Thursday 1 December 2016

Black Gold??

WALT - We are learning about events that happen around the world.

Today in room 9 we were all given an article to read online about an article called Black Gold.
At first I thought it was actually about finding black gold, but it was really about hair. The article I read was about the story behind hair extensions and wigs that people wear all around the world. But did you know that in China virgin hair are the most valuable hairs out of all because it is not been altered by an chemicals like dyes and bleaches. Did you know that in the streets of Taihe in China is the capital of hair because about 400 companies processing hair and also small family business sell strands of hair, and people are so eager to buy the hair they fight over it.

I thought this article was actually sad because it seemed like some people were forced to cut their long and beautiful hair for money. But I think they cut their hair for their families. I think it's a high demand for hair because people want to make a lot of money out of it, I think this because the prices for human hair are expensive (depending the quality of it). If this hair selling thing wasn't in demand, our society should force people to cut their hair but let them if they only want to. I think the authors purpose for this article was to tell people the truth behind wigs and extensions and make them imagine if they were those people.

What I found challenging about this article was reading the whole article because it was so long it took ages to read (well for me it did). But what I enjoyed about this task and article was that I learned more facts about what people do around the world. My next step is to stop talking to my friends and get on with the work so I can get it done faster.


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