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HW SCHEDULE

2009-12-13T06:51:00.000-08:00

Monday: 8:00~11:00
Tuesday: 8:00~11:00
Wednesday: 8:00~11:00
Thursday: 8:00~11:00
Friday: none
Saturday: 1:00~5:00
Sunday: 9:00~10:00

How was nuclear war avoided??

2009-05-31T18:47:00.001-07:00

How was nuclear war avoided?

Cuba missile crisis is a event which cause a great public nervous, cause it was really close to a nuclear war between US and the Soviet Union. In this nervous situation, how can these two countries avoid the war happened?
In my opinion this war can be avoid is because of the clam and the communication between the two countries. When US found out there was missiles in Cuba if they just use force to make Soviet Union remove the missiles there might be a war, but the US use calm to face this problem, the discussed this problem and try to find out a way which can solve this problem peacefully. Then they went on the next step, the communicate with the Soviet Union, they didn’t stand still and tell Soviet Union to remove the missiles with no requite, they try to make deal with Soviet Union in order to end this problem.
After all the reason how the nuclear war was avoided is because they solve this problem calmly and they communicate with others, otherwise the nuclear war might really happened.

Do you think the Atomic Bomb was a wise or unwise decision?

2009-05-05T01:27:00.001-07:00

Do you think the Atomic Bomb was a wise or unwise decision? Please use information learned and discussed in class to support your argument? You essay needs to written in essay form (Introduction/thesis, Body, and Conclusion).

World War II ended in September 15th ,1945, and it ended by the two atomic bomb which dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US. These two bomb caused a disaster in Japan, it killed almost 200,000 people. The drop of atomic bomb did end the war, but is the atomic bomb a wise decision?
In my opinion I don’t think it was a wise decision. The reason is that before US drop the atomic bomb, they don’t really know how powerful the atomic bomb is and what damage will it cause. However, I don’t think the atomic bomb is necessary, firs, there were already more than 60 cities in Japan were destroyed, and Japan were ready to call it quits. America don’t have to drop the bomb to force Japan to surrender. Besides, if the bomb in Hiroshima is necessary, when US decided to bomb Nagasaki, they didn’t gave Japan enough time to went over its devastation. Also the bomb spend 2 billion on its development, it makes me felt like US through the bomb because they don’t want to waste the money. Second, the two city they dropped the bomb in were of limited military value. Civilians outnumbered troops in Hiroshima five or six to one. There weren’t lots of solders, the people who lived there are ordinary citizens, but the bomb killed 200,000 of them.
These are my reason why I don’t think the atomic bombs were a wise decision, it not only cause the damage in the city and killed people, but also pollute the environmental. The benefit they can got is less than the disadvantages they gave, it didn’t worth it.

Benjamin Button

2009-03-05T20:58:00.001-08:00

The similarly with scientific method, in the Benjamin Button, they wanted to make a movie that the main character is aging backward, but their technology in early ninety can’t do this, and this is their problem. They tried many different ways to make the face of the character more human. And their first step is “ admit you have a problem”. After some discuss, they know what problem they have to solve, then they go on to the second step - break the problem down, they make the Big problem in to several small problems. And they find out what they can do now and focus on it. They first put the special marker on human’s face, but it didn’t work really well, many details on your face can not be shown. Form this mistake, they realize what they should change, they went out of art and went in technology’s territory, like video games. And base on many research they found out that the “contour” is the most effective way to do it.
Their stage of making the Benjamin is just like scientist doing a experiment. They find out the problem they had and break it into small parts and then solve it.

Paul Baumer

2009-02-22T00:40:00.000-08:00

Paul Baumer:

He is a young German solider. For me, he is a person who is really sensitive and kind. At first, he thought that join the war was a thing that you can be proud of, but after join the war, he found out that the war was a diverter, people lose their humanity, they just keep killing each others.
The most important thing for Baumer are his friends in the front. When he has the opportunity to go home, he found out that he can't “fit” in; he wanted to go back to the front with all his friends. At the train camp, he met some starving Russian prisoners, and Baumer shared his food with them, and they made Baumer realized that their enemies are not faceless creature, but human beings. Baumer started appose the killing, cause he knew that the person you killed is also a human, he has his won family, his family will be sorrowful about his death, just like his family. Although Baumer is a soldier who fight this war, but the war didn’t make him lost his humanity and sensitive.
But during the war, Baumer lost all his friends, they all dead during the fight and all dead before Baumer dead. Baumer is amazed that he is still alive and this made Baumer really painful.
At last, Baumer on a "quiet day on the Western Front." He is killed by anti-climatic, but actually, losing all his friends kills him.

Submarine SMASH Day Reflection

2009-02-09T20:48:00.000-08:00

1. Summarize --
-- What did we do for SMASH Day?
Used the thing that we are given to make a telescope that can find out what kind of treasure is in the island.
-- What was your mission?
Find out what is in the box using the telescope our team made.
-- What supplies were you given? 10 papers, 4 mirrors, 2 long tape, 1 piece of thick cardboard.
2. Reflect
-- How many times did you have to modify your design?
2 times...maybe..
-- How did you know that you should modify your design?
We try with the practice box, when we can't see well or we can't hold it without our hands out of the "water", we changed/ fixed our telescope.
-- How did you know what to do when you modified it?
We try it with the practice box, and we can know what should we do.
-- How did your team communicate to decide how to modify your design?
One of us give us a big picture of our telescope, and then we gather ideas or gave so feedback.
3. Tips and Suggestions
-- If you could give a list of tips and suggestions to someone who is doing this for the first time, what would it be?What would you tell them to help them out?
Don't oppose to others, after others finish their ideas then you can said your ideas or commons. If you have any ideas, just said don't keep it. The most important thing is do not oppose others ideas or laugh at their ideas.

