Making History

The big result that affects people later on makes the history significantly important. Cutting my hand, graduating from middle school, moving to Vancouver for three years, winning my first basketball game, and getting my first iTouch are all the significant events in the past that makes it memorable. I learned some of these events from my coaches and parents, but most of them came from my own self. We can relate making history with our style. When we write down the significance of our history, we can use our own style to convey the importance of our events. Different people experience the same story can convey the history in a totally different way. This may also be due to different perspectives apart from their own styles. These histories may eventually affect the future when we make decisions and our styles in the future. I think style can greatly change how the history is being written since everyone has different styles. Different styles may eventually lead down to different decisions and perspective and later on different results and outcomes. I strongly believe that history is something that is not just about the past, but also in the present, or maybe even in the future.

Style

I think about a person’s fashion and personality when I hear the word “style” or “stylish”. It is the thing that makes him or her unique. I believe that everyone has his or her own style and most of them are different form others. Like what I just say a person’s fashion, appearance, and personality is how he or she reveals his or her style. Everyone has different opinions and I believe that there is really no correct answer for evaluating between “good” style and “band” style. Depending on the person’s own style we can determine what are “good” style for that person what is bad. Another thing that I believe is that style is permanent. I do not agree that style is something that can be changed over periods of time. I would say that everyone has their own style and people with similar styles would probably be likely to hand out together. I am not really sure what my style is, but people say that I am funny sometimes. I think one shouldn’t really evaluate himself or herself. Instead, he or she should listen to what people say about him or her in order to find out the style of that person.

A Daring Adventure

This quote from Helen Keller is very touching. It has made me see the how life is not just boring, but exciting with full of adventures. I would consider our lives as always challenging, but this is part of life. We have to believe that we are undefeatable in order to win. We can’t win if we don’t think we could win. I would say that fate is the guts that you have doing something and the consideration. If you are determined to do a thing, which means that you have the fate to do it. The inner side of your brain and spirit controls your fate. When some event is meaningful in your life, the event is most likely exciting and full of adventures. Challenge must be one of the factors and contribute to this meaningful event. If we talk about something broader, actually it is the fate that really gives the meanings to our lives. When we believe in ourselves or have fate in our body, we tend to have the guts to take the challenge, even if the tasks might be impossible or little possibility. From the quote form Helen Keller, I can feel how she was feeling when she wrote down this quote.

Memories

One of the most important memories that I have from my childhood was the cut that I got when I went to Bali when I was three years old. It was probably not the funniest, but definitely the most significant experience that I will never forget. I would considered this as a sad event and I do strongly believe that people remember sad events better than happier ones since it teaches us a lesson in life. I remembered the second my parents opened the door of the hotel, I started jumping up and down on the bed and started playing with the closet. Suddenly while my parents weren’t watching, I just cut myself with the closet door and my right hand pinking was just bleeding and bleeding without stopping. My parents quickly sent me to the hospital and I got stitches. I really learned from that lesson that I should never ever play with the closet door ever again. The cut from the closet was still on my right hand pinky, so it reminds me every single time when I wanted to play with something foolish. This was the most important and significant memory that I have in my childhood and I’ll never forget about this.

Your Role

In the class project of Mice and Men, my role is to act and I would be acting out the character of Lennie. I have been trying to think in the way that Lennie thinks inside the novel, where there is a lack of common sense and not really that cleaver. It is definitely a good experience even though I am kind of struggling on how to act like him the way he was described in the novel. I have seen the movie of the book, so I kind of know how to act Lennie out. One of the most important keys that are left for me to do is to memorize the lines of the stories and to act it out as if I were really Lennie, where I have some disorders in my brain. I am hoping and wishing to see a very good movie out of this project. I am looking forward to see the movie as something similar to the movie that I have seen of the novel. To be honest, I haven’t been putting a lot of effort into this project yet, but I do think that I would be working more on this project shortly after I have been handed out the script of the act.

Cruel or Kind?

In the novel Of Mice and Men, we could see that the characters were not always cruel to each other. For instance, George may sometimes say that Lennie is always stupid, making a cruel comment about him. But on the other hand, he wasn’t really trying to be cruel. Instead, he was trying to say that he needs help and he can take care of Lennie. We could see the kindness coming out of George’s cruel words when he took really good care of Lennie. He was always trying to protect him and tell him what he should do for his own benefit. There aren’t really any motivations for George to take good care of Lennie except that Lennie’s aunt had told him before to take care of him well. Besides that, George was just trying to be a good person and help him due to his lack of ability instead of trying to bully and make fun of him all the time. I don’t see a mixture of both cruelty and kindness inside the heart of George despite the cruel comments he had make on Lennie. Sometimes, those cruel comments might even be for Lennie’s own benefit and try to protect him by telling other people he is dumb.

Analyzing Visuals

This picture is just a fatal image that shows passengers drowning the Titanic were a terrible disaster. We could see that the propeller is up in the air while the head of the ship is already under water. We would see there are a few people on the boats while thousands of people are stuck in the ship. This picture definitely contributes to my understanding of the event by giving a more detailed image in my brain of how the event might have happened. The background of this picture shows a really nice quiet evening. This kind of contradicts with the event that was happening: a big disaster under a peace quiet night. I think I have seen that picture before I read this story and whenever I see that picture, it just automatically makes me think of Titanic. When I see the picture, I just find how stupid those people were when they knew they were going to hit the iceberg but didn’t do anything about it. I just don’t see why they do not think that the passengers on the ship were important. They just looked at this as a game instead of treating it seriously and taking actions through careful observations.

