Monday, March 28, 2011

Do you actually care and think about the Aboriginal?

Dear The Government of Australia,

The person whom I am who writing this letter is just a normal reluctant Australian who lived in Sydney. I am writing you this letter because I feel that what we are doing is wrong for the Aboriginal Australian. First of all, from the very first beginning, we brought our army to their land without any permission or anything! They were terrify and screaming because they have never seen anything white like us. But after they were nice and welcome us like a family. The relationship between them and us was quite good and friendly. We felt strange too that they are so different from us but our kindness and theirs make us bond together. After a while, we brought our own crops and animal into their land, we just brought it like it was our own land to grow. Some of the animals such as rabbit were not in the food cycle in this land. They keep eating the crop of the people and gaining more and more population that we even have to defend the animal that we brought. We treated the land like it was nobody’s but us. There were not law that said we could not enter and steal their territory. But please think back, if we were in that situation, would you feel happy and pleased if strangers, who have a totally different culture than us, come suddenly to our land and claim that it was theirs? How would you feel, gentleman? May be from our perspective, it was not right. That is the land we have been living for hundreds of year, even though there weren’t laws but still it’s ours. Do you feel it? That’s what the Aboriginal feel like when we claim the land. I also understand that the two group’s culture is very different but the soldiers could not go around shooting people like they were animals and nothing? You could not judge the culture if you do not know the culture really well and also it’s only from our perspective. The most ferocious and barbarous thing that we did to them is stealing their children away from their moms to be train like a British. Could you just imagine, you are an innocent Aboriginal woman who just working in farm and living happily. Suddenly one day, a white man come in and do things to you that you do not want. And you are now carrying a child with a person you do not even know well. But you feel like that is your child, and you love them just like a mom would feel and do. The child is half-caste. Our reluctant Australian think that because they are half caste, and from generations to one another, the Aboriginal will be extinct one day! Day by day, the children and mom have to hide their children from getting caught by the white men. When they take the children away, the mom could not do anything but crying and hitting yourself with a rock. You feel desperate, sadness all over but yourself; a normal Aboriginal could not do anything! How could your self-alone against Mr.Neville? Everyday, you just keep praying and crying, craving for your children to get back to you! And the children? You force them to do what they do not want to do! They do things and live where they do not belongs! Then only the brave ones would have courage and run away! They walk everyday, using courage of seeing their mom could fight back their challenges. We think we are superior? The children’s are superior! If you were in that situation, I do not think that we could do the same thing and run away! May be after, they could become like a white people and act like them! But deep down inside, they always carry this scar in their heart of the devils take them away from their home and force to live in sick places like hell!

Please consider what is the real caring and how really we are superior!

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Rabbit Proof Fence Blog.

Through the movie that we are watching in class: Rabbit Proof-Fence. The protagonist who is Molly who is a girl that been taken away from her mom because she’s half-caste and is training to become a full British. I think Molly is valiant, brave girl and she is the hero. Molly is a hero because she is trying to save her sister and herself to go back to where she belongs, her home in Australia. From the first time when she was being taken away, she missed her mom and shouted out her name but she didn’t cry like her sisters. When they being put in the cage, the white men stare at them, her sisters were being scared and hugging each other, but the brave girl just stare at him back. When they arrive at the nun’s house, Molly was being a brave oldest sister for her sisters to lye on. She takes her sisters’ hands and being supportive. Not only brave but Molly is a girl that really love her country and desperate to go back to her mom. She forced and encouraged her sisters to run away from the nun’s house. She said very straight that this place is full of bad people and it makes her sick, so she is going back home. If Molly weren’t brave like her sister she wouldn’t try to go back home. She was not scared of being caught and be punished by the nun and Mr. Neville. When she’s see the thunderstorm is coming, the intelligence girl immediately thinks that the rain will cover her track mark and her scent. Molly is the leader of the group. She is the one who’s making plan for her sister to follow. Molly told her sister to pull out her bag to stuck it in the tree so that the tracker will think that they have been go forward but actually they are going backward. We haven’t watched the full movie yet but if she using this intelligent that she has, the three sisters will be success and come back home with their mom.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Learning Profile
















I learn best when I learn by visually focus on listening (auditory), and I could analyzing the details of information. I also learn best when I learn from the whole perspective, emotions and movement. I must hear and usually I had a good memory for the details, spelling and math.
I need to improve on my hand writing. When I focus on writing, my hand writing is quite nice but when I'm in hurry my writing could get really bad. My biggest challenge is linear, processing to the exclusion of the gestalt. When I'm under stress, my visual, communication and movement is limited, so I will try to control that. Sometimes, I need to close eyes and turn right ear, so I will have to improve for more eye-contact and try to not depend too much on close my eyes.
The strategies that would help me in my learning is step-by-step instruction, positive, enjoyable experiences will help my creative learning and to fully access imagination. Doodle and manipulate clay while learning. Lazy 8's, blinking while tracking and writing drawing with my non dominant hand (right hand). Dancing, soccer and martial arts like Tai Chi. An integrative balance of art, music, free form movement and interpersonal, interpersonal skills combined with cognitive hard-trying will be highly beneficial.
I would like my teacher to know this about me, I prefers structured learning and organized and orderly sequencing of information. For example, for homework, I would I to know the specific details of the homework, which pages I need to read, what do I have to do. I have the ability to follow step-by-step direction by listen. Sometimes, I may need to close eyes and turn my right ear toward the information source with new learning. I have a dominant left hand, which connected to the kinesthetic gestalt hemisphere, I may need to move, touch my pen or something in order to organize and express information. I usually play with my pen while I'm thinking deeply. I will benefit from sitting in the front of the room on the left hand side.