My Refleciton of the Crusades Video

In the film about the first crusade, I learned that the purpose of the first crusade was to fight with the Saracens. They were called as the Crusades because they vowed to dedicate themselves and a crux was sewn on their clothes. The first Crusade was launched by Pope Urban II in 1095 in order to fight with the Turks. This was a big success and they conquered Jerusalem. Surprisingly, the first crusade actually augmented the wealth and power for the Papacy and the Catholic Church. I was also amazed people’s enthusiasm toward the Christian religion. In terms of the reasons different people joined the first crusade, the Pope Urban II, who launched the first crusade, was ambitious and fought with the Turks who invaded his land. People from lower class jointed it because they wanted to make up their sins by donated their goods and joined the long journey. Besides, the crusaders were Christians because the Crusades were nine Holy Wars operated by the Christian states in Europe. This was why crusaders were Christians.

The Middle Ages, the Dark Ages

There were few technological advances in the Middle Ages, but I think this period of time was still dark because of some cultural and religious disadvantages. From my point of view, the disadvantages from the cultural and religious aspects outweighed the technological progress.
First of all, the idea of social classes was unethical. Everyone should be treated equally since he/she was brought to the world. Everyone should have the right to go to school and choice to decide what kinds of live he/she wanted to live on, no matter how wealth and poor he/she was. The government and the society should sponsor the educational fees to the poor, instead of marking the poor as lower class people.
Also, the idea of following the religious rules made by the Church was not an advance to me. People at this point of time followed the same rules and had the same routines. People had the same goal in their life; the goals were to make up their sins by supplying everything they had to the Church and go to heaven when they passed away. I think the religion did not help people live happily, only make people believe that they had sins and they had to make them up. The Church did not provide any prospective hope to people or help people live their life with fewer burdens. They only put more pressure on people.
Overall, I think the Middle Ages were dark from the cultural and religious aspects, even though there were few technological advances.

Some Thoughts About Blood Red Hourse

The most interesting part in the story is that William picked up a courser instead of a destrier. I was amazed at the type he choose. He choose the one that seems weak as pony. I think he has a high talent of choosing hor ses. That's not surprising that his horse has the same power as Galvin's horse.

This is the way I am.

I have the power to influence people in Europe. From the wealthiest and the poorest, from the highest class and the lowest class, everyone follows my beliefs and values, except for a small portion of Jews. Medieval people travel three thousand miles to visit me in order to make up for their sins and go to the heaven. I am a representative of God and I convey God's massages to my people. My power influences the king and his advisors. People who go against me will be excommunicated and will not receive any blessing from God. Eventually they live their life miserably and go to hell after they die. My people live their life under the rules I make and they are happy that they have the opportunities to compensate their sins by paying taxes to support the Church. In this case, they can estend their life happily.

Two Characters of Blood Red Horse

From Blood red horse, you need three things to become a brave and noble knight; a warhorse, a fair maiden, a just cause. There are three main characters, Will has a horse, Ellie is a fair maiden, and Gavin is Will's older brother. I'm going to describe two characters from Red Blood Horse.


1. Will(William)
He is the son of sir Thomas. He doesn't really like his own brother, he's a littler mean.

2. Galivn
He is a brother of william, his brother always makes fun of him, he and his brother always fight each other, but he isn't really angry at Will.

Bull Fight- LA

In my option, I think bull fight is an inhumane entertaining activity, because the entire activity is totally unfair to the bull, moreover, it's not respectful toward the animals, and it includes violence and murdering act. It's probably an enjoyable entertaining sport for Spanish, but it's not fair to the bull, cause it might not want to join the game which may take away its life.

The Clock Of Life

The clock of life is wound but once and no one has the power to tell just when the hands will stop
at late or early hour Now is the only time for you to live, love and toil with a will. For the clock may soon be still

This is a very good quote, it means do what you want, because the time is running out, so seize the day, or you will lose the chance if you don't take it. We should stay positive and cherish every second, every minute in our life, and make the efforts for ourselves, don't waste the moment that you can make your world different!

