Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Tuesday's night homework.

1)I disagree that the life in Vietnam would be perfect if everyone will be equal. If everyone equal, then people life would be no purpose. They cannot try harder to make more money, keep their life slow down because of stress, or even become healthier. People lives in Vietnam will be meaningless and boring.

2)If I'm designing the society which every will be equal, I would make laws like this

_ High intelligent is require, same IQ as everybody else
_ High amount of income is require for every family/person to be equal
_ Study hard, make smart choice. Everybody must have smart choices in their life. Government will find out if they are not make smart choices.
_ High health level, everybody have to exercise 1-2 hours/ day.
_ Everyone will need to creative more in their real life and must be equal amount of creative.
_ Everyone will be equal in faces.Their face would be equal if they are equal to see, speak, smell, and hear. Not necessary to be beautiful or ugly.

3) I would invented the machine called "Catchup Machine". That machine will helps all people have less capable mentally, physically, and socially. That machine just basically is robot. It will teach those people to catchup with others in community/society.

4) I can see that people would be tired of being equal, whether better society or average society like in Harrison Bergeron. The smarter people would try to make revolution and overthrown the government like in Harrison Bergeron. The best way to solve these problem are everybody should not be equal, all of them should deserve fairness.

5)I believe that human nature would make some people dominate others. I believe it because even the government try to keeps people the same, some people must dominate others.

6)I feel similar to George and Hazel. When I was young, I watched TV a lot, so that distracted me from thinking and remember some things for long times.

I was used to listen to musics for long times, that distracted me a lot from thinking in creative ways.

There was one time that I divided the candies for me and my sister to keep it equal, my experience at that time similar to Captain Handicapper.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Tuesday night homework

Q1) Advertising influence the way that we use resource (consumption). Example, a lot of people on planet earth has been influence by ads of shoe company. It's make people go to store and buy their shoes. In order to produce those shoes, workers have to take rubbers, transportation requires fossil fuel. The companies produce ton of shoes all around the world, that's mean they must use a lot of natural resources and fossil fuels in order to make customer buy their products. If their ads are very interesting, people will spend a lot of money for their products. Advertisement is the method that makes people to buy companies' products and it influence the way that we spend money and use resources.

Q2: People in Vietnam or citizen of planet Earth are not really informed about the sustainable development issue, or how they use resource (consumption) in order to protect the earth. A lot of people are rich, some of them consider sustainable development issue is necessary for human plus how one of us uses natural resource/ resource, but some of them don’t. Poor people, they don’t have enough education to know about sustainable development issue and consumption. However, we can make a change to inform poor people, rich people, and other people about how sustainable development can bring benefit to the earth, also the way of using resources by advertise. Every year, one person watchs 40,000 advertises about the products of companies that release CO2 and hurt the mother earth a lot. If we can replace most of those advertises by inform people about sustainable development issue and consumption through advertisement (cartoon, facts, famous scientists talk,etc…). Then, everyone will have chances to considerer about sustainable development and consumption more seriously.

Q3)I do think me my friends might influence by the advertisement on how we purchase. Advertisement technique is very important for a company. Advertisement is like a secret weapon that hit the human desire. It's will make people spend money on that company products more depend on how the advertise look exciting or bad and also what they target at. Example, they use a lot of celebrity on Nike shoe, me and my friend might get influence because those skills of superstars are cool and it make us want to be like one of them.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Example of sustainable development

1) Interface Inc. : carpet company use the products that not harm the ecology and environment.

2) Solar Towers or Solar Farm: take energy from the sun, or renew and recycle the energy from it

3) Three Gorges Dam (China): it's produce hydrological electricity power to Chinese people.

4) Wind farm (Lower Saxony, Germany): it's group of wind turbine that stand in same place and produce electricity from wind together.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

My Immigration to US

My Immigration to US

My name is Adalrich Foerster and I’m Jewish. I’m come from Hamburg City north of Germany. Now I’m ninety five years old and live in New York city, NY. In September 1939, Adolf Hitler and his Nazis Party conquered Poland, World War II started. At that time, Jewish people were discriminated against every where that Adolf Hitler conquered. When my parents and I heard the news that Hitler would captured Jewish people and put them in concentration camps, we realized we would be treated badly if they got us. In order to stay away from Nazis, my parents contacted their best friend (they were my parents best friend since Germany was still in peace) to get us out of Germany. They were able to help one of us out of Germany. we went by fishing ship, because the Nazis police checked every fishing ship that left Germany.Because of that, my parents chose me to be the one that left Germany to immigrate to New York City, US, . When I heard that news, I felt half happy and half sad. I had to say good bye to my parents, relatives, and my friends. I wondered when I will meet them again. I was happy because I’ll be safer and can study in a US university to continue my atomic scientist dream, and help Allies develop their weapon to defeat the Axis power.

The day I left, I cried a lot and said good bye to my parents, relatives, and friends. On the fishing ship, I thought about my external migration. The trip from Europe to America, was very long . I’m still upset with push factors in Germany at that time, they moved me away my homeland. Those are political changes which took place in Germany. Democracy caused conflict and lead to World War II. Persecution is also important factor that pushed me way from my homeland because I’m Jewish. People said that Adolf Hitler hated Jewish people because he thought that we caused Germany’s defeat in World War I. I also thought about the pull factors that pulled me to New York City, things like economic opportunities. After I finished college in US, I made some money working for the Atomic Science Institute in NYC, and then I joined scientist group in US military. External migration to New York City also had positive affect on me and United States. I had better opportunities to live on free land which doesn’t discriminate against people because of their religions. United States was positively affected because of my immigration, I worked for them and developed their atomic bombs that helped them end World War II. Negative effects were that I still couldn’t find my parents, friends, and relatives, I think I lost them. I felt sorry for the negative effects on Nazi Germany, because of my immigration, they lost an atomic scientist like me. If I worked for Nazis, I could have help them develop the atomic bomb or even help them build it.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Message From Mother Nature

Main point

• Globe warming up because of human burning fossil fuels (CO2) and release it to the atmosphere and trapped by green house affect. That caused weather extremes around the world.

Vocabulary words
• Reluctant (adj): uncertain, hesitate.
• Dispute (noun): an argument, or argue.
•Skeptic (noun): the person who is not believe about something, disbelieve.

Difference
• Weather is how atmosphere in one place behave in short period of time, but climate is how atmosphere behave in long period of time.

Extreme Weather
• Torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan,caused flooding.
• Heat destroyed millions of acres of wheat and sparked wild fires that killed dozen.

Experience
•I had experience with extreme weather when I was in Nghe An. In Nghe An, when I was four years old, rain kept falling until flood on the countryside that I used to live. I lived in my grandparent house at that time. When the level of the water on farmfield rise, a lot of farmer traveled by boat to collect the paddy that floating, I was sitting on a boat with my uncle and watched him collected floating paddy. It was very dangerous, because I can easily fall off to water at anytime, but I love to be adventurous.

Definition

•Perception (noun) : appreciate something to be morals,lesson.

My Perception
My perception about global warming is the human develop their lives and economic so quick, that make the temperature of global rise quickly. Human use vehicles to help their life and release to much CO2 to the atmosphere, and green house affect will traped the heat. Over years, that heat raised temperature of the earth and caused flooding, forest burned by heat, rains a lot.