Cindy's Blog

How do electrolytes work in our body?

2009-05-24T04:44:00.000-07:00

Electrolytes are substances that become ions in solution and acquire the conduct electricity. Also electrolytes are present in human body, the balance of electrolytes in our bodies is essential for normal function of our cells and organs.

The electrolytes are measure by doctors with blood testing include sodium, potassium, chloride, and bicarbonate.

1. Sodium(Na)

Function of Sodium: (1)The water regulation in the body, since the water goes where, it is excreted by the kidney, and water follows. (2)It help the electrical in the body, allowing muscles to fire and the brain to work.

Hypernatremia, if there is to much sodium in your body, then you will dehydration, that is cause by illnesses with vomiting or diarrhea, excessive sweeting from exercise or fever, or from drinking somethings that has too high concentration of salt.

Hyponatremia, if there is too little sodium in your body, that might be cause by water intoxication, that you drink too much water, then it dilutes the sodium in the blood and overwhelms the kidney's compensation mechanism, or by a syndrome of inappropriate anti-diuretic hormone secretion(SIADH).

2. Potassium

Potassium is the most concentrated inside the cells of the body. It allows muscles and the brain to function.

Hyperkalemia, if there is too much potassium in your body, you will have heart rhythm problem.

Hypokalemia, if there is too little potassium in your body, that is because the body loses too much potassium from vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, and medications such as diuretics or laxative. It often seen in diabetic ketoacidosis, where potassium is excessively lost in the urine.

What is lightning? Why does wearing rubber shoes help you during a storm?

2009-05-20T19:53:00.000-07:00

When flashlight switch on, the terminals of the battery are connected over the light bulb. The connection makes a voltage go over filament in the light bulb. The voltage makes the charge from a side that has the higher electrical potential energy to the side that has the lower electrical potential energy. When the moving charge defeat the resistance, the electrical energy change into other modes of energy, the light. When the electricity go over the tungsten, the filament will issue the light and heat.

Because the rubber shoes can disconnect the electricity, it's a material that isn't easily, hard to let a charge go through is called insulator. Insulator make the electricity more safety, they can keep the charge away from our body.

What would a day in your life be like without electricity?

2009-05-10T06:31:00.000-07:00

A day without electricity!!

I wake up, go into the bathroom, I am going to wash my face, their will be no water come out.

I want to pee, I can't flush the water.

We need the motor to pump water, the motor need the electricity.

I eat the breakfast without heating using the microwave oven.

The microwave oven need the electricity be the power.

I have to walk or ride a bike to school, the school bus won't come.

The cars, scooters, motorcycles, buses need the electricity to start the engine.

I arrived to school, I have to climb over the wall.

The first doll of the school need electricity to open.

We can't turn on the AC, the fen and the light.

They all need electricity.

Also the teachers need to use the books to teach us, the computer is not working, and the projector is not working either.

The students can't use the computer to research the information.

The lunch will taste bad, because the refrigerator doesn't work.

And after school, I have to walk bake home.

We need to use the candles, there is no light. I can't watch TV.

I CAN"T DO MY HOMEWORK! !

The computer doesn't work.

I can't take a shower!!!

I can't be a life without the electricity.

File-sharing site founders jailed

2009-04-18T23:46:00.000-07:00

File-sharing site founders jailed

There are four men who founded an online website that is file-sharing website, they have been sentenced to

a year in the prison. This website is called Pirate Bay, there are twenty-two million people on the Earth are

using this website to download the music, films, computer games, and this is illegal. This website is the

highest profile file-sharing in the world, and this it's set up in 2003. The men have also pay £3m to who produce the music and games.

After Afghanistan quakes

2009-04-18T22:48:00.000-07:00

Clean-up after the Afghanistan quakes

There are at least twenty-one people were died in the Afghanistan quakes, the worst place that get hit are in the

mountains, and that area is very difficult to got help. There are at least four village had being serious damage, and also

there are about two hundreds houses being damage. Their house are not stronger enough, so even the small quakes can

make a lot of damage. People are helping, but there are still some people are under the house that haven't got out.

British troops are moving out from the Iraq

2009-03-31T06:55:00.000-07:00

moving out from the Iraq

The British troops are being to evacuate from Iraq, six year after the American intrude this country. There are about four

thousand soldiers are still in the south of Iraq for patrol. The American troops are going to take those jobs and the control

on Tuesday. Most of the British troops are going to leave by 31 May. The 31 May is the official date for the end of the

fighting. In 2003 descent, the leader of Iraq Saddam Hussein forced out of the power. The Major General Andy Salmon

has been in charge of the British troops, he tell them "I can put my hand on my heart and say we've finished this right," "We've helped deliver security, we've set the conditions for social and economic development and I think we can leave with our heads held high."

The school drown by the waters

2009-03-31T06:15:00.000-07:00

school flood by waters

In America, people in the state of North Dakota are resisting the worst deluges in more than a hundred years after the Red rose be the dangerous levels. The leader of the teacher said the strong flood wall has been toppled down in the early hours Sunday. The soldiers from government is now helping repair the damage to the flooded school.

Service for German school victims

2009-03-25T06:44:00.000-07:00

Service for German school victims

The news is happened in Germany, earlier this month, there is a teenage gunman killed fifteen people, including nine student

and three teachers. The gunman who killed the people was Tim Kretschmer, he is seventeen years old, he use his father's gun

to killed people be fore he steal a car and drive nearby town, he was died when the police caught , he got a shoot-out.

