URL: http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/
Date of entries: 3/21
Topic of discussion: LightBox
Writing Style: Essay
Summary:
"There is a story behind every photo", do you agree? To photographers of TIME.com, taking photo is about telling the world the story they see in their eyes. When you enter the photo section, you can see a category called "LightBox". In LightBox, you can see many pictures collocate with short essays. It is sort of like a column. Through the essay, you can know more about what the photographer trys to deliver, and the shooting-background of the photos. And unlike a news, it is less formal and includes more personal emotions. You can also see people from all around the world to leave their comments, and understand different persepectives toward an issue.
Recently in LightBox, there are many articles about Japan earthquake and wars in Libya. After reading and looking at these articles, I really feel so sad for those who suffers from these disaster. However, one is made by mother nature which can not be prevanted, but one is man-made. I can not help but wonder that why we human can fight against each other just for power and money, especially when something like this just happened in Japan? We really should cheish more of what we got and people around us. Reading LightBox, what you gain is more than the ability of English, but also the ability of thinking.
Can natural disasters be prevented? What is the anthropogenic impact on the environment? I attended TESOL Annual Convention this March in New Orleans and visited the levees broken during the hurricane. Now the discourse around Katrina is that people suffer from the catastrophic failure of the city's defenses:
回覆刪除Katrina was a man-made disaster, not a natural disaster, triggered by shoddy engineering, not an overwhelming hurricane. (Read more:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2032304_2032746_2035982,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2032304_2032746_2035982,00.html #ixzz1JsL5jTGm)