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.

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.

Obama likes hot dogs ?

Where do you think the new the USA president will go to eat ? He could just go to a big hotel for meals and pay for a pricey meal, but Obama didn't. He chose a little restaurant along the street.
The president ordered a sweet tea and hot dogs, he also talked and took a picture with the other consumers  who were also eating in the store.
Some people asked him " Why would you think of  coming to this store for meal? He replied " I just want to grab hot dogs." Well, from this news, apparently, Obama is still keeping his ordinary diet habit just like an American civilian. No wonder his supports admire him so much, not only hie capability of being an America president, but also his personality of down to earth. I think that it's what every American would glad to see and the positive position everyone should stand in order to face the sever global economic recession. 

Stop following me!! Media!

Stop Following me! Media!

Today, Obama's daughters' school got started after New year holiday. Both of them have to go back to their new school. The first thing they have to learn is how to protect themselves from the media; stay away from those aggressive reporters and cameras.

How to protect the privacy of president's kid is a tough challenging. Nowadays everyone has a camera or video cellphone, and a lot of high advanced teleology, products that can watch people.
The school always have the responsibility to protect this pair of sisters from the Obama's family. This is going to be a hard work for the school authority.

Ben-Hur Reflections of Culture

Ben-Hur 

We watched a video called “ Ben-Hur” in Humanities class, from that movie, I learned Jesus Christ from the Bible, but in this movie, the story of Jesus Christ was in it, which made me feel that I was watching a historical and religious story. From the movie, I saw how Jesus Christ saved and forgave people’s sin. Unfortunately, there was the front scene of Jesus Christ but the back. 

Moreover, I realized the features of ancient Roman archetier, costume, and the spectacular of the magnificent Colosseum. More than that, I also learned slavery from this movie. Ancient Roman hold the slavery system, to those slaves, they were simply the property of their owners. They had no freedom, no human right but do whatever their owners told them, which I felt deeply sad for those poor slaves. 

There are two main leading characters in this movie, one is Jewish Prince “ Ben-Hur” who lives in Judea with his family. And another one is his childhood friend “ Messala”. Since their close connection, Messala once asked Ben-Hur to persuade his people not to be against with Roman authority, yet, Ben-Hur refused his request, which caused the end of their friendship since after. Consequently, Ben-Hur started his long pain-staking journey as a slave being forced to be away from his homeland, then he came back for revenge in the battle with Messala in the race of Colosseum. At the end, he tasted the fruit of revenge, but I was wondering whether his anger and hatred had been gone after his victory in the Colosseum.

After the great triumph of his revenge, Ben-Hur finally found his mother and sister for reunion. But unfortunately, they lived as lepers. With Ben-Hur’s strong believe on Jesus, and granted the forgiveness from Jesus Christ. Their family eventually reunited again under the bliss and save of Jesus Christ.

      

A five-year-old child with a gun?

A five-year-old child with a gun?

There is a five- year-old child in USA. Taking a gun and tried to aim at his babysitter, how come? Because he was angry at that babysitter, since she didn't give him candy so he took a gun from the desk and shot the poor babysitter. Fortunately the babysitter did not get hurt. Nowadays, children are greatly influenced by those violence scenes from TV, movies, and video games; therefore, they are confused on how to distinguish the differences between reality and imagination worlds, then they try to emulate those actions and behave improperly in their real live.

Humanities Assignment Make-up for Nov.19th, 2008

(5 questions on Ancient Greece& Rome)

Note: These five questions can be seen in my mind map as well.

What happened in the Persian War? Like the Trojan War, the Persian Wars were a defining moment in Greek history. It began inauspiciously, around the middle of the sixth century BC, the Greek city-states along the coast of Asia Minor came under the control of the Lydians and their king, Croesus (560-546BC). However, when the Persians conquered the Lydians in 546BC, all the states subject to the Lydians became subject to the Persians. But there was a tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, began a democratic rebellion in 499BC. In498BC, the Athenians conquered and burned the capital of Lydia, Sardis. By 485BC, the Persians, under King Darius (521-486BC), had restored control over the rebellious Greek cities.  The battle of Marathon (490BC) is perhaps the single and the most important battle in Greek history; moreover, it’s the greatest achievement of the Athenians’.(http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/PERSIAN.HTM)

