Reflection2

In the conference, I talked about my problems in giving a title to my report. I first wanted to write my issue as discussing psychological poverty. However, my annotations deviated from it. To read my annotations again, I seemed to find out some connections between them. In annotation1, annotation3 and annotation4; all of them talked about poverty problem with power groups. In these three annotations, they pointed out some problems that caused poverty. For example, exploitation and the imbalance rights and power between the poor and the government or the power group like middleman and rebel army. I have to organize these three annotations with the issue about poverty and imbalance rights. However I could not find a good connection between my annotation2 with others. Professor asked me to read some comments from classmates. Cheryl gave me a comment as follow: ‘Here the “cause” (experiment) and effect (people’s self- perception) let we know that difference between 'the rich' and 'the poor'? No, it was the way that the researcher controls participant's psychology’. She here gave me a new point to think about the relationship between the cause and the effect. Research controlled participant’s mind and made them to feel poor. Because participants knew nothing about the research, if I regretted their innocent as the poor did not understand that they were exploit by others, and used researchers’ control and design toward the research to express the concept about power group control the rights and forces the poor to work or even live, as they wanted. By this way, maybe I can connect my four annotations in the same issue.

Revised Annotation4 Power group’s misunderstand will strengthen the low status’ being exploit

Source:邱君萍 許文男(2011/11/28) 綠文宣蕉價低三倍 蕉農被害慘.華視新聞網

Retrieved from:

http://news.cts.com.tw/cts/politics/201111/201111280878948.html

1.      Jim and Ruby gave me many helpful advices on word chose and helped me to correct my grammar mistakes. Jim suggested changing NT$6 per kilogram’ to ‘NTD$6 /KG’. However I read related news before on the Taipei Times, and they write the price by the way ‘NT$6 per kilogram’, so I decided to fellow their way to describe the price.

2.      I used the word like ‘some problems’ or ‘their expectancy’. Ruby suggested me to explain clearly about what did I actually means about ‘problems’ and ‘expectancy’. I had discussed more about what I wanted to express.

3.      In paragraph three, Jim suggested me to shorter the last eight line to ‘the impact of this erroneous information has taken its toll on the price of banana and hence, the farmer’. He thought that annotation should depend on why I chose this article as annotation. But I wanted to explain my opinion toward this annotation clearly, so I didn’t shorter my annotation.

4.      Jim gave me the information about writing the source information of news. I had tried to correct my mistake.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Power group’s misunderstand will strengthen the low status’ being exploit

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). DPP recently promoted an advertisement which focuses on the price of Taiwanese fruits. In this advertisement, DPP told people that the price of banana was only NT$2 pre kilogram. However, after reporters investigated, the real price of banana was three times higher than that of DPP’s handbill. Banana famers emphasized that the price of NT$2 per kilogram was in June. After the government adopted price adjustment measures and long-term monitoring mechanisms to help farmers deal with a surplus production of bananas; the problem about banana’s low price had been solved temporarily. Price today in the market was at least NT$15 pre kilogram. Banana famers are very worried that people would be confused by this advertisement and therefore misunderstand the price of banana was that low. One of the banana famers told the reporter that DPP could not used the price of inferior bananas as the price of the high- grade ones. This misunderstanding might impact banana’s price, and hence, innocent banana famers.

Power groups’ misunderstanding will influence the people in lower status. Farmers work so hard to cultivate fruit; however they could not decide the price by themselves. Famer knows fruit the most. They cultivate each kind of products, plants by their own hand and can discriminate the standard of the fruit. They should be the person who has the right to decide the price of their labor, but actually, they are not getting what they deserve. On the other hands, middlemen as power group decide the price of famers’ products. They buy farmers’ products at low price in large amount, the price may not equal to the efforts and prime cost that famers put in to their crops. Famers became cheap slaves to help middlemen earned money by their hard working.

