For this project we has do write a sense of place essay about a place that we really connect with. We also had to incorporate an environmental ethic into our paper about something in the environment that we feel strongly about. For this project we learned about many different writing types that we could use in our papers to make them flow more and more exciting to read. I learned a lot about power plants for this project because the power plant that exploded in Chernobyl, Ukraine. I learned about how to write a creative paper that had both sense of place and environmental ethic which was hard but fun. I also learned a ton about different environmental ethics that many different people had. we also learned about energy and how we the people of the world get a hold of energy and all the different ways that energy can be used in the universe. I learned many things that helped me to be able to write a good essay about my sense of place and I also learned a lot about myself in the same period of time.
I didn't know what my environmental ethic should be until my teacher showed us a video in class that was about the deformed children that were affected by the explosion of the power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine. To be truthful I could not watch the full video because it hurt me to much personally. I have a connection to this video because I was in an orphanage in Russia, and the things that this video showed me just made me cry because i could connect with how they were feeling. They were waiting for their families to come and get them. The only difference that these children had was that they had deformities and were placed in orphanages with other people that also had them. After thinking about this video for a while I got really mad about the fact that Chernobyl was built and not taken care of. That is how Chernobyl became my environmental ethic. Although at first I was really mad at my teacher for showing this video because I didn't think that I was ready to see something that would hit so close to home, I now realize that it was something that I did need to see to be able to move on from my past and into the present day that I live in. I decided to do the sense of place part of my essay about an ashram because in real life the ashram is my home away from home. Ever since I moved from Russia I have gone to the ashram a few times every year because that land and people seem to just call me back. I cant really explain why I love it there so much, I just can never seem to stop going.
The thing that I am most proud of in this project was that I got to really let my thoughts flow and I wrote a really creative and I would like to say one of the best papers that I have ever written. I am really happy that through this paper I got to show people some of the secrets that I have hidden from myself and other people. I think that I did a good job with using the grand style of writing in my paper and I used a lot of imagery so that whoever reads my paper could visualize what I was saying. I am proud that I had the strength to write a paper that contains things that mean a lot to me, and I think that I did a very good job on this paper. The one place that I am most proud of in my paper is my first paragraph that describes what a Russian orphanage is like. I tried really hard to remember as much as I could about what the orphanage was really like which was really emotional for me.
I think it was a good idea for humanities and chemistry to come together and do a joint project. At times it felt like we were doing the same thing in both classes which was kind of boring and made it hard to focus on the work that we really needed to get done, but in the end I had a really good times with both of these projects and would recommend for more classes to do joint projects.
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