Why Should The British Apologize To The Natives?

After watching the movie called the "Rabbit Proof Fence" I have felt that the people in Australia were discriminating the aboriginal as an out cast, also taking their children away however, they aren't any children, their a half cast children (where a British man marries to an aboriginal woman). This unfortunate accident happened in 1930 when three aboriginal kids that was Molly, Daisy and Gracie was taken away from their mom's and taken from a camp to learn the proper way to live. So I believe that the aboriginals people need an apologized because they lived a long way to endure a hard life by their children taken away from them.

Molly Craig - Born As A Hero?

The movie called the "Rabbit Proof Fence" is a very interesting film, how native Australians fell in despair to live as outcast to the British. Molly Craig is one of the half cast children, there the British separated them from their parents and sent them to a camp where they train the half-cast kids to be one them (which are the British).

I consider Molly Craig as a hero, because despite they are separated from their parents thousand's of miles apart, Molly takes her cousin and her little sister, however, escaping from the camp was nearly impossible and if Molly had bring her two family along with her their risk of getting caught and escape will be shortened. I thought that her action really inspires me because they have a long journey up ahead of them and getting caught she risk's everything to bring her cousin, her little sister and herself to go back to their mothers so that they could live with them, lastly, live as a proud aboriginal.

I thought that this was the time I saw a young girl such as Molly that risk's everything to have her old life back with her cousin and her sister. So I tell that Molly Craig is a hero that risk's everything for the sake of other people.

Brain Gym - Learning Profile

I learn best when...

We are assign to a group work, because I am exposed to different opinions, ideas, and various information. Listening to my friends opinion and sharing our thoughts gives me the confidence to speak up, which I thinks is a form of interactive researching. Also working in a group we get different opinions, sometimes against what I think is right, but it made me learn to share and open up to different ideas. Researching and writing papers can be interesting but I think I concentrate more when the same work is to be given in an activity form that requires my creativity.

I need to...

Concentrate on the given topic and try not to wander too far off from the given assignment, and learn to do everything in steps so my work is more organized. As much as it is hard to focus on the given topic, I need to fully understand what the assignment is about and double check my work. I also need to try looking at the bigger picture rather than focusing too much on the small things that are irrelevant to writing an essay, understanding the picture as a whole first then moving onto elaborating on details is something I will need to work on.

The strategies that would help me in my learning...
Will be brainstorming and laying out drafts. skipping the basic steps only made me miss out on important facts and it took me longer to organize my work after I finished it. It will help me a lot more if I list out the things I have to do step by step and tick them off when I am done with it. This way I could keep track of my work and a lot more time will be saved.

I would like my teachers to know this about me...
I have a lot of ideas and thoughts that I would like to share with my classmates but sometimes they don't come out right or in any particular order, my concentration span is not very durable but I am working on it. I would like to have a bit more silent reading time as I feel 10minutes is not enough to absorb the material given also to add in my ideas.

Did Da Vinci really was a true Renaissance Man?

This picture tells me a lot of things about Leonardo. This tells me that he was a greatest artist in the city of Florence at that time period and he started to build or sketch his own inventions, for example like this flying machine that Leonardo drew. This tells me that sketching inventions are one of his hobbies when he gets bored. :P


Sources:
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/bio.html 

Fillipo Brunelleschi The Risk Taker

Brunelleschi was a risk taker by building this dome because at that time they didn't have the skill or technology to build such a dome. The people of Florence were praying to god that someday someone will solve this big missing piece of the puzzle. The cathedral couldn't be seen as completed without this dome. People saw It as impossible because it's width was massive and there was no way to support it while building. They couldn't set up scaffolding around or through the cathedral to support this dome. This was such a risk taking event as one miscalculation could bring the whole building down. Some even call this a 'miracle design of engineering'. If Brunelleschi had backed out from this plan only because he wanted to play safe, the Dome might not even exist till now. By taking the risk, the possibility of failure, he has built this wonderful landmark in Florence as the greatest architecture and tallest building. Brunelleschi went with his decision by going against the odds and went down history. Even the smallest , riskiest decision could change the faith of a country or person. Sometimes I think its worth betting on what you believe in the most. 

Where new idea's come from?

I think that we, people discover new idea's by visual, knowledge and etc. It is very interesting for us to be inspired of something, for example if a scientists found a new species they will get over exasperated and study all night doing so. I believe we us humans are very interesting because we visualize every seconds, even now we are visualizing something that we don't know! For example visualizing what should we write, play (computer games or other games), lastly, homework... If we don't visualize something then we are weird because, we were born this way we got the ability that no other objects, animals and other livings that on Earth don't have this. In the future that we could use this ability to save our environment, make the world a better place and have a better eco-system.

What Is Your Favorite Short Story Unit

Over our studies about the Short Story Unit, one of my most favorite story was about "The Sniper." It really attracted me because, it talks about loss, confusion, and civil war. The author expressed and explained the feelings that the sniper was having when he cursed the war. I hope someday that I can get another chance of reading that book for myself in the future.