God's Children

I don't get the people..they could just farm themselves and fish themselves and move to other places.

Poverty

African nations typically fall toward the bottom of any list measuring small size economic activity, such as income per capita or GDP per capita, despite a wealth of natural resources. The bottom 25 spots of the United Nations (UN) quality of life index are regularly filled by African nations. In 2006, 34 of the 50 nations on the UN list of least developed countries are in Africa.^[1] In many nations, the GDP per capita income is less than $200 U.S. per year, with the vast majority of the population living on much less.

Morrie's Aphorism#5

Be hopeful but not foolishly hopeful
I think everyone knows this except for people who are foolishly convinced that there is something to believe in.

How do electrolytes work in our body?

Many normal body functions are dependent on these substances. Normal body functions, not to mention performance, are severely compromised if acceptable levels of electrolytes are not present, especially in the heat and / or when exercise goes beyond the two hour mark.

Morrie's Aphorism#4

When you are utterly frustrated or angry, express these feelings. You don't have to be nice all the time, just most of the time.
I think this is true. If everyone can do that then the world would be a lot more perfect.

What is lightning? Why does wearing rubber shoes help you during a storm?

What is lightning? Why does wearing rubber shoes help you during a storm?
Lightning is atmospheric discharge of electricity usually accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms.

During a thunderstorm lightning may hit the ground and travel through the acidic raindrops that was once in the sky. If we had metal soles the electric charges of lightning will travel to the ground, through the water, up your metal soles and into your body. I think that will be really painful. Some of us don't like to get electrocuted so we wear soles made with rubber, because rubber is a good insulator so it can prevent lightning from coming up your soles.

Morrie's Aphorism#3

Don't assume that it's too late to be involved in something.
I think this is quite true only once you miss the chance it is very hard to get in it again. So you must be fast. You must learn to seize the chances

Morrie's Aphorism#2

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.
I think this is kind of important because if everyone could do that then there will be no revenges and tragedies.

What would a day in your life be like without electricity?

What would a day in your life be like without electricity?
I think that the days will either be really boring or better. Without the discovery of electricity I think there will be no artificial light, computers, internet and many other things that need electricity from the start. Things like clocks, washing machine and all those things that maybe our daily need might never be invented.
I think that if there was completely no electricity then my life will be a lot simpler, because there will be no games that I would have to keep looking at, there will be no textbooks (not the printed kind), just imagining it gives me a picture of a good world. But there may be some disadvantages like there will be no vehicles like airplanes and cars and maybe not even bicycles. Maybe there will be some hand-made bicycle and a lot of horse riding.

Morrie's Aphorism

Get as much as help as you can when you need it.
This is Morrie's aphorism. There is nothing special to it because everybody who is smart enough will know it. Morrie's aphorism is what we need to do everyday.

Earth Day

A few days ago there was a day called Earth Day. I am going to write about what I will do in spirit of the Earth Day. There are easy things you can do like, less tv, turning of the ac, turning off the lights, car pool, riding bike.

Kids attacking teachers in class

Students spend a lot of time in school and some of the use these times badly. More than 10 students reported that the teachers in school was attacked.
Almost everyday, there are reports saying that the teachers were threatened by knife and violent.

More pirates attack in Africa

More and more pirates attack ships off the coast of Somalia, a country of Africa, capturing one and damaging another. American captain Richard Phillips is held captive on a life boat. American navy is trying to rescue him now.

My question: Who is withdrawing the forces?

Most of the British troops are scheduled to be withdrawn at May 31. There are going to be 400 British soldiers left behind to keep peace and help them train their soldiers and also help with other things

British troops moving out of Iraq

British troops are finally beginning their final withdrawal from Iraq! it has been six years since the American-led invasion of the country. Most of the troops are leaving by 31 May - the official date for the end of the combat.
Four hundred troops wil stay behind to keep peace and train Iraqi forces.
My question: Who is withdrawing forces?

Blood Red Horse Chapter 5

There are two brothers, Gavin and Will. William is the main character, I think.William is younger brother of Gavin. They fight each other a lot. There is another character in the book called Ellie. She hates Gavin as much as William does. Sir Thomas went to a war, and he couldn't spend a lot of time on building the castle. So time passes, William becomes better on riding horses.

The First Crusade

The first crusade's destination was to take over the Jerusalem. In the time Pope Urban II launched the first crusade. A lot of people went to the crusade because the pope promised them that they would get a lot of money and land and will get a free pass to heaven when they die. Most of the people went to the crusade to go to heaven and to wash their sins away by doing what the pope tells them to do.

