How do electrolytes work in our body?

How do electrolytes work in our body?
Basically, electrolyte is when matter has electricity through itself. There are some organisms and body tools that contain electrolyte. There are three main electrolytes in our body. Sodium, calcium, and potassium. Sodium controls amount of water, and other liquids in your body, calcium makes frame of bones, and tooth, and potassium controls never and muscular system. Many people say that spits are electrolyte, but it isn't actually. Spit is not matter of electrolyte, because there is nothing inside spit. Electrolyte in our body is when certain foods go through our body, and we swallow, it split into several nutrition, such as calcium, potassium, and sodium. That's how electrolyte works in our body. So spit is not an electrolyte. Pee, and poop are electrolyte, pee and poop are way to take out some energies that we had ate, so it contains some nutrituion.

Science blogging. Lightning

What is lightning? Why does wearing rubber shoes help you during a storm?
Lightning is an affection by clouds. We can easily say that the lightning is discharge of electricity.
Most of time when there is lightning it's because of, tunder. Which means it's from tunderstorms.
When there is lightning, the speed is 60,000m / s, and temperature of the light is approximately 30,000 C. When there is one lightning, it can turn on 100000 pieces of bulbs for 1 hour, which is 100 watts.
Wearing rubber shoes help you during a storm, because there are a lot of lightning when it rains or having a storm.
Wearing a rubber shoes really help when there is lightning. Rubber shoes is an insolator, so when there is a electrical shocking, the rubber shoes will prevent you from the electrical shocking. However, it still depends on how much energy does the lightning or electricity contains or how thick is your rubber shoes. It's because, when there is too much energy in lightning, the rubber shoes would prevent you from the shocking, but it only can prevent certain electricities from lightning. Therefore, it really depends how thick is your rubber shoes, or how much volts does lightning or electrical shocking contains.
Also sleeper prevents you from lightning.

current event (hum)

China economyAn onion seller waits for customers at an agricultural wholesale market in Shenyang, northeast China, 16 April 2009. China's economy has slipped over the last quarter with large drops in exports and a slowdown in investment but the government claims the first signs of a turnaround are being seen and confidence returning.

Current event (hum)

The Santa Barbara Dance Theater will perform at the 3rd Seongnam International Dance Festival, which starts April 25 through May 2. / Courtesy of SIDF

By Han Sang-hee

Staff Reporter

The Seongnam International Dance Festival celebrates its third year, and despite its short history, the dance committee promises an event worth watching.

A total of 10 troupes from eight countries and 30 local groups will participate in the eight-day festival in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, with energetic performances and various programs where visitors can join in.

The annual festival will now run biennially, but according to the artistic director of the SIDF, Park In-ja, the content will only get better with time.

``It is a great burden to hold such an international festival every year, and it is also difficult to invite successful dance troupes from around the world. The festival may have become a biennial event, but we have prepared more high-quality programs for fans,'' Park said at the press conference of the event last month in central Seoul.

One of the most anticipated events is the World Star Gala Performance, where famous dancers including ballerina Kang Sue-jin from Germany's Stuttgart Ballet, Won Jin-young from the Nederlands Dans Theater II and Anna Antonicheva from Russia's Bolshoi Ballet will grant fans their powerful stage presence through works like ``Onegin'' and ``Diane and Acteon.'' The gala show will also present famed choreographer John Cranko's work ``Legende'' for the first time. In particular, Kang will also hold a special lecture for students and talk about ballet.

The festival has also planned an International Dance session in which six famous troupes got together to bring creative works to the public. The Loretta Livingston & Dancers from the United States, the La Compania from Argentina and the Isle-no-ko from Japan will join three other local groups to present their collaborated works that combine the elements of East and West, along with innovative music and stage settings

Another not to miss event is the Crossover Dance session. Four troupes from the Netherlands, Seoul and the U.S. will join fellow artists from different genres, including music and visual art, and offer experimental work.

According to Park, the Aalto Ballet Theatre Essen of Germany's ``Homage to Queen'' is also a must-see performance.

``This work is not just about artistic quality. Young students who have heard of Queen's music will be able to relate to the work quite easily,'' Park said.

Using the music by legendary rock group Queen, Essen's work has become one of the most creative performances in the world, garnering fans from countries such as France, England and Austria. Dancers will move to the familiar tunes of ``Bohemian Rhapsody,'' ``We are the Champions'' and even ``We Will Rock You.'' This is the first time for the troupe to bring ``Queen'' to Korea.

