Picture Discussion

My perception to this picture is that people are attempting to one of the low elements which is known as “spider-web”. Participants are gathered around a campsite as the tent is shown on the background. They are having their outdoor activities beside the tent. The boy in the foreground might be feeling too anxious as he is passing through the “spider-web”. He might not pass the obticle if no one assist him. The outdoor activity emphasises and help the students to learnt the values of team-building. It helps to build up the bond between friends and teammates. This is the kind of game which is suitable for the participants to learn how to be co-operative. If there is any argument in between the games, the team should come out with solutions to settle the problem quickly.There is no I in the word TEAM.We should learn to help each other in the team.

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Today Janina Pietrasiak, 74, and Maria Lopuszanska, 79, live like sisters just around the corner from each other.Maria was the teenage daughter of members of the Polish anti-Nazi underground.Roza Feldman Feldman soon died of tuberculosis.After that, Janina, not yet 8 when she joined the Catholic home, clung desperately to her new family and was baptized to fit in with them and increase her chances of survival under the Nazis After the war, she gave up the chance to live with an uncle in the United States.The bond deepened during the ill-fated Warsaw Uprising of 1944.Her father died in Auschwitz. Janina suffered bouts of depression. Her marriage to a devout Roman Catholic brought a daughter, but also the fresh pain of a husband. Her husband died in 1987. Thanks to her recognition as a rescuer, Maria receives $1,200 per year from the New York-based Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.
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News Report - Hit-And-Run Accident on 29th July 2009

News reports today that a fatal hit-and-run accident had occurred on 29th July 2009, around peak hour, 5.30p.m., at CTE.

26-year-old, motorcyclist, Mr. Alan Kong Ai Lang, one of the victims of the fatal accident, suffered severe injuries after being hit by a 2009 BMW M3 Convertible and was sent to Tan Tock Seng hospital for immediate treatment. He fell into a coma soon after the operation the doctors performed on him.

23-year-old, driver, Miss Jamie Sian Jie Mi, another victim of the fatal accident, was however not as fortunate, after being bumped into by the Mercedes Benz and trapped in her own car, she was rushed to Tan Tock Seng hospital as she suffered fatal injuries. She was pronounced dead due to the large impact she had when the accident occurred.

26-year-old, Miss Jane Tan, eye-witness and also a student, said, “It happened so fast!” She was also sure that she saw two cars.

36-year-old, Mdm Moliah Bte Ismail, housewife, a passenger in a taxi passing by when the accident occurred, said, “All I heard was loud big bang!” She was unsure what had caused the accident.

52-year-old, Inspector Abdul Rahman, said, “There was a stream of blood on the road.” He was shocked by what was left of the motorcycle.

When interviewed, Inspector Abdul Rahman advised drivers to drive carefully, and also not to talk on the phone when driving. Bystanders were urged to come forward with information on the license plate number of the hit-and-run car, Mercedes Benz.

The Kong family was shocked upon receiving news about their son being involved in a hit-and-run accident and was in a coma at Tan Tock Seng hospital. Mr. Kong, father of Mr. Alan Kong, said, “I believe my son is a rational motorcyclist, I will get to the bottom of this matter and clarify matters with that irrational and irresponsible driver.”

When the Sian families were noticed about Miss Jamie Sian Jie Mi’s death, they were astonished. Miss Jamie Sian Jie Mi, being the only child of the family, was loved and pampered by both her parents. Mr. Sian said, “She had just gotten her driving license and we had just bought her the 2009 BMW M3 Convertible as a birthday present, but little did we expect things to turn out like that.”



Reported by: Rhobin Lim and Vivien Wong

A Time When I Felt Unloved

When i was young i was send to a nanny as my parents was busy working and did not had the time to take care of me. I thought that they did not loved me and neglected me,when they leave me there i was very relunctant to let go. I felt lonely and sad,but i met new friends and had fun,and every night they will bring me out to play and eat dinner then send me back to the nanny house.As i grow up and matured now i think of it,actually they still cared about me, just that during that period of time i was young and ignorant.Their love for me stand strong,it will be and forever be that way.

Storm Recount

Ligthing is loud and scary,it never fails to scare me when i am young. Its thuderous voice shock me and it is the usual suspect that will make me run to my parents. My parens will calm me down and hug me. I always thought that the word lighting and ghost are related. When it rains at night i will hide under my blanket but now i have grown up and it is totally a different matter when it rain. In fact now i feel very relax whenever it rains,it just feel so cooling and makes me wants to sleep.