Strange salt treatment for asthma

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Sickness that irritates breathing has always been a problem. For centuries, people had been going into salt cave to make their lungs better. The tiny particles of salt is said to help stop people coughing and wheezing as much. A patient in London is now testing in a man-made salt cave.

Character Sketch Essay

My sister. She how they talk. Me and my sister, we have some things in common with the characters in the book. Paul and Norman. Sometimes I try to give her help. Not by offering money or go fishing. I just offer help. But she is quite like Paul. She knows that she needs help, but she doesn’t admit it. Like in the book, Norman’s father said to Norman, “You are too young to help anybody and I am too old,” he said, “By help I don’t mean a courtesy like serving chokeberry jelly or giving money.”
“Help,” he said. “is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.
“So it is,” he said, using an old homiletic transition, “that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don’t know what part to give or maybe we don’t like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, we do not have the part that is needed. It is like the auto-supply shop over town where they always say, “Sorry, we are just out of that part.”
I think she don’t accept my help willingly because she wants to do her stuff on her own. She is not better than me in anything but some lame game that she plays on my computer. So she doesn’t get to give me any advices, like Paul and Norman.
My sister is like Paul. She likes to act strong, but she is not as stubborn as Paul. She also doesn’t gamble or go fishing. She is understanding but she doesn’t show it and I will never confess to her.
She is like combination of Paul and Norman, the not complete version. Help, she gives but was denied for most of the time. Offer, she did but was never taken.

journal 5

march 17
journal 5
Somewhere along the line she had forgotten that it was I who liked chokecherry jelly, a gentle confusion that none of her men minded.
“Help,” he said, “ is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept to willingly and needs it badly.”
Once i have been blamed for making my sister bleed when i had done nothing wrong.

journal 4

journal 4
"You have never really seen an ass until you have seen two sunburned asses on a sandbar in the middle of a river."
I feel no personal connection to this quote but i like it because it's funny. It was more fun in the movie because their was visual aid. I feel a little personal connection with this quote because it is not exactly personal. My friend had not been sunburned but kind of hurt his butt because his pants were thin and there was snow on the ground. Kind of frozen. Not sunburned.

journal 6

journal 6
march 20
“You like to tell true stories, don’t you?” he said, and I answered, “Yes, I like to tell stories that are true.”
this quote was on the last page of the story.
i feel no personal connection with this quote but i like it because i like true stories

journal 3

journal 3
"Brother," he said, "you can't catch trout in a bathtub"
this quote is kind of funny
One time, i dropped my marble in my bathtub and i couldn't fish it out so i think that is kind of similar. Kind of personal connection. It was when I was in kindergarten. My friend too. He had a similar experience. His had a frisbee and he threw it and it got caught on a rock in the middle of a river. He was unlucky. He couldn't get it out.

journal 2

journal 2
march 12
“Although I know nothing about fishing,” she said.
This was complicated statement.
i like the quotes

journal 1

journal 1
march 11
“Izaak Walton,” he told us when my brother was thirteen or fourteen, “is not a respectable writer. He was an Episcopalian and a bait fisherman.”
“The bastard doesn’t even know how to spell ‘complete.
no personal connections between my own life and events in the day’s reading.
no questions to discuss.

What I learned

What I learned about the life of people living in Scotland were bad except for the British. People were randomly picked on, slaughtered, raped and taken against their will. All does farmers and other people waged war for freedom against them. The people were badly treated. Kind of like slave but not exactly.

What I know

After the Romans were gone, the protection that they had once provided was gone and so most of the trading stuffs were stolen. And the Roman Empire fell, so the money was no more. They had to find a new money system. At first they just traded stuff. Like 'I give you a sheep, and you make me a boat.' Another thing is, when the Roman Empire fell, the center was reestablished by the Catholic Church, so that was a big difference. More and more people started to depend on the the Church more than any other people. The economy also got bad, because there was no cash coming in their pockets, some was left with nothing to trade with but maybe a few pieces of money that doesn't mean anything after the Empire fell.

My favorite place

My favorite place is Korea in the winter, because there are snow and stuff. The lake turn into beautiful mirror and you can step on to some of them. But what I like the most is the skiing and snow boarding part. Sometimes I fall down couple of times while going fast, but it is still very fun playing on snow. My favorite place in the summer is Singapore. I don't know why. I just like the place.