``Many dance fans appreciate ballet these days, but as for modern dance, it's still only enjoyed by a few. We ask visitors to just feel and enjoy instead of trying to understand every meaning of each movement,'' said Park.

The festival will run April 25-May 2 in various areas around Seongnam, including Seongnam Arts Center, Yuldong Park, Moran Market and even Namhan Fortress. Tickets for the performance at the center cost from 10,000 won to 100,000 won. For more information, visit www.sidf.co.kr (Korean and English) or call (031) 783-8235.

Current event (Hum)

Victoria Berezenska, left, and his husband Andriy

Some Korean words have become a fixed part of the language in Ukraine. For example, ``kimchi'' and ``taekwondo'' are common. Words like Seoul, Pyongyang and Panmunjeom are among the most frequently used geographical names.

Such are the findings of two Ukrainian scholars, Y. L. Mosenkis and R. I. Synyshyn, who published a book titled ``Korean Language Manifestation in the Ukrainian Linguistic Space,'' last year.

``Korean is not a language that seems to be borrowed from other languages. Nevertheless, the two Ukrainian researchers carried out research on Korean loanwords in the Ukrainian language,'' said Victoria Berezenska, a staff member at the Ukrainian Embassy in Seoul, who herself is studying the Korean language. She's read the book and is writing a review of it.

Published in 2007, the book gives a close look at the phonetic and graphic adoption of Korean phonemes and lexical interpretation of Korean words, Berezenska said.

``The authors concluded that the most common Korean loanwords in the Ukrainian language are ``taekwondo'' and ``kimchi,'' which have already become part of local Ukrainian culture,'' she said.

Taekwondo is one of the most popular sports in Ukraine, she continued, and kimchi is Ukrainians' favorite Korean dish, according to Berezenska.

She said the presence of Korean vocabulary in Ukraine dates back to the early 20th century.

Ethnic Koreans were forced to move to Central Asian states at the beginning of 20th century from the northeastern region of the former Soviet Union.

``As a result, today, we can taste their own kind of kimchi, produced from local products based on traditional Korean cooking recipes.

The descendants of these ethnic Koreans moved to Ukraine, and today, we also have a chance to enjoy the taste of a new type of kimchi,'' she said.

Berezenska's access to Korean language has a decade-long history.

While studying Korean at the National Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev, she came to Korea as part of an exchange program. With the language fluency, she got a job at the Ukraine Embassy in 2003, to which she returned after several years of absence.

Her husband Andriy is also a Korean-language student at Yonsei University in Seoul.

MaoZeDong (Hum)

Example: I want to learn more about the Cultural Revolution in China. What was Chairman Mao trying to do? What happened to college educated people?

Basically to introduce Mao ze-dong. He’s the mastermind which established China. From now on, I will write about his childhood, and what he has done to China. Also what efficient affection did he leave for China.
He was born at 1893 years, in a wealthy farmer’s house as the third oldest son. However, the first and second oldest brothers died, so we can easily think that Mao was the oldest baby. His house was wealthy, so he could attend a school and study. However, he left his house when he was get to go to middle school, because his parents forced him to get marry with a girl that his parents want him to marry. It’s one of the Chinese traditional custom that people have to marry with a girl which their parents show agreement, and which their parents think it’s fit for their babies. Anyways Mao did not like the custom, so he left his own house, and he attended junior and senior high school by himself.
In 1919, he became a professor of Beijing university. For that reason, he could read a lot of books. Also he took a class which China’s many mastermind taught. Such as Chen Duxiu, and Hus. Therefore, he could’ve learn a lot of things through it, and it’s really helpful for his future. Later on, he started to consider about the communist, and he made a decision that he could’ve get many soldiers and establish China. Therefore, finally he had a lot of wars in China. He lost sometimes, and sometimes he won. He established China at 1949, and he became he became a king of China for 10 years(1959).

Current event (Humanity)

Current event (Hum) The lady who got 17 times of heart surgeries

There is 16 years old lady who got 17 times of heart surgeries called "Haselgrove".
When she was borned her body amount was 1.9 KG. It was so light. Therefore she had to take a heart surgery for 5 times in the year she borned. Many people said that she's going to die in a week, so her mom was always thankful to god for living with her daughter every moment. Haselgrove mostly stayed in a hospital until 10 years old. When she was 13 years old, she took 12 heart surgeries. How terrible is it. For the age 13 , people mostly play in a ground, and enjoy their lives. However Haselgrove took 12 heart surgeries ! There was a big reason why she did not die. It's because, she always thought that she's going to be fine, and she wanted to live.
She's now 16 years old. From the 12 surgeries in 13 years it's been 3 years, but she's doing really well until now.
Many people think it's impossible. How amazing is it !!
You people, have to think in positive ways everytime :D.

