A Day In The Life Of Eastleigh Town Centre

A Documentary Photographic Profile By Sean Grossett

For this project I decided to do it on a place, and the place that  I decided to do it on was Eastleigh town centre.

The reason why I decided to do it on Eastleigh town centre is because I believe that the town centre in any city is the centre of the community.  No matter what ethnic background you come from, or whether you are in the lower, middle or upper class of society, we all meet in town centres. Also Eastleigh town centre has a number of activities to it, such as the Cinema, bowling, arcades, dining, a shopping centre, gym and also a kids indoor play area. So at different times of the day there are different types of people doing different things. E.g during the day there are more parents with their children because of the play area, then in the early evening it seems to be more families because of the dining. So hopefully you can see this in the pictures that I took.

This picture was taken at 6:30AM, I decided to take it from this angle because from this point of view you get a real chance to see the majority of the town Centre. I chose this part of the town Centre because this is the main walkway into the centre, so this is where most of the general public walk through every day. I decided to take the first photo at this time of the morning because I knew that it would be dark, I also knew that this would be the town Centre at it's most quietest, so it would be a good chance to see what it looks like before everything opens. 

This picture was taken at 10:30AM, at this time you can see that most of the restaurants are open for breakfast, we know this because the advertisement boards are out for Frankie and Bennies, Harvester and Prezzo, also the door is open for Frankie and Bennies whereas all these things were not going on in the first image. 

This picture was taken at 2:30PM and in this picture you can see that a few more of the shops have opened as there are a couple more advertisement boards are out. Also on the same level where I have taken this photo, to the right of the scene you can see two workman crouching down, hard at work. 

This picture was taken at 4PM and you can see that this is the first picture where there are people socialising in the town Centre. The two ladies making there way out of the town Centre could of potentially just finished shopping or maybe from having a late lunch. In the distance of the scene, down the stairs and across the road, you can see a man making his way into the barber shop. This is a typical scene for a town Centre, although you could argue that it is pretty quite.

This Photo was taken at 6:35PM. I look at this photo as a real family photo, because at this time of the day you can expect to see families pouring out of the restaurants, cinema and also the bowling complex and I believe that this photo shows this really well because you can see three different families all leaving the town Centre with what looks like a spring in there steps from having a good time. 

This last picture was taken at 10:30PM and it shows the last few people spilling out onto the streets of Eastleigh. They have probably just finished watching a late movie or have finished having a meal. This is could be considered to be an average time for the town Centre to start to get empty, so thats why I decided to take the picture at this time. 

My Mum...These Are The Days Of Our Lives Documentary

This documentary is about my Mum and her being the 2^nd generation of black Caribbean’s to come over to this country from the Caribbean. My grandmother and my grandfather on my Mums side of the family came over to the UK from Grenada on June 22^nd in the year of 1948. They came over on a ship called the Empire Windrush. They came over here to find work and a better life and it was when they came over here that they had my mother. I know that before my Mum was born it was very hard for my grandparents living in this country initially, so I thought it would be interesting to see how my Mum found it growing up in a country that took her a while to call it her own. Even though she was born in this country, her home life would have been completely different to that of the standard Brit at the time and with integration into the British society being a lot harder back then, life as a black Caribbean youth was completely different then to how it is now. Also the comparisons between how it was back then to how it is now is one of the key themes in this documentary. Then lastly it looks at how she dealt with the death of her father, who she was very close to throughout her whole life. Hope you enjoy J

