Market Economy

LETTER TO DAD

Mangareva, Pitcairn, and Henderson Islands

In our group, we decided to bring out 2 main problems of these three islands:
- Civil war
- Unsustainable development
The reason of having civil war is because they didn’t have any leader=> fought over to take the lead.
The second problems, people at three islands are not so wisely on using the land and the environment sustainability. They over used the land=> desertification, deforest station, erosion, for most of the farm lands of the three islands, brought hug damages, either went along with facing extinction.
Solutions:
If the people on these three islands could have done this before, I think their civilization could continue longer:
- People fought over because of being the leader. If the first person who ever take the leader seat, he or she should able to think of their descendent in the future, that they have to be the royal one who career the leader of the three island. Being good leaders always the best solution for the citizens to serve you, as you bring yourself to serve the three islands.
- What is the seafood for? Through the entire article, we did not read anything that relates to the ocean, except for trading stuff. What if they also take advances on the seafood, goes along with livestock, and use them balance, deforestation would never happen and their life could continue longer than that.

Advertising Purchase

1. How does advertising influence consumption?
Advertising is a form of communication intended to persuade an audience (viewers, readers, or listeners) to purchase or take some action upon products, ideals, or services. Simply advertisement is the Media that use to entertain, to convince people to buy the product that the ads represent for (coke, KFC…). It only shows us the positive side of the product, of course. Advertising usually goes along with the brand product, its positive effect, and especially attractive pictures or celebrity’s people. Mostly everybody wants their self to be great like models or famous good looking people, and they buy products from those brand. Finally, the result is the consumption of human increases by those advertisements.





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?
I definitely don’t think citizens are sufficiently informed about the sustainability of our consumption habits. Why? I can tell that there are no more than 30% of human in this world live sustainably. So far, people consumption habits usually happen when they see the ad of that product, if they like that product, its fit with their money, they’ll buy it. To achieve more information about sustainability for the costumer, the government organization of the country or city should have the rallies for citizens, to achieve their knowledge about sustainability, or have advertising about sustainable development either online and billboards on the streets. There are actually many ways we can think of to spread out the sustainability consumption for citizens.




3.Do you think these advertising techniques influence what you and your friends purchase?
Of course yes. Like the info I said from above, advertising influences people’s consumption a lot, including me and my friends. Ads are always attractive people in many ways, at everywhere and anytime. We could spend billions of dollars for buying stuff that we like, just as if we have money to. Sometimes, advertising product techniques make people compare them self to the celebrities and models so badly that they have to use every way to get those product to comfort their self. In conclusion, I think advertising techniques do influence me and the entire human on the planet purchase.

Sustainability Examples

In 20-2-2007, The Australia Gov. announced that they will start to change, instead of using light bulbs; Australian people will turn to use neon to save the energy. According to the Australian Environment Minister, , Mr. Malcolm Tumbull, decrease the using of light bulbs helped decrease 4million tons of greenhouse gasses from now until year 2012, also degrease the electricity that used by the Australian people, about 66% less than, compare to the light bulbs.

This is an environ house at Australia. It’s made from nature organic materials such as clay, earth, timber, straw. It was robust, open plant, light and airy, so we doesn’t need to have the AC inside. Also, this house was designed with lots of big glass windows, made it very light in the morning, so light on doesn’t necessary for this house. The roof were made by panel, catch sunlight energy and it’s the main source of energy of this house, save lot’s of electricity and doesn’t release CO2 at all, especially unused with fossil fuel.

Migrated from North to South

Hi my name is Susan. I am 13 now, and my family was originally from the northern Vietnam. Back then when I wasn’t born, my parents, my brother and sister, decided to migrate to Ho Chi Minh City to have a better life with better education for my older brother and sister. My family migrated from Hai Phong city to Ho Chi Minh City in the 1990s. Since 1990s, my father was an engineer for an affiliate of a company at Hochiminh city. To take advance in transport for his job, it was also a good opportunity get a better English education (there were more foreign language schools and foreign speakers at HCM than Hai Phong) for my sister, our family moved. Those have explained why I was born at Hochiminh city instead of Hai Phong and speak the Southern Vietnamese accent.
For an internal migrant like me, it was easy to interact with people, because I didn’t get into much trouble of mixing up accents. The only bad thing of living here was that I didn’t really have a lot of relatives, except for my cousins. Even though I am a northern person, but I disliked several of the northern people eating custom, because I couldn’t really eat it. Positively was that Ho Chi Minh City was one of the richest city of Vietnam, and the education with international schools here were enormous. We (me and jenny) got advances of studying English, vice versa with my relatives at Hai Phong. My father always afraid of our traditional northern identities could lose, but I don’t think so. With me, Hai Phong is always in my mind, and I do really think that migrated to here, settled on Ho Chi Minh was a fantastic deal from my dad!

