Letter to Felix

Homework for Tuesday, Nov 2nd

1. I think advertising make persuades the people to spend money on their products. By that, it needs more resources and energy to make those products for the citizens. In conclusion, if advertising makes people want to buy things and those things cost natural resources and energy, we'll end up with nothing left.

2. The people would probably not know about the sustainability of our consumption habits. We could learn about those things throughout advertisements by showing the citizens the positive and the negative side of an item they want to present. We could also research on our own to know more about sustainability.

3. Yes, they could use celebrity or put in models to make the items more worthy to buy.

Sustainable Development Examples

1. Using renewable energy
2. Waste treatment (not polluting the environment)
3. Do not disrupt the natural cycles

CLIMATOLOGIST [Migration Short Story]

I’m Felix, Felix Hugh and I migrated from New York City to Los Angeles, California. My parents are climatologists; they are testing for the difference between New York City’s climate and California’s climate. Because of my parents’ job, I had to migrate and immigrate a lot. I think I’m getting use to this. I have to change school for awhile now since parents got the job. I usually am having trouble with finding new friends and meeting new neighbors. America is a mix cultured country so I don’t bother having any issue with people having religions or cultures different to me.

California’s weather is milder than the weather in New York City, my home. However, lots of Californians want to migrate to New York to have better jobs or lives, but because of its extremely worst weather. In California, at school, people avoided me because I’m a new guy who doesn’t know anything about the California’s sea and the people’s lives. I have difficulty meeting new people and friend. Most of the time, I couldn’t do anything except school work and reading books in my room. Because of my parents and my own goods, I have to stay and study here for couple of months or even a year until my parents finish with their tasks. Hopefully, I’ll find a lot of friends and my life in California will be much better. This internal migration could change my life and the way I see the world.

Re: "A Message from Mother Nature?"

1. The article is talking about climate changing could be the sign that will lead the Earth to an END.

2. a. variation -- a different form of something
    b. trend -- the general direction of something
    c. skeptic -- people that doesn't believe in certain things someone had said
    d. torrential -- a sudden and violent action of someone or something

3. Weather is the conditions of the atmosphere over a short period of time, and Climate is how the atmosphere behaves over long periods of time.

4. a. Torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan caused the worst flooding in decades, killing more than 1,500 people and uprooting millions.

    b. In Russia, a record-breaking heat wave along with a record-breaking drought destroyed millions of acres of wheat and sparked wildfires that killed dozens.

    c. In the U.S., flooding battered New England, then Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, while a record-breaking heat wave baked the entire eastern part of the country.

5. Extreme weather is when weather unlimited, suddenly, violently happen.

6. Perception is the understanding of something.

7. The Global Climate Change, I think, it's the changing of the climate throughout the globe, the Earth.

The "A" World

1. Location:

                Arloss is one of the biggest islands in the “A” World. It locates South East of the A region. Arloss has 68° South latitude and a 50° East longitude. It’s the only place that has snow and ice.

2. Place:

            Arloss is mostly mountainous. It’s full time winter in Arloss. There lived the Snowmen since year 120. The Snowmen eat snow and ice to live. People believed that the Snowmen must eat the whole ice land before they could move to some place else for snow and ice.

3. Movement:

            In year 200, there was an Apple Rain from Aiie, that’s what the Alfian believed. Some of the Alfian must move to Al Dent to live. 100 years later, the Alfian started to open Apples facotreis to make Apple Pie and Apple Struddle around the “A” region.

4. Human – Enviroment Interaction:

                After the movement of some Alfian, the people started to live near the water and forests. Water helped the Alfian to grow apple trees. The forests helped the Apple factories to harvest more apples for pies and struddles.

5. Region:

                There are only two regions in the “A” world. One is the “A” region. Where there’s no winter and the people there mostly are farmers. The other one is the Arloss region, where it’s winter all the time; lived there the Snowmen since the year of 120. They don’t do much, they eat then sleep. They eat ice and snow to live.

Study Guide

MAPS:

1.       Physical – shows the physical features of the earth

2.       Political – shows the countries

3.       Thematic – shows different types of themes, including: resources, climate, road, economic, etc.

5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY:

1.       Location – where things exactly are based on the longitude & the latitude

2.       Place – describing the physical & human characteristics of a location

3.       Region – a bigger place with similar physical & human characteristics

4.       Movement – how things (humans, ideas, goods) go from place to place across the planet

5.       Human/Environment Interaction – how humans adapt to the environment & how the environment adapts to humans

6 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS – HELP GEOGRAPHERS UNDERSTAND PEOPLE, PLACES, AND ENVIRONMENTS ON THE EARTH:

1.       The world in spatial terms – by studying locations of places using maps, this helps geographers understand physical and human patterns

2.       Places and regions – geographers look for characteristics of places and then compare their similarities and differences

3.       Physical systems – geographers study changes in the Earths surface; where and why people choose to live in certain locations

4.       Human systems – by studying human settlement patterns and use of resources, this helps geographers explain human interactions and lifestyles

