1000805 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Report

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Report

By Max

After I saw the movie “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, even I almost threw up bacause it was boring, but after I read the book, it beacme interesting.

This book is very funny because half of the things it contains are nonsense. The author, Douglas Adams is making fun of the way people live and value things that aren’t really important. So today I’m going to write a book report about this!

At the start of the book, the author mentions some green pieces of paper and digital watches. Of course, this has nothing to do with the story, so maybe the author is just having fun with this. But if you read that part again and again, you might think it will be interested in what is he talking about. I have no idea what he means when he is talking about the small pieces of green paper, but I may know about the digital watches. In the story, he wrote a lot of people are mean and miserable, even “the people with digital watches”. Why? I think he says this becuase people are getting richer and can buy things they want, but a few days after buying that, they would be unhappy and start to want something else. This process lasts forever. This part is just the preface, and I now think he is talking about the people’s feelings on Earth, rather than just talking nonsense. You may understand this part even if you forget about those small pieces of green paper.

When you do some exercises like climbing mountains and running, you can use a towel to dry your sweat. Towels are a regular thing. We may know how towels work in a regular way: washing your face, cleaning yourself, and washing other things with it, etc, but in this book, the author writes some ridiculous ways to use a towel when you are a hitchhiker. He says, you can lie on it when you want to take a rest. You can use the towel as a pillow to sleep on. You can use it as an oar to sail a boat. You can even use it as a hat to avoid something falling on you. And the most ridiculous way, if you are a hitchhiker with a towel, and you are traveling with a nonhitchhiker (which is also called a strag), the strag will assume that you have any supplies he might need, just because you also have a towel. After reading this book, I really thought about why I didn’t know these purposes of the towel, even though they are crazy! I really approve the author’s imagination because of his comments about the towel.

Do you have fish in the fish tank that you need to feed? I believe many people have them. On Earth, we can feed fish to prevent being bored, to make ourselves feel happy, or feed the fish to eat them later. But in this book, it introduces a different way to use fish. Even though it looks like a ordinary fish, the fish is called a Babel Fish. When you need to use this fish, you need to let it go into your ear, which is really yucky because you may be uncomfortable having a slimy thing in your ear. The fish becomes a tool to translate what you hear. I think this part of the movie is very funny because Ford tried to stuff the Babel fish into Arthur’s ear. The fish keeps sliding in and out because Arthur wants to let the fish out of his ear. I can only say it is very cool and extraordinary, but a bit slimy.

The last thing I would say is about the “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. Remember I’m not talking about the book you guys read! I’m talking about the guide that appears in the movie, but for a different function. In the movie, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” is just like an iPod with a keyboard. It is rectangular, and it can tell any information you need to know. The only thing different is that the icons are bar-shaped, and when you choose a bar, you need to type something to make it find the information you want to know. This machine is just like a electronic dictionary, but it not only can find words, but everything. So this is a good invention for all the characters in the film, and it helped Arthur and the other people a lot. After I saw this machine in the movie, I thought the movie is talking about the machine! I realized, however that they are different

This movie is really sci-fi. Even though the aliens looked very ugly, they actually were very smart! I thought their home is very ugly, but they were very clean. They also invented a lot of things that we don’t have. The movie always tested my ideas. Overall I think this movie is a little bit hard to understand, but it is still better than I thought.

1000723 "Disaster Movie" Movie Review

“Disaster Movie” Movie Review

By Max

     Disaster Movie is a comedy film made by Jason Friedburg. The plot is about the end of the world, August 29, 2008 has been predicted in the ancient years. In that same day, Will and his friends and some guests are having a “Super Duper Sweet Sixteen” party in his house. At suddenly, the house started to shake hardly, and Will and his friends knew about the earthquake is caused by a meteor rain, if they don’t return the crystal skull they have to the altar, it is the end of the world! So they start their journey to bring back the crystal skull.

     I think the camera work was perfect, like the crazy Chipmunks wanted to kill Juney in the shelter, and they ate her vertebrae. That vertebrae was just like a real one, it was emersed from her body, so I felt it was a bit scary. The effects are also good too, at the part of the three heroes wanted to fight with the natural disaster, instead of winning, they are all knocked by some big cows falling from the sky. It was pretty funny because when the Green Hulk wanted to fight it, his pants are blown away and he is very shy. He is also knocked by the cows.

     At the scene of everyone leaving the city, Batman talks to Will and realizes that is 5:30pm, he hooks the rope to the roof of a building, but misses and accidentally hooks to the back of a car, Batman ends with being pulled by the car and hit a lot of things. At that scene it was pretty funny because of Batman doing the wrong thing.

