My Lovely Letter To My Dear Daddy

Advertising Questions!

1. How does advertising influence consumption?
- Advertisements are very attractive because there are only positive effects about the product and they purposely don't show the negative effects. There are celebrities and/or models to promote and advertise the product which attracts people to spend an amount of money on purchasing it.

2. Do you think citizens are sufficiently informed about the sustainability of our consumption habits? If not, how can we become more informed about sustainability issues?
- To my own experiences, I really don't think citizens are sufficiently informed about the sustainability of our consumption habits. People in Vietnam do not have enough knowledge to know about this. But if they do know, they will not bother purchasing things that they see everyday on television, the internet or anywhere else. I think the only way to reduce this issue is to make the government make a rule about the sustainability of our consumption habits to stop this earth from running out of natural yet precious resources.

3. Do you think these advertising techniques influence what you and your friends purchase?
- These advertising techniques that people are using around the world really influence me and my friends. Whenever I see something that I think is cool but affordable, I then immediately tell my friends to take a look at it and we'll all decide whether we should buy it or not. Furthermore, if the thing I desperately want to buy is too expensive and unnecessary to my parents, then I will have to give up my whole dream for it miserably.

Sustainable Development Examples

There are different examples of sustainable development around the world, with sustainable cities, eco-industrial parks. Here are some of the examples:

1. China Rongsheng Heavy Industries, China's largest shipbuilder outside state control, plans to issue an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong this month. The funds raised will be used on shipbuilding, marine engine building, engineering machinery and debt repayment. Rongsheng is a young company, delivering its first vessel in 2008, but has grown to become one of the largest shipyards in the world.

http://business.globaltimes.cn/industries/2010-11/588820.html

2. Efficient Water Fixtures:
Installing efficient showers, toilets, and other water using appliances in existing structures and new construction is a way of making the most of available resources by conserving water.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090625033057AAdTEAc

3. Other examples:
Use solar energy instead of using electricity
Use recycled materials
Plant more trees to reduce deforestation

Migration/Immigration Assessment

The sparkly dark night had been covered with shining stars and a bright full moon. Ayaya was sitting on a couch in the backyard and watching the lollipops dropping from the sky. It had been nearly seven years since Ayaya and a couple of her best friends migrated externally from Amivism to Amimism. They all decided to move outside of Amivism because of the two push factors; social migration and persecution. In Amivism, there was discrimination and half of the people died of a gigantic starvation. The Amivist people were starving for months, there was a lack of lollipops, and some of the Amivist including Ayaya and her best friends were harmed by a dangerous gang. It was more safety in Amimism because lolli-guards were everywhere on every single street, flying lollipops were crowded in the air and these were the two pull factors of Amimism that a lot of people from other countries chose to move in.

It was a great idea for Ayaya and her friends to migrate to Amimism because it was a secured country to live in and they enjoyed a better quality of life with enough food. After the migration of Ayaya’s and her friends’, more than the other half of the people moved out of Amivism, the gang suddenly stopped harming and mistreating people because there were only a few people left and they turned out to be good citizens. There weren’t many Amivist people left, therefore, there was a sustainable use of lollipops by that amount of people and no one ever starved for the following decades.

A Message from Mother Nature

1. The main point of this article is if the weather is changing the climate or not.

2.

• Reluctant: Do not want to do something
• Dispute: An argument
• Skeptics: A person that is always suspicious about things
• Indicator: proofs

3. To me, weather means the condition of the atmosphere under a short period of time. Climate is the condition of atmosphere but under a long period of time.

4. There are many examples like the monsoon in Pakistan that caused flooding and killed more than 1,500 people. Record-breaking heat wave along with a record-breaking drought in Russia. Flooding batterd New England, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

5. I truely have no experiences with an extreme weather.

6. Perception means to understand an issue.

7. I think the climate is changing because there are alot of extreme weathers occur over years. And it's caused by global warming.

