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His way in telling a story very specific and clear. as reader, we can follow and use our imagination like we also involve in that story. It’s not easy to telling story about our experience to others that not familiar with the topic. However, in chouinard’s essay, is like we also experience what he told about.

I try to catch up all the post, will be back and revise!

How did the film change me? after watching this film, I have to admit that it’is have an impact on how my perception about environment issues. Like I said earliear, I am not environment person. (I run out of time will be back….)

What is border mean to me? On my perception, border is something that separated two objects. It maybe considers a wall or a line or something else. In my childhood experience, there are border between ethnic in my country. It’s hard for five years old to understand why she cannot make friend with “others”. Today society, there are border everywhere! isn’t it sound scary…I always wonder is the border protect you or hinder you from outside border?

On June 27 the world will celebrate the 126th anniversary of Helen Keller’s birth. Deaf and blind from infancy, Helen Keller played a leading role in most of the significant political, social, and cultural movements of the 20th century. Throughout her lifetime (1880-1968) she worked unceasingly to improve the lives of people who were blind and deaf. Helen’s own approach to life can be summed up by her advice to a five-year-old blind child in 1932:

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”

Helen Keller is a remarkable women who has inspire many people! Not just for one’s who are blind, but for who want changed. When I first read about her, I find that she was somehow gave me a strenght and learn to be strong. I think, Hellen Keller or Martin luther King,Jr are all great person. They have create changed and had done many great thing, although they might done in difference way!

To be honest, I don’t quite familiar in writing about comparison/contrast essay. I would appreciate if anyone can give me some advice about this issue.

Just to give it a try, I would like to compare similarities and contrast differences between Anzaldua’s writing process and my own. In Anzaldua’s writing, she used narrative style and she combines her native language into her writing. She also divided into difference part of topic. In my writing, I sometime do used narrative style, but because of lack of practice and writing not my favorite subject. I probably mostly just stated out my opinion in my writing. Sometime I found in my writing not coherent. I will just jump from one topic to another. To summarize, there are big differences between my processes of writing with Anzaldua’s. I still need a lot more practice and reading in able to improve my writing.

Honestly, I am not an environment fans. I never pay serious attention about what happen to our environment. But since I taking this class which involve in reading about environment theme, I guess is like somebody whisper into my ear _ “do something”. It’s scary to imagine that someday, our world just gone like the Easter Island or the Maya in Central America. I am not sure about that….just hope it won’t happen!

“It’s true that there are big differences between the situation of past societies and our modern situation today. The most obvious difference is that today we have six billion people equipped with heavy metal machines and nuclear power whereas the Easter Islanders had at most a few tens of thousands of people with stone chisel and human muscle power. Yet the Easter Islanders still managed to devastate their environment and bring their society to the point of collapse” (“The Mirror of Our Fate”, Jared Diamond). According to this quote, we should recognize and focus on how to not fall into same path as the Easter Islanders. We need to do something to protect our world for our children sake! I hope that one of us could start from the simple thing to save our world. Something like recycling maybe!