Decimal / Round 3

A decimal is a fraction that is written in the form of a dot followed by one or more numbers which represent tenths, hundredths, and so on: for example .5, .51, .517. …simple math concepts, such as decimals and fractions”. Decimal is not a hard lesson to learn. I like decimal because the multiple and division decimal is not so hard as the fraction. Do y’all know who create Decimal? If no, you will get to know it today because I will tell you now.

John Napier was the one who creates decimal. He was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. Decimal fractions were first developed and used by the Chinese at the end of the 4th century BC, and then spread to the Middle East and from there to Europe. He was born in 1550 and died on April 4, 1617.

“I Am From” / Round 3

Do you ever notice or wonder about the history of your own name? Let me share the story about my name.

My name means mercy or pity in my language which is Khmer. In Thai, my name means please. Well, it’s mean similar meaning between my language and thai. In my school many people trying to match me with my name like “ Oh, her name mean pity or mercy. Does she feel pity to other or not?” or “ Ohh, why do your parents put this name for you? It’s nothing relate with you. You are lucky enough. Not really pity for you”. They can say this, but in lavian my name mean crown. I want to tell all my friend that I have power because my name mean crown. You will regret in someday by making fun with my name. I don’t know why I’m saying this.

This name is come from “ Prom Vihear Thor”. This is a Khmer advise that teaching student about the good things and to have a feeling in our mind that we need to give love, pity and happiness to other. There are four Prom Vihear Thor which are, Meta, Kakrona, Mutita and Opikha. As I said the same thing, Kakrona mean mercy and pity. Have pity feeling in your head a feeling that god have give you.

For me, I don’t want to have the same name with others because I feel like…. people will compare me with that people who share the same name with me. I don’t like being compare. I never believe myself that I’m a better person, so that’s the reason I don’t like being compare. My name exist when I was born. My mom is the one who decide to put this name for me. Like I said at the first time, it’s mean mercy or pity in Khmer. During my birth was the struggling day of my mother. Also, I’m the youngest in my family and my dad pity me for being the last. I don’t understand why. The last reason is I wasn’t born in the hospital or in my house or my relative house. I was born in a place where you never expect. I don’t want to tell you where is it.

“Does you feel pity for others?” This is the question that my friend ask me. I wonder why those people need to know and compare the name with the people. For sure! My name match with my attitude because I feel pity for some animal and some other people like begger or homeless people. Give love and happiness to homeless people is like helping a million people. I would also give the food to some stray animals and help some small animals like ant, grasshopper….. In class, I always help them out with their homework or their work in class. Everyday I’m trying to act myself to match with my name. It’s so difficult when you have the name that mean polite or pity. You sometimes get bullied by other people because of your name.

“Why your parents decide to put this name for you? You should have a different name than this name, Kakrona” My friend joking. I don’t mind them because it’s real. I was born in a place that you’ll never believe. I don’t want to tell what it is. If I have a chance, I want to change a name that is cooler than this, but it doesn’t have any meaning. Well, I like my name now. It’s not bad, but I don’t want people to dig into the history of my name like now, I’m writing and explain about my name. In conclusion, I like my name. I don’t want to change my name and I always want to have the name that my parents give it for me.

In our class, we also make a poem about our name.

“I Am From” Poem

Adapted by Levi Romero

Inspired by “Where I’m From” by George Ella Lyon

I am from a black blanket, from a red hammock and my blue two seats bicycle . I am from the up wooden and down brick house that smell dew drops water every morning. I am from the crown of thorns. The mango tree, the short coconut tree whose long gone lims I remember as if they were my own.

I’m from loving and phumben time, from my parents and my older sisters. I am from a joke team and small party and from family backyard picnic.

I’m from paradise and advise of life and birthday song made up by me which is misheard lyrics, buffalo eat a dog.

I’m from older respecter. I’m from a small room and pure khmer blood, greatest people and a mixture of healthy vegetable.

From a struggling man who work hard for his children and his family. Inside my photos album were recorded all memories of my family. A family photo without my first sister made me remembering a time when I hike to a mountain with my greatest people. Flashback smile on those photos make me watering my eyes, I smile again with hope and happy.

Student name: Kakrona Pos                                   Date: 16/01/2019

Learning Python Language/ Round 3

Codeacademy is the website that we use to learn Python. I never learn code before and honestly, I don’t really like it. Python is one of the languages in Code. It is known as the easiest languages. I don’t know what it feels for you guy when you don’t like something and you need to force yourself to love it or interest on it so that you can learn.

Let me talk more about Python. Python is a very simple language and has a very straight and forward syntax. 

