annotation3 Blood Diamond

‘They said it came from the heart of the earth, to test the heart of the man’. It was the first lines in this movie trailer and also, gave the audiences a concept about this movie's issue. As we can see, the army forced black people to collect diamond in a river, however, when they successfully find a rare diamond in that muddy river, they could not own the diamond. They had to hang out what they had discovered, and as we can image, they would not have any chance to share any benefit from the diamond and could not get any reward. The black man who found a rare pink diamond in the trailer was called Solomon. He tried to own this diamond as his fortune secretly and decided to pretend that he didn’t discover anything in the muddy river. However, the guarder observed his attempt and from then on, Solomon’s destiny was wholly changed.

Solomon wanted to use the diamond to support his family departing from the poverty and the life style as slave. For Danny, that rare pink diamond was such a great chance that could help him to being rich. And for the army, they needed that diamond for exchanging fortune, and used that enormous fortune to support their army. For three different reasons, this diamond became a fatal attraction. In this movie, I regarded Solomon as an impression of the poor, who tried to improve his life but exploited by power group. The army was regarded as that power group which forced the poor to be their slaves and made them to sink into the poverty. On top of that, I regard Danny as the rich who desire for power and fortune to fulfill his psychological poverty.

In the movie, Solomon tried any way to keep that diamond just as the poor’s hard working. He said lines to express anguish toward the unfair society and army’s cruelty. ‘My family, my home, I could lost everything.’ Army’s exploitation was the society’s unfriendly environment toward the poor. The poor’s poverty was because they didn’t have power to protect their right and respect. Who can get the power and the right of management, and then who can control the economy condition. The rich didn’t satisfy with their life, their psychological poverty cause their pursuit of fortune.  

Reflection1

     In my annotation1 and annotation2, I tried to find some articles or video to talk about the psychological poverty. In the beginning, I wanted to analyze some poverty problem in this society. However, my poverty problem was almost focusing on the rich. I want to express my idea about their purpose to make money so hard was because the psychology of poverty, and people’s never satisfied with their life style. First to talk about my issue with teacher and after I read some peer critiques, I found that my issue had a problem- it was to be holding a little extreme view. Because what I want to discuss is about the psychological poverty, however, it did not fair if I used the same view to apply it to the poor. I could not say that the poor desire for fortune or eager for money was also because of their psychological poverty. Sometimes, it was the reality condition that causes them to pursue money. The poor need money to change their life style and help them to depart from poverty; and also, they need fortune to support their basic life. After all, no one wants to live as poverty in the whole life. ‘Why some people are still poor? That was because the environment doesn't permit them to be rich!’ I got this opinion from Angel, and it really helped me and encouraged me to confer another aspect of poverty; that was the poverty that happened on the poor and I tried to connect it with the rich’s psychological poverty and the exploit from society and the power groups.

     For the reason I talked above, I rewrite my annotatin1 again. I watch the video Muhammad Yunus - Grameen Bank again. When I watched this video at the first time, I focused on the example of being a slave. But this time, I tried to watch this video in another new point-to focus on the connection between the poor and what cause their poverty. Yunus express that the reason why the woman in his story needed to take out usurious loans for buying bamboo, to pay their profits to the moneylenders. I thought that the exploit from her moneylenders was also a kind of psychological poverty. Moneylenders must understand that woman’s terrible economy condition; however, they still lent her money with usurious loans. Their usurious loans cause the woman’s poverty, and also, fulfill their psychological poverty. From this point, I found a new connection that I was interesting in, I want to discuss the condition that cause the poor’s poverty and at the same time, fulfill the rich’s desire of fortune and their psychological poverty.

    

     So far, analyzing my annotation1 and annotation2, I find two aspects. First is that why the rich with their huge fortune but still desire for power, space and money. The answer of this condition was psychological poverty, and that psychological poverty was come from comparing themselves with others. Second, the poor’s poverty may come from society’s exploit. The next step I want to do is try to combine these two kinds of poverty together and to find out some evidences to prove my opinion. I want to choose the movie ‘Blood Diamond’ as my next annotation. I will try to use some impress in this movie to prove my idea toward the poverty between the rich and the poor.

    

     In the conference, teacher suggested me to think about what kind of conclusion I want to write in the end of my report. Do I want to solve this condition or I want to express a new point toward poverty. I will think about this soon after I finish all my annotations.

Revise Annotation1

1.      I try to alter my title, the title I used before can not express what I want to say in this annotation, so I write another title to change it.

2.      I read the advice from teacher and give me some new idea that I didn’t think before in this annotation. I will try to discuss it. It is about why poor people keep living in poor life style, and the connection with the rich and the society.