What does arts of Greece tell me about Greek culture? I think that Greece tell us about its culture through many aspects; like religion, art, education system, social system, architecture, diet, clothing, music etc.,Hereunder are the few briefs of above mentioned;  Religion- the ancient Greeks were a deeply religious people. They worshipped many gods whom they believed appeared in human form, as we can see from Greek literature and mythology, recorded men’s interactions with various gods and goddesses. Art-We can see see Greek art through its funerary art, however the epitaphios or funeral oration was regarded as of great importance, and animal sacrifices were made. Education-Military training- Sparta-RThe goal of education in Sparta, an authoritarian, military city-state, was to produce soldier-citizens who were well-drilled, well-disciplined marching army.Diet-Food in Ancient Greece consisted of grains, figs, wheat to make bread, barley, fruit, vegetables, breads, cake, seafood, and drank milk and wine. (http://www.crystalinks.com/greekculture.html)

How does Greece geography affect their culture? Much of Greece is mountainous and rocky terrain, with the occasional plain. About 20% of Greece is make up of islands. Therefore, firstly, most of Greek live along the coast or along rivers and harbors, so they were suitable for city-building and the associated city-supporting agriculture, then Greek civilization in the classical period grew up as independent “polis” city-states. Secondly, it was limited agricultural land for the growing of crops. so the ancient Greek leaders encouraged colonies in more suitable areas and took place in large scale trade. The consequent was that they conducted lots of trade-getting rich in the process and became good enough at maritime pursuits to be able to use the navy to fend of a major attempt by the Persians to invade them.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece)

What are some good inventions that ancient Greek has? There are many good inventions that ancient Greek has, 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”. (http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/greece.shtml)                                                 5. What are the festivals or sports that ancient Greek has? The Greeks had a lunar calendar that does not correspond to ours so their holiday dates have little meaning to us. Their holidays corresponded to festivals for the various deities, like Panhellenic Festivals-it took place Olympic games, pythian games, Isthmian Games and Nemean Games. Moreover, Athenian and Attic Festivals are spreadably in different month, the other festivals like Asclepieia, Gymnopaidiai, Carnea, Heraea, Daidala, Eleutheria, Lyycaea and Hyancinthia.( http://www.fjkluth.com/festival.html)

Humanities-make-up Assignment for Nov. 18th, 2008

Humanities-Nov. 18th, 2008

A Research Question Ancient Greece

What did a daily life in Ancient Greece look like?

Ancient Greek culture reached its pinnacle during the fourth century BC- an era described as its “ Golden Age”, theater, music, poetry, philosophy, and political experiments such as democracy flourished. In Athens, society was male-dominated - only men could be citizens and only upper-class males enjoyed a formal education. Women had few political rights and were expected to remain in the home and bear children.  Most homes were modest, windowless and wrapped around a courtyard. Furniture was rare. People spent the majority of the day out of doors enjoying the mild Mediterranean climate. The Greek diet was also modest, based largely on wine are bread. A typical day would start with bread dipped in wine, the same for  lunch and a dinner of wine, fruits, vegetables and fish. Greek would reserve the meat for special occasions such as religious holidays.

Firstly, Greek men ran the government, and spent a great deal of their time away from home. When not involved in politics, the men spent time in the fields, overseeing or working the crops, sailing, hunting, in manufacturing or in trade.  As the entertaining, in addition to drinking parties, the men enjoyed wrestling, horseback riding, and the famous Olympic Games. When the men entertained their male friends, at the popular drinking parties, their wives and daughters were not allowed to attend.

Secondly, with the exception of ancient Sparta, Greek women had very limited freedom outside the home. If they had their husband’s permission to do so, they could attend weddings, funerals, some religious festivals, and could visit females neighbors for brief periods of time. In their home, Greek women were in charge! Their job was to run the house, make the clothes, and bear children.  

Thirdly, the ancient Greeks considered their children to be “youths” until they reached the age of 30! In Athens, as in most Greek city states, with the exception of Sparta, girls stayed at home until they were married. As for boys, in most Greek city-states, when young, the boys stayed at home, helping in the fields.

Humanities-make-up Assignment for Nov. 14th, 2008

Humanities Assignment -Nov. 14th, 2008

ESPRAT

Taiwan

Firstly, I would like to talk about the following questions based on my nation “ Taiwan” .