Who?- Haselgrove
What? - She took 17 heart surgeries total
When? - from 1 year ~ 13 years old
Where? - Hospital
Why? - She was having trouble from when she was borned.

Resource: http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=104&oid=081&aid=0002006360

Christianity (Humanity)

Basically The Christianity religion is the biggest religion all around the world.
I am going to talk about the histories of Christianity.
"Christianity started out in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it came to America and became an enterprise like a big company, and a big community."
There are twenty thousand(20000) religions sect, which Christianity has. Among the 20000 religions there are several representative religions. It's Orthodox Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Reformed Church, Coptic Church, and Reforming Catholic Church. What do you feel about this ? The Christianity is a really big religion !! It contains 20000 religions total all over the world. And among 20000 religions it has a Christian !! Christian contains almost 60% of Europe whole continent.
Based on these ideas, you can easily know that the Christianity is the biggest religion in the world, and 20000 religions are involved in Christianity !! IT'S AMAZING !!

The strength of fireworkers (current event)

Fireworkers in Korea have saved one Korean guy in England.
The Korean which was in England was really sick, so from England the Korean in England (Seol-ah Sim) called her mom to Korea by using skype. The mom knew that her daugter is in dangerous situation. Therefore the mom called fireworkers, and the fireworkers called to an international fireworkers. Therefore the international fireworkers called to fireworkers in England, and England fireworkers saved the daughter. How incredible is it !! How could it happen !!

Who? The student in England, mom, fireworkers in Korea, and England
What? Korean fireworkers saved the student in England
When? I read this article at 9:34 in mar.25
Where? In England, and Korea
Why? The student in England had been got into a dangerous situation somehow. Therefore she had to call her mom...

Resource: http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=079&aid=0002043748

The oldest women (Current event)

In the world record, the oldest guy in the world is 114 years old.
However in Kazakhstan, they have find the oldest guy in the world call "Sahkan Dosova". She is 130 years by having a birthday on mar.27 which is 2 days later.
The reasons why she could live till 130 years are because, she has never eaten abbreviation before, and she does not eat sweet stuff like candy, chocolate, and coke.
How incredible it is !!!

Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Who? - Sahkan Dosova
What? - She is the oldest guy in the world. (130 years)
When? - I read this article on mar.25 9:20 pm
where? - In Kazakhstan
Why? - She has never eaten abbreviations, she does not eat sweet food. (Candy, chocolate, and coke).

Resource:http://news.naver.com/hotissue/ranking_read.php?section_id=104&ranking_type=popular_day&office_id=081&article_id=0002005272&date=20090325&seq=4

Five learning outcomes (Advisory)

There are five learning outcomes.
Active learner, effective communicator, critical thinker & problem solver, community contributor, and person of high character.
I am going to write definitions of each student learning outcomes.
Active learner: An active learner is when students ask questions to teachers, do their homework well, and do extra work for any projects that teacher gave. Ex) I was being an active communicator in Ms. Kao's class. Our homework was to write a blog post about the Taiwan food culture. I finished it, and I also did the food culture of Korea, so that we could compare both countries food culture.

Effective communicator: An effective communicator is when people communicate each other, they show their respect to audiences. Such as eye-contact, listen carefully, and speak loud.
Ex) I was being an effective communicator when I was talking to Juegan, I always showed respect to Juegan when we met first in school. Therefore we are the best friend in our school now.

Community contributor: A community contributor is when students sacrifize themselves to other people or help out other people.
Ex) I was being a community contributor to new students in math class at the beginning of the school year. In math class only old students have learend about GSP, so the new students don't know how to use GSP, so I helped new students to set things in GSP.

Critical thinker & problem solver: A critical thinker & problem solver is when students consider things deep and solve the questions. Also when there are any kind of emergencies they have to solve the problem.
Ex) In Taiwan culture class, I had to make my own scedules for a project. Therefore I used a critical thinker to organize my own scedule, and so does problem solver.

Person of high character: A person of high character is when students respect teachers. Such as nice movement, being polite.... etc
Ex) I was being a person of high character to Mr. Carpenter. I always greeted him nicely. Whenever he talks I stopped doing my work and listened what Mr. Carpenter said.

These are examples and definitions of five learning outcomes.

