China's One Child Policy

Yesterday my class had a discussion about China's one child policy. At the end of the day we were asked to make headlines of the discussion. My headline was "Is China Right? There is another way."

I chose to use this as my headline because I personally thought that this rule was a cruel way to stop the over population in China and that there could be a better way.

First of all the one child policy is where you can have only one child to stop the over population that had been made. Many people didn't like this rule but if they tried to rebel you would suffer from huge fines such as losing you job. This made everyone follow the rule but there was another problem. since people could only have one child, most of the couples wanted their child to be a boy because people favored the male side better the female. Not only that but if couples did have a boy they were desperate enough to do abortion when the girl was in the mother and is the girl was already born they would expose the child so she would die and have a son. On and on this lead into different problems caused by this rule that no one liked.

I personally think there is another way to stop this problem without such a cruel punishment.

Second Thoughts on Sonnet 7 ... Whole New Way of Thinking

If you have seen my previous blog I was talking about some of my thoughts about the Sonnet 7 after reading it for the first time, and interpreting the poem and turning them into an art piece.This time all three groups went though this was the first time for us, the artists.

Lo! In the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage:
But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract, and look another way:
So though, thyself outgoing in thy noon
Unlooked on diest unless though get a son.

After our performance or rather just presenting our piece I realized that we created some thoughts that we never meant to create and that had change my thoughts completely. The next group was the actors who had modified their story/script. After watching the performance I realized we had many things in common such as the fact that both of the group's work showed the path or journey of the sun and how it died relating a normal human's lifespan. After our discussion on this, the class decided that the sun and humans are kind of the same since we are both born and die at the end. As we went along the third and last performance was coming up. After the music group we saw that a human and the sun were also similar because at mid day the sun got stronger and at middle ages a human is the strongest.

Wait for my further thoughts on Sonnet 7.

Having a Mind of a Poet... Shakespeare Sonnet 7

After listening or rather reading the poem "Sonnet 7" written by Shakespeare, my class was split into groups to discuss the poem and understand the meaning.
This is the actual poem:

Lo! In the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage:
But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract, and look another way:
So though, thyself outgoing in thy noon
Unlooked on diest unless though get a son.


Personally I didn't understand the poem the first time I read it. I had to look over it at least 3 times to figure out the poem was talking about the Sun since the first line refers to orient which means Sun. When I started thinking about this poem with my group we decided that this poem reflects on the greatness of the sun. After the music performance of group 1, I kind of changed my mind. The rise of the sun represented the birth of the sun and when it set was the death. I thought that the poem represented the the process of the sun rising to the sun setting and the all the things that happen during that time. I also think that this poem tells the reader how important the sun is to the the people.