Blog 9

Fronzen In Time is not a kind of interesting book, as I think. A whole book with full of information about science makes me feel headache. But actually we still can find something funny from a non-fiction book. Let's start from the main character Clarence Birdseye.

First we see the name "Clarence Birdseye" I think the first thought of most of us would be "What the hell is that?" "Well, I need a dictionary." Even our main character he knows his name is funny. He tried to drop the Clarence, which is the hardest part in his name, instead of it he chose Bob. As the words from the book, "Even people today who know the frozen-food brand Birds Eye, with its descending bird as a symbol, are often surprised that there actually was someone with such an odd name. All his life people had trouble believing that Birdsyse was really his name." Well, I believe that some of special people have their unique name. Maybe Birdseye believes that too. One of his favorite stories is when he was in San Francisco and short of money, he wanted to cash a check. He called the local branch of General Food's Bird Eye Division, a company named after his name. He explained his problem, and gave his name. The man on the other end of the line told him if he stopped kidding and gave his real name, he would connect him with someone. I think this is one of his interesting anecdotes. 

When Birdseye was young, he loved hunting and hyperbolic tales of improbable shots, spirited tales about army and fighting. Also some people like cowboys, hunters, and trappers fascinated him, make him became wilder. He'd like to be a colorful character. In 1951 when he was old, he wrote, " The public customarily thinks of me as an inventor... but inventing is only one of my lines. I am also a bank director, a president of companies, a fisherman, an author, an engineer, a cook, a naturalist, a stockholder, a consultant, and a dock-walloper." Although his father Clarence Frank Birdseye did not pursue a life of adventure at all. I like this kind of spirit, and his thoughts. To be more colorful, is not only to face and try more other parts of the world and work beside our main work, we also need a have a heart with a huge space to learn and accept more. I like his thoughts and I would like to live as a similar way. Our life is not that long as we think. For 80 years, maybe we only have a little choices in our life, but we still have right to live more colorfully. No one burns to be a bored person, we need to enjoy the way we do adventure in our whole entire life. 

Detective John

A prominent entrepreneur died, but no one knows the reason. It may be peculiar reason, police found frostbite and symptom of tuberculosis on his body. A detective who has a pseudonym called John attend to this case. He thinks entrepreneur is slaughtered by killer called James. He likes to kill people in a bittery cold weather. There's one more detactive called vallecy discredits John's idea which is tremendously hyperbolic. Vallery said John is the killer, he made a fravdulent story. Finally police catch John. He got a life- sentence.

10 vocabularys

1. Improbable: not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred pg 11

2.hyperbolic: Enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness  pg 11

3.reservation: A district that is reserved for particular purpose pg 11

4.correspondent: Someone who communicates by means of latters pg 12

5.extermination: It is a kind of act of exterminating, complete annihilation. pg 12

6. pulley: A simple machine consisting of a wheel witha groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope. pg 12

7. Aristocrat: Someone whose faily has a high social rank, especially smeone who has a title. pg 16

8. Pragmatic: A pragmatic way of dealing with something is based on practical considerations, rather than theoretical ones. A pragmatic person deals with things in a practical way. pg 17

9. Prominent: Something that is prominment is very noticable or is an important part of something else.

pg 17

10. Infestation: The state of being invaded or overrun by parasites. pg 19

Comparison of the book and the movie

After we finished reading the book Pobby and Dingan, we watched the movie of it in English class. It takes two classes to finish it, it's not that long but still has everything in the book. As we all know, in general the movie for  the book is just a kind of more emotional summary of book, but in this movie is a little bit different. When we have finished the movie, we noticed there are something really different from the book. Actually, not only about some details are different, the whole style to tell the story is totally different. When we read the book, we can feel like this a kind of book with a sad story, everything is bad turns to hopeless in the end. But in the movie, we can feel more about the kindness in humanity. Every characters bring more good feeling from movie. Ashmol's father is a kind, polite and caring about family, he doesn't get drunk anymore in the movie, which is totally different from the book Pobby and Dingan. Our main character Ashmol, he's not noisy at all. Oppositely, he cares more about his family and his poor sister Kellyanne. He is a brave, confident boy. He is not afraid to talk in front of a lot of people. Everyone expect for the Old Sid has a really warm, kind inside. They bring their kindness to the Willamson's, and spread that kind of emotion to the whole society. About the ending, I think the director just wants to make it a kind of happier ending, and be more confused. He doesn't choose to tell us about Kellyanne directly, but for the people who hasn't read the book then watched the movie, they are not going to believe Kellyanne is going to die. According to these points, I like the movie more. The kindness and goodness in humanity are always the best topic and stuff that we need to find and discover. 

