Responding to Temple Grandin
What was, for you, the most powerful image you saw in the film, Temple Grandin? Why did you find it powerful? Answer in a short paragraph of about 100 to 125 words.
For the article, "Temple Grandin: The Non-Whisperer," answer the following:
Write about anything that stays on your mind after reading. Quote John Allemang once in your answer. Write about 100 to 125 words.
Bring your work, word processed, to class next Wednesday, please. See you then.
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The image I find most powerful is of Temple Grandin’s hand, fingers splayed out, as she slides it along a cow’s flank and then feels its heart beat. The heartbeat makes the tips of her fingers move a little along with the powerful rhythm (and the sound of the heart dominates, too). The image occurs twice, once when she first spends time with cows at the ranch and again at a stylized slaughterhouse near the end of the film. For me it is a clear reminder that a cow is a living breathing creature, one that we choose to eat and that makes me agree more strongly with her saying, “Nature is cruel, but we don’t need to be.”—119 words
After reading John Allemang's piece, I recalled that my daughter had pet gerbils when she was young and we believed we had treated them humanely. In fact, I remember well seeing them digging (happily, I thought at the time) in the corner of the cage with “wood shavings flying.” That we were actually being cruel is something I had never considered. That the cute little gerbils were “desperate to hide” makes me wonder if we hadn’t shortened their lives somehow by making them waste all that energy! In that, Temple Grandin has helped me to be more human, for what is more human than wanting to alleviate and prevent unnecessary suffering?—111 words
Temple Grandin Movie
The Temple Grandin movie itself is very powerful and inspiring, but the most powerful image I found was of the doors. At the end of the movie Temple Grandin is walking to the stage to speak about autism. As she is walking she sees all the doors in her life that opened up to a new world for her. I find that so powerful because everyone can say that about something in their life. Everything leads to a whole new world. I am reminded of my own path when I see her journey to the doors. Today I am making my new world but updating my English 12 so I can go to school and support my family.
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Temple Grandin Article
When I was reading John Allemang’s article about Temple Grandin, I
kept think about the connection with humans and pets. Are we doing
everything we can to make our pets happy? I would love to see things
through Temple Grandin’s mind. Maybe then we can understand our
pets and what they want or like. In the article Allenmang states “Do we
even try?” (In relation to Grandin’s quote about thinking like animals)
We like to think we understand our pets. We buy them toys and treats
but that’s all commercial based. We too are like animals, trying to find
our safe place in the world. Wait for someone to understand us.
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The most powerful images I find are the bodies of the horse and Temple Grandin’s teacher, and her hand, touching a cow’s flank gently as feeling its heartbeat. Each time after their death, Temple Grandin’s fear and frustration is shown by crying out her confusion as saying, “I saw him!” As seeing the bodies, she understands a life of a living creature, and how to respect them. Her hand is also shown as her insight beyond human’s empathy. In my mind, the image of bodies, overlapped with her hand, looking for a connection with a cow, is a reminder how to treat a cow as she says, “They are raised for us, so we should respect.” - 116 words
The animal’s sensory-based thinking is understandable for me, and I think it’s also human’s primary instinct somehow. I find myself some similar way of my instinct drives me what to do by foods: It’s ok to eat or not to eat. If I refused my instinct, it cost a stomachache right away. It can’t be described by “language,” and it is motivated for looking into my senses towards people. Surprisingly, I realize that I understand people even better along with “digging” my other “sensory-driven understanding.” Although Temple Grandin’s “greater feelings of connectedness to animals” isn’t like that I feel, knowing differences –original nature- can be connected each other between people and animal after all. -114 words
The most powerful thing from the Temple Grandin’s movie is the wooden machine for releasing pressure, which was made by Temple Grandin. She felt that who seems like a balloon, someone pump more air into it. So, she used it to release her pressure for avoid the “Explosion”. It seems as many people stay in campsite to alleviate their social stresses. They want a quiet place for calm down: cycling, hiking, or reading. Recent living circumstance, anyone have different degrees of stress. They accept the common way to reduce anxiety; not the method of Temple Grandin’s. In fact, I agreed to her method. It is a private tool and personal idea and it does not impact anyone. –117 words
A piece of John Allemang changes my thinking of animals. Ten year ago, my brother-in-law’s family had a white puppy. She liked to bite their shoes when all of them out from home. They punished her and put her inside a netted circle. Such as Temple Grandin said,” It’s so hard for normal people to think like animals.” Even they did it so many times; it always did the same thing. Right now, I got the solution for the problem. Animals are also need human’s concern and respect. They will have fear at home lonely. They are gregarious creatures, playful and affectionate. It is not the bad behaviour or negative emotion. They want to be the member of the families.—120 words
After watching Temple Grandin, I would have to say that the most powerful image was viewing her own imaginary drawings of the degrees and shapes in order to understand at an instant. I noticed that Temple could get hands on to also have an understanding as well as her mental pictures. The first image of her mental drawing I saw was temple’s aunt asking her if she noticed anything about the two spoons she was holding, Temple replied after sketching in her mind of the spoons, and said that they were two different shapes. It is powerful because it shows the brainwork of realizing something is off or not the same compared to another, it is a basic lesson but a strong one at that.
