Stephanie+Nguyen's+Reflection

When I first got the assignment and was allocated into the group that I would be working with, it was rather exciting as the idea of creating 'a website.' However when i first logged onto the website, it really fustrating as i didn't know how to use it and how to approach it. Mrs Stokes would say; "Patient Stephanie." and my response would be this is 'Gay!' After that first lesson i decided to gather my information first than deal with the wiki later.The for the first few lesson during school and out of school, i would do bit by bit and get the required information.
 * __FIRST TIME DOING THE WIKI__**

As i have gather most of my share in this assignment, i decided to start playing around with the site, and asking my classmates for help. This was probably a week or so after we were given the assignment. Although it was almost the most confusing thing at first, but thanks to my classmate and spending quite some time on it, i kinda got the hang of it and was able to insert some information on, and pictures. What i found very annoying about the wiki was that it isn't your normal creating a website page, it had its own templates that you are to choose from which was really cool. At this stage our group has been working really well together, we didn't have much problems and we have planned out who does what, and how we would like to set it out, and want the finish product to look like.
 * __Approaching the Wiki.__**

When researching about Christianity and looking at it in depth, it brought me a step closer to my faith as i got an insight on what my religion is all about and also i gain more pieces o but together to hopefully help me answer the big question eg; who am i, what is my purpose etc. At this stage our group has as least done some bits of their task. it's going quite well, however we could be moving at a faste rate incomparison to the other groups. Everybody in the group has really helped each other out, and we have been communicating through class. We have been all slowly trying to find music and clips add on. Miranda and Socheata, and stephanie Quan found so really good music and video that we can choose from to into our wikispace. During the times we didn't get the computer nor the laptops Mrs Stokes took us through three topic that will help us with our wikispaces. The three topics were humanity, faith and prayer. Each of these topics had to be included into our wiki therefore Mrs Stokes helped us gain insight on this topic so we have knowledge what to write. During the class dicussion about these topic we had to answer Who, What, When, WHere, How and Why and dicuss about it as a class. However people in the class wasn't really contributing therefore it wasn't much of a dicussion as Mrs Stokes had to ask people for their point of view. It would have been so much better if everybody contributed so that we can have more of a class dicussion going rather than silents. But overall these lession really helped us gather information and reinforce these topics.
 * __WHAT I'VE DISCOVERED__**
 * __Classes that we dicuss about humanity, faith and prayer.__**

It's the last week of school and we are finalising our wikispaces. Mrs Stokes took us to the small hall and we had to get into our groups and answer the question given. We were to record our dicussion so that we can put on our page, but it was so fustrating when there was bad news that stephanie quan couldn't find the application to upload the recorded discussion, but i guess we had to work around it. We are getting ready and adding finishing touches to our wikispace. I didn't really worry about the reflect till the end so it's kinda hard to remember what i did and write the exact dates, therefore i had to write it in stages and sections. I was currently told that Miranda is moving housing and she has no net, therefore can't finish off her section, which is rather fustrating as it's due soon, and i wouldn't want to hand in my assignment late, yet again we were confronted with another problem, i guess we just have to deal with it and hope that everything will work out in the end.
 * __Finalising our wikispaces.__**

JESUS AND DIALOGUE IN THE GOSPELS; (Matthew 15: 21-28) “the Canaanite Woman’s faith” speaks of a woman seeking help for her daughter “…My daughter is tormented by a demon.” (Matthew 15: 22-23). What occurs in this chapter is Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of  Tyre  and  Sidon. This was happening approximately 20CE- 30CE, and it involved Jesus, the disciples, the Canaanite woman and her daughter. As he arrived in to the region of Tyre and Sidon Cannanite  woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me,  Lord , you son of  David  ! My daughter is tormented by a demon!" Clearly this woman wasn’t from the same region as Jesus as he refers to her as a dog (they are non Jews, they are also known as gentiles) But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she keeps shouting after us." Jesus was testing the woman’s faith in him, and because she has shown that she does have faith and believes in him, her daughter was healed. “Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done as you wish.” (Matthew 15: 28) In this passage of the bible we see how dialogue- talking, listening and deep dialogue is used in hope for a message to get across. “The Canaanite Woman’s faith” is an example of Jesus in dialogue with another and it is based on Jesus dialoguing with the Canaanite woman and his disciples, some examples are; Jesus to his disciples: //“I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” (Matthew 15: 24-25)// Jesus to the Canaanite woman: //“Woman, great is your faith!” (Matthew 15: 28)// Through this story; humanity, prayer and faith is demonstrated. Humanity is presented when Jesus is responding to the Canaanite through testing the women, but due to this the disciple developed jealousy as the woman is only a dog a gentile, and she isn’t worth helping nor talking too simply because she was a non Jew this than raises, the theme of discrimination. Pray exists when the lady shouted “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon” Even though she is shouting it sounds like a she praying as asking of help (petition). Faith is practically exist in the whole story as Jesus is testing the Canaanite women on her faith and her believer therefore this whole story is considered to demonstrate faith. As Jesus is helping the gentile woman this is considered a movement towards peace and goodwill because in those days no one was seen to help a gentile as they were the outcast and weren’t very mixed well within society because they were non Jews. Because Jesus decided to help the gentile women he is making peace between the two types of groups. If I was to Imagine the result for each of the character I would be; Jesus- gains more experience in reaching out to people and Jesus could achieve peace between the Jews and non Jews. The woman-the result for the Canaanite woman is her daughter is healed by Jesus and now her faith is even stronger than ever. The Disciples- T he disciples realised that it was wrong for them to discriminate someone because of their background; maybe they even took something out of this and learn to follow Jesus actions, and their faith in Jesus will also grow from this experience. When we had the excursion to go and visit different types of Christianity and there was a guest speaker who came and talked to us, at school. I found her very smart and intelligent and she really got my attention. I listen to every word carefully and she made alot of valid points that I have never considered before. This includes the way people perceive Muslims, and how it’s wrong to judge people based on what people their nationally have done, and it isn’t fair for them to be judge as you quoted “Not all of us a bad...” Through her experiences she was able to deliver it passionately and in so much depth in such an interesting way! After her presentation I was left with the impression “WOW!” As in such a short amount of period she was able to change my attitude on the way I perceived people and along with that she has taught me things such as her religion, her background and her personal life experience in which I found very fascinating.