1000721 Scary Movie 4 Movie Review(Edited)

Scary Movie 4 Movie Review

By Max

     Scary Movie 4 is a comedy movie directed by David Zucker. In the movie, the main character Cindy finds work with a home healthcare company taking care of an old woman who lives in a scary house. Her neighbor Tom falls in love with her after she moved in, but aliens invade the world and everything gets crazy. I really enjoy watching this movie because the unique lighting and special effects make the humorous scenes standout. Further, the screen writing always keeps me thinking. Let’s take a closer look. 

     This movie’s lighting is overall very good, but the scene where Cindy and the other supporting characters are trapped in a bathroom really demonstrates solid light work. At first the bathroom the bathroom is pitch black, then lights turn on flickering and we are left with an image of them wearing a venus fly trap.  It’s hilarious.

I also like this movie’s special effects very much, for instance when the Tripods come out from the road and transformed into aliens.  This is extremely funny because the Tri-pods actually looked like I-pods at first, and we are expecting some very scary aliens to emerge, not mp3 players.  The special effects men also do a very nice job transforming the shape of the Tripods from an I-pod into a cockroach-like creature. It is fantastic. 

     Throughout the movie, the screen writing really makes the jokes enjoyable. There is one scene where the president of the United States is testing out a weapon which makes people’s clothes disappear. Of course we wind up with a naked President on screen! I think everyone can find things to make them laugh in Scary Movie 4. I highly recommend it.

1000719 Scary Movie 4 Movie Review

Scary Movie 4 Movie Review

By Max

     Scary Movie 4 is a comedy movie directed by David Zucker. In the movie, Cindy finds work in home healthcare to take care of an old woman in a scary house. Her neighbor, Tom, loves Cindy after she came. But, alien invaded the world, so Tom leaves with his son and daughter to the battlefield where the U.S. fights with the Tripods, and Cindy leaves with Brenda, another person that she met, to a village that can’t leave when staying it. They met each other again in the bathroom at the start, and they need to play a game with Billy Puppet to save the world and themselves.

     The scenes include Shaq and Dr. Phil in the bathroom with nerve gas in it, the scary house that Cindy need to take care of an old woman, the street that the Tripods started to invade Earth, the village that Cindy and Brenda went to, the battlefield that the U.S. army fought with the Tripods, and the bathroom that they woke up the next morning (It is the same bathroom in the start!), and some more scenes.

     This movie’s lighting is very good, though, even there is a lot of scenes are dark, but the lighting is great in the lighter scenes. About the camera work, it is very good too, with some shots of close and some far images. I like this movie’s effects very much, like the Tripod came out from the road, and it transformed into an alien. The huge laser rays and explodes are making the scene like a true thing happened here!

Aaron and the Princess

  Aaron and the Princess

One day, Aaron went to a costume party, and met a girl who dressed up into a princess. At the party, Aaron really loved this girl very much, so he asked for her address and telephone number. After the party, Aaron went to the girl’s home. He got his guitar and started to sing. But he sang so loudly at night, the neighbors woke up and started to argue at Aaron. Aaron was so shocked! He realized the address was wrong, so he went home sadly. After he walked home, some people gave him a surprise! He saw all the people in the costume party, and also saw the princess! They celebrated another party, and everyone played happily. Aaron also danced with the princess, and went home with the princess! Aaron was happy today, because he found his own girlfriend.

991105 Graduation Trip

Graduation Trip

By Max

November 2nd, 2010

Today is the first day of this graduation trip, and I am so excited! After we got on the bus, we went to Nantou, after having a few stops. We went to aborigine’s amusement park. Everyone was so excited of what kind of thing they want to play first. This amusement park is a very big place, with many big amusement games, and there are also many kinds of aborigine shows there. We started to play after we ate lunch. Some people like to play those scary and fast roller coasters, like Mayan Adventure, and other things like that. I went to the park indoors, and played many games there. Like the Pirate Ship I often play with, and some games that are slow and relaxing. I think the scariest ride is Space Mountain, it is a fast roller coaster, and you can’t see anything when you are riding it. It was so scary that I closed my eyes during the whole time, and my glasses almost flew out! But, the reason why I ride this is because of I want to revenge. The first time I ride this is about six years ago, when I was still in kindergarten. I screamed all the way, and I cried. So when I saw this thing, I thought about this entire thing six years ago. After we got back to our starting place, we went to Sun Moon Lake by cable car. We saw this beautiful sight of the lake, and also the sunset. After that, we went to a place near to our hotel to eat dinner. Our dinner is lots of vegetables, some fish, and some soup, and drinks. I think it was so good, eating so many foods with many classmates. Finally, we went to Lakeshore Hotel, and enjoyed the night there. That place was so luxurious; it has a small living room, a good bathroom, and two good double beds.

