Canada & China

Hey Guys!

Welcome to assignment #23! Tomorrow, we are going to have two new exchange students who come all the way from China to learn more English, and our Canadian Culture.
So, Ms.Pollock has us comparing the two countries.

        

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>In China, an average male goes to school for 11 years, and the average girl goes to school for about two years.

>In Canada, both male and female go to school for 17 years.

I'm inferring that people who go to school in China have more challenging work than Canadian students in the same grade, because in China they only have 11 years in school. So I guess they have to learn so much more in school, to fit their school life expectancy.

            

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>In China, their common religions consist of; Taoist, and Buddhist. 3-4% of Christan, and 1-2% of Muslim.

>In Canada, our common religions are; Roman Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Baptist, and 1-2% Muslim. 
>Where we live, Canada seems as if the common religion in general, is Christianity. In China, they have their own general religion, which the two (Taoist & Buddhist), seem to be the same a swell
                                                   
                                                                    Taoist Symbol. 
                        
               Taoist Temple.                                                                               Catholic Church. 


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>In China the common ethnic group is Han Chinese, with a percentage of 91.5%. And 'other nationalities' have a percentage of 8.5%. 
>In Canada, the common ethnic group here, is British (28%) and French (23%) origins. 'Mixed background,' has a percentage of 26%.
>Canada seems to have more multicultural backgrounds, than in China, when most of the people are the same ethnic. 


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So yes, I'm done. Thanks to CIA - The World Fact book, for all this interesting information.
See you all soon!


-Claire

New Wrangler Jean Ad - We Are Animals

Good Afternoon Readers!


Once again, I had free time, and I wanted to do something with my Blog. Ms.Pollock had my researching something called 'New Wrangler Jean Ads. (We Are Animals.)'


We are animals? WHAT?
What kind of advertisement will this be? Let's just say..
wild.


Check out the video ad. (I don't think it's a commerical, it's just a video.)



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Here are some pictures for their campaign;






To be honest, the first time I saw the video and pictures, I thought it was bone chilling, and creepy. 
It just blew my mind! 
There aren't alot of clothing advertisement like this, and I thought this one was really unique, because no one ever thought of this idea before. THEY are portraying animals! 
When I was researching these pictures on this site;  http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2009/wrangler-we-are-animals-campaign/, there was a comment there that really stuck to me.


'Perhaps we are the only animals wearing jeans.'


That totally made sense to me since this is an animal related ad! 
Totally genius. 
Any thoughts on this? 


-Claire

Model's Airbrushed?

Hello Bloggers!

I really wanted to do something new with our blogs, so Ms.Pollock gave me a few things to research on. I chose the topic about models, and airbrushing/editing.

Have you ever seen billboards, or pictures with flawless models?
Something like this:
                          

Let me tell you, some of them are not even real!
Well, real people being edited.
Don't believe me? Watch this video;
                 

Amazing huh!? Check out the HUGE difference airbrushing made;
                            
                        

But honestly, why would someone go through all this trouble for public media attention?
I think people nowadays should show true beauty, and not somone who has just been edited, and unreal.
But what do you think?

-Claire

Faces of the World.

  Welcome to assignment #22.
This is a really long post, so sit back, relax, and read the rest of my post.

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Post A: Globalization; is when you want to spread things like companies, industries, and ect, to different parts of the world, and make it international.

Post B: I think that someone could take all these faces and find the average of the person by taking pictures of different people, and uploading it to a computer, and use some sort of photo shop to stack all the photos on top of eachother.

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Post C: >Differences with our faces gives us our own identity, because it marks us of who we are physically. Sometimes our faces projects where we come from. Like if someone has smaller eyes, they could be, or their parents, be from some part in Asia.


                      >This relates to the point I made above. Our faces tell a story, like when two people from different nationalities, had a baby, and that shows more diversity to the coming generation.


                     > I think it's cool when two people from different backgrounds have a baby because the baby has two different perspectives, and practices. And also shows how unique they are. I know a friend who is half Filipino, and half Italian. See. How many people could say that? 

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Post D: >I think the picture below represents  the face of tomorrow, I mixed a few different entnicity. (Asian, Black and White.) And it represents, because alot of nannies, come from different countries in Asia, (like Philippines, Hong Kong ect.) who come to North America for nanny jobs. That's what my mom said, and that's how most people come to North America from Asia. There's another example for globalization. They're expanding they're horizon, and going to new places.


                    >My point in this one, is to elaborate on my last note. With alot of people coming from Asia, they could meet someone from North America. Who could be Caucasian, or another race. (I know alot of people who've done that.) And had a baby, who was half and half. 


                    >Once again, this will show more diversity when the child is half and half. It will project that they're not only from one nationality, but from several. Which I think it's a good thing, because everyone's different, and unique, physically. 

                                     
Part E: >I totally think my face represents my nationality, my family, and myself. I'm from the Philippines, well, my parents are. And the people there are naturally tan. And so am I!


                    >I also have, not HUGE eyes, and yet they're not really small. It's sort of in between. Most Filipinos, have the same eye shape and size as that. So I think I absolutely represent my  nationality, family and of course.. myself. 


That's it for now Bloggers.
Hope you enjoyed this interesting post, and your March Break, cause tomorrow's school.
Yay.
See ya!


-Claire

History Fair 4321!

Hello Ladies and Germs,

Welcome to assignment #21.
Last week we had our second annual history fair, and it was a success!
So I worked with Amy, and our topic was on maple syrup.

4 - The four most interesting things that you learned about your topic in your researching.

>Something I learned about our topic, was the fact that the Algonquin Tribe were the first people to discover maple syrup.

>Another thing I learned was the fact that the Algonquin tribe called it 'sizibuckwud,' which meant 'drawn from wood,' in their language.

>I learned that the Algonquin tribe were really resourceful. They would cut the tree with a tomohawk, which was an axe, made of animal bone or stone. Then they'd take a piece of birch bark, or reed, and place it underneath the cut, and let the same flow in their basket. Which was woven with birch bark, or made of deerskin.

>The last thing that I found interseting was the fact there is something called Maple Syrup Urine Diesease. (MSUD). It is a disease passed down from families, and you could get comas, siezures, or muscle spasms. They call it Maple Syrup Urine Disease, because when you have this disease, your urine has the scent of maple syrup.

3- Three things that you felt proud of on the day of the Fair.>One thing I really felt proud of on the day of the fair, is putting up our poster with confidence, and displaying all our hardwork with pride.

>Another thing I felt proud of on the day of the fair was when we were doing our speech. Our judges said they loved our two perspectives. I was a lost voice, from the Aboriginal tribe. And Amy was a European, who adapted our idea for tapping maple syrup.

>The last thing I felt proud of at the fair was when kids were coming up to our poster to learn more about our topic, and saying how interesting it was.

2 - Two specific researching or presentation techniques that were helpful to make your project so wonderful.
>One thing that enchanced our presentation was the fact Amy and I did two views about our perspective on our topic - maple syrup.

>Another presentation technique we used was alittle bit of costumes and props, to enchance our speech. I dressed like an aboriginal, (with feathers, and all). And Amy was dressed as an old fashioned European, with a long skirt, and corsette.

1 - One suggestion to make the History Fair even better in the future.
>My only suggestion to make the History Fair better for the future, is that the judges will go to whoever will be judged first. Because me and Amy only been judged by one person, and were waiting for a long time for another one.