Air Pollution

Effect of air pollution
Acidification
Harm building and trees
Acid rain
Eutrophication
Ground-level ozone
Particulate matter
Level of effect depends on the length of time of exposure
Short-term effects
Irritation to the eyes
Nose & Throat
Upper respiratory infections
Long-term infection

Chronic Respiratory Disease

This disease can affects multiple  systems in our body, from the eyes to the lungs to the brain
-Characterize
The buildup of immune system cells in organs that form small cluster

What happen in Poland ?

Poland is known as the most polluted nation on Earth
In southwestern part of Poland (known as Upper Silessia) there is a town "Katowice" ,there are smoke from smokestacks found along the steets.
-Children in the area have show high levels of lead in their blood
-Human life
-Infant /mortality

What will the workers make a living ,if they have no job?

"I'd rather have a sick, short life with a job than a longer, healthier life without work."

Things getting better
-When Communist Gov. fell in 1989
a free-market economy begun to develop Artificial price controls kept down the costs of coal, gasoline, and electricity

Making Environmental Decisions + Class Policy Reflection

• Why isn't "Making Environmental Decisions" the way to keep a healthy relationship with our environment? Isn't it supposed to be the focus? How can it be detrimental at the same time?

According to what we were talking about in the class ,the sentence "Making Environment Decisions" will not really help our world that much because it's just focusing on only Environment .In order for us to make the world a better place we must think about the world the whole system not only the Environment .For example like you want to save the Climate Change issue by picking up a trash but you don't know where to put them ,so it might just end up the same amount of trashes are still at the same place.

• How can "Making Environmental Decisions" people communicate with other stakeholders of the society (people who simply do NOT care about the environment)?

The very first way is to educate the children who are still in learning progress ,show them what are really happening to our world . And make a campaign make them stakeholders realize about the problems happening on the earth, its not easy to change people's mind but we can show them the reasons why they should care more about environment.

• What is a better approach then just "Making Environmental Decisions"? 

Maybe we can change the word Environmental to something else that cover the system on our world such as Global  ,Balance or even stability. Think about everything ,other people views or the phrase "Put yourself in my shoes" to make the thing that we do working effectively.

• Reflect on what happened in class today. Review class policy. We will re-address mutual respect in the classroom. 

We made too much noises in class and it took quite long time settle us down . Ms.Cindy warned us about this so many times but we still couldn't do it so she got really mad at us .

Connection Circle

UN Millennium Development Goals Reflection Entry

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J3tZbxYZIdhmmsH-DMFMtVmpclLL9knwRmnwEOyCZ_I/pub

Reading note

Plagioclimax

• An interruption of ecosystem from reaching its full climatic climax by humans 
• Most of the trees are burnt down cause a lot of carbon dioxide to go back to atmosphere which is the main reason of Global warming right now.
• In every year there will be a lot of deforestation happen all around the world.

Darwin's Finches Jinny

Darwin's Finches

Introduction

Charles Darwin
=Naturalist
-Father of evolutionalist theory
-Survival of fittest

What is Darwin's Finches
-Group made up of 13 species of passerine birds
-They were no known as Darwin's Finches until 1936 ,popularized by ornithologist

What is Darwin's Finches
-Darwin's finches is group made up of 13 species of passerine birds

History
-All of Darwin's Finches evolved from one ancestral species
-The ancestral species arrived South American mainland around 2 or 3 million years ago

In late December of 1831
-Darwin and his HMS Bragle went on voyage around South America
-His aim was to observer and collect samples of loval flora and fauna

=At the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador was where his finding began

Variety
-There were variations of the finches from island to island
-Their beaks amde ot difficult to differentiate them

-Ground finch
-Woodpecker finch has evolved a bust brak to drill holes in tree and eat beetle larvaes
-Cactus finch has longer sharp pointed beaks to feed on cactuses
Tree finches

They mostly feed on insects
Warbler finch has a very fine needle-like beak to picking off insects

Causation
-This phenomenon is called the character displacement
-Animals experience evolutionary change to minimize competition with the food
-The path of a weather system "El Nino" affected the islands
-Sometimes extreamely hot and dry and sometimes rainy for the whole month
-This caused the shortage of seeds on the island -> increase in competition
-The small beaked birds becamse weak to survive -> by the end of the drought period, their beak depth was increased by 1 mm
-Then the finches began to spread around in new habitats and specialise on different ways of feeding

The Lorax's note 16/09/14

The Lorax

-genre

Children Literature (Book)

Cartoon Animation ,Comedy ,Short Film

-Director /author

Directors = Kyle Balda, Chris Renaud

Author = Dr.Seuss

-Story background

This film is based on the book "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss.

