Carbon Footprints

It is important because that carbon footprint is really a big thing to wards the global warming which is the huge problem for the whole citizen on the Earth. And Carbon footprint produce when people's energy release and gave out hot oxygen get together to become a huge hot air. And we always open air conditioner and also that we get really hot under the sun playing basketball didn't clean our self us and went in to the building and it contains heat. Makes it even more way more pollution than a air conditioner did. It actually doesn't really have to do with school this area specifically. It is way more to do with the whole community on the Earth since that Global Warming is getting become a really important issue to the whole world. If we think about it, its just a small thing to do always open the window and the fan if you still feel hot bring some water with ice in it. Come back in the classroom and clean your self up don't be really sweaty and stinky. Just do some simple things like this it will makes the whole world different with now. Don't u feel really proud of it ? And the reason why they will get impressed is because is just a really small action to do, just need to pay A LITTLE bit of the attention on it. It will make a huge difference.

The first thing I am going to do is that I will talk to Mr. Butcher, and talk to the artist in our school and we can create a day of it and like set to be more like a school policy. I would talk to Mr. Butcher at first and ask for his opinion and then suggest this to the SRC and put it on the new letter to let the parents see. And maybe we can talk to the science teachers and research about Carbon's natural and the chemical reactions. We might can do a science fair and ask parents to come.

What adults can learn from kids

1. What does Adora say about adults listening to young people?
She said a point about that "even your an adult, you shouldn't be afraid of making a really ridiculous dream about something as a child". And that sometimes adult might have to have that kind of dream to actually sees the true side of the fact. Also that "Children and adults should learn from each others."

2. What do you think about her argument?
I think is a really nice speech. All the ideas that she came up are those ideas that adults will never actually realized what they already lost. Its all from a little 12 years old girl's eyes of this girl. (but she is super intelligent though.)

3. What parts do you agree with? Why?
I agree with the parts that she said about that the adult is afraid to dream about little cute things as children does because they thinks that people will think they are childish. In my view, I don't feel any of these. In our age, teenager, is a period of age that from a child turns to a actual man. But I never felt that way about saying anything childish and what to be a shamed of. Cause sometimes childish and pure makes people see the truth of things. Just like in the story "The Emperor's New Clothes" in the nearly end, the little boy just points out the view that the king is actually not wear ANY clothes. But because those adults are thinking too pretentious so after all turn them be blind about what they see.

4. What parts do you disagree with? Why?
I think sometimes we still might have to hesitate about our dreams. Don't get too much hope about it, cause sometimes it just won't work in that situation. And another part is that adults can SOMETIMES still dream about whatever. But that doesn't mean you should be dreaming about whatever ALL THE TIME>

5. Describe what makes Adora such a confident public speaker. Is she an example of why adults should listen more to kids?
Trust. Trust makes all things work. Her parents give her space to do things that she likes and thinking about ideas and reading books. Even bought her a nice computer. That shows how much trust and love there is in all these things her parents do for her. And also she is a model of that adults should listen to kids more. Adults should trust kids. "Let go when they need to support when they have to."

Stop till you drop

How did it feel to have more or less money than other people in the class?
I feel fantastic, cause I am the richest one. And because of that I can buy anything I want without any control and worried, and even i kept these money I can still use it other time. Its more free for me to do things I want when I have to, cause the money is always be there.

How did it feel to see what you could and could not afford at the Global Mall?
I am the could once, even I got so much money, I can still buying things that is real cheap even no coast, so that I can save more to be thrifty. And not like some of the middle class or lowest class, that have to worried about how many coast this how many coast that, I can use it frequently.

How many of you could not afford education? What would your lives be like if you could not go to school?
You life will be like hell, you will not have the bright side of the view. You will only do stuff or jobs that is not according to education like those work that using your strength. And you will definitely be poor, so rather spend more money on the education than no have been educated, I will choose education it brings me a better life.

How would it feel to have to choose between food and health care?
I would choose health care, cause that if you got really bad food but you can still eat it and cover your hunger then thats good enough, but if you rather choosing eat super delicious food and get sick but no money to pay the health care I would definitely choose health care. More save.

How many of you have ever been very sick or gone to a hospital or had friends and family who have? What would your life be like now if you had been unable to get medical care?
You will have to pay everything by your self and other family members during this time have to be careful for using money, and if you are going to get a surgery then it will be even worse.

What were the impacts caused by people with fewer Global Mall Dollars, and what were the impacts caused by people with more Global Mall Dollars?
So the range between the rich people and the poor people will be more and more different, and few years later, just from the clothing you easily tell who is from which class that is what happened if we keep doing that.

Discuss the fact that roughly one-fifth of all people worldwide survive on
less than $1 (U.S.) a day – how does this limit their choices, and what are the environmental, social, and global security implications of this?
Every day 1 dolors. That is the worse thing I never heard. They have to choose between environment, and people and also pressure of the people beside them. And these poor people is going to slow down the world economics cause if you don't help them they won't turn it good. They will still been like how they are, and more and more people become like that. The world economy is going to be bad.