People taken place to remember the fifteen people who got killed, the families write the letter to the pelicans, they think it most

to have a raw that the teenager can't got the gun.

Children killed in US plane crash

2009-03-25T06:18:00.000-07:00

Plane crash

The news was happened in Montana in America, there was a small plane crashed into a cemetery. The plane was bring people from California to the state for skiing holiday. When the plane crashed among 14 people killed, seven of the people who got killed were children. But I really don't understand why the small plane will crashed into a "cemetery".

It was happening at around 3:30p.m on the Sunday.

Bizarre food in Taiwan

2009-03-19T00:18:00.000-07:00

We watch the Travel channel. This time the Travel channel came to Taiwan and looking for the "Bizarre food". They found a lot of bizarre food that Taiwan has, Stinky dou fu, Fry dou fu, Dou fu with one thousand-years-egg, Chicken bottom, Uterus, Black bone, Coffin bread, Testicle......

- Dou fu with one thousand-year-egg: Cut the one thousand-year egg and Dou fu(haven't cook), some Green onion put them all together, then become the Dou fu with one thousand-year-egg. The foreigner thinks that this food is bad, and he don't like it. For me, I think that is not bad, I really like to eat the Dou fu that haven't cook, I think that tasted really tender, and the one thousand-year-egg is not bad too.

-Roast shrimp: In the movie, they catch the shrimps and roast them, and eat them. The foreigner thinks that is good. For me, the steps that I eat the shrimps is the same, but how I catch is different, I used the fishing pole and put on the bait, there is a big pool, and there are a lot of shrimps, the taste was good, because that just got caught, so they are very fresh.

-Testicle: It is the chicken-balls. For the foreigner, he thins that it taste really good, just like the milk jello put in the paper thin balloon, and it explode in his mouth. I like to eat the testicle so much, it taste so good, my grandma put it in the hot pot.

Living in Scotland around 1200

2009-03-17T05:50:00.000-07:00

The King don't have that much power, and the King is afraid that the nobles will united, and beat the King. So the King give the nobles land, and the nobles will give the tribute to the King, if one of the noble want to beat the King, then other nobles need to help the king.

There is many are going to the crusade, they are going to fight for the Holy land. So there are many knights and war at that time. People are very pool, and the king tell them that if they go to the crusade and they will give them land or money, so there are many people went to crusade.

People married for the money or the relation, the can't married the people that they love. When they get married, the women just for produce the kids.

Humanities

2009-03-11T07:08:00.000-07:00

Medieval or The Middle Ages. We think of knights in shining armor, lavish banquets, wandering minstrels, kings, queens, bishops, monks, pilgrims, and glorious pageantry. And when I think about Rome, the things is emperor. In the Rome the emperor is the ruler, but in the Middle Ages, the pope is more powerful than the king. These is related to the religion, the main religion for the depend on the emperor. For the Middle Ages, the main religion is Christianity. If there is a person that has some relationship with them, then they can't go to haven when they died.

When it was in the Rome, that was more peace, because all the Italy was govern by a emperor, a person. The Middle Ages had a lot of war, and King give many lands to nobles, knights..., the King didn't own the whole country.

Traveling Nitrogen passport

2009-03-04T18:37:00.000-08:00

1. Why didn’t everybody go to the same stations in the same order?

I think is because the dais won't give the same number to all of the people, that is same as the Nitrogen won't be the same thing at one time.

2. Did you go to the same station twice? If so, what does this tell us about cycles?

Yes, I do go to the same station twice, I went to the live plants. I think it tell us that the Nitrogen don't need to follow the cycle at all, it will change the step, but it still the Nitrogen.

3. Was there one station that seemed to have a lot of people at it? Why or why not?

Yes, I think the Atmosphere has more people at one time. I think that is because their is more people got Atmosphere number, that is same as their is more Nitrogen transform to the Atmosphere.

4. What do you think the point of this activity was?

Learn how does the Nitrogen transform to the different things, and how is the Nitrogen cycle works.

Feudalism

2009-03-04T08:02:00.000-08:00

Feudalism

In medieval Europe feudalism was the dominant form of political organization in medieval Europe. It was a level of social relationships wherein a noble lord granted land known as a fief to a free man, who in turn swore fealty to the lord as his vassal and agreed to provide military and other services. A vassal could also be a lord, granting portions of the land he held to other free vassals; this was known as "subinfeudation," and often led all the way up to the king. The land granted to each vassal was inhabited by serfs who worked the land for him, providing him with income to support his military endeavors; in turn, the vassal would protect the serfs from attack and invasion.

Benjamin Button TED talk

2009-03-03T03:31:00.000-08:00

He do the face like one step by one step, that was using the computer. They ant to make the face more older, but they want the same person. Their are many step they do this Scientific Method. Step 1: Admit you have a problem.

Step 2: Decompose the problem to the small pieces. Step 3: When you find the answer, you need to try again and again.

The Crusade

2009-03-01T11:47:00.000-08:00

First, the reason why there is Crusade is because before the Holy land is dominate by Arab, at that time all the things is find, the Christians still can went to Holy land for pray. But when the century 11 started, the Turk capture the Holy land, the Turk persecute the Christian and forbid Christians pray in there. The people in Europe herd a lot of Christian got persecute, they are very angry. The pope Urban ll had a meeting with the church people on 1095. 11. They want to bit the Islam, and get back the Holy land.