In the first week, I have learned some simple code like how to set the variable and print your variable. In the second week, I have been learned about the condition and if statement. In the third week, I have been learned about for loop and the last week, I have been learned about while loop. For me, while the loop is the hardest for me.

Down here is some of my code that I have done so far. I hope you learn something :).

 

Carbon / Round 3

Carbon is a virtually important molecule in the carbon cycle. Proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates and other molecules essential to life contain carbon. Let me explain some of the words. Nucleic acids are NA. DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic acid. Deoxyribonucleic acid is a molecule composed of two chains that coil around each other to form a double helix carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning, and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses. Lipids are fat. Carbohydrates are the food that you eat for your power and you energetic. Carbon is present in the atmosphere as the gas carbon dioxide ( CO2 ), which makes up approximately 0.04% of the atmosphere. If it also presents in the ocean & fresh water as dissolved carbon dioxide. Carbons are also present in rocks such as limestone ( Caco2 ).

The carbon cycle is the global moment of carbon between the abiotic environment including the atmosphere and ocean. The process that removes carbon dioxide from the air is photosynthesis. The processes that add carbon dioxide to the air are combustion and respiration. In the respiration are animal, plant and decomposing.

If carbon dioxide extinct we might have no oxygen. There will be no plant and living organism.

Picture by WNYC Studios

Oops, I forgot to tell you guy that we also do some experiment. It’s call Black Snake experiment.  Down here is the step how to do that experiment. 

The Formula of Black Snake

  • 20 gram of sugar
  • One bowl of sand
  • 5 gram of baking soda
  • Some alcohol   
  • A beaker
  • A lighter or match
  1. Pour the sand into the bowl
  2. Soak the sand with alcohol
  3. Keep it for a moment and mixed the sugar with baking soda
  4. Pour all the baking soda and sugar into the bowl of sand into a shape of a mountain
  5. Light the bowl up with the match and you can see the result

How is this work?

      Alcohol catch the fire and it’s burning                                                                         

Baking soda and sugar contain carbon, so when the fire burn it’s come up with carbon ash

 

 

Periodic Table / Round 2

Periodic Table is a table of the chemical elements arranged in order of atomic number, usually in rows, so that elements with similar atomic structure (and hence similar chemical properties) appear in vertical columns.

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered”.

In my opinion, periodic table is made for us to learn easier. Periodic table is complicated, but it makes us easier. You should try to learn how to look and remember some of the important elements in the periodic table.

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
Periodic Table ( Khmer Version )

 

Argumentative Essay / Round 2

This round, in english literacy class, we learn about how to write Argumentative Essay. Argumentative Essay is an essay that is argued about something. This essay needs a lot of research. To write the essay, we need to choose a specific topic so that we want to argue about. One of the most important things is that we need to interesting on the topic that we choose so that we can do research well on this topic. For me, I choose a topic called Fragrant meat should be eliminated.   Down here is my argumentative essay. Please enjoy!

Kakrona Pos                                              English Literacy

Hannah Trivitt                                          Dec /17/ 18

Fragrant meat should be eliminate

There are many kinds of meat all around the world. However, some of the meats are legal and some of the meats are illegal to eat. People still eat illegal meat even though it’s not appropriate for the human to eat. To put it another way, people don’t want to follow the government rules, but they want to try something new and they don’t care if it appropriate or not.

Even though fragrant meat is common for eating in some counties, people must stop this action of eating fragrant meat because dogs provide advantages for owners. The eating of fragrant meat can spread disease and lead to the extinction of dogs.

Dogs provide advantages for owners because dogs help people with many things such as health problems and their feelings.  Kathy Benjamin, a newsletter writer from Metal Floss of New York said, “ While other pets help people, dogs have added a special benefit of needing to be walked and played with numerous times a day. This means that many dog owners are getting 30 minutes of exercise a day, lowering their risk of cardiovascular disease”(in text citation). To clarify this statement, people can be healthy and happy at the same time. Around 40 percent of people in the world take exercise as their habit. What about another 60 percent of people in the world? Are they willing to do exercise physically and spend a lot of time with sweat all over their body? Most of the people are willing to do the easy thing, as well as getting benefits for doing it. To sum up, dogs have many little advantages than what think. People should throw the thought of eating fragrant meat away and back to eat what meat that legal to eat.