Situational Writing (Pulau Ubin)

Chong Boon Secondary School
2 Ang Mo Kio street 44
Singapore 569250

26 July 2009

Mr Vincent Lee
The Director
Urban Re-Development Authority
Jurong East Singapore 435568

Dear Mr Vincent,

Proposal to Upgrade Pulau Ubin

I,President of Green Plan 2012 Club, hereby sending in a proposal to upgrade Pulau Ubin.My school and I had recently been on a trip to Pulau Ubin and the condition of the facilities there were dirty and did not have the advance technology unlike singapore.So i decided to do a survey and ask a few people that i met along the road about Pulau Ubin facilities.

I met a man named abu lasakas lanea, he is a 60 years old man who is suffering from kidney cancer,he complained about the lack of medical facilities on this island.It is very inconvient for him to go all the way to the main island to recieve treatment.He wants a stable medical supplies and more clinics around the island.

Tomas choon a 16 year old school boy has to wake up as early as 4.30am and take a boat to the mainland to reach his school. It is very troublesome for him as he will not have enough sleep.He hopes that the goverment will build a few schools in his area.

Mary haslamb demands a stable water supply as lots of campers and tourist go there. She plans to open a coffe shop to serve thirsty customers.She wants proper roads to be build so that places can be more accessible and retain the natural beauty of Pulau Ubin too.

The upgrades will help change the lifes of the residents in Pulau Ubin,I hope you would consider the request of the residents. I hope to hear a favorable reply from you as soon as possible. Thank you.

Natural Disaster

A moderate earthquake rocked southwest China on 10 july 2009, injuring at least 336 people and collapsing 10,000 homes, state media reported.

The magnitude-6.0 temblor, centered in Yunnan province's Yao'an county, damaged another 30,000 homes, the Xinhua News Agency said.

Thirty people suffered severe injuries, while the other 305 were slightly injured.

The quake was followed by eight aftershocks and the provincial civil affairs department was sending 4,500 tents, 3,000 quilts and other relief materials to Yao'an, while hundreds of police were dispatched to the disaster zone.

Yunnan is a quake-prone, mountainous region that lies on China's southern border with Thailand and Burma. It also borders Sichuan province, where a magnitude-7.9 quake last year left almost 90,000 people dead or missing.

In 1988, a 7.1-magnitude quake in Yunnan near Burma killed more than 930 people. More than 15,000 people died after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake in the province in 1970, though authorities at the time covered up information on casualties and damage amid the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.


Reported by Rhobin

Chek Jawa

Block 1188
Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10
#08-500
Singapore 885415

12 July 2009


Chong Boon Secondary School
2 Ang Mo Kio Street 44
Singapore 569250

Dear Students of Chong boonites

A TOUR TO CHEK JAWA

Our school is going to have a tour at Chek Jawa. The beauty of Chek Jawa is that several different ecosystems can be seen in one small area. These ecosystems and the plants and animals found there are no longer common in Singapore. They are also fast disappearing elsewhere in the world.The hill overlooking Chek Jawa is covered with trees and plants that shelter and feed a variety of animals.

The mangroves of Chek Jawa have many interesting plants and animals. Mangrove trees have unusual shapes and properties as they are adapted to being covered in seawater at high tide and to grow in soft mud. The new boardwalk into the mangroves bring you close to these trees as well to the wonderful wildlife. Fiddler crabs and mudskippers are the highlight of a visit to the mangroves.

The coral rubble area near the front beacon is probably the richest part of Chek Jawa and also the most fragile. Rarely exposed, even at low tide, this area shelters delicate sea creatures that prefer to be submerged most of the time. These include sponges in bewildering shapes and colours, delicate fan worms and even living corals! Octopuses, seahorses, nudibranchs and colourful flatworms are some of the other amazing residents of this special part of Chek Jawa.

Please come to Chek Jawa to experience Singapore wild marine life. You will enjoy this trip and bring back lots of knowledge.


Yours faithfully

Rhobin Lim
President
Green club

Terrorism

I think that terrorism in Singapore is not much a threat because our goverment is vigilant and will not let any signs of terrorism get into Singapore.Athough the goverment is watching over us,we must be on a look out.If we spot any suspicious items or people we must immdiately notice the police.

