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NEVER DO BAD THINGS ON INTERNET!

2010-06-10T18:40:00.000-07:00

More and more people are swearing and do bad things on the internet. I've seen a lot of people swearing on facebook and yahoo chat. This affect the whole world because it can make our world (low level). It can make other people in other country think that your country's people swears a lot if a lot of people swears in your country. Now, I just want to tell you guys that don't do bad things, swear or go to websites that you are not suppose to go to.

BP Oil Spill

2010-05-30T19:28:00.000-07:00

The first one is the Rachel Maddow reporter's news. She talks about the oil spoiling and it spread all over Gulf of Mexico. It was caused by the BP company. The company spreads a lot of oil all over Gulf of Mexico that gives the animals hard time. 30 years before, they are really bad at preventing of pollution to Gulf of Mexico. The spread of oil affects the whole ecosystem and it harms people a lot. How does it affect people? First of all, a lot of people eat fishes, and if the fishes eat the food that contains those bad oil inside then for sure they will turn unhealthy and if we eat those unclean fishes and shrimps and stuff in the ocean, it can harm us a lot. Also, it can make some kinds of rare birds extinct. How? There is an experiment that scientist put the feather into a bowl of water with a lot and a lot of oil inside. And what happens to the feather is that it turned into a black, messed up ball of "mud". And it turned so heavy that if a bird has a body filled with these find of "feather", they will not be able to fly. A lot of birds can swim, and they swim for catching the fishes, so if they unfortunately get into water that is full of oil, then they will not be able to fly out and if more and more birds do that then they will extinct.
How do we solve it?
We can put the containers that can hold the oil inside it and never come out. And we put all those containers inside ships to hold the oil. Also, we can put some machines or pipes under sea and that can suck the oil inside and we can maybe recycle those oil. Maybe those machines can suck oil back to land. http://img.bmlink.com/big/trade/20075/07052211143946.jpg

All the Invisible Children 1 story

2010-05-23T19:34:00.000-07:00

The first story is about children in Africa. The children was forced to be solider and fight for their country. At the end of the story, the child planted the bomb, the government forces force them to plant the bomb but the child want to go to school instead of being part of the army so that is why he wrote his name and review the things on the blackboard

Citizneship- Shop Til you Drop Activity

2010-03-11T20:36:00.000-08:00

How did it feel to have more or less money than other people in the class?
It feels really bad to have less money than people in the class. I am under control of everything that is related to money.
How did it feel to see what you could and could not afford at the Global Mall?
It feels really bad. I can't do anything or buy anything i want.
• How many of you could not afford education? What would your lives be like if you could not go to school?
Three people can not go to school. It feels sad if you could not go to school because then you won't get any right education and so you can't speak anything or do anything through your "right" mind.
• How would it feel to have to choose between food and health care?
I think i would choose food, because you won't have good health if you don't eat any food.
• How many of you have ever been very sick or gone to a hospital or had friends and family who have? What would your life be like now if you had been unable to get medical care? You will think of one question " who cares me? " when you think of this question, you don't really stay a live...... when you have someone that can care about you when you are in hospital, that feels "much" more better than nothing.

• What were the impacts caused by people with fewer Global Mall Dollars, and what were the impacts caused by people with more Global Mall Dollars?
The impact to people with fewer dollars is that you can not buy anything even you really want to buy that thing. If you have more money, then of course you will have to work much more harder than other people. Not only this, rich people is going to buy more things and it is going to product "a lot" more than people who don't eat meat or buy less things.

Eve Ensler

2010-03-08T00:38:00.000-08:00

1. Synopsis: what is this interview about?
This interview is talking stuff of girl's right. At first it is talking about how do man treat girls and domestic violence. After that, it talks about why don't girls got rights and how don't they got rights.

2. How is Eve Ensler being a global citizen? What is she doing to make a difference in the world (give examples)?
When she was young, she got domestic violence from her parents. After she grew up, she tell people that it is wrong and tell people the right thing. Give examples? : She made a lot of books and sell it. All of the books are talking about girl's right, domestic violence stuff. She even tell people to go on street and shout out about girl's right. So, these are why she can be the global citizen.

