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A Reaction Paper based on the movie
"The Ultimate Gift".

Are you feeling sorry for yourself? What if your problems were reasons to rejoice? Can you imagine that a crisis might be an opportunity or even a gift in disguise? Here's a movie entitled "The Ultimate Gift" which follows about a wealthy, immature young man on a journey of spiritual and emotional discovery to uncover one of life's ultimate spiritual question, "What is the relationship between wealth and happiness?"It was his grandfather who gave him an unlikely inheritance-a crash-course on life-taking him on a path that will change him forever. For me, this film carries on the tradition of passing on the wisdom of the ages to a generation sorely in need of guidance and reminds viewers that being human is more than existence and survival; it is connection with one another that enriches our lives and those around us.

The lifestyle of people around the world is becoming faster in phase as time goes by. The result of this is that they depend more on things that can help them get most of their needs and complete their tasks easier and faster. Some of these tasks are shopping, paying their bills, sending gifts, communicating with colleagues, looking for information and even applying for loans. This is just exactly what the World Wide Web can offer people.

With the age of time, there has come a change in communication for humans. Businesses and jobs can be successfully handled through the use of emails and text. Amidst all of these electronic changes, we, humans even have Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Youtube, which is a social network. What happen to social events in buildings were people were able to talk face to face to one another.

Somehow, amidst our infatuation with Facebook, YoutTube, Twitter, and like young adults are still making time for another one of their favorite pursuits: reading magazines. Contrary to popular misperception, the phenomenal popularity of the Internet has not come at the expense of magazines. What�s changed isn�t people�s affinity for magazines but the means by which they acquire them- ordered online. And just as the Internet drives magazine subscriptions, magazines drives web searches- with nearly double the effectiveness of Internet itself. Some might call it ironic.

There is a phenomenal rate of increase knowledge of the Internet. Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Youtube is growing by millions of people across the world talking to one another and sharing hopes, dreams and dramas over an internet connection. The Internet drives some of us mad, happy, sad and curious. We tend to turn on our computer, laptops, phones and go directly to our social network. We even post every time we change locations. We post comments about other people in their work places. I can see where it helps in some cases keeping in touch with one another through online. But there are cases where we need to block a person or people so they cannot know what we are doing and where we are going.

I call the Internet era an ironic change of events. The medium that some predicted would vanish magazines and books is actually helping growing their growth and vice versa. I hope that with the internet, people do not vanish into their own homes, and become coach potatoes and that we students don�t vanish into our own cyber world and forget what we are here for.