“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”-Siddhartha Gautama
Droplets of acid within tears.
Venomous viper are
Ready to strike in the dark and silent.
While expressing her language;
Jealous, envy, hate, of
Danger and hostility within her grief.
Inspire by Voltaire, “Tears are silent language of grief”. Golden Shovel form.
I am from boat and net
from stinky prahok and fishy p’ork
I am from the beautiful black wood wall
wind waving through, smells like champa of the ancient angkor
I am from the green young banana tree ,
The gigantic bayan
whose long messy hair I remember
as if they were from horror movies.
I’m from old smoking pipe and hundred year mysterious book
from my grandfather broken abacus and my grandma black wooden walking stick
I’m from education and religion and
from Chinese-Cambodian whose skin can blend with the night
I’m from righteous and respect and “Tok tok pen’g bom ponk”
I’m from Buddhism and taoism
I’m from the port of the Chams and minced pork with p’ork
From my grandma lies to the “Samak Met”,
the blacket she gave me when she left The hole that was drilled when I was young, the black-white film, the photos that covered in dusk and her smile in my head.
Plastic is what led to modern life and it is growing rapidly that could even outnumber humans on earth. Although plastic is useful, cheap, and accessible, we should not use plastic because it has harmful effects on the air, land, and sea humans depend on.
First, if plastic is burned they can cause air pollution which increases greenhouse gasses. Plastic is composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, and sulfur which are greenhouse gases that are burn from plastic. Green House gases are what keep our planet warm otherwise Earth would be like Mars. Although greenhouse gases are to balance our temperature, if there is too much it would destroy ozone that helps stabilized temperature and would greatly harm our atmosphere. According to National Geography, “Temperature has increased dramatically over time and ozone has deteriorating. The widespread concern about ozone deterioration that allows a large amount of Ultraviolet B rays which cause skin cancers, more importantly, Earth have two poles that are made from ice. If temperature increase thus would melt which result in flood”. An estimate in India who face the most tragic flood has ever happened, calculation by the National Disaster Management Authority have evaluated at an average of 1600 people died due to flood each year.
Secondly, when plastic is buried they release chemicals that could greatly harm the soil which affects crop growth. Plastic has chemicals that when release to the body of water or buried, they could bring toxin and poison living things surround it. Moreover many animals and bird likes crows are being surrounded by plastics which is hard to find foods. Furthermore, plastic that ended in ocean cause marine life to greatly damaged. Laura Parker writer who specializes in covering climate change and marine environments in National Geographic writes, “The miracle material has made modern life possible. But more than 40 percent of it is used just once, and it’s choking our waterways.” Sea Turtles are victims, their prey is jellyfish. Many plastic bags can be confused as jellyfish which turtles can’t digest and many have died from plastic. Researchers found out that the younger turtles are at higher risk of death, therefore, death chance of turtles has increased nearly 50%. In addition to plastic bag, microplastic has increased to about 51 trillion particles–500 times more than stars in our galaxy–in our sea. In 2015, Jenna Jambeck, a University of Georgia engineering professor, estimated that about 14 million tons of plastic just form coastal region. She and her colleagues said that most plastic isn’t thrown off ships but are from rivers and smaller water bodies.
Finally plastic could bring harm to human body. Carcinogenic, neurotoxic, and hormone-disruptive chemicals are the main ingredient found their way into our ecology through water, land and air pollution. When consume or inhaled they chemicals, as a result, it leads to fertility problems, cancer, male impotence, heart disease, and others condition.
To all readers who want our next generations to live peacefully and happily in a healthy environment, therefore we should abolish single-used plastic.
“When the words Saturday come up, I always think about the planet Saturn ?”. These are what I always wonder about, does it related, is the day named after the planet or the planet named after the day?.
Even though the world is big, but it seems like we got influenced by many things. English words like Saturday is ថ្ថ្ងៃសៅរ៍ and Saturn is ពភសៅរ៍ in Khmer.
During our essential classes, literacy is a class with the most works and what makes me came this far in a journey of fully understanding and get influence with English. Hannah, our literacy teacher is a very cheerful and thoughtful person, make the class feel like fun and makes student enjoys learning even more, but she never forgets to give us homework. Every Monday she gives off homework package which is always about words origin and a week after she will have a test about the word, and in Tuesday she let us read and do the assignment in Newsela. If you want to understand the origins of a tree, you have to start from the root so does the origins of a word. Last week we were learning about days of the weeks, and I was surprised at how they decide on the name of the days and the name of the planets:
And how it named after god and god-being of anglo-saxon
Saturday named after the Saturn
Sunday named after the Sun
Monday named after the moon
Tuesday named after the god Tiw. Tiw is the god of war, just like Mar the god of Roman.
Wednesday named after the god Woden. Woden is like Mercury the god of Roman. Woden can also travel through the sky and guarded the dead.
Thursday named after Thunor. Thunor the god of thunder which like Jupiter the god of Roman. Thunor and Thor are similar beings.
Friday named after the goddess Frigg. In the book, Frigg is mentioned as the god that is related to love.
Sometimes the days you born determined your personalities and traits. I was 
born on Friday, which meant for love and what about you?