Letter on Bear Bile

Dear Tammy:

Hi, this is a student writing to you. I hope you know what a bear bile is. Today I’m gonna tell you things about bear bile and the poor bears having them. I went to a wildlife station in Cu Chi, Vietnam. There are birds, monkeys & otters living there. But the only animal I felt empathy for is the bears. You probably wonder why, the bears have been hunted in Asia for many years. For what? Just only for their tiny bile, seeing this the Cu Chi rescue station have been trying to take all the bears from illegal trades & breed them in the station. To me the first thing I saw when walking in the staion is the freedome life of the animals, the friendliness of the tourguide & the animals. The happiness of animals, my feelings for them are very happy and grateful that they have been rescue from their nightmares in their life. From my opinion that these rescue stations should exist because they help to preserve the environment and save the animals for later generations to enjoy. Children could also know what a rescue station is and how it works to save the injured animals. People could also get jobs, most of the rescue station are encouraged by the government and sponsored by different companies. We could help to keep these stations going by donating money to them, showing them your support by helping them as much as you can and respect them. Also be grateful, praise them for what they did in order to make them proud. I wish that the government don’t try to close it down and just sell the building for money, some did. Nowadays people use a lot of bear bile, they believed it help them in making them live longer, have a good health. If we keep taking the bile out of the bear it could cause all the bears to extinct, never to be seen again. Even if you use it many times, there’s no guarantee that the bile will keep you in good shape for the rest of your life, it could also make nature lost its balance. The food chain could also be broken, there’ll be no more bears for later generations to look at. If children see adults killing bears they will mimic it and try to kill one bear, that bear get angry and will attack the child causing it to die. I got this link when I went to the Cu Chi wildlife rescue station: www.wildlifeatrisk.org. You could go on there and learn more about the bears and other animals, here are the other one: google.com, wikipedia.org. Type in bear bile when you went to these websites. Let me know if you have concerns. Take care.

Sincerely

Samantha

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Questions

1. Advertising could make people want the product eagerly, it could also make people think about the product as a good product. The company wants money, then they have to make the advertisement more attractive and the advertisement have to convince people to buy the product. Therefore if the people watch the advertisement were being convinced they would buy the product, that leads to the increase of consumption.

2. No, 'cause citizens they live in an environment that things are always changing. They want new things for themselves, we could tell them that they could recycle their old stuffs. We could also show them the bad side of the product in order to prevent them from buying it.

3. No 'cause I already knows that everything have good and bad. That's the reason why I never get influenced by advertisement. But some of my friends does 'cause they didn't know that there's always bad things behind the advertisement.

Sustainable Development Examples

1) When keeping warm people could burn right amount of coal to last them for a day. They could save coals by burning when it's too cold and they absolutely need it. Trees could be save by being chopped down and processed into coal.

2) Humans need meat to live, they could hunt the bigger ones and spare the babies. In this way the babies grew up and humans could have meat next time.

3) Humans need shelters, building a house means chopping down woods. If people chopped down enough woods to build a house, it could make the environment clean by leaving some trees behind.

Migration/Immigration story

A Road to Freedom

        Once upon a time, there was a country called “Ice Country”. In this

country there were ice everywhere, the climate was cold all year round. A

little boy grew up here, his name is Toshiro. He lived with his parents and

his cousin, Hinamori. In the “Ice Country” was the ice made traveling very

hard, people couldn’t go anywhere. There was also lack of services, the

government wouldn’t provide anything for the people. Then the people had

to wait until the ice had melted a little and traveling work again. The country

as also too crowded, people kept moving into the country. They thought that

the country had everything they need. These push factors caused Toshiro’s

family to flee to another country to settle. Although “Ice Country” had been

their homeland for generations, because of the future for the family,

Toshiro’s parents decided it would be best if they move. There were still

many countries which were not crowded, but the family had decided to

relocate to “Love, Happiness and Freedom Country”.

         “Love, Happiness and Freedom Country” had many pull factors: the

government provided the citizens with enough services, the climate and

weather was always peaceful here. Also the country had few people, few

people made the environment clean. It also made traveling into an

affordable thing. The benefits of going to this country were: Toshiro and

his cousin could have more education since the traveling was so easy, they

couldn’t be sick so easily because the environment is so clean. The family

could have anything they want now that the government provided good

services. There could also be negative benefits here: Toshiro and his cousin

will miss all their good friends back in the “Ice Country”, if the education

didn’t suit Toshiro and his cousin they couldn’t get any. Also if there’s too

little people they can’t interact. When they leave “ Ice Country”, there’s

good benefits: the family can escape poverty, find hope for their next

generations, avoid sickness,etc. Bad benefits could also be luring behind

them: have to made a lot of paperwork, leave their family, friends and

neighbors behind them. Toshiro and his cousin have to learn the “Love,

Happiness and Freedom Country” official language. When Toshiro finished

thinking these things, the family already arrived at the airport. They’ve gone

through all the customs, then they found themselves on a plane. After that,

the family settle in “Love, Happiness and Freedom Country” until now.

       

A Road to Freedom

Once upon a time, there was a country called “Ice Country”. In this

country there were ice everywhere, the climate was cold all year round. A

little boy grew up here, his name is Toshiro. He lived with his parents and

his cousin, Hinamori. In the “Ice Country” was the ice made traveling very

hard, people couldn’t go anywhere. There was also lack of services, the

government wouldn’t provide anything for the people. Then the people had

to wait until the ice had melted a little and traveling work again. The country

as also too crowded, people kept moving into the country. They thought that

the country had everything they need. These push factors caused Toshiro’s

family to flee to another country to settle. Although “Ice Country” had been

their homeland for generations, because of the future for the family,

Toshiro’s parents decided it would be best if they move. There were still

many countries which were not crowded, but the family had decided to

relocate to “Love, Happiness and Freedom Country”.

