utopia

Utopia

·         Based on my own knowledge utopia to me is the perfect place or the perfect world.

·         The internet definition of utopia is: often Utopia An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects.
A work of fiction describing a utopia.
An impractical, idealistic scheme for social and political reform.
also Utopia - utopia: any ideal place or state, esp. in its laws and social conditions; any visionary, sometimes impractical scheme for social improvement.(source: http://www.answers.com/topic/utopia)

·         Internet pages relating to Utopia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia

http://utopia-game.com/shared/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_%28book%29

http://www.safarinow.com/go/Utopia

 http://www.sleeping-out.co.za/member_details-MemberID-1068.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042210/

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/utopia

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/utopia

http://www.roomsforafrica.com/establishment.do?id=1038

·         With the search of utopia I found that there is some places that they describe as utopia for holidays and also what I found is that Utopia is placed in the New World and More links Raphael's travels in with Amerigo Vespucci's real life voyages of discovery. He suggests that Raphael is one of the 24 men Vespucci, in his Four Voyages of 1507, says he left for six months at Cabo Frio, Brazil. Raphael then travels further and finds the island of Utopia, where he spends five years observing the customs of the natives.

According to More, the island of Utopia is two hundred miles across in the middle part, where it is widest and nowhere much narrower than this except towards the two ends, where it gradually tapers. These ends, curved round as if completing a circle five hundred miles circumference, make the island crescent-shaped, like a new moon.(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_%28book%29)

·         It was difficult because utopia can mean so many different things so i just went with the one source that can define and explain utopia and that was the Wikipedia one.

·         In this case the context is important when searching for utopia there is allot of vacation places that use the word utopia to describe their resorts so the context of some of the internet pages where pretty un-useful.

Some images that relates to the word utopia:

 

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·         The site that interested me the most was “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_%28book%29”.

zeitgeist

 Zeitgeist

o   For me the term zeitgeist is n movement that we as the public and the communities are not aware of its happenings, it is the underground movement that happens in our governments and also with the media, some corporate companies and also banks,  things they tell us that we should believe, no questions asked. I also think all these companies, the government and media manipulate the world and also we as humans, religion also is a factor in the zeitgeist movement making us think more about our believes and if it can be true or not.

o   The internet meaning for the word zeitgeist, Zeitgeist [tsyt‐gyst], the German word for ‘time-spirit’, more often translated as ‘spirit of the age’. It usually refers to the prevailing mood or attitude of a given period. The spirit of the times; the dominant beliefs of a particular period. The term is usually applied to the study of literature, but it has also been applied to sport for example, in connection with the current belief that winning is all that matters. (Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/zeitgeist)

o   Internet pages related to zeitgeist

http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist:_The_Movie

http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827/

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist/index.html

http://tzmsa.co.za/

http://www.google.co.za/search?q=zeitgeist&hl=en&prmd=imvns&source=univ&tbm=vid&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=rWtDT9nBEo7KmQWBuemoBw&ved=0CIcBEKsE&biw=1342&bih=593

http://www.zeitgeist.com/

o   With doing the research of the Zeitgeist i found that it is the general of culture, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, or political climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambiance, morals, sociocultural direction, and mood associated with an era.

o   Choosing the right source for me was easy in a way because I watched the documentaries so I just typed in the “zeitgeist movement”.

o   The content when searching for a specific task is important because some of the pages on the web can be editable people can put their own idea and thoughts of the matter in there and some of the sources cannot be true or that explained well.

o   Images related to zeitgeist:

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o   The site that interested me most is “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist:_The_Movie” whereby they explain some of the documentaries, and they also stated that zeitgeist is the Da Vinci code on steroids.

o   Key word that helped me to refine my search is “movement”,