We were assigned for homework to search for info on the Chinese Civil War, and then in your own words summarize it. So this is what I found--
The Chinese Civil War was between the Chinese Nationalist Party, known as the Kuomintang, and the Chinese Communist Party and took place from 1927 until 1950. It lasted a little over 23 years. The Chinese Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party were allies during the Northern Expedition, but afterwards, a group of people in the Chinese Nationalist Party, whom were led by Chiang Kai-shek, wanted to break up the alliance between the Nationalists and Communists. They then went into war against each other, but the war paused between 1937 and 1945 because of the Second Sino-Japanese War. In 1946 the war between the Chinese National Party and the Chinese Communist Party continued, and then ended 1950, although there is still a rivalry between the two parties.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
ghost story
So in our last class we wrote about and then shared ghost stories that we've heard about, experienced or just made up. We were then assigned to write the story in class on our blog. My story isn't as exciting and scary as everyone else's but it is the only thing I remember and I don't hang out in our living room anymore because of it. Oh, and when I was trying to sleep that night of the class we were telling the ghost stories, I was listening to my iPod and touched it by accident so the light turned on and I was so freaked out and I thought a ghost was going to kill me or something. I seriously wasn't able to fall asleep that night because I kept thinking about the ghost stories. I already had trouble sleeping because of thinking about ghosts and this made it so much worse. But that's what's so awesome about this class, I've never been unable to sleep because I was so scared of something we were talking about in class before.
One night a few years ago I was watching TV with my dad in our living room. During the commercial we ended up talking about ghosts. I have no idea why or how, but we were. We were pretty close to the doorway, which lead to our hallway. While we were talking something small and dark just sped past the door. It happened a few times before but I never really thought anything of it, I would just be like, "oh that was scary. I really want to get a llama." But I looked at my dad and then we were just staring at each other with questioning looks. I said something like, "that wasn't a ghost right, it's just a rat?" And he said "no, I don't think so, Ryan (my brother) is right there in the hallway, he'd say something if it was a rat." I wasn't looking directly at the doorway so I don't know exactly what it looked like. It definately wasn't that big, though. It was maybe the size of 3 rats or something but it just looked like some dark shadowy blob thing. I don't know what it was but I guess that's what makes it so scary to me. I think it's better that way, though, I wouldn't want to know that it's a ghost if it really is.
One night a few years ago I was watching TV with my dad in our living room. During the commercial we ended up talking about ghosts. I have no idea why or how, but we were. We were pretty close to the doorway, which lead to our hallway. While we were talking something small and dark just sped past the door. It happened a few times before but I never really thought anything of it, I would just be like, "oh that was scary. I really want to get a llama." But I looked at my dad and then we were just staring at each other with questioning looks. I said something like, "that wasn't a ghost right, it's just a rat?" And he said "no, I don't think so, Ryan (my brother) is right there in the hallway, he'd say something if it was a rat." I wasn't looking directly at the doorway so I don't know exactly what it looked like. It definately wasn't that big, though. It was maybe the size of 3 rats or something but it just looked like some dark shadowy blob thing. I don't know what it was but I guess that's what makes it so scary to me. I think it's better that way, though, I wouldn't want to know that it's a ghost if it really is.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
free post #2!
I'm watching Smart House on Disney Channel. If you haven't seen it, you should because it's a Disney movie, and the house is just cool. It's a house that can like control things like a person. It makes you food and drinks and keeps the house clean and talks to you and just awesome stuff. It has feelings too. And yes I know I'm awesome for watching Disney Channel, but I know everyone loves it whether they admit it or not, unless there was a super bad experience with the channel or something, but whatever, that's besides the point.
Watching this just made me really wonder about how much we are advancing in technology, and although I don't think that house in the movie was real, it really might be a real house one day. I'm sure there were some people who actually though about using the idea and trying to build a house like that. But really, all this technology stuff we have is crazy. How have people figure out these things. Like our computers. What's all that stuff in it? How did people get the idea of using that green plasticy stuff and putting some other stuff together and turning it into memory for your computer? That wasn't really the greatest example and I didn't explain it all that great, but I think you can get the idea of what I'm trying to say. This is kind of a continuation of my last free post I guess, I'm still wondering about stuff in our world and how things have evolved.
I think that it's so amazing that everything that we use comes from the earth. How did people decide to go digging or whatever to get oil and then using it for cars? It's so cool that everything on Earth can have a purpose and is useful for something. Maybe some things don't seem useful now but look at everything we're making things from now, I'm sure a lot of this stuff wasn't useful to people thousands of years ago or something.
Watching this just made me really wonder about how much we are advancing in technology, and although I don't think that house in the movie was real, it really might be a real house one day. I'm sure there were some people who actually though about using the idea and trying to build a house like that. But really, all this technology stuff we have is crazy. How have people figure out these things. Like our computers. What's all that stuff in it? How did people get the idea of using that green plasticy stuff and putting some other stuff together and turning it into memory for your computer? That wasn't really the greatest example and I didn't explain it all that great, but I think you can get the idea of what I'm trying to say. This is kind of a continuation of my last free post I guess, I'm still wondering about stuff in our world and how things have evolved.