Taiwan SS blog (movie)

I am going to write about three food through the video with a fat guy.
First of all is a chicken butt. Chicken butt is made of chicken's butt. It seems really disgusting that the food is made of butt of chickens, but the taste is really good. Also after we roast the chicken butt, then it looks really good. Therefore anyone like Taiwanese and foreigners any people from the world would feel delicious with the chicken butt.
Second of all is roasted shrimp. This food is made of shrimp. They roast shrimp. It looks really good and taste would be great. Also it would be good if we eat them with wines, it would be awesome. It's a seafood, so it's way better and better quality of food than junk foods.
Lastly the food is "stink tofu". It's really stinky and smells like crap. If people from outside of Taiwan try to eat stinky tofu, they will be shocking. It really stinks. However for Taiwanese, it's a traditional food, and it's a really great taste for them. Even though it's stinky and taste bad, for Taiwanese, it's the best food ever in their history of food.

Scotland lives (Hum)

By the time 12 centuries, living in Scotland was the most horrible thing. People were easily got gun shot on their bodies. There were many criminals, some people even shouted a women just for 3 dollars. They raped anyone in a street. All the workers and other people fought with English for a freedom. Most people in Scotland treated as a slave to an English people.
Also throgh the movie, we can easily know that the nobles had a lot of powers. However poorer people were always fighting against a lack of "freedom".
Let me go deeper how terrible was the society of Scotland.
There weren't even water to wash their hand, except for nobles every Scottish wore clothes that are suck. Don't even imagin if they could have wear cloth to be a nice looking.
Most people had long hairs, because they did not even have time to cut it.
Although the society of 12 centuries in Scotland was totally terrible. However if you were a noble, your lives would be so good. However it's a fairness,,,,

Hums (fall of the roman empire)

The last king of the west Roman empire was Romulus Augusts.

The last western Roman empire deposed by Odoacer. Which is Italy's king.

Odoacer invaded west Roman empire, and Roman empire had gone in 476.
After Odoacer succeeded invade the Roman empire, he did not put a king that is like scarecrow.
They regented with the Vigantium empire. Therefore they put their own king, and grow the
west roman empire themselves.
However Vigantium empire and Odoacer did not really have a good relationship.
Therefore Vigantium invaded Odoacer, and finally in 489, Odoacer got killed by "Teodoric"
Another reason why did the roman empire falled was that the life in the time was like soilders
voted a king, and when soilders think that the king does not really work well and the king should be kicked out of the place. Therefore there were a lot of agreement and disagreement of many thing, and king could not do anything for the situations. For that reason Commerce and industry started to fall. Also there were a lot of feudalisms, like nobles could have gained a lot of money and they wasted a lot of money, but for poor farmers, they were all hungry and hard to live. Therefore all the lives were messed up in the time. Also there were a lot of farmer slaves, and they were always complaining. Finally they created a group and tried to fight with government.
After all, there was a big change. Religion !!
After the fall of the Roman empire, the new religion came out it's a Roman catholic church.
Another religion "Protestant" came out, and the both religion fought with certain rules of their own religon. Also that rules goes to daily lives like political things and stuff. Therefore there were a lot of religion fights after the fall of the Roman empire.

Personally, I agree that the Roman empire should fall, because there were a lot of confusing things in the time. Also if the Roman empire did not fall, nowadays might be like all communist countries. !!

Science nitrogen passport

1. Why didn't everybody go to the same stations in the same order ?
The dies control where to go for everybody. However we can't predict what number is die going to take. Therefore everyone was having a different section. Except for some of us that had same results of dies.

2. Did you go to the same station twice? If so, what does this tell us about cycles?
Yes, I think cycle connects to everything. If you were in Animal's waste(poop), you throw a die, and whatever number you take you have to go, and in the next station, you will have to throw a die again, and it might include the animal's waste again. Therefore I think cycle connects to every stations .

3. Was there one station that seemed to have a lot of people at it? Why or why not ?
Yes, I think it's because, many stations include one station. Therefore for percentage, people are going to be in the station. EX) You are in a animal waste station, you throw a die, and you go to ocean and there is again choice for to go to animal waste station, you throw a die and fortunately, you go to soil, and there is also choice for to go back animal waste. Every stations include animal waste, and many people are going to be in the animal waste station.

4. What do you think the point of this activity was ?
I think the point of this activity was mainly to learn about nitrogen. Also I think if we know this for our daily knowledge, it's going to be helpful for emergency situations.
Another thing is to learn about how the nitrogen works for our body and for other things. What does nitrogen causes ? DNA? amino acids ? ... etc ..
Through this activity, I could learn a lot about nitrogen.