Some cultures around the world, such as China, for instance, they believe that “Eating the meat during the summer months brings luck and good health. Some also believe dog meat can ward off diseases and heighten men’s sexual performance”(in text citation). Again, because they have there believed, they choose to do what the believe told them and they don’t think about their health. People who eat fragrant meat do not always kill the dog by themselves instead, they bought from other. According to Sara Farr the journalist of One Green Planet, she said “ In 2015, Vietnam suffered from a rabies outbreak with approximately 30 percent of the deaths attributable to the slaughter of dogs for meat” (in text citation). A lot of people in China prefer buying fragrant meat from other rather than kill the dog by themselves. For people who kill dogs for meat, the percent of getting Rabies is so high. “ Rabies is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the brain of humans. It happens by scratches or bites from other animals. Saliva from an infected animal can also transmit rabies if the saliva comes into contact with the eyes, mouth or nose”(in-text citation). Rabies is one of the hardest diseases to cure. Mayo Clinic is a website that gives Patient Care & Health Information about any disease. Mayo Clinic had exclaimed that Rabies creates some symptoms that people often notice about it because it looks like usual as normal life. Confusion, a high level of excitement and excessive saliva production are the symptoms of Rabies. Because of this, all kind of symptoms is so usual, people with Rabies often survive also, they don’t get really good care from hospital plus with family. Because of killing the dogs for meat, people get bitten from dogs. Most of the dogs around the world carry rabies in their bodies. Rabies travels through the dog saliva and leaks to where the dog bites the people. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a center that saving lives and protecting people. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also known as CDC 24/7. According to CDC 24/7, they said “More than 59,000 people died in each year because they can’t get the good cares. That’s about 1 person die because of Rabie in every nine minutes” (in text citation). In short, people shouldn’t eat fragrant meat. They should step forward or backward by eating other meat because Rabies is one of the hardest diseases that hard to heal.

There is a huge number of dogs around the world. Due to this reason, they can produce the puppies up to 10 or even more than that. Even though there are many dogs in the world, in the future, the dogs will be extinct because of people. Humane Society International is an organization created to protect animals and show compassion within different regions. HSI has stated, “ An estimated 30 million dogs are killed for human consumption each year across Asia in a brutal trade that involves terrible cruelty to animals and often” (in text citation). Countries around the world such as China, South Korea, and Vietnam are the countries that eat fragrant meat the most. They even kill their own dogs for eating. As an example, Yulin province in China has celebrated a festival called “Lychee and fragrant meat” festival for ten days. On those days, dogs are killed in order to celebrate the festival. Dogs will be extinct soon if the government doesn’t take any action.

Overall, fragrant meat is not the best meat. If you think fragrant meat is good, stop it now and go back to eat whatever meat beside this meat. Think about fragrant meat a little bit deeper. It does not contain any needed protein. It’s the only meat that hard to get. It taste might be different from other meat. It’s expensive because of it rare. Also, it’s illegal when you are eating it. Eat any kind of meat that gives you many needed protein to help your body and your health. Healthy should come first before anything else. From now on, stop eating fragrant meat if you have done once or twice. Help to spread words with your family, relative, neighbor and your friends. Altogether, please keep this sentence in your head “Fragrant meat should be eliminated”.

Source:

http://www.hsi.org/issues/dog_meat/facts/dog-meat-trade-faqs.html

http://mentalfloss.com/article/51153/10-benefits-being-dog-owner

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2015/p0928-rabies.html

https://www.who.int/rabies/about/en/

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rabies/symptoms-causes/syc-20351821

 https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/yulin-dog-meat-festival-explainer-what-is-it-when-start-banned-controversy-a8410426.html 

Attention People Who Eat Dog Meat! Here are 3 Major Health Concerns You Should Know About

 

Ratio / Round 2

Welcome to Ratio!

Learn Ratio by yourself with this picture. Hehe, Kidding.

In Round 2 of our school, we learn Ratio. The ratio is useful with some many numbers that you want to make it smaller. 

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កុលាប ប៉ៃលិន / Kolab Pailin , Round 2