Blood Red Horse

2009-03-01T11:14:00.000-08:00

Will hate Gavin, and Gavin doesn't like Will, the things that happen between they, they tell their father Sir Thomas what they think. Will has a small horse, but he doesn't really like it, he wants a stallion, he tell his father when they are eatng the dinner, they have a deal, Will can just have one great horse until he is sixteen, and he can't let anythings happen to it, so he is going to pick his own horse.

River and Tide

2009-02-19T22:15:00.000-08:00

The movie - River and Tide I saw he put the icicle on the big stone, he do some thing kind of like art, I also saw him though the small stone, he use the wood, and make a small round house, and put it on the river, then the wood round house drift on the river. And I think there is a point- Time. He is try to tell us that" when the tine is over, nothing will left."

What I learn from the movie is the rive and time is really moving, I saw the natural environment is so beautiful, and the natural environment can control us.

The Knight

2009-02-18T17:29:00.000-08:00

In the Middle Ages there are wars, King and noble need some stronger soldier, so they will discipline the young boy. Discipline a knight need 14 years, before they become the knight, they have to attend the noble woman.Knights have to learn how to fight and so serve their liege Lord according to the Code of Chivalry.Knight should be brave and fearless in battle but would also exhibit cultured Knightly qualities showing themselves to be devout, loyal, courteous and generous.Knighthood in the Middle Ages was a long and arduous task. Knighthood was not bestowed purely because a young man was the son of a noble. The steps towards achieving a knighthood started with training as a page and then as a squire, also referred to as esquire.The Knights job in the Middle Ages centred around enhancing their Knightly skills in the use of weapons, horsemanship and medieval warfare. The knight in the lowest class in the noble, the often just have a small fief.

Blood rad horse

2009-02-17T04:47:00.000-08:00

I think the main character is Will and Gavin. They are brothers. Will like horse very much, he have a small horse, he like the horse, but then, what he really want to ride is a big and good horse. Gavin the oder bather of Will is mean. When Will is trying to write the big horse, then he call people go to watch Will, and laugh at him, Gavin says that Will ride the big horse just like a flea on a dragon. So than Will hate his oder brother Gavin.

I think in the chapter 2, I have the question, why is that a French aristocrat went to England can have the fief? Is

that the French and England are friends at that time ?

I learn that when the king died, then if the king has more than two sons, then his sons are going to fight( not really fight)

for the throne, and people start the decide the side.

Submarine SMASH Day Reflection

2009-02-11T05:53:00.000-08:00

1. Summarize --
--We use the telescope that is on the submarine try to look at the island on the sea.

-- The island is a box, there are somethings in side the box, and we are going to use telescope that we make to see, and answer.

-- Four mirrors, some paper, tape, Thick cardboard.

2. Reflect -- Scientists often make a hypothesis, test it, and then change (or modify) their design to make it work.

-- Three times

-- Fine the mistake and think again, and solve the mistake .

-- I will adjust the angel between the mirrors.

-- We will discuss and vote.

3. Tips and Suggestions
-- Make a plan first, try to find the angle between the mirrors, and use the paper to help you.

News

2009-02-08T00:47:00.001-08:00

The big fire in Australia Vast areas north of Melbourne, in the state of Victoria at Australia. There are tens of thousands of firefighters are extinguish the big fire, and there are heigh temperatures and the big winds. And the troop is going to help, but the died toll is still keep increase. Australia has been undergo the most hot in these ten years, the temperatures is reaching up to 47 degrees. The officer said the temperatures is dropping down. They can't control the fire until the rain come. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said: "This is an appalling tragedy for Victoria and because of that it's an appalling tragedy for the nation." They are some report said that many places are starting the fire.

News

2009-02-08T00:47:00.000-08:00

About the dolls

In America, there is a company. The company is making the dolls. The company already made a kind of doll called Sasha and Malia. The company is going to rename the dolls. Because the dolls name Sasha and Malia is same with the President Obama's children. And Obama's wife was not happy that the dolls has the same name with her kids.The company said the dolls said they weren't modelled on the first daughters but their names had suited the dolls.

China WebQuest reflection

2009-02-03T09:07:00.000-08:00

When I was doing the China WebQuest I think I am a Critical thinker and Problem Solver, Active learners.

I think Critical thinker and Problem Solver means that if you have the problem and you can solve by your self, with out asking anyone of the student or teacher, even your parents, and the main ideas that you think by your self, the things that you going more deeper,example in the China WebQuest, we will answer the questions on the mindmeister, and think more deeper, find the main idea that about China culture.

I think the Active learner is if you have any question then you will ask, sometimes you want to ask somethings that you want to learn more about, and you always be very active, and you always work hard, and what to get more things from the teacher. Example from China WebQues, I always ask the questions when I am not really sure, and I did ask a lot about the iweb, because that was my first time to use the i-web. I will ask the English problem sometimes, too.

I think this project teaches me a lot about the Chia culture, we do i-web and we solve the problem ourself, and we think is more helpful that we just read the books, because we did that ourself.

Video (3)

2009-01-12T06:57:00.001-08:00

They will let the people who has leprosy, they need to go a place that is just for them, because the normal people are afraid that they will contagious, and they look really scary, so the people don't like them.And they has an important race, harness the hours, run over the site about 9 times. There is no rules in the race, if you died in the race that is not someone killing you, there always has a lot of people that got hurt, or they died, that means they can use any ways that help they win, ether kill the people in the race. And if you won the race, you will be very glorious. The king will give a laurel that prove that you are the winner.