When you were choosing what to buy, did you think about the environmental impact? For those of you in the lowest income range, did you have a choice about the environmental impact you produced? If not, how did it feel to
not have a choice?
Yes, because I am a student, we always want to by what we want and plus we are teenage students we got comparing going on everyday. If one day you loose it, you will find better things and WIN it back next day this is how we survive till now. And we are stuck in this small bubbles it makes us don;t have any choice to choose, we can only follow how the POP wave goes. It makes our life tough than others like adults. For the clothing part.

Amy Goodman

1. Synopsis: what is this interview about?
Its about that the violence which happened in the family, cause of their father doesn't have work, or lost their work, so they put their anger on their families like their wife and children.

2. How is Eve Ensler being a global citizen? What is she doing to make a difference in the world (give examples)?
In her own personal life she been treat in violence too, when she was a child, but when she grow up she start to telling and writing lots of books to talk about this and always telling me people not to do it, and help them.

3. Give one example of how girls can end up in harmful situations because of societal pressures "to please" others.
Int he video we can see that the girls will want a boy to be their boyfriend, maybe sometimes is because they want to be popular or cause the boy is really rich, something like that, so they will allow those boys to do something they don't want and they know is not right for example like sex.

2. What do you think are the connections between The Story of Stuff and Eve Ensler's story about the girl in the factory making Barbie doll heads?
I think is really poor, cause we can see from the story of stuff video, that 99% of things that we made is trash, and this young girl in china have to make lots of them in one day for surviving and helping her parents and just for those girl in the first world to have them, and don't know what and where does it came from.

Pottery

In the few weeks ago, we went on a field trip to the 蛇窯, which is mean a place which they make the china and clay out of mud. It's name is "snake" cause that it got a Dragon before in china and is only for king's plate and things, so they called it snake so it won't be against the king. We went there and there are different kind of kiln. There is alots a big huge one which is seriously called SNAKE is the biggest one in taiwan, it is a only few kiln which actually left didn't been distorted. After we view all the tools and kilns we start to do our own plate or things by clay. They gave us a piece of clay and tell us that keep punch it till it become a ball shape, and however don't make it got the line between each fold cause otherwise when they are burning it, it will explode.

Thank you Mr. Bernard

Today, there is a student came from 宜蘭's college to our school and gave a presentation about the disappearing land "Kiribati". He was from Kiribati this small country (land) in the north east of New Zealand. He is the few lucky children that been chosen and came to Taiwan for studying. His dream is to save his country from sinking and become then "future president".

At first, he explain about his country's land forms and like nature resources a little bit. He said that in his country people don't need money for living they can plant crops and make goods for them selfs. Unlike the people in Taiwan, every thing needs money. And also that they can live by them self, just like if they get lost in a place that without people living, they can still survive. He also mentions that their race are apart of our aboriginal people, they are really a like. And he said a most important thing is about the "coconut tree". He said that their people there made a lot of things with coconut trees, like their houses and their daily drinks.

Then second part of his presentation, he is talking about why is this land going to be disappear in 20 more years. The problem is coasting by global warming. Kiribati doesn't have high mountains, the highest point of this land is 2 meters above the sea level. And most of the people build their houses beside the sea so that they can go fishing and stuff more easily, and they already live really happily for years. But because of the global warming casting the ice in the south pole been melted, so that the average sea level become higher, and this poor Kiribati will be covered by water. And those people can no longer live there of course.

What his second dream is that, he can convince people in Kiribati to leave as soon as possible. Cause the nature is not going to be better anyways, so the only way to solve this problem is leave and get a new home and start all over again.

In the end, we can still see that he loves his land and his country a lot. But now the nature is taking it away, he just hope his family and people will be safe and fine with it.

Thanks for Mr. Bernard Murdoch for coming here and teach us about it, that makes me and also other student feeling that we still got lots of things to improve and stuff to learn in this world, thank you for coming, thank you very much.

Renaissance test

1. What historical event (the fall of a civilization) took place in 395 AD to usher in the middle ages?
395 AD fall of Roman Empire.
1000 year Medieval ( Dark age) period.

2. What was society and culture generally like in the middle ages?
There is no middle class, is only really rich people who got high education, and wealth. Or that the people is really really poor, they got no education and wealth. They got really low art educated and so does music, so basically there is no new things coming out from this part of the culture.

3. Renaissance means _______The rebirth and the ideas of ancient greece and rome.________.

4. What was being brought back during this time?
The cultures, and the soul of the art.

Define:
5. Contraposto - The shadow that shows really clear of the white and black.

6. Chiaroscuro - the drawing of light and shade in a picture, or the effect produced by light and shade in a place.

7. The painter of the Mona Lisa was _______Leonardo da vinchi_________

8. The man who sculpted the Pieta and the Sistine Chapel was ____Michel Angelo_____

9. What is different about Renaissance painting compared to painting during the Dark Ages?
Huge difference, Dark ages - God, religion. Renaissance - man is strong, mankind.
10. What is meant by the concept of "Humanism?"
Believe in that Man is strong.