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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 english E-learning Y 12:58 AM

Terrorism is an act of bombing places and killing or injuring innocent people. Terrorism will cause some children to be orphans because the bombings or gun-shootings will kill their parents. Of course I am afraid and everyone else will be afraid that parents or other of their loved ones and friends or even themselves will be injured or killed. I think that people should not be involved in terrorism and injure others as they will be hurting innocent people which have nothing to do with their problems. I will help to look out for suspicious items or people and report them to the police to lessen the people who get hurt and I will teach others when I grow up of how to prevent terrorism so that they would not be involved in it. I wish that terrorism will not continue in the future and the world will be peaceful. (151 words)

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Sunday, May 3, 2009 Y 4:18 AM

An Ethiopian goatherd discovered coffee, it was a simple food and beverage for African tribesman but now, it is sold in large quantities worldwide as one of the top value in trade. All coffee exporting countries depend on coffee as the main income. Many people depend on them for a living and drink them a lot.

In 1975, a frost killed almost half of Brazil's coffee trees which changed the prices drastically. And the frost came again in 1979, it resulted in no income for every tree lost from three to five years. the income loss was huge as 15 million trees were lost.

Brazil stopped the export of coffee and importers bought it in bunk as they were afraid of the shortage. The prices increased and the farmers planted more of them. Many farmers began to grow other more stable crops and both producers and consumers limited production to what the market can absorb, have a reserve and sell it at a reasonable price.

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Sunday, March 29, 2009 Y 7:29 AM

Reflective summary

I have learnt from this research that the number of mangrove swamps in the world is shrinking as people cut down mangrove trees and affect the growth of them. I feel that all people living in this world should do our part to conserve these places for the future generations to know such wonderful places existed and for them to have a place to do helpful research on the animals and plants for their school work.

At first, I thought that mangroves were just scary places with many trees and deep swamps and there will not be any people found there. Eventually after I went through the virtual tour and did many researchers on the place, I found that it is an interesting place with many organisms that we have never seen before or even heard before. The mangrove is actually a place with many reptiles like the crocodiles and maybe some species of snakes. There is also the mudskipper which is the only fish that can stay out of water for a long time. I also found the fiddler crab which is the only crab which has a claw bigger than the other which makes them look comical when they move.

I will play my part by introducing people to watch mangrove conservation videos and do some researches on mangroves to know better of the place to reduce the hurt the people make to mangrove conservations. I suggest that people ban people from going in to mangrove conservations in case they get hurt or lost. In another way, it also keeps people from hurting mangroves and reduces them. It will make this world a better place because trees beautify the environment and makes the air fresh and nice.

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Saturday, March 28, 2009 Y 7:26 AM

Reflective journal 5

I went to look at the virtual tour for mangrove conservation and saw that there are many organisms that many people do not know exists. Like the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) which can deliver an extremely painful pinch and are noted for being particularly aggressive and difficult to handle safely. Even when out of the water, they can still live. The natural predators of the blue crab include eels, drum, spot, trout, some sharks, and cownose sting rays. The blue crab is an omnivore, eating both plants and animals and consume thin-shelled bivalves, annelids, small fish, plants and nearly any other item they can find, including carrion and their own kind.

Sometimes in mangroves of other countries, there may be baby sharks swimming in between roots when there is a high tide. The organisms living on mangrove trees include, the isopod, Ligia, the mangrove crab, Aratus pisonii and the mangrove oyster, Crassostrea rhizophorae, a flat tree oyster. Other microorganisms include several species of sponges, bryozoans, hydrozoans, and the fan worm, Sabellastarte.

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Monday, March 23, 2009 Y 7:25 AM

Reflective journal 4

Finally the powerpoint for the group is done! I really need to thank my group mates for their great effort in contributing to the powerpoint. I remember the first day before we even started, nobody was interested with the research and some were quite reluctant to do the research so the members had to push each other and finally we produced great results.

The powerpoint was done very nicely after combining all our members researches and adding some extras, there was even a nice video in it, thanks to our members responsible for media. I watched the video for the powerpoint and found it very interesting and funny. I found other videos from that video and found other interesting things about other mangrove animals. I watched a documentary on how people got stuck in the mangrove because of the crocodiles and survive to tell the story.

The story is about how four people went canoeing and decided to go deeper into the mangrove to find more interesting things and met a crocodile unfortunately that flipped the canoe over and ate the people till only one is left and killed the crocodile then came back to tell the story.

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Sunday, March 15, 2009 Y 7:24 AM

Reflective journal 3

I went searching for interesting facts of the animals and plants as that was what I actually had to search for to contribute to the PowerPoint for the group. I surfed the net and found many interesting facts of plants and animals in the mangrove conservation.
First I searched on the mangrove animals and found out that their roots may be scary at night as the tree seem to be standing on many legs, next, I saw that ferns also can be found there and I saw that ferns were actually around earth for two hundred million years before flowering plants evolved.

Then I searched for animals and found that saltwater crocodiles can use their tail to propel most of their body out of the water and once the fiddler crab loses its larger claw, the smaller claw will grow to be the larger one and the smaller one will grow back, and the most interesting thing is they cannot swim. And a new born swamp wallaby is just the size of a tiny jelly bean and which I think is very adorable. Mangrove conservations are really getting interesting to me.

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Monday, March 9, 2009 Y 7:23 AM

Reflective journal 2

Later on, I researched on animals in the mangrove swamps and found that some animals are very adorable like the flying fox which looks like a half bat half squirrel creature, the fiddler crab which has a claw larger than the other, the wallaby which looks like a miniature fox and the mudskipper which is the only fish that can live on land for several hours and some dangerous ones like the saltwater crocodile which could gobble humans down in one gulp and the sea snake which is ten times more venomous than the king cobra.

There are some giant ones like water buffalos (they weight 21/2 tons), saltwater crocodile (they are said to be 27 feet in the wild), great egrets and the jabirus (stands 5 feet tall and has a wingspan of 8 feet long) which is the largest among their species. I find that researching on animals are so much fun than the plants as the net tells us how the animals live which consists of their habitats, the food they eat and how they contribute to the mangroves and the environment, some websites even let us listen to the sounds a particular animal makes. I also found out that some of these animals may be endangered and humans have the right to protect them from extinction.

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