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After reading John Allemang’s article on Temple Grandin, what stuck in my mind was reading about of how “The animal world is all sensory-based” using all of the senses that we use as human without having any words in mind to react every day in their lives. I’ve been around many pets and do understand how their instincts decide all of their actions of either being able to play around the house or when something is scary to the pet then they hide or make loud noises like most pets that I know they remind me of how little kids act that way so I can relate to that, and makes it easier to understand them for what they do to survive in their lives.
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Inspirational movie! I didn’t know about Temple Grandin until I watched the movie last Friday in class. The door was the most powerful image that stuck in my mind. I believe that a door is a powerful symbol that we all can use to our advantage. We just have to learn how to open them. Temple discovered that she could open doors, factually and metaphorically. And those doors are things you can walk through to make progress. Learning how to open doors allowed Temple to take new challenges. Ever since she opened the first door, she kept opening many others that have taken her to where she is right now. This movie has inspired me to think a little bit more in pictures.
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Reading John Alleman’s article made me think about how our human behaviour is not different from the animal behaviour. Well at least our “primal behaviour”. We all experience the “primal emotions: e.g. fear, anxiety, and curiosity” that many animals experience. For example, when we feel anxious, our bodies just get tensed. In the same way, when a dog is scared, it tenses his body, too. I totally agree with John Alleman and Temple Grandin when they suggest that if we include animals in our life, we should at least study, “what the animal does in the wild, and figure out who eats that animal in the wild.” I believe that that is the only way in which we can understand and treat them right.
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The most powerful image I find in Temple Grandin is the opening door - Grandin’s vision of opening door. She feels, visualizes, and receives the power from that opening door, which empowers her to do the right things such as giving the speech about her autism. After seeing the big opened door, she overcomes her fears, and she knows that there is a new world waiting to her. It is true. She not only creates a new peaceful world to the cattle, but also brings a true humanity to our human beings. I am inspired. The door also opens my mind to see a new world and gives me a sense of just “feel the fear and do it anywhere”. (120 words)
After reading John Allemang’s article, I came to understand animal world more. “The tiger that paces endlessly in the zoo” reminds me that I visited Vancouver Zoo many years ago. I saw a black bear sadly sit in his gate and his eye expressed “Set me free please”. I felt depressed for the black bear. As today, I feel the pain for that tiger, too. Many big animals are forced to live in a foreign country and suffer to stay in a small captivity in a zoo. As Temple Grandin say, “The animal world is all sensory-based- vision, smell, sound, touch and taste”; animals have emotions like us so we should respect them and set them free. (117 worlds)
The image I find most powerful is the one, when Temple Grandin runs into the cows cage and pleads her aunt to “lock” her in. It was very difficult to watch desperation and panic on Temple’s face. It looked like she was running from her self and her internal turmoil to the space which could rescue her from the unbearable hypersensitivity, which was tearing her apart. I was feeling uncomfortable while watching that scene, because I could empathize with the emotional horror that she was going through. However, I was glad that being in the cage helped her to calm down, and gave her the idea to build a “hug machine” . –115 words
After reading “The Non Whisperer” something that stayed on my mind was the statement given by Temple Grandin “It’s so hard for normal people to think like animals” and John Allemang stated that “do normal people even try”. These quotes really made me think that when we have pets we don’t take them very seriously. It reminded me of the time I had my pet fish and how after some time I started to be negligent toward taking care of them. For example when I had to do the weekly cleaning I would skip it and prolong it, or I would only feed them once a day. But when my fish died it made me change how I took care of my pets. The world of human and animals are so different that the only intersection is we live in the same planet -115 words
