Reflection1

 When I first decided the issue I’m going to talk about, I had thought of many possibilities. Although I love dogs much, I am not really sure that I will be able to talk about this issue deep enough. At first, I had thought about some science topics. However, I finally decided my topic will be focused on stray dogs after I found that a piece of news which is many dogs died because of poison happened again. I have seen such things for many times, nevertheless, this news can be a spur to encourage me to go into this topic.

  After I decided the topic, another problem came out to make me confused again. Issues about stray dogs are too many for me to choose one to talk. Then I read a book which talks many things about stray dogs. I have to admit that it is a complicated book, and I felt even more confused about this big topic. After I read this book, I start to think about this question: Among so many aspects about stray dogs, which one can make me most curious about and can make me have enthusiasm to write about? I finally found about I’m interested about problems about life and death; therefore I choose euthanasia on stray dogs to be the issue I will take about during this semester.

  When I start searching for the sources I want to use for my annotation1, I feel quite nervous that my clip can not grasp the main idea about what I want to talk about. I simply want my readers to think about reasonability of euthanasia. Then I think about the way of euthanasia in shelter, after I watched my clip, I think that shocking facts revealed in this clip maybe can also change people’s original thoughts about euthanasia. Maybe people can also change their opinions about euthanasia. I tried to focus the cruel aspects about this clip. For the reason that I think human being are rational animals. Such things like that may be able to touch people’s hearts, raise their sympathy. This spur of sympathy can make me a chance to change their thoughts.

  When I write my annotation2, I want to find something related to the euthanasia, and I saw this news clip. Then a question appears in my mind: A simple decision human beings made may be nothing or unimportant for them, but it is really a serious problem for animals being made decisions. Because these decisions are about their life, about whether they can keep living or they must die. It also related to the problems about education, so I tried to make it simple. There are so many things to say, but make it simple is what I tried to do. After all, I do not want my focus become obscure. However, after the meeting, I think my article can be more focused on the education of professional people who do stray dogs an euthanasia to change the situation about this in Taiwan now. The main idea is when we compare these things with Europe and America; we can find there is a tremendous gap lagged behind. What is the reason we can not improve?