Current Event 2nd 2nd Semester

Sooyoung

6A

Mrs. J

January 30^th 2012

Novak Djokovic’s victory at Australian Open

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/tennis/live-djokovic-v-nadal/story-fn77kxzt-1226256787733

Leo Schlink

January 30^th 2012

Australia Open

Condemning- expressing strong disapproval of; to judge or declare against something; (condemn)

Consecutive- following one after another without interruption; marked by logical sequence;

Elation- to make proud or joyful; (elate)

On January 29^th 2012, Novak Djokovic, the world best tennis player won a tennis match, at the Australia Open against Rafeal Nadal. This was a very epic and victory like match that Djokovic ever played. That is because on the first part of the match, Djokovic was losing his match. He said that his leg was partly injured from before and concluding to that, it was a victory to him. The match was total 5hours and 53 minutes and at the end Djokovic ripped his shirt off to show pride in him. I also agree with the author of the article that this was the tennis match that could be called victory of all ages. I watched part of the match and I thought he would lose because he was weak at the first part of the match. Then, ignoring his injured leg, Djokovic won his match against Nadal! What can be more epic that that? Although I don’t enjoy tennis that much I have to agree Djokovic did a fine job.

Current Event 1st 2nd Semester

Sooyoung

Mrs. J

6A

January 24^th 2012

Italian Ship Disaster

Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/italy-ship-disaster-2-more-bodies-found/223626-2.html

Author:

Date: January 24, 2012

Location: tides off Tuscany

New vocabulary:

Summary:

Near the tides of Tuscany, Italy, on January 13^th, 2012, a ship going across the tides drowned under the sea. As 2 women were found where they think should have been an Internet café, were found 55feet and 17meters under the sea. Meanwhile they have found 15 bodies underwater but 17 still not found. Costa Concorodia was the name of the cruise that Franco Gabrielli told people that the cruise was stable. Franco Gabrielli was the head of national civil protection agency. Gabrielli and his agency analyzed data that was left behind the drown and gathered information on what caused the drown. Some people in the agency say that it was the strong tides or a wrong turn. Later they found another women body which was a new bride on the cruise with her family. As I read this article, I felt sorry for the people on the cruise that died because they trusted that the cruise was stable. Not to say that it was Gabrielli’s fault but I think next time on any kind of cruises, they should check more, if it’s REALLY stable and safe to ride before the passengers go on it.

H. Current Event 2

Sooyoung  

Mrs. J

6A

October 13. 2011

The Space Junk

New words: orbit debris

www.sciencenewsforkids.com

The governments around the world and scientists says that there is too many space junk outer space. There are too much satellites that are not used, and satellites that are not important. Everyone says that the Earth looks like this,

But the Earth actually looks like this with all the space junk.

Some scientist did some research to see how many will be there in the future. They think every year 10 satellites will be removed (destroyed).
Scientist don't want to increase more orbital debris, which is smaller pieces of satellite made when they bump into each other. In 2009 a Russian satellite and a U.S. satellite bumped into each other and made a huge accident. The scientists don't want to make and accident that big again, so they are trying to get full satellites removed and also orbital debris removed from space so it won't crash into Earth. Another situation, a satellite hit the capital of Saudi Arabia which caused a terrible crash. 

H. Current Event 1

Sooyoung 

Mrs. J

Humanities

Grade 6A

September 30, 2011

UARS

www.cnn.com

No author / all information from the internet

September 23, 2011

Satellite

 On September 23, 2011, NASA supposed that a artificial satellite named UARS will be reentering the  earth's atmosphere. They suspected that at late night time of September 23rd or the morning of  24th, the satellite will be landing on earth. They didn't know where the UARS will be landing.  NASA said that UARS won't be landing in USA but they think it will land in the ocean.  NASA is expecting that the UARS will break into 26 pieces and said some of the pieces would not be able to burn before it enters the earth.  Finally they found out that on the 24th morning the pieces of UARS landed in the Pacific Ocean.

I think that the scientist and NASA types of government should take  care of the space junk outside of earth. It will frighten people of when and where the junk will be landing on earth. There is many satellites that we don't need at the moment. Maybe we should use maps than GPS. Maybe we should use address than Google Earth or Google Map.

For More Videos . . .

If you would like to watch more videos on the Earth's system go to youtube and type in "earth system".
Or just click the link below,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciV6Uaeobxk
then you would get a very descriptive idea on how the Earth's system works.
I recommend this video because I liked it very much and it gave me lots of facts without getting boring.
Not only the basic facts it gave, but it also told very small details that are useful but other videos don't give.
I hope you try and enjoy it! :)


-sooyoungbyun

My goals for Humanities

My goals for humanities are ...


- To learn more of humanities.
- To learn how to improve my current events through out the year.
- To improve my work in projects.




Thank you!!!
-sooyoungbyun

H.Current Event 1

Name: Sooyoung Byun

Teacher: Mrs.Jeftic

Subject: Humanities

Grade: 6A

Date: September 22, 2011

Title:    Japanese Humongous Earthquake and Tsunami

Site: www.ploughsnares.org/blog/2011/03-14/media-and-expert-resources     and other sources on google.com

Summary: 

     In March 11^th, 2011, there was a big earthquake and tsunami in the north east part of Japan.   A lot of people got killed and many houses and buildings got ruined and destroyed, because of the earthquake. As the tsunami and earthquake happened, the nuclear power plant cracked and radioactive gas started to leak out of it. This poisonous gas affected the whole entire world. If you breathe in the radioactive gas, you could die in several minutes.  If you go near it or breathe in it while you are pregnant, the baby could have problems or could be born as a handicapped person.  Even though you are far away from the radioactive gas, after several years, you could get cancer. The Japanese government tried their best to solve the problem, but yet the problem is not completely solved yet.

My Thoughts:

I chose this event because for a long time it was the biggest event happening.  I suppose I chose this because this is a humanities project and earthquakes and tsunami are what we learn in humanities.  I think it was a bad idea to build a nuclear power plant in a country that has a lot of earthquakes.  You can build a power plant, but it would be safer to build it stronger in an island with a lot of earthquakes and tsunami.  It is good to use a lot of environmental friendly ways of making electricity.  But in a country like Japan, they should make more wind power plants or use more radio power.