Answers the Question

1.What do you think about Atyal’s facial tattoo? Do you have tattoo culture in your country? If yes, what are those differences between two cultures. I think that it is weird that they tattoo their faces, i only have one question to them. Which is "don't you think it hurts?" Our country do have people tattoo, but not for the same reason. In Taiwan people have tattoo because they think it makes the cool.

2.Saisiyat people choose their surnames from plants, animals and natural phenomena. In your country, do you think a person’s surname has special meaning which can reflect your own culture and why? I don't think so.

3.Lily is a symbol of RuKai. In your country, what’s your national flower and what it means. Taiwan's national flower is 梅花, and it means staying strong even thought the conditions are bad.


4.On Beian’s traditional weddings, you can see a prospective bride climbing a giant swing. And tribesmen swing her until the swing sails like kites. In your country, do you have any special ceremonies that are held on weddings? Please explain it. The bride will step on something called 瓦片, and step on it until it is in many pieces. They do this because there is a phrase in Taiwan that says if you break it into a lot of pieces you will have peace.

Taiwan VS. Mexico

Mexico and Taiwan
What affects the food culture
Mexico
The conquest of Mexico by Spain in 1521 had a great influence on today’s’ Mexican cuisine. Before the conquest Mexican diet was entirely native. And after the conquest, there was new livestock, such as pigs, cows, and sheep, dairy products, garlic, many herbs, and a lot of spices and wheat. With the conquistadors and their descendants also came some barley, rice, olives, wine, Indian spices, beef, ad different kind of fruits.
Taiwan
The Japanese influenced some of Taiwan’s food culture, when the Taiwan was under Japanese rule. And some of the it was influenced by the Chinese when Taiwan was under Chinese rule(ROC).

What are similarities or differences between two food cultures in terms of characteristics of cuisine, cooking techniques, the art and etiquette of dinning and local snacks?
Similarities
Both of the food culture is greatly influenced through other country.
Difference
The Mexican has more spicy stuff and Taiwan had more salty stuff. Taiwan people drink more tea.

Reflection
I think that it is cool that each food culture has it’s own background. And it is also cool knowing how being controlled can have a great change in the country.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Taiwan#Food

http://anthropology.suite101.com/article.cfm/mexican_food_and_culture

Life imitates art: 'Sopranos' actor goes on trial

This post is about a actor from the "Sopranos" called Lillo Brancato Jr., he is suspected to have murdered a cop. His life got worse not long not long after he befriended with a guy called Steven Armento. After awhile And then both of them was in drug-related arrests and the death of Enchautegui, which was a cop.
This article is very important because it shows how ones life can turn all wrong with one mistake. But to me i feel like mistakes help you, it is just sometimes that once you made a mistake you can never go back and fix it.
I think there is bias in this article, since some people say this guy is innocent, and some people think he is not. And that means there is bias.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/17/sopranos.actor.trial.ap/index.html

Read an Article

Please read a news article relating to Humanities. And answer the following questions:
1) What is the news article about?
2) What is the significance of the article?
3) Is there any bias (opinion) in the article?
This article talks about the different people's point-of-view about Obama's speech. I believe that this article is there to show how many people thought Obama's speech was great. And it showed how much Obama can create and effect on people's thoughts. In this article there are some quotes saying Obama is great so i believe that is bias, because it is only an opinion. But i do agree that Obama's speech was really good. I think this article connects to what i have been studying is by showing there is always a great leader that affects people. Like the pharaohs that affect the people, so the people help them build a tomb.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/06/obama.speech.analysis/index.html#cnnSTCText

What science skills did you use during the SMASH Day activity? How do these science skills help us be better scientists?

What science skills did you use during the SMASH Day activity? How do these science skills help us be better scientists?
Well I am not sure whether I actually used my skills. Or maybe its just that i used my skills but i didn't realize it. But now that I thought about, i may have applied the law for density. Like i know to make the bottom stable which is heavier on the bottom. So that it would be more stable. I think that by applying the whole density idea it helped scientists better because this way scientist would know what would go first. Or what should be put on each other and for those things not destroyed or fall over. I also believed u used my skills in hypothesis, i used this when i was predicting whether the thing will fall or whether it will broke up. And this skill made us become better scientist because by using hypothesis we can try to make better judgment of what might happen next without keep trying things over and over.