In the town of Thneedville, everything is plastic and manufactured... and the people like it that way. But when Ted's friend Audrey says she'd like to see a real tree one day, Ted goes on a quest to find one in order to win her love.

Ted ventures outside the walls of Thneedville in search of The Once-ler, supposedly the only individual who knows how to find a tree. Ted finds the old hermit who reluctantly tells the tale of how he was responsible for all of the trees being cut down. The Once-ler also tells Ted about how the magical representative of the trees named The Lorax tried to stop him to no avail.

But while Ted hears the story of the trees, the evil head of the O'Hare Company conspires to keep him from bringing them back.

-Purpose/Movement

If you can get past the whole political thing, "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" is a fun movie for both kids and adults. Grown-ups will like seeing their beloved childhood book brought to the big screen in 3D while kids will enjoy the antics of the Lorax and the bears. Plus it's a good message about conserving natural resources and taking care of the environment. To support and time materialism

-Recognition

ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards 2013

Won ASCAP Award

Top Box Office Films John Powell Cinco Paul

Annie Awards 2013

Nominated Annie	Character Design in an Animated Feature Production Yarrow Cheney Eric Guillon Colin Stimpson
	Music in an Animated Feature Production John Powell Cinco Paul

Cinema Audio Society, USA 2013

Nominated C.A.S. Award

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures - Animated Randy Thom (re-recording mixer) Gary Rizzo (re-recording mixer) Shawn Murphy (scoring mixer) Frank Rinella (foley mixer)

Kids' Choice Awards, USA 2013

Nominated Blimp Award

Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie Taylor Swift As "Audrey".

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA 2013

Nominated Golden Reel Award

Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in an Animation Feature Film Dennis Leonard (supervising sound editor) Randy Thom (sound designer) Luke Dunn Gielmuda (supervising foley editor) Daniel Laurie (supervising adr editor) Dennie Thorpe (foley artist) Jana Vance (foley artist) Sean England (foley artist) Jeremy Bowker (sound effects editor) Jonathan Borland (sound effects editor) Leff Lefferts (sound effects editor) Sue Fox (foley editor)

Teen Choice Awards 2012

Won Teen Choice Award	Choice Movie Voice Taylor Swift as Audrey
	Choice Movie: Animated
Nominated Teen Choice Award	Choice Movie Voice Zac Efron as Ted

Task 1 Systems & Models

• Provide a summary of “The Lorax”

From the beginning there’s a town called Thneed Town .Its a city that has no real trees at all ,only trees that come out from the factory produce lights. And for the clean air will be selling in the form of a tank by O’Hare organization.

Ted the main character in the story has a crush on Audrey a girl who desires to see the real trees coming out on the dirt again ,and she said that if someone could get her one she will marry that man ,which is best inspiration for Ted to seek for an alive tree again. His grandmother gave him a clue that there is a man called Once-ler who knows what happened to all the trees but he lives outside the town cause Ted to go on the adventure to find him. Once-ler said that he’s the cause of the extinction of the trees ,go back to a long time ago . He found a place where there are so many wild animals a forest full of green colour .He planned to cut the trees down to make his product and sell off to people in the city. He started chopping down a tree ,so here comes the guardian of the forest The Lorax. The Lorax resist Oncerler’s plan with his best eventually they made a deal that Onceler is not going to cut down anymore trees and Lorax will let him live in the forest. But his product called thneed became really popular that so many people come to buy it at his house. And then his family visit him and congratulate with success .

Define systems and models

System is when things come together and work together become a relationship. 

Models is the thing that work along with system it visualized the system 

Identify and State different systems you observed in the movie “The Lorax” (in the order of smaller to

larger systems)

Ted’s house is open-system

Thneed town is open-system (cause Ted still could get out)

The once-ler’s house is isolated system

Explain and Describe how each system you mentioned works

• Ted’s house is open-system
• Because people still can get in and out freely
• Thneed town is open-system
• Because the town is affected by the environment outside make people have to buy fresh air. But its not a closed system because Ted which is a matter still could get out of the town and get back in.
• The once-ler’s house is closed system
• No-one can get in or out of his house and he himself doesn't come out ,only things that's in and out of his house all the time is the air ,so its closed system.

Suggest the possibilities of any small systems within bigger systems

Thneed town system within the outside world system

People system within the Thneed town system

Suggest how “The Lorax” represents the concept of systems thinking

In the story in there are so many kinds of system ,small system in a bigger ones .