Blog Response #2

Section A

So far i like this book for certain reasons because there are some intersting parts and there are not so when i read i think of it as its boring and kind of blank out. Well in the beginning of the book i thought that it was really slow.One of the parts i thought stood out was when the boat sank and and their seem to be only richard parker and pi on the boat and i said okay but when a zebra and a hyena appeared it got kind of weird.
Some themes that occur in this book are:

Moral and Religious Beliefs
Courage
Animal Knowledge

I think that these are some of the things that pi grows in as the book goes on and i think its going to help them as they get rescued or wash upon a island.

Section B asking questions

1.) How does Richard Parker act when Pi is training him?/or does he actually train him?
2.)What does religion and the swimming lessons have to do with Pi and the lifeboat?
3.)Pi considers himself a to Christianity, Islam and Hinduism? Is it possible to practice all three faiths faithfully? What is Pi's reasoning in not choosing one?
4.)Pi believes that animals in a zoo are no worse off than animals in the wild. Do you agree with him?

Section C

The quote that i thought was the best so far is the when he was considering to kill richard parker which he actually didnt. "I had a plan and it was a good one. I only needed to survive to put it into effect." (Page 200)

This was interesting to me because it stood out and i think why he didnt kill him is because of his religious beliefs and how he believes in many things and killing wasnt one of them. i thought it had a message behind it which was its a part of survival so you are kind of being forced to survive.

Literature Circle Part 1

1. Predicting I predict in the end that they are going to wash up on the shore and they are going to see someone. I think that that since the boy is in the boat with the tiger that the boy for some reason is going to stay very calm just because its a tiger.

2. PicturingI picture What i am visualizing is going to happen is another animal who is magically going to arrive in the boat with him because of when the boat sank how could only one animal be in the boat. But them as i read there was apparently a zebra and a monkey.

3. Making ConnectionsThis is reminds me of a book that or a movie that i cant remember when stuff just appears and disappears and it kind of related to the book when they found the zebra in the boat. And i think that there was another strange animal that was in the boat to.


4. Identifying a problem I got confused when the author said that there was another animal who appeared in the boat actually which was a zebra.And it kind of threw me off because it had said that only the tiger was on there and then all of a sudden the zebra and a monkey appears.


5. Identifying a solution as i looked on the cover i saw and knew that it was him and a tiger but what i did not know was that there was a zebra too because it doesnt look like a zebra is on there by the picture on the cover so it was knid of interesting and made the book more interesting because its not on the title.

BTB: BEYOND THE BORDER

So as you know their are wild fires all over so our mexico trip is cancelled till further notice. But it is etter to be safe than to be out their in danger.

Some of the info i found just because is Today, the U.S.-Mexico border covers 2,000 miles, encompassing four U.S. and six Mexican states. But the area has changed quite a bit over the years. In the pre-Columbian era, the land was inhabited by Native Americans who did not draw border lines. Find out how the area changed through the colonization of the Americas, the discovery of gold, wars, immigration, NAFTA and other historical events.

JUST:

Hi again this is bri bri's blog sorry i havent been posting enough but its been so hard to write about the same topic. This week is not so good cause as you know thier has been many fires that have occured in san diego counties it started off with 1 and continued and is now about eight fires in san diego that they are trying to put them out but the winds are strong and is very hard but they are trying.

BTB:

http://www.bmsgh.org/BorderHistory/index.htm
This website gives information that can help us while we are still doing reaserch.
This week we are bascically going to do mexico stuff since our script and flash is mainly done just getting ready to go to mexico and explore so that should be much fun.

BTB:

This project we are doing takes alot of effort and responsibility but that is good. Doing this project i learned different things. Some things i learned are The U.S.–Mexico border has the highest number of both legal and illegal crossings of any land border in the world. Today, the U.S.-Mexico border covers 2000 miles, encompassing four U.S. and six Mexican states. But the area has changed quite a bit over the years.

BTB:

We have been working on our script and it is well. We are now putting the finishing touches becuase of course it is due today. So after we did that we are working on our flashes and continiuing our interviews. I have found some more great sources that i thinkwill help us.
http://www.baja-web.com/mexicali/ This site gives info about a man near baja who tells about him and the border.
http://www.andycomusic.com/Images/CitizenPostcards.jpg This image shows a mueseum of a picture of the mueseum which is presenting a show that is caring on the border.
http://danielhernandez.typepad.com/daniel_hernandez/images/displaced_border2.jpg
This shows a group of men and shows them in a farm digging up their agriculture.

BTB

Our project has been going pretty well. We finally got our interview date which will be 26,of October,07. We have been working on our final script which is due this monday we are making all final corrections turning it into a masterpiece.After our script is done we are going to start working on mainly our videos and interviews and continue our flash of course.

Water mini project

We are in the last stage of presenting which is we have to present on monday. We have found quite a bit of information on bottled water. As we were looking for municipal water we did not find that much. All we found was things about municipal districts.I think are presentation would have went a lot better if we had more info on municipal water. So are main goal was to kind of compare bottled water with tap water which water that comes mainly comes from the faucet and that has not been purified or distilled.

Water project

As i was looking for information i found interesting things:for example that water is a very serious chemicl it is so serious that it can possibly kill you. People around the world says their is no response for municipal water but is similar to tap water.Tap water is water that specifically comes from the faucet.

