Blog Post #5 - Unit 7 (Ensuring a Sustainable Future)

Ensuring a Sustainable Future

Now, there are a variety of garments in the world. As time goes by, fashion is becoming more diverse. Generally, we can choose and wear what we want among numerous clothes. But, everything is not fine because fashion don’t bring us only merit. Fast fashion which was a main trend in the world of fashion had made a meteoric rise because of a cheap price and a design reflecting the latest fashion in Europe. However, there exist a lot of environmental problems in producing many goods inexpensively and rapidly. As a result, it is important that we need to avoid buying clothes of fast fashion company for sustainable future.

Most of the fast fashion industries deteriorate a waste of resources and environmental pollution in the world. In the process of production, they uses excessive energy and expels much quantity of carbon. Also, many leftover pieces of produced clothes are abandoned as garbage. In addition, we throw out this kind of clothes more easily. It is because we tend to recognize them as a disposable thing and don’t wear them for a longtime on account of the bad quality. Almost the whole clothes of fast fashion are not decomposed as they are made by petrochemical materials causing global warming. And 25% of usage of agricultural pesticides in the world are used for growing cotton that is one of the main material of fast fashion. Harmful substances from these processes threaten the environment.

And it is better that we don’t purchase them because they have a bad effect on our health. Chemicals that is not good for health are added for the cheap price and small quantity batch production. The manufacturers can’t use a fabric that is good for our health because it costs too much then they can’t reduce costs. Besides, some people actually get healthy problems like skin disease and headache. Mostly of them are produced in Southeast Asian nations due to the cheap workforce. Surely, the factory is not managed in a sanitary way for the workers and clothes.

We can help to make a sustainable future by not purchasing clothes from fast fashion brand because it reduces a waste of resources and better for our health. A contrary concept of fast fashion, which is called ‘Slow Fashion’, recently takes center stage. How about trying to put on slow fashion for our Earth and body from now on?

Blog Post #4 - Unit 6 (Explanatory essay about the importance of place in a movie or book)

Letters to Juliet – Verona, Italy

Do you know that Verona is the background of the famous love story, ‘Romeo and Juliet’? Maybe we all know the place became well known as a city of love because of the story. Many works based on it have been released. This movie is also the one of them. Lots of parts in the original story are shown in this movie. So, the city is very important thing in the movie because the novel, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, is used as a main material.

The first scene of the movie begins in workplace of Sophie. She works as a data inspector in publishing company. But she wants to be a writer. She chose to go to Verona on her honeymoon and has a plan to write a novel there. In Verona, she meets women working under the name of ‘Secretary of Juliet’. They answer letters that women throughout the world left at ‘Juliet’s House’. The letters are mostly about love. She gets along well with them and takes part in the work. Claire received an answer from her and comes to Verona with her grandson to find her first love. She decides to help her find him. So, they travel Verona together. In addition, she starts to write a story based on Claire’s love story and their trip to find her first love. These matters could not happen in other places because she decides to go there for her honeymoon and writing with her inspiration from Verona.

Verona became known for a city of love because of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. And main materials in the movie are based on this novel. The real story begins in the Juliet’s House. And she gets impressed by ‘Secretary of Juliet’. From this event, the movie is progressed. Also, there are some similarities between this movie and the original story, ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Like Juliet, Sophie has a fiance, but she falls in love with another man. The famous scene in the novel that Romeo and Juliet confirm their love in the balcony, it is shown in the movie, too. Sophie and Charlie confess their love in the balcony.

If the city were not Verona, there was nothing in the movie. To bring success in love of the movie, the story is going by the novel based on Verona. And the heroine, Sophie, has her own feeling of love about Verona. Some people can think it is a banal love story, but with full of love, it arouses a desire to leave to Verona right now. Don’t you want to leave to Verona to find your real love?