Reflection of bizzare food

I think that the movie made me both hungry and disgusted. It made me hungry because when it showed food i liked it made me really hungry. But when it show me the chicken testicles and chicken uterus, it made me feel disgusted. And the guy said that the uterus was milky and the juice exploded inside his mouth, which made it more disgusting. Even though i had eaten the chicken testicles before and i liked it, but the way he says it make me want to never eat it again. To me i think that guy was really bold because no American people well want to eat after hearing the name of those food. If feels like the guy has four stomaches, being able to eat everything in sight, and i can't believe he thought that some of the disgusting things actually tastes good.

Liquid Columns

Why did some objects sink while some objects floated? Also, why did some objects float in the middle of the columg? Do you think the "mixed" one will separate by Monday?
The reason some liquids floated because the object is lighter then the liquid it self. And the reason for some of the objects sink because it was heavier then the liquid/more dense. Some objects floated in the middle because the liquid at the bottom was more dense then the object, but the liquid at the top is lighter so the only place for the object to go is at the middle. I don't think the "mixed" one will separate, because when you mix the liquids together then the substances will fuse. Therefore the density will fuse together and then they won't separate.

Is air matter? Does it have mass? Does it have volume? How do you know?

Well i think air is matter, because it is in a state of matter which is gas. It has volume because it takes up space, like when you blow a balloon inside a bottle then it will not expand. But if you poke a hole then it will. I am not sure whether or not air has mas because i do not know how you measure air, bu i think there is mass in air.

Reflection on Movie

Well i felt like it was so cruel, because the person in power just killed people because they wanted to. They also kill people for their money and just because they feel like they are more smart then them they will kill that person. Good thing there is still people like Schindler that comes to their senses. Schindler may be like a bad person on the outside like he says he will not just hire a person with o skills. But at the end he decided to help them and get them a job and help some of the people prevented from gett5ng killed. I feel like the war is the most dangerous time, it could easily change a person;s personality weather to good or to bad. Like the leaders, because they got in power they still wanted more power so they just killed people. But in a good case Schindler knows that he is beside a person mad with power so he tries ways to save the people that he is trying to kill. I feel bad for the Jews that do not have a job, because if they did not have a job they will be automatically get kicked out o their own house. And also they would be send to a concentration camp which they will be killed at.

Dictatorship

Kim Jong-il
He putted people in camps, because of those camps it killed and seperated a lot of families.

Burma <http://socialistworld.net/eng/2007/09/25burma.html>
It used rape and torture, forced labor and violent national oppressions. To keep them self in power. They said they cut YouTube, i think probably so they can cut information. And to prevent them from telling they are poor.

Military dictatorship

Kim Jong-il <http://www.nndb.com/people/261/000024189/>
He was a very smart person, but he had a government that is very secretive and brutal to dissidents. And he had a really good group, like he has an 80 high-ranking officials.

Burma <http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/28/myanmar.dissidents/index.html>
The dictator/government in Burma cut the internet. I think the dictator cut the internet because he does not want to let the other people know that, that place is poor. Or maybe the government wanted to limit the internet so that the people living there could not get outside information.

News on China and Burma

Thousands dead after China quake http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7390000/newsid_7397600/7397605.stm
They say there all 10,000 people that died because of that earthquake, I was shocked because the number 10,000 is a big number. So much people died just because of one earth quake, I wonder what happened to the others that are trapped. I hope they rescue the rest of the people trapped or else there would be more people that will die.

Burma with the typhoon damage
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/09/myanmar.vote.ap/index.html
They say there are thousands of people killed, by reading the previous one it makes me feel glad that I am still alive. There are so much disasters in different countries. They showed us a picture of the cyclone, I thought it was cool but it must not be very cool to the people living there.

Reactions on Movie

Stalin
Well judging from the many pictures of Stalin i think the people probably worship him. I mean i see all those people and Stalin must have serve a lot to the people, because i saw so of the pictures that Stalin was holding little kids and talking to them. But then again how can i be sure of what he is talking about maybe he is using all these kind stuff to gain people's trust.

Inside The Reich - Germany
Well when i saw that the people that worshiped the leader were very happy, i can't believe what i saw because there was a lot of people down there i was wondering were the people down there celebrating or were they simply there to show their respect to their leader. It was good that a few people saw further maybe they will have a chance to escape, from point of view i won't believe an war could be over so fast so i will be very sharp. I think that the Nazi was not really good because they bought their way in then that means that people did not really like them.

