"Harrison Bergeron" questions (:

1. Life in Vietnam would be perfect if everyone were totally equal. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer in complete sentences.

- I totally disagree with this statement. People with high intelligence had to be handicapped and people with even higher intelligence would be heavily handicapped. Pretty people had to wear ugly masks to cover their amazingly beauty. There would be no competitions happening in the community. Overall, justice, fairness, and equity would not be synchronizing throughout the country. That could be a huge disaster and Vietnam would be the most terrible place to live in.

2. You are designing a society in which everyone is equal. What are the laws?

• People should have the same intelligence; no one is smarter than anyone
• No one can beautiful than others
  
• Have the same amount of money
• Have to live in a normal house; not big yet not small
• You cannot always be happy nor sad
• Use the same amount of water every day
• Same style, color, length of hair
• All shall study in a public school
• Same fabric of clothing
• Not allowed to spend more than $25/day
• Not allowed to take off handicap devices- end up in prison for 9 years and 9,999 dollars fine
  

3. What would you do to help people who were less capable mentally, physically, or socially to "catch up"?

- I would tell smart people to take off their handicap devices for a moment to get a solution, although I know it was against the law. This was an important issue in which it was a must. Maybe I could tell people were less capable mentally a bunch of stories, ask them questions, or show them pictures and try to see if they could get their memories back. If these things would not work, then I have to discover some inventions to do with it. The world today, have a lot of artificial limbs that help handicapped people to have a normal life. I would compliment people who were less capable socially first then encourage them to start talking to people and finally make friends with them.

4. What problems can you foresee that might come in a society with laws that force "equality for all"? How would you handle those problems?

- People with an average-everything would be living a life in joy but people with a high-everything would feel bad for themselves that they were not treated differently. Smart people would give up anything to get their freedom, the fairness and the right to be abnormal back. There might be competitions between the high and average people to get whatever they want back. The solution to solve this problem could be making laws and whoever went against the law should end up as a prisoner with no money.

5. Do you believe that total equality is possible, or would human nature make sure that some people would eventually dominate others?

- I never think totally equality is possible because there are geniuses, dull people, the rich and the poor. What makes more sense that this is not possible is the government. Everything is ruled and under control of the government. In brief, it depends on human nature to make up its mind.

6. In what situations have you felt similarly to any of the characters? What persons, places, or ideas from your own experience came to mind while you were reading this story? Try to list as least two examples.

- In the middle of reading the story, I immediately thought of one of my friends who likes to command people. She tells them to do things for her, even small, easy things that a kid can do. This is unfair but it is not a bad thing because that's just her personality.
- I also thought that it must be very painful, annoying and really unfair to wear those handicap devices if you are better than others. It's not your fault that you were born to be talented. It's just unfair for a talented person to become an untalented one.

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.