An image InTemple Grandin’s movie
The hug between Temple Grandin and her mother, at her teacher and mentor funeral, is the image remaining in my mind. Temple Grandin, who never liked hugging people-and preferred using a hugging machine-, suddenly realizes how important human contact is .For the first time in her life she hugs someone and realizes a human physical communion. The moment is deeply moving and powerful. It affects us so much we remember how human contacts and warmth are important to feel comfort and cared for. I believe Temple Grandin never forget this moment too since she stated in the time entertainment about her hugging machine “It broke two years ago, and I never got around to fixing it. I'm into hugging people now.”
Comment on John Allemang’s article on Temple Grandin
“Do gerbils like to borrow?”. No question could better suggest how wrongly humans misunderstand animals. In John Allemang ‘s article ,the explanation given for gerbils ‘reason for digging shows man’s misunderstanding of the animal world. The gerbils dig not because they enjoy it but for fear and desire to hide from a predator. Who could have imagined that? Indeed, the animal world that seems so common is but far from being understood .When reading John Allemang’s article, one realizes how man are wrong about animals. We not only misunderstand them but in fact, animal are probably more “human “than we perceive.
Putting ourselves in their place is the only way for us to love and treat them better.
The whole movie was powerful, I loved it. I liked the scene where she is standing on the balcony in her graduation gown, looking down on everything. She had a smile of accomplishment on her face. And as she looked down on everything it gave her a sense of power. She conquered some fears by going through many terrifying doors and graduating. She was so proud. The scenery and the acting allowed me to feel what Temple Grandin was feeling. I know how it feels to be intimidated by something or someone, and to follow through with it and actually succeed. It’s an overwhelming mix of emotions, and in the end it feels so good.
I found John Allemang’s paper to be boring. Nothing captured my attention. I read it five times to try and get something from his paper. I remember the last few paragraphs about the gerbil. I use to have hamsters. My hamster would also burrow into its wood shavings. I knew that it was trying to hide. I did not assume he was “having a good time”. I understood I may have scared my furry friend. I have always had a pet and I have always tried to understand them, wanting to know more about their behavior. My cat/dog has always been treated like a family member, not as an animal. I agree that we should respect animals as we do people.
Temple Grandin – Image from the Movie
This movie used ‘snap shots’ of thoughts throughout the movie to help us understand how Temple Grandin sees her world, but none more frequently than pictures of ‘doors’. I felt these stills and short clips represented a variety of reactions for her. At times, the doors represented a guillotine (something to fear) and later they were shown as opening gates (expressing the start of something new). It shows to me that she evolves emotionally similarly to when she learned that she needs physical contact, albeit from a mechanical wooden device. This type of powerful imagery helped me to understand Temple’s behaviour and thought processes.
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Temple Grandin: The Non-Whisperer
While reading this article, I often stopped to reflect on past experiences with either with my own pets or other animals. As a child, someone tried explaining to me that animals don’t think ‘because they have no soul’, but that never made sense to me. I believed they MUST think because they make decisions every day, big or small (likely without quantifying them, of course)! John Allemang describes the process as “a sensory-driven understanding of how things work where normal human logic no longer applies and primal emotions such as fear and curiosity determine every basic reaction.” If it was explained to me like that, even at the age of 11, I would have considered the matter closed.
