Self Reflection

Reading the peer comment on my blog made me feel that I should reread my blog more then 2 times, because normally I always reread my blog 2 times always but my peer told me that there was some easy mistakes so I think I should be more careful about it and make my blog post better. And I think I have many grammar errors so I want to more carefully look when I reread. My peer told me that I'm using too much word 'and' and I think that makes the blog little bit boring so I want to be more careful when I'm writing my blog. From my perspective by reading my blog, I think I should make the introduction more interesting, because when I read my peer's blog his introduction made me more interest about what he's writing. When I thought back my blog introduction, I felt it was really boring, so I want to improve more.

I predict that my grade for this blog post will be in B range maybe B or B-, because there was some easy grammar errors. But I linked the sources that I used in the writing which I didn't do it last time and I made 5 paragraphs. I think I should improve more by stop writing 'and' a lot and try use more difficult vocabulary (the vocabulary which is more hard and more easy to describe what I want to write). Also, I want to try tell more connections about my topic and what's worth fighting for, because when I write the examples I think what I'm writing is always same and getting boring so I want to search more and make connections to make the blog more interesting.

I will believe myself

“I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.”

“Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.”

Nelson Mandela was a guy who born 18 July 1918. He was a president of South Africa during 10 May 1994 – 14 June 1999. Nelson Mandela urges us to consider that your dream will be real if you work hard and believe in your thoughts. Nelson Mandela supports the idea that if you do your best, someone will surely evaluate it, something will change and that trying to make peace and freedom is worth being fought for.

Believing in yourself and working hard for peace and freedom is important to fight for because sometimes in the beginning few people support or agree or follow you. If you try hard people will start looking at your efforts and it will surely make a difference in people’s minds and in the world.Nelson Mandela exemplifies the importance of believing in yourself and working hard for peace and freedom. He worked hard with his national rugby team the Springboks. At that time the sport of rugby had many rules and the equipment was too expensive for the black people so only the people who were wealthy played rugby. Mostly the whites. The blacks had to play soccer. In the movie called Invictus, it also shows at the movie by looking the way blacks and whites look. The blacks are not wearing t-shirts and the some other equipments and they don’t wear shoes; also the place where they are playing soccer is really hard and make us feel like when we run with no shoes, our feet are going to hurt. For whites, they have a nice uniform and wearing a good shoes and playing on ground which is really clean and has nice grass and even if we run with no shoes, it’s not going to hurt. Also when people are watching the rugby game, black people were cheering the team which the whites were not cheering which shows that blacks and whites were not very happy about each other. South Africa was very unpopular country for rugby and most of the people didn’t cheer them. They were expelled from the international community so they weren’t allowed to join the first and the second rugby world cup. In the rugby team, there was 30 people in one team and only one person was black, because people was thinking rugby is for the people who has high ranking and The Blacks were expelled by making a big fence against the rugby practice ground and the Blacks playing ground. The Springboks were really weak and lost many games. But one man changed everything - Nelson Mandela. He made the blacks join the team and made the people in the Sprinboks meet black children. The whites in the Springboks started to change their mind about rugby and blacks. When the blacks joined the team, the black people started to cheer the Springboks with the whites. Blacks and whites practiced for the world cup together and the team worked harder and harder. In the Springboks first world cup match, they made the world cup place for South Africa. Everyone cheered for the Springboks and they got to the final. It was the first time they got to the final. Everyone, everyone cheered for them and hoped for them. And they won! And all of the people in South Africa, it didn’t matter, black or white, all of the people were happy. This event made the whites and blacks become closer and made all of the people change their mind about discrimination. Nelson Mandela was the middle of the person. He was the person who made this happen by not telling people to get together, he usually showed and made people get together like a usual and normally getting friends. From this it is clear that Nelson Mandela worked hard for the country even at the beginning none of the people followed or had a compassion for him. And that freedom and peace is what’s important to fight for.

