Tao Film Questions

(1) Please indicate the importance of the ocean to Tao. It’s how they know for weather changes, it supplies for food, and they can exercise in it.
(2) It takes a lot of time for Tao people to build a boat. How do Tao people make a boat? Do you think it is worthy or it wastes time? Why? They have wood and use knife to carve the shapes on the boat. It’s worthy because that’s why their boats have those symbols that look pretty and meaningful for the Tao people.
(3) Explain the boat launching ceremony. Cover the new boat with those leaves, the group then toss the boat up with the boat chief inside and put it in the sea.
(4) Explain the flying fish calling ceremony. They put blood in the sea and let it wash away to attract those flying fish and to catch them to have a big harvest for food.
(5) How do Tao people live in harmony with the natural environment? They treat the environment well and without make their god mad.
(6) The houses Tao people build are so special. Please compare their houses to those houses in your own country. Their houses are made of wood but our houses are made out of bricks and yea. Our house can have special designs because you can change how the bricks stack together but for their house you can’t change how the woo is grew instead of carving them. Their house have symbols in them.
(7) Tao people view eating a seasnake is a taboo because it lowers social status. In your own culture, do you have any eating taboos? Do you believe in it? Why? I don’t think so.
(8) So far only one big handmade boat is kept in Tao tribe because of modernization. Thus, some Tao people try to preserve their art culture. Please describe a vanishing art culture in your country that you would like to preserve. I don’t want to preserve any art stuff because I don’t really like art.

Comparing Japanese and Taiwanese Food

Taiwanese and Japanese food have both hot food and cold food. Because of the climate, these two countries both have four seasons, sometimes hot and sometimes cold, they must have both hot food and cold food. For hot stuff, Taiwan has tea and Japan also has its own kind of tea. For cold stuff, Taiwan has the bubble tea and Japanese has the green tea ice-cream stuff.

Taiwanese cuisine is usually like everyone gathers around a big round table with lots of dishes on the table, and people would share all the dishes. In Japan, it's only sometimes like that but other times it's like each person has his or her own meal in front of him or her instead of sharing each other. I think Taiwanese people and Japanese people have their different own snack and way of making food. Japanese people usually sit on tatami or something like that without shoes but Taiwanese people sit on chairs.

I prefer both Taiwanese and Japanese cuisine because I think both of them are delicious.

Former President Chen Shui-Bian.......

Former president Chen Shui-bian....... has stopped eating to protest against the "death of the judiciary". People think why he's doing it is because that he is suspected of embezzling 15 million NT and money laundering, which those are againsting the law. I've read from other sources that he is actually skillful in this action. He has so many bank accounts all around the world, not only his but he also make his family to do. For example, his daughter also has accounts around the world to help Chen Shui-bian to do money laundering. Because there are so many accounts, some in Japan, Hong-Kong, etc. People don't know where the money come from because the money has gone front and back from his accounts(there's like almost a hundred accounts). Therefore, he's againsting the law.

I think this article is bias because Chen supporters think that he didn't do anything bad. Although people might not know the truth, but it's not fair for the supporters of Chen.

First Energy Bar of The Play-as

For our first energy bar, although it doesn't look so good, but it worked! Our way of cooking worked, after we cooked it in the oven, the oatmeal changed and tastes like cookies. An energy bar is supposed to taste like that and we successfully made our first energy bar that way. Another thing that worked is that our ingredients worked. Our most tasting stuff, honey and chocolate, they actually mixed their taste together but because we had more honey than chocolate, it tastes really nice.
When we were making our first energy bar, firstly we didn't have a proper mold for our energy bar so it didn't stayed together as a bar but it breaks apart a little bit even after we cooked it. But this problem was soon solved. We put our bar in the fridge and when we checked it after few hours, it was hard and the ingredients didn't fall apart anymore. Now our next question is to think of a way to make it still stay as a bar after we take it out from the fridge for a long time because most of the athletes put their bars in their bag.
I don't think we should change our recipe because it actually worked and taste good. But now we have to decide that how much of each ingredients we are putting in the bar, so we can make sure that every bar that we make will taste the same(taste good).
Our group worked together really well, we first talk together on how are we making a bar and we solved our problems together. After we're done with the bar, all of us 3 tasted the bar and all of us think that it taste really good. You should try our bar when it's ready~.

MLB World Champion - Phillies

This year, the winner of the MLB world championship is the Phillies from Philadelphia, who had not won since 1980. Phillies had not won since 1980, no championship for a quarter-century, but this year, they made it, the fans are now crazy! Compare to the Phillies, there's one team that's worse than them, the Indians. The Indians hadn't won since 1948! Some states have teams for the 4 different major sports, such as Philadelphia. They have a team for baseball, basketball, and the other two. Some states haven't celebrate much because their teams are not good enough to win a good title. For example San Francisco, their basketball team only wins a little times so they couldn't celebrate much. For the Philadelphia people, for this year, they can celebrate all over for the Phillies!

I think there are some bias in the article, such as saying some other countries haven't celebrate much because their teams are not good enough, it's totally bias. It's not fair for the people who lives in the teams' that are known as not good in this article

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/sports/baseball/02anderson.html?_r=1&ref=baseball&oref=slogin