London's Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild - Jack London

Daiba v.s. Gahyun

Regionalism & Mark Twain

 

"Slaves" that we never notice

Cram schools in Taiwan.

Update:The Significant of Armless

Production of the video!

Update:Stream of Consciousness

"Seems like everybody's got a price.
I wonder how they sleep at night.
When the sale comes first, and the truth comes second,just stop for a minute and smile.
Why is everybody so serious?
Why is everybody so obsessed?
Money can't buy us happiness.
Can we all slow down and enjoy right now guarantee we'll be feelin' alright".
Price Tag by Jessie J

Imagine 2 weeks on JR train

Have you ever been to Japan?

I hear TAPA singing...

"Sing it for the boys, sing it for the girls
Every time that you lose it sing it for the world
Sing it from the heart
Sing it till you're nuts
Singing out for the ones that'll hate your guts
Sing it for the deaf
Sing it for the blind
Sing about everyone that you left behind
Sing it for the world, sing it for the world
You've got to see what tomorrow brings
Sing it for the world
Sing it for the world
Girl, you've got to be what tomorrow needs
Sing it for the world
Sing it for the world"- Sing by Glee

The man on the 100 US bill+ innovation

David Agus: A new strategy in the war on cancer | Video on TED.com

David Agus: A new strategy in the war on cancer | Video on TED.com

Survival Skill

Summary
This survival skill is water filtering with coconuts, We choose this survival skill because Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville. In this article the explorers were running out of water and they couldn't find a water for a while. They asked a Indian to guide them, but they weren't able to find it. So we thought that this survival skill can be realted to the article. It is very useful because normally they use plastic water bottle, but this time we come up with this awesome idea to use coconut. (Because they don't have plastic water bottles at that time period.) 
First, you have to prepare two empty coconuts and cut the top and the of a coconut. The other one you just need to cut the top.
Second, put some grass, sand, and rocks to create a filter.
Third, after you put all these materials to the coconut and you can pour the dirty water into the coconut filter.
Four, repeate the same step for a while
Five, now you have the clean water!

Planet of life

On June 28th, 3001. It was my birthday for 1005 years.I was lucky on that day that I got 5 free ticket from the VERY-FAST Rocket company, which is just coincidenly enough for my whole family to go on this trip. I guess this luck came as my birthday wish, so I did not doubt even a little and accepted the gift. The company treated us to a planet that only 5Th astronomers groups from NASA had been to. We are the 6th group to get on this planet!!! How cool is that? I tried to Google this planet, but there is not even a post about it anywhere around the world, since not even many NASA groups has been up to this planet to explore. I am very terrified first of knowing that not even NASA has quite a lot of information about this planet. However, because of my curiousness, I still decided to attend this exciting journey. I believe it is going to be a fun one. Finally, the rocket shoot through the cloud, been over Jupiter, Moon, Venus, and some other comet. It is not such a surprise because space traveling is so common nowadays. Finally, we see this undiscovered planet, which they did not named it just yet. I, myself came of with a name for this planet. I called it the planet of life. When I first see this planet, it feels like I have just started a new life of mine. Everything is very fresh, we do not even need a helmet for oxygen. I even believe that the air there is much more clear than the polluted air on earth. When I first see this planet, I fall in love with it. It is like the most beautiful planet I have ever seen. It is prettier than Jupiter, Moon, and Venus.Native people there was very friendly to us. Although we do not understand a word they say, and they look like crazy scary monsters to me, they treated us very friendly with good food and place to stay. They even treated us like if we were the customers of their hotel without actually having to give them tip or any retreat. Well, probably the company had paid them, but I still think they are much kind than those that are in the earth's or other planets' hotel servers. It had been a really long day, so I guess that was enough of story on the first day.

On June 29th, 3001. My first day of actually living on this planet. Everything is pretty new to me and my family. The hotel employee still treated us very nicely, and they put all the effort in trying to understand our needs. The VERY-FAST rocket company also set up a tour for us leading by the hotel manager. He is a really great guy. He knows all about the planet and he took us to some famous places on their planet. Surprisingly, the famous places they took us to are all available on earth, such as the Great Wall of China, the Tokyo Tower, Taipei 101, the ship hotel in Dubai, the Statue of Liberty, and lots more that we can see on earth. Acting is the only way that we were able to communicate with each other. For no reason, I guess they all mastered in drama, since they are so good on expressing their thought through acting, and understand my poorly skilled acting. I asked them why do they have them. He said one of their expert astronomer had been to earth,and he took the idea from earth and made them just like it, because they thought it was very beautiful. They believe that these buildings will somehow connect to the earth visitors, so that these visitors will enjoy their planet and still seeing what they are familiar. Honestly, I am very touched by their action. Touring around the planet was a lot of work, and I had seen a lot of beauty of this planet, so I decided to go back to our hotel and get some rest to prepare for our last stay tomorrow.

On June 30th, 3001. Our last day staying at this planet. I kind of miss my friends back home on earth. However, I am surely going to miss every beauty of this planet I had experienced these past few days. I won't say that I will not live here at all, because I am sure that this planet is worth for me to come and visit at least once every year. Then, I wave good-bye to all these nice person on the planet, I say good-bye to all these beautiful buildings, and I shouted to the sky saying, "I will miss you all, I promise I will come back and visit my favorite planet. I love you, and you will always be my planet of life!!!" Right before I got on to the rocket, the hotel manager gave me his name card. He told me to not ever forget about him, his employees, and this beautiful planet. His last word to me, which I remember very clearly, "Good-Bye, we love you very much, too!" I do not know where did he get that from, and how did he learn to speak in English. I only know that this good-bye will not be forever, but a promise that I will keep to come visit them again.

