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Globalization in Philadelphia

Posted by Karen Brown in Globalization - Laufenberg on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 8:13 am
​Here you go, thank you. 



Benchmark Reflection:
I found obtaining the pictures to be the most challenging part of the project.  Sometimes my camera would have trouble due to the sunlight.  Sometimes people would walk in front of me causing me to take a picture of a person's back.  Other times I would have to deal with taking the picture was riding down the street because there would be no where to park. 
I went during every sunday because less people are running to and from work on that day.  It make it a little bit easier to get to the locations I needed to go to for the pictures.
I felt that the picture I do of the "The Friendship Bridge" in China Town was my favorite picture.
I first thought carefully about which pictures I thought were best.  The main reason is because I have always had a great interest in the Chinese culture, and when I read the information explaining why the bridge was put there I was very happy.  I felt that this picture explained so much about the global connection between China and the US.
Once I knew which ones I was gonna do, I would ask my mom to drive me to that area on Sunday.  I would take around 5 pictures, and then I would take  the other 5 picture on the next sunday.  Of course I had to go back a retake a couple, and replace a few picture that I feel didn't connect to the topic as much, but other than that it went pretty well.
I feel that the evidence of globalization in Philadephia is very high.  I believe that you can see examples of globalization all over Philadelphia if you look close enough. I believe that the amount of evidence in Philadelphia is equal to that of other large cities in the US, because there are particular things that those cities don't have that Philadelphia does, but there are also things that Philadelphia doesn't have that other cities in the US may have that help give evidence of globalization. 

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Capstones have just begun

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Monday, May 30, 2011 at 2:55 pm
I got the website looking cool
the boxes are all in order
Every student has a page
And their information is surrounded by a border
But unfortunately for me
I am never truly done
I am sorry to say
But all my work has just begun
I could do more to make it better
I could add more colors and shades
A nice design changing page would be nice
All of this can be done at my pace
So while everyone else is finished
Everyone is cheering horray
I will have to continue to work
Until my site becomes completely perfect
So of course that's not today :(

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Like being in the audience

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 12:48 pm
While doing some homework when I heard a couple cheers
Then it got louder and louder 
Then a choir of excited violin music came in
And the room was filled with trumpets and joyful cheers
And then I heard the first lyrics to justin beiber's never say never *shudder*
Then I looked around and realized that I did not have my tv on
Looked out my room door
Down the stairs
My dad was sitting them watching the last part of karate kid with the volume around 25
I wanted to take a deep breath and say "turn it down, i'm doing homework"
but I feel like it would somehow hurt his feelings
I just walked back into my room and
I thought about how I felt like I was in the audience
If only justin beiber hadn't popped up
Then maybe it would have been a good daydream :)
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Reading between the lines

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 11:40 am
There never seems to be anything special about a contract 
When it comes to that contract that your about to sign 
Everything will be better once you've written your name
You hands feel sweaty, and your heart is beating fast
The person next to you to smiling
Telling you everything will be okay
But look at it closely
All the lies will come to view
The info explaining on how this contract won't make things better
That would even make a demon shrill
So take a breath, but don't hold it in to long
Because by reading between the lines
You may be stopping yourself from making a big mistake  
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Work to do

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Monday, May 9, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Got so much to do
So much to finish
And when it's all done
I'll probably have more to do
:/....there's such so much work to do
before school gets out, and I face college
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Drawing

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 8:15 am
Fun to do XD, but when it comes to business, needs to be drawn better.  :/  
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Describe a day in the life

Posted by Karen Brown in Globalization - Laufenberg on Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 11:59 am
Hey there, I did mine on the life of a 12 year old boy in Hong Kong.  