1. What is the main point of this article?

- The main point of this article is about the reason and damages cause from global warming.

2. List four vocabulary words that you do not recognize or understand, lookup the definitions, write them out using your own words.

- 4 vocabulary words:

· Industrial Revolution: from the 18th to the 19th century, major changed of major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transport, and technology, started from The United Kingdom.

· Variation: different, to be adapt

· Skeptics: to be doubt, unbelief

· Definitive: conclusive, final, to be determinate

3. What is the difference between “weather” and “climate”?

- Weather is how we are feeling right now, hot and cold, humid or dry; and weather is a short amount of time, could be a minute until a week variation.

- Climate is the weather information that described the variation of weather at given places; and climate is a large amount of time of a place, could be ten years or more.

4. What are the examples listed in the article of “extreme weather”?

- Torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan, cause flooding and killing more than 1500 peoples and uprooting millions.

- In Russia, recording braking heat wave along with drought destroying millions of acres of wheat and killed dozens.

- At US, flooding battered New England => Tennessee => Arkansas => Oklahoma, while record break heat wave all of the entire eastern part of US.

5. What experiences have you had with “extreme weather”?

- I did have an extreme weather experience, and it was last summer, when I was at my god- parents’ house at Hanoi. It wasn’t huge and full of death and sadness like at Haiti, but it was a first and the only experience I had got though my life. There was a hurricane at the midnight, about 2h o’clock. The rain was very heavy and lengthy. Next morning, about 5 am, everybody woke up and bailed water out because our house was flooded, and the water raised 20 centimeters from the floor and about haft meter from the ground outside.

6. What does the word “perception” mean?

Perception: notice, understand, reflect, as a moral or lesson

7. What is your “perception” of global climate change?

- With me, global climate change or global warming cause lots of damages to the human, but it was human fault because we are also a part of element that create global warming. So now, we must start to save the planet, what we are standing on, if we want to service and for our decedents to have a chance to be born, live and enjoy their life as a human. And there are many ways to do that, maybe it doesn’t need to be a huge things, but you can start to learn to recycle stuff, to save the material that we all took from the earth. It is time to give back what you take from the Mother Nature, as she already sent you a message. Do not ignore it, be a hero!

Geography project - Map Final Assessment

Susan Dong 8P5

Fairies World

Fairies World is the world where all the miracle things can happen to you!

There was a myth of a Goddess called Aphrodite, who was born as a god of beauty. Because she got a mistake, so the ruler of all gods, Zeus abandoned her to a planet that was standing out of the solar system. Aphrodite didn’t give up- she created a world for her own ruled, which was a very beautiful and huge place.

Aphrodite used clays, jewelries and everything that she got from the earth to build this lovely world. She divided her clay in to 3 parts, shaped those pieces of clays as the symbols of her idea of her 3 lands’ name: flowers land (flower shaped), creative land (pot shaped) and the very last was the flying creatures land (butterfly shaped). The very first people at there, which was the dragonflies people, located their clan at the creative land, which was located at 45° north and 67° south. The other two were: Flowers land (20° N and 35° E), flying creature land (160°N and 45°E). The Flowers land and the creative land connected to each other by the Love valley, yet the Flying creature land was totally separated to the other- till year 1800s, people there built a rainbow bridge, which we didn’t walk on it, but we slide though it to get to the main land ( creative land) or the flower land. This bridge was totally safe, because it could controlled the speed between two people who were sliding on the bridge, to make sure the distance between those people to slide down.

There was a large rivers and lakes system at the main land. The main river at there was called the chicken river divided in two feeders: the S.S – at the bottom of the land, near to the candy villages and the Mamamia, stayed next to the sweet village and the factories Sunshine. The fairies world is an archipelago, because they were all facing the ocean. People at the three lands communicated very well, although they all had same ancestor. They usually traded things and exchanged their ideas, used boat, or rocket or the rainbow bridge to transport, used their knowledge at difference places, wherever they traveled to. People here practiced monotheism, that was Susanism, with their truly god- was the goddess of beauty, Aphrodite. They prayed in the morning every Sunday and got festival every middle of the summer.

People of the fairies world lived in an organization civilization. They were hard working and cooperative pretty well with each other. They discovered lot’s of resources like: gold, metals, oil, and gas. There were 4 gold mines, 4 metals mines, and 3 oil- gas mines. Also, people here invented the mills, which provided most of the energy for their works and their social. The two most common jobs for them were working at the factories and doing faming. Their main foods were corn and flowers. The factories are the places for them to produce foods and house stuff, ect…

Every year on February until July, the Flowers land and the flying creatures land always raining. The landscapes between those 3 lands were quite similar, the mountains were the tallest places and the field and river sometimes were the lowest. So it wasn’t hard for people to adapt to the new environment if they moved. Each land set their own capital, and having their own ability to done, just like their goddess Aphrodite said.

