The Majestic Castle, the Intoxicating Dream

  Located in Long Island, dozen of flowers blossoming, the house of Gatsby likes a castle of gothic style with exquisite sculptures. The scenes of the movie The Great Gastby are beyond description. In this majestic castle, it held luxury parties, recording the high-living life of Gatsby, a rising capitalist. Furthermore, the castle of Gatsby is regarded as an significant element of the movie because not only did it present the love between Gatsby and Daisy, but also revealed the fantastic dream of capitalism.

 The castle of Gatsby is the most necessary element of this film because it is considered as a clue of the love between Gatsby and Daisy, his ex-lover as well as a married women. As the beginning of their love line, Gatsby purposely constructed his castle facing with the castle of Daisy's husband across the bay.
Through the French windows, he overlooked and stretched out his hand as if he was tempted to scrap the spot where she was living. They finally confessed their love and carried on a clandestine love affair in the castle of Gatsby, which became the climax of their love. Although they adored each other, human are always selfish and changeful animals. When the funeral of Gatsby was held in his castle, Daisy did not present, which implied the death of their love. Ultimately, the Gatsby's castle buried both their love and himself. These plots cannot happen in any other places because this castle was built for capturing Daisy's heart by Gatsby and eventually become a tomb of their love.

 The other reason is that this castle also revealed the fantastic dream of capitalism. The castle located in Long Island, New York. While the old bourgeois,like Daisy's husband, lived in the "East Egg", the newly rich men, like Gatsby, lived in the "West Egg".At that time, stock reached record peaks and Wall Street boomed in a steady golden market. Therefore, the number of rising capitalist, an unprecedented class, sprouted and they built castle as gorgeous as the old bourgeois did. The castle of Gatsby in the movie is the outcome of the rising capitalist's growth, which actually revealed the newborn American dream. When Gatsby died in his castle, it hinted that the dream has been broken and the drawbacks of capitalism will obstruct American dream coming true. In the movie the castle of Gatsby was compared to the American dream of capitalism. Since it was a meaningful and figurative scene, it is no doubt that the castle is the most significant section of the movie and cannot be replaced.

 The story of The Great Gatsby cannot be set in other spots but in the castle of Gatsby because it threaded the love line throughout the film and indicated the consequence of the dream of rising capitalism. As what has mentioned in the movie, "all the bright, precious things fade so fast. And they don't come back."
The castle of Gatsby, the orgastic future prefers to eludes us. But it doesn't matter because people will run faster and stretch out their arms farther, beating on boats against the current ceaselessly into the past.

Geotourism will Save the Beautiful Heaven_ Tibet

   Tibet, an eminent scenic spots in China, attracts billions of tourism from all over the world each year. With the development of tourist industry, the economy of this area stimulates at top speed. Nevertheless, tourism also brings serious issues to Tibet, such as the environmental problem and the high price of food. In order to solve the environmental problem as well as the price issue and make travel more meaningful, there is no doubt that geotourism is the best alternative for visitors.

   The traditional pattern of tourism in Tibet has caused sever environmental issue, which has made great negative impacts on local people. What is most worth mentioning is the land deterioration. Apart from splendid landscape, Tibet is also known as its valuable herb which is able to build people's body stronger and cure some sickness. Since every traveler is eager to purchase these herbs, it becomes a shortcut for local people to earn more money. Unfortunately, if people want to get these herbs, they have to dig the land and uncover the herbs. The more herbs are sold, the more serious the land deterioration is. According to XinHua News reported, there were 1.2 million people dig the herbs just only in San Jiangyuan Reservation,a small section of Tibet, and people have to destroy 60 square meters field to find out 1 kilogram herbs. If we still stick to the traditional pattern of tourism, the land deterioration will never stop and the environmental issue will be too complicated to be recovered. Therefore, people ought to apply geotourism to deal with the environmental problem with a sustainable approach .  