November 3rd, 2010

Today, we went to Taipei Zoo first, and we saw many animals. We saw wolfs, penguins, pandas, snakes and many more animals. We also went to some gift shops, and we ate lunch at McDonald’s in the zoo. Unfortunately, some kind of ant bit my hand and had many red spots on there. After that, we went to Taipei’s Martyr’s Shrine to see the soldiers. They are so focusing at the ceremony they were doing, and they didn’t even move or blink! Everyone crowded to see the ceremony, and it was so good! We also went to Danshui Night Market by bus and boat. It was so cold! There are many shops at the streets, selling iron eggs, fried fish crackers, arcades, and very big ice cream. But, we decided to stay at the arcade shop to spend all our money, anyway. There are basketball machines, and machines a little bit like dancing machines, and UFO catchers. Finally, we left, and stayed on the bus until we arrived at the hotel.

November 4th, 2010

Today we went to an amusement park, and we saw some famous places that are been shrunk by size. We also took the train to the place that we can play. There are lots of games, some are indoors, and some are outdoors. There are also a lot of food shops in the park. I think the craziest ride is “Crazy Rapids”, which is a water ride that we sit on a boat and it goes up first in a short time, and starts to go down with so many turns, and also the boat is turning when it starts to go down. We screamed all the way, and it splashes a lot of water during the ride, but it was good! I also played some basketball machines, and finally it was time to go. We got back on the bus, and we sang songs during the way we go back to school. At evening, we finally arrived home.

What do Drunks Do?

What do Drunks Do?

By Max

After I watched a story about our country’s excellent golfer, Lu Wenxiong(呂文雄) in the news report, I was really shocked! It tells about he went out of his apartment to buy some snacks, and when he saw some drunks fighting, he wanted them to stop fighting. But the drunks hit and punched him to death. I wondered why drunks don’t do some good things to us, and just do some very bad things.

Drunks only do things that break our community, like drunk driving, and killing people. I even think of why some people like to produce wine, tobacco and some drugs? And why people open so many beetle nut stores? I really wish one day there are no more drunks in our country, even in the whole world!

Just like all the drunks, gangs also do things like them. They fight with people, drive motorcycles fast, and kill the people who see them fight. So they are really bad, just what I said.

An “Octopus” Star in World Cup

An “Octopus” Star in World Cup



2010 FIFA World Cup ended with a great ending on yesterday, and this time’s winner is Spain, which never got the champion in the cup. Spain, only losing one match in this world cup (6 wins and 1 loss) beat Holland in the finals, by scoring at the 116th minute.


But this time, octopus “Paul” used his power to predict who would win in some matches. He predicted 8 games, from the 1st round to the final- and guessed it all right! This took him a long time, and a lot of energy. He has a special power that other octopuses don’t have; even they have the same body parts.


Also, Paul’s predicting also made some countries mad too. Like Argentina and Holland, fans and other people want to kill Paul and eat him, and fans in other places want to buy him. But, he is already 2 and half years old, and definitely can’t go for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, because octopuses can only live for 3-4 years old. So he is going to retire and find another ancestor, and have good memories in this World Cup.

Q: How Can students do well in school?

Max-Being well in school is an important thing, so every school’s teachers may ____ this question, or it can affect the schools fame. But, there are many ways to let a student do well, we should teach the students “the way”.


Many schools have big problems-many bad kids. We can all think about this scene- many kids playing, running in the corridors, and may talk and laugh, even playing paper airplanes when teaching, and let the teachers mad. As many American schools, the teachers will give a punishment, mostly writing sentences. Also, there are many more problems by doing homework, like not writing, or always wrong at questions, is also a problem that can’t do well.


The only way to let the students do well in school, is to change his (hers) behavior. But students can do well in school by good grades, being quiet when teaching, no running in corridors, but the worst problem will be playing food fights at the cafeteria. As the way teachers look, first change a small problem at school, then maybe about months after, that student can do well at school.


We should change the students’ problem, but do not punish them too much. That way, we can let students do well at school.