Study Guide

1 Map

· Political map: world, countries, shows border of countries

· Physical map: physical features, elevation of an area

· Thematic map: map about themes, resources, population…

5 themes of geography

· Location - the exact position that has a specific latitude and longitude

· Movements - understanding of transfer goods, ideas, people from one place to another

· Place - a geographical term that describes the physical and human characteristic of a location

· Human/Environment Interaction – how human adapt to the environment

· Regions - an area where it has the same properties or characteristics.

6 essential elements

· Themes and Element of Geography

· Environment and Society

· The uses of Geography

· Physical System

· Human System

· Spatial

Vocabulary

· Spatial: Something belongs or related to space

· Location: Exact position based on longitude, latitude

· Place: Physical and human characteristic

· Region: An area with similar physical and human characteristics

· Geography: The study of people, places, and environment

Geography jobs and tools

· Urban planner (works with cartographer)

· Climatologist (irrigation system)

· Land surveyor (GPS, remote sensing)

· Location analyst (GIS)

Buffalo Fight Do Son

Through the researching and learning about my family from the family tree project, I have been able to know a lot about my family history either culture. Well, I did this kind of project many times, but each time, I always wanted to put something new in to my project. So this time, I decided to introduce you and everybody about the buffalo fight Do Son, Hai Phong- the traditional festival of my hometown, where my dad came from. It was very interesting for me too. I didn’t know about this before, it was when my mom told me about that so.

The buffalo fight of Do Son happened every year on 9/8, according to the lunar calendar. The preparation for this festival is very elaborate. Buffalo that chosen for the fight had to have big breast, strong legs, pointed horns…Also, they had to be over 5 years old or more. To fine buffalos like that was hard, but to train buffalo to fight is much harder, that’s why the trainers had to be very skillful for these buffalos. Fighting buffalos lived separately, neither of them lived together.

The opening of the festival took from morning till noon, everybody danced and sang. Followed by that were the 12 buffalos had been cleaned and wore the red clothes, their horn covered by pink and yellow ribbons. After the ritual dance of 24 men, 2 trainers came out along with their fighting buffalos to the middle of the stadium. When the signal began, the two buffalo crashed to each other, with skilled movement. Audiences cheered and yelled a lot!

The festival was exited. After the eliminated round, there was just only 6 buffalo left. Then they will fight in pair. When the winner buffalo had been chose, they will kill those to eat. I know it hear quite weird. But it is my hometown traditional so, that’s it. If you have a chance to visit hai phong around lunar august, don’t forget to watch this festival.

Entry #2- Buffalos fight Do Son

Dalat - The romance city of Vietnam

I have been to many places, and I thank my parents to give me that chance. Well, my family has a tradition that we usually comes Dalat every second day of Vietnamese Tet (New Year for Vietnamese people). I had been there twelve times already, since when I was one year old. Dalat is great. It’s located at the middle part of Vietnam, Di Linh plateau. It was not so big, but it is the famous place to visit for travelers who come to Vietnam.

Da Lat is not a noisy city like Ho Chi Minh City. It’s quiet, but it’s quiet in a special way. The political house of Dalat located right at the way to go in the city. Dalat is high, so it is quiet cool here. At Dalat, you’ll feel like living in four seasons one day. People come here, visit and stay back for a while, enjoy the quiet of this lovely city.

Dalat famous with the dreaming, beautiful lake called Xuan Huong. At the afternoon, people come here to enjoy the beautiful view or they could go boating. It’s the city of Love. Da Lat has a lot of forests. At the hunting seasons, hunters come here to hunt- or in the other way are to enjoy the fun of hunting. I didn’t describe all the beauties of Dalat, but if you have a chance, come and visit it.

ME....Myself

I am Susan Dong, and I am 13. I study in AIS, a very great school, located on Nguyen Huu Canh street. My family has 7 people: my grandmother, my dad, my mom, my older brother and sister, me and my twin. At school, i love most of the subjects, especially are Art and Chinese. I like those because i am quite good and they are kind of fun and relax- able. I quite like Math and SS also. With me, math is also fun, but sometimes, it just so complicated to understand and i am not really good at the fraction and negative stuffs. About SS, well, it is a long story. I started this school last year. when I first learning SS, i have no idea what are the vocabularies mean, even to the word Government. Study SS here is much different compare to the Vietnamese school, and i have never study about the world before. So in the class, i didn't understand much, and i was so quite at that time. And because of my problem above, at the very first quarter, I just got 71 % of my SS grade. First time ever my teacher complained about me. i was so sad and i thought SS was awful, and I was very hate it. But because of it, so i tried so hard that i wanted to improve my SS scores and knowledges. And I did, i got 92% at my final grade in SS last year, and i finally understood all what I learned in World history. I was getting to like it from that time till now, even those i am not really good at it, but the Vietnamese people say: " Hard working can replace the lack of intelligent."