Believing in yourself and working hard for peace and freedom is important to fight for because if your try hard, someone will surely evaluate and make a difference of people’s minds and the world in a good way. Nelson Mandela exemplifies the importance of believing in yourself and making it happen even there’s few people who follow. White people got preferential treatment and the black people were always second and couldn’t make their own decisions. He started fighting the government and made a group called Umkhonto we Sizwe , becoming the leader for that group. The government people weren’t very happy about the movement which, so they put him into jail but he still worked very hard. I think many blacks wanted to fight the government and make peace and freedom, but they were afraid of being captured. So even though they wanted to, they couldn’t do it. But Nelson Mandela did it. So many people moved their minds and it made them think that they have to work hard to get freedom. He told people that if you want freedom or peace, YOU have to move. You have to work, if you’re doing nothing and only feel like wanting freedom it’s not going to change anything. You have to WORK you have to do something. He changed it because he WORKED, he MOVED he didn’t only think. From this it is clear that believing yourself and working hard for peace and freedom is important to fight for because if your try hard, someone will surely evaluate what you are doing and make a difference to people’s minds and the world in a good way.

Nelson Mandela exemplifies the importance of believing in yourself and working hard for peace because he worked really hard for everything to make South Africa to a peaceful and freed country.In 1989 December, he talked with the person who was president at that time Frederik Willem de Klerk about the discrimination. Maybe, De Klerk didn’t want to make war happen after Nalson Mandela came out from jail in February1990 . Mandela became ANC vice-chairman. In 1991, he became the ANC chairman. He worked with De Klerk and made South African Democratic Congress representatives attended with all races. In 1994, he became president of South Africa and made all of the blacks and whitesresolve discrimination  and South Africa became a peaceful and freed country. All of this happened because of Nelson Mandela’s movements. He changed everything. If he wasn’t born, maybe South Africa would still be a bad country with no freedom and no peace.

Without peace and freedom the world would be a bad, bad place and people who in high ranks would get everything what they want and the people in low ranks would get nothing and having no citizenship. Maybe, there might be not cities for the poor people, no houses, and no money. So the world with peace and freedom is really important. Believing in yourself and working hard for peace and freedom is inspirational because if your try hard, someone will surely evaluate what you are doing and make a difference in people’s minds and the world will be a better place.

Never Give Up! Keep Trying!

“Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.” 

Ryan Sheckler demonstrates/encourages/urges (us) to consider never give up and try your best. And makes me feel like that.
Muhammad Ali and William Wissemann’s life supports the idea that Never Giving Up When Life Get's Difficult is worth being fought for.

Muhammad Ali thought that Never Giving Up when life get’s Difficult because everyone wasn’t fair to him and having difficult time for playing boxing but he didn’t give up and keep tried boxing. William Wissemann thought Never Giving Up when life get’s Difficult because he was dyslexic and different with others. He have to go back to like 1st grade knowledge when he was fifth-grade. He fights against dyslexic and didn’t give up and tried his best always. These 2 people told me that Never Giving Up When Life get's Difficult is important to fight for because if you never give up for something and try your best, it might work and even it didn’t work you will not get bad feeling because you tried hard.

Muhammad Ali exemplifies the importance of Never Giving Up When Life get's difficult, because he never thought he’s going to lose before the Olympic boxing games. Even he had discrimination between whites and blacks, he tried to cause it and never give up about stopping the discrimination. So at the end, the discrimination of whites and blacks. He was black skin side people so the whites treated him differently even he’s one of the athletes. He fights against the way people treating him differently. Whites don’t listen to the blacks opinions normally so he tried hard to make the unfair society fair. He never gives up and tried hard and at the end, the society changed so I thought that Never Giving Up When Life Get's Difficult what’s worth fighting for. From this it is clear that we should never give up before you don’t know the ending like win or lose. And you must do your best before you give up and always having effort for everything is really important.

