Thursday, September 16, 2010
We Won!!
My group and I won the challenge. I am so proud and we get 10 extra points. Now that is awesome!!
Monday, September 13, 2010
Podcast Summary
Part One- Persian Insult
This part of the podcast was about how Iran's leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said many things that people were shocked to hear, including a saying in Persian that meant "the bogeyman snatched the boob." This started a lot of controversy in the country of Iran asw well as around thw world and many people question if Ahmadinejad's language was appropriate during his important speech. He also made insults to the United States on our government and he is scheduled to speak again in front of the world in a month or so, so that will be interesting.
Part Two- Inuit Dialect
This part was about how a linguistic antropologist named Stephen Leonard from Cambridge University in England is going to go live in a remote area in Northwest Greenland for a year to learn about the Polar Inuit's culture. Only about 1,000 people live in this community and they speak a language called Inuktun, which is the northernmost dialect in the world. Stephen is going to document the language of the Polar Inuit and translate it back to English to see what it means. This will be a challenge for him as well as the Polar Unuit since global warming is affecting their hunting and they might have to migrate to southern England in about ten to fifteen years.
Part Three- Foreign Language Films in the United States
This part was about how foreign language films are not doing so well in the United States. Foreign language films made a lot of money in the US at one point but have dramatically decreased since then. The truth is that people in the United States do not want to sit through a two hour movie that is in a different language because it would be too hard to understand. Foreign filmakers say that if they put enough action like martial arts into their movies, people will pay enough attention to the movie to pay and see it. Until this happens, US citizens will stay away from foreign language films.
Part Four- Urdu Directions
This part was about how the language Urdu in India has the same word for terms that have to do with direction, like go straight and turn right. Sofia Javed explains how it is hard to get around with someone who speaks Urdu because you will not know what way they want to go. For example, a guy was with someone who spoke Urdu in Dubai and when they got to a roundabout, the man would say the urdu word that meant go straight and turn right. The guy who was driving turned right and the man kept saying the Urdu word for go sraight, but the other guy thought he said turn right. They made many wrong turns that day and Sofia said if the man added a verb to the Urdu word, it would have been easier to understand. It just goes to show how it is difficult to get somewhere if you speak Urdu.
This part of the podcast was about how Iran's leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said many things that people were shocked to hear, including a saying in Persian that meant "the bogeyman snatched the boob." This started a lot of controversy in the country of Iran asw well as around thw world and many people question if Ahmadinejad's language was appropriate during his important speech. He also made insults to the United States on our government and he is scheduled to speak again in front of the world in a month or so, so that will be interesting.
Part Two- Inuit Dialect
This part was about how a linguistic antropologist named Stephen Leonard from Cambridge University in England is going to go live in a remote area in Northwest Greenland for a year to learn about the Polar Inuit's culture. Only about 1,000 people live in this community and they speak a language called Inuktun, which is the northernmost dialect in the world. Stephen is going to document the language of the Polar Inuit and translate it back to English to see what it means. This will be a challenge for him as well as the Polar Unuit since global warming is affecting their hunting and they might have to migrate to southern England in about ten to fifteen years.
Part Three- Foreign Language Films in the United States
This part was about how foreign language films are not doing so well in the United States. Foreign language films made a lot of money in the US at one point but have dramatically decreased since then. The truth is that people in the United States do not want to sit through a two hour movie that is in a different language because it would be too hard to understand. Foreign filmakers say that if they put enough action like martial arts into their movies, people will pay enough attention to the movie to pay and see it. Until this happens, US citizens will stay away from foreign language films.