Here you go


Warning: The timeline on here has it's faults.  
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waking up

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Monday, May 2, 2011 at 1:41 pm
I was having such a beautiful dream
Everything was going great
No worries at all
Until, I woke up from my alarm -_-  
*sigh*  Another morning, another dream dreamed and forgotten forever
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Mysterious

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 8:57 am
The world is a mysterious place
People come and go
Leave and enter
A person could vanish into thin air 
And I swear no one would notice
It just mean there would be more room to walk on the sidewalk
Extra room in the bed
More air to breath
And yet there will always be someone 
someone out there who will weep because that person is gone
even if they were a hobo
Maybe it's out of pity
Don't really know
Will the day ever come when this will also disappear
Will it vanish just as mysteriously
Will someone weep then
Will there by anyone out there who will feel pity then
If so then I will wait for that day to come
Until then I will close my eyes
And wait peacefully for the day 
When I will mysteriously disappear along with this world of mine 
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Ideas

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Writing a story is quite hard.  You can have tons of ideas in your head, but it seems like they never reach the paper.  You can see the pictures one by one, but you just can't draw them right.  But sometimes it's alright because better ideas come along, to replace those old ideas that didn't make it to the paper.  Sure you don't have a lot of stuff to show your friends, but luckily for you at least your room won't be cluttered with old work.  :)
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Benchmark...what i've done so far

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 10:19 am
;) So far I have completed the story.  Unfortunatly there is a a 2 month lapse before the "real" end to my story.  Which means that I have to write on twitter for my character, for the next 2 months in order to finish the story...*whimper*.  This is gonna be tiring.
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Benchmark- What I've done so far

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 10:44 am
In the past couple days not much has happened in the twitter.  Yesterday I made one tweet, and today I will be making another tweet, but it has to be during the middle of the night because that's when it occurred in the story.  Then of course I have to deal with just writing tweet for two months where the main character just writes messages.  *sigh*
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"Quotes"

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 5:59 am
Quotes are good in many ways.  They can make you laugh or cry.  Make you mad or confused.  There always seems to be a really good quote in a movie or book or on tv.  Because of this I suspected that my quote for the benchmark would be online.  I looked around the internet for about a hour and could only find one quote from the movie I was looking at. (THE MOVIE HAS BEEN OUT FOR AROUND 2 MONTHS, SHOULDN'T THERE BE SOMETHING!)  Now I have to bring the dvd in from home, buy a video recorder and record the scenes I wanted so I can finish my outline.  :/ I believe the world hates me.  
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My work so far

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 5:53 am
In the past week there have been some "technical" difficulties on twitter.  I have been unable to work on my english benchmark due to this, and I have been forgetting about my daily post.  :(...Sorry.  But a angel shined down on me and gave me a new application that connects to Twitter.  So take that! ...I hope I can get back on track this benchmark effects my final grade. :0
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kbrown_Globalization Q3 Benchmark

Posted by Karen Brown in Globalization - Laufenberg on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 8:46 am
​Here you go.  It is completed :3!

Globalization Q3 Benchmark_kbrown_Australia and Thailand


Reflection:
Briefly summarize the countries that you selected.-
I have chosen Thailand and Australia.  Thailand is a country inside of south east asia.  It's known for it's trade when it comes to Rice and grains. Thailand has been facing difficult problems with pollution.  Their water supply has become problematic, as well as bad air pollution due to their use of motorcycles.  They must also deal with not being able to obtain things such as water from Japan due to the radioactivity.  Then there is Australia.  Australia has mainly been dealing with the effects of the greenhouse gasses.  Australia is facing flooding and drought, and strong storms.  Due to the greenhouse gasses the great barrier reef is being bleached by the change in water temperature.  Plus Australia is dealing with trying to protect the GBR after spilling a ton of oil in it.  Which led to the death of some animals.

Give an overview of your process-
The process to create my project was quite simple.  I spent around 2-3 days looking up the information for Thailand, then I looked up the information for Australia.  Once all the information was found I began to brainstorm how I would create my presentation and chose to use Pages.  Then I found the pictures that I felt would be best for each section in order to make the pages colorful and interesting.  Once those were found I began to look at the information I got my both countries and wrote a shorter version for the presentation.  This took a moment because I had to take the information I had gotten for both countries and make the paragraph small enough to fit onto the page.  But detailed so that the reader would understand.  Once this was completed I took the citations that I put under each paragraph I had written on my google doc, and put them into my bibliography.  Thus my presentation was completed.