អក្សរសាស្ត្រខ្មែរ គឺជាមុខវិទ្យាដ៏សំខាន់មួយសម្រាប់កូនខ្មែរគ្រប់ៗរូប ។ បើទោះបីជាយើងជាខ្មែរក៏ដោយ ក៏ពួកយើងមិនប្រាកដថា យើងយល់ដឹងគ្រប់គ្រាន់ដែរ ។ កវីនិពន្ធខ្មែរជាច្រើនរូប តែងតែតាក់តែងរឿងឡើងមក សម្រាប់កូនខ្មែរឲ្យបាន អាននិងយល់ដឹងបន្ថែម ។ នៅក្នុងនោះដែរ កវីខ្មែរម្នាក់ឈ្មោះថា ញុ៉ក ថែម មានស្រុក កំណើតនៅ ឃំុ ស្វាយប៉ោ ស្រុកសង្កែ ខេត្តបាត់ដំបង បានសរសេរ រឿងមួយដែលល្បីទូទាំងប្រទេសកម្ពុជា ហើយរឿងនោះមានចំណងជើងថា កុលាប ប៉ៃលិន ។ កុលាប ប៉ៃលិន គឺជា រឿងមួយដែលនិយាយអំពី តួឯកស្រី និង តួឯកប្រុស មួយគូរលង់ស្រឡាញ់គ្នា ដោយមិនដឹងខ្លួន ។ តែដោយ សារតែគ្រួសារនាង មានរឿងជំពាក់ជំពិនជាមួយនិងលោក បាឡ័ត ដូចជា ឪពុករបស់នាងមាន ជំនួញជាមួយនិង គេម្នាក់នេះ ធ្វើឲ្យនាងពិបាកនិងការស្រលាញ់ចៅចិត្រពីព្រោះនាងដឹងមុនទៅហើយថា ឪពុករបស់នាងមុខជា លើកនាងឲ្យទៅ បាឡ័តនោះជាមិនខាន។

ឃុន នារី គឺជា នារីម្នាក់ដែលតែងតែ ស្ដាប់សម្ដីឪពុកម្តាយជារឿយៗ ប៉ុន្តែនាងគឺជាមនុស្សដែលចូលចិត្ត មើលតែសម្បកក្រៅរបស់អ្នកដ៏ទៃ ។ និយាយពី ចៅចិត្រវិញ ដែលជា តួឯកប្រុសរបស់ ឃុន នារី គឺជាមនុស្សដែល ដឺង គុណឪពុកម្តាយ ឬអ្នកដ៏ទៃ ។ គាត់ក៏ជា មនុស្សសុចរិត និងក្លាហ៊ានផងដែរ ។ បាឡ័ត គឺជាមនុស្សម្នាក់ដែល មានតែភាពអួតអាងនៅក្នុងខ្លួន និង មិនចេះគោរពសិទ្ធអ្នកដ៏ទៃ ជាពិសេសគឺមនុស្សស្រី ។ បន្ថែមទៅលើនិងទៀត គាត់គឺជា មនុស្សដែលកំសាក និង មិនមានភាពជាកូនប្រុស ។ ចំណែកឯ ហ្លួងរតនសម្បត្តិដែលត្រូវជាឪពុករបស់ ឃុន នារី គឺជា មនុស្សដែលមានចរិតអាណិតអ្នកដ៏ទៃជាខ្លាំង ។

សរុបមក កូនខ្មែរទាំងអស់ត្រូវតែ ខំប្រឹងរៀនសូត្រអំពី អក្សរសាស្ត្រខ្មែរឲ្យបានច្រើន ។ សម្រាប់ខ្ញំុផ្ទាល់ ខ្ញំុចូលចិត្តនិងស្រលាញ់ អក្សរសាស្ត្រខ្មែរ ។ រា់ល់ថ្ងៃខ្ញំុតែងតែ ខំប្រឺងសរសេររៀងនិងតាក់តែងរឿងដូចជាពួកគាត់ ដែរ ។ ខ្ញំុសង្ឃឹមថា នៅថ្ងៃទៅមុខទៀត កូនខ្មែរទាំងអស់គ្នា នឹងយល់ដឹង ហើយសិក្សាអំពី អក្សរសាស្ត្រខ្មែរបាន ច្រើនជាងឥឡូវនេះ ។

Khmer literature is one of the most important subject for every Khmer children to learn and get more ideas about what is Khmer Literature. If you are Cambodian, doesn’t mean you are good enough or know enough about Khmer literature. A lot of old Khmer Authors are trying to write some books to get Khmer children to understand more about Khmer literature. There is an author name Nhuk Time who was born in Svay Pour commune, Sonkea district, Battambang province, write a story book called Kolab Pailin, meaning in A Rose from Pailin province in english. This story is talking about a woman and a man fall in love with each other without knowing the reason. But because her father has a work partnership with a kind of rich boy, in khmer we call Balat. That’s the hardest thing for the women to decide on her lover.

Kun Neary is the girl main character in this story. She is a good daughter who always listen to her parents, but she have one bad habit that she always judge people by their appearance without knowing who. For boy main character, his name is ChavChet. He is a good son who always know and love their parents. He also an integrity and brave people. Balat is a man that like to show off to people how rich he is and he does not respect other people especially women. The last character ( he one of the main character ) is call Loung Ratanaksombat. He is Kun Neary farther. He is the kindest person in his village. Everyone love him because he is really nice.

The conclusion is all Khmer children must learn and know what is Khmer Literature. For me, I like and love Khmer literature. Everyday, I’m trying to write the book just like our khmer author. I believe that in the future, Khmer kids will trying to learn and love khmer literature just like me.