Part Four- Urdu Directions
This part was about how the language Urdu in India has the same word for terms that have to do with direction, like go straight and turn right. Sofia Javed explains how it is hard to get around with someone who speaks Urdu because you will not know what way they want to go. For example, a guy was with someone who spoke Urdu in Dubai and when they got to a roundabout, the man would say the urdu word that meant go straight and turn right. The guy who was driving turned right and the man kept saying the Urdu word for go sraight, but the other guy thought he said turn right. They made many wrong turns that day and Sofia said if the man added a verb to the Urdu word, it would have been easier to understand. It just goes to show how it is difficult to get somewhere if you speak Urdu.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
September 11 Assignment
Andrew Beard, Travis Nelson
Mr. Wojewodzki
Honors Human Geography
2 September 2010
Air travel, both in the United States and the world, is more common now than ever before. Despite the popularity of air travel in today’s world, the process of getting from one location to another is very complex and involves thousands of people around the globe. Government agencies, such as the Transportation Security Administration, work to ensure the safety of all passengers and flights in the United States. When everything and everyone in this process is working correctly, air travel is fairly simple; however, when something as catastrophic as a terrorist attack occurs, the entire process of air travel is horribly disturbed. On September 11, 2001, air travel in the United States, and throughout the world, would never be the same again.
Before the events of September 11, one could arrive at the airport much later compared to today’s air travel time requirements. Airport security was not nearly as high as it is today. The terrorist attacks of September 11 caused many changes in the field of air travel, both in the United States, and the world. First of all, to ensure the safety of all air travel, the United States Federal government set new standards of security in airports and on aircraft. Along with this, the Homeland Security Act was passed by Congress in 2002, one year after the attacks. New standards of safety and security were not only being set in the United States, but around the world.
Around the world, air travel security increased dramatically after September 11. Airports have strengthened their security systems so that no one who goes to an airport gets unchecked. Despite the increased security at international airports, the United States still has the most advanced security system in the world since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Still, around the world, airports are becoming more prepared for situations like 9/11 that could happen at any point in time. When passengers board a plane, there are flight attendants that monitor the aircraft and its passengers. Air travel is more safe now than it has ever been. Terrorist attacks are less likely to happen in the United States; however, they are probably more likely in other parts of the world, as some countries might not have the technology to support an advanced security system. Regardless, September 11 was so disastrous that airports in the US and around the world do not want it to happen ever again.
September 11 had many impacts around the world. Airports have developed specific traffic control systems for airplanes to follow and specific routes have been developed so planes do not collide in the sky. These routes have helped for a safe experience for passengers on an airplane and pilots have a much easier time flying the plane. International flights have especially been a lot easier since September 11 because they are usually longer and the new traffic patterns have helped a lot. As a result of more safety on the plane, more adults are flying now than they used to and that number is increasing each year. More business trips are flying internationally too and many adults feel that they can be safe on an airplane and trust the pilots to fly the plane securely. Many adults have also abandoned their flights for numerous reasons and that number is slowly increasing, too. The country with the most incoming international flights is China, and people from other countries fly internationally to the United States the most. September 11 has had positive impacts on flights internationally but has had some negative impacts on international flights, too.
Believe it or not, the future of air travel will be even more secure and safe than it is now. New technology will allow every airport in the world to monitor each plane that is flying in the air at the same time to see where and when it will land. New technology will be built to occupy all the planes in the sky like specific routes from and to each airport. Pilots along with sophisticated technology will help planes fly around bad weather to ensure a safe flight for all passengers. Radar system will help pilots fly directs routes to the exact destination and traffic control systems will help pilots see how close each place is to their plane. Satellite-based technology will help pilots see where their exact location in the sky is. Passengers will eventually have everything they need like food and entertainment in the plane, especially on long, international flights. With all this new technology, passengers will have a much safer experience on the plane and pilots will have a much easier time flying the plane.
"Air Traffic - NextGen Briefing." FAA: Home. Web. 08 Sept. 2010.
<http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/briefing/>.
2013. "Travel Facts and Statistics
U.S. Travel Association." U.S. Travel Association. Web. 08
Sept. 2010. <http://www.ustravel.org/news/press-kit/travel-facts-and-statistics>.