Never Giving Up When Life Get's Difficult is important to fight for because William Wissemann showed us that even you can’t do something, if you try hard it might work so don’t give up keep trying with effort. William Wissemann exemplifies the importance of Never Giving Up When Life Get's Difficult, because he carries the Rubik’s cube always in his backpack to help him. He’s dyslexic and he didn’t know how to write, read and he have to start over about how to read symbols, letters and write, about phonemes that make up words when he was in Fifth-grade. He was fighting against the dyslexic and learning. He said it was really confusing and frustrating for him and doing different things with normal people made him feel bad and he had a hard time. But he can solve 1 Rubik’s cube in 1.12 minutes. And now, he can easily solve the 3x3x3, and the 4x4x4, and the Professor’s Cube, the 5x5x5. And he learned that he should not give up before he try and it’s important to spend a lot of time thinking, to try to find connections and patterns. He also learned that when you want to go forward for something, sometime you have to go back once then try again. From this it is clear that even you can’t do something, if you try hard for it, it will work and even it doesn’t it’s not going to be a bad thing for your life. Your will be proud of yourself and will have a better future than the people who do nothing.

Never Giving Up When Life Get's Difficult is important to fight for because when I was giving up, nothing is going to work but when you really try hard until it ends, it might work. I exemplify the importance of Never Giving Up When Life Get's Difficult because when I was in a Japanese basketball team, one day I had a basketball game with other team. We weren’t that good skilled team and the other team had many really good skilled players and like the team’s name was really poplar basketball in middle school so everyone thought that our team is going to lose. At the end of the game, we were losing by 1 point. Our team was happy about we are only losing by 1 point from the skilled team. And some people in audience thought we might win but most of the people didn’t think like that. Even I thought like we are going to still lose. BUT before the game ends, the person who was guarding me did a foul and I had a chance to shoot 2 goals. I’m not good at free throw so I was really nervous. I shoot for the first chance but I missed. Everyone was having a sad face. After few second, the second chance came to me. But this was the last chance even I got out or in. I was really nervous. But at that time, I didn’t thought about giving up. I had so much pressure but I was hoping to make the goal and make the team happy. I shoot, with having all of my effort in. The ball went into the basket and I scored. We finally wined! Everyone came to me and their face was so happy. This was the last game for me to play at that basketball team so some people had a special feeling for it. I wined basketball a lot before, but I think this was a really memorable game for me in the games I played at that basketball team. From this it is clear that Do not give up when the game is not end. And I have to keep trying always. So even if I lose, I do not have to have regret for the game and what I did.

Without Never Giving Up When Life Get's Difficult the world would totally different places. Have many people who’s giving up for many things and having no effort for every thing. Never Giving Up When Life Get's Difficult is inspirational because it’s really important to have and it might change your lifestyle by having effort and not giving up, keep trying. People who never give up will be the people who will be impetus for change for everything and really active, and it's really important thing for people.

Avoiding Plastic bags!

Have you ever realize that everyday, animals in ocean are having hard time to live because of the plastic bags. There’s alarming numbers of animals which is dying. For example turtles mistake floating plastic bags for jellyfishes, which is there only food source, and at the end the turtles entwine to the plastic bags. Plastic bags should be banned supports the idea that avoiding plastic bags is worth being fought for.

Avoiding Plastic bags is important to fight for because we have to stop killing animals and stop making them hard to live.
Once swallowed by the turtle, the tough plastic becomes lodged in its gut, sealing the fate of the sea creature.
The plastic is indigestible and wraps around the turtle's insides. Slowly, agonizingly, the animal starves to death, exemplifies the importance of avoiding plastic bags, because turtle did nothing bad to people but people are hurting them and making them die by plastic bags.
From this it is clear that plastic bags was useful things but I think now it’s getting dangerous because of people who use.

Avoiding plastic bags is important to fight for because at the end, plastic bags are dumped to the ground and no one cares.
Discarded plastic bags and cartons pile up on the roadside outside a supermarket in North Shields, North Tyneside. It look bad and people should clean it, but people don’t care even they saw. Birds are at risk when they feed on rubbish tips. A bag has blown over this stork on a dump in Spain, leaving it unable to fly and threatening its life they Asphyxia and finally die, exemplifies the importance of avoiding plastic bags because if you leave at there that place is going to be dirty and it will destroy the town, world.
From this it is clear that recycling the plastic bags are really important for the global warming. And that even birds are having hard time to live too in the earth.