Photo by: Ebook Library

 

 

Indigenous Community / Round 2

People that live far from the town or city, Cambodian called Indigenous group. There are many Indigenous groups in Cambodia. One of the Indigenous group is popular and known well in Cambodia. That’s Pnong. Everything that they have like, culture, food, tradition, clothes, art, and everything, most Cambodian know very well. Beside Pnong, there are many groups.

In my project, I have learned five different indigenous people. They are Suoy, Kachock, Tompoun, Jaria, and Krueng.

Suoy indigenous group is located in Kampong Speu. They live in Kuordontey village, Chhaen community, Oral district, Kampong Speu province. They are a small community and quiet. They have government help them. In the past four weeks, I went to Kampong Speu to visit them and get the information from them. This is the second time that I step into Suoy community. They are friendly and greeting well. I spend the rest of the morning with my friends to interview them about some of their culture and other things. We collect the information from them and create the books for the next generation. In the future, Suoy indigenous group will be more popular and will be a famous worldwide group.

We went to Ratanakiri to visit Kachock. The chef of the village said, “ We are the first visitor “. We really surprised what he said. This indigenous group is live far from the town and rare people got to know them. They also have some unique culture and belief. They are very shy because they never meet stranger before. When we start to talk to them and ask some nice question, they started to trust us and want to tell us about their story. If you are interesting, you can visit Kachock because they have a really interesting belief. Did you know that? When you go to Kachok community, don’t take the picture of the kids unless you have permission from the villager.

Tompoun is my favorite indigenous group that I ever met. They are so nice and they are very brave. They greet us and talk to us very well. Even they don’t really know Khmer or speak Khmer, they still try and answer what we want to know from them. They have so many things that they made by themselves. They have their scarf, gourd water bottle, wine, and their traditional clothes. I bought one of their scarfs and it cost $3. It’s really good quality. They have a different kind of scarf. Tompoun community is big and there is an organization to help them also. Their story from the past is so interesting and unique.

Jaria is an indigenous people that known very well in Cambodia. Jaria people don’t know Khmer well, but they can communicate with us. They try their best to let us know about their culture and other things. Jaria people also shy. They didn’t want to answer what we ask them, but they still complete our mission. In my through, future come Jarai will be known as one of the most famous indigenous group in Cambodia.

Krueng is the last indigenous community group that we visit. They really prepare for us before we come. They are all ready for us to ask the question. They all can speak Khmer. They show us their song, food, clothes..etc. They are very friendly. One of my highlight of this indigenous group is I try to catch the wild pig and puppies, but I just can’t. Finally, I catch one puppy. Oww!! It’s so good. I like puppy. In the future, Krueng will also be known by many people like Pnong.

Photography and Videography Basic / Round 2

Photography Basics

This is how Nikon camera work                                     Cr : WordPress

Take a look at the picture above. The camera work by many things inside it. View finder is where we put one side of our eyes and see the view of the picture.

Exposer is the amount of light that reaches your camera sensor and it determines how light or dark your photo will be.

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Shutter speed is the length of time it is open to allow light in. It’s measured in fractions of a second. For example : 1/100 and 1/10, which one is faster?. 1/100 is must be faster because it’s less time.

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Aperture is the size of opening the lens through which light enters the camera. It’s measured in f-stop values. The more lens size you open, the more light can come in.

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ISO is how sensitive your camera is to light. ISO can be 100, 200, 400, 800, 1000 etc. ( depends on your camera ). The higher the ISO, the more sensitive the camera is to light ( than the photo is too bright ). It measured in f-stop values.

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To end that, there are many types of photo. Full shot is the shot that sees the full objects and has space. Longshot is the shot that has many objects in the photo. Medium shot is the photo that shot from the waist. Close up shot is the picture that shot from the chest. Extreme close up is the picture that shot close with the objects. Low angle makes the picture bigger. This picture is taken from below. High angle is we take from above. Dutch angle/tilt is the photo that takes not straight. That is the style of photo. The last one is bird’s eye view. This picture is taken from the above. They usually use trone to take this kind of picture.

Videography Basics

There are many ways for taking video. You also need to know some tips for taking the video. Lets me tell you one thing before you go to explore the powerpoint by yourself. Steadiness is key is the movement of you when you taking the video. The using of zooming/ panning. You need to use your feet in the right way so that your video look good. For some objects that are so far away from you, you can use the zooming, but for some objects, that near you, don’t use the zoom. If you use the zooming with the near objects, the picture look really bad and blur. So now you can go to explore the powerpoint by yourself.

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