This I Believe- More Inspiration

After watching the video of Matt Harding's dance and reading his essay on Connecting to the Global Tribe, I realized how the world is changing. People are wanting to be more connected and involved with people from around the world and our mind is slowly learning to adapt to that. As Matt Harding says "Globalization is forcing our brains to evolve." In his video he is dancing alone in the first few cities but then as he continues traveling around the globe more and more people join in. This shows how people from around the world are starting to become more connected with each other and want to be seen and heard.

The fact that this video has had over a million hits seems that people are also interested in hearing what others have to say, not just through the usual newspaper and news way of delivering news. When I was watching his video I noticed that all the people were from different nationalities and backgrounds and they all looked different. But yet this did not stop them from joining in with the dance and being cheerful and happy with or without their differences. The world has become more aware of the fact that despite all our differences we are all one. This fact also connects to a essay I was reading earlier called Thirty Things I believe, by Tarak McLain a kindergartner, and one of his beliefs was that we are all equal. This fact is very true no matter what nationality or religion we come from we are all equal. In fact this is the whole basis of human rights "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." . I think that if a kindergartner can see this then the whole world should be able to recognize this and start acting upon this. I know that it has to begin with a individual stand.

Dreams, Hopes and Inspiration

After watching the video of Susan Boyle on “Britain’s got Talent”, it reminded me of the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover.” When Susan Boyle and Paul Potts both went up stage the reaction of the audience and the judges as well as mine, was that they were just another funny act of people who couldn't’t sing, but when they sang their hearts out everyone was caught by surprise. Instead of laughing and scoffing at them the audience starts cheering and supporting them. As I listened to them, I was thinking that how they had gone through a lot in life and how their dreams have been put on hold for so many years because of their appearance. I think that shows like Britain got talent is a huge window of opportunity for people like Susan and Paul who have faced many obstacles in life whilst following their dreams. This video also connects to the Blokes by Alan Gibbons because in the blokes everybody judged Hashim, the new refuge boy by his appearance and background. He was not the same as everybody else he was not from England and he was Muslim and that's what made him an target. His difference. Its the same with Susan Boyle and Paul Potts both of them didn't have the best appearance and they were different, that's why everyone miss judged them

This shows that the community first judge’s people by their appearance and social status, for example Susan Boyle was from a small village and Paul Potts was a small cell phone salesman. But this teaches us that people are not who they seem, they can be much, much greater that what their appearance tells us and that we should give everyone a fair chance at their dreams. This type of judgment occurs in most off our daily lives when people only see what’s one the outside and miss what’s important that’s, on the inside of a person. If you don’t have a good look or some sort of high social status you are not counted as worthy to pursue their dreams. This is a totally wrong way of thinking for the community, and it needs to be changed because there are many talented people out there that are waiting for a chance to be discovered. I think that these videos have over 44 million viewers because people are inspired by them. They show people that it’s not what’s on the outside that matters but what’s on the inside and that it is never to late to follow your dream.

I think that Langston Hughes poem is a great metaphor for the two videos of Susan Boyle and Paul Potts. It shows that dreams are very vulnerable and delicate and crushed. I think that using the words “Bring me all your hearts melodies” Shows that peoples dreams are like melodies that brings joy to them in their hearts, and “ too- rough fingers” is a metaphor for how cynical and insensitive the world can be too peoples dreams. And Blue cloth may be suggesting the idea of an opportunity for you to pursue your dreams and save them from being shattered by the world.

I am Nature

I am Nature,

I am the sea,
Blue Calm and silk smooth,
Storms pull and tug
Whipping my waves into flecks of foam

I am the wind,
Howling and whooshing,
Invisible to the eye,
Shoving leaves, whipping clouds, shaking branches.

I am the rainbow,
Flooded with colours that soothe the eye,
Arching high up above you
Rarer than I seem

I am a watermelon,
Two faced
Hard as a shimmering emerald on the outside,
But soft and sweet like a babies laugh on the inside.

I am a tree,
My trunk firm as a promise and my branches reachig to the sky,
Swaying from side to side to the wind's beat,
my giving arms reaching out to you.

I am a robin,
cheerful and bright,
flying higher and higher,
out of ones sight

I am Nahal,
filled with emotions and feelings,
working my way to the top,
determined and single-minded.

I chose this particular picture because I thought it
showed that I have many different sides. The different colors swirling around show how I'm different every time, depending on the situation and my position. The people around me change the way I feel and act and this picture really shows that.