Fishbowl on The Giver...

Lately in Humanities, we have been reading a book called The Giver.We have been reading about two to three chapters over days and were supposed to post 3 comments, 3 connections and 3 questions on to the BBS. Today in Humanities we got into a fishbowl again ( ya'll know what a fishbowl is) We discussed most of our questions and this was also the time ( I felt ) that we could ask even more questions. I think the book is a nice book but since I have only read the first five chapters I don't really know what is going to happen but I can kind of guess what is going to happen. I thought that this book had a connection with the movie that we watched in class called "Pleasantville" as it was almost the same way as they lived and how much they know. I say this because the way that these people in the book are living is like strict rules for example: " You have to tell your family about your dreams at lunch, dinner or breakfast" and how much they know because the two characters in the book named Jonas and Lilly don't know what a "hippo" is so I thought that maybe this could have taken place in the past. So far, I have enjoyed this book but there are even better books that I have read ( not that this is a bad book).

Discussion of octamum vs China's one-child policy

Today in Humanities, we discussed what we preferred: octumum vs China's one-policy. We mostly choose somewhere in the middle because we thought that people should make their own choices for having how many ever children but we also thought that maybe the population would overflow just in one place (if that's where how many ever children have been born). We also thought about how many children the government should allow one couple should have. Maybe the maximum should be 5 or 6 and the minimum should be no children. I think that we should be able to have as many children as we like as long as we are able to take care of them, able to handle it and to give them the all the same amount of love they all need ( which I think is impossible to give 14 kids). 

There is a limit to everything but 14 kids...

In Humanities the other day we read an article on a girl that lives in California, got married and had 6 kids (sextapluts ) one after the other. Her husband did not want more kids and divorced her. With no husband, she had 8 embrios put in her stomach. About 9 months later, she gave birth to not only one more kid, but 8 more kids. So now she has 14 kids including the 6 kids before.

Back to humanities, after reading the article individually, we had to fill out a sheet of paper called the "9-6-3 stradgedy". After doing that we were assighned a number, 1 or 2, and were to find a partner from the same number as you. We were then supposed to share what we had put down on our sheet of paper. If we did not have something the other person had on their sheet of paper, we could add that into our sheet of paper. We were then mixed up into a group which had to 1's and 2 2's. Then we could share what we thought how many children the parents should have. 

I think people should have the maximum of three or four children because it will be easier to cope with and you won't waste money on things, and bills won't be as much as this lady in California has. Also you will have more time to spend with each and every one of your kids for I have seen some people that don't spend time at all with half of their kids because they have so many kids.

At the end of the class we had a "fishbowl''. "Fishbowl" is when you have five people in the center of the room and they have to discuss the question that the teacher gives us. If the question is about why little Johnny crossed the street we have to discuss why little Johnny crossed the street. When someone from the discussion is tapped by someone that is outside of the discussion group the person inside will have to get up.We discussed about how many children the government should let us have. We did not get to finish our discussion completely as we did not have much time. Even though, I would strongly agree that this time the "Fishbowl" was so much more organized as no one jumped in just after a second.

Interpretation of Sonnet #7 by William Shakespeare.

Today in class we were split into groups and were given the choice of wheather to act out, make a drawing or make music of what we thought this poem meant:

SONNET 7
Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage;
But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract and look another way:
So thou, thyself out-going in thy noon,
Unlook'd on diest, unless thou get a son. What I understand from this poem is that when the Sun rises everyone admires it even though it is at it's peak in the middle of the day. But once when the Sun is setting people turn their attention else where. The poet is  making a comparison between youth and old age. In youth you are looked upon and in old age you are 'ignored unless you have a son.

Google Earth!

Today in Humanities, we watched a video on how the earth evovled from The Ancient World ( the Mesapotamia days ) to modern days. I think it is very interesting on how the earth has evovled from cavemen to modern man like us and how we evolved from talking like apes to having different languages. I think overall the movie was interesting because it showed us, as I said before, how the earth evolved.I also wonder how the people who put this on Google Earth, how they knew about this stuff. If they ( the people who put this stuff on Google Earth ) had found this on the Internet, how did the people who put that stuff on the Internet know about this. I know that in Mesapotamia days, there was no computers, so I am guessing that maybe archeologists might have put it online or something like that.
Well, that's about it for today guys,

C ya' later ( or tomorow, or the day after.....)
Krithika

2009!!!!!!

When I came back from London and Florida it was soooooo tiring! It was pleasant in Florida but very VERY cold in London. It was about -10 in London and I actually got to see a few sheets of snow. When we left Malaysia and went to London for a week my mum and aunt wanted to go shopping the whole day and the next and the next and the next and th........ Well, you get where this is all going to, right? So, they shopped for the whole week except one day. On that day we went to a place called "Madam Tussauds". It was a wax museum having live-size wax models of many people who have made a mark in the world. Some of them were Hitler,Ghandi, Martin Luthur King Jr., etc.... . WHen we went to Florida it was pleasant.We went to Disneyland. Some of the parks were Animal Kingdom , Universal Studios, Kennedy Space Center, Blizzard Beach. The park that I enjoyes most was Blizzard Beach where all the water rides were.It was also the park that I really enjoyed. My favorite ride was the ride called "The Simpsons" ride. It was a stimulator but really it felt like a real rollar coaster. I have really enjoyed my vacation and hope to go there or any part near there again.

KL and early men

As you all should know there have been a lot of changes compare to us and early men. What are some of these changes? Some of them are that early men did not have electricity like we do. They had to make their electricity. But for us all we have to do is turn on or off a switch and there you go! Some of the ways they made light ( which is electricity ) in those dark caves ( if they lived in caves that is ) is by rubbing two stones or sticks together. It is VERY VERY easy for us to get food. Well, how do we get food? We could either go to Cold Storage , buy packets of food go back home and cook them or buy the ingredients and cook them. But for the early men they had to fish using spears, kill animals etc.......!

Well that's all for today folks!
TTFN ( TaTa For Now)
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