Presentations

1. Motivation:
Political motives:They wanted to own great powers, sea powers, and explorations.
Economy motives: They wanted spicy and good food, so they built land routes. Some wanted to build gold, silver, and valueable stones.
Religion motives: There was only one religion in Europe, Christianity. They wanted to expand their beliefs around the world.
Knowledge motives: The European had the knowledge that the world is bigger than they thought, so they started to explore.
Myths:He started out his route to find the fountain of youth, but instead he found Florida.
People started out their route looking for seven cities of gold in Mexico City.
Score:9
I really like that your group has very organize and detailed power point. It is very pretty. Also, I really like that your group was well prepared with many information that I never heard about before. Very good job!
2. Navigation 1:
Christopher Columbus:He was not the first to explore America, but he had big role in finding Europe.
Sandglass:They used it for determine time.
Pole Star: It is an object that shows the way, basically like a compass.
The log line: They used it to determine their ship speed.
Compas: It was require to learn to use this in order to sail.
Celestial navigation: they use sun, moon, and stars to find their direction.
Quadrant:They used the angle to measure the distance.
Score:9
I like that your group's power point was simple and easy to catch up. I also like how your group explained every devices very well. It was pretty cool listening to new ideas that have not heard before. Great job!
3. Navigation 2:
Pilot was very important to the boat, but they only had good knowledge in certain areas. The chart was called the portolan, which was made of goat or sheep skin. People believed there was marmaid that distract the boats.They only know Atlantic Ocean, Africa, and Europe.
Score:8
I think your group did well, but it seems like your group was not well-prepared enough with the information. However, I still enjoyed the presentation learning about those technics they used back then. I was especially interested in the myth of marmaid, it was quite different from other topics that were mentioned in the presentation. Very well done!
4. Ships
Santa Maria was the tallest of all Columbus's ships. Ships are empty for caring goods for trades. Ship could be small for travel purposes. No engines on the ships, they use winds to motive. Towering is for people to watch far in front of the ship.
Score:8
I learned a lot from very last section of how different ships function in different way. However, the parts before were not so clear. I did not get much information from it. Maybe it was the volume of the speech, or a more detailed power point will be useful. Very well done!

Great praises and justice

Chia-Yi is a town that is located in the middle of Taiwan. In all the Chinese characters, they have many different meanings with just one character. Chia-Yi is made up of two Chinese characters, which are Chia and Yi. Chia stands for good, praise, and beautify. Yi is one of five Confucianism that many Asian peoe believe in, which are Rain,Yi, Li, Zh, and Shin. Each stands for a polite behavior for people, which are truth, justice, polite, wisdom, trust. Yi stands out the most in these five perspective because justice is how the world become peaceful as the way it is. The background story of the started with this brave worrior, coincidently named Chia-Yi. However, it was not why the name Chia-Yi formed. Chia-Yi is a great place to farm even nowadays. Back then, people get their lands by the law " who gets here first then who gets the land". It was a benefit to all people who held powers greatly, however, weak people don't always get what they want. In fact, some of them do not even get any just because stronger people steal their lands with power. Chia-Yi is a strong person, he is strong in power, also wealthy. He stood up with justice, and he fought for these poor people. He bought lands back to who they belongs to, and he declare the money trading system for owning lands. He was remember greatly for what he had done to the majority people back then, so he was given Chia-Chung, which meant reward. Because he had done something so greatly impressive, people wanted to praise him and remember his, eventually, they named the town after him. Not only because his name was Chia-Yi, but also because he stood up with Yi, and was rewarded with Chia-Chung and great praise.

Myth Skits

The first skit we saw was very interesting, and it got much of my attention. I think the group developed and shaped the character pretty well. I especially like the fighting scenes they had in the skit. The two characters fought very realistic, and it adds up a great element of the story. However, I do not quite get what the story is about, because the narrator kind of mumbled, so I think they could have done it better for the narrator to speak up just a little bit. I mainly focused on the acting part of the scenes than what the story was trying to tell. I think they did the acting part very well.

The second skit we saw was done by my group. I like the story plot and the skit we developed.It was very shocking for everyone that we thought the bear was dead, but she was actually cursed to be a bear. We really put hard work into portray different type of personalities. I think we did quite well. However, we should have memorize the skit better, because we missed out some part of our skit, or else the skit will probably be better done.

The third skit we saw was very detailed in different information. I enjoy learning about information that was added into the skit. I really enjoy the acting, because the character got the audience attention by interacting with the audience. I think it was a pretty successful skit when the audience attention was caught by the actor. Overall, I like the skit very much.

If you will just listen carefully.......

I believe communication is a really important part of human society. I do not know what will happen if there is no communication between people, but what I do know is that good communication fix problems between people. In addition, it helps a group to cooperate better.
In order to have a good communication with each other, listening will play the most important part of it.

If we somehow tuned out in the middle of a conversation, we will not get to know each other. It is especially worse when we are angry toward someone, if we just keep tuning out and not having a good conversation, the good friendship between the two will never become better. Misunderstandings are normally the biggest problem that causes people to have a fight with others. In my opinion, the best way to clear off misunderstood that caused the fight is to listen. When we will just listening carefully, we will no assume what others are saying. Then, we will not misunderstood other people's thoughts, eventually, the great communication keeps the strong relationships.

We can have a good communication skill when we practice them. First tip is that you should always think what you are going to say in your mind first, then say it out after thinking about it. Second tip is that don't speak when you are angry, because you will not have a clear idea of what you are saying at the moment. Simply tell people, "It's not the right time to talk."I think they will understand. Third tip is that you should never say something rude to a person or hiding some secrets behind them, because this will cause the relationship the break down when there is no trust in the relationship. Most importantly, listen carefully during the conversation, it will always bring good effect to the conversation.