About the Feudalism (Hum)

Basically, feudalism means "someone who has more power and higher level of people" takes all the profits more than poor guys. The medieval society was just caring about the level of people, and also there was a lot of racisms. We can take an example of women's lives. In the medieval times, women recognized as a stuff. They could not even have jobs, and go to stadium to see some games. However for men, they could've do anything to women, they even could have more than 2 wives. How terrible is it, they were just having a racism, because of it's a different gender. What do you feel through this example, I assume that people in medieval time certanly could do the racism by different levels compare to the racism of different gender.
Here are some feudalism society situations.
Peasant farmer is the second lowest role in the medieval time.(the lowest one is slaves)
Mostly, peasnat farmers are all poor. Therefore they had to lent some lands to fertilize foods, and the someone who borrow the lands to peasnat farmers are mostly nobles. They made certain rules between them. Peasant farmer should give 50 or whatever amount of foods and profits to owner of the lands for borrowing fee. Therefore for nobles even if they don't work, if they lant all of their lands to peasant farmers, they will automatically earn money fast. However for peasant farmer, they have to give their profits to nobles(owner of lands), so they don't really earn money. By comparison, today if someone has no land, government would have provide some lands for them, but government did not provide things to poor guys. Through this, we can tell that they were having some problems and troubles with government and kingdoms.

resource I use http://100.naver.com/100.nhn?docid=77430

Isolating the SMASH Variable.

Benjamin butto TED talk
Before the movie call "The curious case of the benjamin button", I did not know how did they make the old man's face gets younger and younger over times. Now I know the thing behind.
Movie maker used a scientific method to make benjamin button's face and some variable shapes of body. The main character Brad Pete (Benjamin) acted from an old man to a young man.
How did he acted like that ?? What's the behind story ?
First of all they took aspect of Brad Pete, He made different emotions of the face, and they took the picture. Next they have to do something that are required, such as lighting, put the body shape of Brad Pete, and used a computer graphic. Next put the shapes into an old man's face. As the old man grows, the body shapes and everything changed, and Brad Pete should follow every single steps.
These are how the curious case of the benjamin button created.

The first crusades (Hum)

I am going to write about the first crusades
The first crusade's destination(goal) was to conqueor the Jerusalem.
In the time (1076) All the muslims could not cooperated one another, so the first crusade Alexius I of Constantinople was torturing Muslims, but Muslims could not comport anything. The first crusade invaded "Nikea", and "Antiokia". However there was a whole captain call "Ardemar" in the Muslimsm, but during the time that crusades were trying to invade "Nikea", and "Antiokia", he died. Therefore all the diginities and cooperative minds had gone so fast. Therefore Muslims would not be able to defense that huge offense from the first crusade. Finally the first crusade successed conqueoring Jerusalem. The first crusade invaded inside the Jerusalem castle, and they killed many citizens and stole a lot of money.
Through Siria and Palestine, and some other middle east countries, they became crusade countries.
(P.S - This movie was really hard to understand ,, Therefore I used some resources from internet :)) http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C1%EC%B0%A8_%EC%8B%AD%EC%9E%90%EA%B5%B0.

Blood Red Horse Chapter5 HUM

I want to write about what I've found so far.
There are two brothers. Gavin and Will. Gavin is an older brother, Will is an younger brother. When they get together, they always fight each other. Once Will hit his older brother, and Gavin was bleeding. A girl appeared call "Elie". Elie is a really grubby girl who wears dirty clothes.
Elie swears at Gavin with Will, and it's because of Elie wants Will's profits. Elie will have to marry with Gavin in the future, this is because Gavin is son of the Sir Thomas and Elie is also from a castle , so they really connected each other, and here you might have a question. Why can' Will marry with Elie ? In the middle ages in Europe, when older brother could not get marry, then younger brother should wait until older brother gets married.
Will loves horses, he has a Scremanta, and it's light and speedy. However he complains about having Sacremanta. He wants more powerful horse than Sacrementa, such as a Stallion.
Will and Gavin are son of the Sir Thomas.
Once Sir Thomas attended a war, and he did not spend much time on build Hartslove Castle(There were a lot of deers around the castle, so they called it Hastslove castle). Therefore Hastslove Castle became a useless building.
Time passes and passes, Will becomes more professions on horses and wars.
The whole stories are about two boys and one girl. The adventure of a lifetime.

Connection and Relationships among peasant farmer an other roles in the middle ages(redo) HUM

In the middle ages my role was a peasant farmer, here are some connections and relationships among peasant farmer and other roles in the middle ages time.

