In the book “The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight” written by, Thom Hartmann, he give and show vivvid proof of how bad man kind have destroyed and is still destroying the world. The song I think really relate to this book is the “Earth Song” by Micheal Jackson, he sings about almost everything the book speaks about. On page 44 of the book, Hartmann wrote, “Without trees, our atmosphere would most likely become toxic to us, and because rainforest trees have such a massively larger leaf area than our common trees, the rainforests of the world provide much of the oxygen that you are breathing as you read this page.” And in the song Micheal Jackson talks about the destruction of our world by asking question like “what about nature worth?” Which in the next line of the song he describe nature as, “Our planet worm” in other words, where life begin. The book tells us that without the trees, we will run low on oxygen which, we breath everyday and man kind will perish if we destroy nature, the worm of the earth as the song describe it. As man kind strive to make life better by ignoring every thing we destroyed around us, we are actually destroying ourselves because without the trees the will be no oxygen for you to breath as you read this.
The scene, “Tabular integration” will be first, that I’m going to elaborate on the scripting of the scene. The scene started with a student, who is of color, trying to solve a math problem on the board that he can’t do because, for him it’s difficult. The teacher “Escalante,” who is the main character of the movie, cogitate it’s an easy question that students should know how to answer. Most Hollywood films about school and students of color the teacher always know the right things, when to say the right things how to say the right things and only went push to the wall will say the wrong thing. For some reason the students show up angry. For example, these are few lines from the beginning of the script:
Escalante: uhm uhm (means wrong or no), try the shortcut. This is easy, baby stuff for boys scouts.
Student 1: Kimo, my mind don’t work this way. (trying to not get angry)
Escalante: tac tic toc…… It’s a piece of cake outside down. Watch for the green light.
Student 1: powww (bang on the board and lose his cool). I’ve been with you guys for two years. Everybody knows I’m the dumbest. I can’t handle calculus (with strong emphasis on each word). These guys have a better chance of making the AP test without me.
The teacher is alway as cool as the peak of the highest mountain and the students are always angry and always wrong to him. The teacher speeches are always right and always come out in a nice, calm and mostly motivating tone. Even when he is being rude to a student; however sound like it’s meant to be funny. His sense of maintaining his temple why being push can show you how a far his way of thinking is above the students mentality.
Student 2: heheheheheheheheheheheh (giggling).
Student 1: Don’t laugh (in a bullying and angry tone).
Escalante: How can’t we laugh, you are breaking out heart (in a sympathetic tone).
Escalante alway has there answers for the reason why the students-think they-can’t answer any question they encounter, and without any proper investigation he concluded that they don’t have the desire in them to do it. The students always need help from someone and no one not even their parent can help them out. Since, Hollywood movie about school and student, the teacher always seems to be the one person who pushes his or her students to the peak of their potential. Escalante now has to find another way to help these students learn faster because if he don’t they wont learn and no other person will help them or is capable of helping them. He got to make them come to extra classes through their winter break because it’s the only reasonable thing he can do to help them. He always willing to help them understand everything. The students, however are portrayed as dumb or easily angered.
The song that I picked is Michael Jackson’s “Earth Day” , I feel like this connects a lot with the book. The reason is because in the Lyrics it say’s “What have we done to the world
Look what we’ve done What about all the peace That you pledge your only son…What about flowering fields”, meaning that everything that we are doing to earth is killing it. With all the pollution, cutting down trees and wild life basely going extinct because of our doing. Also another line from the song is, ” Hey, what about yesterday, What about the seas, The heavens are falling down, I can’t even breathe, What about apathy, I need you, What about nature’s worth, It’s our planet’s womb”. Basely telling that we as human beings we have to take care our home and not kill it with all the chemicals that we are putting on the planet. Also I felt this is asking us to change our ways of living, so we can live longer not just for us but for future generations as-well.
I want to relate this song called ” el fin del mundo” by Porta to the book ” The last hours of ancient sunlight” by thom hartmann. the author explains that human beings are destroying planet earth. basically the author stays that if we keep doing the same things the world is not going to last longer. Hartmann tell us that by cutting down trees we are not producing oxygen anymore and we are destroying day by day our planet. the songs also talks about how we little by little are ending with the planet. people became selfish and we just care about what we can get and it doesn’t matter how we get it. this is true we just care about our own things and we don’t think that the environment, all natural resources are suffering because of us.
“Esta solo en nuestras manos el futuro del planeta
contaminacion, alteracion del tiempo y no hay manera
de evitar las guerras, peleas por nada
solo se que si sigue asi la cosa la humanidad esta acabada”
it is only in our hands the future of the planet
pollution, alteration of time and there is no way
to avoid wars, fight for nothing
I just know that if it continues like this the humanity is finished
pollution, alteration of time and there is no way
to avoid wars, fight for nothing
I just know that if it continues like this the humanity is finished
los polos se derriten por calentamiento global
culpa de la atmosfera, no, la culpa la tiene un gas mortal
para la capa de hozono, somos demonios
todo sea por petroleo por el monopoleo
the poles melt due to global warming
The fault of the atmosphere, no, the fault is a deadly gas for the ozone layer we are demons
everything is for oil for the monopolio
Due: Monday, November 12th by 9:00 PM.
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I am always struck by the contrast between the Rage of the Chicano mural and Chicano Park Takeover. For me, they represent different points on the resistance spectrum. Rage of the Chicano points to violence and Chicano Park Takeover points to community mobilization. Obviously, the second is more productive and less threatening, but the idea that a deeper anger simmers poses a challenge to the larger society’s responses to efforts like the takeover.
“Didn’t see a warning
Hits me in the morning
Puts me in the moment, the moment
Didn’t find a reason
Hits me in the evening
Hurts me when i Breathe in, I breathe in.”
This verse is from the song “Freesol” by Seven Lions.
It can relate to “We notice rapid changes, not slow ones.” (41) from the book The Last Hours of Ancient Sun Light.
People generally do not know or do not believe we have problems until it is too late.
Right now we spending our lasts resources of our ancient sunlight in the from of forests, oil, and coal. These stored energy is not forever lasting and we are not putting anything back; it will run out. Eventually these non-renewable resources will be spent probably in our lifetime. Additionally, the spent resources have a negative impact for every one here on earth. From these resources, carbon goes into the air. It traps heat inside our atmosphere like a greenhouse. Global temperature rises over the years. A few degrees off changes climates all around the world, and it affects wildlife and in turn affects us. In the worst case scenarios, we may face decreased resources that we need to survive.
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