Hero

Abraham Lincoln, my hero, is a famous United States President . I chose him because he spent his entire life working against slavery. After he becomes president, he led and won the American Civil War. Then, he passed the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves after the war. When I grow up, I am going to spend my life working  for something that I strongly believe.

Academic Earth

Academic Earth is a very great website for learning. It has an education level from below high school to college. Professors from famous Universities like Stanford and MIT will post videos and teach you about subjects from History, Art, Math, English, even to Economy and Chemistry. The best part of all, it is FREE! This website is dominated in Times 50 best website, TechCrush: Bill Gates Hearts Academic Earth. These day, I was poking around with this website. In our history class, we are just learning about Peloponnesian War. I typed in “Peloponnesian War” to see what is in this website. Many videos popped out. In one of the video, a professor named Kagan taught me that The Athens didn’t want to have the war. He gave me more information about the war that we didn’t learn in class, and I found it pretty interesting. Going back to home page, I discovered links of many different subjects. I pressed mathematics, my favorite subject, and many videos of professors from different universities popped again. I went through some of the videos and learned many things that is hard to explain. I also found out that there is a brief description at the bottom. When I don’t understand what the video is about, I could scroll down. I imagined that if one day I’m going to use this website to study, it would be very fun.

Traits of a Hero

To me, I think a hero should be someone who saved many people's lives. The hero should be brave, kind, strong, smart, loyal, and careful. He should have powerful abilities that can beautifully destroy his enemies. A hero should also be a humorous person who was always surrounded by people.

Editing

I had done editing in the 6th grade before. To evaluate someone's writing, you need to check on many things

• How well it sticks to the topic
• Whether the reasoning and statement is logic and clear
• How well it is organized; whether it has an introduction, body, and conclusion
• Whether it have enough facts and examples to support the claim
• Whether the fonts, Margins, grammar, and spellings are correct

Legend

The trait of legends is that they all turn out to be successful. People become Legends by either teaching a lesson, saving people's lives, or inventing important stuff. Sometimes they become legends just because they are very special or different from others. Most people have a small chance of becoming a legend. Someone like Jeremy Lin could be a Legend. Also, Steve Jobs could be a legend. And Obama, Hitler, and even students in our school could become a legend.

Remember, don't...

My mom had given me many warning for many times. For example, "remember, don't play computer games," "remember, turn in your homework on time," or "remember, bring your cello tomorrow,"She reminded me many times, because I forgot about them most of the time, and when she finds out, my mom would always be very sad. Sometimes, my brother will warn me, too. He will say, "remember, you can only have one piece of chocolate each day" or "remember, you still need ten more minutes for cello practice."

Super Heroes

Heroes in a movie usually have super powers. They usually wear something exotic and and fight against bad people. Many of them wasn't even famous in the background of the movie. Unlike those action heroes, real-life heroes don't have special powers and don't wear colorful clothes, and they are famous for being a hero. For me, I think a hero would do something that make other people think he or she is correct. A hero would also make people beside him or her happy.

Fly

If we couldn't fly, we can still live. I don't dreamed a lot about flying. It's good enough to stay on the ground; We can grow food and build towers. Unlike the ground, the sky is dangerous. The higher we fly, the deeper we fall. The sky don't have what we need, so we don't need to bother it.

Music

I don't remember when I started to know music, but I really like listening to music, especially Japanese songs. One time, Samuel introduced me a Japanese band called GReeeeN, and I went on YouTube and listened to their songs. I was really impressed by their songs; all of them makes me feel very happy.

Origin of the Seasons

There were seasons, because earth is actually slightly tilted away from the sun. Also, earth orbits around sun in the shape of an oval. I know that the season in the area where I live doesn't follow it's pattern, and that there is no way to know which season we are in except to look at the calender. I think there is nothing that I don't understand about seasons.

Reflection on Billy Collins Posted on TED

The theme of the first poem, Budapest, is that if you look at things differently it might become a living thing. The theme of second poem, Some days, is telling you to treat other people as if they are treating you. The theme of the third poem, forgetfulness, is that people forget about things as time pasts. The theme of the fourth poem, The Country, is to be careful and not to be lazy or curious about dangerous things. The Theme of the fifth poem, The Death, is that we are cared and protected by the deads. I like the fifth poem the best, because it has a cool animation.

Fame!

Pluses

• People get to know you
• You could meet famous people
• You can live in a more interesting life

Minuses

• Anything you did might be showed into public
• People beside you might be not as nice as before
• You might have to carry some kinds of responsibility

Haiku

Haiku is a kind of a poem that came from japan. To make a Haiku, you need to have 5 syllabus on the first line, 7 syllabus on the second line, and 5 syllabus on the third line, and that's basically what a Haiku have, which is only three lines. These are some examples:

White light shining through
patterns along the blank wall
brightening my day.

The winter is over
Spring is here hurray good cheer!
I am glad it's here!

Up on the tundra
You have one of two choices
Hockey or ...ummm...uhhh.....

Genetic Experiment

My animal is the alliturtle, which is obviously the combination of alligator and turtle. I choose these two animals, because they were the first animals that came to my mind. Alliturtle is a greenish animal with large rounded shell on it's back. It has a mouth that is half long compared to an alligator. It don't have teeth, but it have jaws that is as strong as an alligator's teeth, like a common snapping turtle.* It have a tail which is, also, not as long as an alligator. It have no scales. It can live in both freshwater environment and the ocean. It lay eggs on land, and whether the offspring is male or female depends on the temperature. It eats almost anything that is smaller then itself and that lives in the ocean.

* http://www.itsnature.org/ground/amphibians-land/common-snapping-turtle/

Mashup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GITb6rzpTWM

Justice and Revenge

Justice and revenge are very different. The word "revenge" could be used as either a noun or a verb. However, justice can only be a noun. Justice means differently to different people. It means what people think other people or themselves should have done. On the other hand, revenge means to take back, which could be the meaning of justice in someone's perspective. For example, Hitler's justice is to take revenge at Jewish.

Bill Cosby Video

The video I picked is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRmN4KnfPxQ .
It is about a father cooking chocolate cake for breakfast to the children. I like it because it's many part of the video is very funny. For example, at the end, the mother became very angry because the father gave the children chocolate cake. The father said that the children asked for it, and the children lied that they only wanted eggs and milk.