Why do you think the novel is titled The Sun Also Rises?

I don't know why it is titled The Sun Also Rises. I don't have a clue why it is called that. Maybe I don't know because I didn't read carefully enough, but I just don't get the meaning of the title.

Passport Reflection Question

The Traveling Nitrogen Passport we finish today was easy. Most people didn't go to the same station in the same order because they roll differently, which means they get to travel to other places by other means.
I went to two stations right after each other. Atmosphere and Soil. I thought me that nitrogen can repeat the cycle in midway. Like for example, a real nitrogen stuck in a coal might be release back into the air but then breathed in by some plant then turned into part of the stem then be turned into a coal in million of years after.
Atmosphere seemed to have the most nitrogens. I think it is because that all of the nitrogen stuck below the atmosphere in form of either liquid, gas, or solid returns back to the atmosphere to start the whole cycle again, only the stations will be different.
I think the point of activity (Traveling Nitrogen Passport) was to let us understand the movement of nitrogens in the air. The stages of nitrogen. The form that all nitrogens could take, and that the nitrogen could repeat the stages a lot of times. Like for example, Surface Water nitrogen gets sucked up by a tree then be turned into a leaf, then falls back into the river, then pressed down by a rock, decompose in water, then repeat the cycle again.

Feudalism

Feudalism arose at a time when central governments were weak or nonexistent in Europe, and kings used the system to exert control over their subjects and secure military strength throughout their lands. In the absence of a strong monarchy and rule of law, the feudal relationship between the lord and his vassal was the glue that held medieval society together.
"http://historymedren.about.com/od/feudalism/a/feudalism.htm"

This is the simplified version of definition, and there are a lot more better explanations and exceptions that go along this medieval history. It is fair to say that this is the explanation you read from the textbooks and the dictionary.
But the problem is.......
Nearly none of them are accurate.
Feudalism was NOT the "dominant form of political organization in medieval Europe.
"http://historymedren.about.com/od/feudalism/a/feudalism.htm"
I read something similar like this before somewhere and there was no "hierarchical system" of lords and vassals like we like to think. Manorialism or Seignorialism was not part of a Feudal System.
Kings did NOT use Feudalism to exert control over their subject, and the feudal relationship was NOT the "glue that held medieval society together.
"http://historymedren.about.com/od/feudalism/a/feudalism.htm"

Isolating the SMASH variable & the science of Benjamin Button

Benjamin Button TED Talk
The people making Benjamin Button's face went through a lot of steps. The science of Benjamin Button. They had to make the person acting Benjamin Button wear blue hats. (I think for the blue screen.) They took picture of every thing that Brad's face was able to do and use some kind of technology that uses white ball stuff to make the 3D face of Brad ((old),(Benjamin Button)).
They had a lot of different actors for Benjamin Button as person then they will stick the head of older Brad's.

Blood Red Horse

Blood Red Horse Chapter 5. There are two brothers, Gavin and WIll. William is the main character, I think.William is younger brother of Gavin. They fight each other a lot. There is another character in the book called Ellie. She hates Gavin as much as William does. Sir Thomas went to a war, and he couldn't spend a lot of time on building the castle. So time passess, William becomes better on riding horses.

Humanities: noble

I am a noble. I owe allegiance to Christianity and the queen. I offer protection to the queen and I fight for Christianity. I am a noble. In return, I expect to be rewarded with money and servants. I also provide funds for wars.

Art

What I saw in the movie...was a man building some cool things.
I remember the man making stone eggs and using ice bits to make a strange thing attached to the rock. The man made many rock eggs using many rocks. The man also used small wooden branches to make a big wooden web. He also made some kind of leaf trail on the water. Everything else I forgot.
The rock eggs I liked the most. It was beautifully crafted and accurately fitted into place. When I looked at it, it gave me some kind of holy presence, the feeling like your looking at something old.
Rock eggs were made in various places. One was in the water and the water washed it away. One was built in the bushes. I think they built it and put a camera over there for a year, because they filmed the whole season.

Humanities

The simulation we did today was kind of useless since most of us knows what we were doing. But of the simulation we did today was to teach the 6th graders then it might be useful for the 6th graders to learn at least something about the medieval times that they are going to learn in 8th grade.

Blood Red Horse

The two main character in the Blood Red Horse I think is William and Eleanor. William doesn't like his brother, Gaven, and because William doesn't like Gaven so Eleanor tries not to like Gaven too, but after Eleanor saw Gaven mourning for his dog, she changed her mind.
Eleanor is kind and smart and i think she likes William. William likes horses.