What is the Economic ( business) system? The economic system of Taiwan is Capitalism, people in Taiwan are developing businesses in varied field. Let’s take technology for instance, Taiwanese government has been assisting and supporting our domestic enterprises on the development of cutting edge technology. With the endeavors that our government and cooperation of domestic enterprises, now we can see the brilliant fruits from their efforts.

What does the Social system (daily life, classes, customs, etc.,) look like? 

First, the major characteristics of Taiwanese are diligent, persistent, and open-minded. Second, most people living in cities are white collar, they’re office workers in most. Basically, most of them are middle class, but with the increase of foreign labors demand, the gap between white colon and blue colon is getting bigger. Like the pyramid structure, the wealthy people at the top of the pyramid, and the poverty is occupied the most at the bottom of the pyramid.  

What is the Political (government) system? Who has the power? Taiwan is based on democratic system, and the leader of the nation, the president and the legislators pass the bill and make the laws.

What are the Religions? Describe them in detail.                 

a.Buddhism is the major religion in Taiwan. It’s based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha.  b. Christian- It’s a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth.                    c. Muslim-It’s an adherent of the religion of Islam.                                                          

d. Taoism-It refers to a variety of related philosophical and religious traditions and concepts.

What are the various Arts ( especially those your nation is known for)?

There are several Taiwanese traditional arts like Taiwanese opera, Taiwanese puppetry, Taiwanese pottery, and Taiwanese aboriginal people’s artwork on craft work and music creation. Moreover, there are many famous art pieces in our national palace museum, such as the well-known “ Jadeite Cabbage with insects”.

Humanities Assignment-Nov. 11th, 2008

Humanities Assignment-Nov. 11th, 2008

1.What does a government do?

It is the organization, that is the governing authority of a political unit and the ruling power in a political society,and the apparatus through which a governing body functions and exercises authority. Government, with the authority to make laws, to deal with the disputes, and to make administrative decisions for the entire nation, and provide a better place for its people to live in.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government)

Humanities assignment on Nov. 14th, 2008-FAT questions

Humanities assignment-Nov. 14th, 2008-FAT questions (Greece, Rome)

1.What sports/ games do people enjoy?

Many of the games played in the Olympic Games of ancient Greece are still included in the

Olympics today. Three of these games are boxing, weightlifting, and the pentahalon. All of

those events are still included in Olympics today. As for ancient Roman, they had Gladiators,

Roman games (Field & Track), Ball games, and Board games. 

(http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webunits/greecerome/Greecesports1.html)

2. How do people dress?

Generally, Roman men wore two garments, the tunica and the toga. The tunica was a short woolen

under garment with short sleeves. But actually, to wear a long tunic with long sleeves was considered

effeminate and was generally avoided by society as a whole. 

(http://www.unrv.com/culture/ancient-roman-clothing.php)

3. Did Greece fight with other country? Why?

Wars were very common in ancient Greece. The Greeks lived in little city-states, each one like a small town in the

United States today, with more than about 100,000 people in each city-state, like Athen, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes-

were always fighting each other over their borders. Often they would get together in leagues, a lot of city-states

together, to fight as allies. (http://www.crystalinks.com/greekwars.html)

4.What are the religion in Greece or Roman?

Greek religion-encompasses the collection of beliefs and rituals practices in ancient Greece in the form of both popular

public religion and cult practices. Moreover, Greek people all recognized the 13 major gods and goddess: Zeus,

Hera, Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Ares, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Athena, Hermes, Demeter, and Hestia.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_religion 

Roman religion - encompasses the collection of beliefs and rituals practised in ancient Rome in ancient Rome in

the form of cult practices. It's therefore the practical counterpart of Roman mythology.

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

5.Why Olympic are from Greece?

The ancient Olympic Games, part of a major religious festival honoring Zeus, the chief Greek god,

were the biggest event in their world. They were the scene of political rivalries between people from

different parts of the Greek world, and the site of controversies, boasts public announcements and

humiliation.(http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/spirit.html)

Humanities current event make-up assignment for week Nov. 01 to Nov. 04

Killing in the Pub

In America. There is a big pub. One night a man went there to have a drink. And he also smoked. But smoking is not allowed in the pub. The waiter wanted the men not to smoke. But the man wouldn't listen, therefore the bar manger ordered not to offer drink to him. What came next, this consequence made the man angry then killed the bar manger. From centuries ago, human beings have been controlling by alcohol for addiction, addictive drinkers may lose consciousness then cause the unchangeable and detrimental things forever.