Terrorism affects me lightly as i have never met a terrorist and do not wish to meet one,terrorist only comes once in a blue moon. I believe that the police by now should had exterminate all signs of terrorism but there is surely something i could do to counter terrorist.I am not afraid of terrorism unless a terrorist is pointing a gun at my head or threatening to blow up himself together with me.I will try to attack the terrorist from the back if i see one in the public.

I think the punishment for terrorist should be very harsh,terrorist do crazy things and cannot control themself so imagine what will they do again if we release them.So hanging them to death of punishing them for life in prisonment is not a bad idea. If a terrorist really change then we should give him a second chance.We can help by staying vigilant and help to fight the terrorist if you see one on the road

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BROWN BEARS

After doing researh on the brown bear it made me understand more about them and urges me more to open a animal santuary in America saving those poor little creatures from extinction. We should save the earth and wildlife from pollution as we only have one earth and we share it animals not only ourself so we must be considerate to those bears.

So no more killing of bears. If we continue doing that we will devastate their population and even cause them to be extinct.All animals have the right to live so we have to respect those bears. Remind yourself to donate more to the Singapore zoo and any animals organisations. Donate as much as possible. Bear live on the earth too so they have everyright to live. We should not take away their freedom by cutting down more trees and destrution of their habitats.So we must save bears.

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BROWN BEARS

Human is a major threat to brown bears,as our population grows, we encroach on bear habitat, driving them further into ever shrinking wilderness. Humans have become the single biggest threat to all wild animals.

Bears are the largest land based carnivores on the planet. However, due to their varied diet they are better characterized as omnivores. Typically, a grizzly bear's diet in the Columbia Mountains consists of less than 15% meat. The remainder is roots, herbs, berries, and insects.

Locally, grizzlies make extensive use of avalanche chutes in search of foods such as sedges, grasses, cow parsnip and various bulb-producing flowers. Aided by their long front claws and massive shoulder muscles, they rototill beds of glacier lilies and spring beauty to harvest the nutritious bulbs, and they excavate fat and protein-rich Columbian ground squirrels from their burrows. In mid-summer, grizzlies often move to huckleberry patches in burned over forests to fatten on a diet rich in carbohydrates to prepare for winter.Killing a grizzly bear in the lower 48 States in america is both a federal and state offense that can bring criminal and civil penalties of up to $50,000 and a year in jail.

Now many organisations are helping brown bears and will never let them be extinct.We can help too by donating money to organisations that help bears. We can play a part to ensure the future of the bears. We human created all these problems we must solve it too.

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BROWN BEAR

Most people think that forest fire do more harm than more benefit to the brown bears but think again.Actually forest fire do benefit the brown bears
Fires that occur within remote wilderness portions of the grizzly bear recovery ecosystems, generally created a natural mosaic pattern of burned and unburned vegetation. Grizzly bears will benefit from increased diversity in the landscape and increased abundance of grizzly bear foods over time.

Survival of mammals in forest fire areas is in the upper 90% range. By creating many different food sources, these fires are beneficial to the grizzly bears. First of all, by burning away dense timber and smaller plants, it creates nutrients for future successional plants. In Montana , grizzly bear diets include huckleberries, which are successional plants. The fires also open up the canopy of trees in wilderness areas, allowing sunlight to filter in for smaller plants to be established. Some of these plants are also food sources for grizzly bears.



Grizzly bears often stay only a few hundred yards from a burning fire line. It has been observed that in these situations, they have appeared calm and unafraid of the fires. By staying close to the fire lines, bears are able to capture small prey running out of the burning forests. When the fires have subsided, grizzly bears re-enter the burn area, and obtain food sources from uncovered caches of pine nuts, homeless, small rodents, and those "barbecued" animals that were trapped by the fires. The overall long-term impact of fire is that it increases the diversity of habitats and maintains the resililience and vigor of ecosystems which is beneficial to grizzly bears

After the musk ox, the grizzly has the second slowest reproduction rate of all North American mammals, making it harder for it to rebound from threats to its survival. Females do not reach breeding maturity until they are 4 to 9 years old and generally give birth to two cubs every 3 years. On occasion, one or three cubs may be born to a female, but two is the more common number.So you see,we must stop killing brown bears or not we will never see them again...



