week.



As it turns out, last week was not the last week of presentations, in fact it's actually this week.

So, for serious this time, we are going to wrap up the presentations.

Yarminee set the stage as she presented on the weird cultures around the world. It gave me flashbacks to the previous presentation about taboos from around the world. However, it differs from taboo as these cultures are celebrated and are not frowned upon like taboos. However, it was jarring to see what other cultures perceive as beauty. I couldn't understand how a mutilated foot or an elongated neck could transcribe as beautiful, but I'm not here to judge.

Next, was Wafa. She did a presentation on the origins of Halloween. I've always wondered the motivation behind  celebrating Halloween and I guess I got to  address this through Wafa's presentation. I felt like wanting to carve my own jack-o-lantern after the video where she showed how jack-o-lantern carving was done in the White House of the President himself, Mr. Barrack Obama.

Halloween party at the Whitehouse

Next, was Ummil who did a presentation on a type of flower called Borage. Apparently the Borage has lots of medicinal value. The most intriguing of this, I found was the ability to heal skin disorders. I've never heard of the Borage before, and this was certainly an interesting new information for me.

A Borage flower

And finally, to end it all, was Syazwani, who did the topic " Cyber bullying ". I never really considered cyberbullying as that much of a problem previously, but it seemed I was wrong to think so. Syazwani showed how serious this can be for the victims involved and cyber bullying should be purge from the face of the planet, along with all the other types of bullying.

And so, with that, the presentations are finally over. There have been lots of interesting topics brought forth to attention by my fellow classmates. Can say, I'm a bit reluctant to end the presentations because I enjoyed each and every one of them and was always looking forward for more.Ah well, until next time I suppose.