Song

Beijing Welcomes You

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Journal # 6 Blood Dazzler (Second Part)

The second part of the Blood Dazzler expresses more about the result and the endings which were Hurricane Katrina made. I was enjoyed the Back Home part, it shows totally different home than others. Home in our mind which should be happiness and colorful. But in Blood Dazzler, Patricia Smith starts with “Everything crawls…” to show the damage which the Hurricane brought to. In addition, she says” Everything floats dizzy samba” which makes me easy to imagine. Under Patricia Smith’s poem, I feel this home full of funk and terrible memory. All the things in the home in silent reflect emotion of sadness. Natural disasters lead us to darkness. Life goes on, yesterday is a history, we should looking forward to the tomorrow begin a new starting point.

Journal # 5 Blood Dazzler (First Part)

Patricia Smith uses the poems to tell information and deep internal thoughts in the moment of the Hurricane Katrina. She expresses the thoughts through different voice like through the Hurricane Katrina’s perspectives, the voice of former FEMA Director Michael Brown and so on. I like Patricia Smith expresses the things very real no matter things are bad or good. For example, from the prologue, “Weak light, bleakly triumphant….” Real things always can make vivid memory in my mind. Also, I am interested in the form of the part at page of 19—“what was the first sound”. The last sentence in each paragraph is the first sentence in next paragraph. This form makes every part interlock together to attract me to read to the end.

Journal # 4-- The Ninemile Wolves by Rick Bass

I was interested in Rick Bass uses his imaginations and his own thoughts like “I imagine that they are killing” at beginning and in the middle, he said “I hoped- lope through the woods, running north, headed to the border” to express directly what exactly he hopes and what he was not satisfied. They are just like the wolves’ thoughts. Then Bass shows openly that he is not satisfied for the action of the government and some people purely by money. Because some actions to the wolves has already broken the ecosystem and the predator-and-prey cycles and he stresses the importance of the balance to ecosystem. The biological chain in the nature is balance. The extinction of any species would affect the balance of the entire biological chain. Respect for the natural choice is also our choice.

Journal # 3 Refuge：An Unnatural History (Second Part)

I enjoyed the part Terry Tempest Williams dreamed women from all over the world against the conducting nuclear tests in the desert. It shows her desire to against the government and military with breaking her Mormon culture, which is "authority is respected, obedience is revered." From her voice she expressed that what the obedience bring for her is the death of her mother, her aunts and what we should do is speaking out loud to defend our right of health living in the country. Also, the country should stop nuclear tests immediately. In my opinion, as a sovereign of a country, the people should be considered first under any consideration. As a person in this country, defending our privilege is our basic responsibility.

Journal #2 Refuge：An Unnatural History (First Part)

Terry Tempest Williams uses an informative way to introduce the change of water level of Great Salt Lake and lead to the rise of the Great Salt Lake is a threaten to the burrowing owls. But finally the reason why the burrowing owls was cinderblock building took over the mound of the burrowing owls. From the “I held up my fist…lifted my middle finger to the sky” the description of action shows the Terry Tempest Williams really rage at that time and indicates that she loves these burrowing owls. Also, from the dialogue between those three men, it shows that some people in our life are unconcern about the natural life. When we pursued economic profit, we should have responsibility to think about the natural life. In addition, I like the writer “snapshot” a lot of different kinds of birds from the ground to the sky in her memory. It makes me have a vivid picture in my mind.

Home place

1-What the image represents?
This image represents the area BaDaLing in Beijing. There is a famous building in that area--Great Wall

2-What one thing seems most emblematic of a place you've lived?
I think Great Wall is the most emblematic of my hometown. Historical and fantastic building in the world.

"Photo " of Great Wall
The Great Wall is a dragon standing in the east of the world. It winding stands in the mountains surrounding by trees never change. A block of the cyan stones construct this historical and invincible wall. These ordinary stones being closely together without any space make the Great Wall unbreakable. Standing on the Great Wall and touching the stone next to you, you can feel the traces of the war clearly. The Great Wall you are standing on now was the battlefield for the war in ancient time. Looking forward at a part of the Great Wall, you never see the end of it. Great Wall is really the crystallization of human wisdom.

reading response for the"Everything Is a Human Being"

It is a very thoughtful reading, and also really need to read more times so that I can better understand and also can know more about the writer really want to express. At the beginning of the reading, what I think is this reading is just talking about we should treat every natural resources like animals, trees and all the things have lives equally. But in fact in the middle of the reading, I realize that the main purpose of this reading is that we should treat every human beings equally, no dicrimination, like racial in black, like the women in the society and so on. She expressed her strongly desire to defend the power and the same treatment of different social classes, different racial, different gender and so on. She uses the trees, snakes, some natural lives to show her main point of this essay, so that it suitable for the title"Everything Is a Human Being" and tell the readers a simple truth that using the same way to treat everything has lives to make readers have a deep expression of the main purpose of this reading.
The words and the way to describe some emotions are different and creative. The words are not the simple words we always use like in the essay there is a word"eerie". Different words express different level of the emotion the writers has. The words she used are very deep and impressive. Also, she describes the trees in the way she feels herself and a simple dialogue between her and trees. It makes that part like a poem. Those are what I think.