The Rabbit Proof Fence #2

After watching the film, Rabbit Proof Fence, it motivated me to think about the whole concept of Australian colonization again in the Aboriginals perspective. Even though the British did not really harm them in any physical ways, it was shocking and upsetting how they had separated half caste children from their families. In the story, when Molly and others escaped, A.O Nevile instantly tried to catch them again which really clearly shows how the British didn't want to leave out a single half caste. It was surprising how A.O Nevile thought he was doing the right thing, indeed helping them to get educated. I also learned how the British gave opportunities to only half castes who had whiter skin to get educated in public schools. And they taught others with darker skins farming and cleaning to become maids and farmers in future. On the other hand, I also learned that not all white people were vile, there were many white people in the story who actually helped the three girls during their journey back to their home. When Daisy headed to a train station by herself, it was really heartbreaking to see her getting captured after all her risk-taking journey. This movie made me feel a connection with the three girls. I feel that the British really needs to apologize to the Aboriginals for what they had done to them.

Rabbit Proof Fence

Today, in Humanities class, we watched the movie, rabbit proof Fence. It was a film based on a true story of three half-caste girls, Molly, Daisy and Gracie. A Half caste is a person who is a mixed aboriginal.

In the 1930s, the British colonizers took half castes to make the whole race in Australia more like them.(White race). The story begins in Jigalong, where men came to Molly and other two girls' family to take them to re-education camp.

I think Molly is a hero, because she was courageous enough to escape from the camp. She is an intelligent girl who knows how to track, in the camp, she sees clouds and predicts there would be rain which will reduce chance of getting caught. She was very fearless, she took life risks for what she believed was worth fighting for, which was freedom.

Reflection on my learning proflie.

Everyone has different personalities, ways they react to certain situations, and ways they learn.

Today in humanities class, we had such a meaningful class where we did few tests to find out which learning profile we are. Everyone has different ways of learning, strengths and weaknesses. I think by knowing my learning profile and applying when I study, it will make it much easily for me to focus on my work and be successful.

I am profile HH.
"These learners will benefit from sitting where they can process internally, quietly and are allowed allowed to doodle or manipulate clay while learning". I agree with this. I think I learn best when I'm in a quite place without disturbing noises where I can focus well. I am very sensible in hearing. Even little noises from computers distract me from learning.

"When under stress, this learner is at a great disadvantage because they cannot access their dominant hemisphere with sensory input, however, when not stressed this learner can more easily access logic/gestalt integration than any of the other logic profiles." I think this is true.When I'm under stress, I feel like that I'm no longer involved in class, as if my brain has been shut off. So it's really important for me to release my stress by doing simple activities like Lazy 8s and thinking caps from Brain Gym especially before tests so I can do my best.

"This learners may need to move,touch and manually explore in order to organize and express information." Since I have the dominant left hand connected to the Kinesthetic gestalt hemisphere, I need to move, touch and explore in order to organize and express information. This means that I need to do more activities that involve physical things rather than just sit and listen to the teacher. So strategies I will use from now on is to review information physically rather than just writing them on papers. For example, acting out what happened in Act1, Julius Caesar, than just memorizing them by reading.

4) I would like my teachers to know that whenever I'm understressed, I might process really poorly because i'm totaly left limited profile. But when I'm relaxed, I can more easily acess logic/gestalt integration than any of logic profile. This means that getting not stress is really important to me. So I would be really pleased if we can have simple brain activities before classes.

Brunelleschi's Activity Blog

Flippo Brunelleschi was once only known as a man with crazy ideas. In Florence, the great Catholic Church was left without its dome for more than a decade; many engineers tried but found it impossible because of its size and weights. But Brunelleschi with his hidden talent, he finished the dome in year 1436 and people started to recognize him as the most talented engineer in Florence.

I believe creative leadership was the most important prompts to Filipo Brunelleschi in building his dome. This is because he proofed his ideas by using eggs. First, he asked others if they can make an egg stand with its tip. Everyone failed. Then, he broke the egg's tip a bit and the egg stood up. If he hasn't done this, people would have not even tried to help him building his dome, because this creative leadership led people trust him and his theory about dome.

Where do new ideas come from?

Where do new ideas come from?

We are lucky to live in the 21st generation where great inventions have already created such as ipods and light bulbs. New ideas lead us to inventions that make our life easier. Then, where do new ideas come from? I think curiosity is what makes us to think about new ideas. Back in the ancient time, people started to cook with fire because they were curious about what fire is. If no one was curious enough to even try to cook food with fire, no one would have realized how useful fire is. Even in these days, people are still curious about how they can make something better. For example, apple just invented ipad because they wanted to make something better than other laptops. To conclude, I think curiosity led new ideas. Until people stop asking themselves and being curious, there will be new ideas, forever.

My favorite short story from our unit.

Monday September 6th, 2010

Responding to the essential question: What makes a good story?

I think good characterizations makes a good story. In my opinion, "Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes has the best characterizations than other shorts stories we read from this unit. Even though it's a short story, Langston Hughes represented Luella and Rogers really well using both indirect and direct characterizations. I really liked the character, Luella who is really brave and also kind, because I think she's the perfect hero type in real life.

This I believe

;lSe Jin Lee Green Class 2010-05-30
This I believe

I’m Korean. In 2009, more than ten celebrities in Korea suicide from Melancholia. I really don’t want to embarrass my country by writing by like this, I chose this as my topic because I want it to stop. Korea is the only country with this issue. There are reasons why Koreans comments bad things about others in Internet. All most all the South Koreans love to sit and use computer. In average, Koreans use computer for 4.4 hours a day. So, naturally people go to website, and view news about celebrates and leave bad comments about them. Even if they don’t know anything about them, even if they don’t really hate them, they write bad comments for fun or to prevent their stress from their school or work.

Starting from 21st century, ever since Internet became really popular in Korea, people lost their mind without realizing that the words they actually say in Internet can hurt others feeling. I was really upset when I heard news that one of my favorite actress suicide last year. The thing that made me more upset was the comments of the news, people were saying things like. “Thanks god you died,” “You deserve to die!” It was shocking, how can people actually say that to others? It’s just amazing how these people who are not even adults sit in a chair with their computer and leaving comments like this. Celebrities are also people like us; we don’t have rights to hurt them. When I become a parent, I will teach my daughter how to use the Internet properly, that words can hurt people.

It’s not only about celebrities, we need to think first before we say any thing to someone, including your close friends, family or even someone you hate. If everyone start to believe in this, many people would be able to live much happier life.