LAST journal

Wow…finally, it is the last week of the semester! Time goes so fast.

I still remember the day which is the first composition class, and we created our own blogs and thought why do we have to write this every week?

Oh…too much homework

 ohhh…in- class writing again!!

ohNo…today is presentation day!

I believe those will be our murmur every week! At the beginning of the semester, I once hoped that tomorrow was the last day of this semester; however, now I’m kind of miss the time when we get along together. I believe ALP is only the access to the university or graduated school, whatever, for everyone. I think everyone has a more important and desirous goal or dream which you guys want to reach.  Maybe, most of us will feel that we are stuck in this program because we are still struggling with the access to go the university. For me, it might be true; however, this program is where I set up the foundation of my English ability.  The only thing I hate about this program is that I have to get up veeerrrrryyyyyyy early! Otherwise, I am kind of like it because I really learn a lot from this program.   

So, good luck to everyone. Wish you guys have a great summer and receive good news from school!!

Also, good luck to our professor, Sean, your baby most will be very cute, smart, and healthy! And I have ever heard that the one who is going to be a father will always be kind to his students’……………………………….............................................................................................................................grade!!

Journal 17: Baraka

Some of scenes which make me impressed are the scenes portraying poverty.  The first scene leaps to my eyes is a huge garbage mountain with lots of women and children dressing poorly and slatternly and picking up something which they think are useful.  When a garbage truck just dives in that place and prepares to dump a truckload of “new trash,” all of the women and children will flock around new trash and eager to find what they want. 

Before these scenes, there are a series of scenes shows the development of industrialization. People wear good cloths, work in very crowd streets, and take crowd subway every day. Having enough food is not a problem anymore, so people begin to develop other industries to make lives better.

The scenes which describe industrialization followed by the scenes which portray poverty contribute to a strong contrast. It is hard to imagine that the difference between the rich and the poor could be so great.  Those women who picking up trash may even not know that there is another society which is completely different from the place they live.  After seeing this film, I believe that a major reason which causes those poor countries to become poorer and poorer might be us, developed countries.  We want to make our countries richer and more advanced, so we sacrifice the poor countries.  International companies set up the branches there and also bring the poor countries pollution and give their citizens very low salaries. We use our advantages to take everything we want from them and dump every problem to them.  Help might be the most efficient way to relieve their difficulties.  Donating money could not be the best way; helping them develop agriculture or helping them establish education system may really mean “help” for them.   


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