Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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.

Monday, October 11, 2010

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.


       

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

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.


       

Monday, September 27, 2010

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. 

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

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

Thursday, September 2, 2010

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.