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BROWN BEARS

Brown bears are usually solitary animals with the exception of females and their cubs but at times they do congregate.Dramatic gatherings of grizzly bears can be seen at prime Alaskan fishing spots when the salmon run upstream for summer spawning. In this season, dozens of bears may gather to feast on the fish, craving fats that will sustain them through the long winter ahead.

Brown bears dig dens for winter hibernation, often holing up in a suitable-looking hillside. Females give birth during this winter rest and their offspring are often twins.Grizzly bears are powerful,top of the food chain. Nearly half of all brown bear cubs born are likely to die before they’re a year old. Some die of disease, and others die of starvation. Predators such as wolves, adult male bears—even a cub’s own father—are threats, especially to cubs that are separated from their mothers. But mother brown bears are fiercely protective, so many cubs do survive. Giving birth to 1 to 3 cubs and being hunted down by poachers i can see that the brown bears population is droping.

Some of the brown bears neighbours Elk, Moose, Cougars, Gray Wolves, Black Bear, Coyote, Dall’s Sheep.

Although grizzlies will, for the most part, avoid contact with humans, they are sometimes unpredictable and should be given plenty of room; every year, bears maul or kill humans. They move with a slow shambling walk, the low-slung head swinging from side to side. They can move very quickly, however, and even horses find it difficult to evade a rushing grizzly.So we must beware of them.We must educate the people in America let them know more about this mammals so that both bears and human can live peacefully together

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BROWN BEAR

Brown bears live in almost all kinds of habitat from dense forests, to subalpine meadows and arctic tundra. In North America, grizzly bears are found in western Canada, Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Historically, they could be found from Alaska to Mexico, California to Ohio. The grizzly bear was once common on the Great Plains. However, human encroachment has forced the remaining brown bear populations to move to rugged mountains and remote forests that are undisturbed by humans.


Bears live solitary lives except during breeding, cub rearing, and in areas with a super-abundant food supply such as salmon streams. Grizzly bears hibernate during the winter for 5-8 months, and usually dig their dens on north-facing slopes to ensure good snow cover.

Grizzly bears need to eat a lot in the summer and fall in order to build up sufficient fat reserves for surviving the denning period. This is particularly true for pregnant females who give birth to one pound cubs and then nurse them to about 20pounds before emerging from the den in April -May.

The females give birth from 1 to 3 cubs,the cubs will remain with their mother from 2to 4 years.

In 1975, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the grizzly bear as a threatened species in the Lower 48 states, under the *Endangered Species Act. In Alaska, where there are estimated to be over 30,000 grizzly bears, they are classified as a game animal with regionally established regulations. The Yellowstone population of grizzly bears was declared recovered and removed from the 'Threatened' species list in April of 2007.Celebration
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BROWN BEAR

I always like animals,maybe watching animal planet when i was young influnced me about saving animals and the earth.When i grow up, i want to be buy a plot of land and open a wildlife park.I was curious about brown bear,and decided to do some research about it. The brown bear live in northen america.They are classified as least concern in the conversation status.

The grizzly bear is a large predator that is different from black bears due to a distinctive hump on its shoulders.The long guard hairs on their backs and shoulders often have white tips and give the bears a "grizzled" appearance, hence the name "grizzly." The correct scientific name for the species is “brown bear”, but only coastal bears in Alaska and Canada are referred to as such, while inland bears and those found in the lower 48 states are called grizzly bears.

Their life span is from 20-25years,thats short.They can grow to 7 feet long and 3 feet tall at shoulders,imagine them standing,thats huge.They can run at 35mp per hour,that is fast considering for their huge size.


Brown bear are omnivorous and eat both grass and animals.Grizzly bear diet varies depending on what foods are available in that particular season.Historically, there were around 50,000 grizzly bears in North America. Today, there are 1,000 - 1,200 grizzly bears remaining in five separate populations in the lower 48 states. In Alaska, there are thought to be over 30,000 grizzly bears.

The biggest threat to grizzly bear survival in the lower 48 is human-caused mortality. Bears come into conflict with humans when they are attracted by garbage, pet foods and bird food. This can often lead to the lethal removal of the bear. In addition, some brown bears are accidentally killed by hunters who mistake them for black bears, which are legal to hunt. And lastly, illegal killing (poaching) of bears remains another reason for their decline. Another threat is habitat degradation due to development, logging, road-building and energy and mineral exploration.We must save those bears at all cost

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