Submarine SMASH Day Reflection

For the smash day, we did an assignment of the yellow submarine. The mission that we had to complete on making a thing like a telescope in order to see what kind of treasure would be on the island.

The treasure was in the box on the table. But submarine was not able to flow above the water, so the whole process that we stayed under the table.

we got a piece of cardboard, four mirrors, two pairs of scissors to finish the mission.

From the start to the end of making and modify the telescope we made, took about 5 times in total. We tried every version that we made, if it couldn't reach the box or it breaks, we would have to edit it. And check what the problem would be. Sometimes it broke, which means it's not strong enough, or it's not long enough to reach into the box. If the first idea didn't work then we thought of another one and work hard on it.

If you are the first time playing this game, then try to make your telescope longer, so that it can reach in to the box. And make sure the mirror is in the right angle that you can see.

Mirror-LA

Most of the people use mirror everyday, so do I. People use mirror in different ways. Some are just look at the mirror when they are in a bad mood, or there is nothing to do. But the main thing on looking mirror is to see what yourself looks like.

I don't really use mirror that much, but I do use it every morning to see how I look, however, I'm not a person who has to take a look every five minutes whether I'm handsome or not, but at least be neat and clean! I don't really have emotion looking into a mirror. When I look into the mirror, the one into the mirror is just like a different person, not like myself. People may see the same thing that I see in the mirror of myself, but I just feel like looking a different person in the mirror.

China’s Unemployment Swells as Exports Falter-By Keith Bradsher

Since the global economy recession, the number of unemployment in China has been increasing due to many factories have closed, which will have on the numbers of strikes and other serious unemployment conflicts. One of the company’s owners said : “I haven’t seen that since the early 1990, when China’s economic boom was still in its early stages.” Security forces are taking precautions to prevent social unrest, like strikes and riots. Since there are many migrant workers, leaving their homeland to search work to the bigger industrial cities, and they need to sleep over the streets since the factory dormitories were closed up. From China’s unemployment issue to look at our national unemployment, it’s the major tough problem for all the countries globally. I don’t quite understand what’s the essential cause of this global economy recession, but I can sense it’s pretty serious and have created a lot of problems all over the nations widely through the international and national news events I read. I think that many people would like to know how and when this economy recession would stop, and the global or Taiwan economy would boost again?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/business/worldbusiness/06yuan.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

Australian Fire Death Toll Rises

A sever bushfire happened in Australia, and there are about 30,000 firefighters are working how to put off and control this fire. Victoria had accepted an offer from the federal government to send in the army. Till now, there are 75 people died from this fire, and forecasters are predicting more hot weather in the region, which has seen record temperatures of 47C in recent days and it may be the cause of this bushfire. Even bushfires are common in Australia, but current blazes are the most deadly since 1983, when 75 people died on a day that became known as Ash Wednesday.

Undeniably bushfire is one of the natural disasters, but it may also be caused by human beings’ wrongdoing, and we should all think about the damages we did to our Mother Earth, and how could human do to stop all these natural disasters?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7877178.stm

The Reflection of the Humanities project

The Reflection of the Humanities project

-The Greek and Rome Research Report-

The Greek and Rome Research Report

From the ancient history of Greek and  Roman, it can reveal that many of wester modern civilization developments are originated from Greece and Roman. First, from the structure of social status, they classified people from their jobs into different categories. From the loyal families to slavery system, their people were treated differently from a social value. Since Greece and Rome both experienced the great empires  with their strong, powerful great army, which depicts the powerful army force was essential at that time, unavoidably , the social status of army leaders, and different ranks of soldiers held the unbeatable supreme social status.

 

Same as in Greece, people were classified into different ranks  based on their work, for instance, politicians were holding the supreme authority and respectful social position in Greek society. In their daily life, Greek men if they were not training in military, or discussing politics went to the Theatre for entertainment. To watch dramas that they could relate to, including tragedies and comedies. These often involved current politics and gods in some form. It is thought that women were not allowed to watch theatre or perform at the theatre, although male actors did play women roles. As for children in ancient Greece usually occupied their time playing with toys and games. 