Bullfighting

I think that bull fighting is inhumane. Hundreds of bulls die in a year to please the people. I think maybe if they just play with the bulls not kill them then it is a bit less inhumane. After all, I think that we, humans, should only kill when it benefits us in some way or another. Like killing for fun is not a way that beings with superior knowledge and intellectual development should act.

The Clock of Life

The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at a late or early hour. Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. For the clock may soon be still by Robert H. Smith
I don't know if I like this poem/quote. I never appreciated nothing in language arts but stories, but I know what this poem/quote is about. It used the clock was our life. It is a commonly used word to describe life. It also tells you to spend your life wisely do things you will enjoy during your life because life is short. In the end, I don't find this poem/quote extraordinarily interesting and not even interesting, but I don't think it's bad/ Its just that I don't like quotes and poems.

SMASH Day Reflection

We tried to make a scope used in submarines. We needed to look into the box where there was so called treasure. The supplies given to make the scope thing was a small torn box, a stack of scrap papers and some mirrors.
We modified our design for a few times but at the last time we were adding to it, one of the mirror changed places and fell down. We knew that we needed to modify our scope because the things we saw through the mirror was wrong. We had to look at the angles and shift the mirrors into the right places. I think my team communicated all right.
Draw your design first, then find the angles of reflection.

mirrow image

When i look into my mirror. I see a boy. A man. A boy. And a man. I not so sure. I'm not sure of what the others make of me either. So it makes me curious....but not so much. I don't like looking at the mirror much because I know what I will see. When I really think..I realize that I'm not very curious at all.

Australia burns up in the heat

The heat wave forced the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne to suspend lots of matches because the player couldn't cope with the heat.
Two houses were engulfed in flames in soutern Australia, more than 140000 homes have been left without power.

Kenya explosion clainms many lives

At some point a split petrol caught alight and the tanker exploded, killing at least 111 people and hurting more.
Some thinks that a lit cigarette may have started the laze, while others say it was lit on purpose.

Reflection

I used critical thinker and problem solver, effective communicator, and active learner.
I used critical thinker and problem solver by thinking on what to write on the Research Paper. Especially on the conclusion part of my Research Paper. I was effective communicator because I think one would understand what I am thinking and what I am telling them if them read my Research Paper. I was an active learner because I learned a lot about Ancient Greece and Rome history while I wrote my Research Paper.
One of the big relationship between Ancient Greece and Rome I learned while doing the Research Paper is that Ancient Greece and Rome interacted with each other a lot in the ancient times. Although the difference between them are very similar but you should be able to tell which is which while reading my Research Paper. For the most of the part at least.

language art

i think that the SRCs are a good example for effective communicator, because they talk clearly and loudly. most of the time in the all school gathering, the SRCs come up and says something of the school stuff which they had discussed and then made a decision. the requirements of being a effective communicator is a mouth, and brain.

Effective Communicator

Effective Communication is when you talk clearly and loud enough. Being an effective communicator can make your life a lot easier and make other people around you feel better too. Effective communication is important because otherwise nobody will understand you. You can improve your communication skills by talking more, loudly, effectively, and clearly.

UN closer to resolution on Gaza

UN Security Council have overcome its division and is now poised to vote unanimously for a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The Chances of the resolution being agreed appeared to recede earlier when new disagreements emerged in New York between Arab states and Western powers.
Thirteen days of fighting between Israel and Hamas have left an estimated 765 Palestinians and 14 Israelis dead.

6 years old boy drives himself to school!

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A boy in America missed the school bus, but he wanted to go to school so much that he took his parents car key and tried to drive to school.
He drove about six miles before he crashed, and when he got out, he tried to journey on foot.
The boy told police in Virginia that he didn't want to miss the breakfast or P.E. His parents have been charged with putting him in danger.

Rockets hit Israel from Lebanon

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Israelis and Palestinians have been fighting for two weeks in Gaza over who has the right to live where.
Strangely, Lebanon, which is located on north of Israel, fired at least three rockets to Israeli troops.
It sounds like the Lebanon people are pushing for a peace plan.