Humanities HW, about the video(2)

2009-01-08T06:00:00.000-08:00

What I learn from the video:

In the Rome, the slavery is very pitiful, they have to work very hard, otherwise the people will use the whip to hit the slavery, and the must to work until they die. When the Rome fight with other ship on the sea, they use the balls that has fire throw to another ship, and try to let their ship got fire, and they will use the ship to bump other ship, when they bump, they need to row more faster, that was really tired. The Roman always listen to the people that has power.

Humanities: Modern-Day Slavery

2009-01-06T09:59:00.000-08:00

Modern-Day Slavery

Many people can not feel that there are slavery in the wold, the slavery do somethings like pick sugar cane, make the charcoal, work as prostitutes. Where are they work, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Thailand, Mauritania, Sudan.

*Agency estimates that 45,000 women and children are smuggled into the United States each year with false promises of decent jobs. Instead, most find that their passports are stolen and they are forced to work as prostitutes or maids, on farms or in sweatshops.

Humanities HW, about the video

2009-01-06T09:03:00.000-08:00

What I learn in the Video:

There are two different kind of people, one is the romans, and one is Jews. Now the government is the Romans, and the government are very bad to people, they do what they want to. And there slavery, the people who must to die, they let them to be the slavery, and the Jews believe the Jesus, but the Roman believe their emperor.

Humanities news:Running away child got stopped

2009-01-06T08:57:00.000-08:00

"Two German children, aged five and six, have been stopped from running away to Africa get married"says

the police.They are three kids, Mika and AnnA-Bell,and her sister, is 7 yeas old. They are falled in love, they will want

to go Africa for the wedding is because they say there are warm. The want the wedding in there, I think they are too

fanny.Running away child got stopped

Humanities news:Jet crash in USA

2008-12-11T11:08:00.000-08:00

Jet crash in USA

There is a fighter jet killed at least 3 people, include a kid. And they need to find out the second missing kid. In the California (in USA) a plane hit the house, knock three house, and around 20 has be go away.

And the only person on the jet was through out from the jet, and the person now is in the hospital.

Humanities news:Major strike

2008-12-11T10:58:00.000-08:00

Major strike

There are thousands of people stopped working, because they want to against some of the government's decisions.

Why they want to against is because one day in the riots across, a teenager got shot and death by the police, on the Saturday. the people are mad at that. And many people got hurt in the strike.

Humanities news

2008-12-04T06:56:00.000-08:00

Cholera claims lives in Zimbabwe

This article is in the Zimbabwe, there are more then 400 people died, because they are sick,

a disease called cholera. They are a lot of people have to leave their house, to went to near the south Africa, the place that stet up the border for sick. And the cholera is infect by the dirty water, and there is almost no clean water in the country.

Humanities news

2008-12-04T06:26:00.000-08:00

Thailand airport protests ended

This article is about the election in Thailand Bangkok.

The people say that the government is step down, Because the prime minister lying to the people, the election is not fair, a month ago the protester led by the anti government, who control the airport still keep on waiting until the government step down.

Humanities news

2008-12-01T12:15:00.000-08:00

Police say India attacks are over

There are 7 place got the Armed groups attacked, on Tuesday, and hundred is be the hostage,

Indian soldiers, help the people to free, on Friday, and Between this they are more than 195 people was died.

now officials say they've regained control of all the buildings targeted by the gunmen.

Humanities news

2008-12-01T12:00:00.000-08:00

Rainforest destruction speeds upexperts says " The destruction of the Amazon rainforest has speeded up for the first time in four years"The trees cut more than 4,500 square miles of Brazil's tropical woodland from August 2007 to July 2008.

That mean they cut more than a half Wales, but the experts says maybe will be more bad.

Language Art

2008-11-22T04:48:00.000-08:00

The poem I choose is Neglect.

Form: There are 24 lines in this poem.

I think the reason why he use 24 lines is because he wants to tell us really clearly, and he write the step by step.

Speaker:

The speaker in this poem is the gardener. And the poem wants to tell us that don't forget to show consideration who

is important to you and don't hurt them, because if you keep do that one day they will wither. You must to

give the love.

Sound: fruit; hurt, pollen; gone, winter; remember, redder; cinders.

Imagery and Figurative Language:

- When apple boughs put in the wood-stove it smoking.

- When it finish smoking the gardener will forget the smell.

- When the gardener forgot the apple tree, it will die

- When the apple tree died the gardener will fire it

I am not a good kid at home, I didn't care my mom a lot, and I just make my mom tired, so I think poem let me know

that I need to give the love to my mom, don't just make her tired.

Humanities news

2008-11-21T21:47:00.000-08:00

Multi-million pound Congo appeal

In Congo they are about 250,000 people must to leaf their house, and move to the save place, because the soldier of

administration fighting with the revolt soldier. Aid workers say thousand of kids who are living in refugee camps need food and medicine, some of them are sick.

Humanities news

2008-11-21T21:28:00.000-08:00

California fire clear-up begins

There was a big fire, in California. The fire is died now, but the fire fighters are still looking at any hot spot that might light again. Hundreds of thousands of people need to leaf their house, and many of them wants damaged by the fire.

They don't the reason why their was a fire.

Humanities

2008-11-17T04:10:00.000-08:00

What jobs do people have?

In ancient Greece, the women usually didn't work, the reach women always just stay at home and watch the thrall.

The poor women will sew or weave and take them to the marker to sell. Some of the women was poor enough, they will try to sell food or spices.

