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The Greenland Norse Civilization

What was the 3 problems that my civilization needed to face with?
- The weather condition was so icy and cold that it's uninhabitable in some areas on Greenland.
- The Norse was occupied first by the King of Norway then the Danish monarchy.
- The climate started to change. It got colder and less predictable. Ice bergs increases on the sea which finally lead to the end of the Greenland Norse.


What caused those 3 problems?
- It's the natural weather on Greenland.
- Because Greenland's kind of large which caused the greed of the monarchy and the king.
- It was because of the change in climate that happened naturally on Greenland. Also partly was because the Norse wouldn't choose to leave the place.


What could the Norse's done that would prevent those 3 problems?
-There wouldn't be anything that the Norse can do about the naturally climate on Greenland. But they might had chosen some other place that has no harsh climate like Greenland to settle down.
-The Norse should had prepare for the attacks from other groups of people. They should had trained their people to fight against attackers.
-When the climate started to change to be more harsh, the Norse should had left the place before it's too late for them to have an option.

Advertising Homework

1) When people see advertisement, they'll get attract by it and they'll buy the product even though they don't really need it. So that cause the people to waste money on un-needed things which increase the ecology footprint on earth to produce those products.


2) No I don't think citizens are sufficiently informed about the sustainability of our consumption habits. So if we want to be informed about the sustainability of our consumption habits, maybe in those advertisement, the companies should tell us a bit about the negative effects of the products that they're advertising. 


3) Yes. These advertisements might get us to purchase for things and we might lose control of what we're buying. 

Sustainable development examples

1) Solar Energy

2) Recycle Paper

3) Re-filter Water to use

4) Grow plants

5) Use of Public Transportations

6) Use of Wind Power

The Immigrations of Munchkins


THE IMMIGRATION OF MUNCHKINS
            Mr. Lollipop Guild and his villagers lived in the colorful world called Munchkin Land. The weather was nice. The crops grew well. And people in Munchkin Land lived their lives very happily. Until one day, the Wicked Witch of the West arrived to Munchkin Land and destroyed the village. She turned the colorful Munchkin Land into a world full of miseries and pains. The Good Witch of the North can’t handle seeing her people getting all the tortures from the Wicked Witch. She decided to secretly lead everyone in Munchkin Land to flee to the Emerald City of The Wizard of Oz hoping for a better life there.
            In the middle of the night, The Good Witch led everyone in Munchkin Land secretly to go out of the land and try to find the way to the Emerald City by following the Yellow Brick Road. At first, Mr. Lollipop Guild didn’t accept to go with his villagers because he didn’t want to leave his homeland and he has to leave his dear house behind. He felt really attached to Munchkin Land which makes leaving really difficult. But his family convinced him and he accepted to go after all. Even though they didn’t know what will they have to face on the way, but it’s best to leave Munchkin Land because they can’t keep getting all the tortures from the Wicked Witch and they need a new place to go on and live their lives. On the way they met Scarecrow who helped them to choose the right way, Tin Man, and Lion. Finally with the help of the 3 new friends, they reached the Emerald City. But the Wizard of Oz was pretty cruel to the poor munchkins. They have to get a task done to live in the Emerald City which was killing the Wicked Witch of the East. But that wasn’t a problem at all with the help of Tin Man, Scarecrow, Lion and the Good Witch of the North. So after they got the challenge done, the Wizard of Oz allowed the munchkins to use Emerald City as their shelter for as long as they want until they’ve got enough power to get rid of the Wicked Witch of the West themselves. Even though the munchkins had to face some conflicts with the people in Emerald city because of different cultures and beliefs but they had productive land, rich gold and diamond mines to adequately provide needs for their life. They lived their life happily there with the people in Emerald City. Mr. Lollipop Guild finally got over the misery of leaving his homeland and he enjoyed the rest of his life in Emerald City. Finally, when the people in Munchkin Land are well trained, they came back to Munchkin Land in a balloon created by the Wizard of Oz and they defeated the Wicked Witch of the West and got their land back. But then they had to learn again the Munchkin language since the Munchkins forgot their language because of living in Emerald City.

Article Answers

What is the main point of this article?
- Climate is changing on Earth but the scientists can't tell that whether it's because of Global Warming or not. The most common answer is : Probably

List four vocabulary words that you do not recognize or understand, lookup the definitions, write them out using your own words.
-Wildfire: Rapidly spreading fire
-Drought: A long period of abnormally low rainfall, lasting up to several years
-Skeptics: an archaic
-Vulnerable: able to get hurt/ able to get attack.

