Sunday, February 22, 2009

Paul Baumer

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.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Submarine SMASH Day Reflection

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.