3. Give one example of how girls can end up in harmful situations because of societal pressures "to please" others. Because people don't give girls enough food and just keep forcing them to do works, so women just go and please for food and just get harmful reply.
2. What do you think are the connections between The Story of Stuff and Eve Ensler's story about the girl in the factory making Barbie doll heads? There are connections because there are all talking about making stuff. The poor girl just keep making those barbies and sell them to west. How many products does the girl has to make depends on how many do consumer buy. So, it is related to the factories. Consumer keep buying......factories keep making and at the last it all become trash.

Haiti Earthquake

2010-02-07T18:30:00.000-08:00

Haiti is a republic country which is at the south of Florida, east of Mexico and North of South America. But, in January 12 2010, there is a earthquake that occur and make A LOT of them died. It was a 7 MW earthquake.The earthquake caused major damage to Port-au-Prince, Jacmel and other settlements in the region. It was occured in 4:53:10. This earthquake cause a big damage because the buildings and the roads there are not stable. So, when the earthquake comes, the ground just flip up and the buildings just lie down on people that are inside. After the earthquake, the polices and the hospital quickly go to everywhere and then try to save anything such as people or animals they found. Other country send food and tell people to give the cloths that you will never use it. Since people don't have home anymore right now, they live in refuge.

Kiribati

2010-02-06T18:46:00.000-08:00

Dear Mr.Bernard Murdoch,
Thank you for giving your fantastic presentation today. After your presentation, I now realized about how global warming is getting bad and bad every year, how the sea level change and how the climate change in different country. I can hardly understand how you feel of giving this presentation, looks like you are always smiling in the presentation, but I know that you actually feel really sad of giving a presentation about your home and your country is going to be an "underwater city". Kiribati is really a small long country with water surround it, but I have a question in my mind after listen to your presentation. Since there are 10000 people in your country, why don't other countries help your country to move to other country? And that is not a big deal because there are only 10000 people. Global warming is a big problem obviously, if we want to save our country and save our earth and make people not to harm of scared of global warming, then we have to do something. If I am the government of my country, I would think of a way to make people not to keep overuse the efficient things that produce a lot of carbon dioxide, but I can't just stop the citizen of using air conditioner because they need them. So, to solve this problem, I may use the tax that citizen pay us to buy a lot of "efficient things". After that, what I can do is that I will give a presentation about how the global warming has harmed our earth and the overuse power and over produce carbon dioxide. After that, I will tell all the citizen that if you bring your inefficient things from home, then you will get a new efficient thing. I think this is a good method because people always like new things, so this may attract a lot of people. I don't have the power to do all these things, but being a citizen, I can also give presentations and but inefficient things and not to throw trash on to the ground
By Perry Green

Avatar

2010-01-24T17:42:00.000-08:00

Avatar
Human found that there are a lot of minerals on Navi planet. So, human are trying to get the minerals on the planet, but there a natives there. So, human make “Avatar” because then people can change into Avatar and then you can move and breath and work easily. Also, the Avatar is much more stronger and much more taller than human, so they can fight with the native in Navi planet. Human is always trying to destroy nature, but Navi people believe that nature can bring them lucky and nature is just like their religion, their god. So, whatever the nature tell them, they follow what the “god” said.
At first, Jake follow what the leader's mission and at first Jake is helping human, but after a few while, Jake thinks that the Navi people are nice and he realized that human should not destroy the Navian's home and he is trying to stand up and help Navi people to defeat human and he said “ We have to tell them that THEY CAN NOT TAKE WHATEVER THEY WANT!”. Human haven't realize why do they can't destroy Navi people's home because they want the mineral on the planet.

What does a good citizen look like?

2010-01-19T03:41:00.000-08:00

A citizen is a member of a group, family, country, school, or a neighborhood......
A citizen can be a native citizen or a naturalized citizen too! A native citizen is a citizen who born at that place, like original. A naturalized citiznen is a citizen that does not born there, they move from another place to here.

