Paper #1 + Chapter 1 (Feb. 9)

After finishing the paper #1, I was able to identify my identity which could not be found before. I was able to find my identity from creating, reading and writing.

From creating I was able to find the facial look which can be the small aspect of my identity. I realized that distinct appearance of people can be one of the process of finding my identity. For reading, I was able to relate to my past memories from reading the article that I read during the class and I was also able to relate to past experiences when I was high school student. I found that reading cannot be found from any other subjects for finidng my identity. From reading I was able to relate to my past experiences which was about my personality, persistence and confidence. For writing, especially writing letters or papers provided me a chance to find myself. Besides, I realized that writing letters or diaries made me to recall the past memories which helps me to identify myself. After defining these three topics I was able to find who I am. Although it seems that i did not find every parts of my identity, at least now I realize few aspects of my identity.

After finishing my paper, I did not satisfied with it. However, it seems it helped me to find some parts of my identity. Defining my identity will help me to understand myself and realize who I am. Although I had some difficulties with finding my identity, I feel like that from process of learning my identity provided me a great opportunity to find myself.


After reading chapter 1, I realized that the author is mainly discussing about the affection of polluted chemicals to American Indians. GM dump toxic chemical matericals is causing negative affect to people who live near the factory or river such as, Akwesane and Mahawks. Especially people who ate fish in the river had cancer and diseases. The American Indians who ate these fishes are claiming that GM should stop polluting the river and they need to try to recover the polluted rivers. In order to protect their health, they had to stop eating fish from the river. However, they are irritated and provoked from banning their staple food, fish. Although I was not able to understand some parts of story in the chapter one, it seems that I understand the big picture of this chapter.