H.R. Rep. No. RL31617 (2002). Print.
All images were acquired from wikimedia.org, and are of the public domain.
Mr. Wojewodzki
Honors Human Geography
2 September 2010
Air travel, both in the United States and the world, is more common now than ever before. Despite the popularity of air travel in today’s world, the process of getting from one location to another is very complex and involves thousands of people around the globe. Government agencies, such as the Transportation Security Administration, work to ensure the safety of all passengers and flights in the United States. When everything and everyone in this process is working correctly, air travel is fairly simple; however, when something as catastrophic as a terrorist attack occurs, the entire process of air travel is horribly disturbed. On September 11, 2001, air travel in the United States, and throughout the world, would never be the same again.
Before the events of September 11, one could arrive at the airport much later compared to today’s air travel time requirements. Airport security was not nearly as high as it is today. The terrorist attacks of September 11 caused many changes in the field of air travel, both in the United States, and the world. First of all, to ensure the safety of all air travel, the United States Federal government set new standards of security in airports and on aircraft. Along with this, the Homeland Security Act was passed by Congress in 2002, one year after the attacks. New standards of safety and security were not only being set in the United States, but around the world.
Around the world, air travel security increased dramatically after September 11. Airports have strengthened their security systems so that no one who goes to an airport gets unchecked. Despite the increased security at international airports, the United States still has the most advanced security system in the world since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Still, around the world, airports are becoming more prepared for situations like 9/11 that could happen at any point in time. When passengers board a plane, there are flight attendants that monitor the aircraft and its passengers. Air travel is more safe now than it has ever been. Terrorist attacks are less likely to happen in the United States; however, they are probably more likely in other parts of the world, as some countries might not have the technology to support an advanced security system. Regardless, September 11 was so disastrous that airports in the US and around the world do not want it to happen ever again.
September 11 had many impacts around the world. Airports have developed specific traffic control systems for airplanes to follow and specific routes have been developed so planes do not collide in the sky. These routes have helped for a safe experience for passengers on an airplane and pilots have a much easier time flying the plane. International flights have especially been a lot easier since September 11 because they are usually longer and the new traffic patterns have helped a lot. As a result of more safety on the plane, more adults are flying now than they used to and that number is increasing each year. More business trips are flying internationally too and many adults feel that they can be safe on an airplane and trust the pilots to fly the plane securely. Many adults have also abandoned their flights for numerous reasons and that number is slowly increasing, too. The country with the most incoming international flights is China, and people from other countries fly internationally to the United States the most. September 11 has had positive impacts on flights internationally but has had some negative impacts on international flights, too.
Believe it or not, the future of air travel will be even more secure and safe than it is now. New technology will allow every airport in the world to monitor each plane that is flying in the air at the same time to see where and when it will land. New technology will be built to occupy all the planes in the sky like specific routes from and to each airport. Pilots along with sophisticated technology will help planes fly around bad weather to ensure a safe flight for all passengers. Radar system will help pilots fly directs routes to the exact destination and traffic control systems will help pilots see how close each place is to their plane. Satellite-based technology will help pilots see where their exact location in the sky is. Passengers will eventually have everything they need like food and entertainment in the plane, especially on long, international flights. With all this new technology, passengers will have a much safer experience on the plane and pilots will have a much easier time flying the plane.
United States of America. Department of Homeland Security. By Derekh Cornwell. Web.
"Air Traffic - NextGen Briefing." FAA: Home. Web. 08 Sept. 2010.
<http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/briefing/>.
2013. "Travel Facts and Statistics
U.S. Travel Association." U.S. Travel Association. Web. 08
Sept. 2010. <http://www.ustravel.org/news/press-kit/travel-facts-and-statistics>.
H.R. Rep. No. RL31617 (2002). Print.
All images were acquired from wikimedia.org, and are of the public domain.
Monday, September 6, 2010
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