Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Vocabs-- Battle of Shiloh/Drumbeats and bullets/ The Drummer Boy of Shiloh

Vital: Guns and bullets are vital on the battlefield.


Intensified: The volume of a speaker intensified, I could not hear anything from my dad but music.


Tremor: I almost fell down to the ground as a ground shaking caused by a tremor of an earthquake.


Legitimate: Under eighteen people shall not legitimate to join the army.


Immortality: Those people who sacrifice themselves to their countries, their immortality will never disappear.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Vocabs for Camp Harmony and American All

Tersely:

_I tersely understood what Mr.Greg's speech was about in the assembly.

Breach:

_CIA's agent was secretly breached through the door of Osama Binladen's house to steal secret information about Al-Quaida.

Riveted:

_ My friends were riveted on an awesome movie at home.

Vigil:

_ I kept the constant vigil over Mr.Michael, or he would caught me while I playing the computer games in his class.

Observation:

_ The observation while working on experiment in chemistry's lab is really important.


Emphasize:

_The 3R rules has been emphasized overtimes at AIS by the teachers, staffs, and others.

Reaction:

_ My reaction when I see a spider is awful.


Define:

I open the dictionary to define some vocabs that I did not comprehend.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Camp Harmony (Literary Focus, question 6 - Analyze)

6. Analyze Sone says the camp "was hopefully called Camp Harmony". Do you think the name is appropriate, or is it ironic? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

With me, Harmony sounds more likely to be positive, good things. But I don't think that is a good idea to name an Japanese internment camp with full of harsh lives and it sounds ironic. In the Internment Camps, the lives of Japanese American were encircling by the wire fences, they were not allowed to cross the wire fence because they have no rights.

" What was I doing behind the fences, criminal?" (from Monica Sone). The author meant that her family and other Japanese American had no rights in this camp. The food was bad,harsh physical environment, and Japanese American almost had no privacy in Camp Harmony. People in Camp Harmony was also had little spaces with alot of people in cafeteria/Canteen.

This internment camp should be called "Camp Discriminated". Because Japanese Americans were discriminated by the government just because they related to Japanese.