Homework - January 11th, 2011

1) Life in Vietnam would be perfect if everyone were totally equal. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer in complete sentences.
- I agree because in Vietnam, there is a lot of poor people and some people don't have job. I think some poor people need a job and need to be equal to everyone so rich people won't complain or laugh at the poor people.

2) You are designing a society in which everyone is equal. What are the laws?
- I will take money from whoever makes a lot of money and i will give it to someone who can't make a lot of money.
- Tell smart people to teach someone is not smart, teach them how to do things, how to read, how to work like a normal person.

3) What would you do to help people who were less capable mentally, physically, or socially to “catch up”?
- I will build a house for poor people and some one don't have job so they can study in the house for free and some day, they can catch up. I will tell all the teachers to teach them all the good things and what is wrong, what is right.

4) What problems can you foresee that might come in a society with laws that force “equality for all”? How would you handle those problems?
- I think some people will agree because they want all the people lower than them to be better. They want lower people to go up and work together. Some people will disagree because they don't want to be equal to poor people or lower than them because they want to be freedom and if they are equal, it's not normal and they won't have freedom.

5) Do you believe that total equality is possible, or would human nature make sure that some people would eventually dominate others?
- It's impossible to have an total equality because if one person is really really rich, and the government tells them to buy and donate everything to help the country. But all the people still know that person is really rich and they rich because nature makes them rich already.

6) In what situations have you felt similarly to any of the characters? What persons, places, or ideas from your own experience came to mind while you were reading this story? Try to list as least two examples.
- The story is reminding me of North Korea because the citizens live under the rule of the government.

Letter

Homework for Tuesday, November 2nd

1/ Advertising is a big influence of a company to introduce which is to show every person in the world to know their new products and it makes them believe and buy their new products. They also show the way that make people buy and trust them.

2/ No because i think they should tell us more about negative impacts and what would it happens when we use to much.


3/ I think yes, for example: Mercurial Vapor Super-fly II. It shows everywhere like on Starsports and ESPN channel. It makes me, and my friends feels good and just wanna buy them as quick as we could.

Immigrate/Migrate Narrative

Jerry Per.6

IMMIGRATION

There was a man who was very shy and handsome, he was thirty years old. He immigrated to Lovely Land because there was a war and flood so he needed to settle there. He thought he could help this land and became more famous but he didn’t. He also didn’t want to die in his homeland because of war and stuffs. He decided to move to this land, but he felt lonely when he moved here. People didn’t want him to live here because he showed off and he didn’t help this land from flood and the war. He needed to relocate to another land because if he wouldn’t, he would just being kick out of the land and he died for no reason.

One week later, he took his stuff and went to Boring Land which was an area for him to live for the rest of his life. In that land, People were not interact with each other and they were slow to do everything but they worked really smart. They just used old techniques to create their own technologies because every person was slow and they couldn’t think of new techniques. When he went to this new land, he felt unendurable and he moved here because it was that last area to live and it was also new to him. But day by day, people loved him more because he helped his new government a lots by he made new technologies like computers, and lights so this land became more successful and beautiful from his own techniques.

A Message From Mother Nature - Questions

1. What is the main point of this article?
- This main point is how global warming effects the earth and human lives. 


2. List four vocabulary words that you do not recognize or understand, lookup the definitions, write them out using your own words.
- Monsoon: Wind that flow with seasons from place to place.
- Drought: a period of dry weather
- Torrential: violent or vehement.
- Acres: extensive landed, especially in the country.
 
3. What is the difference between “weather” and “climate”?
- Weather is short terms of variation and day to day of the atmosphere. Weather is the combination of temperature, humidity, precipitation, and wind.
- Climate is the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time.

4. What are the examples listed in the article of “extreme weather”? 
- In the United States, flooding battered New England, then Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, while a record-breaking heat wave baked the entire eastern part of the country.
- In Russia, a record-breaking heat wave along with a record-breaking drought destroyed millions of acres of wheat and sparked wildfires that killed dozens.
- Over the past few months, it feels like it's been one weather extreme after another. Torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan caused the worst flooding in decades, killing more than 1,500 people and uprooting millions.

5. What experiences have you had with “extreme weather”? 
-I remember that there was a flood in Vietnam but i don't know exactly where it was. It's also a large rain and it's in the middle part of Vietnam. A lot of people died also they needed some boats to help them go away from water, the sea levels was go up and all the trees felt down and hit a lot of houses.

6. What does the word “perception” mean? 
- Perception means a way of conceiving something.

7. What is your “perception” of global climate change?
- In my opinion, if the global warming keeps heating up, the earth will get in DANGER and that effect human lives. If the climate change, it means it will have a lot of damage to the environment. If you want back your friendly planet, so you need to recycle everything that you can. If you don't do it now, you won't have any chances to save your friendly planet. GO AND HELP UR FRIENDLY PLANET OR WHAT EVER YOU CALL IT !!

Sweet Land - Map Final Assessment

 There was a really big Sweet land.There are three countries in this big land: Gum, Lollipop, and Candy.
One thousand years ago, Gum was the biggest country and a lot of people lived there. There was a river in the middle of three countries but Gum used to much sugar and they dismissed a lot of dirty water and trash out the river so Lollipop wanted to kill Gum so the war had begun.
Gum was the sweetest but after they dismissed a lot of bad things so they became the meanest land. Ten years later, it still happened so lollipop took their soldiers to Gum's land then attacked them but Gum has a group of soldiers that could hold Lollipop stayed and Gum took more soldiers to come up their for help. Lollipop needed to get back to their land because Gum was so strong and all of the soldiers from Lollipop land was died a lot. Nick was the leader of Gum land. A few of soldiers came back and went to the capital city to tell Zack. Zack was the strongest man in the lollipop land but Nick's land was bigger and stronger than his land so he ran to Jerry's land for help. It's also a big wind flew into Lollipop land so it was destroyed and Gum came their. Then Jerry and Zack wanted to destroyed and killed Nick so they had a big plan to get around Nick's land and revenge for Zack. 1 day later, Nick's land was destroyed by Zack and Jerry so Zack got their land back. Jerry and Zack were having a nice life with each other and help each other. One year later, the population went up a lot because there was a lot of family and children.
                                                                    ~THE END~

Family Tree

I learned many things from my friends' presentations about their cultures. I learned from Sarah like their traditional and clothes. She taught us the way to bow when we met older people. David talked about the food from Czech, the name was strudel or something and the important thing was he makes it by his-self. Lisa's presentation was awesome because she made a book by her self and she put all the pictures when she was young into the book. That was awesome and really cool way to present. I enjoyed all the presentations and they all did awesome.