Lets celebrate Easter with joy



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 Good Friday is observed on the Friday before Easter Sunday. On this day Christians Honor the passion, or suffering, and death on the cross of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Many Christians spend on this day in fasting, prayer, sincere turning away in both the mind and heart, from self to God. Since the date of Good Friday is dependent on the date of Easter, it changes from year to year. Good Friday is a day of strict fasting and abstinence. Catholics who are over the age of 18 and under the age of 60 are required to fast, which means that they can eat only one complete and two smaller ones during the day, with no food in between. Catholics who are over the age of 14 are required to refrain from eating any meat, or any food made with meat on Good Friday.christianity.about.com/od/holidaytips/qt/whatisgoodfrida.htm

Good Friday is celebrated with different churches in different way, where churches meet in certain places, for example the Nazareth Baptist Church who also known as (Shembe), they usually meet at Nanda in Durban, where they gather their prayers on top of the Mountain. The Zion Christian Church (ZCC) the church headquarters are at Zion City Moria, in Limpopo province where they usually meet, the church is led by Lekganyane family. Good Friday is a wonderful day for us, there is a reson to be thankful for. His death has given us life that is renewed and blessed .So we have to bear in mind the purpose to celebrity this day, by encouraging one another the message of not drink and drive, ask yourself such question who is driving you home ?, and lets spread the words of God in this Good Friday from 6 April until its fall.

Time to challenge Media

                     
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Our cultural experience are affected by the mass communication, if we may look how much time we spend on TV set for example.We tend to spend large amounts of our time in a range of media, because television has the power to recognise how we spend our time, but we have to look how its change our perception and cultural identity.How we perceive what we see on media, for instance a message that is anticipated for high culture and that is meant for low culture ( Urban versus Rural).

They are movies that define certain society for example famous movie known as Tsotsi which was based on human circumstances to overcome obstacle, but where else drama such Yizo Yizo was seen as promoting violence in some certain societies. where else do you agree with this argument, "that Media exposure to pornograph causes viewers to display specific attitude towards women.

Media is capable on making assumptions about audiences that are based on conceptual ideas of what people are like, rather than how they really are, for example look any glamour magazine and you can see what the makers of those texts think men and women should look like. Think of any advert on TV where they advertise something, notice that there is always power behind it, but people's feedback on media shown that mass media is seen as a facts of life, for example people nowadays consider something from  Internet or in a newspaper as truth, regardless of the source. 

Mass media has a  persuasive power over us, Newspapers, Radio, TV can manipulate whole societies cause debate and concern. The media and mass communications have interacted and mixed with pre-exsting cultures, forms, and values. People need to acknowledge what media portray, and take media as a dissemination of information, and stick to what you belief and acknowledge unknown sources from the media before you take a step. Is not late to challenge Media perspective sooner or later it will affect us and the coming generation.www.cliffsnotes.com/study.../topicArticleId-26957,articleId-26946.ht..

Does Language barrier make many citizen and immigrants in Universities feel helpless?

                                                             

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 Language and Communication systems are part of Culture, for example the sign of peace is used  across the world. Language difficulties impact not only information gathering, but also create barriers among people, Whereby we found English used as a tool of exchanging information in politics, business, and media, because is understood across the country. The purpose here is not to argue for or against the English language, but to show case the different barriers within students in University. As we known that University is composed of Inclusivity of diversity for example in south we have 11 official languages, but there are negative and positive impact on those language among people during interaction.

The impact of language barrier, for example where you find students who are in a three sharing room, but the two students speak same language, Wherever the other speak different language from the two he/she may  feel

. Isolated and feel like you not part of that people

.You feel stupid, seems you do not know anything

.You also become lost as well

In the other hand the positive impact of sharing same language lead to

.Sense of belonging, you feel like you are at home, and you feel like you not alone anymore.

.You feels the connection of the same culture and confidence

.You feels also proud.

We do find English as a medium to address the nation, and this does not mean that other South African languages are not used to address the nation, they are used in small communities that speak same language or they speak different languages but they able to understand each other, for example on etv this morning on Sunrise (15/03/2012), the minister of Correctional Service, Mrs Mapisa-Nqaku addressing the two prisoners that tried to escape at the Tshwane prison in their own mother tongue (Zulu).   



It is a common belief that names map out ones destiny

In African cultures naming a child map out ones destiny.In some African cultures the first-born is named after the paternal grandfather like in Zulu culture for example,if you are married. In some societies it has to do with class and status take for example the famous artist Beyoncé and her husband Jay-z named their first born Blue Ivy Carter, but what does this name mean?

According to Mthokozisi Ndlovu, Second year student in PR and Communication, at the University of Johannesburg believes “that a certain name suggest a certain standing in society, or in the family tree”. In Zulu culture when a baby turns three months a special Ceremony takes place called Imbeleko (the naming ceremony), where the child is introduced to the ancestors by name. During the Ceremony the toddler’s hair is cut for the first time and a sacrifice is made to the ancestors in the form of a white goat being slaughtered. The goat gallbladder is then pierced and the bile poured into the baby, this is to indicate that the goat is the child messenger to the ancestors. A piece of the goat skin is then cut out, to form a bracelet for the child which he/she will wear until it eventually falls out.