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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Taiwanese Teenager Ping Pong Player Wins a World Competition!
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Labels: Humanities
Monday, November 24, 2008
DongMen Site Reflections
- How did the site of DongMen alter the choreography that you created in the classroom?
- Now that you know this site better; If you were to go back to Dongmen what would you add or subtract from your choreography to make it stronger?
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Labels: Dance
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Energy Bar Project: FIRST TRIAL!!!!
It was our first time making and experimenting with our energy bar (energy balls) on Tuesday, November 11th. We were pretty successful with the making of the energy balls, and they tasted a lot better than we expected. We were able to observe the energy balls and decide on a lot of changes we could make.
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Labels: Science
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
"Obama Elected President as Racial Barrier Falls" on The New York Times
This article on The New York Times talks about Obama's victory in the 44th presidential election of the United States. The article calls Obama's victory the last racial barrier in American politics. Many quotes from others are included to support and relate to the theme of the article. The majority of the opinion based statements in the article is within the quotes of other people such as McCain and Obama himself, making the article itself very fact-based and believable. However, it contains the bias of others who made the comments and reactions toward the election.
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Labels: Humanities
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Current Event
This is an article about the decease of a very well-known and successful business man: Yong Ching Wang (王永慶). His death was very significant is now very widely being talked about all over Taiwan. A great amount of people praised him during his glorious lifetime, and after his death, they continue to pay him their respect by visiting and praying at his tomb. The article names many great things that Yong Ching Wang has done for others. The article quotes the taiwanese olympic player who has won a first place medal saying that he couldn't have gotten it if there wasn't Yong Ching Wang, who made donations to the Taoyuan Sports College sports stadiums and tracks. The article claims many great things that Wang has done, and certainly claims his significance. However, the article could be called biased because the fact that it says nothing bad about Wang leaves us in doubt.
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Labels: Humanities
Thursday, September 25, 2008
What Is the "Rule" for living things
My impression of life varies very broadly. At one extreme would be humans walking around on streets carrying gadgets of technology, and at the other would be microscopic plankton floating in the ocean. I believe in the "scientific" definitions that life must be consisted of one or more cells, and it must be able to grow and reproduce.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
NOVA and thoughts afterwards
In physics class today we watched a movie called Nova. This movie introduces the scientific theories and concepts we humans have came up with on how the universe works. The movie introduces the concepts of newton, einstein, maxwell... etc... concepts of electromagnetism and gravity, the strong and weak nuclear force and how these all connect and work with one another. Basically, the film challenges a mind to imagine and understand science that is based on theory and idea.
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Labels: Science
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Reflection for Physics Project
In class, we were given a ramp and a weighted cardboard box. We were told to study the action and the forces acting on the box as it slides down the ramp, especially the force of friction and the coefficients. It was fun and frustrating at the same time to try and figure out what we needed to know on our own for this project. Our group worked together nicely. I was always the one who refused to calculate anything for my dislike of math, and Gene was always more than willing to do so. It was nice having a group who were all willing to work hard and keep trying even if we had no idea what the heck we were facing.
The concepts and the forces were really fascinating, so fascinating that we eventually forgot that the whole point of the assignment was COEFFICIENTS OF FRICTION. That was a bummer 'cause it seemed to have cost us a lot of points. However, I believe we all enjoyed the assignment, even if it was filled with frustration and confusion from time to time. It paid off because now as I type sitting at my desk, I imagine gravity suddenly disappearing for an unknown reason and every single piece of junk falling and crashing, breaking through the wooden desk and onto the ground. Sound fun and exciting enough?
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Labels: Science
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The Giver by Lois Lowry
For Language Art class we are studying dystopian stories and novels. The Giver is a dystopian novel by Lois Lowry, and it was the novel that we are currently studying and having fairly interesting discussions and arguments over. But before I talk about any of our analysis, I will introduce the plot and story of the book. So if you're planning on reading this book and hate it when people give away endings, stop reading this blog entry this moment.
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Labels: Language Arts
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Engagement Journal.. long time no see :D
What engagement grade do I deserve?
As an effective communicator I would give myself 2 points. When I wish to communicate something, I wouldn't hesitate. I'm not afraid of communicating and saying things in front of the class, and I believe that usually what I'm trying to say gets through to others.
As for being a person of high character, I would give myself a 2. I've never used the computer for reasons other than class in physics class, and I try my best to be on time for class. I am always attentive (being so interested in physics). I try before I give up, and one good example was the ramp challenge which I mentioned earlier.
Over ally I think I was pretty engaged in physics class this semester..
:)
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Singapore Goodness
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Dinnertime with Dad
In our house, our family often engages into a very interesting topic at meal times. My dad and I share an interest that my mom doesn't seem to ever understand. We love physics. My dad would talk about some physics concepts, and answer my never ending questions.
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Labels: Science