News of Obama

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)

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

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

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)

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

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?

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.