Avoiding plastic bags is important to fight for because making plastic bags increases the amount of carbon dioxide and cause global warming.


Plastic bags are not biodegradable. They clog waterways, spoil the landscape, and end up in landfills where they may take 1,000 years or more to break down into ever smaller particles that continue to pollute the soil and water, exemplifies the importance of avoiding plastic bags because the global warming is not a good thing to happen. And people thinks they are always thinking about environment, but they are not. They are throwing plastic bags and that’s a bad thing.From this it is clear that we have to care about the global warming and wasting. And we have to stop polluting.

Without avoiding plastic bags, the world would happen global warming more faster than now and all of the animals in the earth going to die and all of the places in earth going to destroyed by the wasted plastic bags.
Avoiding plastic bags is inspirational, because people have to stop killing animals and people have to understand that. It’s destroying the world so we have to avoid the plastic bags and the plastic bags should be banned.

Stand in Front of Tank by Alone

This is a picture of a person who stands up for communicating peacefully beside government at June 5, 1989. He’s nick name is ‘Tank man’ and none knows him real name. He stand front of 4 tanks and when the tanks tried to move he made them don’t move, that movement was happened at near
Tiananmen square’s. He tried to make a world which doesn't have war, because China was having war and they killed many people which are not happy with war and killed innocent people .

However he stand front of 4 tanks to make a peaceful communication beside government and normal people. From this movement he showed that standing up for peace (communicating more peacefully with government) will be worth being fought for.

Peace was important to fight for because no one tried to Stand in front of tank before him, no one tried to stand up like that. I think the reason why people didn't tried to stand up is maybe they were afraid by government, because something might happen to their own family if they stand up individually and disagree about government's opinion.

Stand in front of tank show us to stand up if you think something happening is wrong because people felt that the government’s decision was wrong about war but no one stand up like Tank man, people know already that they have to make more peaceful communication with each other’s (government) but they were afraid. Tank man stand up that made a really big movement about war. So Tank man showed us that standing up for something are really important.

Additionally, it was important to fight for Stand in front of tank because everyone’s thought about war changed because of he’s movement. He stands in front of tank. If he did do nothing I think the government never listens to normal people’s opinions. And I think they never communicate peacefully with government.

Communicating peacefully with government allows us freedom and peace because before they talk with government, people have to follow the government and they always have to agree with what government said. But when the people can communicate and discuss about something with government by peaceful way I think the world would be more awesome world. Freedom and Peace will make a nice new world. Communication will be a main idea for it. So I think communicating peacefully with government allows us freedom and peace.

Without stand in front of tank and communicating peacefully, the world would be like everyone is having their opinions but they can’t say and they have to follow the government always and maybe they still have to do war.

This is a picture of kids. They are crying and behind them their's army. This is a picture which taken middle of the war in China. This picture shows me that there was "No Freedom" & "No Peace".

Tanks man’s movement (standing up in front of tank) was inspirational because when I found this I was really surprised and I was interested. No one stand up like him, the people who is like him stand up so now there’s almost no war in the world. I learned that don’t only think if you think something it’s important to stand up and do something for it. I learned this from Tank man’s movement.

Freedom Society

"No man is free who cannot control himself."

~Pythagoras~

If someone gives me a chance to make a new world, I think I'm going to make a new world which is based on a "Freedom". But what dose freedom mean? When I search the meaning of freedom it was like 'No fighting' 'No bad thing' and 'You can do anything what you want' etc., but If everyone in the world do anything what themselves want to I don't think the world going to be 'Peaceful society' and 'Fair equity society'. So after searching the meaning and thinking of the meaning I think I'm going to make a new world which is based on a "Fair Rules Freedom Society".

"Freedom" is an important characteristic, because if there's no freedom your hall life will be a bad boring life.
For example Jewish people, Jewish people usually can't go outside when they want and they always have to work hall time and they can't get enough foods for themselves, they aren't able to do what they want to do. And the Jewish people didn't had there opinions and people didn't allowed them to say there own opinions about something. It started at Hungary in 1920 and at April 16 1944 the Hungary's government started to observation the Jewish people. People were trying taking Jewish people's freedom and they killed. About more than half of the Jewish people died by poison gas, carbon monoxide and exhaust fume. The government people made Jewish people to do a hard work in concentration camp and at the last they killed all of the Jewish people. freedom, maybe no one felt like that in there life.