I think that it's so amazing that everything that we use comes from the earth. How did people decide to go digging or whatever to get oil and then using it for cars? It's so cool that everything on Earth can have a purpose and is useful for something. Maybe some things don't seem useful now but look at everything we're making things from now, I'm sure a lot of this stuff wasn't useful to people thousands of years ago or something.
free post #1
So I was trying to think of something to write about for this free post and aliens came to mind. Not aliens like foreigners or people from other countries, but aliens from like, outer space. I think they're totally real. Maybe not exactly those skinny green things with three fingers, an oval shaped head and big eyes which everyone imagines an alien as, but just another creature somewhere in this universe and maybe even another universe..? Who knows, but I think it's a really interesting thing to think about. Like there may be life that we don't know about. I wonder what they'd look like. They could have like a million arms or maybe no arms at all. What would their world be like?
And I wonder how they'd communicate. If they do. And I also think it's so cool how languages have changed so much from like the beginning of humankind. It has come such a long way and now there are such crazy words like flibbertigibbet and coterminous and lots and lots of other weird words that i can't think of. Who and how did they come up with this stuff?
I wonder if we and our universe is just like an ant's world compared to another creature's world. I don't know if that makes sense but maybe our galaxy is just like floating around an even huger species of creatures' environment. Well maybe not what I just said but something like that. There may be things a kajillion times bigger than us!! or a kajillion times smaller! Yeah, so our world is pretty much amazing. But I wonder what other worlds, if there are any, are like?
And I wonder how they'd communicate. If they do. And I also think it's so cool how languages have changed so much from like the beginning of humankind. It has come such a long way and now there are such crazy words like flibbertigibbet and coterminous and lots and lots of other weird words that i can't think of. Who and how did they come up with this stuff?
I wonder if we and our universe is just like an ant's world compared to another creature's world. I don't know if that makes sense but maybe our galaxy is just like floating around an even huger species of creatures' environment. Well maybe not what I just said but something like that. There may be things a kajillion times bigger than us!! or a kajillion times smaller! Yeah, so our world is pretty much amazing. But I wonder what other worlds, if there are any, are like?
Friday, March 16, 2007
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Family Story Part 2
For homework we were assigned to make a revised version of our original family story and make it "fantastical". So I tried that out and this is what I created while I was at the moon for a family trip this weekend.
When my mom was in High School she was in a key project or outreach school, so there were about 10-15 students in her school. You'd think, or at least I thought, that with that many students they would all have a pretty good relationship with each other, like they'd be a family or something. But that wasn't really how it was. They were all divided into their own little group of friends.
And then one day the school changed their rules so that every creature ever created could enroll in the school. Bunnies and Leprechauns and creatures from other planets all came to the school. Some of the new students--a group of ugly dark green monsters with ten eyes, no nose or ears and a huge mouth with only their two front teeth with a huge gap between them, would make fun of my mom because she was super skinny. One of the unearthly monsters was making fun of my mom and then that monster's sister, a beautiful unicorn with a pretty pink tail, saw what was happening to my mom and told her monstrous sister to stop. The monster didn't, and they got into a big fight. The amazing unicorn popped the green monster with its' horn and the monster disappeared forever.
After that my mom and the pretty unircorn who stood up for my mom against her sister became best friends. And they still are, the unicorn uses its' magical rainbow to travel to my house and visit my mom often.
When my mom was in High School she was in a key project or outreach school, so there were about 10-15 students in her school. You'd think, or at least I thought, that with that many students they would all have a pretty good relationship with each other, like they'd be a family or something. But that wasn't really how it was. They were all divided into their own little group of friends.
And then one day the school changed their rules so that every creature ever created could enroll in the school. Bunnies and Leprechauns and creatures from other planets all came to the school. Some of the new students--a group of ugly dark green monsters with ten eyes, no nose or ears and a huge mouth with only their two front teeth with a huge gap between them, would make fun of my mom because she was super skinny. One of the unearthly monsters was making fun of my mom and then that monster's sister, a beautiful unicorn with a pretty pink tail, saw what was happening to my mom and told her monstrous sister to stop. The monster didn't, and they got into a big fight. The amazing unicorn popped the green monster with its' horn and the monster disappeared forever.
After that my mom and the pretty unircorn who stood up for my mom against her sister became best friends. And they still are, the unicorn uses its' magical rainbow to travel to my house and visit my mom often.
Family Story Part 1
In class we were supposed to think of a story that had to do with our family and was told to us by a family member. So we thought about it and then shared our story with the class. Our assignment was to tell the story on our blog and so that's what this post is about.
When my mom was in High School she was in a key project or outreach school, so there were about 10-15 students in her school. You'd think, or at least I thought, that with that many students they would all have a pretty good relationship with each other, like they'd be a family or something. But that wasn't really how it was. They were all divided into their own little group of friends. Some students would make fun of my mom because she was super skinny. One day this girl was making fun of my mom and then that girl's sister saw what was happening and told her sister to stop. They got into a big fight and the girl who was teasing my mom just stopped and left. After that my mom and the girl who stood up for my mom against her sister became best friends. They still are, and they talk to each other at least once a week.
When my mom was in High School she was in a key project or outreach school, so there were about 10-15 students in her school. You'd think, or at least I thought, that with that many students they would all have a pretty good relationship with each other, like they'd be a family or something. But that wasn't really how it was. They were all divided into their own little group of friends. Some students would make fun of my mom because she was super skinny. One day this girl was making fun of my mom and then that girl's sister saw what was happening and told her sister to stop. They got into a big fight and the girl who was teasing my mom just stopped and left. After that my mom and the girl who stood up for my mom against her sister became best friends. They still are, and they talk to each other at least once a week.
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