The majority, 98%, were farmers or landowners; this would include the olive industry. Some jobs had to do with food handing, warehousing, markets........ Some jobs had to do with wood, marble, charcoal making, mining, animal related tasks and entertainment, and there are many slaves. Some people are merchant, or make cloth, selling of water, making of wine, transportation, artisans, artists, sculptors, priests.

Language Art

2008-11-16T03:28:00.000-08:00

The Elements of Poetry are :

1. Speaker: Voice

2. Imagery: what the words of the poem make the reader 'see' in their imagination.

3. Sound: Rhyme.

4. Form: The way the poem look.

Humanities news

2008-11-13T12:51:00.000-08:00

Third school evacuated in Haiti

Lest week the second school in Haiti was fall, 90 people was killed,No-one was hurt when a second school came down, but people scare when it started shaking.

Eucher Luc Joseph said: "It is construction with practically no cement, no iron. It has been built in total violation of regulations."

Humanities news

2008-11-13T12:45:00.000-08:00

Obama meets Bush at White House

Obama and Bash met at white house and they shook hand, they talk about two hour in white house, and Bush's wife was took Obama's wife walk around the white housr, the white house will become Obama's new home.

Humanieties

2008-11-13T11:28:00.000-08:00

Fat questions:

1. What is the relationship of Greece and Rome?

2. How do they study in Greece and rome?Do every one can go to school?

3. What kind of paint do they draw?Why?

4. What religion do they believe? What will they?

5. What food do they eat?

Language Arts

2008-11-13T11:09:00.000-08:00

CULTURE
-What is culture?

I think culture is symbolic, because culture rules virtually every aspect of your life,culture is where you live, how you live, where you come from, and your city's agriculture,

ex includes a society's arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, inventions, language, technology, and values.

-What cultures am I apart of?

Arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, inventions, language, and values.

-Is culture exclusive (can you be apart of many cultures)?
No.

-Do people have false assumptions about your culture?
No, I think people knew about Taiwanese culture.

-How is culture different from identity?

Culture is for all people, but identity is personal.

GLOBAL 20/20

2008-11-12T07:40:00.000-08:00

Education for all :

- Recalling that education is a fundamental right for all people, women and men, of all ages, throughout our world.

- Education can help ensure a safer, healthier, more prosperous and environmentally sound world, while simultaneously

contributing to social, economic, and cultural progress, tolerance, and international cooperation.

- Education is an indispensable key to, though not a sufficient condition for, personal and social improvement.

- Overall, the current provision of education is seriously deficient and that it must be made more relevant and qualitatively improved, and made universally available.

The big purpose is let everyone in this wold will not be the illiteracy.

ESPRAT & My Passport Country

2008-11-11T04:20:00.000-08:00

Humanities

1. What is the Economic (business) system?

Our country's business system is separated to tree branches, Level 1 business, Level 2 business, Level 3 business.

Level 1 business: The people make money by their labor, they get the products by nature resource,

Ex: agriculture, fishing, forestry. But now, this business become weak, because the young people go to

the big for working, and Taiwan added to the WTO is a big strike.

Level 2 business: The people make money by their technology, the Level 2 business is industry include manufacture

and construction. Ex:canned food industry.

Level 3 business: The people make money by their brain, like insurance, government, tourism, banking, retail, education, and social services. Ex: teacher, doctor, lawyer.

2. What does the Social system (daily life, classes, customs, etc.) look like?

Daily life: 1. Monogamy, you just can have one wife or husband. 2. To respect for seniority, you may respect to the

people who oder then you. 3.The sexual equality.

Classes: There is no classes in my social system, everyone is equality before the law.

Customs:In lunar calendar there is three important customs in Taiwan.

(1) Chinese New Year (Eve), at this day we will got some money from our families.

(2) Dragon Boat Festival, on this day we will have Dragon Boat race, and we will eat many Steamed rice dumpling.

(3) Moon Festival: On this day every company will give some gift to their personnel.

3. What is the Political (government) system? Who has the power?

The government are divide by 5 branches, such as highest level of the executive branch, Legislative Yuan.

The Examination Ministry or Examination Yuan, the judiciary,The Control Yuan.

And the people have the power. And everyone is equally.

4. What are the Religions? Describe them in detail.

There is no main religions in our country.

Religion	Members	% of total population	Temples & churches
Buddhism (佛教) (including Tantric Buddhism)	8,086,000	35.1%	4,006
Taoism (道教)	7,600,000	33.0%	18,274
I-Kuan Tao (一貫道)	810,000	3.5%	3,260
Protestantism (基督新教)	605,000	2.6%	3,609
Roman Catholic (天主教)	298,000	1.3%	1,151
Lord of Universe Church (天帝教)	298,000	1.3%	50
Maitreya Great Tao (彌勒大道)	250,000	1.1%	2,200
Tian De Jiao (天德教)	200,000	0.9%	14
Liism (理教)	186,000	0.8%	138
Syuan Yuan Jiao (軒轅教)	152,700	0.7%	22
Islam (伊斯蘭教)	58,000	0.3%	6
Tenrikyo (天理教)	35,000	0.2%	153
Universe Maitreya Emperor Jiao (宇宙彌勒皇教)	35,000	0.2%	12
Hai Zih Dao (亥子道)	30,000	0.1%	55
Confucianism (儒學)	26,700	0.1%	139
Church of Scientology (山達基教會)	20,000	<>	7
Bahá'í Faith (巴哈伊教)	16,000	<>	13
Jehovah's Witnesses (耶和華見證人)	6,223	<>	85
The Chinese Heritage and Mission Religion (玄門真宗)	5,000	<>	5
Zhonghua Sheng Jiao (中華聖教)	3,200	<>	7
Mahikarikyo (真光教團)	1,000	<>	9
Pre-cosmic Salvationism (先天救教)	1,000	<>	6
Huang Zhong (黃中)	1,000	<>	1
Da Yi Jiao (大易教)	1,000	<>	1
Total religious population	18,724,823	81.3%	33,223
Total population	23,036,087	100%	-

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Taiwan

5. What are the various Arts (especially those your nation is known for)?

We can express our creativity by(1) personal, Ex: gallery, (2) to match by private or public.