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn7YdSoV9VE

Totalitarianism

• A totalitarian government means a single governing entity that has absolute power over all the citizens of a nation. This government could vary from being only an individual ruling a nation to a committee or political party.
•  A totalitarian government and leader also has plans to take over multiple countries and even the world.They are able to take  control and oppress the people of a state through the ideology of terror. 
• Prime examples of a totalitarian ruled country, are Hitlers Germany, Starlin's Russia and Mussolini's Italy.
• The way in which Hitler's Germany was able to strike the ideology of terror into it's people was through the Jews. It was almost as if they were saying, if you are not with us then this is what will happen to you.
• Hannah Arendt was one of the leading critics on totalitarianism. In 1951 she published a book entitled The Origins of Totalitarianism. In this book she set out to give a detailed account as to why and how totalitarianism started. The idea that the ideology of  terror was at the centre of a totalitarian run government, came from Arendt. she claimed that a totalitarian government would crush human morality and eradicates ideas such as guilt and empathy. 
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• In a totalitarian run government everyone is the same because they have to do exactly what their leader tells them to do. there is a lack of individualism. Existentialists would say that people who are leaving in a totalitarian run government are inauthentic or leaving in bad faith, because they are not free, they are not able to do what they truly want to do. However saying that, I find it strange that Heidegger was an existentialists, yet he supported Hitler who ran a totalitarian government. 
• In recent years China and North Korea are considered to be totalitarian run Countries. China mainly because it is a communist state and also it controls the population of it's country. Also North Kora is a communist state and you could argue that they are under a dictatorship run by Kim Jong-un. Even though a dictatorship and a totalitarian run government are considered to be two different things, you could argue that in order to a totalitarian government, the leader is also normally seen as a dictator in one way or another.
• When talking about Arendt and her saying that totalitarian run government's use the ideology of terror to run a country, you could argue that in North Korea Kim Jong-un does the same thing through the might of his army and also with the constant threat of him suggesting that he will use his nuclear weapons if needs be. 
• The idea of a totalitarian government is similar to that of Hobbes's leviathan, in the sense that there is one Devinne ruler who rules everybody.
• Also you could argue that there are totalitarian run organisations such as al qaeda, who use the cause of religion and the terror of terrorism to try to rule. I'm sure that if al qaeda had the opportunity to rule Pakistan or Afghanistan they would and they would do it through the ideology of terror.

Heidegger on Existsentialism

• The Sein und Zeit of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) claimed that Phenomenology, up to this point, had been too half-hearted. 
• The first task of Phenomenology, Heidegger maintained, was to study the concept of being (Sein) which was prior to the cleavage between consciousness and reality. 
• The most important of Heidegger's coinages is Dasein. Dasein is the kind of being that is capable of asking philosophical questions.
• The primitive element of Dasein is 'being in the world'. 
• The activity of Dasein, for Heidegger, has three fundamental aspects. First, there is what he calls 'attunement': the situations into which we are thrown manifest themselves as attractive, or alarming, or boring, and so on, and respond to them with moods of various kinds. Second, Dasein is discursive: that is to say, it operates within a world of discourses, among entities that are articulated and interpreted for us by the language and culture that we share with others. Third, Dasein is 'understanding' in a special sense that is to say, its activities are directed towards some goal, some 'for-the-sake-of-it' which will make sense of a whole life within its cultural context. These three aspects of Dasein correspond to the past, present and future of time; the time that gives Sein und Zeit the second part of its title.
• The essence of Dasein, says Heidegger, is its existence. In saying this, he became the father of existentialism, the school of philosophy that emphasises that individuals are not mere members of a species and are not determined by universal laws. What I essentially am is what I freely take myself to be.
• The relationship between Heidegger and Husserl didn't end well, in 1929 Heidegger succeeded Husserl as Professor of Philosophy at Freiburg and in 1933 he became Rector of the University. In a notorious inaugural address in May of that year he welcomed Nazism as the vehicle through which German people would at last carry out its historic spiritual mission. One of his first acts as Rector was to exclude from the University Library all Jewish Faculty members, including Professor Husserl, who still had five years to live. After the war Heidegger had to do penance for the support of Hitler and was himself prevented from teaching in the University from 1945 to 1950. However, his thought remained influential up to and beyond his death in 1976.

