Global Environmental Change

This is the tree I chose to post about.  This tree is in front of the dorm pondside 1.   I chose this tree because I see it every time I leave, and every time come back  to  my dorm. I like this tree because the branches spread out really wide and makes it look cool.   A nother thing I like about this tree is the color that the leaves have been this fall . I  feel like this tree just kind of looks like a perfect tree.  W hen I  think of a perfect tree in my head  I think it has to  be taller but not super tall, have very nice color throughout the year,  n ot have any spots where there are no leaves ,   be somewhat  symmetrical, and it  just  has t o have a nice shape  like wider at the bottom and slowly gets narrower as you go up but it doesn’t get too narrow and I think this tree has these qualities.  I t has been  kind of  cool t o  watch this tree  turn color because...

     This evening I saw the movie Dawnland. This movie was held in the Putnam Theater. Dawnland is documentary on how the government was taking Native American kids from their parents. They were taking them and placing them with white families. They were taking them to try to integrate them to try to make them like everyone else. A lot of these families were not accepting of their way of living which resulted in a lot of physical and mental abuse to these children. This movie captured the stories of what happened to a lot of the people in Maine. These events took place throughout the 20th century. The TRC is an organization that was created to regain and rebuild trust with the indigenous people. They worked for two years with the indigenous people in the state of Maine and are slowly gaining trust and getting more people to share their stories.              I thought that this movie was very good. I found it to be very educational and ...