Will To Survive

When I think about a character choosing between saving himself or herself and saving others, the number one thing that pops up into my head is Spiderman. He valued other people’s life more important than his. Some people, like Spiderman, wanted to be heroic by saving other people while some of them just think it is worth sacrificing his or her own live for saving other people’s lives. Others just think their own lives are more important. I believe that people who make these choices are based on instincts in an emergency situation. Some people saved others and then they think bout the dangers of themselves later. I would say that this is more or less stupid. If I were in the situation, I would trust my instinct and most likely saved my own life instead of being the hero and saved all the other people in exchange for my precious life. I know this may sound selfish, but I do believe that this is what I will do if it really happens to me and I wouldn’t blame myself for doing this. I actually do put myself in a higher rank compare to other people and I guess that is why I don’t save other people by sacrificing my life. I just think it’s not worth it.

The Band Played On

During Titanic’s first journey, everyone “knew” that the ship was unsinkable. They did not listen to any warnings when the “Californians” were saying that there would be an iceberg. Nobody was aware that the ship would actually sink if it hit the iceberg. Most of them thought it was not really a big deal. They were even still singing when they were facing the mostly deadly and fatal moment of their lives. Some say that they just wanted to enjoy the last moment of their lives; some say that they wanted to use entertainment to cover up their fear on the ship, and others say that they just didn’t know how dangerous they were at that situation. I definitely do not agree with the people who believed they were enjoying the last moment of their lives. Why can’t they think more positively, like they are going to survive and nothing is going to happen? They were just too calm and I would never be like that if some disaster happens to me like this. I would probably think of a plan to escape instead of just waiting death to come. I want to live, and I would do everything I can to do that.

Bad Choices

I don’t really know that much of Titanic although I did hear about the disaster. All I knew was that the Titanic was a really famous ship that hit the iceberg and sank on the first time it was sailed. Many people had died because there were not enough small boats for escape. They decided just to put a few of those ships when they knew that it was not enough for the passengers to escape. That was the first bad choice they made. Another bad choice was their decision on what to do when the Titanic hit the iceberg. Instead of escaping right away, they thought it was going to be fine and didn’t take the actions right away. Because not a lot of people had survived from the sink of Titanic, there weren’t a lot of primary sources from the victims that were rescued. Most of the stories of Titanic were either retold by somebody else from primary sources or make inferences by themselves after making inspections of the ship later on. Since many of us can not witness the Titanic sinking, we can only listen either to the primary or secondary sources and make the inferences and imaginations by ourselves.

Sources

I think primary source is something that is written “live”. If somebody took notes during a meeting, then the notes may be a primary source when people were talking about the meeting in the future. A secondary source would be something written from a primary source or something that has been written after the event had happened. A history textbook with description of the meeting may be something that is a secondary source. For example, if there is a book about the 911 earthquake in Taiwan, then it would probably be a secondary source. I would probably describe the primary source as someone witnessing an event and writing it down at that moment. On the other hand, a secondary source is where someone makes an inference about something. Since you didn’t witness the events yourself, you can only read from other people’s primary source and make inference from it. I think this is the major difference between primary source and secondary source. I would say that almost all secondary sources came from what they read from primary sources, and secondary sources may even be biased or slightly different from the primary source since it may be edited through inferences, and errors may occur.

Bossom Buddies

George and Lennie have the kind of relationship where George is always taking good care of Lennie all the time. I think George can be an evil person and benefit from his friend, but he didn’t. So neither of them has really benefited from the other one. I do think that George is giving more compared to Lennie. I think I am more like a George kind of person since I give more rather than a taker. I really always give whatever I can to my friends, but I am also really looking forward to see them help me when I really need their help. I always think that’s what friends are for. We should always try to help our friends when they need help and provide everything possible. On the other hand, I also expect help form my friends when I need to since I have given them what they needed. Sometimes, I just get really upset when my friends can’t help me and it is really not their fault. They are like my best helpers that will always be beside me when I need them. Buddies can not only bring you fun and pleasure, but also help when it is necessary.

Your Lennie

I don’t know if the friendship would end or not. I think there is a very high chance of ending the friendship even though I would feel really guilty. I think my friend and I will start to be isolated from other people if we are still together. I wouldn’t want to have the social pressure where everyone is telling me not to hang out with him. I feel sorrow for him, but I don’t think the friendship between us will continue. People would start humiliating both me and my friends if that really happens. I cannot bear with the humiliation and the friendship would just probably end. I know that my choice may be wrong, but I just couldn’t face the reality if something like this happens to me some day suddenly. I am not evil! I am kind hearted, but it is just that I don’t want to get embarrassment from the things I do. I believe that there is always of responsibility between friends. Once it is beyond that point, I don’t think friends should interfere anymore and family is what the person should be looking for instead of friends. Not a lot of friends would take care a person for their whole life.