On Wednesday, Summer took us to “World Press Photo Exhibition “. There’s always something you can’t imagine happening on the world. A few photos made me impressed.
One is a black rhino, poached for its horn, is found dead at South Africa. In Asia, rhino horn is considered valued medicinal properties. Before the teacher explained the picture, she asked us a question: "Do you think wild animals should be protect?" In fact, I would like to say no. If no greedy human being selfishness and killed those animals, then we would not need to protect them. Why do people protect them after hurting them? Is there any way for humans not to do such a thing? The teacher also said that if it is a professional person took the rhino horn, the rhino can continue to survive, you aren’t a professional person, then why are you still doing this? Even a nine-year-old child knows this is wrong, but people are blinded by their greedy.
There are already many animals, environments and resources in this world that have vanished because of human selfishness. But when can we face this problem?
Q&A
Jason is going to school in Toronto. The weather there might be a shocking experience for him, people in Canada may be the only one who looks forward to cold. Toronto Blue Jays should be his new baseball team. When it comes to ice hockey, I think I should have tell you that there’s an ice hockey national player in our school, which is Vivian Shao’s classmate now!
Unlike Patrick, Mr. Maher just needs to show up to get the free breakfast.
Echo is working in Ireland and just has the occasional day off. Echo’s job is skating with the company, and this year they will go through about twelve different European countries. When I was in kindergarten, my brother and I learned roller-skating in the park, This winter holiday, my junior high classmates asked us to go ice-skating. I think both of them are similar, if you know one of them, the other will be easy for you. So I have never fell on the ice.
Dear Melody,
ReplyDeleteAre their skating rinks in Taipei? I'm surprised! But probably going ice skating in Taipei is very expensive. My son played ice hockey for about five years, and yes, roller skating (actually roller blading, on in-line skates) is about the same. They even have "roller hockey" on in-line skates for the hockey players to practice during the off season.
I think that the pictures showed you that the world can be a very nasty place. Between wars, pollution, and cruelty to animals, we have a long way to go to make our world better. That will be your job in the future. I'm glad that Summer is showing you such things, even though you may not like seeing them. It makes you more aware of the world that you live in.
Tim
Dear Melody,
ReplyDeleteGood job on your book trailer!
Tim