The two curren event [Humanities]

2009-01-14T18:51:00.000-08:00

#1
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/14/somalia.piracy/index.html#cnnSTCText
Title: Pirate attack on Dutch ship thwarted by Russians

Who: Capt. Pottengal Mukundan
What: A Dutch sip was attack by the Somali pirates when they were at the Gulf of Aden, and the Russian ship avoid it. The pirates fired two rocket-propelled grenades at the Dutch ship, but it there was no injuries. The Russians chased the pirates, but they still run away.
Where: Gulf of Aden
When: 14 January 2009
Significance: The Captain thinks the naval vessels must continue to respond robustly to these pirates.
Bias: Many ships were attack at the Gulf of Aden. and everyone blame on the Somali. Because they are largely lawless.
Maybe not all the crimes are done by the Somali, but based on the attack that happened before, people just think all the ship attack are from the Somali.

#2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7810402.stm
Title: Island's new 'green' school opens
Who: Glyn Roberts
What: The school's electric mostly are through its solar roof tiles and wind turbine. They hope they can use this to protect the environment.
Where: Anglesey
When: 5 January 2009
Sinificance: They built the new Ysgol y Graig which located on a busy estate near the town center. And they think this could greatly reduce the number of cars delivering and collecting the children, improving road safety and leading to a significant drop in CO² exhaust emissions.
Bais: I don't think there is any bias....

THE ANSWER OF THE DANCE QUESTIONS

2008-11-17T00:34:00.000-08:00

How did the site of DongMen alter the choreography that you created in the classroom?

At first, after we saw the flower of DongMen, we decide to change out choreography into a dance without any movement on the ground. Anyway, at last, we didn't change the choreography. We just put the plastic bag on the ground where we were going to lay on.

•Now that you know this site better; If you were to go back to Dongmen what would you add or subtract from your choreography to make it stronger?

I think we can on the side of the wall instead of sanding in front of the camera. And we can also enter the shot by coming out from the stairs that was beside the hallway.

The current event [Humanities homework ] BOLG#3

2008-11-13T23:33:00.000-08:00

The news is from: http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081114/78/19fd3.html
This article is about a pig that weight 960 kg was killed by a cobra. The pig feeder Mr. Chen feed the pig in order to join a match, and on day he want to feed the pig before he went inside, he saw a cobra slip out of the door. And then after a few days the pig was dead. An the veterinarian siad that the pig's leg was swollen and he found two little hole on the pig's leg.
I think the significance of this article is that if there are some bush around your house, be careful of the cobra.

The BRAINZZZZZZ Enery bar

2008-11-13T22:31:00.000-08:00

Today is our first time to make the energy bar. Be honest, our bar taste good!![except it's a little too sweet for me.]
The only thing that doesn't work in our bar is the honey. We thought we stuck the bar together with the honey, but actually we can't. So, we have to think about what thing can make the whole thing into a shape of bar. I think the maltose might work or we can use the chocolate, too.
The thing that work are the chocolates, dry bananas, oatmeal, peanuts and cranberries. Chocolate really can stick the things together.
Our group works pretty well I think, Ray give the direction, then Lauren and I to the thing he told use to do. Melody takes the picture for us, in order to put on our web side. We all have a job, and I think we all work together really well!! And this is the teamwork!!!!

The current event [Humanities homework ]

2008-11-06T23:23:00.000-08:00

The news:http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081106/2/18yo1.html
Title:
This article is about Obama won the America presidential election, he is the First African American president in American history. And the thing that about Obama, like where did he go in hie childhood.
The significance of the article is that Obama is the first African American president. ^0^

The current event [Humanities homework ]

2008-11-02T00:50:00.000-07:00

The news:http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081102/78/18pc1.html

It is about Democratic Progressive Party【DDP】is going to have a parade fight with Mr. Chen[I don't know how to spell his mane] who is from the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits. Because the chairman of DDP said that she wants to let the world know that Taiwan can't stand using economy to change the supermacy. The other people said that he thinks Taiwans supermacy is losing and our country are been selling, so he wants people to stand up and let China know that we are not happy about this.
The significance of this article is that why will DDP wants to have this parade.
I don't think I have saw any bias in this article.

Debate

2008-09-29T00:17:00.000-07:00

In the debate, I am on the nonliving side. I thought our points are really good that they won't have any thing to argue. But I'm wrong. The points that they said can hit back what we said, and they have their reasons too.
Maybe the point " The nonliving thing can not grow" will appear on the next science class. But I'm really looking forward to the thing that will happen in the next science class.

What is the "rule" for living things?

2008-09-25T01:06:00.000-07:00

I think the " rule " for living things is that it have DNA and it can GROW.
If a thing can not grow by itself , I don't think the thing is living. For example : The plants are living things, and they can grow. But, look at the wooden table. It can't grow. It will look the same if you put it for 100 years. So the table is not a living thing.
Therefor, my "rule" for the living things is GROW.

2008-09-23T00:17:00.000-07:00