Relationships: noble(peasant farmer pay for the land owner/noble) Noble was usually wealthy people, so mostly noble was the manor of lands. Cardinal(peasant farmer prey in church) Everyone deserves to go to church include peasant farmers. Bishop(join the church to prey, because everyone can prey. Also most people in the middle ages married in a church, so cardinals and bishops should recognize them as together.) Knight(When they have wars, then peasant farmers also have to join the war, then they will have to respect knights and do things that knights order.)

Connection: Peasant farmers fertilize plants, rices, and other vegetables. They exchagne their platns, rices and other vegetables with money. Everyone eats the food.

My role: Peasant farmer (hum)

My role for the middle ages is a peasant farmer.
I am going to write about what does peasant farmers do.
Peasant farmer was the lowest level of people in the middle ages. The farmers worked the fields daily, planting, harvesting, and fertilizing the plants. There are manor of the grounds, and peasant farmers should have payment to the manors for using the ground. Therefore peasant farmers should be always nice to the manor, and work hard.
Also kind of peasant farmer was craftsmen.
The craftsmen built their goods to sell, and paid a tax to the lord for their right to use the land. Their life mainly consisted of making their goods and services available to the public of the town, coming to help when the town or castle needed repairs, or training the younger generation with their craft. Their profit from the sales was used to buy food from the farmers, and other items which kept the cycle of sales and purchases flowing to keep the medieval economy going.

Two main characters in the book (Hum)

I want to introduce about two characters in the book.
One is will.
2 strong adjectives that can describe will: Angry, lovely.
If we watch Will in one way, I can think of "anger", because he fights with his brother "Gavin" a lot, he always argue with his brother. However when we watch him in another way I can think of lovely one guy who is full of anger like 7 or 8 years kids, an air inside his cheek, that looks really cute, but also angry, and also lovely. Therefore when we combine them together we can think of a lovely guy. Also he never gives up, he trys to get anything he wants, especially a horse.

Another chracter is Gavin
2 strong adjectives: Kind, mean.
Gavin is sometimes kind and sometimes mean. My reasons are as follows.
Will always making fun of Gavin, and they always fight each other, and I think that Gavin would be so sad of the situations, and people will think that Gavin is a dull guy, because he doesn't do anything to Will. If I was Gavin, I would flap in his face.
Gavin is also mean, because he also making fun of Will

Science smash day reflection

1. Summarize --
-- What did we do for SMASH Day? Smash day is a really greatful for me, because it's the only one day which we are out of stacks of studying. We do fun activities and there are always missions and we have to solve them.

-- What was your mission? our mission was to look inside the box with several materials, we have to make things to look inside, we had mirror and some pieces of box.

-- What supplies were you given? Materials were pieces of box, tapes and mirrors
2. Reflect -- Scientists often make a hypothesis, test it, and then change (or modify) their design to make it work. --
How many times did you have to modify your design? one
-- How did you know that you should modify your design? we have to get angles of the mirrors where do we have to put mirrors to see inside of the box.
-- How did you know what to do when you modified it? we thought and thought about how to make up things, and we found that how to look inside of the box.
-- How did your team communicate to decide how to modify your design? we communicated altogether, we connect siser with boxes that way we could have make our thing longer, and we put mirror at the celling that way when we look from down, we can look though the mirror.
3. Tips and Suggestions
-- If you could give a list of tips and suggestions to someone who is doing this for the first time, what would it be? What would you tell them to help them out? First of all don't be hurry, you have to be patient, you have a lot of time to do the activity. Therefore don make mistakes with being in a hurry. Think and think then when you are certainly sure, then you make a decision.
Also you really have to consider the angles of mirror, you have to think about the place where you watch your stuff from and things like that....
Although if you are being patient and really think you are going to make it !!

Good luck .

News Article (Hums)

The leaders of South Korea and the United States yesterday pledged to work together to end the North Korean nuclear programs through the six-way talks and prevent the reemergence of trade protectionism.

U.S. President Barack Obama telephoned President Lee Myung-Bak for a 15-minute conversation early in the morning to discuss North Korea, the global economy and bilateral alliance, their spokespersons said.

Obama told Lee that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would visit Seoul in February.

"President Obama stressed the importance of coordination through the six-party talks to resolve the North Korean nuclear dispute," Lee`s spokesman Lee Dong-kwan said.

The Obama government is widely expected to push bilateral negotiations with the communist country in parallel with the six-nation mechanism.

"President Lee appreciates the new U.S. administration`s demonstration of a strong resolve with regard to the North Korean nuclear issue," the spokesman added.