The Diver’s Death in the Sea

The Diver’s Death in the Sea



By Max


It was the first day at summer, and Rob came to a resort with some friends. They wanted to spend the holiday in a good way, so they said they needed to go to Hawaii. As the travel agent organized their trip to Hawaii, a few days passed with truce. Five days later, they finally got to the entrance into the ferry. In the ferry, they saw a limped man slowly walking to his seat. Finally, they got to Hawaii. They went to an atrium, paid money to the concierge and put their suitcases in their rooms. After, Rob told his friends Greg, Mark, Sam, Jack and Tim to have a deep sea dive on the beach. They took their diving equipment and started to dive in the water with heavy air tanks. After about 2 hours of deep sea diving, they got many shells and some seaweed back to the surface. Rob, Greg, Mark, Sam and Tim went to the beach to rest, but this time the realized that Jack was gone! They dived once again to find Jack, but, after many times of resurfacing, they still can’t find him. They were disable to save Jack, tired and sad, and went back to the hotel. At the next morning, the phone in the room rang. Rob picked up the phone, and he was suddenly astonished. He called his friends to go outside. They saw a body which was dead temporarily, and it was Jack! They realized someone shot the air tank a lot of times, and used a haywire on his neck, by looking his body. They quickly packed their residue, and went to the police office. They knew it was due to a man in the trip, so they started searching. Rob tried to conspire to the murder case, and finally they found the limped man carrying a gun. The police shot some bullets on his leg with a diameter of five feet, and took him to jail. This callous man was sentenced 5 years of jail at last.

Thoughts of the Movie “2012”

Thoughts of the Movie “2012”

By Max
I think the day of the end of the world is too early. My life hasn’t been long enough, and I want to live another 60 years or something. But this thing didn’t change. Maybe it will really happen to our lives. Maybe after 3 years, human civilization will really come to an end.

When I saw the movie, I saw the technology was getting better in these years, like putting infrared rays into our lives, making the fake Mona Lisa picture, and even some little TV that you can take it anywhere you like. But when technology develops, scientists also saw that Earth’s core is getting hotter and other things. It got worser and worser, and finally at December 21st, 2012, a sudden and strong earthquake started. Houses collapse, highways break into two halves, and buildings fall. And the whole crust started to sink. Also, volcanoes burst, and broke the city of California. At this time, everybody had nothing to eat and drink, and many people started to snatch the remaining food. Many famous buildings collapsed, too. People were forced to leave their homes, and soon, tsunamis started to destroy our world the second time. But people were astonished, because only China survived in these two attacks. Then, people got in the very big boats that China made, but many people died too, because they all wanted to go on the ship. After getting in, the people survived in tsunamis, and the attack was over. They finally can go home now.

I think this is a good movie to watch, because it had a lot of funny scenes, but also scary and excited. And this movie also tells us to protect the Earth, and win the end of the world.

Winter Celebrations

Winter Celebrations







Learn about unique traditions, celebrations, and holidays that occur around the world during December and January.






Chinese New Year


Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It falls on different dates each year, between January 21 and February 20. Visits to friends and family take place during this celebration. The color gold is said to bring wealth, and the color red is considered especially lucky. The New Year's Eve dinner is very large and includes fish, noodles, and dumplings.






Christmas


Christmas is celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas in the United States brings together many customs from other countries and cultures. Around the world, family members help to decorate the tree and home with bright lights, wreaths, candles, holly, mistletoe, and ornaments. On Christmas Eve, many people go to church. Also on Christmas Eve, Santa comes from the North Pole in a sleigh to deliver gifts; in Hawaii, it is said he arrives by boat; in Australia, the jolly man arrives on water skis; and In Ghana, he comes out of the jungle.






Eid Al Adha, the Festival of the Sacrifice


Eid Al Adha is celebrated by Muslims on the 10th day of the month of the lunar calendar (In 2008, it fell on December 8) to commemorate the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim (or Abraham) to sacrifice his son for God. Today, Muslims sacrifice an animal—usually a goat or a sheep—as a reminder of Ibrahim's obedience to God. The meat is shared with family, friends Muslims or non-Muslims, as well as the poor members of the community.






Hanukkah


Jewish people celebrate Hanukkah, a holiday honoring the Maccabees victory over King Antiochus, who forbid Jews to practice their religion. For eight nights, Hanukkah is celebrated with prayer, the lighting of the menorah, and food. A menorah has nine candles, a candle for every night, plus a helper candle. Children play games, sing songs, and exchange gifts. Potato pancakes, known as latkes in Yiddish, are traditionally associated with Hanukkah and are served with applesauce and sour cream.