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For me, the most powerful image in the film is the shoes from Temple Grandin’s
mind. As soon as Temple’s teacher mentions the word “shoes”, all the images of
shoes stored in her mind during her life appearing promptly one by one, and she
says them out rapidly. It is amazing, for her reaction and memory are comparable
to a computer. Even though Temple has autism, she also has strong sensory-
based thinking especially in pictures which helps her understand animals in the
animals’ way and contribute to the harmony between human and animals. This
reminds me that everyone is created specially and wisely for a specific purpose.
We should respect each other and live out our meaningful life. Temple Grandin is
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John Allemang tells us at the beginning of his article if we really care about
animals, Prof. Grandin wants us “to see and feel the world completely as they
[animals] do.” It reminds me the part in the movie that Temple Grandin does her
research in a ranch. She kneels down, crawls as a cow though the way the cows
walk toward slaughter to find out what the cows see, and how they feel. That is
why Prof. Grandin has succeeded in reducing and eliminating animal fears by her
“calming techniques and animal-sensitive chute designs”. She teaches us the
workable way of understanding not only animals but also people. ------ 109 words
Temple Grandin Movie
The most powerful image I saw in this movie is the “door”. When Temple Grandin's scientist teacher from her boarding school told her “think about the door, the door will open upon the whole new world for you...” Her scientist teacher influened many things in her life. He understood her “specialness” and strove to treat her just like other ordinary kids. The door imagery actually occured three times during the course of the movie. Opening the doors encouraged Gardin to face her own barriers which other people might not have. They also served to link her personal progress of conquering her own difficulties one after the other. Every opened door indicated one more step toward Gardin achieving her ultimate goals.
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After reading John Allemang's article about Temple Grandin's unique feelings of connectedness to animals, I feel that I have been incorrect about the way I think of animals and the way they behave. Since I was little, I have tried to use all my human thinking to try to fit into the animals' world. So far it has not really worked. I wish I possessed Grandin's “non-verbal, sensory-based thinking” that allows her to understand why animals like barking, hiding, digging, and scratching all of the time. It is not a easy job to work on. Not only because I am not Temple Grandin, but also I cannot think or visualize the animal world. However, I do need to try to think like animals and perhaps image myself as one of them sometimes.
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The most powerful image for me is when Temple Grandin sees in her mind the doors that open up for her. The image of the doors is shown a few times. In the first time when a door is shown, the science teacher who discovered that Grandin is an amazing visual thinker advises her to go to a college despite her autism. She says to Grandin, “Think of it [college] as a door, a door that opens up onto a whole new world for you." The second time Grandin sees a door is after she climbs up a ladder to the top of a building on her college graduation day. The image of the doors inspires me to think of a challenge as a way to lead me to a whole new world as Temple Grandin experienced. -136 words
Reading John Allemang’s article, I am impressed by one of the ways that Temple Grandin observes animal behaviour and emotion in spite of her autism. I agree with Grandin who suggests to us to provide animals with a decent life and “to approach them [animals] more on their terms than on ours”. When I was a child, I had a dog. I wish I had known Grandin’s suggestion about what animals feel in a certain situation so that I could have cared for my dog with greater gentleness. For example, I didn’t pay attention to questions such as, "What triggers the dog to react to me with frustration?" Or "What makes the dog feel afraid?" Temple Grandin helps me to remember that animals need care just like humans need care. -130 words
The image I find most powerful is of Tempel Grandin’s inside her wooden machine squeezing herself. Grandin uses the machine to lower her anxiety and calm her nerves. Her intent becomes clear when she says,” I needed the sensation of being hugged; the machine hugs me and I am different afterwards.” I am astonished at how she developed the machine that is suitable to deal with her personal situations. It was magical for me to see a person enjoying being hugged by the squeezing machine rather than human. It helps her to release her stress and to calm down. I found Grandin’s creativity particularly interesting because, she developed her own stress relieving machine. We all have unique ways to relieve ourselves of stress. What’s your method?