What is the difference between “weather” and “climate”?
-Weather is something we experience everyday and climate is more of a long-time weather condition of a region.

What are the examples listed in the article of “extreme weather”?
-Pakistan had torrential monsoon.
-Record-breaking heat wave along with a record-breaking drought in Russia
-Flood in the U.S.A

What experiences have you had with “extreme weather”?
- In Vietnam, it haven't had any "extreme weather" event. But several time the temperature went up to around 40 degree Celsius. And also, flood occurred in the Eastern part of Vietnam but comparing to the other places with larger damages, the flood and the increase in temperature of Vietnam is nothing.


What does the word “perception” mean?
-The way one person interpret something.

What is your “perception” of global climate change?
-Global Warming is not confirmed as the actual cause extreme weather but it caused the rise of temperature on Earth so it's basically one of the big factor that causes to the destruction of the Earth surface and the atmosphere.

Heartopia


Heartopia is about 12 billions km apart from the Earth. The shape of the planet is a heart which explains why this place is called Heartopia. There is only 1 continent that exists in Heartopia, Heartatou. The elevation of this planet is pretty low, from 10m above the sea level to 100m. Heartatou stretches from 90°N to 125° S and from 136° W to 124°E. The total area of Heartatou is 140,350heartometer (Earth language: Kilometers). This planet was created by all the extra loves that people from the Earth released. There are 3 layers in Heartopia. The one in the middle is the Loves Layer. That is where provide the Love Magma for all the volcanoes in Heartopia. The second layer is the Sweetheart Layer. This layer is pretty thin. This layer provides all the needed wishes. For example, the Heartian, people who live on Heartopia, needs a wish, they would dig in the ground and when they reach the Sweetheart Layer, they will be able to make any wish and there’s 98% that the wish will come true. The last layer is the Adorable Layer. This layer is where the Heartian live on.

Heartians were just barbarian. Different groups of different type of Heartians live in different places. There are 21 countries in Heartatou which is ruled by different groups of Heartians. There were no connections between the countries so the people from these countries didn’t really know the existence of each other.

2010, King Puddle was born. He was one of those important people in the whole history of Heartopia. In 2020, King Puddle decided to make a trip all around Heartatou. He found out about the existence of the other countries and then he decided to unite all Heartatou together. In 2040, a group of people found Heartianity. They went all around the world to spread it but it was never approved by King Puddle. But then, because of so many people started to convince King Puddle, 2060, he approved it so the whole wide world’s official religion is Heartianity. In 2091, King Puddle realized that the Heartians are not well educated. So he sent a spy to the Earth and found out that the people in the Earth were educated by books. So 2091 was the year of all the books. Due to the foundation of books, in 3012, the education of the Heartians leveled up. There are 12 diamond mines that are available in Heartopia. But somehow, the Heartians found the largest unlimited diamond mine in 3021. So diamonds were used to replace money. In 3032, the scientist, Dr. Adore, found out that Heartatou is covered by 4 main oceans, Love Ocean, Enormous Ocean, Rainbow Ocean and the biggest one is the Delicious Ocean. In 3048, the Unicorn arrived to Heartopia. The place where they came from is remaining unknown but currently, Unicorns are used as pets for the Heartians. In 3070, because of King Puddle’s death in 3069, Heartatou got separate apart like before but this time, each country has its own capital.

The Heartian people started to commit crimes. So all the president of each country decided to build an island called “Adorable-NOT Island” which was made to be used as prison for all the people that are thieves, murderers, etc.

There are two regions in Heartatou.  The eastern half is cold and the western half is warm. In the western half, there’s volcano. It was called “Mountain Cutie”. Every 4 months, this volcano erupt and it releases all the Love Magma which contains the all the Hershey’s chocolate. People collect all the chocolate after the volcano erruption and keep the chocolate as food. In the middle of the two regions, there’s a river that was caleld the Abstract River which is the main water resource for the Heartian.

Geography Study Guide



Geography Study Guide!
By: Justine Truong xoxo

4 different jobs being a geographer
-Land Surveyor - a person who measure the land
-Climatologist - help businesses find the best time for their operations
-Urban Planner - a person who creates plans for developing and improving part of a city
-Location Analyst - a person who studies an area to find the best location for a client
-Cartographer - a person who creates map.

3 most important maps
-Political map - Maps that show the countries' borders
-Physical map - Maps that show the characteristic and elevation of an area
-Thematic map - Maps that are based on a theme.

