400 word Reflection

Eduardo Valiente
February 15, 2010
Social Studies-A


"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from loneliness of spirit.
For whatever happens to the beasts happens to man.
All things are connected..."
Write a personal reflection of approximately 400 words on the theme found in Chief Seattle's quote, the movie "Star Trek: The Voyage Home" and the video.

I believe that the theme of these videos and the quote is something very important that many humans fail to see. The theme states that everything is connected. It makes you see how humans cannot live alone, and how we are all entangled in the middle of the web. Most humans do not believe in this. They don’t believe that things are dependent of one another. Many humans believe in the independence of their species so they fight the idea within themselves. Some deeply want to believe that they don’t have to be a part of the web. So they fight this connection with anything around them. However, it is just a lie. It is impossible to survive without other things around us.

After carefully analyzing this idea I really believe that it is important to talk to people about this subject and make them believe it. We need to make people aware of the fact that the entire world population is at risk. We need to stop the destruction of the web. All living things should be cared for and protected. It will be the only way that the world population will survive. The video is a great way to start making people aware of this interconnection among us. It is not just a cartoon video with talking animals, they will understand the message it is sending and will most likely impact their way of thinking of the web and other living organisms apart from humans.

I think that this is one of the most important videos by far that I have seen in my whole entire life and it is not only very convincing but it is also very important and needs to be spread around the world. In the movie Star Trek there is also a message of interconnection. It shows people how important whales can be in the future even though it is demonstrating it in a unrealistic way. It tells us that in the future probably whales and any other species might be extinct and when we most need them they will not be here for us to use them. Animals and trees are a really big part of our lives and people don’t seem to realize that. Without animals and trees the web is broken and life existence as it is in danger. But still at the end the message is clear, it doesn’t matter how intelligent you are, how powerful or how useful, every single living organism in the world is important for our own individual survival.