Cambodia

 Web Quest #1:
1.Where doe the name Cambodia derived from?
          - comes from the french Cambodge that is from the Khmer word that means "born of Kambu", Kâmpuchea.
2. What does Khmer refer to?
         - It refers to the language, people, and culture of Cambodia
3.What was the country called from 1970-1975?
         -The country was called the Khmer Republic (KR)
4. What economy dominates Cambodia?
         - Wet rice agriculture dominates Cambodia.
5. What was the ancient capital called and where is it close to today?
         - It ancient capital was called Angkor which is close to Siem Reap today.
6.Where is the most populated region?
         - The most densely populated region is the provinces along the rivers near Phnom Penh

7. Describe the language spoken in Khmer.

         - The dominant language spoken in Khmer is Khmer. It is common to other languages such as Vietnamese, Mon, and other Asian languages.

8. What is one of the most important ancient Khmer symbols?

          - One of the most important Khmer symbols in ancient Khmer is the Khmer temple Angkor Wat.

9. What are some common food staples in Cambodia. Give some examples of what people might eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
          - The most common food staples in Cambodia is rice and fish. For breakfast it is usually rice porridge or rice noodles. Lunch  and dinner is usually a spiced broth.

Web Quest #2:

List Four Facts from this Website.
1. There are rules that tell you how to live your everyday life even down to eat, sleeping, sitting, etc.  
2. People with amputated limps are common.
3.During weddings the newly married people don't greet their guest
4.For the poor there are no holidays

Barbed Wire from Tuol Sleng

Monks

New Years Prayer

Khmer Rouge Soldiers

Free write

        1.If the city of South Portland were to lose all of their connections to the world and a new government was formed, I would stay to fight for the rights of all of us citizens. One person can make a change and if I got a few people together to fight for our rights we could influence other people to do the same, even in death. All change originates from one person.
        2. Once my city was attacked and all around their was danger. Knowing that I wouldn't survive if I stay I would go with my brother, aunt, uncle, and cousins because they are the closest people to my house and I don't want anything to happen to them if I have a say in the matter. Unfortunately I would have to leave my parents but if not everyone could go on the plane I would stay and give the chance for someone else to escape. When the plane has landed and I am in a new place where nobody understands me I would stay with the survivors of the attack that were on the plane with me but I would feel extremely sad.
          3. If the plane landed in China my life would change dramatically because I an in a new place where nothing I have done so far matters. I am a nobody. Everything that I know would not matter at this point. I would have to adapt to the new food, clothing, education, family living, careers, and government. This would be very hard but it can be done. I would also have to learn to accept people of different religions too. Also I would need to find a way to get money and find out how their money system works. For example, the names of the different pieces of money. Everything in my life would change except my memories.

Themes

Genocide

Know
1. Genocide is when a group of people are targeted and the people that are doing that targeting wants to remove them all. An Exmaple is the Holoaust because Hitler wanted to remove all of the Jews.

Want to know
1. What is the punishments for genocide?
2. What are other examples of genocide?

The only one I know is the Holocaust that happened in the last 100 years and I know there have been smaller genocide movements too.

Citations

Blog Question: You cite sources by giving the following things      -Author/Editor     -Title     -Publisher     -location of publication
      -Date of Publication

For Example:

Freeman, Samuel "John Rawls" Consice Routledge:
      Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2000 ed.

You would know the correct format by looking at the handout we got or go to a website that does it for you and see if you got it right.

 Valid sources:
     -The Tree Octopus website is not real because when researching it further it websites states that it is a joke and not real. I know this because there is no logic to this. How can a sea animal live out of water in a dry environment.

 Commas:
 Rule #1: Use commas to separate three or more words or phrases in a series
      Ex: Julia plays soccer, tennis, and basketball.

Rule #2: Use commas to indicate that a person is being addressed by name
      Ex: Tim, can you pass me that pencil.

Rule #3: Use commas after a phrase, clause, or small words that introduce the main idea of your sentence.
      Ex: If I get my homework done on time, I can play outside.

Rule #4:Use commas to set off words, phrases, or clauses that comment on or give additional information about the main part of the sentence, or otherwise interrupt the natural flow of the sentence.
      Ex:Lita, my mom, walked the dog.

Rule #5: Use commas before coordinating conjunctions such as "and", "or", "but" that join two complete sentance, or when the comma is needed for clarity, emphasis, or contrast.
      Ex: I went to the store, and I bought a candy bar

Rule #6:Use a comma before non-essential, modifying elements that follow the words and main clause and provide information that supplements or comment clauses on the basic meaning of the main clause
      Ex: I live in America, the "Land of the Free"

Rule #7: Use a comma between coordinate adjectives not joined by "and."
      Ex: It is an extremely, beautiful painting.

Rule #8: Use a comma when noting dates and addresses
      Ex: I was born on December 5, 1995.

Sources

Define the following:
Valid- information based on facts
Reliable- dependable, a place where you can find all the information that you know will be true
Accurate-factual information, same information on different sources


A source that I am using is the book, Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It is a encyclopedia with a bunch of philosophers and what they thought about and their philosophies. I know that source is valid,reliable, and accurate because it is in an printed encyclopedia and encyclopedia's aren't aloud to have to have false information. Also the people that made the encyclopedia check the information repeatedly.

Research-Step 1

 Please write a post describing what you have done for the past two days on your research (in English and history). What types of brainstorming have you done to choose a topic? What kinds of feelings have you had about the project? If you have picked your topic and/or have your thesis statement let me know.

          Over the past two days I have been doing research on many different philosophers like John Rawls and Plato. I have also been practicing how to make citations with Mr.Kahill. To choose a topic I thought of the general thing I wanted to write about and that was the general definition of justice. While I was researching that I found a guy named John Rawls and I totally agreed in what he was saying, so I choose him. I think that this project is a good idea and I has a good meaning to it. I have picked a topic and it is John Rawls philosophy of justice but I haven't picked a thesis statement.

Research

          When I hear the word, research, I think of a school. The steps of doing research is, first, to pick/have a topic and decide what you are trying to accomplish like an essay or model. Then you gather the appropriate information needed to create the final product. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias,  and the internet are the most common sources for information. In the past, I had to research the dust bowl years, and then create a poster that shows what it is like to live during those years, in the dust bowl states.The positive thing about researching the dust bowl is that I had no clue what they were and they interesting. I now know more about the dust bowl years and U.S.A's history than I did before. The negative is that it a lot of time. I couldn't find personal experience easily only a couple websites had personal experiences. The final product was a poster with picture of the before and after the storm. I also had a fictional person telling the story of how a dust storms feels while in one and also what the years was like for that person.