How is the relationship between human and animals? Is there a pecking order? In Valley Fiesta, one man showed a performance with an owl and a monkey on the stage. When I saw it, I thought that human seems to have higher position than animals. The owl or monkey looked to me like one of tools for people’s amusement. At a zoo, animals are shut in cages or are limited spaces and showed to humans. It’s also for people’s amusement. The animals can’t live as wild animals. They have lived at a zoo since they were born so they don’t know wild life but they have rights for freedom. If we were in these animals situation, we would insist on our freedom. However animals can’t speak like human. The animals like the owl or monkey which I saw are taught to perform in one-way by human. They can’t refuse it. Also humans kill animals easily, sometimes as hunting play. It is a big felony if humans kill humans, of course killing intentionally our pets is a crime, but we kill wild animals for our safety. Humans think that animals are under humans and the first is human’s life and the second is animals’. We often think about our rights in life. At the same time we should think about animals and the way of coexistence with animals.
Last week, we took a trip to the Southwest for 7 days. This trip was an absolutely wonderful memory. I had never been to these areas so I was stimulated by every things, for example, cactus, adobe style buildings, Native American culture and amazing dessert views. It is one of the most interesting trips I ever took, because I experienced some rare things like visiting Grand Canyon, visiting high school and so on. On this trip I could understand about Indian culture from a folk art museum. I would like to introduce some my best memories on this Southwest trip. My first best memory is Georgia O’Keef museum. Actually, before this trip, I was not familiar with her and didn’t know about any of her artworks, but I was looking forward to visiting here because I like art museums. Her artworks were very unique, abstract and absolutely fabulous, and these were very fresh to me. I especially liked bone’s paintings which one of the most famous her artwork, because the color contrast is very c...