Be The One Who Change The World!

      I am been reading Froen In Time for nearly 2 weeks. This book is written by Mark Kurlansky. He is the New York Times bestselling author, and he lives in New York City. This book is about Birdseye who invent frozen food. I have read 5 chapters of this book. The most interesting thing is the relationship between ideas and movements.

     He is successful. Because his courage and ideas. He is not like others. He wants adventure, and he thinks that world needs more ideas in his time period. In my opinion, I think we should learn from him. We should always have both ideas and the courage to make them true.

     The truth is that we do not even have our own ideas. We are different form robots because we have our own independent thought. In the book, Birdseye always has his own opinion, and he always try to do things in a new way, so he can invent frozen food. If he did not have that idea, we wouldn't have frozen food, which means that we cannot have cold soda easily in the summer. Every single idea may change the whole world so much, so everyone should think deeper and comprehensive. I was studying in China 1 year ago. To be honest, it was a tough time. I don't have to much time to think about anything except test and homework. Personal opinion was a stranger for me, because the only reading materials I had in school were school book. The only thing I did was that I copyed down what teacher said. I did not have much opportunity to ask a question. I am glade I am here now at Cheshire Academy. Now, I can ask questions; I can study what I am interested in; I can have so many informations from different place. I learn more, see more, and know more, and all of those things make me to think more independently and thoughtfully.

     However, I cannot only have opinions without any movement. For example, Birdseye has a lot of ideas, and he does not stop working. He learns so many things about how to take care foxes, because he did not know before, and he had to take care of foxes for business. He is not the kind of person who has only ideas but doesn't want to work for it. It is not easy for everyone to make their dreams true. However we still need to work for it. I consider that everyone needs to do something that make you think it worth to life. This world always has so many people with huge dreams, however not everyone of them can make dreams true. We always have a obstruction called laziness. Nothing is easy to do. Making dreams true even harder. We should never give up. Birdseye faces to so many problems, and he solves every single one. We should be the one who chage the world not the one who is changed by the world. I would do what he did.

      

Dream is not always good!

My name is Stan. I was a soldier in the USSR. I have a tremendous dream. I want to eradicate all the evils in the whole world. However,I have no power to do this. One day I saw a movie called Iron Man. He is astounding, and he slaughter all bad guys. I thought I found the way to save the world. So I decided to become a actor. So I give myself a name same as the pseudonym of a great writer. Joseph. Then I found a entrepreneur who was finding some actor. I realized that everything in the movie is fraudulent, and everything in the office is discredit iron man is a normal people. After that I got a ill. No one knows what is it, and the symptom are headache, and bitterly cold. 

Vocabulary

P22:
Resume: Do something again.
Territories: Area
P23:
Naturalist: Someone believes nature
P24:
Maintain: Keep
Rattlesnake: A kind of snake with a tail which can make noise
P25:
inferior: Lower
P27:
Intrigued: Lie or some secret plan.
P29:
Stumble: Mistake
Inevitably: cannot miss adv.
Crusaders: People who do the revolution.
P30:
Victim: People who gets hurt.
Symptoms: Something can tell people what will happen.
Stiff: Hard
P33:
Typhoid: sick like could
Cholera: A kind of sick.
P34:
Emphasize: Highlight
P42:
Destiny: Life

Bad Ending is Not Always Bad!

  I had read the Pobby and Dingan, and I had watched the movie. I think the movie try to tell us all things in the book, however the movie cannot tell us whole things. So there are some difference between the movie and book. I consider that there is a most important difference between them. It is that in the movie the ending is more like a happy ending, however in the book the ending is a little bit sad. I prefer the book because bad ending is always for a better future.

  

  Let's talke about the book first. In the book, after they hold the funeral for Pobby and Dingan, they do not get the opal back. Another thing is that they hold a funeral for Kellyanne in few weeks after Pobby and Dingan's funeral. It is like they lose so many things, like a complete family, opal, and money. Ashmol and his parents are so missing Kellyanne, however they cannot bring her back forever. So they keep Kellyanne in their dream, like what they do to the opal.

 

  In the movie, the owner of the cemetery gives the opal back to Ashmol, and there is no funeral for Kellyanne. So I consider that they get opal(money) and Kellyanne(a complete family). It is a happy ending, and I believer that most people prefer the happy ending.

