Letter to Mr.Bernard

I learned about a lot of things in Kiribati. I learned that everyone is good at swimming. When people in Kiribati are lost, they drank shark blood to replace water. They would wait for sharks to circle and then when the sharks come in for the kill, the people make them turn and when the sharks swim by, they slice the belly in half. What I learned most and probably won't forget is that they have no fresh water to drink because the salt water is seeping into their wells. I felt very sorry for the people in Kiribati, because they have to suffer the consequences of other people's faults. If I had money or power, I would tell the people of my country to stop using cars and change to electric powered cars.

Avatar

Today in Citizenship class we watched the movie Avatar.

Jake's colleagues wanted to destroy the tree that the Navi people lived in because they wanted the "cheese" that laid under the tree. The "cheese" was a type of mineral that is called unobtanium. Jake's colleagues knew that they were about to destroy the Navi's habitat but they didn't care. All they wanted was the unobtanium. The geologists there told the marines about the tree being the Navi's habitat but they chose to ignore it.

It was also the same in America, when the Europeans came and conquered everything.

Today, the war in Iraq is also the same.

Final Project

A citizen is a person that is part of a community. A good citizen obeys the law. He respects other people. He should do his responsibility. When they are speaking. He does his homework. He would not run around in class. Good citizens of a community should not have prejudice against anyone. A prejudice is an opinion, it can be positive but usually, it is used in a negative way. Citizens should not have stereotypes which is a generalization that allows no one to be different. A person can be a citizen of a state, country, or the entire world, but to be a good citizen, the minimum would be to treat people equally, to obey the law, and to respect others.

Mike Hartoonian says that a subject is a consumer and a citizen is the producer. What it means is that a subject receives what a citizen gives hum, meaning that the citizen is the one in control.. Or that the subject is the follower while the citizen is the leader. In a different community, a citizen has different responsibilities but have the same rights. The citizen of a country is in charge of the government, because the citizens vote who they want, and when they are not happy they protest. THis happens in most countries but in some countries, their government has a different system and in some systems, the citizens are not allowed to vote. Citizens are in poser and the subjects are people under the law. Citizens have the right to protest institutions decisions, they have the right to rebel, protest.

Haiti

Haiti is a small country in Central America. It is South of the US in the Caribbean Sea. Haiti speaks French because it was conquered by the French before. Haiti is one of the few countries that fought against slavery and actually succeeded. Taiwan's relation to Haiti is that Haiti is one of the few countries that agrees that Taiwan is independent from China, also called a sovereign country.

Ceramic Field Trip

We went to the Snake Kiln in Miaoli last week. It was originally called the dragon kiln but it was not allowed to be called the dragon because it was not allowed to be called the same as the king's. At first they told us about a small kiln that was used for making roof tiles. The smoke inside the kiln made the tiles gray. They then told us about how the snake kiln was usually made to bake vases. The vases made wine taste better because it had better clay. They also had stamps on the vases to tell what the wine was and where it came from.

The guide took us inside to show us the snake kiln. When we entered, we saw a long kiln with a door for throwing in wood, and a long funnel. At the front of the kiln, there was two holes that was called the snake's eyes. It was used for checking how much the clay has baked because in the olden days, there were no timers and they could only look in to see how the clay was doing.

We were given small blocks of clay to make whatever we wanted. Our hands had to be wet to keep the clay from cooling. I made a cup and Calvin ruined his and he ended up with blocks of clay that he called "abstract".