Introduction for research paper.

In the nowadays world , religion is a key point that leads to conflict as well as peace. Followers worship and live with the belief toward their religion. As the matter of fact, religion is always an important part in real life to most people. In real life, they can go to church , temple to worship or simply just stay home and read bibles. However, since the time i found out their is another virtual life, that is SL, besides the real one I always wonder about the availability of religions and how they can worship their religion in the virtual world. Then I found out there are as many religions available in Sl as in real life such as Buddhism, Christian , Muslim and Islam. The way people worship their religions are not different much from people in real life.

Research question and topic.

I chose to write about religion in SL for research paper.
What offers religion followers in SL get?

Research paper outline.

I Introduction
Religion available in SL
Activities people involve for worship
II Body
Talk about several religions in SL
Buddhism:
_ Temple, location, worship, popularity
Christan:
_Churches, location, approximate number of followers
Muslim:
_Some infomation, mosques,locations, popularity
Islam:
_Some infomation, mosque, location, differences between Muslim
Some others religions if available
III Conclusion:
The growth of virtual worship and churches, temples and mosques in SL
Advantages

Topic: Entertainment in SL.

Citizen of Second Life can involve in entertainment with such activities as going to movie theater, club, or drama theater.

Introduction.

Although Second Life is considered by some to be a “game,” others refer to it as a “micro-world” where anything that happens in the “real world” is possible. People go to Second Life to live new life beside the “real” one they are living in now. Be a member of the society, you can do anything you want just as in real life from partying to going to the movie and more. Second Life is so realistic that it provides you any activities you have in real life such as study, career, housing… And in such activities, education is the activities that amazed me the most. It keeps making my mind wondering “How people in a virtual world can do such a thing as study?” . And I found out that Education take place in Second Life can provide students with many subjects such as Language Study, Machinima , ... and benefits as well such as online teaching and study, real estate practice... So I want to discuss more about this idea in the paragraph below.

Topic:Education and Research in Virtual Environments

Education take place in Second Life can provide students with many subjects such as Language Study, Machinima , ... and benefits as well such as online teaching and study, real estate practice...

When i first came to info island . The building and everything make me think about it as a park at first sight. And around me there were some guys flying, chatting, walking around , i guess they practicing how to interact in the Second Life for the first time.

The first place I go is Sci-Fi fantasy portal .I think it looks like an outdoor movie theater .There some portal next to big poster of the movie and when you click it , it will show you the summary of the movie.

This is the snapshot i took with the librarian and the events:
" Join us Wednesday, January 14, on Health info Island at 8:00 a.m. SLT in
:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/154/226/0

Investing InfoIsland informal seminar

Wed. Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. SLT: A brief, informal tour of Station 7 on Investing Info Island. Please join us for a chat about the final of the seven information stations on Investing Info Island, which appropriately addresses several "last things" such as wills, estate planning, trust funds, funeral planning and costs, and passing on this knowledge and advice to future generations. If you need a TP, please IM Maxito Ricardo...."

The second place I go is Stonewall learning center. This time the stone wall shows information about gay history. It show many interesting information about what gay society had been through.
The next place I went is peace park religious resources .In here there many chapels of different religious likes Christian, Buddhism…












The ICT Library is the last place I went to visit. This look pretty big and inside there is many information portals ready to click and read. My friend had to leave for the nex class so i took my photo alone.

I also visited Chakren Forest. It looks like the combination of forest and a park .There are benches. chairs, big statue…even a fountain. But it is beautiful.

I also visited Beckenbach. It looks like a fashion outlet to me, where you can buy clothes, shoes…. Inside it is pretty dark.
I went to Thmiskyra in the morning and everything looks fascinating there. The building, the trees, everything were well constructed. It was constructed by Surina Skallagrimson. There are many houses with different style here like European, Chinese and they even have a sakura tree.

Let Me Introduce my Second Self.

In Second Life, I think one of the most interesting parts of the game is to create your character. It is all up to you to choose the way your character look and appearance: tall, fat, hair style, eye color… You can make yourself the way it is in real life or different is up to you. I want to create a new me in Second Life so he look pretty much like me with black short hair , long face ,dark eyes, thin (actually I look thinner) with t-shirt and jean pant. I think it his appearances pretty much like me except he does not have a heavy coat like the one I am wearing right now.

The first time I got in Second Life, there was a bunch of my face around me. So I decided to make my character unique by making his look the same as me. It was not so hard to make him look like me but there are many parts you need to modify if you wish to have a decent one. It actually took me sometime to create second “me” but I think it worth it. I am now unique and the chance to run into my “twin” is close to impossible. I am now completely happy with the way I look .It is a new me in a new life.

New chances and future are waiting ahead in Second Life. So far, I did not call Second Life a game because everything just too real to be a game. It is not about the graphic, what I want to talk about here is the way people interact with each other in Second Life. They can voice chat or text chat, go to club, talk show, buy houses, even having sex …. You can do everything you can in real life in this virtual society, sometimes even more like flying, or teleport. This is like you are living in a realistic dream in the person you can create the way you want and in the dream you choose.

This is not the first time I have used some kind of virtual societies on the internet (including some online games), but I was surprised when I first interacted with Second Life. Everything is so realistic, just like its name Second life. You really can get your second life here on the internet beside the real one you are living in. It sound a little bit crazy if you have not gotten chance to contact with Second life .But once you already got into it, you will understand.

welcome to my blog!