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A “hacktivist"
group recently took down many Icelandic government websites, in protest at the
country’s practice of whaling.
In fact, Iceland is not the only country that still
practices whaling: Japan and Norway also do so. This often baffles people from elsewhere. We wonder why are the countries
still whaling if most counties are
opposed to it.
Iceland’s whalers are legally allowed to hunt 154 fin
whales and 229 minke whales. Icelanders usually offer two justifications. First, there are too many whales in the ocean and
they eat all the fish. Second, Icelanders do not eat whale meat: it is the
tourists that do that.
That first claim is arguable. The second is largely true. According to an official report, 35-40% of visitors to Iceland eat whale meat. And minke whales are found in all of the world’s oceans. There are over 100,000 minke whales in the wild. And although Fin whales are an endangered species based on the remaining number of them around the world, the fin whale population in North Atlantic is considered healthy. For that reason, hunting fin whales around Iceland is not a conservation threat. So, to Icelandic whalers, when they talk about whaling, they talk about whaling a particular population, not a species.
Whaling is a long tradition in Iceland and
Icelanders think that they can use marine resources, as long as they do it in a
sustainable and responsible way. The
Japanese and Norwegian governments take a similar attitude towards whaling.
This sentence made me stop from my busy routine. I never thought about
life from this perspective.
People do think of themselves as a tiny drop in the vast human ocean. After all, there are so many people around
us and more successful than us. Now what does it mean to be the entire
ocean in one drop?
How can we carry the entire world within
us?
Think of our life, the trips we make,
the tears we cry, the laughter we share, the people we meet, the love we give
and take. Don’t they mean anything?
We ARE
a drop in the ocean. However, when we think of
ourselves as nothing better than a drop in the ocean, we are telling ourselves
that our actions or words are trivial.
When we think the other way around, as
the entire ocean in a drop, we feel our value as an individual, no matter whether we
are successful or not at the moment.
Every Story Comes to An End, But Its Spirit Doesn’t.
Key Word
compelling令人信服的
struggle掙扎
isolation孤立
outcast受排斥的人
To make a story compelling, there needs
to be a character, who goes through a great struggle and changes due to
life experiences. On the life journey, the character starts off in a bad
position often in isolation. Then they learn and grow. They end up
internally changed.
Such is the case of Jon Snow in Game of
Thrones, a character who throughout the course of seven seasons has faced a
number of challenges that have tested his leadership and abilities. The series
of Game of Thrones has come to an end.
No matter how the story ends, we audience have experienced a lonely outcast becoming the possible savior of the world. And after the HBO series end, the journey of a hero will still last in the audience’s mind in different ways.
Key words war-torn受戰爭蹂躪的 demonstrate展示;示威 domesticviolence家庭暴力 rampant猖獗的
❤️“Women hold up half the sky.”
The sentence is being passed down not because Mao Tse-Tung said it, but because it is what is happening today. From war-torn south America, where women demonstrate for peace to protect their children, to poor rural India, where girls spend all day walking miles collecting water for family, instead of going to school. Men and women each take responsibility in different ways for their own part in order to hold up the sky together. Men and women are surely different. Just because men and women are different, they are able to compensate for the disadvantages of each other to form a perfect whole. They both should value this truth.
Today, even if domestic violence is still rampant in some places in the world, ❤️men know very well that they can never hold up the sky without women.
中英對照
Women hold up half the sky! 女性撐起半邊天
The sentence is being passed down not because Mao Tse-Tung said it, but because it is what is happening today. 這個句子不斷流傳,並不是因為說這句話的人是毛澤東,而是因為這是今天的真實樣貌。
From war-torn south America, where women demonstrate for peace to protect their children, to poor rural India, where girls spend all day walking miles collecting water for family, instead of going to school. 從受到戰爭揉躪的南美洲,女性為了保護孩子而示威爭取和平,到印度的偏遠貧窮地區,那兒的女孩花一整天的時間走好幾英哩取水供家裡使用,而沒能上學。
Men and women each take responsibility in different ways for their own part in order to hold up the sky together. 男性及女性各自以不同的方式負起責任盡本分來一起撐起那一片天。
Men and women are surely different. 男性跟女性的確是不同的。
Just because men and women are different, they are able to compensate for the disadvantages of each other to form a perfect whole. 正是因為男女不同,他們能夠互補彼此不足來形成美好的整體。
They both should value this truth. Today even if domestic violence is still rampant in some places in the world, men know very well that they can never hold up the sky without women. 男性女性都應該重視這個事實。今天即使家庭暴力在世界上有些地方仍然猖獗,男性心裡非常明白,沒有女性,他們絕對沒有辦法獨立撐起那一片天。