Human Rights Activists Hiding

The human rights activists in Kenya are hiding because of receiving death threats in wake of a scathing United Nations report on extrajudicial police executions.

Policeman Arrests War Crime Suspect, Kenya

In Kenya, a policeman arrested a man in the coastal city of Mombasa that was suspected to be involved in war crimes in Yugoslavia. The police is now interrogating him.

A Pyramid Has Been Unearthed

In Egypt, archeologists say that they have unearthed a pyramid older than 4000 years. The discovery was in Saqqara, south of Cairo. The site's known as one of the most famous burial place for rulers of ancient Egypt. It is the 118th pyramid found, it had belonged to queen Sesheshet. All that is left of it is a 5 meter high square base, but the most famous archeologist said the remains had been more than 3 times this height.

New Tomb Found in Egypt

Archeologist are celebrating their founding, they discovered more than 20 mummies. They might be over 2600 years old, and the items inside the tombs are even older. One sarcophagus is over 4000 years old. For the moment, archeologist only opened one sarcophagus, but they are hoping to find more mummies inside the others. Four of the mummies had a dog buried with them. It is very rare to find a burial site in as good conditions.

Draw Borders

I used what I learned about geography, economics, and sociology to draw the borders for Kenbrena Webquest because if a country is only mountains, how does it grow food, it would die. If a country is super long, how can you defend it. If it doesn't have rivers, it is almost impossible for it to survive. If there are not any resources, where do you get the money from? If people don't get along, there would be continuous fights which exetremely bad for a it. Any country wouldn't survive if the people that determined the borders didn't care about geography, economics or sociology.

How to Have a Strong Country

To have a strong country, you don't only need rich people. You need more poor people than reach people actually. If you don't have any poor people, who will go to war, rich people don't want to die for their country. Who will grow food, rich people don't want to do hard manual work. Who will build houses, they don't want to carry too heavy things that might hurt them badly. Without poor, there won't be any hard jobs done. That is why a country needs both, the poor and the rich.

Kenbrena Social Classes

Some groups get along together and some groups do not because some groups could be jealous of the others or some groups could feel superior. Maybe in the early history, the groups had a fight and they hated each other over generations.
My family makes me think the most about the Franklos because we don't look like any other, but I don't think we are like the Franklos either.

YouTube Blocks Music

If you are a big fan of watching videos on YouTube... too bad, because they blocked them all. At 18:00 on Monday, thousands of videos started becoming unavailable. YouTube which is owned by Google say that it would cost too much to keep them online. And not only the ones that are uploaded by companies are being blocked but also the ones uploaded by official fans of the site.
Stange...

Policeman Killed

A police man got killed after responding to an emergency call in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Shots were fired at two officers in the patrol car after being called in Craigavon on Monday. Politicians spoke out about the shooting and paid a tribute to the dead policeman. No one has admitted who carried out the attack which happened 2 days after 2 other soldiers got killed in Antrim

Were Scientists Fair?

No, I don't think the scientists were fair when they rejected Wegener's hypothesis mainly because he wasn't geologist. It isn't fair because he had evidences — same fossils were found on each side of the Atlantic Ocean, the continents seem to fit together, there is the same kind of rock on each side of the ocean — and he had researched on it a lot so that he knew as much as other geologists. So, just because he isn't geologist, saying that his hypothesis is wrong isn't good.

My Learning of the 5 Themes of Geography

Geography is the study of the natural features and inhabitants of the Earth.

Right now, I am at home, in Kao Fong Road Lane 194 Alley 8 House 7. I am 15 minutes away from my school, HIS. I am in the living room. My parents are in the room where one of the computers are, they are in front of me. From here, I can see three other houses.

The term physical when we describe a place is the land features around it, the natural things. The term human, is what the humans made, the buildings, the cars, etc... And the cultural is how the humans interact with the geography.

Humans adapt to the environment because we can't just blow off mountains or drown lakes. And we settled near rivers a long time ago for water and food. We change the environment when we cut off trees, when we build houses or factories, and when we make dams. Almost everything we build changes the environment.
Humans depend on the environment for water which is in the rivers, for food, the animals that we hunt, and for many more things. Without the environment we wouldn't be able to live.

Movement always affect because you rarely do not move. During the day, you are always in movement, when you go to school, when you move from class to class, even you go eat dinner.
I interact with the fruits I eat everyday. Some of them are moved from one country to my house, while some of them are just moved from a field, but in anyway it is movement. I interact with the car that brings to school, it is always in movement. And I interact with many more things.

A formal region is a region that has been determined by the government, it is official. A functional region is like the city where people work and the suburbs where people live. A perceptual region is what the region is in your head, how you imagine it.

Resources

Capital resources: the money you use to produce more wealth. ex: hiring people, building factories.
Human resources: the quantity of people, the skills they have. ex: carpenters, teachers.
Natural resources: the resources that the nature gives you. ex: water, mountains.

Big Winner

Day 1,
Hello, my name is John, and I am one of the most unlucky and poorest person on this planet. Today, like every day, I am going to sign up for a lottery game like every other day in my life.
I hope I will get money to end my life of beggar. Come on luck! Oh no! I lost again. I have to go back to the streets and continue begging. I hope tomorrow will be my lucky day.

Day 2,
I will try it again today. Please luck... Help me... Yeah!!! I won! My life as a beggar is over now that I won this 1000000000 US$.
I will finally be able to buy myself a house, a car, have some food without asking it to people. My life has a meaning now!

Day 3,
Right now I am on the way to get my money, it is 9:00 AM. I am where I am supposed to get my money.
Why doesn't anyone look happy, what did I do. Who cares. I want my money. «Could I have my money, please?» The guy gave me the money after having show him my ticket. He didn't even talk once.

Day 4,
It is the first I have my my money. I am going to the bank to put my money there. But first, I will go see my friends.
_Oh, hi guys!
_Get out of our way rich man!
I lost all my friends…
I went to the bank and put my money there. Tomorrow, I will buy myself a house and a car, hopefully.

Day 5,
I am on my way to one of the most luxurious houses in the town, Hsinchu. The house is bought now, the car also.
No one is smiling, everyone looks at me badly. I am hated from everybody even my closest friends. Maybe this money wasn't that good to get.

Isolating the Variable

For the SMASH day, we did an activity where we had to make a small boat and try to make it hold as much weight as it could without sinking.
The activity isolated design as the variable because we started with the same materials, the same rules for everybody and we put the same kind of weight on the boat. We tested the boats on the same water.
The variables that were not controlled were mainly the design, how big you made the boat, where you put the straws. But also where you put the weights, and how you put them.
Every variable affected the outcome!

My Holidays

For my holidays, I went many times (almost every summer) into a region of Spain called Cataluña.
It is both, formal and perceptional.
The formal part is because it is a real region of Spain. There, the people have their own language, Catalan, but they also speak Spanish; they have to learn both at school. This region also wants to be independent from Spain. So, it is really formal.
The perceptional part is that when I go there, I only think of the coast, where I really go, Salou. The labels in the stores are not written in Spanish, they are written in Catalan. It is a very touristic town. There is the sea, huge hotels. You can meet people from all sorts of countries, the menu in the restaurants is in many different languages. But this happens only in that part of Cataluña. It is also perceptional, then.