The painting, photo, glass arts( famous in Hsinchu), are the artwork in this society.

The most famous sports in Taiwan are basketball and baseball.

Cheongsam is the traditions dress in China, but we don't often see that in Taiwan.

6. What are various Technologies that are a part of life in your country?

There are different technologies in every occupation, like accountant, doctor, teacher, machinist, architect.

7. How does Geography affect ESPRAT in your home country?

The Geography affect the economic, Ex:we has sea around our country, so some people's work fishing,

and some people framing in the plain, and plaint the tea in the hill.

What do governments do?

2008-11-10T03:44:00.000-08:00

Humanities What do governments do?

The government are divide by 5 branches, such as highest level of the executive branch, Legislative Yuan,

The Examination Ministry or Examination Yuan, the judiciary,The Control Yuan, they control our, economy, traffic, law,

health......., and our parents pay tax every year, and the government do the favor for our people.

Collapsed school owner arrested

2008-11-10T03:17:00.000-08:00

Humanities

Collapsed school owner arrested

This article is talking about the building collapsed off Haiti school. Haiti is an island in Atlantic ocean.

In November 09 2008. There are 500 children and teacher in the building, when it fell down.

Now we just know there were pass 82 people was died, and 4 people were alive, they don't know the reason why,

but they guessed that the building wasn't strong enough.

Barack Obama makes big US speech

2008-11-10T03:16:00.000-08:00

Humanities

Barack Obama makes big US speech

This article is talking about what Obama is going to do when he be a really president,

he will be a real president on 20 January 2009.

He says that when he is a real president he wants to sort out the cash crisis.

And he wanted to create jobs and help families, but" not going to be quick and it's

not going to be easy".

UN sends help to Congo refugees

2008-11-06T06:15:00.001-08:00

Humanities

UN sends help to Congo refugees

There are many helpers went to Congo on monday morning, there are fighting in Congo, they help them to

left their house, and they spend more then 12 turks to help them, and they got some medicine.

Bones show Steve Fossett is dead

2008-11-06T06:15:00.000-08:00

Humanities

Bones show Steve Fossett is dead

This article is about the millionaire adventurer, he was last seen in September 2007, people found his plane California in September 2008. The Scientists think that the 63 year-olds-man was died.

Science SMASH Day activity

2008-11-05T02:53:00.000-08:00

I think that help us to knew that we need to try again and again, don't stop trying, and figure out the most closer answer or the things can attains objective.

Before you try, you need to plan, and think the question, ex: we need to think what shape can carry

more mass.

And I think that good teamwork is really important, if you have a good teamwork that may be easy to

attains the things.

Congo 'human catastrophe' warning

2008-10-31T22:07:00.000-07:00

Humanities

Congo 'human catastrophe' warning

In Africa a city name Congo, the condition now in Congo is really bad, the soldier of administration

, is fighting with the revolt soldier, and cause of that million people escape there house, and there is

no food now.

Man gets arm trapped in train loo

2008-10-31T21:24:00.000-07:00

Humanities

Man gets arm trapped in train loo

The place was at France, it's on the train a man was using the toilet and his cell phone fall down in to the

closestool, he want to get his cell phone back, so he reach into the closestool, and try to get it back, then

his arm stuck into the closestool. The firefighter save he, he just has some bruising and smelling a bit,

he doesn't really got hurt.

Music Video

2008-10-27T13:07:00.000-07:00

Music Video

John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer, and the husband of Alice Coltrane. Though he was active before 1955, his prime years were between 1955 and 1967, during which time he reshaped modern jazz and influenced generations of other musicians. Coltrane's recording rate was astonishingly prolific: he recorded about fifty recordings as a leader in these twelve years, and appeared on many more led by other musicians. Throughout his career Coltrane's music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension that would color his legacy. He passed away from liver cancer in Huntington Hospital, Long Island, New York. Along with tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Sonny Rollins, Coltrane fundamentally altered expectations for the instrument. Coltrane received a posthumous Special Citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2007 for his "masterful improvisation, supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz."

I think he is really cool, and he is so famous before, and the music what he play was

so good, but I didn't heard him before.

I think the Jazz they play inside the movie are kind of like fast,and the beats are clear.

My question : What is the musical instrument in India, the thing like guitar,

what is the instrument?

Star 'music' is out of this world

2008-10-25T01:07:00.000-07:00

Humanities

Star 'music' is out of this world

Star can make noise,French astronomers using a space telescope to recorded the sounds of three of the star.

The stars all give off a repeating rhythm, but every star's are different, so they depend on their size, age and what they're made of.

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Space tourist comes back to Earth

2008-10-25T00:13:00.000-07:00

Humanities

Space tourist comes back to Earth

October 24 2008This article is the an American Computer games millionaire Richard Garriott paid about £17 million to join on the spacecraft,

and paid 17 millionaire Euro.