         “Love, Happiness and Freedom Country” had many pull factors: the

government provided the citizens with enough services, the climate and

weather was always peaceful here. Also the country had few people, few

people made the environment clean. It also made traveling into an

affordable thing. The benefits of going to this country were: Toshiro and

his cousin could have more education since the traveling was so easy, they

couldn’t be sick so easily because the environment is so clean. The family

could have anything they want now that the government provided good

services. There could also be negative benefits here: Toshiro and his cousin

will miss all their good friends back in the “Ice Country”, if the education

didn’t suit Toshiro and his cousin they couldn’t get any. Also if there’s too

little people they can’t interact. When they leave “ Ice Country”, there’s

good benefits: the family can escape poverty, find hope for their next

generations, avoid sickness,etc. Bad benefits could also be luring behind

them: have to made a lot of paperwork, leave their family, friends and

neighbors behind them. Toshiro and his cousin have to learn the “Love,

Happiness and Freedom Country” official language. When Toshiro finished

thinking these things, the family already arrived at the airport. They’ve gone

through all the customs, then they found themselves on a plane. After that,

the family settle in “Love, Happiness and Freedom Country” until now.

       

The Creation of Manga World

On a big ocean, which is named Anime ocean appeared an island. Before,

this island was under the sea, then when the volcanoes errupt the lava push it

up to the surface where it is now. After hundreads of years, mountains,

lakes, rivers, desert forms on the surface of the island. Animals also thrived

on the island, then people came to the island, no one really know where they

original home was. The ocean was very vast, we can’t see the whole world

of it, the people came by boat. They settled on the island, at first the island

had no name. The people settled on it love manga, so they named the island

Manga Island. The people loved different manga, so they divided the island

into four sections, they named the section after the manga name. The people

can draw manga characters very well. Their drawings was loved by many

people on the other island, so they shipped their drawings to the other island

to sell and make money. In return, their drawings was loved by many people

and the people asked them to draw more. So and so, the people on Manga

Island cut down trees to make paper and the environment soon was

threatened. Then the people realized and they started recycle the papers that

they used to sketch their drawings, the envrionment was saved again.

Sometimes people from the other island came to visit Manga Island, month

by month, year by year the people of Manga Island got rich. But they live a

simple and doesn’t complain. 

A Message From Mother Nature Questions

1. The main point of the article is scientists are trying to understand causes of extreme weather that is occuring on Earth.

2. Dispute: it's like stating an opinion.
    Sceptic: people who disagree with something
    Torrential: very violent
    Reluctant: it's like not quite sure about making decisions or doing something.

3. Climate is how  the temperature is occuring  in a specific area, weather are things like wind, snow, rain,etc.

4. The examples are in Russia there's a record-breaking drought that destroyed millions of land and made forerst fires. In the US, flooding occured in Oklahoma, Arkansas and New England. While in the easter part drought are occuring.

5. Experiences I have was last summer there's no rain until about July, usually we got rain like in April and May.  This year there's rain too much, in all my life time here there's just like one or two rains from August to October. But this year it's different.

6. Perception means like you getting information by reading a book, newspaper, article,etc.

7. My perception for global climate change is that it's expanding, we humans are the main cause of the climate change. Humans keep pouring chemical, trash into the environment, polluting it.

Study Guide

1. Five themes of Geography:
   -Human-Environment Interaction
   -Region
   -Location
   -Place
   -Movement

2. Jobs in Geography:
   -Location analyst
   -Urban Planner
   -Climatologist
   -Surveyor

3. Tools:
  -GIS
  -GPS
  -Maps
  -Compass

4. Types of Maps:
   -Thematic
   -Political
   -Physical
  
5. What we did:
   -Socratic Seminar: Define the world "Culture"
   -Summarize paragraphs-jigsaw
   -Family Tree Project
   -Scavenger Hunt

One thing I learned about someone

Journal Prompt

One thing I learned about someone is that Aeris collects a lot of Japanese and American coins, also that Edwin‘s father is Christian and his mom is Buddhism. So it kinda like two religions I his house. Edwin also have the fifty states coins of America, things from Malaysia. Mickey’s grandparents are from China, so he’s still got some Chinese heritage in his blood. Tommy’s parents own a coffee-tea store.

I also learned that 99% of our class is Vietnamese, we all have traveled to foreign countries like Malaysia, China, Korea,etc. Aeris and me both like manga and anime, most of the class religion is Buddhism, some of us believe in Christianity. We liked different things and our families have different jobs.

Journal Prompt

I have been to Thailand during Chinese New Year, Thailand lies west of Vietnam and if you look at the map Thailand is big at the top and thin at the bottom. Thailand is a little bit hotter than Vietnam, most of the land is flat, people war cool clothes in Thailand. With tropical climates like that, people plant tropical fruits like banana, durian, mangos,...

To the north there's mountain, tourists could sight seeing the mountains by climbing on elephant's back. To the south there's beaches and a lot of city like Bangkok, people live near beaches built trawlers, fishing boats to catch fish and people who live in the north use elephants as transportation. People live in city open shops and do business there to survive.

About me

My name is Samantha, I'm a Vietnamese-Chinese. At home I speak Cantonese with my parents, This year I'm 13 years old, I like mostly are manga and anime. They're from Japan, they're sort of like comics we read everyday. I like everything, my friends and I always talk about manga and anime when we're free. So we hardly talk about something else, I love to read books, mostly about biographies. Right now I'm reading the Little House Books, it's fun, I love it. So I also enjoy surfing the internet and watching TV, sometimes I watch anime.
I'm a little bit quiet, so I don't talk much. But I'll try to be more talkative, especially in class. So I guess that's all about me.