Obama`s spokesman described the talk as "warm and substantive."

"The president conveyed his deep commitment to the United States-Republic of Korea alliance. Both presidents expressed their intention to expand cooperation on global issues," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement.

The two leaders also "agreed to work together, including at the G-20 summit in London, to stabilize the global economy, to spur growth, and to get credit markets flowing," he added.

Obama warned against the temptation toward protectionist trade policies, and Lee responded in agreement.

"We should keep in mind the lesson from the Great Depression that a return to protectionism will delay an economic recovery," said Lee.

The Obama administration is expected to request renegotiations on the free trade agreement signed in 2007 between the two countries. The deal has yet to get approval from legislatures of either country. Washington seeks to ensure U.S. cars get a wider access to Korean markets.

Obama said Clinton will visit Seoul in February for consultations on pending issues between the two allies, the Korean presidential spokesman said.

The U.S. leader also said he expects to meet Lee at the G-20 summit in April.

It was the second telephone conversation the two leaders have had. On Nov. 7, Lee congratulated Obama on his election.

what: talking about North Korea nuclear programs
where: at home they called each other and talked
how: with phone
how long: 15 min

why is this important ?
This is important, because south Korea has a lot of danger with this.
Korean war is not finished yet, they're just taking a break.
It's not finished !! Suddenly North Korean might just invade in a moment to Korea.
Therefore America and South Korea really need to discuss about this huge problem and make a decision quickly about this.

Events article (Humanity)

The International Monetary Fund said yesterday that it expects the Korean economy to be the worst performer in the G20 in 2009 because of the country`s sensitivity to export demand.

In its latest outlook for Asia and global economic developments, the IMF said Korea would post 4.2 percent growth in 2010, when the global economy is expected to start recovering gradually.

It said the average of Korea`s GDP for 2009 would be 4 percent lower than the 2008 average, due mainly to slow recovery from a 5.6 percent contraction at the end of 2008. The IMF previously projected 2 percent higher GDP in 2009.

The revised outlook for Korea is the worst among its forecasts for G20 nations. The IMF said the euro-zone economy would be worth 2 percent less and Asia`s newly industrializing economies, 3.9 percent less.

For Korea, 4 percent lower GDP would be the worst figure since the 6.9 percent annualized reduction in 1998 when the nation was hit by the Asian financial meltdown.

The IMF forecast that the global economy is expected to grow by 0.5 percent in 2009, the slowest pace since WWII.

It is inevitable that export-dependent Korea, as well as Asia`s newly industrializing economies, will suffer drastic decline in exports due to falling global demand, the IMF said.

Korea`s exports in January plunged by a record 32.8 percent from a year ago to $21.7 billion, making the trade balance swing to a deficit of $2.97 billion.

By quarterly growth, the economy will shrink 0.8 percent in the first quarter, hit a bottom in the second quarter with a 0 percent growth, and start to recover with a 0.7 percent growth in the third quarter and 1.1 percent growth in the fourth quarter, it added.

"The (prediction of) a 4 percent contraction is quite shocking, but we have to pay attention to the possibility of the world`s fastest recovery next year," Vice Finance Minister Hur Kyung-wook told reporters in Gwacheon.

"The government will make all-out effort including fiscal spending and liquidity injection to boost the domestic demand."

The government has allocated about 140 trillion won ($102 billion), or 15 percent of GDP, in liquidity injections, tax cuts and stimulus packages. The Bank of Korea slashed the interest rate to a record low of 2.5 percent in January.

Not only the IMF but an increasing number of think tanks and investment banks have sharply revised down outlooks for Korea to negative growth averages.

UBS predicted a 3 percent contraction and Moody`s Investors Service suggested a 2 percent contraction. Standard & Poor`s said the economy would grow zero percent this year.

why: this is really serious problem in the world now.
who: all of us in the world
what: IMF problem
Where: all over in the world
How: The economy is causing a lot of problems, we need a clue for this.
This is really important, because it's a serious problem in the world now.
World should worry about this huge problem.
This is a serious problem for now.
We have to know how serious is this and make a solve, critical thinking !!

Reflection (Humanity)

I used an effective communicator.
An effective communicator, is that whenever you communicate with others you communicate with others effectively, and show respect .. etc
Here's how was I being an effective communicator.
I was speaking in the movie, and I was showing the pictures that people could listen and understood my presentation easily. If I just used a speaking without images, then audience would not be able to understand my presentation well and easily.
Through this movie project, I learned quite lot things. First of all I knew that I can communicate with others without using a hard words, I could use a pictures to remain audience.