He took the photo for Earth, he want to know how the Earth change pass 35 years, his father was last in space.

"The ride up on Soyuz was phenomenal," he said. "What a beautiful machine."

India launches first moon mission

2008-10-23T14:01:00.000-07:00

Humanities

India launches first moon mission

This article is about India, India launched the first mission in there country .

And spend 2 years to exploration mission.

There doesn't has people on mission, but there is robotic.

Crazy weather hits Australia

2008-10-23T08:02:00.000-07:00

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Crazy weather hits Australia

This article is about the Australia's famous, Australia's famous is

Over 11,000 lightning strikes were recorded during the storms,

many people left,and the car are under snow.

Iran cooks up huge ostrich sarnie

2008-10-20T03:38:00.000-07:00

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Iran cooks up huge ostrich sarnie

October 19 2008

This article is about the world largest ostrich sandwiches, the spend 1,500 cooks in two days to

to prepare more than 1,000 kg of meat. For the food festival, make people eat more heathy.

People say that don't worried about the world largest sandwiches.

Game delayed over Islam phrases

2008-10-20T03:36:00.000-07:00

Humanities

Game delayed over Islam phrases

October 20 2008 This article is about the video games, the games must be on sale on November, but delayed to

sell out the video games.

Reason

Sony break the law, because he copies the music from the shops, so now he need to remove the music from it.

So the games can put on line, let the people play.

Expedition to find 'oldest ice'

2008-10-16T09:49:00.000-07:00

Humanities

Expedition to find 'oldest ice'

2008.10.15

There is a mountain chain, called the Gamburtsevs, there is some ice is under there,

it's inthe east of the Antarctica, and they want to work out how it was formed.

And they think is about that news the older ice river, and maybe is about the weather.

Warning to kids over loud music

2008-10-14T20:36:00.000-07:00

Humanities

Warning to kids over loud music

2008.10.13

This article is the scientists say thatIf you using the headphones , when you old, you will be harder to hear.And if you listen to the loud music an hour for a day,

then 5 years ago your hearing will be harm.If the people can hear the music out of your headphones,

then the music is too loud, and you need to clothes the headphones.

I think they post this is because they don't want the people don't harm your ears.

Blind driver smashes record

2008-10-11T19:20:00.001-07:00

Humanities

Blind driver smashes record

Who?

A driver Luc Costermans and he is a blind person.

What?

He has broken the world blind road speed record.He drive 308.78 km/h.

When?

2008.10.11

Why?

I think because he want to be the famous person, and he he want to beat someone,

maybe he like to drive the car very fast.

Where?

In a borrowed Lamborghini Gallardo supercar on an airstrip in Istre, southern France.

Man has first two-arm transplant

2008-10-11T19:20:00.000-07:00

Humanities

Man has first two-arm transplant

Who?

A from Germany

What?

His arms had accident 6 yeas ago, and he will become the first person ever to have a double arm transplant.

Where?

When?

2008.10.9

Why?

I think because he need the new arms.

Science

2008-10-09T21:30:00.000-07:00

Which is more dense—a stack of 5 NT coins or a stack of 20 NT coins?

I think is same, because the mass is change and the volume is change ,too.

So I think the density will be same.

If the density want to change, it should be mass change and volume doesn't change,

or mass doesn't change and volume change.

Europe's biggest glacier melting

2008-10-07T04:06:00.001-07:00

Humanities

Europe's biggest glacier melting

Who?

The Europe's biggest glacier

What?

The Europe's biggest glacier is melting fast, and could disappear within 100 years.

And people living in low-lying areas might have to move to higher ground to escape the rising waters.

Why?

Because that I think the weather is become hot.

When?

Tuesday October 07 2008

Where?

Europe Vatnajokull in Iceland.

Spacecraft gets new Mercury snaps

2008-10-07T04:06:00.000-07:00

Humanities

Spacecraft gets new Mercury snaps

Who?

American space agency

What?

A spacecraft the size of a car has zoomed over Mercury taking more than 1,000 photos of parts of the planet that have never been seen before.

Why?

There is just the A spacecraft the size of a car has zoomed over Mercury taking more than 1,000 photos of parts of the planet and we see that.

When?

Tuesday October 07 2008

Where?

American

US to spend $700bn to help banks

2008-10-06T04:57:00.000-07:00

Humanities

US to spend $700bn to help banks

Who?

US and banks

What?

Banks don't have money to lend to the people, numerous banks close, so US spent 700bn to help bank.

Why?

Because I think if US help banks, the economical of US will become better.

When?

2008.10.4

Where?

Bone bits found in Fossett plane

2008-10-06T04:07:00.000-07:00

Humanities

Bone bits found in Fossett plane

Who?

The millionaire pilot

What?

The people think that the millionaire pilot was die .

Why?

Because Bits of bone have been found in the plane that adventurer Steve Fossett was flying when he went missing last year.

When?

2008.10.3

Where?

In Nevada

Science Why did we spend 3 days, just answer the question?

2008-10-03T21:01:00.000-07:00

I think that, because we learn something about matter, matter is from mass and volume,

matter takes up a space, and matter has weight.

All the thing about can help us to answer the question can mass disappear,

that is why we spend many time on learn about it.

Children die in school collapse

2008-10-02T03:53:00.000-07:00

Children die in school collapse

Humanities

Who?

Some children.

What?

Five children been die, and there are four children are were injured after being trapped under the rubble,

and 800 children went out the school.

