blog reflection

During this trimester I have been Blogging on a book called Woman in the Mist, in these blogs I have use my voice in it and really showed my personality. In one blog post in particular I talked about how I thought it was cool that she was really interested in these animals and wanted to help them. This is using my voice because I really like animals and I think this would be really cool to get the chance to do.  I also relate a lot of what she is doing to what is happening in life right now. I can showcase my personality in my blogs because the book that I am reading relates a lot to what is happening in the world and what I think is really cool. In my blogs I put in my personal opinions about the world and how we treat our environment. In this post I say “Hopefully in the future people will be able to keep raising awareness about the animals they love and keep helping those animals.” I show my opinion in this sentence because I talk about how I hope that there will be other brave people that follow in their footsteps and try to help the animals they love.

In my blog post I use all different types of diction. For example in this post I say, “This is happening all over the world and humans are often poaching animals and are destroying their habitat just like what we have seen in the book.” This quote is using formal diction because I am addressing a real problem in the world that needs to be changed. I talk about how the people are poaching the animals and how they are destroying their habitat. The word choice I use in the sentence helps get across the seriousness of this topic. In this sentence I have used a lot of medium to long sentences because I am explaining thing that are happening in the book and relating them to what is happening in the world, if I used a lot of sort sentences they wouldn’t get the point across and it would make it really confusing.

Woman in the Mist

Dian Fossey is the woman that this book is centered around. I believe she is a very tough woman that hasn't had a very good connection with the people around her. It seems that she doesn't know how to connect well with people but she understands animal. She was very interested in animals especially the mountain gorillas sense she was little. For many years she had wanted to go to Africa to explore the area and meet them. She didn't have enough money for a lot of time and when she did get to go it put her into dept. She took her first trip there and met a guy that she seemed to like and later got engaged to but unfortunately he was too involved with his schooling and didn't pay much attention to her. She eventually got into contact with a person that could help her get a job studying the mountain gorillas. He takes a long time to call her back about the job and she begins to get worried.

            If you would like to study more about Dian Fossey you can use the link below to read about her and you can also read the book Woman in the Mist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Fossey

Woman in the Mist

The book that I am reading is about Dian Fossey and the mountain gorillas. I think that she is going to learn a lot about the gorillas and help inform many people about them. She will end up helping these animals a lot but maybe not enough. It will take people in the future to come along and do what she and Jane Goodall have done and help raise awareness for the animals. Unfortunately I think that humans as a species think mainly about them and not about anything else and they don't care what they do to the environment and who we share it with. 

I know that there are people like Jane and Dian that go and do stuff like this but I haven't heard of something like this happening in a long time so I wonder if there are people that are doing this stuff that we don't hear a lot about and I think that should change and we need to hear more from them. I think people should listen to these people and think more about these animals because we are the main cause to many of the animal extinctions that we know of due to poaching and the harming of their environment for our good. 

Krista Ramsey

In school we have just started studying columnist and in particular Krista Ramsey that works for the Cincinnati  enquirer. I read one of her columns called Raising Kids to Embrace the Worls, then they do. 

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/columnists/krista-ramsey/2014/03/06/krista-ramsey--adults/6144909/

 

In this column she talks about how as the kids are growing up the parents are always telling them to go out and enjoy the world and have fun with what you're doing but then as the go to leave you you don't want to let them go. I think a good quote to sum up this is, "It's the most humbling lesson of parenting: We may be in charge of the prologue, but only they get to write the story of their lives" this line is so good because it sums everything up and it says that you can tell your kids what to do but they are the one that get to decide what they really want to do. This quote is so well written because it relates life to writing a story, which is what she knows well about. It also uses good wording because it says that the parents are in charge of the prologue so we get that they are in charge of the beginning of their life's and they get to direct them in a certain way but they can't tell them everything. Krista Ramsey likes to write about the little that effect society and that we see every day but we may not think of it in a big way like a lot of the news that we hear about everyday. 

 

A few questions that I would like to ask Krista would be, What do she like about writing columns? Another question that I would ask her would be, how does she think of the things that she writes and not get writers block? Finally I would ask is how did she choose to be a writer?

Woman in the Mist

 The book that I have been reading is called Woman in the Mist. It is a true story about Dian Fossey. This book relates to a lot of what actually is happening in the world and even related to me. It relates to the world because it takes place in Africa and talks a lot about how people have cause the loss of habitat in the area of Africa that she has been studying. This is happening all over the world and humans are often poaching animals and are destroying their habitat just like what we have seen in the book.

Dian Fossey grew up wanting to be a vet because she loved animals and felt like she could really connect to the animals. When I get older I want to be a vet because I really love animals. Dian Fossey grew up around animals and on a farm constantly with them. All though I have never lived on a farm I was born and grew up with 2-4 dogs my entire life and with lots of interesting animals like turtles, Lizards, Hamsters, and rats. I think it would be amazing to get to travel to an exotic place to see the animals out in their natural habitat.

I believe that Dian Fossey is a lot alike Jane Goodale. I don't know a lot about either one so far but what i know is that the both went to see Large monkeys. In Jane's case the were chimpanzees and in Dian's case they were Mountain Gorillas. They both spent lots of time with the animals and learned a lot about them and their habitat. They have raised awareness of the animals they loved and have helped the animals. Hopefully in the future people will be able to keep raising awareness about the animals they love and keep helping those animals.