Husserl on Phenomenology

• The life of Edmund Husserl resembles, at crucial points, that of Sigmund Freud. Husserl was three years younger than Freud. Like him he was born into a Jewish family in Moravia, and attended lectures in Vienna. Both men devoted the greater part of their lives to a personal project that was intended to be the first really scientific study of the human mind. At the end of their lives both men fell foul of Nazi anti-semitism, with Freud driven out of Austria to die in exile, and Husserl's books burnt by German troops marching into Prague in 1939.
• Husserl's professional life, however was quite different from Freud's. His initial studies were in mathematics and astronomy, not in medicine. He went on to pursue an orthodox academic career in philosophy, holding posts in a succession of university departments. 
• Husserl initially focused his attention on mathematics. His habilitation thesis at Halle was on the concept of number, and his first book published in1891, was The Philosophy of Arithmetic. This sought to explain our numerical concepts by identifying the mental acts that were their psychological origin.
• Because of his desire to find a basis for mathematics in empirical psychology, Husserl was forced into some unattractive conclusion. He denied, for instance, that zero and one were numbers. 
• Reviewers of Husserl's book, notably Frege, complained that it contained a confusion between imagination and thought. The mental events that were the subject matter of psychology, being private to the individual, must rest on thoughts that were the common property of the race. Husserl yielded to the criticism and abandoned his early psychologism.
• Two things are essential to a thought: that it should have a content and that it should have a possessor. Suppose that I think of a dragon. Two things make this the thought it is: first, that it is the thought of the dragon and not of an eagle or a duck; second, that it is my thought and not your thought or Napoleon's thought. Husserl would mark these features by saying that it was an act of mine with a particular matter. Other people, too, may think of dragons; in that case, for Husserl, we have several individual acts belonging to the same species. The concept dragon, in fact, is nothing other than the species to which all such acts belong.
• Phenomenology was developed during the first decade of the twentieth century. In 1900 Husserl was appointed to an associate professorship at the University of Gottingen. There he had as a colleague the renowned mathematician David Hilbert, but his most enthusiastic collaborators in his new venture were a group of philosophers at Munich, who coined the phrase 'Phenomenological movement'. By 1913 the movement was self-confident enough to publish a yearbook for Phenomenological research. In the first issue of this appeared a book-length text of Husserl's, which was planned as the first volume of a work to be entitled Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology.
• Husserl believed, when I see a table, the intentionality of my experience is just the same whether there is real table there or if I am hallucinating.
• Phenomenology is not the same as Phenomenalism. A phenominalist believes that nothing exists except phenomena, and that statements about such things as material objects have to be translated into statements about appearances. Berkeley and Mill held versions of Phenomenalism. Husserl, on the other hand, did not assert in Ideas that there are no realities other than phenomena; he deliberately left open the possibility that there is a world of non-phenomenal objects. Only, such objects are no concern, or at least no initial concern, of the philosopher. The reason for this is that according to Husserl, we have infallible immediate knowledge of the objects of our own consciousness while we have only inferential and conjectural information about the external world. Husserl made a distinction between immanent perception, which was self-evident, and transcendent perception. Which was fallible, immanent perception is my immediate acquaintance with my own current mental acts and states, of physical things and events, and of the contents of other peoples minds.
• At Freiburg his lectures attracted a wide international audience, and he had among them highly influential soon to be philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Edith Stein.

Apocolypse Now

Apocalypse now is about an army Colonal called Kurtz, who disappears from the US army, to become a priest-king of a tribe in Cambodia. the film is set in the time of the Vietnam war and Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent on a mission by the US army to go into Cambodia and assassinate Colonal Kurtz as he posses a threat to the US army.
However, when Captain Willard finally captures Colonal Kurtz, he kills him then takes over his reign as King. This film is based on the ideas from the book The Golden Bough, which was written in 1890 by the Scottish anthropologist JG Frazer. The Golden Bough is essetially a vast essay on comparative religion, it traced the roots of Christianity in folklore and of science in magic.
Here is a little clip from the last scene, where Martin Sheen finally kills Kurtz with what is basically the Golden Bough.

David Icke on This Morning

I know we didnt do it this semester but never the less I thought it would still be interesting.....