Re: What I learned about from the video about the culture of Rome

The Romans kept the Jews as slaves. In the movie, Ben-Hur treat his slave like servants, it may be because Ben-Hur was like a slave himself. The Roman military wore long red capes behind them. I think that the colored feather that was glued to the helm shows how high ranked the person is. Like Ben-Hur's Roman general friend (I don't remember his name) his helm had big fluffy red feather on his helm when the other soldiers had kind of like spiky cut-short style of red sticks? on their head. I thought I also saw that the body plates and the helm was decorated. The materials they used to make those things, I think they are gold, silver and steel.
The part where we stopped watching. When a general or some high ranked guy went on the galley where Ben-Hur was on, I think that was one part of Slavery culture in Ancient Rome. I also think that the Romans were very technologically advanced in more ways because they had fought more battles than most of the countries near by. The galleys they make looks plain on outside but I think it is terrible being at the lowest part of the boat. First one could drown with the boat with the galley was hit by whatever thing, second you could be killed at any moment, third they don't care if one grows sick and die because they can just replace one with another man who has been condemn to death. They also had a guy with two hammer down there also. I think he gives orders on how to row the boat. They had developed some kind of system that tells them when to go fast and slow.
When I continued to watch the video, I found out that sometimes slaves would be given to winner as a gift. In the video Ben-Hur was given to the general, and the general adopted him as his son, which Mr. Carpenter says it would not have happened in the real world. Also when the general went to see the king, he was riding a chariot and wearing golden armor with a golden feathery thing on the helmet. I think that means glory of victory or something like great honor. And this time when I watch the video, I found out that the feathery things are not feathers.
The langauge they speak, I'm sure that it is not English but in the video they made it English to make us understand the thing they speak.
In the video, Ben-Hur's mother and sister was found with Leprocy in the jail room. Leprosy is also known as Hansen's disease because of the scientist who discovered the bacillus. Treatment of the Leprosy works the best with using Dapsone. This medicine is currently being used to suppress leprosy, and seldom is leprosy completely removed from the body. Important is to understand it can only be halted using a multi-drug treatment. Leprosy patients are taught to take care of themselves using a kind of visual check if they have significant nerve damage. Withoutthe sensationof pain to identify cuts and bruises, patients must watch themselves constantly or be characterized by multiple leisons. These leisons are acconpanied by sensory loss in the affected areas, which begins in the extremities, toes, and fingertips at the beginning. Leprosy in all ages has been considered one of the more despicable diseases. Its victims have been despised throughout history and kept in sperate places called leper colonies or sanitariums. Even today, most people with leprosy are shunned by thir neighbors and are held at arms length, and it is simply wrong.

Scientists spot new pink iguana!

Scientists found a new species of iguanas. It is being called Rosada iguana because it has rose colored scales. It had been spotted in the Galapagos Islands, in the Pacific Ocean.
Some lucky park rangers saw one of them back in 1986, but people thought it was a one-off, meaning that it is one extraordinary iguana, and was quickly forgotten.
The scientists estimated about 100 of them and they are listed on endangered species.

What I learned about from the video about the culture of Rome

The Romans kept the Jews as slaves. In the movie, Ben-Hur treat his slave like servants, it may be because Ben-Hur was like a slave himself. The Roman military wore long red capes behind them. I think that the colored feather that was glued to the helm shows how high ranked the person is. Like Ben-Hur's Roman general friend (I don't remember his name) his helm had big fluffy red feather on his helm when the other soldiers had kind of like spiky cut-short style of red sticks? on their head. I thought I also saw that the body plates and the helm was decorated. The materials they used to make those things, I think they are gold, silver and steel.
The part where we stopped watching. When a general or some high ranked guy went on the galley where Ben-Hur was on, I think that was one part of Slavery culture in Ancient Rome. I also think that the Romans were very technologically advanced in more ways because they had fought more battles than most of the countries near by. The galleys they make looks plain on outside but I think it is terrible being at the lowest part of the boat. First one could drown with the boat with the galley was hit by whatever thing, second you could be killed at any moment, third they don't care if one grows sick and die because they can just replace one with another man who has been condemn to death. They also had a guy with two hammer down there also. I think he gives orders on how to row the boat. They had developed some kind of system that tells them when to go fast and slow.

Israeli troops fighting in Gaza

Israeli soldiers and tanks had been sent into Gaza as it tries to stop members of Hamas group from firing rockets at them.
For more than a week, Israeli has been dropping bombs in Gaza, which is home to about 1.5million Palestinians. Israel say the bombing is necessary to protect its people and it won't stop until the rocket attacks stop too.
Nobody is backing down right now, but British Prime Minister Gordan Brown, want Israel and Hamas to end the violence.