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Nature is Powerful
After reading “THE NON-WHISPERER” I automatically remembered the society I grew up in, where animals such as gerbil were never recognized as a living creature. I clearly recall how our neighbors set traps to catch gerbils and kill them while they struggle burrowing to hide from their predator. The article helped me to realize how cruelty has advanced amongst us compared to Temple Grandin’s who says, “The animal world is all sensory-based-vision, smell, sound, touch and taste.” This reminds me that animal have all the physical and emotional needs as human. Therefore; we should reduce their fears and suffering by providing them with a better approach and care.
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The most powerful image I found in the film is that Temple Grandin invented the squeeze machine and used it for herself to get rid of panic and pressure. Temple was an autistic woman who disliked human affection and touch. The machine gave her hugs on both sides of her and calmed her down, through which she controlled her pressure and got relaxed. It is so sad that no one understood her and even the machine was not accepted by others at the beginning though it worked on her. Temple might have not needed the machine if people had given her more patience and understanding. Fortunately Temple had a good teacher, Dr. Carlock, who encouraged her to choose science as a career and eventually to go to college. –128 words
After reading John Allemang’s article, I understand more about the animal world. “It’s so hard for normal people to think like animals.” Sometimes you think the animals are happy, but actually they are not. Sometimes you see they are playing, but actually they are protecting themselves. As normal people, we can’t connect to animals like what Temple Grandin does from “non-verbal, sensory-based thinking”, but we know that the animal’s survive instincts is similar to human’s and “fear is the primary response”. What we can do is to consider more and do more about reducing and eliminating fears for animals in their lives. –102 words
The most powerful image I find is Temple Grandin’s specific function which gives her super imagination. As a high-functioning autism, she has her lonely world which we are hard to understand, otherwise, she is talent. When her mother tries to talk to her, she concentrates on a chandelier and images it moves awefully. When the teacher asks her to read book, she recites quickly after she throws her eyes on the book. When she surveys the old slaughterhouse system, she imagine the cows advance on circles which makes her success of the high-efficiency slaughterhouse system. At the end of the story, when she walks to the podium, she images the door closed her mind before opening for her. She is successful on her career because she survives by her super imagination.
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After reading John Allemang's piece, I recalled my aunt’s cats when I visited her in a summer. The cat always followed me, and I didn’t like her at all. I had never paid any attention on the animals before I knew Mrs. Temple Grandin. She opens a window for me to understand the animals who has needs like human as well. Something likes “dogs will bark if you leave them alone all day.”(3)The animals have emotion both in negative and positive. We understand “that its misbehaviour is rooted in separation anxiety, an offspring’s keening cry for lost parent?”(2) Mrs. Grandin makes me realize that the animal is the part of the world, they are human’s friends.
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The image I find most powerful in the movie is when Temple Grandin crawls on her hands and knees into the livestock handling plant. She tries to experience how cows feel while walking in and what make them scared. After scanning every section she designs an animal handing plant to keep cows calm and steady before they go through slaughtering. Being autistic, her analysis to approach the right animals behaviour in their own way, it helps me to understand the importance of existing creatures on earth. And, I strongly support her saying, “I wouldn’t want to have my guts ripped out by a lion, I'd much rather die in a slaughterhouse if it was done right” because she believes humanity is different from wild life.
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In John Allemang’s article, Temple says, “If you can figure out which emotional system is driving that behaviour, it makes it easy to solve.” It reminds us to show some respect and care for our pet animals; we need to provide them comfortable and protective environment to reduce their fears so that we can make a good relationship with all our pets. I still remember a cat fight over a ball which I had enjoyed it a lot without knowing a fact that fight might be a negative response to express fear. In fact, if we really want to provide our animals a decent life then we should learn from Temple Grandin to behave like more human to keep our ecosystem healthy and happy.
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The door is the most memorable image for me. Whenever Temple Grandin walks in front of new doors, she finds uncomfortable at first as I feel the same in some ways. The doors occur several times in the film. This again reminds me of the beginning when Grandin laugh aloud in the car saying, “Would you like for me to open the gate?” Then, she becomes self-sufficient near the end of the film. The whole story sounds like telling me to not to be afraid even things does not turn in the way I wanted. Although she finds hard at first, she never gives up. This is what I needed the most in my life. Given these facts, it is the powerful image which connects my mind.
