Friday, February 24, 2012

Haiku

          Haiku is a kind of poem that includes only three lines. The first line can only have five syllables while the second line can have seven syllables and finally, the third line with five syllables. This is an example of a haiku that helps you remember how a haiku work: 
I am first with five
Then seven in the middle --
Five again to end.
This means that the first line have five syllables, the middle line can have seven syllables and five syllables in the last line. Also, most haiku don't have end rhymes but there are some exceptions and the main requirement is to make it sound natural. 

These are examples of haiku:

1.) Leaves down everywhere
Different colors through the year
Fall is almost here!
2.) Fall is leaves falling
Eating crisp, crunchy apples
A warm fire burning.
Fall is leaves falling,
Munching on sweet red apples
A warm fire burning.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Unusual Culture Experience

          One of the unusual culture experience I've always read about in books that is related to immigrants who live in another country, is: When a group of people are meeting together to eat a meal in the West, they tend to let the younger children start eating first and then to the oldest. However, in the East, children always have to wait for the older people to start eating before they can start eating. When I was young, I didn't know about this rule and when the first dish is served, I really want to start eating especially when I'm hungry and when it is one of my favorite food. I will then, raise my chopsticks but then, my mom will stop me. I dislike that very much. Then, I have to wait for a long long, super long time for the elders to start eating because they always like to chat and they keep on chatting with each other. I never can wait long enough and I start to move around in my chair. And when I'm lucky, one of the elders will tell us, children, to eat first. But that is only when we're lucky.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Genetic Experinment of The Fastest Animal On Earth!

          As a scientist, I imagined the fastest animal on Earth. It is a combination of the peregrine falcon which is the fastest bird on Earth, the cheetah which is the fastest animal on land, and the sailfish which is the fastest bird in the ocean. The cheetah is much faster with the speed of 75 mph compared to a sailfish which reaches about 68 mph. Even though both of these creatures are the fastest of their kind, the peregrine falcon can reach a speed of at least 202 mph while they are diving so with the cheetah and the sailfish comparing to the peregrine falcon, they are nothing at all. My animal will be called Speedo because of their great speed. This animal owns Sailfish's pointed stick, the tail and colors of a cheetah, and the body and wings of a peregrine falcon except that it have four legs sticking under it. The animal have pale yellow fur with round dots just like the cheetah except that the location is located on the feathers. This creature also have the really long and sharp pointed stick that sticks out of a Sailfish. There is also another peculiar thing about this creature. This creature have gills on it's feathers so it could be able to breath properly while swimming. Those are thought that belong to my imagination but when I decided to take some action and build the animal together through genetics, it didn't work that well. It won't be the fastest animal in the air, on land, or in the ocean because it have all the extra parts of the body that creates weight and friction, so genetic experiment failed! Below is a picture I drew of what I think my creature will look like.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Justice And Revenge

What is the difference between justice and revenge? What do these two concepts have in common? What are some examples of each? 

          Justice and revenge is two very different words that describe different concepts but in a way, they are similar. Justice means the quality of being fair and reasonable and have just behavior or treatment. On the other hand, revenge means to take back on someone for what they have done. When you have justice, you are trying to be fair by taking a look at both sides of the argument. However, when you want to revenge, since someone harmed you so you want to harm them, you won't take time to consider why they did what they did. For example, you are walking down the street and you saw a group of children surrounding one poor and homeless looking dog, beating it up, if you are being fair, you would help the dog out but if you are being injustice, you would just leave the dog alone or you would also join the group of kids and start beating the dog up. On the other hand, justice and revenge can also be similar. Why would someone want to revenge? Well, it's nearly mostly because you have done something to them that had made them suffer. So, if they revenge, they are being justice in a more violent way. For example, April's uncle is used to drugs and one day, he made a stupid move by killing his own sister because when they are young, their parents always favor toward his sister's side. Well, April, who have done nothing to his uncle will feel like revenging for a lost mother especially when she have done nothing wrong. What April is searching is justice. 

Wednesday, January 4, 2012



I like this video because it reminds me of some facts that are similar in nearly all mothers and fathers and teachers even. Mothers. Most are similar in some ways. They care about how things look around the house (like in the video, she's telling Bill to clean his room) and they always made sure their children are clean or at least most parents (like in the video, Bill is talking about the part of clean underwear). As for Fathers. They are different than Mothers (like what the video said) but in a weird kind of way. As for some teachers I have met, when they get angry, they starts yelling at the students and through those yelling, you will catch some questions and students who try to answer, get yelled even more. 
I like this video not because it's funny but because it's true. I barely hear grown ups talk about their parents like this. Children talking to their friends in that way is more normal but a grown up, it's just interesting and weird. I like Bill Cosby and his stories.