At 1977 person who calls Simon Wiesenthal he made a Simon Wiesenthal Center at Los Angeles. He was one of the Jewish people who was in the concentration camp and he's the one who have to tell how bad place was there. So he made the Simon Wiesenthal Center, inside of this place there is a lot of exhibition a history of many countries discrimination and freedom. He made a movie about the concentration camp and Jewish people. If I go to the center and see the history of many countries I can know that there were a lot of examples of trying to make freedoms.

From finding the examples about making a freedom, I understand that many countries are trying to make a world which is based on freedom. And there's many history. Many people in many countries were trying to make a freedom for a world but it's not always easy some people agree with that person's opinion but some people don't.

Map reflecting the findings of freedom house's 2010 survey, concerning the state of world freedom in 2009, which correlates highly with other measures of democracy some of these estimates are disputed.

Free (89)

Partly Free (58)

Not Free (47)

This picture is telling us how many countries are free and how many countries are partly free and how many countries are not free.

From 2009 to 2011 only 2 country change not free to partly free, that means not free country can't change to free by doing nothing I think someone have to stand up and say there opinions. By that other people will follow that person like next person who I'm going to tell for the example.

Additionally, it is important for a society to be build around make everything fair, because at January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968 there was a person who called Martin Luther King Jr. and he worked for a black people who didn't had a freedom, because of the white people.
Martin Luther King Jr. allows for a freedom to do something, because he was saying to people he's opinion about what he thinks about discrimination so like the people who heard he's opinion start thinking about everyone should have freedom and be equality. He did a one of the famous speech in the world which calls "I Have a Dream". He's speech was 17 minute at front of Lincoln Memorial , he talked about Freedom. Before he did the speech the title of the speech was "Normalcy, Never Again" and the contents of speech was so different with what he said at the speech and there was no details about Freedom and Dream, because at like the middle of the speech African-American gospel singer which called Mahalia Jackson shout out "Talk about you Dream" to him, then Martin Luther King Jr. interruption what he was saying and he start speaking about he's dream with emphasis about Freedom and Dream.

Without "Freedom”, the New World would be like a worst and bad and dangerous world , Martin Luther King Jr. claimed "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." My dream is to see that my little four children is not discrimination by there skin color and having judged by there characteristic and having fun day. From this quote we can understand that Martin Luther King Jr. is really kind father and he's opinion and dream is great. Freedom maybe that's all what we need, Thinking about each other's freedom will be important. Having responsibility to the opinion, action and movement will be based things, making freedom to world then naturally it will make a peace, fair.

As mentioned earlier, Pythagoras once claimed, "No man is free who cannot control himself." meaning everyone should each have a fair freedoms and if you can understand about yourself you can get freedoms, your own opinion action will be important for freedom.

So if someone gives me a chance to make a new world, I think I'm going to make a new world which is based on a "Freedom".

The Hat

Hi , I'm hat , you know why I'm here?

Someone dropped me at the ocean...

First time I was selling at a hats hop but I was not poplar at there. And the shop person made me to go recycle shop , because I was not poplar and everyone didn't come to buy me... But,,,, at the recycle shop one woman bought me!! I was so happy about she bought me. And at that day I went to ocean and the woman was using me for blocking the sun light. I was really excited about she's gonna use me for her life and I was happy about someone is geting nice life because of me (the hat). But the happy moment was so short..... Now, I'm alone. No one is near me and no one is gonna come near me any more... Please , ocean come near me! I want to swim at the ocean , but it's too far away. They the crab came! I WAS SO excited , because I feel like the crab is gonna make me go to the ocean. I hope and I wish .... But the crab didn't the crab just went threw me and now even crab , ocean is GONE ...

I feel so lonely , but I still wish and wish and wish that someone will come and help me and I wish that I can help another people before I die.