How far I am at

I think i am not far, but I am finding more information along the way. Right now i have some of the answers for economics, and i learned today what the difference from the meaning of two questions. I answered a few answers for history, i thought of one question which is what did Stalin do before he became a dictator. And basically i answered a few question on each of the topic.

Dictatorship in Myanmar

In my thinking did the leader cut the internet just to keep them quite. Not tell the other people how they are being treated bad? And the kid even said the actions for posting up pictures of the people's houses over there, is it probably because the fact the government did not want to show how poor that country is? Guess they want to use ways to help the leader stay in power.

Dictatorship in North Korea

I can not believe that North Korea still uses nuclear bombs, it feels like the ruler don't take good control of that place. I don't think the people really likes the ruler they are just afraid to stand up for them selves or probably they just don't want to get killed. And i also can't believe Bush didn't really care for it either. To me it is shocking that know North Korea still uses nuclear bombs i thought right now not a lot of places uses nuclear bombs.

Animal Rights (Part 2)

Do you want to know where your meat comes from? Well if you do i hope you check out this site http://www.themeatrix.com/

-Do we have the right to kill animals to eat?
Well it have to depend on what kind of situation. Like you could say how the animal is raised whether by faring, big or small farm, or hunting. If it was me i would prefer hunting. I know I know some of the people out there might think that hunting is cruel and it is not right to shoot them. But from my point of view, the way i think is right is by hunting since it has live a great life being in the wild, being free, and not trapped inside a fence or a cage. If it is in the forest then it must have a happy life, if it was you would you rather die free or die inside a cage. So why not kill an animal after it had a great life there is nothing wrong with that. If it was farming it is completely different, because if it is in a farm the animals in the farm will not get the freedom to roam around, it will be trapped inside a cage. If it was you, then you probably would not live a happy life in a cage, so when you kill it when it did not even get a chance to be free then it would be king of sad. Someone might say well you are putting it out of its misery, well that is not true because maybe the animal wants to be free and be happy before it is killed. But then again it has to depend on the size of the farm because normally big farm as corporation that means the cows, chickens, and pigs are all raised with machines. And the small one which i might agree to is the one where people treat them nicely feed what is suppose to be fed.

So finally to the end you might say what does all this got to do with if we could eat those animals or not. Well the answer is everything, because eating an animal is not just a simple process, people feed it with machines with medicines/ grass and then kill it. The ones that did not live a happy life should not be killed and should also be set free. And the ones that did have a happy life has the right to be killed.

For more information please go to the site i put above and go check out what is really behind the meats. And no this site is not one of the reading sites this is a site for you to watch movies( It is quite fun)

Right to live?

- What is a right?
A right is something that you are allowed, it is something that you don't need to earn but there are quite a few ways that you could loose them. There are different rights for different people depending on your maturity and weather or not you are responsible. To me a right is something that already exist it just came out of nowhere, like already have the right to kill animals, other people don't grant you that right. It feels like it already exist in the world. Like you already have the right to kill a mosquito if it sucks your blood, it is not granted to you by someone else.

-What animals would we have the right to dissect(why) Which animals don't we have the right to dissect.(Why)
Basically the animals that we have the rights to dissect is something small such as frogs, shrimp, fish etc. Because when you think about it frogs and shrimp does not really effect us in such a big way. It may feel wrong that you are killing an animal just for one class, but it is for a meaningful reason not just for fun. We know it is still a sacrifice but we are taking something that is not a meaning to the world.

The animals that i think we do not have a right to dissect is dogs, cats and other big animals. Because we need animals like that they can protect us, and also when you dissect a big animal it does a big effect on us. You might think what is the difference between the big and the small, well it basically is the same as us the human being. The adults sometimes has more rights then the kids because they could help the world more and they are more mature and responsible in a few ways.

Levels of thinking

Remembering= Like me reading in the text book
Understanding= In humanities we created outlines of our essay.
Applying= In science we created circuits so we could get a better knowledge.
Analyzing= In math we made graphs of what people thought about independent learning
Evaluate= In Chinese we had a debate saying weather eating dogs are right.
Creating= In Humanities we created a video.

Reflection on video

When i saw all those crowds worshiping the dictators i was sort of shocked. I could not believe so much people would worship them. It feels like the people would do anything to join the crowd. In my point of view if the people did not show patriotism they would probably get killed or maybe they would probably get captured and be persuaded to believe it. Even though questioning is a small thing but i don't think the dictators would like it.

