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Have you ever read that book called The Giver? If you have, good for you. If you haven't, then too bad 'cause I won't tell what happens. In fact I've only read the first 5 chapters but anyways, we've been reading this (that -->) book and today in Humanities class we did a fishbowl about the topics from this book. They were Stirring/Pills and Releasing. We had questions like: What are stirrings? Why don’t the people want to have stirrings? What’s the pill, and what does it do?
Do people have any privacy with their thoughts/dreams? What would the consequences be if somebody doesn't take the pills daily? How do they release people? What is releasing? What happens to released people? How would the community react if they knew what releasing was?
Does anyone die in the community?During the fishbowl discussion I wasn't able to answer the questions about the stirrings because I was trying to find an evidence from the book for the discussion and when I finally did, I realized we just moved to the other topic so I'm going to answer the questions about stirrings now. In my oppinions, the stirrings are the feelings of puberty when you'd start get crushes on other girls/boys and then you'd want to marry her/him and have own babies but for some reason, the people in the community don't want to have those feelings and so they are forced to take these pills to stop the stirrings. The pills somehow stops the stirrings and every peson had to take these pills from since they felt the stirrings until they are very old. If you forget to take the pills the stirrings would come back and I'm not sure but the other citizen's wouldn't agree that and he would get a punishment.Then during the second topic in the fishbowl discussion, I went in immediately (because the teacher forced me to) and shared pretty much all my thinking.
Did you hear about that woman who had 6 children already and then gave birth for 8 babies and so now she (Nadya Doud) has like 14 kids. Well we discussed about that in our humanites class and we had to make a headline (once again) and I came up with a short one Discussing about octuplet cation but what actually meant was Discussing about octuplet incident because cation is probably not the right word for this. We actually connected this discussion to China's one child-policy by asking ourselves a question: Should the government set some sort of a limit on how much children you can have? We also thought is it stupid if you already have 6 kids then want even more.
As we all know, China is the most populated country in the world. That's because in 1950-1960 Mao Zedong instructed Chinese people to have many children in order to bury America's human wave. And so then came a huge baby boom and hundreds of millions of extra children were born. Every family had about 5.8 children and because of this, China started get out of all the resources and the next ruler of China set the one child-policy. We discussed about this in class today and we had to make a "headline". Mine was: China's one child-policy helping the country - Nobody's happy. What that means is that many say the one child-policy is helping the country a lot because if the rule would be taken off, the country would be doomed. There would be too many people so that they would be out of all the resources and some of them would probably have to move to another country or something. But even though it is helping the country many people would want to have more than just one child but if they does that they'd have to pay a big fine. So that's about it... yeah.
Sup homeslices! Thought I quited blogging? I thought that too but now I'm back.Have you ever read Shakespare's poems? Today we read the 7th Sonnet of Shakespare. Of course his writing is oldish and that really confused me but after taking a closer look it sends a message throughout those words that are made with black ink on a white blank piece of paper. So you can now go to Google and search for that poem but this is my response for that sonnet. So the poem kind of tells how the day starts quietly with the sun rising and through the day everything starts going faster until the sun sets and then everything is quiet.So some quick thoughts here. I'll see you cats later.
Alright chaps! School has started and we are getting bunches of homework again. No just kidding but I got this homework to write about what we did today in Humanities class so you don't have to pay attention to this post if you don't care about my homework.Today in Humanities class we watched a 3 minute long movie. The movie was made with Google Earth and it showed us where Mesopotaimia was/is, what cities there were long time ago, what cities there are now and 3 kinds of maps of the place where Mesopotamia was/is. Everything in the movie was done very slowly or repeated twice which made the movie very boring but I think I get the point of doing things quite slowly. If you do things slowly or repeat them, then others have more time to observe what you are doing or what your message is. So after we watched the movie, we had to make a chart called: "See-Think-Wonder". The point of that is to list as many things you see, think or wonder about the movie. For example: See- I see letters, I see Cities, I see Mesopotamia... Think- I think the red lines are rivers... Wonder- I wonder what the point of this movie is... So that's about everything we did in the class today so bye.
Hello everybody! I haven't written anything in here since I did "The Post" about 2 weeks ago. I came back to KL from Finland about 4 days ago. Now I'm quite tired and the school starts TOMORROW! I have no idea how I'm going to get through the first week. I mean yesterday I went to bed at 12pm and today I woke up at 10am but on a school day I have to wake up on 6am so you might understand my tireness. Anyway, I had a really good time in Finland but we'll see what I'll what I have to overcome this year (2009) in Malaysia. Well, for now I don't have anything important to tell you so bye.
Hello everybody and sorry about the lateness of this post. I should have realesed this post about week ago but I've been having some problems with the internet. So I'm in Finland now and this is kind of weird to write something in English because everybody talks Finnish in here. There is some snow and it's pretty cold. Right now the temperature outside is quite warm and it would make the snow melt if the temperature doesn't go down. Well it's Xmas now and we have big Christmas three in our house. We are now about to go and visit our relatives so I'll end this post that told you couple facts.Merry Xmas AND Happy New year.