Lolli-Gushers

Lolli-Gushers is a continent where the kids all over the world wanted to visit; there were candies in each country. It was started with a candy girl named Amiv. Amiv was so addicted to candies that her mom called her a 'candy girl'. In 2127, Amiv found a land and she named it after her. After that, Amiv called her three best friends to be the "three candy women" for the other three lands. They then formed as Gushers, Mimivism, and Lollipop. After more than ten years of living in peace, they had a conflict and it led to a war called "Lolli War". The reason it was called a "Lolli War" because people used lollipops and gummies as their weapons. The war lasted for twelve years and the people poorly destroyed the environment which caused a creature grew from the ground. It was Spicy Lollipop Man!

Lolli-Gushers was a very fantasy continent after all because there were lollipop rains which colorful lollipops fall from the sky all around the country. And there were also gum balls swimming along the Chocolate River. Amivism was located 40 degrees south and 20 degrees west. It was very creepy to live in Amivism because there was Spicy Lollilop Man living right beside it. Spicy Lollipop Man was very powerful, just a breath of his could blow half of the country away. One day, the people in Amivisim didn't clean the gum balls in the Chocolate River which made it stuck for days, and the people didn't have anything to drink so Spicy Lollipop Man got angry and he blew 2/3 of Amivism away in just a blink. 23,569 people were killed. After that crazy event, 10,000 people immigrated to Mimivism.

There was a big lollipop rain in 2171 and many lollipops flooded all around the four countries and they were flourished. People didn't need to work for food anymore because they used to go the woods for fruits. But from that time, people in Amivism, Gushers, and Mimivism stopped working and kept eating so they got fat and lazy. (The population of fat people was 24,000) Only the people Lollipop worked for fruits. They went to the woods day by day, and they stored many fruits for special occasions. The rest of people got lazy and they used automatically moving lollipops to trade for fruits with the people in Lollipop. When there was no more lollipops to eat, they realized that their chances of working were over because they were fat and they couldn't move around. Many people were starving for food and about 124, 649 people died from this event. Spicy Lollipop Man used to be very strict and mean but this time, he decided to be a hero to save Lolli-Gushers. For fourteen years, Spicy Lollipop Man finally invented diet pills to make people diet. The population of fat people descreased to 437, which was really great. They started working again for fruits, they started cleaning the Chocolate River so that it wouldn't stuck anymore.

There weren't any roads in Lolli-Gushers because people used automatically moving lollipops to trade. The moving lollipops were very fast because its speed is about 99,999 km/h, which is much faster than airplanes. Airplanes over here were considered as turtles.

In Lolli-Gushers, the people spoke ClikClik. It was a very complicated language because they didn't speak by mouth, but they used their feet to speak. One step stands for a, two steps stand for b, three steps stand for c, and so on. The people looked kind of weird when they tried to say something, because they had to dance like a monkey. But that was what unique about them.

What I Have Learned From The Family Tree Project

At first, I did not know why we had to do this project and present it to the whole class about our history, our culture and ourselves. But after all, I think this project is very helpful and I have learned many things from it.

First of all, when I was discussing with my parents about our history, I have learned that they were living in North Vietnam before they came to South Vietnam and their accents are mixed of the two. Also, they were poor back then but they worked extremely hard to earn money and I was born in a wealthy family so I am very proud to be their daughter. Secondly, I got to know that they are experts at tennis; they've won thirteen trophies in total from many tournaments, they play tennis for more than ten years and they're still playing it.

Not that I've only learned about my family history and my parents, but I have also learned about Korean culture. On New Year's Day in Korea, you have to bow to people when you see them. If i was a kid from five years old or older, you had to bow 45 degrees. If it was a ten-year-old or older, you had to bow 90 degrees. And If it was an adult from twenty years old or older, you had to bow 140 degrees. If you did not bow to them, they would say that your parents don't know how to teach you. I think it was an interesting presentation because I got to know more about Korean culture, it's also a big difference from Vietnamese culture and Korean culture.

This project is very helpful and I'm looking forward to more projects that help us learn more about different people and different cultures.

