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GENERIC CULTURAL EVENT CRITIQUE

Name My Huynh Class period/section 10:00 10:50

Critiques should be typed, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins on top, bottom & sides.

1. Name, date, type of event and place of event/exhibit. Im attending to the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Types of event: Church

Address: 3901w 2925s, West Valley City, UT 84120

Date of Participate: Sunday 2/9/2014

2. List the artists, speakers, or participants you saw?

There were many people that I saw in the church, but the most significant people that I know the name of are Kevin, George, and the Father.

3. What were the objectives of the event/exhibit? {100 words}

The objective of this event are that it making me think that by following Jesus Christ, there will be salvation to all my action and he will forgive me for whatever I done. It also making me obedient to Jesus Christ, and trying to tell me that by pursuing and summiting to Jesus Christ, I will receive joy and happiness throughout my life. In addition, the Old Testament inspires me in using the Bible to talk to Jesus, which will help my salvation.

2 Jesus will recognize me because Im one of his disciples. The Bible is what truly leading me into the right and joyful life.

4. What was the event/exhibit designed to make you think about? {150 words}

I believe this event designed to lead me into their world. Im Buddhist and it is trying to make me abandon the religious that I had believed in my whole entire life. It is designed to make me worship God, and study the Bible. Pray, love others, help each other, partake baptism and learn how to live as a godly person. It is telling me guard the proper teaching of the Bible, it believe in it blindly, to unifies the church, and become a real disciple. It is making me think that only Jesus can be unified this world, and we all are his disciple. Therefore we need to protect his land, he is the only one that can give us real salvation, love and peaceful. He is the only person that are being reborn and willing to take all the sadness, disaster, and everything that can hurt his disciple. He is our only teacher that wanting to save us. 5. What was the events/exhibits cultural context and how did this affect the event/exhibit? {150 word minimum}

The church context is to be very organized. People are dressing professional in order to not disturb the kindness of Jesus that granted to them. The context of the church has making the event into a formal environment, only which people that believe in Jesus

3 attended. As we can see, it is a free organizes but all the people are knows each other and having the same believe that are attending.

As for the effect of the event, we had to consider what people action when it came to singing to the Bible, I seen there are many people singing, closing their eye, or watching the watch. It making me thinks that the event context might be formal, but there are people that going to church just to fulfill their need or following their family. Thus, this has effect the way I look at church and affect the event as well.

6. What was the events or exhibits historical context/focus and how did this affect the event/exhibit? {150 word minimum}

The event historical focuses are on teaching the people about Bible. Letting people talk about their wrong action to the Father, and making them regretting and wash it away with Jesus salvation. It wanting the people to think that all there action will receive forgives from Jesus. By following the Bible, it will lead every disciple into a joyful life. By following Jesus, we will have everything we need in life, because he is the one that creating this entire universe. He is the everlasting God, the Lord, and the Creator of the end of earth. But it also focuses on saying that Jesus is the only God that makes friend and home with the human. It believes all God are one, and that one is Jesus Christ. He might seem to be unseen and untouchable, but we all know that he exist. He will always be watching us and care for us. He will help us going through our difficult times and good times.

7. What was the point of view of the participants/organizers? How were their attitudes or approaches impacted by their culture/or that of the exhibited pieces? {150 word minimum}

The points of view of the participant are greatly believed in God. Their attitudes are that if we did not believe in Jesus. There will be no salvation and joyful for us. There will be nothing that can be granted in our life without being appreciated to the Creator of this world.

Their view to Jesus is that he is the only God in this world. Jesus is the only God that cares for his disciple. By not believing in Jesus, there will be always a punishment. It might not be done by this time, but it will come eventually. Not believing in Jesus is like a criminal confessing a murder which can be granted dead as a result. As for the Bible, it is like Jesus instruction, it say that all the disciple need to learn it and follow it exactly without any question.

8. What other factors might have influenced the attitudes or approaches of the participants/organizers? {150 word minimum}

In my own opinion, the other factors that influence the attitudes of the participant are their family. In common sense, kids usually follow what their family believe in and will pass on to their own family as well. For example, When I follow George, one of the kind missionaries that offer his help to lead me into the Church, the first thing I see is that people are start singing, so I sit down to listen and observing. I had seen lots of people

5 singing, mumbling, and there are people just looking at their watch every minute pass by. It is telling me that there are people that did not want to participate in this event. And what are the facts that make them come. In addition, another factors that can influence the attitudes of the participants are that their prices. For example, some people wanting to be equal to the other by attempting to do the same thing as most of the people do and trying to be equal.

9. What social issues did the event/exhibit address? {150 word minimum}

The only social issue that this church is caring about is gay marriage. There seem to be many people talking about how bad gay marriage can bring to this world. Jesus will allow it to happen, and there will be no more salvation from him if we let it happen.

Gay marriage is like a poison to this world. It need to be exterminated, and will never allow into our system. The only marriages that are being allowed are between men and women. There will be no same sex marriage, it will destroy the system and there will be no solution in fixing it. Thus, this has make me think about how they addressing the issues, and wanting to know what happen if their family member is gay or lesbian. What would they do? And how did the church react on knowing that there disciple are the threat of breaking the system.

6 10. What philosophical issues?

There seem to be very least philosophical issues that I had seen in my visiting to the church. The only struggle that the student having is studying the whole Bible, which is very hard consider to me. It is like giving a child a dictionary and telling them to remember in a couple months, and follow exactly what it says.

11. What answers/conclusions, if any, were reached? {100 word minimum}

In conclusion, I actually find it interesting that people of the same religion may have the same ideas and attitudes about their belief. It demonstrates our uniqueness as an individual. It had proof to me that Christian is a religion of believing in their Creator which is Jesus. It follows the Bible without any question of being it right or wrong. And the act of people had taught me that there are people that follow Jesus just because of their need or family making them to believe in.

It had answer to my question about following Buddhism or Christianity. The answer was reached when I witness how professional the people act and their kindness toward a stranger that not believing in the God that they believe in.

12. How did the event/exhibit relate to what we have been doing in class?

This event had telling me that everything we learn in class is true. There are many religions in this world, but each individual will had their own believe. There might be an error to many religions. But it can ease the pain and stress of people by believing in God.