Kwanzaa


On December 26, Kwanzaa is celebrated. It is a holiday to commemorate African heritage. Kwanzaa lasts a week during which participants gather with family and friends to exchange gifts and to light a series of black, red, and green candles, which symbolize the seven basic values of African American family life that are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith.






New Year's Day


New Year's Day is the first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar on January 1. There are often fireworks at midnight to celebrate the new year. Commonly served in the southern part of the United States, black-eyed peas are thought to bring luck and prosperity for the new year, greens (usually collards) bring wealth, and pork because pigs root forward.






Three Kings Day


At the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas comes a day called the Epiphany, or Three Kings Day. This holiday is celebrated as the day the three wise men first saw baby Jesus and brought him gifts. On this day in Spain, many children get their Christmas presents. In Puerto Rico, before children go to sleep on January 5, they leave a box with hay under their beds so the kings will leave good presents. In France, a delicious King cake is baked. Bakers will hide a coin, jewel or little toy inside it.






Winter Solstice


The Winter Solstice occurs around December 21st. It is the shortest day of the year. People all over the world participate in festivals and celebrations. Long ago, people celebrated by lighting bonfires and candles to coax back the sun.














In December, people were ready to celebrate Christmas and have a happy new year! Maybe, people will have a big feast, decorate the Christmas tree, and wait until Santa gives us the presents! As you know, we all know Christmas and New Year’s Day, but there are still a lot of holidays in the end of December to the New Year! Like Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, holidays that we don’t celebrate, are holidays that other countries celebrate their own Christmas! In Chinese New Year, Chinese people will have a big feast, see the fireworks and shows, eat Tang Yuan, and our parents will give red bags to us! There are many holidays at this time, but I wish everyone in the world will have a good Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Death Driveway

By Max


It was a sunny morning in July 1996. The New York Driveway was just built in May, and it was testing the driveway to August. At 9:00 am, Bob and his friends, Sally, Julie, Mark, Amy and Joe went to the beach to have a party. Unluckily, there was an accident. Somebody was dead.


It was 8:30 am. The people were still packing their things. They brought beach balls, swimsuits, umbrellas, food and other things. Then they drove on the New York Driveway. Suddenly, a jeep came, and drove at a high speed. The jeep just crashed into their car! But suddenly, as a mob took Mark out of their car, he was squashed by the jeep. They quickly ran away. Bob called the police to come instantly. The police quickly searched the crime scene, and found this disgusting dog poop, and there was a badge on top of it! They identified that this is the badge of the scary Black Mob Crew! Finally, they took this poop to the observatory. After the police left, the accident scene attracted a crowd. The background of the crime scene was contaminated by blood. Amy cried and cried, and Bob said: “Come on, Amy! Mark’s death is irreversible and you can’t change it.” Amy said: “Mark has a sports car, and he has a luxurious villa, and he is rich! What if the property was stolen? I still need to protect his property even if I am not his sister!” So the five of them walked back home sadly. The next day, the police called Bob. They told him that they searched the whole crew, and they found out the leader of the team was Jimmy. So they knew that he did it on purpose. Bob shrugged and was shocked, because he knew he was Mark’s brother and lived a secluded life in New York. He even took the whole crew to commit 9 robberies, kidnapped 7 people, and killed 35 people! Julie sneered and said: “If I caught Jimmy, I would tell him accusingly that you are the murder, who killed Mark! I also want to kill him too, if I had a gun!” After that, the FBI called the five of them to the police station because they caught Jimmy. They stared at Jimmy rancorously, and they got an award for helping capture the leader of the Black Crew. Jimmy needed to go to jail for 25 years, and pay 200 thousand U.S. dollars for Mark’s previous murder.

Chien-Ming Wang

October 3, 2009
Chien-Ming Wang
By Max

Chien-Ming Wang is a great pitcher in America’s Baseball League, and many fans like him very much. But I know that in 2009, he was badly hurt, and he can’t throw now. The team coach maybe will not sign the contract, and kick him out of his team.
Chien-Ming Wang was a good baseball player when he was little, and he played well in his elementary baseball team. When he grew up, he played for many teams in Taiwan, and he got better than before. The American Baseball League saw him doing well, and wanted to sign a contract. Wang chose the Yankees because he can get several million NT dollars a year. He started playing in 2005, and got many wins in 2005-2007. But he was injured in 2008 and 2009, one time each year, and he can’t play. I wish he wouldn’t been kicked out of the team because he was a excellent pitcher.

