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3/4/18 Today, I have presented a new technological advancement I chose. I chose to present about the new version of the pacemaker called "Leadless Pacemaker". The leadless pacemaker is more efficient than the old version because they are wireless/leadless, the battery life is longer, and it doesn't leave any ugly scars on the chest for the patients. Here is a picture of the leadless pacemaker:

In this quarter, we have been learning about Propaganda.  Propaganda  is the intentional spread of information that can be both true or false to the public with the goal of influencing/persuading public opinion and behavior, but most of them are biased.  This technique simplifies complex issues, mostly in government, uses symbols, and is emotional. They often have a slogan or a speech that is easy to remember. Propaganda can be used for good and bad. But these days, they are mostly used to promote government policies and used by companies to promote their products. For example, Testimonial is an advertising technique where a famous well-known person supports a product. Then, we learned how to use these types of propaganda in our summative poster and an ad to convince people to join our colony. And we ended it with a small quiz.

Space X, an aerospace company just launched its new huge Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6th, 2018 into the earth's higher atmosphere before returning back, at the Kennedy Space Center. The rocket officially became the most powerful operational rocket in the world, stealing NASA"s Saturn V the world's most powerful rocket title. Hundreds of reporters, producers, photographers, travelers, and overall is approximately 100,000 came to watch the launch in Cocoa Beach, Florida surrounding the whole area. The rocket is consists of Space X's Falcon 9 rocket and its 27 engines. Additionally, the Space X and Elon Musk, the CEO of Space X made sure to add a Tesla Roadster to its dummy driver onto the ship to see its ability to transport cargo. So that it could float near planets that are close to the earth for the next millions of years. This new big step has shown that humans technology on space travel and rocket ships had improved so much than before. Space travel would be...

This is my result from doing the Career Cluster Interest Survey  ( https://careerwise.minnstate.edu/careers/clusterSurvey?do=0 ) They asked what subject we like, what we like to do, our personalities and etc to calculate what job is possible for us to have. As you can see, from my results, Health Science got the highest score, followed by Architecture and Construction and Government and Public Administration. The reason why Health Science is the highest might be because I told them I like to help others and is patient, but I am still not sure I would like to be a physician, dentists, or a nurse. But I will work hard and find out what I would like to be in the future!

I still haven't reached my personal goal yet since my reading score dropped this first MAP test. But I would still work hard to reach this goal. For Math and Science, I have reached this goal because whenever we have tests, my grade came out as M and E which is good enough. This means I haven't been off task studying for tests. As for LA and SS, there are no important vocabularies to remember, so I haven't met this goal yet. Lastly, Culinary Arts class, I believed that I have reached this goal since my engagement grade is now E. Here is my prove: Overall, I have two goals to try to reach: My personal goal and LA & SS.

This year's ETK is at Pranburi, near the beach. We stayed at a resort called Sweet Honey Resort. Actually, we have 12 roommates, but the room only has one bathroom, which is not enough. So, we get to stay in a house with four bathrooms. We stayed on the second floor while Mr.Witt and Ms.Vivian stayed downstairs. But I don't really like the house because whenever we walked, the vibration is really hard. I think it's because of how they build the house. Also, the toilet is always wet, it never gets dry and I don't like wet bathrooms. Additionally, the food there is not that good, but not that bad either. I enjoyed the porridge. And because the food is not that good, about 80% of the kids went back to their rooms to eat noodles, but I didn't, I actually enjoyed the food. The last night, we had a barbeque party. My friends were having a hard time grilling meat because they are not getting cooked, but the meat is almost burned. On the other hand, I was having a good time...

The past 2-3 weeks, we've been learning about themes, tone and mood, figurative language such as imagery. Also, we have been reading "The Giver" as a whole class. Themes are secretly said in the novels teaching life lessons for readers. While tone and mood affect the atmosphere and feelings when reading. Additionally, there are many types of figurative language, but we focused on imagery mostly. Imagery appeals to our five senses which are touch, taste, see, hear, and smell. Furthermore, we've been reading "The Giver" and start analyzing the story. Recently, we have finished reading chapter 12 when the main character, Jonas met the Giver .