In this news, the price that farmers sold to the middlemen was NT$6 per kilogram. However, the market price was NT$15 per kilogram. Although the government had try to raise the price, the famers still could not get profit from that ‘‘NT$15’’. Middlemen and the retail store got most of the benefits from the products; however, farmers’ diligence could not receive the reward they deserve. DPP here misunderstood the price of banana and thus pronounced a wrong advertisement. DPP is as power group who could influence people’s cognition toward price or different information; delivered the wrong information to people that may indirectly help middlemen to exploit the banana famers. People receive the low price in their knowledge and may want to buy the banana at that low price. If middlemen try to satisfy costumer’s expectancy, they must lower their prime cost by buying banana from famers in lower price. This exploit force the famers to sells their products in bad price and cannot earn enough money to prepare for their next cultivation. Power group’s exploit and misunderstand will finally cause the innocent farmers to be the victims.

Revise Annotation3 Exploitation from power groups cause the poverty condition for the poor

Source: Movie: Blood diamond (2006) Directed by Edward Zwick. Retrieved movie trailer from: Youtube. Uploaded by: FilmTrailersChannel (2009)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2uXlxNZCs4&feature=player_embedded

1.      Jim and Ruby gave me many advices on word choice and correct some mistake in grammar. I changed the word ‘army’ to ‘rebel army’ which could express the image more clearly. Besides, Jim suggested me to use the word ‘compensate’ to replace the word ‘fulfill’ when I discussed the psychological poverty. And I accepted his suggestion.

2.      Ruby suggested me to discuss the character of Denny more clearly so I had tried to describe more images about this character and what I wanted to express by this character. I thought that would help me a lot to explain what I wanted to tell the reader.

3.      In paragraph two, I used the word ‘fatal’ to describe attraction. Jim suggested me to change the word to ‘lethal’ or ‘deadly’. But I still wanted to use the word ‘fatal’ because I thought that attraction actually causes the death of innocence and also the death of rebel army’s conscience.

4.      Ruby suggested me to explain why I quoted the lines tells by Solomon in paragraph three, so I had discussed more about it.

5.      I gave a title to the annotation and wished this title can help me to express what I wanted to say in this annotation.

6.      Jim suggested me that ‘spiritual poverty’ can be better to pair was ‘material poverty’ than ‘psychological poverty’. I didn’t decide which one is better.

---------------------------------------------

‘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 movies’ issue-the misery comes from scrambling for diamond. As we can see in the movie, the rebel army forces black people to collect diamond in a river, however, after they successfully find rare diamonds in that muddy river, they could not keep the diamond as their fortune. They have to hand it in, in addition, they would not have any chance to share any benefit from the diamond and could not get any reward. The black protagonist, Solomon, tried to own this diamond as his fortune secretly and decided to pretend that he didn’t find anything. However, the guarder was aware of his attempt and from then on; Solomon’s destiny was wholly changed.

There are three leading characters in this movie. First on was Solomon, who wanted to use the diamond to support his family departing from the poverty and the life style as slaves. The second was Danny, who was an illegal seller of diamond worked for government official, who regarded rare pink diamond as a great chance that could help him to become rich and depart from the unstable life style. The third one was rebel army who needed that diamond for exchanging fortune to buy better weapons. For three different reasons and different standpoints, this diamond became a fatal attraction not only cause the death of innocent people during their fight, but also cause the death of rebel army’s conscience. In this movie, Solomon as symbol of the poor, who tried to improve his life but exploited by power group. The rebel army was regarded as that power group which forced the poor to be bogged down in poverty. On top of that, Danny was regard as the rich who desire for fortune to compensate his psychological poverty.

Using the connection between Solomon, rebel army and Denny to discuss how society and the rich influence or maybe, cause the poor’s poverty. Solomon said lines to express anguish toward the unfair society and army’s cruelty. ‘My family, my home, I could not lost everything.’ It is just like the voice from poor’s heart to against cruel environment and society that bogged them down to the poverty. Rebel 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 dignity. Who can get the power and the right of management will control the economy condition. That was the right’s unbalance and society’s sternly cool toward poor’s no ability to fight for their rights that cause the poor’s permanent poverty. Beside, the rich didn’t prevent that exploit toward poor was because they also obtain rewards from this unfair condition, and these rewards could just compensate their psychological poverty that always keep them to pursuit more fortune and power.