   

   Additionally, tourists are force to pay higher price to taste the local food in traditional pattern of tourism but most of the local people are still in poor situation in Tibet. Undoubtedly, travelers have keen interests in local food, like roasted mutton, milk tea and highland barley wine. Lack of information, it is not simple for sightseers to have a chance to taste the food made by local people. As they search famous restaurants via internet, plenty of food shops are available. However, it is not ensured that these shops are serving for authentic local food but what we can sure is that the price are extremely high. Besides, it is reported that most of these restaurants are owned by investors who are not local residents. When travelers stimulate the local economy, the financial situation of local people did not advance as much as we imagined and most of local families are still in poor. For tourists, under the traditional travel pattern, it is unfair that they pay the higher price of food but not actually experience the local food. In view of the disadvantage of traditional pattern, geotourism is believed to a solution of high food price when tourists are served directly by local residents in a proper price. 

  

    When it comes to the benefits of geotourism, the most outstanding points is that visitors can fully experience the local culture and the real life of local inhabitants, which makes your journey meaningful in Tibet. Obviously, if people do not get full prepared for sightseeing, tourists will just go there to take some photographs without going insight into this scenic place. Compared to traditional pattern tourism, geotourism is in accordance with the define of travel. The meaning of travel is not to visit popular sights as much as you could, but experience its profound traditional culture personally. In the pattern of geotourism, people are not just eat there, sleep there, take photos and then go back home but wander the scenery spots with well-experienced local guides and learn the progress of cooking local food in residential house. In that way, instead of being urge to complete the sightseeing list without further insight , geotourism will provide a memorable sightseeing which remains in tourists’ mind for good.

   

    In a conclusion, not only can geotourism solve the environmental issue and high food price issue, but it can provide a meaningful tour for visitors. However, geotourism has not been conducted extensively in Tibet and it is high time that people should pursue this new travel pattern. For governments, they ought to carry out some policies to encourage the growth of geotourism with financial support. In addition, I also suppose that tourists should choose preferred geotourism when they plan to have a trip, which is beneficial to both themselves and local area. Only when geotourism has been practiced widely, can Tibet be saved from the environmental issue and high food price issue. 

Resource ：

The website adress of XinHua News：

http://news.sina.com.cn/green/news/roll/2012-03-02/095724047176_2.shtml

The landscape of Tibet

The highland barley wine and the food of Tibet

                       The precious herb in Tibet named "DongChongXiaCao"

Self-introduction

Hello, it is good to see all of you.

•   Basic information

My name is Kaixin Deng, an exchanging student, and you can just call me Finana.

I major in English and minor Korean in Sun Yat-sen University. Now, I am going to spend one semester as a junior student in Sungshin Women University.

• Hometown & Family

I grew up in Guangdong Province, which is next to Hong Kong and Macao.  So I believe that my Cantonese is better than mandarin because we seldom talk with mandarin in Guangdong.      

Besides, Guangdong has long summers which is from April to October. Even in Spring Festival, we can wear skirts and thin sweater since it is so warm. Of course, no snow all year round.

When it comes to my family, I am the only child in my family because of Chinese birth control. Although I did not have a big family, I never feel lonely because I often play with my twin cousins. My father is a banker while my mother is an accountant. They will spend weekends with me if I am at home. 

• Hobbies

I am keen in shopping, watching films and chatting with friends. I also have learned piano for 3 years and I will practice at home. What`s more, I will do some cleaning when I am upset or stressful so I also regard it as my hobby. 

• Experience

I have traveled plenty of places in China but I seldom visit foreign countries.  There are some reasons for it. First of all, I am tired with package tours so I prefer to travel personally. But it is not easy to get a visa. Also, we do not have so much energy and time to prepare for a trip because we do not have a long summer or winter holiday and we are always busy with study in China. 

For the sake of substantial campus life, I took a part-time job as a marketing personnel and got an internship in government.  But what impresses me most is the volunteer activity. I have taught some poor children, taken care of the elder and also assist foreigners to carry out  environmental events. I enjoy myself when I give assistance to some one need help.

• Summary

In the end, I am grateful to meet you guys and Kyle. I ensure that  we will spend a wonderful time in our class. If you have interests or questions about China, I am incredibly willing to share with you. Thank you for reading this and have a nice day.