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.