Citizens have opportunities to vote for President, but this the right only for citizens. People that are not citizens can't vote in their immigrant country. For example, I am a citizen of Taiwan, so when I grow up , I can vote for mt country but people that are not citizen of Taiwan can't such as Mr.Rob who is come from New Zealand.
You have responsibilities and rights for your personal community or country. First, I will talk about the responsibilities for your personal community and country. Being a good citizen, you HAVE to serve in military, but not in all the countries, but Taiwan is an example of country that you HAVE to serve in military. We have to serve in military if you are a citizen because you are protecting your country when you serve in military, you fight for your country because you are the citizen of you country. What you have to do to serve your country is to fight for your country. But, girls can choose if you want to serve in military, but most of the girls that serve in military are for money. The second important thing that is listed as responsibilities is ovey laws, Why do you have to obey laws? Because if you obey laws, the whole country wil control in an order. Being controlled by orders help you country, so thar people will not do bad things, but well not all of them, but at least it decreases a lot of them. Vote for your country CAN be listed at your responsibilities OR your rights. If you are a citizen, you can vote for your country, but you can choose, you don't HAVE to vote for sometimes. But, being a citizen, you better vote for your country because sometimes the vote is for president. You have to vote for president because president controls many things. Even though president have a lot power and controls a lot of things, he still doesn't have all the power.

What are the rights for citizen? First, you can have your own religion, having a religion is a right because you can trust a god that you think will protect you. I just talk about the rights for vote, you can vote but you don't have to but if you don't vote, you just loose an opportunity. Also, you have right to gather with your family, you can gather anytime yu want and no one can control you.

How to be a good citizen of one's world or country?
1) Obey laws- you have to obey most of the laws, but you don't have to obey laws when you think that government is telling you to do the wrong thing.
2) No bad discrimination (for races), prejudice, war idea. It is amoral to have bad discrimination on different races, people should get the same opportunity and treatments.
3)No war idea- If you thinks that who or which country is bad and you said to start a was, then that is not protecting your country, because you will make many people that join the battle die such as people who serve in military.
4)No bad stereotypes- If you always have bad sterotypes on other people, it will also start a battle and that will separate the friendly treat from difference races again.

There are some differences between subjects and citizens. Subjects are people who obey laws by government, but citizens are people who have the real power to control the government. You need to have multiple responsibilities for being a citizen. A subject is a laborer and a citizen is a voter for government.

How do we learn prejudice?
Prejudice can be native or positive. Most of prejudice are come from their family. Before white people's school, teachers also have some prejudice and that gave children what they thought about people. Magazines and newspapers can also spread the idea of prejudice.

How do we perpetuate bias?
Bias can also can be good or bad. But, if we keep pass these bias to our children, I think it is not going to end. Bias can also be passed by friends. What you think you can pass to your friends and he/she is going to pass to his/her friend!

What can you do about Unconscious Stereotypes and Prejudices?
You can give presentations or tell people. If you started give presentation or tell people. Maybe 2 or 3 of them will believe and they will tell other people. It is just like a tree diagram, if 5 people give presentations of 10 people for each person. Then, 50 people is going to change their mind! And if everyone think in the correct way, bad discrimination and stereotype or bias is not going to happen again!

Does the government and Presidents have the total power that forces people to follow the law and not be free? No, governments does not have all the power. The president still must listen to citizens and their representatives. People might think that governments have almost all the power, but actually citizens have. Citizens can vote on which president they want and if government does the wrong thing that makes citizens unhappy or even angry, citizens are going to complain by talking to their representatives and by voting. And at this time, government is going to change their mind otherwise the whole country will not control in an order. Even though citizens have a lot of power but we still have to ovey laws and do our responsibilities.

Freferic Chopin

2009-12-06T20:52:00.000-08:00

1) Freferic Chopin was one of the masters of Romantic music.
2) He was also famous for his piano skill.
3) Character piece is a literal translation of the Roman Charakterstück, a term, not very precisely defined, used for a broad range of 19th century piano music based on a single idea or program.
4) Everyone call him the god son of music from while he was 6 years old. He can compose music from 8 years old and he got a lot of prize and high grades in music. He had perform a lot when he was just very young. During 1831, he left his home, Poland and go to Paris.

Arnold Schoenberg

2009-11-25T06:47:00.000-08:00

a. What was his most important contribution to music? Explain.
Arnold Schoenberg revolutionize modern music? He revolutionized modern music by abandoning tonality and developing a twelve-tone, "serial" technique of composition (see serial music ).

b. Why was his approach to music composition so different?
He began organizing notes into sets of 12 with no relationships with each other and with no center, a twelve-tone compositional technique involving tone rows, which he saw as unique and revolutionary because it resembled no music previously composed.

. How influential was he? Who were some of the people he influenced?
His twelve- tone technique is the first attempts at atonality during his era and would be never developed and explored by later composers such as Anton Van Webern and Alban berg.

2009-11-15T18:50:00.000-08:00