  

  If I saw the movie first, I believe I would like this movie. However i saw the book first, so I prefer the book. I like book more because happy ending cannot always make people remember what is important. For example, if everything is good in thebook, the dad would never know family is more important than opal; the mom would never know family and love are much better than the life in England; Ashmol would never know family is the best place for him. I want to say that bad ending is not always make you sad, and it is always for a better future.

We should always stand up for the truth!

  

  “She is a witch! She is a witch! ……” Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo was over. I saw this play last night at The Black Box Theater. The play is amazing, and all actors are hard working. To be honest I cannot understand all of he play, however I definitely learned something from the play, and I want to talk about two of them. I think those two things would help a lot. Let’s see what are they.

    The first, I consider that we should have the courage to againt the authority. In the play, this stoy is happened at the time period when religion was higher than science. However Galileo found something new, and those things are againsting the Bible. Everyone did not believe him besides his one student. Finally they puted him in the jail, so he had to give all his notes to his student. As we can see he dare to say the truth even though it would against the authority. I think we should all learn this courage. In our real life espicaily in China, most of students do not have their own thoughts. They always copy from the book; do what teacher ask them to do with out thinking; just follow rules. All of those things is killing Chinese progess. If everone just copy and fellow rules, what is the difference between us and robots? I suggest that everone should say out the different ideas of everthing, and be independent. We cannot get better and better without innovation. Every scientist did not know if they would lead a revolution before they finish one.

    Second one, we should define every truth by our own experiene. As we all see, in the play everone think the bible is the truth. However they do not test it. Everone believed that earth was the center of the universe, however Galileo found out sun is the center.  I remember Galileo tries to tell them that you should trust your own feeling by throwing a stone in the ground and he says that nothing is drouped. Things like those happen everyday. For example, my friend tells that it is cold outside. When I go out, I feel so warm, however I already bring my coat withme. I believe things like cold and warm happen in everyone’s life. I consider that we should always test before we define something as the truth, and this will help us to know what the real truth is. Then we can help everyone around us. I believe if we do the test every time we will make a big change in our life. Suspect the thing before you trust it.

    At last, I want to say thank you to everyone who work hard for this play, and I hope everyone can find the truth and say it out. Even though we will have so many troubles and problems when we tell others our thoughts, we still need to say and never give up, just like Galileo.

A great person!

He was a German Marxist poet, playwright, and theatre director. He was born in 10 February 1898 Augsburg, Bavaria, German Empire, and he died in 14 August 1956 East Berlin, East Germany. He had a lot of good work. For example, Life of Galileo, and The Good Person of Szechwan. He had two wifes and 4 kids. He remained a lifelong committed Marxist who. Brecht thought that the experience of a climactic catharsis of emotion left an audience complacent. Instead, he wanted his audiences to adopt a critical perspective in order to recognise social injustice and exploitation and to be moved to go forth from the theatre and effect change in the world outside. He also change a lot of things in the theatre. He created Verfremdung seffekt, and he put the German, Chinese, and Japanese theatre together. He got reward from his country in 1951, and he get a peace reward in 1955. Verfremdung seffekt is a way for actor to act a character, which said actor should keep distance with character, and they should higher than the character and act it. There were some people did not like him, so they tried to stop built the museum of him. I hope I can watch one of his theatre!

The play of Galileo!

Life of Galileo is a play by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht with incidental music by Hanns Eisler. The first version of this play was written between 1938 and 1939. The English version opened at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles on 30 July 1947. It was directed by Joseph Losey and Brecht, with musical direction by Serga Hovey and set-design by Robert Davison. This play is about Galileo. He is short of money, and one of his student tells him a special thing the telescope. Then he replicates it, however it is sold to the Venetian as his own creation.He uses it to find so many new things, however he gets in troubles.The play stays generally faithful to Galileo's science and timeline thereof, however it talks his personal free life. Galileo did in fact use a telescope, observe the moons of Jupiter, advocate for the heliocentric model, observe sun spots, investigate buoyancy, and write on physics, and did visit the Vatican twice to defend his work, the second time being made to recant his views, and being confined to house arrest thereafter. There was also a interesting thing between he and his daughter. I am looking forward to see the play. 

Citation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Galileo