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The last Samurai

2009-05-14T18:49:00.000-07:00

This movie are talking about when Japan is in Meiji Restoration, The formation in 1866 of the Satsuma-Chōshū Alliance between Saigō Takamori, the leader of the Satsuma domain, and Kido Takayoshi, the leader of the Chōshū domain, built the foundation of the Meiji restoration. These two leaders supported the Emperor Kōmei (Emperor Meiji's father) and were brought together by Sakamoto Ryoma for the purpose of challenging the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate (bakufu) and restoring the emperor to power. On February 3,1867, Emperor Meiji ascended the throne after Emperor Kōmei's death on January 30, 1867. This period also saw Japan change from being a feudal society to having a capitalist economy and left the Japanese with a lingering Western influence.

After this movie I feel Japanese are so brave, they can suicide when the enemy control the war. And I think Nathan Algren are very cool either, he abandon the techonogy weapon, to help Bushido to fight the war, althoght at the end they all die, but I still think he is very cool.

Climate Change

2009-03-23T22:19:00.000-07:00

Climate change is upon us, and the problem is here stay. But it is still in our power - as individuals, cities and government - to influence just how serious problem will become.

In the last twelve months, the climate change debate has taken a dramatic turn. The release of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and the Stern Review report on The Economics of climate change. At the same time, it is now less then just 18 month s before nations must agree on a new and fully formed climate treaty under the UN Framework Convention on climate change in Copenhagen in late 2009.

Bizarre food in Taiwan

2009-03-19T00:20:00.000-07:00

We watched some video in Taiwan social study class, the video we watched is a guy who ate lots of different countries food. He came to Taiwan, and eat lots of Taiwan snack, he ate steak tofu, and fried tofu, I think he really like eat.

Smash Day!!!! (Mar 4)

2009-03-05T04:41:00.000-08:00

Why is a drawing a sketch an important part of the scientific method and why do you always neglect this step!?!?

Drawing a sketch is important because it can make your idea get more clear, like you can draw or write it out your opinion, so if you forgot your idea, you can look at your sketch, and if you have more idea, you can add on your sketch, so it is important and useful.

The reason why we always neglect this step is because we are too irritable when we did our work, anyways we don't have enough to did our work, so we just skip sketch part, to make working time longer.

What happened to Jaguar Paw ?

2009-03-02T16:58:00.000-08:00

We watched a movie call Apocalypto in class, at the end Spanish came in, and Jaguar Paw, his wife and two kids walked in to forest.

I think after they walked in to forest, they will start to make his group back, and then try to walk far away to spanish, and don't let mayan people and spanish catch them. So maybe 10 years after, Jaguar Paw's two son be a man, and take lots of wife, and his group will be powerful after 1 century. Then they can bite mayan people and Spanish. Then they start to use guns or something are very technology to capture other country and make Aztec civilization bigger and bigger.

200 years after, Aztec civilization is the biggest country in the world, they control all Europe and have 639403924 of people in Aztec, and all the people have to prostrate Jaguar Paw everyday, that's the religion in Europe.

But in AC 1800 there is a country call Taiwan, they throw two atom bombs in Europe, and all the Aztec people all sick and die.

Mayan Technology vs. Mesopotamia civilization

2009-02-13T18:43:00.000-08:00

similar -

Both of civilization had closer geography, and they both had a king to control commoner, so commoner will not rebellion.

different - Although both of civilization had king, but there rules had kind of different, like Mayans king = priests, and only priest were allowed inside of the temples.

News of Obama

2009-01-21T00:06:00.000-08:00

President Barack Obama, soon after his inauguration Tuesday, sought a delay in tribunals for inmates at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to allow a review of the process.

Military prosecutors asked the court to order "a continuance in the proceedings" to May 20, The Washington Post reported. The motion was made in the case of five men charged with masterminding the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Prosecutors made the same motion in the proceedings against a young Canadian. That case was scheduled to resume Wednesday.

The military tribunal procedure was created by the Bush administration to deal with what official said was an unprecedented situation. But the tribunals have been subjected to long delays and revisions in legal proceedings going up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The new administration could opt to try the remaining defendants as criminals in U.S. court or in military courts-martial as war criminals.

I think Obama is a good president and his decision is great, because he is trying to lessen prejudice by making all criminals are treated the same in the same courts. I think this plan will work.

smash Day!!!! (Jan 4)

2009-01-05T04:01:00.000-08:00

Today is smash day, we played marble and tried to made highest score, and the prize is two free answer on next test.

I think I'm active learner because I learn some of knowledge in this game, like the angle of incidence equal the angle of reflection, and we also played a lot, so thats why I think I'm active learner.

I also think I'm a critical thinker and problem solver because in our group we think lots of idea to make the highest score, and we have lots of discussion, although in the end we didn't win the game, it still very fun.

current event

2008-11-21T17:47:00.000-08:00

Faced with a global financial downturn, this article is about shopping coupons, because our government want to excite economy, so they want to give 3600NT for every man, woman, and child, but Wall Street think this is a harebrained scheme, this is the article they write : President Ma Ying-jeou's popularity ratings are in the low 20s, and perhaps he hopes this will distract voters from the fact that so far on his watch, GDP growth is contracting and the stock market is down by over 50%. The Taiwan government predicts the voucher will boost GDP by some 0.64% next year, but color us skeptical. Wavering consumers are more likely to spend the coupon on things they'd buy anyway and save the "spare" money.

I think global financial downturn is very serious, so however Ma Ying-jeou or Chen Shui-bian or any president in other country can't avoid this event.

The article in WSJ ----- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122720272366944593.html

An article

2008-11-08T18:26:00.000-08:00

Please read a news article relating to Humanities. And answer the following questions :

1)What is the news article about?

2)What is he significance of the article?

3)Is there any bias (opinion) in the article?

This web side is the pictures about Obama watches election results with his family in Chicago, and he claims victory in front of a crowd of 240000 people at Grant Park.

I think those pictures are very good, and the most important is success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure's mind.

www.edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/07/behind.the.scenes/index.html

Smash Day!!!! (nov 4)

2008-11-04T04:01:00.000-08:00

During smash day's activity, although we didn't win the game, it still happy no boring lesson.^^

The activity is build highest tower for 5 peace of A4 papers and tapes, our team ( Tim & Connie) I forgot how long we made, but it still topple, in this activity, I think be fun is the most important!! ^^ and about tower, I think the bottom might be steady.

Liquid Column

2008-10-10T19:13:00.000-07:00

Why did some object sink while some objects floated ? Why did some object float in the middle of the column ?so..... don't watch at Kevin chi, watch the liquid column, there is some pens or... are in the top of liquid, and watch there is an eraser under the liquid.

Now I'm going to answer the questions, that's talk about tension, every liquid have each tension, so some of things will floated and some of things will sink , I have an example, needle can float on water, it's tension. So that's why pen can floated on the liquid.

Is air matter?

2008-09-22T22:48:00.000-07:00

What is matter? It's not take care of other one here, in this part means the thing you can touch it, it might be realize, so connect to our topic! Is air matter? Usually, air don't have any mass in your life, you can't feel it or touch it, but I still think air is matter, I have a example, when we blow up balloon, when it was very big, it will break, so it means balloon take a space, and have mass, so when there is lots of air in airtight of balloon, it will break, so I think air has matter, and have mass, but I think there is no volume in air, because everywhere has air, so it can't count if there has volume.