Study Guide

Study Guide

MAPS:

1. Physical – shows the physical features of the earth

2. Political – shows the countries

3. Thematic – shows different types of themes, including: resources, climate, road, economic, etc

5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY:

1. Location – where things exactly are based on the longitude & the latitude

2. Place – describing the physical & human characteristics of a location

3. Region – a bigger place with similar physical & human characteristics

4. Movement – how things (humans, ideas, goods) go from place to place across the planet

5. Human/Environment Interaction – how humans adapt to the environment & how the environment adapts to humans

6 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS – HELP GEOGRAPHERS UNDERSTAND PEOPLE, PLACES, AND ENVIRONMENTS ON THE EARTH:

1. The world in spatial terms – by studying locations of places using maps, this helps geographers understand physical and human patterns

2. Places and regions – geographers look for characteristics of places and then compare their similarities and differences

3. Physical systems – geographers study changes in the Earths surface; where and why people choose to live in certain locations

4. Human systems – by studying human settlement patterns and use of resources, this helps geographers explain human interactions and lifestyles

5. Environment and society – geographers study how people interact with the environment and how they use resources

6. The uses of geography – by studying patterns and processes in the world, this helps people understand the past and plan for the future

HOW FORCES CONTINUALLY CHANGE EARTH’S SURFACE

WHAT IS CULTURE? :

1. History, tradition, religion, government, costumes, education, trade, environment, nature, everything around us, etc

VOCABULARY:

1. Geography – study of people, places, and environments

2. Environment – physical surroundings of a location

3. Location – where things exactly are based on the longitude & the latitude

4. Spatial – referring to where a place is located and its physical relationship to other places, people, or environments

5. Place – describing the physical and human characteristics of a location

6. Region – an area that has similar physical & human characteristics

7. Map – a representation of a part of the Earth

8. Globe – a model of the earth in the shape of a sphere

9. Surveyor – a person who measures the land

10. Remote sensing – obtaining information about a site by using an instrument that is not physically in contact with the site

11. Landsat – a series of information – gathering satellites that orbit above Earth

12. Global Positioning System (GPS) – a system that uses a network of Earth – obtaining satellites to pinpoint location

13. Geographic Information System (GIS) – a computer – or Internet – based mapping technology

14. Database – a collection of information that can be analyzed

15. Location analyst – a person who studies an area to find the best location for a client

16. Urban planner – a person who creates plans for developing and improving parts of a city

17. Climatologist – a geographer who studies climates

18. Geomorphology – the study of how the shape of the Earth changes

19. Cartographer – a geographer who creates maps

GEOGRAPHY’S JOBS:

1. Location analyst

2. Land surveyor

3. Urban planner

4. Climatologist

HOW TO READ A MAP? USING:

1. Compass, scale, legend, resources, elevation

TOOLS:

1. Global Positioning System (GPS) – a system that uses a network of Earth – obtaining satellites to pinpoint location

2. Geographic Information System (GIS) – a computer – or Internet – based mapping technology

3. Remote sensing – obtaining information about a site by using an instrument that is not physically in contact with the site

4. Map – a representation of a part of the Earth

5. Irrigation system

Norway!

I've been to many countries in Europe, but favorite country is Norway. First of all, when I was on the plane to Norway, all I could see from high above were mountains and lands. The mountains over there cover about 2/3 of the country. When I made a 3-hour trip from Bergen, the second largest city in Norway to its capital, Oslo, I saw more than 40 tunnels along the road, and one of them was 24.5 kilometers long. There were so many because back then, people used to trench the mountains and make routes for cars to go under them. It's cold in Norway, but some of the lands around Oslo have warmest summers but also cold weather during wintertime.

As you've seen Norway on a map, it's a small country, not a crowded country also. Its population is approximately 4,768,212. Not so many Vietnamese live there like they do in some other countries but they're very happy when they meet each other and they cherish the moment of being together as a family once or twice a year. The environment is very fresh and clean. I visited Norway for three weeks but there was no way I could find a piece of trash, which briefly tells you that the Norwegian people have good manners and they respond well to their environment. They are wonderful!
I hope I will have a chance to visit that amazingly beautiful country again!

The longest tunnel

I wrote my name on the wall just like everybody else did. I love that moment!

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Something I'd Like To Say!

Hi I'm Ami, and this is my 3rd year at AIS. Just a start of a school-year week but I'm really enjoying it. I have such awesome teachers and friends. They often make me laugh throughout the whole day. They're funny people and their jokes are hilarious! I prefer teachers and friends that can make me smile, laugh, or even giggle. People with sense of humor attract more to those who aren't so funny. All I want to say is I love jokes and best of all, smile and enjoy your school-year at AIS.