Reflection On Video" The Cove"

   This movie is directed about the dolphin hunting operation in Taji, Wakayama, Japan. It's kind of a real documentary which was secretly filmed by using underwater microphones and high-definition cameras hidden in rocks. This film presented about a large scale of dolphin killing in Taiji,compared with the killing of whales in Antarctic,  which is several times greater : 23,000 dolphins a year.

   There is an certain area that the dolphins are herded to coast. The area is restricted by the fences and "Keep Out" signs and the local people also shows an activity to hide from the public. Attempts to view or film of the dolphin killing in the cove are also physically blocked by local volunteers who treat the visitors with open intimidation and anger. First they sell the dolphins to aquariums and marine parks and the rest are slaughtered inhumanely and sell as meat.
   The dolphin meat are legally sold in supermarkets in Taiji. According to the film, dolphin meat is high in mercury and so it will lead to mercury poisoning. What's more shocking is that they support students as school lunch. SHOCKING... isn't it? They said they killed dolphins because dolphins eat too much fish in ocean and they might face the decline in their food supply.By selling dolphins, they can earn a lot of money like $15,000 for "shows dolphins" and $600 for dolphin meat. It's easy money, I guess.
   From my aspect, we can't just stop them because that's not the thing we like. It's just the way they are and may be their culture. We butcher chickens, cows and many others animals for food. I won't say it's not right thing to do but I think government should make some rules and policy for killing dolphins to become less.

Reflection On Video " South Park Whale Wars"

"South park whale wars" is the video filmed about Japanese's culture of whaling practice and those who think that's not right about slaughtering whales and dolphins and something must be done about it. The video is quite comic. Most of the people don't know about the Japanese's culture so they don't know why Japanese slaughter the whales and dolphins.

In this video, Japanese wearing traditional clothes killed whales and dolphins at an alarming rate not only in South Park but also in Aquarium, at dolphin show and even at an NFL game, they killed all the members of Miami Dolphins Football team with spears and no one cared about it. The kid called "Stan" join the shipping crew to stop the Japanese but the crew he joined was just a fake that wanted to get media attention by the use of the issue. Later, the kid became captain after he destroyed a Japanese ship. Finally the kid's crew got caught by Japanese President and Japanese told them that they hated whales and dolphins because the first atomic bomb was dropped on "Hiroshima" by the Americans at the end of the second war and they wanted revenge for who had done that. After the war, they got a picture who did that and that was dolphin and whale. That's why they butchered whales and dolphins. But he hinted that was wrong and if he revealed the truth, they might start a war with Americans. So he showed them another photo that the victims are chickens and cows.

Starting from that, Japanese switched their hatred to the cows and chickens. The significance of the line "at least they are normal now, like us" at the end of the show when the Japanese started butchering cows and chicken is that the American are impressive their idea of 'normal' in Japanese ,they think who has same behavior with them is right.

That's not a right thing. They kill whales and dolphins and Japanese whalers actually don't give a sh** about any creatures in the ocean. But what about us? We kill chickens, cows, pigs and cows, don't we? And who think we are wrong? No one cares about it.

Why Study Geography?

    The science of geography is likely the oldest of all sciences. Exploration and the discovery of new places, new cultures, and new ideas have always been basic components of geography.Thus, geography is often called the "mother of all sciences" as studying other people and other places led to other scientific fields such as biology, anthropology, geology, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, among others.

    Geography is the science that we learn about the environment, the features and the inhabitants and the phenomena of the earth.To be considered, there are five themes of geography:

• Location

• Place

• Human-environment interactions

• Movement and Migration

• Region

Why do we need to study Geography?

  Studying geography in class seems to be boring but to be certain, we were surely interested when we started learning about the things related with earth, e.g solar system.We can know about the minerals and resources which exit on our earth.

   From studying geography,we can also know what's happening around the world right now and can understand how and why the world is changing globally and locally.Studying also provides knowledge about the other plants and how to save. 

   From geography, we can know how and why the natural disasters happen in our world.So we could figure out how those disasters affect the world.Besides those facts, studying geography let us to know about the different cultures,societies,political systems and landscapes.It can also inform us about the environments across the world and about the human actions to the earth.