Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Message from mother nature?

1. The main idea is about the damages and real world example of global warming.

2.
  • Monsoon rains: The rain that fall down in the specific reason.
  • Theorized: Tell people about the fact.
  • Dispute: The conversation that people have a gainsay
  • Vulnerable: Means we can oppose, like assailable.
3.
  • Weather: We use it to talk about the state of the atmosphere in terms in the general way.
  • Climate: The weather of a specific area.
4. I didn't have any experiences about extreme weather
5.
  • Torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan, cause flooding in decades and killing more than 1500 peoples and uprooting millions.
  • In Russia, a record-breaking heat wave along with a drought destroyed millions of acres of wheat and killed dozens.
  • At the US, flooding battered New England, Tennessee,  Arkansas and Oklahoma, while record-breaking heat wave baked the entire eastern part of country.

6. Perception: Means to realize, to recognize, to understand, to conceive.

7.  For me, it's terrible. It may make us can not live in the Earth in the future. Because it will be too hot, plants can not live, animals will be extinct. But i think that's not all our fault. Why? Because people use fossil flues to serve our life. And we can not stop breathe, but when we breathe we released carbon dioxide, so it's necessary. How about vehicles ? Gas is useful and make your vehicles work well. You may say that we can use sunlight energy for vehicles but, how about the poor country? Can they buy it? So they use gas. The important thing that how much we use it and have some ways to fix it such as turn off the lights if we don't need to use.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Map project ;]

 (I created this land because I thought about the poor people were hungry, they need the food to eat and water to drink but they can't)
Welcome to my imaginary Food and Drinks land. My world has three countries: FRUITS, MILK and COOKIES. Begin with Milk, there are many river here. Some big river are Milk.R, Coca-cola.R, Medicine.R and Juice.R. Milk river is the biggest river in the country. It is made of fresh milk and also many cows live there. One of the most important river is Medicine river. It can cure all of the diseases of human and animals. Juice river is very interesting too. After the meal, everybody can go to the Juice.R and drink juice. If they want to drink which kind, they would say the name of the juice they like and they can drink it also. In 2111 Coca-cola river was digged to satisfy the requirement of the people who live in Milk land. Go next to Fruits land, this land grow many kind of fruits. The popular fruits are apple, banana, grape, strawberry, watermelon. And the final land is Cookies land. In Cookies land, mountains are made of ice-cream and pie. Trees are made of cookies. They also created their own language calls "Cookimese". All is the theme of my work.

Story:
Food and drink is happy like a fairy world. Before, the world just had two countries were Fruits and Milk. In 2010, one guy of the Fruit land adventured around his world and found the new land. He's Cookie so the land was found by him would have his name, Cookies land. After Cookie found the land, many people moved to there to live. They very liked their new land because they can eat ice-cream and pies, their old home didn't have any ice-cream or pies. The Food and drink milk became the fantastic world but one day, war broke out between Fruit and Milk. King of Fruit said that the Juice.R was belong to him because the river must used fruit to made the juice but there were no fruit in the Milk land. The war stopped at 2079 and the Fruit land had haft of the Juice.R. Fruit land found the new seed and named it is Strawberry. They grown it in the middle of the land but that area, there were many hot rain so Strawberry couldn't grow up and then became the bad seeds. Some people brought ideas to another place and hoped the Strawberries could fastly grow up and gave them the good fruit. At that time, people ate the bad strawberries and then had the disease. And many of them moved to the area had the Medicine.R to cure their disease. In 2100, Fruit expanded commercial with Cookies. People in Cookies gave people in Fruit ice-cream, pies, and cookies. Then the people of Fruit land would give them the fruit. In 2111, Coca-cola.R was digged like the introduction I have said. At the year 2150, In the Cookies land had the volcano forced. The chocolate ice-cream melted, it didn't kill anybody but people didn't want to live near the volcano because they wouldn't want to get fat. One day, fast food appeared. People very like it 'cause it was strange and delicious. From the time the Cookies land created, the country didn't have any leader. In 3000, they election to the queen of them.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

What I have learned about myself/culture/or someone else ?

Because of the project, I can learn many things about me when I was young, my family, my country and something about my friends.

Vietnam is a beautiful country and has many special things. It has 3 regions: North, Mid and South. My family is from the South. And I love Vietnamese food so much because it very delicious and copious. From the North, my favorite food is Com. From the Mid I love almost all of food (For ex: Bun Bo, Cha, Banh Nam,...). And the South is Banh Beo, Banh Xeo,... In Tet we have Banh Chung, it's a square glutinous rice cake (filled with green bean paste and fat pork) and Banh Tet is the same but it has a different shape from Banh Chung. Let's talk about the clothes, here are some traditional clothes of Vietnam: Ao Dai, Ao Tu Than, Ao Ba Ba, when the women wear them, they will make the women more pretty. At the local school we can stay at home in some traditional holidays of Vietnam.

In class, some friends that come from other country such as Minami and Kristine. I knew something about American and Japanese. Such as I knew how to say "hello" in Japanese. It's kon'nichiwa. And knew where are their countries on the map. From my family side, my mom told me about my grandfather at both sides when they went to war. She told me about her dad's gone when she were a little baby and her mom become mad when her mom lost my grandfather. That is one of many reasons make me hate war. And she told me that when she born me, Vietnam don't allow the people who work for state to born more than 2 children. I have 2 brothers. That means I'm the 3rd. She born me and the hospital where she worked punished her. The punishment was my mom must work for the hospital for 5 years and didn't receive one's salary. But mom hoped to get one baby girl so she accepted that punishment :) I know my family love me a lots and I love them too. I also love my home land is Vietnam.

Study Guide =]

Here are things we have learned in class:

 -Geography: We study about people, places and environment. 
 -Culture: The attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group, organization or country.
 -Map: A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
 +Political (Countries)
 +Physical (Physical feature)
 +Thematic (Population, climate, ...)
 -5 themes of geography:
 +Human/environment interaction: Humans and the environment adapt to one and other.
 +Location: Exact position based on long/latitude.
 +Place: Physical and human characteristics of an area.
 + Movement: Movement of ideas, human, goods.
 +Region: An area with similar physical and human.
 -6 essential elements:
 +The world in spatial terms
 +Places and regions
 +Phusical systems
 +Human systems
 +Environment and society
 +The used of geography
 -Jobs and Tools:
   *Jobs:
 +Land surveyor
 +Location analyst
 +Urban plamer
 +Climatologist
 +Cartographer
   *Tools:
 +GPS
 +GIS
 +Remote sensing
 +Compass
 +Irrigation system