Effective communication (LA)

Describe Effective communicator?
An effective communicator is that you communicate with effective ways , when you communicate with others, you have to respect them in many ways, such as eye contacts, listen carefully, don't full around whenever other is talking.

Why is effective communicator important?
You will need effective communicator in many ways in the future, you will need them in the real society, you are going to have a presentation in a company. You are going to gain personal relationships , if you communicate well with others, if you meet worthy people and you respect them and they will someday recognize you , and that is the personal relationships.

What steps will you take to improve effective communicator?
First of all, you have to speak loud, that people can hear your voice, if they don't understand what you are talking about, they won't include your ideas , on their subject.
Therefore first step that you need is to speak loudly.
Secondly you will have to respect others, like eye contact, that shows how much do you respect others, and others will be proud, that you respect them.
These two things are most important things and it could be hardest things and it also could be the easiest part of effective communications, anyways I would follow these steps, and then I am going to be able to communicate with others well.

Remember ! that if you communicate well with others, there are a lot of rewards for it.

Effective communication (LA)

What I've learn from the movie in humanity class

I learned a lot of things from the movie today in humanity class.
First of all I knew that Ancient time their were all stern. In the Ancient time there were a king system which means they had a king and a king could control anything in the country. If a person make a mistake which king ordered to do, then a person might get a serious punishments from king. Therefore people should be nice to king and people who have powers.
In the movie people were racing with horses, and through that I felt a lot of things.
If they have a big celebration or events, they prepare a lot. They lined up straight lines and they played a instrument nicely. Everyone's cloth and pants were civilized and beautiful.
I could know their role through their fashion.
Higher level of people wore a cloth which made by a great materials which are really soft and great feeling. However lower level of people wore a cloth which are made by animal's skins.

These things are what I've learned in humanity class

More things I learned from the Movie(Hums)

I first of all saw their technologies, I can't really say it's a technologies, but in the Ancient time it might be a higher technologies, such things like an armor for soilders, they invented and invented it was so beautiful and hard to penetrate the armor, and also armies were really good, like knifes it can't be break, and penetrated by enemies, because it was so hard to break.
Also their ships, their ships were so big, I am still curious how did they make that big ships in the Ancient times, they controled their ships to go with using people they used kind of sticks to waves water and go.
These things are what I have learned through the movie in humanity class.

Slavery article- HUMS

Many people in the world think that today we don't have any slaves, but actually we do, around world many women men and children. Actually having a slave now in the world is illegal, but many people from eastern Europe women, they're taken away their freedom by owner, they're slaves. West African countries, and men in west African countries force to do work like domestic things to Brazilian agricultural estates. Through this we can still know that slaves exist in the world even if it's illegal to have a slave, in practical lives they're always slaves.
Also we can't say this is slaves, but it's like a slave, such things like people who have a power force weak people to do something and abuse them to do some tragic things.
I hope anyone can have a freedom and no one can take away their freedom anymore...

Israel vows no let-up over Gaza

After ten days of bombing and three days of ground fighting in Gaza, Israel shows no sign of halting its offensive.

Israeli sources say there are now over 4,000 soldiers in Gaza

Palestinian medical sources say that a few people killed since Israel began a military campaign 10 days ago. And it's now more than 500.

The number of Israelis killed are five, four of them from Palestinian rocket fire.

Israel's defence minister says Hamas militants had been hit "hard" but the Gaza offensive would continue.

Muhamad Abushaban lives with his family in Gaza City.

What I learned during a movie in humanity

In humanity we watched a movie about the Ancient Rome.
First of all people in Ancient Rome wore cloth like really light, such things like they wore cloth and pants made by animal's skin, and armor which cover their higher side of our body. Soilders wore a cloth and pants and a helmet made by a steal. Normal people wore armor and pants. However people like higher level such as king, they wore cloth with a great materials and helmets. I am curious that why do higher level people wore a helmet ? This is just guessing about the thing, but I think it's the symbol of people who could ride a horse, like we can know that how horses are important and hard to get horses. One example is when there are a war many soilders don't ride a horse, but higher level of soilder ride a horse.
I found one more thing that some soilders wore a silver color of armor and some soilders wore a gold color of armor, but people who wore the silver color of armor were more than gold color of armor, through that we can know higher level of people wore a gold color of armor and lower and normal people wore a silver color of armor.
Jews wore cloth which are really light and thin, so they could get hurt easily. Higher level of jews could have a slaves, but lower can't.

These things are what I learned through the movie in Humanity class.
Some sources from Juegan, we talked about the movie together !!