I love dancing.

Dance like no one's watching;

Sing like no one's listening;

And live like there's only heaven on the earth.

A great warrior fight for self but not for proving something.

I expect myself to be still, be brave, and be firm!

Though I always feel exhausted after dancing,

I love the feeling of seating. 

I guess it is what make my youth full of more meaning! 

Abortion

       Abortion has been a contentious issue throughout the world due to its ethnicity and uncertain actions. The heart of the controversy is whether doctors kill a baby or just an embryo. The controversy started with the definition of pregnancy. In accordance with the definition defined by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, pregnancy begins with implantation instead of fertilization. In other words, life occurs after the implantation of embryo. Thus, the embryo is equal to a life even its appearance is not human-like. “Did the baby suffer?” People argue for the fact. Disputes about the controversy were ignited as the result of different points of views.

 Most against people think the baby suffer from abortion, which is nothing different from murder. They think abortion kills a young life, and the young life suffers a lot just before it is destroyed. Thus, abortion is not supported by them, for it obeys the ethnicity. Not only destroying a life, abortion is like a process in which parents kill their own child. What’s worse; against groups propose an idea that the access to abortion increases the rate of unprotected sex. They regard it as telling your kids it’s OK to go out there and have sex, and we have a cure for it.

Regardless of the opposition from against stakeholders, there are still many people supporting for abortion. They think sometimes accidents happen, but the accidents may cause a lifelong consequence. It may take future away from a young girl. Those people think abortion is allowable because it permits women to exercise autonomy over their reproductive future. Also, they don’t think a child will have a sound family or growing process when they are not born with intentions.

Both supportive and against sides have strong state, so I think there is no absolutely accuracy for this biased issue. Whether to abort or not should be decided based on the actual situation but not major or general opinions.      

    

"Say your goal out loud or not?" - summary and reaction after i listened to the topic

The audio for this week is about the psychological aspect as we say our goal out loudly. We may like to tell others about our goals and dreams, and we are prone to do it. Agreement or admiration from others is pleasant to hear, but good feeling is what makes us less likely to achieve our goal. We feel good to say goals out because we feel like we are closer to it as others agree with us. When saying goals out loud, we are making an identity that we will make it. Though the identity raises our confidence, it distracts us from being exactly concentrated on what we want to do. Good feeling creates an illusion in our brain that we must achieve our goal, which makes us less motivated. According to psychologists, those who say their goals out are less likely to have their goals come true because they don’t make as much effort as they did after hearing approvals from others. Psychologists made a several experiments, and then the results show that people who keep their mouth shut stick to their task longer in result of their feeling that success is still a long way to go. On the other side, people who say their tasks out had only stayed in their position for thirty minutes. They quit much earlier than others because they feel much closer to their goal as they tell others about their goal. In conclusion, it may feel good to say goals out loud, but we have better keep our mouth shut. Things are less likely to be achieved when we gain identity from others, for we will be less motivated as the identity forms in our mind.

     “You will be whomever you want with effort and hope.” It seems that nothing is impossible if we make effort and pray over it. However, not many people know the key to work this motto out. Most of us think that goals are more likely to be achieved when we say it loud and make an identity in our mind. We read the book “Secret” and believe that identity will lead us to success; yet, most of we start to make less effort as we think that we will be successful. When I was in high school, I wrote the name of my ideal university, and everyone saw that. I thought I was doing what the author of “Secret” tells us to do, and then I started imagining myself as a to-be student of National Taiwan University. Because of the illusion, I started to study less. I spent much time on imaging and making myself feel good instead of studying hard. It is not wrong to have confidence or to be positive; nevertheless, whether holding determination or not is what makes the result different. Confidence may either let us become more resolute or let us loose modesty to keep making effort for achieving something. From my experience, I think it is right that goal is much less likely to happen when we say it out. Everytime when I tell others about the thing that I want to do, the result just turns out quite disappointing. I learned from my failures that success is belonged to those who are quite but determined. They stay quite because they really focus on the goal, and persist in making improvement. Briefly to say, I totally agree the idea proposed by the speaker. It is right that we have better keep mouth shut and be concentrated on what we should focus on.    

Summary and Reaction to "the Plastic Pollution" from CNN

The speaker is a visual artist who has been working with plastic for the last 20 years. Plastic has been her primary materials for arts. She turned them into three-dimension, sculpture, and installation. However, she found that her works started to break down into a bit of plastic eight years later. It’s a bad thing that plastic breaks into smaller pieces because it’s still plastic. Thus, she started wondered and doubted human beings’ use of this material. She visited oceans and founded that there are a lot of plastics drifted or deposited in the marine environment. Then she talked to people who are also concerned with the problem and then work to solve the problem as a group. They created an organization called the Plastic Pollution Coalition, which is dedicated to relieving the environmental and health problems caused by plastics. She called for the public’s concern with plastics by proposing that plastic is around our daily life. Foods in the supermarket are packed with plastic; beverages are packed in plastic; and even those sold at the healthy food market are packed in the same way. What’s more, the plastics are put in the refrigerator with potential risks that toxin may leach from plastic into our bodies. The problem triggered by the plastic is greatly severe, but at least we can do something to slow its rate. It is important that we find a way to turn off the faucets, cut the spigot, and not to use disable plastics. Plastics enter marine environment everyday on a global scale. While a glass bottle can be a glass bottle again, a plastic bottle can never be a plastic bottle again; therefore, problems of the plastic should be looked upon. Different from the traditional 3R, the Plastic Pollution Coalition proposed a new idea called 4R, which includes “reduce,”” reuse,”” recycle,” and “refuse.” Plastic pollution is a huge problem in the ocean, but the problem was created by us as consumers. To solve it, we should raise our awareness of the issue and teach others to choose alternatives instead of plastics. We can save oceans, planets, and ourselves by changing our life style.

     I had heard the problem of the plastic before; however, I seldom put the warning in mind. I go shopping without bringing my own bag and I think of plastic bags as worthless things. Not until I listened to the audio for this week did the importance of reducing plastic again show up in my mind. I was shocked as I heard the speaker list serious problems that caused by the plastic. What’s worse, the plastic is everywhere in our daily life. No matter in the supermarket, in the healthy-food court, in the refrigerator, or even in somewhere at home, I can see things made of plastics. The fact that the plastic is still the plastic even when it breaks down shocks me. It is terrible that I buy the new plastic bag every time when I shopped for things. Thus, I think it is time for me to change my life style for saving our environment!