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I realize why my dog never stops barking. According to the John Allemang’s piece, “misbehavior is rooted in separation anxiety.” I always yell at my dog whenever barking started. I do not try “thinking like animals.” It is cruel for my dog that I yell at him when he is “keening cry for a lost parent.” Temple Grandin reminds me to communicate with my dog in “sensory-based” ways. It is humanely way of treating my dog as a family member. It makes me feel guilty like I treat him like a toy. For example, I play with him only when I am bored. However, he wants to be together always to feel secured. The article recalls me to love my dog like a living creature, not a toy.
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The most powerful image I found in the film “Temple Grandin” is the opening of doors. Each door was similar, but unique, and represented a major turn of events. Mrs. Grandin’s depiction of open doors as gatekeepers to progress in her journey was a turning point for Temple. It would soon become a launch pad for overcoming her fears and pushing forward. This image signifies the importance of her graduation from college, connecting with the cattle journalist, implementation of her unique slaughterhouse design, and speaking publicly about her experience as an autistic child. The image is powerful because opportunity, hope, and potential embody open doors.
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After reading "Temple Grandin: The Non-Whisperer" by John Allemang, the idea of viewing animals as “slower (thinking) versions of ourselves” caught my eye. The dog example used by Gradin reminds me of a comic, where a caveman first got a dog. The agreement from the dog’s point of view was like this: “Ok, you shelter me, feed me, clean up after me, and love me and I’ll bark at anything that moves.” This comic stood out because it shows the disparity between the thinking style of the owner (verbal) and the dog (sensory) that reinforces the example used by Gradin about how animals think. Even with their limited capability, animals still understand love and affection.
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The most powerful image I find when temple’s fingers feel the heartbeat of the animals and she understands the value of living creature. She feels herself in pain when three cows were dead in the slaughterhouse. She begins her unofficial research in cow’s behavior and later she presents the idea of harvesting cow’s beef in more human way. She says “nature is cruel, but we don’t have to be, they owe some respect”. I never think in this way before, but Temple Grandin made me feel like prior to consider a piece of meat we should respect them.
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After reading “The Non whisperer” the first thought came into my mind, do we really take good care of our pets? John Allemang’s article about temple Grandin recalls my memory that I had a cat long time ago. She was affectionate, happy and playful pet but sometimes she would hide in the corner behind objects. I never knew that the cute kitty was feeling scared of something and many times I tried to get her out from the corner. Unknowingly I was being cruel with her. After reading about Temple Grandin behavior with animals, I learned speech is not necessary to understand animal’s nature. We have to think like more human to provide comfort for our pets.
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Grandin’s careful and curious face gives me a deep impression when she approaches to the stage at the National Autism Convention. She has countless challenges in her life, even in a day, and opening herself to people is one of the most difficult things for her. I think of Dr. Carlock, an insightful teacher, who visualizes a challenge as a door to a new world, so Grandin can give a try easily. Temple’s sense and study toward cattle is extraordinary; however, her change to people was very touching. Temple gave her arm to the blinded roommate for a guide. Also, she sits on a front seat in her French class. Later, she gave her mother a hug. Finally, she can speak in front of people for the autistic. Grandin denied her mother and the world when she was young; however, she always bears humanity in her all the time. (149 Words)
One day I barely see animals at a zoo because many of them were hiding. Also, I watched a TV show that a lady communicated with animals by watching or touching them. The same show, a cow which didn’t take care of her newborn calf changed after listening to a special music from Mongolia. Do animals have thought or feeling like human? Grandin says “their emotion development has been arrested in an eternal childhood state.” Also, Allemang gives interesting examples about animal behaviors and reasons based on their instinct. Maybe I need “an immersion course in animal emotion” to understand them more as we are each other’s circumstance. However, having respectful and careful mind to deal with animals is very important, I think. (123 Words)
There were number of powerful images in the film, but the one stuck in my head is how temple sees things. She is like photo camera and takes picture in her mind what she sees. I was amazed and surprised when Temple’s physics teacher asks her, “Do you remember shoes?” She suddenly sees many pictures of shoes in her mind. How a person can remember something that is exactly what it is unless you draw it or take a picture of it. She is just amazing. This image happened many times in the movie. After watching Temple Grandin’s movie, I said to myself I wish I have memory like her, but as a normal person. Taking pictures of algebra and chemistry’s formula without memorizing them.
