Questions

1.Life in Vietnam would be perfect if everyone were totally equal. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer in complete sentences.
- I disagree with that because if everybody is totally equal. VIetnam will not be develop. Everybody is stay at the same as we read a story. Nobody are better than anyone. The life wouldn't perfect.

2.You are designing a society in which everyone is equal. What are the laws?
-If i designing a society which every is equal. My laws will be: no one is smarter(same knowledge). A citizens can't have democracy to vote. Government controls everything.

3.What would you do to help people who were less capable mentally, physically, or socially to “catch up”?
-I think i will help them to catch up in society by teach them things. Also take care of them, encouraged them to catch up with society.

4.What problems can you foresee that might come in a society with laws that force “equality for all”? How would you handle those problems?
-I think there is some problems that a citizens might disagree and protest against the government. So, i will look it back and find a solution to check and change a government.

5.Do you believe that total equality is possible, or would human nature make sure that some people would eventually dominate others?
- I think total equality is better than a human nature that would eventually dominate control others, if other people control you i think you can't have freedom from that.

6.In what situations have you felt similarly to any of the characters? What persons, places, or ideas from your own experience came to mind while you were reading this story? Try to list as least two examples.
- I think a north korea is a good problems for this situation. It's same as this story, everyone is equal, government take control of everything. A citizens in North Korea is like Hazel and George.

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Homework: Problems from Maya Civilization

There are 3 problems now that Maya Civilization used to do.
First- an agriculture was a slash-and-burn system,which mean they also cut down trees in a forest and grow crops for their own,because this type of agriculture is not believed to be able to support tje high population densities of the Maya socities.

Second- a place that Mayan live are in drought time. Sometimes it's drought for a long time can grow anything for good.

Third-Also in a city of Maya, there is a bout 5 million people. That is a lot but it's in a small city.

I think a things could improve this is: to change a governement, need to find t he way to figure this out. Build more cities, raised more crop without use slash and burn system and try to save water for a drought time.

Homework's Questions

1.How does advertising influence consumption?
-Advertising have a big influence of a company to a people, which reason to show a new products that company have, and also convinced them to buy their product. They also show all the positive way of that product to make people buy.

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 think citizens are not informed about the sustainability of our consumption habits. We can spread the ideas or information or even make advertising for other people to know.

3.Do you think these advertising techniques influence what you and your friends purchase?
Yes, if they show a product with a cool stuff. For example: a famous soccer player or a celebrity stand next to it. To show a speed, that really make people wanna buy it.

Example of sustainable development

-WInd Energy
-Water Energy
-Sunlight Energy
-Grow Trees/plants
-Recycle things

A new life: Immigration

A new life

In 1975, when the war in Vietnam ends, about 15 years later my grandpa moves to US to have a new life. He lived in Orange County, California where the Vietnamese were mainly settled on. His job is a chief cook of a small Chinese restaurant. He is Chinese but he can spoke Vietnamese. Then a few year, later he took my grandma to the US, because she can’t live a miserable life in Vietnam. A government took all the valuable stuffs of a Vietnamese. Finally, she can make that immigration successfully to US. Live in US are difficult, and she thought it’s difficult to adapt the environment or a climate in a new country. The immigration can cause by economic pull factor and also environment push factor. She cans fid a good education, people place in US for a new generation and also freedom.

When she arrived, everything seems new to her. She had to find a new job in US, her challenged is to learn English to talk to another people. It’s difficult to her, she have to make enough money to spend. She lived in US about 10 years to now; she still can keep the Vietnamese culture. Every year she came back to her homeland, to visit friends’ family. She is a citizen of a US, in a future I think I will go to live with her. She loved Vietnam, and she glad that she’s got a better condition.

Homework's-questions (Article)

1. What is the main point of this article?
-I think the main point of this article is how the global warming damage the environment. That will effect our lives.
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:
-Drought: a shortage of rainfall
- Variation: different, to be adapt
-Monsoon: any wind that changes direction with the seasons
-Skeptics: to be doubt, unbelief

3. What is the difference between “weather” and “climate”?
-Weather:is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere, and its short-term (minutes to weeks) variation. Popularly, weather is thought of as the combination of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, and wind. We talk about the weather in terms of "What will it be like today?", "How hot is it right now?"


-Climate:is defined as statistical weather information that describes the variation of weather at a given place for a specified interval. In popular usage, it represents the synthesis of weather; more formally it is the weather of a locality averaged over some period (usually 30 years) plus statistics of weather extremes.


4. What are the examples listed in the article of “extreme weather”?
-Over the past few months, it feel like it's been one weather extreme after another. Torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan caused the worst flooding in decades, killing more than 1,500 people and uprooting millions.
-In Russia a, recording braking heat wave along with drought destroying millions of acres of wheat and killed dozens.
In the United States, there is a flooding battered from New England,then Tennessee,Arkansas, and Oklahoma, while record-breaking heat wave baked the entire eastern part of US.


5. What experiences have you had with “extreme weather”?
I have a experience about it.I remember it a flooding and a large rain or storm in a middle part of Vietnam. Like Da Nang, many people died and lost of their home. Trees are hitting a house. Water are everywhere, they have to use small boat to evacuated. Sea levels rise that time and also a hurricane.


6. What does the word “perception” mean?
-Becoming aware of something via the senses, understood about something, notice...


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

-In my opinion and my knowledge, Climate change and global warming cause a lot of damage to the environment and also effect our human lives. Human live in this planet cannot protect and manage this earth so bad. NOw we have to safe or help this green world, do anything that you can. Give back life to the lovely planet. We still have a chance to start over again, if we can't do it someday you will not have a chance to regret it. It's too late. If you can't recycle or anything you are helping the earth. Try your best to do it. Come on, this world needs us!!! Make the planet green.