new politics in south africa

South africa is coming into a new era of politics. The ANC was the leading party in South Africa for many years, about 13. And the ANC was recently over thrown by a new party called the SANC. The ANC's presidential candidate was unacceptable in many many ways. so every politician that didnt want to have any part of the ANC anymore left and went to the SANC. And the amount of peoplel that left was HUGE like about 60% of the ANC is now in the SANC. now if the SANC wins the next elections they will take over the country and South Africa will no longer be a communist country it will be a truly democratic country. It is a communist country because the ANC is made up of 2 parties the communist party and the peoples party and they together are called the ANC. But now South africa will probably be under new management because the SANC is made up of all the most influential ANC members.

Obama president!!

yeah sure obama is the better of the 2 choices but i still think neither of them should have wont the election they were both unsutible for the job. Obama would have been my choice too but i think that if they had hilary clinton running she would have made a much better president. she seems to have more experince then Obama. She also had better plans than John mc cain. but i am happy that this time america chose the lesser of the 2 evils. At least this time they made a choice to help their country rather than destroy it further. now we can all just pray that Obama doe a good job of getting America out of the crapper.

energy bar

The energy bar we made was ok tasted very good. But i think that we could have done better it was too soggy and we didnt have all of our ingredients when we made the bar. We are hoping that we can change the ingredient that keeps the bar together since it didn't work the first time we tried it. originally it was supposed to be Rice Krispies and marshmallows but we dint have the ingredients on the day we made it so instead we used musely instead of Rice Krispies. It didn't go as planned it was very soggy. Next time we make the bar we will take out any grains and instead we will use gelatin to hold it together. Thus making the bar a kind of jelly bar cover in chocolate. While making the bar i think we work well as a group i think we all understand each other well. We all have a good sense of what is going on and how we will achieve that.

taiwanese foods

taiwanese food is in many ways disgusting but yet at the same time it is delicious. think that most of the taiwanese food i will never try for myself its just too disgusting. The things i will probably never eat is chicken balls due to the fact that it was described to be creamy and milky. I would like to try the oyster omelette it seems to be a great tasting dish and it is a taiwanese favorite. i must admit that i like korean and japanese food much more than taiwanese food due to the fact that it is not as bizarre as taiwanese foods.  

what are the rules for all living things???

Well i think the rules for all living things are as follows.

Number one: All living things must be made of biological matter eg: skin.

Number two: All living things must be able to reproduce.

Number three: All living things must be able to heal themselves on some level.

Number four: All living things must be able to grow in some way.

Number five: All living things must have or be cells of some kind.

I believe that without these five basic rules something can not be classified as "living". 

NOVA and its theories

 i feel that this movie is an accurate description of science and how everything work mostly because it makes perfect sense and its very understandable even though the 2 theories contradict it is clear to see that string theory ties it all together in a very comprehendable way and i feel that this is quite accurate and understandable due to the fact that most of what they are saying i can understand and relate to in many ways i also feel that the possibility of black holes and other dimensions with more of me is quite posible.

THE GIVER

I read a book called The Giver for english class it was an interesting book. I would like to share a brief summary about the book. This book is about a so called "perfect" community that can't see color, doesn't have music, books or anything artistic. There are many sinister things going on in the community that they don't know about. The elders and the giver are the only people that know what is going on. The boy named Jonas is the main character and is special be cause he is the only one how knows how to lie to others. Every year at the exact same time in December all kids age one year and when they turn 12 they get assigned a job and for the next few years they learn their job. Jonas gets given the job of the giver and the giver is the person who experiences all the pain memories good and bad. This is because no one else in the community knows what these are. This is done to control them and have. Jonas finds out about what releasing is and that his father kills babies that are not strong enough and his friend kills old people that are no longer of use to the community. He finds out that his father is going to kill a little boy that he likes and wants to save him so he takes the little boy and leaves the community. by leaving the community he releases all of his memories into the community so that every one has little bits and pieces of what it is like to feel pain love anger and so on and so forth.

This book end with jonas and the baby sliding on a sled down a hill to a place that jonas new as elsewhere. He thought that if he could get himself and the baby to "elsewhere" they would live and be forever happy. But all of this is to coincidental for him because there was a sled at the top of the hill and a house at the bottom of it. 

I think jonas and the baby have died and the last part in the book is the same as when he gets his first memory and i think that he is dead because when he reaches the bottom of the hill he sees a house with Xmas lights which he relates to love which is one of his memories. i think that he dies and lives in his mind , his memories which are better and more preferable than the world. 

engagement

effective communicator:1.6

community contributor:1.4

active learner:1.2

person of high character:1.8

critical thinker:1.4

i think i am a effective communicator because i always communicate my point clearly and try to listen to what others have to say. i think i am a  a community contributor because i always contribute to class and try to answer questions. im not a very active learner because i dont hand in work on time or i just forget to do work also if work does not interest me i tend not to do it to the best of my ability. i think i am a critical thinker because i try to work through problems like in the challange problem i tried to do every thing i could to figure it out but i still had to use my free question.

first science entry

My science class is about physics. I do not understand this class it is very confusing and unnerving. In this class all common sense is ignored and that is one reason why i don't understand it. We are looking at how things move and how to calculate the distance and other variables of motion. This kind of science is not for me even though i have to know it to be a structural engineer. Therefore I am trying to do my best to understand.