Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Journals

topics: 1, Did the author's descriptions remind you of anyone you know? Who? In what ways?
2, Does this reading make sense to you? Do you find it believable and logical?

Yes, when i was reading this artical, my father jumped into my mind, my father is the first child of his family, and the word"parental" is a excellent word decribing how my father is.
But also i remind a friend of mine,who has a younger sister.I think he is not so parental and he always fighting with his younger sister. it s very fun that two opposite examples jumped into my mind and made me a lit bit confused.

I think this artical not really made sense to me because i have seen many examples which dont follow this rules. In my opinion ,this artical is logical, birth order can affect one's personality but not absolutely. One's personality is influenced by a lot of factors, such as what he exprienced, how his parents educated him,something like that. So, this artical can be logical but to me it's just an artical and not so believable.

Friday, January 26, 2007

Journey

There are a lot of cultural places in NY, including historical sites, modern constructions, museums, and so on.

ICP (International Center of Photography) is not such a famous or huge museum in
NYC, but it is a important place to a student whose major is related to design or art, also
to a cameraman or a shutterbug. I visited there once with a friend who is interested in
photography.

ICP is located in Time Square, and the show room is separated into two parts--first floor and lower floor. These days ,the topic of ICP is about the damage to environment. The first floor mainly shows some photography on this subject which are made by natural disaster ,and obviously the lower floor shows the photography of environment's damage made by human beings.

Photos on first floor show some disasters happened recent years, such as the tsunami of indian ocean, earthquakes and extinctions of some kinds of plants and animals. I watched a video about lacking of clean water in some poor countries. It showed the people's life both before and behind a natural disaster, it was definitely a huge difference, and touched me deeply.

Although more and more people put a focus on the impact of wars to environment, some destruction is inevitable. Photos on lower floor showed a part of ruin in Iraq ,and also reflect the live of Iraq people who are still suffering from war. Cameramen contrasted the photos took before war and the photos took after war. What left a deep impression on me is a series of photos took from a same angle, and on each photo there was a house of a Iraqi. Before the war ,he had a happy life ,living with his family, and after the war, the house ruined downright and his wife died ,he looked so disappointed, and made me fully realized how cruelty wars are. There were also some series of photos showed how a piece of land changed before and after a war. It was a valid way to describe the subject.

The purpose of this photo show is to appeal to the public to concern with the trouble we have now on environment. As long as there are more and more people realize the importance of environment protection ,we can have more entrances to a better life.