Mind Map and Song!

All I Can Do Is Write About It

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Well this life that I've lead has took me everywhere 

There ain't no place I ain't never gone 

But it's kind of like the saying that you heard so many times 

Well there just ain't no place like home 

Did you ever see a she-gator protect her young 

Or a fish in a river swimming free 

Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina 

Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennessee 

And Lord I can't make any changes 

All I can do is write 'em in a song 

I can see the concrete slowly creepin' 

Lord take me and mine before that comes 

Do you like to see a mountain stream a-flowin' 

Do you like to see a youngun with his dog 

Did you ever stop to think about, well, the air your breathin' 

Well you better listen to my song 

And Lord I can't make any changes 

All I can do is write 'em in a song 

I can see the concrete slowly creepin' 

Lord take me and mine before that comes 

I'm not tryin' to put down no big cities 

But the things they write about us is just a bore 

Well you can take a boy out of ol' Dixieland 

But you'll never take ol' Dixie from a boy 

And Lord I can't make any changes 

All I can do is write 'em in a song 

I can see the concrete slowly creepin' 

Lord take me and mine before that comes 

'Cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin' 

Lord take me and mine before that comes

Globalization

• Globalization uses up finite resources more quickly.
• Globalization increases world carbon dioxide emissions.
• Globalization encourages dependence on other countries for essential goods and services.

For me, this song represents the cities' growth, and how this is affecting the country, the children and their dreams... This makes me feel really upset, as people have more power than what they even believe they have, so sometimes they abuse of it and start destroying everything, without caring about the future generations. I think that this song represents magnificently what globalization is producing, and this is easily relationed with Third Culture Kids (TCK)'s issue. 
In Grosso Modo, this song makes me think about the future, about the past, but most importantly, about the present. How can we be living in a place that's destroying where our offspring will have to live in some years. We claim that we love them and all that stuff, but we are not really taking care of something that's so important that, without it, life wouldn't be possible. 
The biggest problem now is that, despite the fact that this problem indignates me, I'm not doing anything to support the Earth's nature, and with that, protect us from globalization. And probably there are thousands or millions of people that think as I do, but don't do anything, because they believe it's impossible to fight against an enemy like globalization. 
We have to start this change now, or otherwise it will soon be too late. Lets stand up and battle against what harms the Earth, and most importantly, harms our offspring (and us!).