Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Why Do People Colonize?


(A picture about the colonization in Africa)

In the pass the European and the British colonized a lot of countries. To colonized other countries they had many reasons, although we all know some of the reason were actually the excuse for their selfishness. The first main reason was to make more territory. If they have more territory the queen (or the king) would be proud of the person that went to colonized another countries. To let queen or king be proud of them is such a honor. They could sacrifice everything including their own life for getting this glory praises. Also the country would be stronger. In the pass, there are a lots of war, it is important to let people know their country was strong, so that none of the country could barely fight with them. The second main reason was to let people follow them. They want people to follow their cultures and languages. They believe that their cultures and languages are the best. Everyone should learn and follow. In the pass they actually didn't accept anyone to be different with them. People who didn't understand English didn't used fork and spoon to eat...... should be exclude be the society, that kind of people had no right to live they thought. After their cruel governance the colonized would sonly become just like them, the best races in the world, they thought. They thought they were helping people to become the best race the world. The third main reason was to preach their religions. They think their God was the only God, so people have to believe in their God. They thought if people didn’t follow their God, they would get punished. Also, there is some reason that were not really reasonable like: to take their burden…….

At the beginning of the colonization, the colonizers thought it would be really easy, everyone would followed them. However good times don’t last long, actually none of the colonized would followed them. The colonizers were angry about no one want to fallow them so they started to force them even the colonized didn’t want. It shows the cruel of the society of the colonizer. They killed people that want to fight against them, and do whatever they want to make their races stronger. All the things they did make the colonization lead to exploitation.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Stolen Generation Apologize Reflaction


   The apologies are important, because it tells people that get hurt that you care. Even if it is just a small things that happened to you personally, you will always feel better after someone say sorry to you. In this case apologies can build peace between the Aboriginals and the colonizer. It tells people that the colonizer are regret, and they actually don’t want to let the things happened.
     In the Australia history, colonizer went to Australia and also brought their own culture. They think the other culture are barbarian. They are the best culture ever. The colonizer reject every culture from the Aboriginals and they want them to only fallow their culture. They use a dirty way to force them fallow their culture which is stole the Aboriginals' children. This is a mistake, this is rude and mean. This is barbarian, only people that is not educate will steal people children and force people to be like them. 

     The Apologize can let the colonized (Aboriginals) feel better, and let them know you know the colonizer did a wrong thing. For the colonizers the apologize can remind them, they actually do something wrong, do something that is totally not fare for colonized (Aboriginals)and make them regret. 

Monday, April 6, 2009

Without Friends No One Would Choose To Live

A Greek philosopher- Aristotle said "Without friends no one would choose to live." When I first saw this quote I had a lot of vibrations. Friends are such an important character in our lives. I can hardly live without any friends. There are two kinds of friends in the world- good and bad. A good friend will always stand beside you when you have a problem, while others leave you alone. A good friend helps you when ever you need help. They keep you to do the right things. I tell everything to my friends, including the things that I don't know how to solve. My friends always help me get out from difficult situations.It is really hard to get a real good friend, a person that is truly like you, instead of just wanting something from you. Humans cannot live without friends. We all need friends.

The picture that I chose is also about friends. From the picture we can see the tiger and the little kid is good friend. The kid in the picture says:"True friends are hard to come by." The picture told us, to find a friend you don't need to care about what do they look like. The things that you need to care are what is inside their heart. Tiger and the kid look totally different, but if both of them use a true heard to face each other, they could be best friend.