My process wasn't as hard as I expected it to be.
Reflect upon the 5 point framework. Was it straightforward, easy, difficult, perplexing, etc.-

It was quite....straightforward at times.  I believe that it only one section did I have trouble.  That was with hostile neighbors.  Because was country hardly had any there seemed to be no information that would help me.  Either than or I would be given information that didn't even go with what I was looking for when I was looking for information about the hostile neighbors in Thailand and Australia.

If you could change one thing about your product, what would it be and why?-

I would change the design of my product.  I believe that it could have been much better, but I was having trouble coming up with a better design.  When I said it could have been better I am not lying, there are probably a bunch of projects that were much more interesting than mine because of it's design.

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How i'm doing

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 2:10 pm
With my benchmark I am doing pretty good. I have decided to do my benchmark using Twitter as my tool.  I have posted my first post for my two characters.  I hope to make a least one post a day for the characters.  Until around Friday post from the story will not be seen.  Only post where the character talks about her day, or says a positive note.
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A little secret

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Monday, March 28, 2011 at 4:12 am
I pray that one day it will be safe
That it will never be seen by anyone 
I will hide it
I will hold it tight
I'll put it under lock and key
I'll zip my mouth shut
And throw away the key
So please be quiet 
And keep this little secret
between you and me
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Waiting for you

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 12:30 pm
I am quiet
Alone is a world with no sound
I sit waiting for something
For color to reach this world
For warmth to fill my heart
Then I hear a load boom
Colors burst throughout the world
Tree's become green
The sky become like a beautiful rainbow
And I find myself in a crowd
I walk slowly through the world
The colors touch my heart
But I feel like something is missing
So I search
High and Low
Through this ocean of people
Over the flush dew covered grass
I walk under the rainbow colored sky
I know that one day that small hole in my heart will be filled
Someday, because I am waiting for someone special
I'm waiting for you
But no matter how beautiful this sky it
Or how the colors warm my heart
I'll still be a grey, quiet soul
Until I see you, and my breath is taken away
So remember, I'm waiting for you
Under that rainbow colored sky
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What's Left

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 5:23 pm
I have been wondering what is left to look for
I seem to be messing up in life
I'm not doing good in school
I seem to love to draw instead of listen to the teachers in school
I hardly eat breakfast
And just a bit for lunch
I don't know how to be respectful
And it seems to like I don't deserve any respect either
I keep messing up
And my grades aren't getting any better
So tell me everyone
What's left to life?
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5 picture story- South East Asia

Posted by Karen Brown in Globalization - Laufenberg on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 9:44 am
South East Asia -_-
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I'm nothing special

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 12:16 pm
I'm sick of this 
I'm worn out
I am a page that has been torn out
A picture that has been burned
I am sick, I am crazy
I'm always being called lazy
I do my best and I'm told that I can do better
I pray for sunshine, but I can't mess with the weather
I'm the gum off of someone's shoe
I am looking for my reason to live, I truly don't know what to do
I have been told by others that I am crap
Hearing people talk about me behind my back
I am fat, lonely, I can't run a lap
I cover my head, while people tell me i'm a load of crap
I know that most of this stuff is true
But tell me, what am I to you?
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Goodbye Music

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Friday, February 25, 2011 at 11:41 am
In a world that was small the size of SLA of course
Music was special and kept everyone on course
People would play and enjoy the sound
The type of music didn't matter
It's ways or it's sound
But as our artist died
So did the music
Some of us cried
But it was useless
We tried to bring the music back
In ways that we could
Programs and courses
But what was the use
As the music fades 
So will those who adored it
So goodbye music
Sorry no one else truly enjoyed it

*"I wrote this thinking about the arabic music group.  It seems like no one truly enjoys learning about the music of different countries anymore.  I hope that the teachers find students who truly do love it someone else.  I'm sorry.  I'm so sorry we couldn't show our love for music to you.  I'M SORRY....*


