ART TRIP

1. Find Plastic Clay
People dig their own clay from the ground and they felt the valuable connection between Earth and then-self in the past. Today people buy clay ceramics from bookstore, etc.

2. Wedging
The process of mixing the clay by rotating and pressing it on the table is called wedging. This process is very important because it presses out the air bubbles in the clay. If there are air bubbles in the clay and you fire it, the clay will explore. Which means your cup, plates, bowl, etc. will explore.

3. Forming
There are many different ways of forming a clay. You can use slab, wheel, coil, pinch, and mold. You can also combine different ways together.

4. Drying
The pieces you created must be wrapped with soft sheet of plastic and been putted on the shelves in the damp room.The plastic will slow down the drying process.

5. Leatherhard
Few days later, your pieces should be dried. During the stage of leatherhard, your pieces' clay will lose some water and will lose some flexibility too, it is a good time to carve it or add some other decorative elements.

6. Greenware
When the piece of pottery has dried completely, it is at the stage of greenware. At this time you cannot add any decorative elements anymore. Only thing you can do during this time is to place the piece in the kiln and be ready to be fire.

7. Bisque Firing
During this firing, the temperature is 1800 degrees F (approximately). This process will harden the piece. So that it will not break as easily as before. It takes three days from start to finish. First day, if you firing too fast the work can easily to explore. Second day, after the temperature has got to 1800 degrees F. The kiln will be turned off so that the piece could slowly cool down. Third day, the kiln will be open and the basque will be moved and piece will be return to lab.

8. Glazing
Glazing is the mixture of ground glass, clay, coloring materials and water. You can dip your piece in glazing, pour, spray, brushing, or sponging glazing on you piece.

9. Glazing Firing
The temperature of glazing firing is about 2350 degrees F. Once the ware is out of the kiln, then you can take it home.

10. Overglaze Firing
Sometimes potter choose to do an addition firing to achiever the colors and surface effects not possible in the glaze firing. Some techniques like China painting involve multiple glazing firings very often.

Citizenship Final Essay - To Be Good Citizen

First, there are different kinds of citizens. A person can be a citizen of one's nation, one's state, the entire world, etc. A citizen of a nation also holds the power of charging government. The rights of citizens also comes with duties. And to be a good citizen is not hard. You need to do the duties and be responsible. There is a question Professor Mike Hartoonion of the University of Michigan says, one should ask oneself to know what can one improve or what else can one do, and the question is "What can I do for my community to create more wealth, knowledge and justice?" This question can help one become a better citizen.

As previously stated in the first paragraph, there are many different kinds of citizens. Now I am going to talk about citizen of one's school. To be a citizen of school, one needs to participate in school or education. For example, I am a citizen of Hsinchu International School. To be a "good" citizen of school or any communities, there are duties and responsibilities to do.
Some duties and responsibilities in my - HIS are, be respectful to everyone, cooperate with others, be friendly to everyone, help the people who need helps, obey the rules of HIS, no hidden bias (very important), etc. What does it mean to have hidden bias? Well, to have hidden bias means to have an unconsious bias in your mind, but you don't really know it. To not have hidden bias you have to understand yourself first and then find out the problems.
There are still a lot of things that I need to improve. I think I need to speak more English, because others from other nations or countries that don't speak Chinese won't be able to understand. I also need to concentrate more n class and try not to say bad things behind others back. And try not to have prejudice (opinion, prejudgment, or attitude about a group), stereotypes (exaggerated belief, image, or distorted truth about a person or group). We learn prejudice from our family, school, peers, friends or media.

After talking about citizen of school, let's extend to a bigger community. There are two ways to become citizens of a nation or country. A naturalized citizen means a person that work or stay in a nation (a nation that you are not a citizen of) for certain time and filled out some forms and paper then it's (nation's) government will give you the passport of that nation, then you're the citizen of that nation. A native citizen means a person is born to be the citizen of the nation.
I am a citizen of Taiwan. Citizens have rights, but duties come with rights. Duties of citizen of Taiwan; pay taxes, obey the laws, involved in the precess of deciding who will run the government, serve in juries, serve in the military (if required), etc.
I don't really know if I'm a good citizen of Taiwan or not, but I think I am. Because I am not eighteen years old yet, so I don't know. But I will try my best to be a good citizen! There is one important thing that one must do to be a good citizen, that is try to help one's nation and make it better.