Where?

In Belyayevskaya in western Russia.

When?

2008/10/1

Why?

Because there is a building was repair, but the building was still open for class.

maybe the children went into the building, then the wall fell, then someone is under the wall.

More than 100 killed in India

2008-10-01T04:10:00.000-07:00

More than 100 killed in India

Who?

more than 140 people.

What?

More than 140 people have been killed.

Where?

In India a place call Jodhpur, in a temple.

When?

2008.9.30

Why?

Some people crushed the temple's wall, then the wall fell, and maybe the wall smash

someone.

The other people die, cause of the wall fell and they run, maybe they step each other,

really hard.

Astronauts float back to Earth

2008-09-28T19:22:00.000-07:00

Astronauts float back to Earth

Who is the person?

There are three people from China, but the news just write one person,

Zhai Zhigang.

What do they did?

They flew into the space, and came back safely.

Where do they did?

The space.

When do they did?

Last Saturday they came back.

Why they did that?

Because they want to help China, there country.

(China want to build space station someday)

Jet-man zooms into record books

2008-09-28T18:33:00.000-07:00

Jet-man zooms into record books

Who is the person?

The person is Yves Rossy.

What does he did?

He is Swiss pilot and he is the Jet-man, that the person who is the first person

flew longest and fastest in the sky.

Where is the place?

The place where he flew is from Calais to Dover for just 10 minutes (the parts in Swiss).

When does he did?

Pass few mouth.

Why does he did that?

Because he want to be a famous person and he enjoy flew in the sky, too.

Cash drama hits the US elections

2008-09-25T08:19:00.000-07:00

Cash drama hits the US elections

This article is about US election, they have two presidential candidates for president.

John McCain say's that if the people chose him, he will solve the problem of the

money.

Obama say's just go a head, about the money problem.

Floods in Spain after heavy rains

2008-09-25T03:33:00.000-07:00

Floods in Spain after heavy rains

This article is about heavy rain, then the place where has a heavy rain was flooding.

And the place were flooding are Valencia and Alicante.

Some of the houses, roads, and the vehicles are damages.

The newscaster said that there are more heavy rain come,

I think that the gutter in there must check and clean, so that the water is easy to drain.

Is air matter?

2008-09-24T03:12:00.000-07:00

I think that air is matter

Air is gas, and gas is a matter. When we breath, our lung will become bigger, that mean air takes up a space. And air has a weigh, 1 meter cube = 1.293 kg. And we also can tach the air, if we can't tach the air, how come the air go in side your lung. And air is stuff, we call stuff matter.

ST.Peter High school's culture

2008-09-22T04:38:00.000-07:00

The school is finish at 7:40, so we eat lunch and dinner at school,

the lunch and dinner we nee to buy by our self.

Every day every class we have quizzes, and the Math is the most hard subject for me before.

This school always told us, the grade is the most important thing.

So the teacher told us we need to study harder, and we need to go to the higher school.

There are some students don't follow the school rules, example : Our school can't allowed courting each other specially boys and girls, but they broke the rules. So there are many

relationship in our school , even my classmate.(But not me)

Taiwan's culture

2008-09-22T04:13:00.000-07:00

Many Taiwanese always talk about politics thing,

and there are many parade about politics.

And there are many Taiwanese is start to eat the organic things.

And there are Taiwanese Folk Opera （歌仔戲）, and Puppet Theater（布袋戲） very important.And there also have Hakka(客家） dance,aborigine(原住民） food, dance.

Train fire closes Channel Tunnel

2008-09-18T05:01:00.002-07:00

Train fire closes Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel had a lot of smoke, because the fire was start on the lorry,

freight train.

32 people was suffocate, cause they smell a lot of smoke,

so they evacuate to other place. But many people didn't got hurt.

The police officials said that, they didn't found reason of the fire.

Rescue mission after ferry sinks

2008-09-18T05:01:00.001-07:00

Rescue mission after ferry sinks

2008-09-18T05:01:00.000-07:00

It tells about the rescue operation save the people in Istanbul Turkey.

The ferry carried 100 people and 70 lorries.

The ferry was sunk under the water.

Why was the ferry sunk under the water?

Because:

The ferry's captain said that " The ferry was too heavy, it was over loaded."

There were 100 people in the ferry, and 70 people was rescued, and 30 people missing,

there was 1 person died.

The rescue operation are looking for the 30 missing people.

Why students should blog?

2008-09-14T04:31:00.000-07:00

Because write blog is fun and students will forget that students are doing home work.

And students can sharestrengths and upload areas of interest or units of work eg personal digital .

Ancient ice shelves break away

2008-09-08T07:24:00.000-07:00

Scientists say a massive amount of ice has been lost from Canada's High Arctic region this year.

Almost a quarter of the ice shelves which have been attached to Ellesmere Island for thousands of years, were lost.

One scientist said the area is experiencing "extremely rapid" climate change.

If the ice is lost, the radiation will be absorbed by the sea and land instead, which could lead to the Earth getting warmer.

McCain says he'll change America

2008-09-08T04:50:00.000-07:00

2009 presidential election

McCain told members of the Republican Party that he will fight the presidential election in November for it.

McCain chose on women name Sarah Palin to be the vice president, if he becomes a president.

McCain is Republican same with Bush.

Some experts don't think that McCain will win, because a lot of people don't think President Bush has been good for America, and as McCain is from the same party, they think he will be a similar president.

But some people think McCain is 71 years old, he has more experience then 46-year-old Obama.

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