Nicole W's Blog

The questions

2010-03-11T00:09:00.000-08:00

• How did it feel to have more or less money than other people in the class?
What other people talking about…… like talking about the new Famous Brand…… Expensive stuff, if their talk about any we can’t buy it stuff all will that other people feel “I’m so destitute”. If you saying about something other people they can’t even touch, you will feel you money are so many!

How did it feel to see what you could and could not afford at the Global Mall?
If I see any I could not buy afford thing, I will feel not very will, that feel like…… sad? No, not that exaggerate, maybe is ……lost? Yea, I think so.

• How many of you could not afford education? What would your lives be like if you could not go to school?
Not very much I could not afford education, I almost try every thing, piano, Classical Chinese Music- 二胡(erhu fiddle), I'm almost forget how to play, the 洋琴(Yang- chin), and stop at half way's harmonica…… I all try it. If could not afford the education, I think I will very want to go to the school, and I will try to go to the school by "stow away".

• How would it feel to have to choose between food and health care?
I think food was most important, you know, at before there was no health care, they still can alive very will.
• 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?
Yea, my father, he was because the Lithiasis, so he have to go to the 804 hospital. I don't know how if could have the medical care. But it mas very bad.
• 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?
People with less money would have less chance to get sick because they're food will have less chance of getting pesticides, and people with more money will have more chance of eating pesticides because the farmer will be able to afford it.

• 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?
They don't have enough of money to buy their need thing.

• 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, our home all will choose more environmental thing to use.

Eve Ensler

2010-03-08T17:00:00.000-08:00

1. Synopsis: what is this interview about?
This is about Eve Ensler’s book and about the hardships about women around in the world.

2. How is Eve Ensler being a global citizen? What is she doing to make a difference in the world (give examples)?
A global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Ensler is a very close supporter of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. (RAWA)

3. Give one example of how girls can end up in harmful situations because of societal pressures "to please" others.
They make them look thin and pretty.

4. 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?
She doesn’t have choice, she have to do any she can did it works.

Letter ot Mr. Bernard Murdoch

2010-02-16T07:42:00.001-08:00

Dear Mr. Bernard Murdoch,
Thank you for your presentation on Friday. I learn a lot of about your country -Kiribati. I know your country was an low-lying group of islands. Because the climate change, the Kiribati was being danger to be submerge, Kiribati's land was gradually become little.

Avatar

2010-02-08T23:46:00.000-08:00

-- Avatar

1. The story in Avatar is really based on the age old story of colonization. Describe why Jake's colleagues want to destroy the tree the Navi live in. Do they realize that destroying the tree essentially destroys the Navi's habitat? Why or why not?
-- The Navi there world just like a big Network, Network of whole world, every animal, every people, every resident, they just like a little super computer, and that huge tree, just like their mainframe. But the human they did not know! So they just know their benefits, that expensive stone.

2. Describe a similar conflict from history.
-- Avatar that me remember a similar history– St. Brice's Day massacre. Was about killing Danes.

3. Describe a similar conflict that is happening in the world today.
-- Now the people just like inside of Avatar's human, we want to eat, want to live in good place, and we cover the ocean. We never think about the animal, and the aborigine, we destroy them home. But we did not know we are destroy our own home – Earth, too.

Contextualize Haiti

2010-02-08T17:02:00.000-08:00

--Contextualize Haiti

Where is it?
-- It is on the Caribbean Sea. Haiti was near the dominican republic and Cuba.

Why do they speak french there?
-- Haiti was like the Cuba of the 1800s. Every nation around them hated them and feared slave rebellions in their own countries. At that time, they doesn’t know how to speak French, they have their own Language- African languages. After a generation of enslavement on the island the younger slaves learn it up.

How was it different than other slave colonies?
-- fought and won their freedom.

What is Taiwan's relationship to Haiti?
-- we see each other as sovereign nations, TW one of the first nations to respond to crisis.

What is a Citizen?

2010-01-25T17:23:00.000-08:00

What is a Citizen? A person can be a citizen of many communities. For instance, you can be a citizen of your family, school, country, and world. If you want to be a citizen you have many ways to become a citizen. If you born in a country, you already are a citizen in that country. Another way you can become a citizen of another country like the U.S. to have a quiz. Or if your family was citizen, you can be a citizen, too.

A prejudice is an opinion, prejudgment or attitude about a group or it's individual member's. A prejudice can be positive, but in our usage refers to a negative attitude.

Stereotype is an exaggerated belief, image or distorted truth about a person or group.

An in-group such as a family. Prejudice is often aimed at out-groups.

Discrimination is behavior that treats people unequally because of their group memberships.

The University of Washington created project implicit to develop implicit to develop Hiclden Bias Tests, called Implicit with in-groups attitudes and socialization by the culture at large.

Studies show people can be consciously committed to egalitarianism, and deliberately work to behave without prejudice, yet still possess hidden negative prejudices or stcrcotypes. These hidden negative prejudices or stereotypes are called hidden bias.

Cliques and Stereotypes for Citizenship

2010-01-20T17:00:00.000-08:00

Clique for example, it is an social boundary, an small group of people they shard their interests and spend time together, they maybe shard more thing together.

Haiti

2010-01-20T16:46:00.000-08:00

Pick one personal story.
Write a reflection or response answering the following questions.
–What is this story about?
–What is important to them about the story they picked?
–What does this story have to do with what is happening in Haiti now?
–Why should we care about what is happening in Haiti?
–What does this have to do with global citizenship?

This story is about Haiti of natural disaster, there was many people die, they was no food or water to eat or drink, many people because no food to eat, and earthquake die. Their was no help, they don’t have hospital, they don’t have perfection facilities. I think this story was very important, it can help us to know how lucky was we, and tell us how important was “life”, how frailty was human.

Human are not our think that much strong, the human was very frailty, just like flower, or other little animal. Earth just rock a while, people die many. How frailty was. Human must unite together, so I think we must care about Haiti.

Count Basie

2010-01-06T23:29:00.000-08:00

Count Basie

1. How deeply rooted into society was this music or person at the time it was created (or when the person was alive and producing?)
He was very famous at that time when he alive. Now he was famous, too, but not like before.
2. How important or relevant is this music now in 2009? Who listens to it?
Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time.

Peter Tchaikovsky

2009-12-16T22:54:00.000-08:00

a) About Peter Tchaikovsky
He name is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, he was born in a middle-class family, in May, 10, 1840– 6 November 1893.

b)What is their major contribution to music? (Why are they famous?)
Like “Seven Symphonies.”

1. What is Romanticism? (It has many definitions, and is many things.)
In literature and paining, Romanticism stressed the importance of feelings, imagination, self- expression and individual creativity.

1. What was his most famous work?
Including the his “First piano Concerto,” “Seven Symphonies,” and the opera ”Eugene Onegin”.

2. Did he compose music that celebrated victory in war?
Yes, like 1812 Overture, it was a Festival overture in E flat major, this overture was written to commemorate Russia’s defense of Moscow against Napoleon’s advancing Grande Armée at the Battle of Borodino in 1812.

3. Was his music political?
Yes, The 1812 Overture is a political music. make in 1880, is written to commemorate Russia’s defense of Moscow against Napoleon’s advancing Grande Armće at the Battle of Brodino in 1812.