Needed tools to be a geographer
-Compasses
-Maps
-GPS (Global Positioning System) - a system that uses a network of Earth-orbiting satellites to pinpoint location
-GIS - (Geographic Information Systems) - a computer or Internet-based mapping technology


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


Six essential elements
-Human System - where people lived & their uses of resources
-Physical System - how changes in the earth's surface impact living things
-World of Spatial Term - space where a place is located and its physical relationship to other places, people, and environments.
-Uses of geography 
-Places and Regions
-Environment and Society


Vocabulary
-Geography - the studies of people, places, and environment
-Environment - physical surrounding of a location
-Map - the representation of an area.

What I learned from "Family Tree" Project

Lately, what I have known about myself and my family was that I'm just an ordinary girl with both parent raising me up since I was a kid. I didn't really care about where my parent came from or how they met each other. And what problem did they have to face when they were trying to get together. But when I received this project, I started to look around the house for photos and video tapes of my parent. And somehow, I put them together with the old stories my parent used to tell me (but I didn't care back then) and I can understand more about their life and my family's traditions.

This relationship of them worked out kind of really fast. I did all the calculation and now I found out that their relationship would be the fastest one I had ever seen. My mom first met my dad in a company where she practice to do her accountant job. She met my dad. 2 years later they turned out to be dating each other. And then 2 years later they were married. 2 years later I was born. I was pretty surprised by this information that I received. I was also surprised about the fact that my grandmother got married to my grandfather when she was only 18. She had to get over a lot of troubles. But both my grandmother and my mom' stories were kind of a surprise for me so, I learned more about my family.

About my friends, they told me lots of information about their family and themselves. Which are very awesome. Example, Ivy's family was facing a problem with the vietnamese people and then later in the end, the people realized that they were wrong and then they gave her family a scholarship to go to Russia and that's how her personal family events worked out. And some other great stories too! Like Kristine, Shane, Duong, etc.

So this is a very valuable presentation project and I would appreciate it.

Description of a place I've been in - Ha Tien

Ha Tien is a town that located in the western of Vietnam. The climate is pretty normal with lowest temperature of 14 degrees and the highest temperature of 37 degrees.. Ha Tien located right on the border between Vietnam and Cambodia. Ha Tien has a beach, some several hills, a bay, some caves and rivers which make it look pretty and amazing. 

There's a river in Ha Tien that called Giang Thanh river. It started from Cambodia and it flows into Ha Tien for 23 km. The Giang Thanh river also flow into the Hong River. It's one of the major important rivers that support the live of the people in Ha Tien.

There are several caves in Ha Tien. Those caves are very deep and dark at night. They're stick with some of those fairy tales and stories from our Vietnamese ancestor. Those caves are very common visiting because people should have heard of it when they came to travel in Ha Tien.


Ha Tien is also knows as it's beach. The beach is not as good looking and fresh as Nha Trang and other popular cities with popular beaches but it's worthy to spend time and visit. There's a special characteristic of it's beach is that instead of having sand for people to walk on, they have stones. The stones are pretty sharp so it's easy for people to get their feet cut. 

There are some several activities for the people to join. Like mountain roller coaster. It's like a roller coaster except it was built on a mountain side and we can control the coaster's speed. It' very fun and kind of creepy when it turns in the side and you feel like you're going to fall out. 

Ha Tien has a 23.5 km of highways; 9, 04 km of provincial roads; 26. 13 km of the inner town and 27.5 km of roads that lead to the rural part of the town. The most important highway is highway 80 because it links the city of Rach Gia (in Ha Tien town) to Cambodia.

SO I HIGHLY RECOMMEND HA TIEN AS A DESTINATION FOR YOUR TRIP 

ME ME ME !!!!!!!

soooo HEYYY!
It's meee! Justine!
I'm 13! which is cool!
I'm an ordinary girl! :)

I like eating, listening to music, drinking, playing, partying, hanging out with friends, making jokes, and sometimes I also enjoy doing sports.

I want to be a super star (which 20% might happen), which includes being a model and an actress.

I'm good at math, sports, chinese, science sometimes, ICT, social studies sometimes, art, english sometimes, and vietnamese! (I think that's everything this school would ever teach me! muahahahaha)

I love Katy Perry, Adam Lambert, Lady Gaga, and other awesome stars !

I'm good at speaking, listening, and writing. Not reading though since i'm too lazy to read :(

I go on facebook most of the time. because it's fun.

So pretty much that's it.
OH FYI: my personal email is browniepie@ymail.com
So if you have any concerns or reminding things then contact me.. NO Guarantee i would check my inbox though!

KKAY COOL!
BYEEE!