Water Project

Today I reaserched and i found great information on why bottled water is different from municipal water which is similar to tap. Some companies fill their bottles of water with tap water and sell it as bottled water. Municipal water is actually less than bottled water it is less than 1 cent a gallon. Bottled water has many differences than municipal water. One is they contain different chemiclas for bottled water they have a chemical so strong it can possiby kill you. Bottled water also does not contain chlorine.

Water project

Another article i read that was very interesting was how some people are used to drinking tap water because they are at home daily and others drink it because they are out in the world. Its funny say its a waist of money becasue you have free water at your home. It is not the cost that people are concerned with its just some people prefer water that they know will be clean and healthy for them and their family.

Water project

The corporations that sell bottled water are depleting natural resources, increasing prices, and lying when they tell you their water is purer and tastes better than the stuff that comes out of the tap.
"When Antonia Mahoney moved to Boston from her native Puerto Rico 35 years ago, the first thing she noticed was how much better the water tasted. Over the years, however, the water she was receiving from her tap began to lose its appeal. "Little by little, the taste changed," says the retired schoolteacher, who eventually gave up tap water altogether and began paying over $30 a month to get bottles of Poland Spring water delivered to her house." This is a prime example of someone who for thirty five years ws drinking tap water did not notice anything except when she stopped drinking it. She gave up tap water just because and stated to pay over 30 dollars a month to get bottled water delivered to her house.

Water project

I read that a women who works for the water companies turned her back for one minute and someone had dropped four chemicals of tap water into a bottle of water. "Members of the United Nations have agreed to halve the proportion of people who lack reliable and lasting access to safe drinking water by the year 2015. To meet this goal, they would have to double the $15 billion spent every year on water supply and sanitation."
"By way of example, in 2004 alone, a Helsinki company shipped 1.4 million bottles of Finnish tap water 4,300 kilometers (2,700 miles) to Saudi Arabia. And although 94 percent of the bottled water sold in the United States is produced domestically, some Americans import water shipped some 9,000 kilometers from Fiji and other faraway places to satisfy demand for what Arnold termed ''chic and exotic bottled water.''

Mini Water Project

The reason people buy bottled water is because if they are out on a trip they cannot take the tap water with them so they buy it to put in the back of their car or in ice chests. The reason they drink tap water is because its free and they actually cant tell because they are used to drinking that type of water but it depends on the type of person that is drinking it.

Water Project

I have been reasearching many things about municipal water and bottled water and it is giving me most of the same information since bottled water makes more money than municipal water the goverment prefers to have bottled water because it benifits them. So people still benift from municipal water its just that they prefer bottled water because it is guareenteed fresher cleaner and healthier.

Water project

Bottled water has become the most popular drink in the U.S. Bottled water goes to meetings, hospitals and many more places over the United States that helps peoples systems. Thirty years ago bottled water barely existed as a buisness in the United States. Last year they spent more money on filtered water than bottled water.

Water mini project

I researched that many people cannot tell the difference between bottled water and municipal water because it taste the same. They are different because they have different systems. I was reading about the coca cola companies and it was saying how they are forced to sell aquafina water, and how its no different than tap water. Bottled water may be safer and healthier in many countries but people see it as water water so drink it. The reason the governments like bottled water more than municipal water is because they make lots of money and is worth up to 22 billion dollars a year.

BTB

Today a border patrol came in and talked to us about how he first started out on the job which was he wanted to follow in his fathers foot steps but he did not want to join the marines or army. So why he was living in New York he was looking for jobs dealing with criminal justice so one day he took this test for a police job and he did okay. So a few months later the phone rang and it was the border patrol in San Diego and was telling him he got hired. We had got some useful informaton out of this for example what was his scariest moment which as him in the bushes waiting for action and by doing that he almost got bit by mysterious creatures, rattlesnakes, and a charanchula.

FACTS

I found out that their is nearly 12 million people living across the mexican borer. A program along the mexican border tries to provide safe water to have it cleaned.

Research

I found this quote that i thought was very interesting because it shows how the world is a disgrace to certain people in certain cities.The qoute is 'It is disgraceful that American citizens live under the threat of a foreign army'

Intro to flash

So we have just turned in our flash and it was just showing a map of how the mexican border gets bigger through out the u.s.

Beyond the border

http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/alotrolado/for.html
This website shows the backround of the mexican border and gives a sample of what their map looked like. And just important other useful information.

Beyond the border

So far our project has been going okay. We found more information on the mexican border. Some of the information talks about the border patrol and the organizing of the community on the u.s mexican border, and about the military. This was found in a motion magazine.

End of mini project

Over all the mini project went really well. I learned all sorts of information. I learned new things that i didnt already know about.

Ancient tribes and the border

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/20/AR2006122001839.html

Here is another site that talks about too soon to tell on boarder, and how their going through numerous amounts of problems in their city.

Incan civilization

http://coe.fgcu.edu/students/webb/meso/inca.htm

I found another great site were you could see the maps and other stuff. I t gives the intro to the incan civilization.It talks about the religion, what kind of food they eat and much more good stuff.

Some history of the ancient tribes

http://www.indians.org/welker/aztec.htm

I havent really got a chane to really look at this site but i was reading the first couple of line and it seemed really interesting about some of the tribes that we were experienceing in the class, like the mayans and the aztecs that were near the border.
I think we would be able to find alot of information on this site about the aztecs,mayans so on and so forth

Incan Civilization

http://www.crystalinks.com/incan.html


This cite gives alot of great information for the incan civilization. It also talks about how thousands of years ago the civivlization evolved.

Border Question

Changed Question:How did the border evolve & who took a role in it?
What is the modern perception of the Mexican border?