Reflections on news

Dramatic rescue for flood victims
I thought that it was shocking, just by looking at the picture i thought of "wow". I hope that no one got hurt because of that. Looking at all those people who were stranded make me glad that i am at a safe home with a safe family. Just because of some rainfall caused houses to be gone and schools, i keep wondering what the people will do.

Family "government"

Probably i would be the leader with more power and my husband would be the person with power but less then mine. The way that power would be managed is probably with voting for some situations. Like if it is like saying where we like to go on weekends it would probably be like a vote for everyone in the family, but if it is something serious like going to which schools then that will be decided by me and my husband. The positives are that probably the family would have more freedom since they could vote. The problems might be that some people may be angry if they did not get what they wanted.

Greece Research

I think that my research is going very well, i finished answering all my questions. And now i am starting to find pictures and start to make my movie. I think that i finished about half of my project about now.

growth on student outcomes

Active Learner: In progress, I think that i showed i am a active learner because i pay attention to the things that my friends and teacher are talking about. I try my best in doing my homework and doing my projects. But i need to improve on the skill to ask more questions when i have some.

Community Contributor: Demonstrates. Often my friends as me questions, even though those are not hard question but i answer them anyways, just to help them out. If i can not answer the question i would try, and give it a shot or simply search up the answer. But i need to see if people needs help or not instead of them asking for help.

Person of High Character: Demonstrates. I show that i am a person of high character because i do my journals for every class when ever i need to do it. Even though i do not say anything bad about my friends in class not that i do out side of classes. But i need to be more positive about somethings in class, and have a sense of humor when things are down. For example, even though we might have a project, i should not moan about it instead i should think that at least we get to do it in i movie. And i get to watch other people's presentations and they get to look at mine.

Effective Communicator: In progress. I listen to other people when they talk, i even payed attention to the Greece movie, but i need to ask more questions when i have a questions.

Critical Thinkers & Problem Solver: Exemplifies. I look up for answers for my project. I do hard researches when i need to find an answer even though i do not ask a lot of questions. Often when i have a word i do not understand i will go look it up in the dictionary.

Comment for blog

Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer
I think that it is shocking that hackers would such a thing to harm people. I thought that hackers only do damage to the computers but this is way past the limit, trying to hurt people with Epilepsy. It may not kill those people but it may seriously hurt them.

Outcomes

Today we worked on our project. I showed i was a effective communicator when we chatted about the news and i listened to my friends. I showed i was a community contributor because when my friend asked me a question i tried to answer it the best i can. I showed i was active learner because i stayed on task when i was researching. I showed i was a critical thinker and problem solver because i have to go on the web and look up the answer.

Rules for blogging

No personal information (no last name or contact information).
-Write in ENGLISH.
-Don’t write inappropriate stuff in your blog.
-Don't insult others. Be constructive in your commenting.
-Don't plagiarize other peoples' ideas.
-Cite your sources for images and ideas.

Reflection on Posts

Well I thought that she put on there was very cool, it is nice that she tells about the feeling she has in high school. And she also describes a few stuff in very funny ways, I like that. It sorts of give me a feeling that right now my homework is nothing compared to it.When i read that blog and it is like telling me that a person should not give up and keep on trying.

Engagement

Today we looked at the movie the whole time. I showed i was a community contributor because my friend ask me how to spell a word and also asked me some questions about the movie and i answer them. I showed i was a effective communicator because i listened to the movie.I showed i was a person of high character because i was keeping positive by thinking even though we had to think of some questions when we were watching the movie but at least we get to watch a movie. I showed i was a active learner because i did not goof off when i was watching the movie i payed attention to it.

Engagement

Today we looked at a movie. I showed i was a effective communicator because i payed attention to the movie. I showed i was a person of high character because i did not say anything bad about my friends, not that i do. I showed i was a active learner because i did not goof of when i was watching the movie, and i was paying close attention to it. I showed i was a critical thinker and problem solver because we had to think of some question that we were going to answer.

Engagement

Today we worked on blogger and the text books. We reviewed our homework that we did last time.I showed I was a effective communicator, because when the class was discussing about our homework and I was paying attention to them. We fixed some stuff in blogger so that we could share to a lot of people. I did not use blogger in a long time but it feels good to go back and use it again. I showed I was a community contributor because when we were talking about the journal and then my friends asked me a question, so when I answered that i showed i was a community contributor. Today was quite fun we got to do part of our essay and then we got to play with blogger.