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After reading Temple Grandin: The Non Whisperer by John Allemang, I recalled my friend’s cat, as temple said, “What you see as aggression might in fact be fear, and if you punish it, you make it worse.” When I was kid I always played with my friend’s cat. The cat was so aggressive and he mostly scratched me with his paws when I tried to hold or tease him and my friend punished him. At that time I didn’t understand why the cat is so destructive. Now looking back at it makes sense that he was trying to protect himself from danger.
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The move “Temple Garden” was quite sad and emotional, but also entertaining which I have to say, I liked. The most powerful image I found was, when Temple lets her new roommate (the blind girl) hold her arm. It was very surprising to see that, because Temple wouldn’t ever let anyone touch nor hug her not even her own mother, but at that moment she felt responsible for her roommate. To me it appears she did that because at that time someone needed her help rather than helping her, so that makes her stronger and more dependable. The “Temple Garden” has lots of memorable images; it is a great movie.
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After reading John Allemang's article, "Temple Grandin: The Non-Whisperer" I was confused and couldn’t follow it. But I think he’s trying to tell us about our behavior toward animals. I personally never had a pet, but I do love animals. However, as a human being we always think of ourselves smart, dependable and yet we treat animals in a very bad way. As Temple Grandin said “Nature is cruel, but we don’t need to be.” Most of us think we aren’t, but I believe we do make mistakes and we don’t want to accept it because we believe we are human and we are never wrong.
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Temple Grandin's movie is an inspiration to everyone, the most powerful image that stayed in my mind was the door that she's seeing a lot of times. It symbolizes her fears and challenges in her life, and every time she faces her problem, it made my admiration for her go into a higher level. She makes it sure that she think of it thoroughly and make steps to have a solution for it, even though sometimes it's impossible to do. For her anything is possible, which is the right way of thinking. How the door opens every time she successfully accomplished things made me also think that life is like an open door, you have the choice of just staring at it, just like in life, when there is a problem you don't do anything even just little steps. There is also the choice of opening it and gambling whether the other side's going to be a mistake or it's going to be a new beginning in your life.
After reading John Alleman's article I realized a lot of things, and the one that stayed in my mind was when Alleman said that "The animal world is all sensory based" Sometimes our primal behaviour are not that different from them, especially when it comes to emotions. Like them we can be happy, curious, scared and other primal emotions. That's why they also have the right to be treated and understand nicely. Like us, animals have different behaviour that's why it's best to study and know something about them first so that they can have the right treatment that they deserve because if we are on their place, we probably wanted to be appreciated too.
Maryan Abdi
Temple Grandin
The image I found most powerful is when Temple was giving the speech about how
autism made her stronger. It is because she accepted that having autism didn’t make her
different. All she was missing was love and comfort from her mother. Once she got that from
her machine, she overcame all obstacles. The fact that her mother always pushed her, and
believed that she was like every other child in the world, is the reason why she’s made it so
far in life. At that point, her mother felt a weight lifted off her shoulder and she stopped
blaming herself for Temple’s autism. I felt autism actually brought them closer together than
before. (118)
After reading John Allemang's article. I remembered how my friends’ dog always seems to bark constantly when we would leave. My friend told me that it only does that because it wants to come with us but I would have never guessed it was separation anxiety. I didn’t know dogs had such complex minds. It was afraid of being alone because it didn’t have any experience in being alone as a puppy. A way to help it is to “teaching it to socialize off-leash with higher strung canines” like humans dogs learn from other dogs, being around these dogs that know how to be alone can keep your dog from acting out. Now I understand the behavior of my friends dog.
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