 

annotation4 DPP mistakes the price of banana in their handbills, banana farmers become the victim

Source:綠文宣蕉價低3倍 蕉農被害慘(2011/11/28) by 邱君萍 許文男報導
Retrieved by 華視新聞網 http://news.cts.com.tw/cts/politics/201111/201111280878948.html

This news talks about a mistake makes by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). DPP recently announced an advertisement which was focus on the price of Taiwan’s native fruit. In this advertisement, DPP told people that the price of banana was only NT$2 pre kilogram. However, after reporter’s investigated, the real price of banana was three times higher then DPP’s handbill had written. Banana famers emphasized that the price of NT$2 pre kilogram was the price in June. After government had adopted price adjustment measures and long-term monitoring mechanisms to help farmers deal with a surplus production of bananas; the problem about banana’s low price had temporary been solved. Today’s price in the market was at last NT$15 pre kilogram. They are very worried that the price of banana will be affected by this advertisement. One of the banana famers told the reporter that DPP could not used the price of inferior bananas as the selling price of the high- grade one. This misunderstanding might bring some problems to banana’s price, and finally, innocent banana famers would be the victim of this unreal advertisement.

     Power groups’ misunderstanding will cause the influence to the people in lower stander. Famers work so hard to cultivate fruit; however they could not decide the price by themselves. Famer is the person who knows fruit the most. They cultivate each kind of produces by their own hand and can discriminate the stander of the fruit. They should be the person who has right to decide the price of their painstaking care, but actually, they are just become the slave under the power group. Middlemen, as power group decide the price of famers’ products. They buy in famers product by low price in large amount, that price may not compare with the effort and prime cost that famers put in their cultivation. Famers became cheep slave to help middlemen earned money by their hard working.

In this news, the price that famer sell to the middlemen was NT$6 pre kilogram. However, the price sells to the consumer in the market was NT$15 pre kilogram. Although government had try to raise the price from NT$2 to NT$6 pre kilogram, famers still could not get benefit from that ‘‘NT$15’’. Middlemen and the retail store got most of the benefit from the product; however, the hardest character could not receive the reward they should receive. DPP here misunderstanding the price of banana and pronounce a wrong advertisement. DPP as another kind of power group and express the wrong information to people may help middlemen to exploit the banana famers. People receive the low price in their knowledge and will want to buy the banana by that low price. If middlemen try to satisfy costumer’s exception, they most lower their prime cost by buying banana from famers in bad price. This exploit force the famers to sells their products in bad price and can not earn enough money to prepare for their next cultivation. Power group’s exploit and misunderstand will finally cause the innocent farmers to be the victim.

DPP mistakes the price of banana in their handbills, banana farmers become the victim

廣告中說到香蕉的產地價格一台斤賣兩塊錢，真的是這樣嗎？華視記者實際的來到了香蕉產地高雄旗山，香蕉農抱怨說，民進黨文宣中寫兩塊錢，那只有在今年六月蕉價慘跌時的最差價錢，後來經過農糧署啟動農安機制，一個月後價錢立刻回穩，現在賣給批發商一台斤至少都有六塊錢。
　　打開催熟冷藏室，裡頭一籃籃塑膠籃子裡裝的都是一串串的香蕉，拿出一串來，黃色的皮平整光亮每條大小都剛剛好，民進黨的水果日曆中說，這樣的香蕉產地賣價一台斤只有兩塊錢，高雄旗山的蕉農張大哥說根本不可能，張大哥接著還說，拿像這樣外皮損傷或過熟、賣相不好的次級香蕉價格，講成是品質良好的價錢，簡直是害死蕉農。
　　今年的香蕉價格最低價是在六月份的時候，當時蕉農交給批發商一台斤確實只有兩三塊錢，後來農糧署緊急啟動農安機制，發動企業團體跟公家機關，用一台斤六塊的價格向蕉農購買，蕉價才總算回升穩定，到現在香蕉一台斤市價賣給消費者至少都有15塊起跳。
　　不過其實香蕉價格這幾年來跌得最慘的是在2006年時，因為蕉農交琣批發商價格慘跌，一台斤只剩下一塊錢，讓蕉農寧願把香蕉砍掉當肥料，只是當年的中央政府也只有幫忙推廣促銷香蕉，相較於今年，政府出錢出力讓蕉價回穩，蕉農們好不容易盼到好價格，沒想到現在卻又被貶低到兩三塊，讓他們真的又無奈又心酸，更擔心價格還會因此受到影響。