A National Hero

October 2, 2009
A National Hero

By Max

I know that there are many people getting cancer and dying, or maybe they lose their parts of body. But when a young teenager, Terry Fox, gets cancer and saw a lot of people getting cancer, he decided to run to raise money.


Terry Fox was a healthy kid when he was little, but when he was a teenager, his knee was hurting and it never stopped. Terry went to the doctor and was known to get cancer. He was shocked and the doctors cut his right leg. He saw a lot of people getting cancer, and he thought of an idea to raise money. He wanted to run a long, long marathon, and he wanted to run over Canada. He started to run in 1980, but after a hundred and forty days later, he had to stop because his cancer came back. After a few months, he died, but many people raised money to the people who got cancer.


Terry Fox was a great teenager since he got cancer, and cutting his right leg, but not planning to give up. He wanted to help the people who got cancer, but not helping himself. He is a special man, so we need to bless him.

Chewing Gum

September 26, 2009
Chewing Gum
By Max

Today many people eat chewing gum and bubble gum, and there are many different companies making gum. There are many flavors too. Archaeologists knew people before ate tree resin, and they knew this material is very good for the body. So they started to make chewing gum in the mid-19th century. It wasn’t popular at the start, but after someone made fruit chewing gum, it became popular. Then after the invention of chewing gum, someone also invented bubble gum the can blow bubbles. But the bubble gum was too sticky and can stick on anything. Finally in 1928 the bubble gum we chew today was invented.

I like bubble gum, but I haven’t eaten it for years. But I remember when I was young, when I go to see the doctor, he will give me 2 pieces of chewing gum! I really want to eat chewing gum now.

Sato and the Elephants

September 26, 2009
Sato and the Elephants
By Max

Sato’s dad was good at carving white ivory, and he taught Sato these skills. Unfortunately, his dad died very early, and Sato started to carve ivory himself. When he made an ivory figure, he took it to a shop, which they can help him sell it out. Sato’s figures are very beautiful, so he got a lot of money, which he can buy another piece of ivory. But one week, when he wanted to buy some ivory, the shop doesn’t have any. After a few weeks, he finally got a piece of ivory, and he wanted to carve some animal. He was confused, and worked for many days and nights. Finally he slept, and he dreamed of many elephants beside him, and they were angry. They almost stepped on Sato, and that’s when Sato woke up. He finally made an elephant figure, but he didn’t sell it. He started to use some pieces of stone to carve his figures.

I think Sato shouldn’t use ivory for his figures. Ivory is cut of by elephants’ tusks, and is it worth to kill many elephants to make some figures. So I think that people before were too greedy, and kill many animals. Now we need to do most is to save our animals!

Greenwich Mean Time

September 25, 2009
Greenwich Mean Time
By Max
Greenwich Mean Time is made by 1884, and because the people confused their own time in their own countries, and they may don’t know what time is it. But when I am studying history in 5th grade, I knew that Greenwich Mean Time is zero meridians because about two thirds of the boats that were sailing were sailing across Greenwich.
Now we know what our time is, that is because we have a Greenwich Mean Time (also called GMT). And I know that our time in Taiwan is GMT+8 hours.

Fireworks

September 23, 2009
Fireworks
By Max


I know that gunpowder is one of the four inventions in China, but I never thought of fireworks are made by gunpowder as a material. I know that fireworks are a kind of explosions in the sky, and it is beautiful. But mostly it produces too much smoke after a lot of fireworks. Eventually, fireworks are made of potassium nitrate and a lot of other things, and are made of like gunpowder balls. It shoots out using a cannon and it bursts in the sky. And when the ball is bigger, the explosion is bigger too. So if you see a firework, you know that what it is made!

Chewing Gum

September 22, 2009
Chewing Gum
By Max
Today many people eat chewing gum and bubble gum, and there are many different companies making gum. There are many flavors too. Archaeologists knew people before ate tree resin, and they knew this material is very good for the body. So they started to make chewing gum in the mid-19th century. It wasn’t popular at the start, but after someone made fruit chewing gum, it became popular. Then after the invention of chewing gum, someone also invented bubble gum that can blow bubbles. But the bubble gum was too sticky and can stick on anything. Finally in 1928 the bubble gum we chew today was invented.

I like bubble gum, but I haven’t eaten it for years. But I remember when I was young, when I go to see the doctor, he will give me 2 pieces of chewing gum! I really want to eat chewing gum now.