Furthermore, the democracy system was derived from ancient Greece, which in Greek, "popular government" which "people", "rule”,and “ strength" political systems then existing in some Greek city-states. Prior to the democracy system built, people were depended on Gods, spirits to rule out and made the order for the society, which would lead to many results to superstition. Hence, the rise and revolution of democracy made a great step and more progress in ancient Greece, then it brought the great revolution and development to our modern society.

From the great progress Greece and Roman had made in political system, it came up their religion, like mentioned above, ancient Greek and Roman believed their Gods and Goddesses and handed in the national essential fairs to them. Their both religions encompassed the collection of beliefs and rituals practiced in ancient Greece, for instance, Greek people all recognized the 13 major gods and goddess. On the other hand, since Ancient Roman religion also encompasses the collection of beliefs and rituals practised in ancient Rome. Within the Roman world, it's common to practical counterpart of roman mythology.

 

As we can see the religious concepts of ancient Greek and Roman are mostly related to God, goddess and mythology, therefore, there were a lot of magnificent beautiful workpieces in arts. Nowadays, we still can see many great magnificent workpieces from ancient Rome. The art of ancient Greece has exercised a great influence on the culture of many countries from ancient times until now, particularly in the fields of sculpture and architecture. Roman expressed their creativity in their paintings, portait sculpture, and latin literature, and it's affected from Greek.  In many ways, from nation system, religion, art, and lifestyle, we still can find some Greek great influence on Roman culture, for example, Colosseum, is one of the greatest ancient Roman construction, where comprises not only its lasting history but also the talented and sophisticated calculation and architecture achievement. 

Besides the extraordinary performance in architecture achievement, there are many good inventions that ancient Greek had, and we still have them use in our modern life, like water screw, a device for raising water using an encased screw open at both ends. Now we call it “ Archimedes screw” and it is still in use today. Levers are one of the basic tools, scissor, pliers, hammer claws, nutcrackers, and tongs. The other good inventions like “Cataplult”, “Heron”, “Steam Engine”, “Umbrella”.

All in all, I learned more history about ancient Greece and Rome from the concepts of their economics, social customs, political, religions, arts, technology and geography, especially from people's daily life. We are aware of some current techniques from ancient Greece and Rome culture. Even now, many countries still receive the great impacts from ancient Greece and Rome, like democracy political system, some great inventions in technology, great creation in architecture development, which make us to view and witness those great constructions based on the human beings' ultimate efforts. I'm particularly impressive in the revolution and progress of democracy, Greece achieved one of greatest devotions in human beings' history development. With Greek and Roman's endeavor, nowadays we can demonstrate democratic system developing among the modern nations all over the world.

Bibliography -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/greece.shtml

-Reflection-

From the Humanities project “ The Greek and Rome Research Report”, which made me learn and used the learning outcome of being an active learner while searching and studying the related information and sources. From answering those questions of Ancient Greece and Rome Webquest, which had led me to put all the piece of ancient Greece and Rome history and found out more about  their ancient myth. 

Honestly, at the beginning, I didn’t quiet understand how to process and carry out this project. After several misdirections and discussions with the team members, I finally completed it step by step myself. From this point, I learned  better on how to communicate with the others, and tried to be an effective communicator.  Afterwards, I was trying hard and spent a great deal of time to deliver the whole project through several mistakes and bottlenecks. Finally, I finished up this challenging assignment, and turned me into a critical thinker while I was making my own efforts to make it happen.

Though I received a fine grade on this project, I have to admit that the discussion with my team members and their helpful assistance is one of the major factors contributes to my completion on this project. Sadly, I should have  assisted my team members as well, therefore, I hope that I will be playing a role of helper next time.

Effective Communicator-LA

I think people like new reporter, radio reporter and correspondent. This kind of people are good Effecgtve communicator. Cause there job is to communicate with the audience. Let audience know the news and information