5.       Environment and society – geographers study how people interact with the environment and how they use resources

6.       The uses of geography – by studying patterns and processes in the world, this helps people understand the past and plan for the future

HOW FORCES CONTINUALLY CHANGE EARTH’S SURFACE

WHAT IS CULTURE? :

1.       History, tradition, religion, government, costumes, education, trade, environment, nature, everything around us, etc

VOCABULARY:

1.       Geography – study of people, places, and environments

2.       Environment – physical surroundings of a location

3.       Location – where things exactly are based on the longitude & the latitude

4.       Spatial – referring to where a place is located and its physical relationship to other places, people, or environments

5.       Place – describing the physical and human characteristics of a location

6.       Region – an area that has similar physical & human characteristics

7.       Map – a representation of a part of the Earth

8.       Globe – a model of the earth in the shape of a sphere

9.       Surveyor – a person who measures the land

10.   Remote sensing – obtaining information about a site by using an instrument that is not physically in contact with the site

11.   Landsat – a series of information – gathering satellites that orbit above Earth

12.   Global Positioning System (GPS) – a system that uses a network of Earth – obtaining satellites to pinpoint location

13.   Geographic Information System (GIS) – a computer – or Internet – based mapping technology

14.   Database – a collection of information that can be analyzed

15.   Location analyst – a person who studies an area to find the best location for a client

16.   Urban planner – a person who creates plans for developing and improving parts of a city

17.   Climatologist – a geographer who studies climates

18.   Geomorphology – the study of how the shape of the Earth changes

19.   Cartographer – a geographer who creates maps

GEOGRAPHY’S JOBS:

1.       Location analyst

2.       Land surveyor

3.       Urban planner

4.       Climatologist

HOW TO READ A MAP? USING:

1.       Compass, scale, legend, resources, elevation

TOOLS:

1.       Global Positioning System (GPS) – a system that uses a network of Earth – obtaining satellites to pinpoint location

2.       Geographic Information System (GIS) – a computer – or Internet – based mapping technology

3.       Remote sensing – obtaining information about a site by using an instrument that is not physically in contact with the site

4.       Map – a representation of a part of the Earth

5.       Irrigation system

                                  What we’ve learn from the FAMILY TREE Project…

Each family has a different kind of tradition. The people do different things in different events of the year. Each family believes in a religion. Example, Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism [Daoism], ect.  Vietnamese tradition is different from other’s places, everything usually not the same. Each person has a different last name. Mine is “Chau”, there’s a very few chance there’s a person or family with this last name. It came from Chinese. So we’ve learn some different cultures and traditions from the FAMILY TREE Project. By the way, they speak different language…

I've been to Hong Kong this summer (2010). It was a small city that I was in. However, the buildings were as tall as the Empire State Building.

The temperature was always hot. It was about 30 to 32 Celsius. I even had to bring Mom's umbrella w/ me when I had a hat on my head.

It didn't has a lot of rain, though, it was very fast. About 5 or 6 seconds then it's gone.

It's very beautiful, the scenery when you are at a very high point, the mountain, maybe.

The sky is always blue in the afternoon. It was still bright for 7 p.m.

The people there were look alike Vietnamese people, maybe a little bit more Chinese.

The traffic in Hong Kong was perfect for a small city. Cars were driving at 60 mph per hour. An the people were very polite. The weather was hot so the people must were shoes like Crocs (a brand).

There were lots of trees and there were bridges that crossed through the sea. That was pretty cool.


I ate lots of ice cream there. They were delicious. The trip was special because it was the first time my 2 cousins went on a plane. The air port was totally bigger than Vietnam's, but there were just a few people there at the air port. We had a lot of fun and i took a lot of pictures. I didn't have it yet because my Dad keeps the camera and the memory card of the camera. McDonald was also my cousins' favorite things. I was imagine how I felt about the first time I ate in McDonald with Peter Sang's family and mine. It felt great. I had the greatest trip with my cousins ever. :P

   My name is Athrun, I'm from Vietnam. I'm 13 this year. My hobbies are playing computer games, drawing and reading books. My family has 5 members : Dad, Mom, little sister, and a baby brother. :P .My favorite subject is Science. I like to experiment things and find out how things happen. I dont like caterpillar, it feels creepy. 
   I also like to travel to new places. However, I've been to Singapore, Malaysia, China and Hong Kong. Their countries are so much better than Vietnam here. The weather in Beijing on Vietnam's Tết holiday is very cold and snowy. 
   I have an aunt that's from Norway and now is living in California. She divorced when I was 5. My cousins is now living in Norway with their Dad. They visit us, Vietnam, this summer (2010). They'll be back again 2 years late cause of the money problems. My family is complicated. A LOT.
    I like ice cream, sometimes when my Dad is free, he took me and my little sister to a cafe or something to eat ice cream. my favorite flavor is cookie and cream. So that's me. Hope that I'll learn something new this year and make new friends. So, Ciao.