What does a citizen of one's world mean? It means that you are a part of the world or you are a member of the world. How to become a citizen of one's world? Usually if one live in that world, the one are a citizen of that world. No paperwork is required. What are some duties and responsibilities of being a citizen of one's world? To me, there are two major duties. First, try to slow down the Global Warming. Global Warming is the long-term average climate (tempterature, precipitation, winds, etc.)of the Global is changing. There are several ways to stop or slow it, to do recycle, reuse, and reduce things, turn off lights, unplug the plug when you don't need it, etc. Global Warming requires Global Citizenship because it is done by the whole world, and it will affect whole world. Second, to participate in some global activities, like candlelights.
Am I a good citizen? Why or why not? How can I do better? I think I am a good citizen of my world. Because I wrote two essays, five posters, and one presentation on Global Warming. And I've been in a discussion about the problem of Global Warming before. What I can do to improve is do more recycle, reuse, and reduce. There was a meeting in Netherlands, about how to stop Global Warming. Also I can be a social boundary crosser, because I think there are only little connection between the cliques of black people and Asian people. Example of social boundaries crosser is Rosa Parks. She crossed the boundaries line of black and white people in the U.S. And there was discrimination in my family, my mom thinks that all black people are stupid and dirty. But after this class I told my mom about the things I learned in this class, and she started to change her belief.

In conclusion, the most important things is discrimination, stereotypes, and prejudice. The effects of stereotypes and prejudice can be small or big. It can be a group that one don't like and one said bad thins about them and then having a fight with people getting feelings hurt. Or and misunderstandings between nations that can lead to war with thousands of people being killed (example, War World II).

Renaissance.

1. What historical event (the fall of a civilization) took place in 395 AD to usher in the middle ages?
The Fall of Roman Empire.
2. What was society and culture generally like in the middle ages?
There were 98~99% of the citizens are poor. Only the royal are rich. So only a few people knew how to write, read, draw, etc.
3. Renaissance means _______________.
Rebirth.
4. What was being brought back during this time?
The ideals of Ancient Greece and Roman.
Define:
5. Contraposto
It means counter posed. A realistic pose.
6. Chiaroscuro
It means light and dark. "Beyond the shadow there are other shadows."
7. The painter of the Mona Lisa was ________________
Leonardo da Vinci.
8. The man who sculpted the Pieta and the Sistine Chapel was _________
Michelangelo.
9. What is different about Renaissance painting compared to painting during the Dark Ages?
The paintings of Renaissance are more realistic than the paintings during the Dark Ages.
10. What is meant by the concept of "Humanism?"
It means that the subject you are talking about is about humans not God.

Haitii

Pick one personal story.
Write a reflection and response answering the following questions
- what is the story about?
- what is important to me about the story I picked?
- what does this story have to do with what is happening in Haiti now?
- why should we care about what is happening in Haiti?
- what does this have to do with global citizenship

The story I picked is called "Life". The story is about a expectant woman that she was about to give birth to her baby. But she and her husband has no car or other transportation. So her husband had carried her from her house to a road. Then a car passed by, the woman and her husband had blocked the road. The woman' husband asked the driver to drive them to the hospital. And the driver did.
It is important to me because I can learn from this story and see what can my country improve and how can I help Haiti.
The story is talking about the technology there is not very well develop and not as good as Taiwan. So the author is saying that if the don't start to change the country this kind of things will happen again and again. Because they didn't have the technology to help the people.
We should care about what's happening in Haiti because if next time we need help from other countries, they will help and care about us too.
To help and care about other countries when they need it is one of the rules to be a good citizen of the world.

Haitii

Pick one personal story.
Write a reflection and response answering the following questions
- what is the story about?
- what is important to me about the story I picked?
- what does this story have to do with what is happening in Haiti now?
- why should we care about what is happening in Haiti?
- what does this have to do with global citizenship

The story I picked is called "Life". The story is about a expectant woman that she was about to give birth to her baby. But she and her husband has no car or other transportation. So her husband had carried her from her house to a road. Then a car passed by, the woman and her husband had blocked the road. The woman' husband asked the driver to drive them to the hospital. And the driver did.
It is important to me because I can learn from this story and see what can my country improve and how can I help Haiti.
The story is talking about the technology there is not very well develop and not as good as Taiwan. So the author is saying that if the don't start to change the country this kind of things will happen again and again. Because they didn't have the technology to help the people.
We should care about what's happening in Haiti because if next time we need help from other countries, they will help and care about us too.
To help and care about other countries when they need it is one of the rules to be a good citizen of the world.