Blog 8

For a long time, when people looked up at night, they always wanted to know more about sky, stars, and the space outside of earth. Human beings never forgets to get more imformation about the things outside of earth. Do you know how human started to know about astronomy and classify them as a completed system. It is because of a person, he uses his life to prove and protect the truth, even his enemy is church, and pope. He is Galileo. 

He is a Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was born in Pisa, Italy. He was in a decline noble family. His father Vincenzio Galilei is a musician. When Galileo was 17 in 1581, he was studying medicine in the Pisa University, but he was interested in maths and physics. Then he started his way on them. He was poor to keep study in the university, but he studied by himself. He focused the study about Ancient Greek's scientific paper, he wrote thesis Balance in 1586, then he was called "the Archimedes of the time".

He kept focusing about mechanics, then his new thesis about center of gravity brought him a lot of honor, he came back to Pisa University and became the professor. He invented 40x telescpe, and his study gives a strong help about astronomy. From mechanics, physics, he doesn't think that's enough for what he wants to study more about. Then he starts to get in touch and give a system form about astronomy with the help of his invention, astronomical telescope. 

When he starts to know about astronomy, he noticed that another astronomer Copernicus's thoughts are closest to truth. Long time ago, human thinks about space is earth is the center of the space, everything inclued outside of earth goes around it. It got organized by Ancient Greeks, and the one which is the most famous one is Aristotle. The roman catholic church supported geocentric theory, because their viewpoints can protect and keep their theology world and their control power to earthliness. But Copernicus knows the truth is not like that and he proves that earth is not  the center of the earth, only sun is. His thought is called heliocentric theory, and his thoughts start to threaten geocentric theory, which is the roman catholic church supports about. The church and pope were afarid of Copernicus' thoughts, because it's the truth and it may take away all the benefits they have.

But Copernicus still decided to protect his own thoughts, the truth. Finally in the end he got burt, and he died. His soul gets reborn in the fire, the fire with sins. Galileo looked forward and he wasn't afraid of the roman catholic church and pope behind it. He stood up and against geocentric theory, and he supported Copernicus' thought, heliocentric theory.

The vile church's revenge came quickly and strongly. They gave Galileo life imprisonment, and they made him gave up about Copernican. Galileo's late life is really poor, he has nothing left, even his free to think. But I believe he never regreted. He was brave to face all the things that the church tried to persecute about.

Overall, what I learned about Galileo is all about being brave and protect truth is honorable, we need to live honorably that we can not waste our life. After we learned about Galileo, we will understand what under his heart, and the power that helps him to fight against sins until he died. That is courage.

research of Bertolt Brecht

Bertoly Brecht is a famous German dramatist and poet . He was born in Augsburg, Bavaria of Germany. He was supporting the labour movement, and then he was forced to leave his native land since 1933.  He went to United States by the way of Soviet Union, but after the World War II he got persecuted. Then he came back to Europe in 1947, and lived in East Berlin since 1948. In 1951 he got the national prize because of drama, and then he got the Lenin Peace Prize in 1955, which is his biggest prize during his life. He died in Berline in August 14th 1956. His family is not very good. His father is factory director of a printing house. He liked Lartin and human science as his favorite subjects. He went to join the war as a medic, but he doesn't like war and he doesn't believe they can win the war. After war he wrote poems and drama, and sent them to newspaper. His famous one Barr, and he wrote a book which includes China. He used his life to travel all around Europe for 15 years of his life. 

Research of Galileo

Galilei Galileo, he was born in 02.15.1564, and died in 01.08.1642.  He is a Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was born in Pisa, Italy. He was in a decline noble family. His father Vincenzio Galilei is a musician. When Galileo was 17 in 1581, he was studying medicine in the Pisa University, but he was interested in maths and physics. Then he started his way on them. He was poor to keep study in the university, but he studied by himself. He focused the study about Ancient Greek's scientific paper, he wrote thesis Balance in 1586, then he was called "the Archimedes of the time".

He kept focusing about mechanics, then his new thesis about center of gravity brought him a lot of honor, he came back to Pisa University and became the professor. He invented 40x telescpe, and his study gives a strong help about astronomy. He supported Copernicus' studies, which was forbidden by the Christian Church. Then the Inquisition gave him a trial which made him a life imprisonment. After that he became blind, and had a poor late life.