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Taking a step Forward

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 7:54 am
I love to spend my time sitting on my bed
Wondering what I can do instead
Maybe go on my computer
Maybe I should study 
Or just watch TV
I pull off my covers
Pay no mind to my bed hair
Strength in ever direction
Then get a cramp  that hurts like s***(excuse me for that word)
I walk to my desk and smile calmly in my head
The future cannot be formed, if your sitting on your bed
Don't wait for things to happen
Take a step forward instead
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Life is a pain

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 7:45 am
My shoes won't tie
My hair is a mess
My legs our sore
My room is a wreck
I live with people crazier than me
But I can't say that they're mean
I wonder what life would be with a blue sky
Birds flying through the sky
But instead my sky is grey
But I guess that's fine
I mean life that can be a pain
But I guess I like my life that way just telling you all the truth
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Love Stories

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 7:18 am
Happy Story:

I stand in a crowd and see nothing but grey figures around me.  Because the only one that matters is you, let's be together forever.

Tragic Story: I stand in a crowd and see nothing but darkness.  I'm alone and I can't find you.  I want you to know, "I miss you"
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The awesome planet :P

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 7:52 am
 

           

*It's a pretty crappy, but read it :P

In a world far, I mean faaaaaaar away (this place is so far that it is probably not on earth, in fact it is light years away, yet it looks exactly like our world, but cooler, and it was called “The awesome Planet” because everyone wore awesome clothes and nobody is an ass, so it is awesome) there lives a world where everyone is at peace, and everyone loves everyone because nothing can hold them back, but other than that they also have people who have the ability to kick ass, and the best thing about it was that they had a kick ass villain fighting group( unlike those people in spandex that we see in comics on our world, they were real and they could do whatever they wanted; anyone who dares not live in this peaceful world will face getting their ass kicked by this awesome group, but what is the name of this awesome group; it’s “the awesome kick ass fighters”)this group would go on adventures and save the day when the super kick ass phone beeps, and then the heroes jump into action (cause they can spring into action- that’s uncool), to go defeat enemies, but when it comes to the enemies they fight it’s no laughing matter, and they had good reasons to be serious when it comes to their enemies, from werewolves, to evil scientist, and bad ass demons, but do not fear cause the Kick ass villain fighters (or the KAVF) will be ready to save the day, and maybe even come to our world to make it kick ass too.

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Work

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 7:05 am
My internet was down last night, but here it is:

Work is annoying
it's tiring and crude
The people around me
are also rude
Plus I don't like their attitude
They argue and yell
And the customers are exactly the same
But in the end
The check makes work
A little less lame :P
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I'm not okay

Posted by Karen Brown in Storytelling - Chase on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Here it is, I don't know what to say about it either. :/
Picture 1
Picture 1
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Human Evolution Through Meat

Posted by Karen Brown in Science and Society - Best on Friday, November 12, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Q: How does the point in which humans started to eat meat affect the way of evolution?

The world in which we live in has many mysteries. One of the things we never think about is how we first became meat eaters. It is said that the first meat eating humanoids date back 2.5 million years ago. That is just long enough to teach us everything we know about the animals we eat, and possibly even change throughout evolution because of it.

There are many reasons why a person would need to include new things into their diet. One of those reasons is survival. Scientist Patricia McBroom of the organization, Public Affairs gave their reason behind why human ancestors began to include meat. “Human ancestors who roamed the dry and open savannas of Africa about 2 million years ago routinely began to include meat in their diets to compensate for a serious decline in the quality of plant foods”, University of California, Berkeley. 2 million years ago the loss of some plant life was said to be among the Earth. With the Ice Ages end different plant life was killed, and humans were left were hardly any plant life in which they felt contained the nutrients they believed they needed. This led to a diet of meat, which was full of nutrients that provided help through human evolution, for example the growth of the brain.

http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/6-14-1999a.html
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