3.      I want to talk about nowadays money slave, and make more examples to prove it.

4.      I have corrected some spelling error and some mistakes in grammar.

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                Poverty was not cause by the poor but by the society and psychology poverty

     In this society, people keep working hard for money. But, why people always desires for fortune and power? Do we really need such lots of money to prevent from being poor? Many news about doctors’ overworks which cause their death gradually be heard, on top of that, some areas in Africa which once to be the colonies are always in the condition of poverty. They do not have any vacant lot to plant foods, every area in their country were used to plant for economical crops like cotton and hemp. Human being works so hard to giant their fortune not for the short of substance, but for their true poverty of their psychology- they will never satisfied with what they have already own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPk2gRuIdj0&feature=player_embedded

     In the video: Muhammad Yunus - Grameen Bank, he talked about economical activities in rural village. Women who made bamboo furniture had to take out usurious loans for buying bamboo, to pay their profits to the moneylenders. Here express a question that is always happening in all over the world. The poor keep working hard and try to depart from poverty, however sometimes, it is not their fault to being poor; it means that the poor living style is not made by them. It is because the society system and vicious oppression from powerful group as their boss or the businessmen that causes their terrible economy condition. For example, not only the woman’s story which Yunus talked in the video, but also the diamond industry in Africa. I saw a movie called Blood Diamond before, and it was talking about the serious problems of illegal diamond collection in Africa. The diamond has become the cause of fight between government soldiers and rebel forces. To the rebel forces, diamond is the source of income for war, therefore, many people has lost their calm live, family relatives and even their own limbs in the war. Thousands of people became refugee. The children soldiers were killed in the war, diamond miners were living a depressing life, those plots in the film actually exist, and some are under an even worse condition. Diamonds may bring people wealth and happiness, but it brought people in Africa war and suffers. What is the reason that causes the diamond miners’ poverty? It is the same reason as the example that Yunus has expressed- the exploit from the powerful group and the man who manage the economic. Society keeping exploits the poor and cause their poverty. Their hard working still cannot bring them depart from terrible economic problem. The same condition also happens in Taiwan, it is about the rights of banana famers.

      Besides, Yunus made an example by being a slave to explain how terrible the economy condition in Bangladesh. That woman was willing to accept this kind of deal to exchange for money; she was in force to do that because of the poverty that may cause her family’s starvation. When I see this video, I thought that not only she, but all of us were the slave for fortune. But the different between people in developed country and that woman is the reason they desired for money. That woman needed money to get some food and maintained her basic life, how about people in developed country, why they also became the slave of money? Do they short of food? No, it was because they didn’t satisfied with their life and always desired for more power and more space to live.

     There are two different terms that cause different poverty. For the rich, it is the psychological poverty that makes them feel the lake of power and fortune; but for the poor, it was the fatal society condition that cause their poverty which may force them to hand over their life.

Revise Annotation2

1.      I give a title to my annotation and tell the reader what I want to talk about in this article annotation. It is about a reason that I think can cause psychology poverty- comparing with others.

2.      After reading some advices from classmates, I get some new concepts toward buying lottery tickets. Not only the poor, but also the rich will buy lottery tickets. Besides, poverty may not be the only reason why people want to buy lottery tickets.

3.      I try to describe that I do not see psychology poverty as a crime or a bad thing. Everyone has their own goal; to fulfill their poverty in mind can also be a life destination.

4.      I have corrected my spelling error and some mistakes in grammar.

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Psychology of Poverty comes from comparing with others

     Some people may think that they are poor; they cannot fulfill themselves by their present life style. Why they classify themselves as poor come from the target they use to compare with themselves. It is impossible that everyone can become the rich like the boss of big company or get huge power like a president. If we compare our incomes with these bosses or chairmen, we absolutely can be defined as the poor. However, if we can change our judgment toward the definition of rich, if we try to satisfy with what we have already owned, including the affection, the happy in our life; then we must be the rich one.

http://www.science20.com/news_releases/psychology_of_poverty_why_poor_people_buy_lottery_tickets

     In the article: Psychology of Poverty: Why Poor People Buy Lottery Tickets, the researcher has already made a trap and lead participants to feel their conditions which researcher expect them to perceive. In our real-life, what make us feel our poor? We can easily receive a lot of information about fashion, brand, celebrities’ luxury and the cost of their house and their clothes. Media just like the researcher in the article which gives us a way to feel our insufficient in material life; and people who receive these information and desire for it are compared as the participants in the research. They fall into the disorientation of material life and look themselves as the poor. People are easily influenced by external factor and will compare themselves with what they admire. Although the condition may not be that worse, pessimistic impression has already hid their eyes to look at the bright side of their life. It is a kind of psychology of poverty that many people may commit.

     Poor people work hard for life. In some condition, desire for money is not just want to fulfill for material life, it is also for surviving. How about the rich? All of us will have a goal in our life, and also we cannot identify what kind of goal is better or what kind of life destination is worse. The rich do not satisfy with what they have owned and desire for more power and space may be their life goal. They may try to challenge themselves and try to prove their ability. If they use their way to fulfill psychological poverty, then they may have a chance to find the value of life and the value of themselves. To find the value of the life is also a way to decrease to psychological poverty, because that means our psychology can find the destination and get confidence from it. Here I get another conclusion: human being is poor because of their psychological poverty, but also, they can rich their mind by trying to decrease their psychological poverty.