Service Learning

From the meeting, I know that I'll be teaching Chinese with my friend LinFeng in the library, and other people will teach the ESL student English. Maybe next time we will going to visit the senior, and our group had some goal need to accomplish. I know it would be a fun time for every of us to enjoy with other people for help them, and I will do my best. But the problem is that Mr, Todd said LinFeng and I could stay with the other people, and sometimes we could help translate to them in case some students just being study English, I am not sure I could help them, because my own English is not good, but, anyway I will learn morn during this program. For the coming weeks, I will go on line to search some information about teaching Chinese, it's time to enjoy myself of helping people.

The First Service Learning Meeting

In the last Service Learning Meeting. we had made a plan about the service. It is shows below.


Where to go:

Chinese Culture Center

Go to people's house

McColl Elementary School


People we help to:

Old man or children.

whoever need help


What we help:

Teaching Chinese and English


In the next meeting, I want to suggest, we could also made some information for them to learning the language. Sometimes visit the old man, and talk to them, because they are always lonely. Or have a party for them.

Service Learning

In the Service Learning, I was interested in the Chinese teaching. We could teach some children whether their parents or they want to learn. To me, the Service Learning is important, because we could help people during the service, and there would be so many funs to help them.

Primary Source and Second Source

Primary Source

http://www.pbs.org.wgbh/amex/vietnam/pscourse/ps_tonkingulf.html
2/02/2008
(President Johnson's Message to Congress)

http://www.pbs.org.wgbh/amex/vietnam/pscourse/ps_kennedy.html
1/27/2008
(President Kennedy's letter to Ngi Dinh Diem)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam-War
1/28/2008
This website explains the war was took place from 1965 to April 30, 1975, and it was fought between South and North Vietnam for unify the country, and ended with defeat of South Vietnam.

http://www.vietnampix.com/intro2.htm
2/04/2008
This website explains fear the spread of communist cause many countries involved in this war.


Secondary Source

http://www.vietvet.org/thewall.htm
1/02/2008
This is a website that talk about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. There were million of name who died during the war.
http://history1900s.about.com/od/vietnamwar.a.vietnamtimeline.htm
1/04/2008
This website shows the timeline in that time.

http://www.bookrage.com/history/vietnam-war/sub9.html
1/04/2008
(America Begins to Get Out of Vietnam)

http://www.infoplease.com/co6/history/A0850869.html
2/01/2008
This website explained a short concept pf the Vietnam War

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/psourse/ps_policy.html
2/02/2008
(American Policy in Vietnam)
http://www,pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/timeline/index.html
1/27/2008
This is a website that has a timeline of Vietnam after World War II
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0861797.html
1/27/2008
(End of the War)
This website explains the end of the war, that Vietnam was formally reunified in July, 1976, and Saigo was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/what_were_the_cause_of_the_vietnam_war
2/04/2008
This website explains the cause of the Vietnam War.
http://www.infoplease.com/co6/history/A0861794.html
2/02/2008
(Cause and Early Years)
This website describes the way president Diem stopped the reunification of Vietnam.

http://www.vietnamwar.com/
1/24/2008
This website explains the division of Vietnam into North and South.
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http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/vietnam/index.cfm
1/28/2008
This source shows Vietnam became independence from French and than divided into North and South Vietnam. By 1958, Communist-led guerrillas known as the Viet Cong had begun to battle the South Vietnam government.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=516
1/09/2008
This website shows that the war which resulted in nearly 60.000 American deaths and an estimated 2 million Vietnam deaths, and an anti-war protests became a feature of American life.

http://www.42explore2.com/vietnam.htm
1/24/2008
This website described the United States involved in this war in March 1965, fighting for South Vietnam for several years then the United States slowly began to pull their troops out of Vietnam, because of the anti-war in their own country, and the war was finally ended with defeat South Vietnam.
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
1/11/2008
This website explains by 1973, United States soldiers were no longer in Vietnam, as a result, American sent less and less money and weaponry to South Vietnam. North Vietnam made a massive military attack in 1974on South Vietnam. North and South Vietnam became a single country again on July 2, 1976, and this is now called the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/cot/t3w30vietnamwar.htm
01/21/2008
(Ho Chi Minh)
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http://www.cyberessays.com/History/103.htm
1/22/2008
This website tell that the government leaders began an economic plan in 1986, when aid from the Soviet Union stopped, the country was able to stand on its own. The government fears that if contact with the United States increases, it might result in a revolution that would destroy their authority.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/vietnam.htm
1/22/2008
This website shows that the U.S eventually fielded an army of over 500.000 men and engaged in extensive air and naval warfare again North Vietnam, which actions caused a civil war in their country.

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/vietnamwar/p/VietnamBrief.htm
1/21/2008
This website explains the division of Vietnam into two part--communist and noncommunist, the United States tried to stopped the communist, send army to South Vietnam, and help them to defeat North Vietnam.
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/vietnamwar/p/VietnamBrief.htm
1/28/2008
This website explains the end of the war and the fall of Saigon.

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/vietnamwar/p/VietnamBrief.htm
2/01/2008
This website describe about the The Tet Offensive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Effects_on_Vietnam
1/12/2008
This website explains the effect on Vietnam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#China
1/19/2008
This website describes the involvement of China in 1949.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Philippines
1/14/2008
This website explains the involvement of Philippines.

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761552642
1/19/2008
This website tell about before the Vietnam War, French invaded Vietnam and made it s a colony of them for a hundrel year, and then Vietnam escaped from their rule, became independent.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/vietnamwar/a/vietnamwar.htm
2/02/2008
This website explains the Vietnam War was struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the whole country of Vietnam under the communist government, and the United Stated tried to prevent the spread pf communist, but the U.S leaders lost the American public's support for the war in Vietnam.
http://www.vietnampix.com/intro.htm
2/04/2008
This website shows that in 1950 the United States began to send troops to Vietnam. During the war almost 3 million US men and women were send to there to fought for the Vietnamese to do what the Vietnamese should to do for themselves. It is estimated that over 2.5 million people on both sides were killed.

Process paper

Group Member:
Amy
Chen Xian
Linfeng Yang
Hong Lin

Teacher: Miss Mahdi

The Vietnam War was the longest war in the United Stated history, American fear the spread of communist, then send their soldier, money and weapons to support South Vietnam where thousand miles away from American.


We are doing the documentary for the Vietnam War. The topic for our NHD Project is why American involved in the Vietnam War. It got us interested in the topic, because it is a disaster in the American history which causes an anti-war in their own country, when the Vietnam War start many of the American college students were protesting the United Stated being in Vietnam. If I was a college student in 1960-1970, I would also want to protest the war.

During the work, we had interviewed a man who had been sending to South Vietnam for fighting when he was 19 years old. In common, many people at that age would enjoy their time with their friends or family, but because of the Vietnam War, a war that wastes people time and life,

When we first start the project, we thought it was just a common war. But gradually, we know it was a unpopulated war. The Vietnam was a colony of French under their govern for a hundred years. And it then escaped from France, then the Vietnam separate into two parts, one is communist government(the North Vietnam), another part is noncommunist government (the South Vietnam), and the war was start for reunify the whole country, it began from 1959 to April 30,1975.

Doing the work, we had faced many challenges, such as we need to check the truth of the information whether is right or not. We should go to he library or Internet to research the sources, and finally, fix them for organized information. When we doing the project, because of the language problem, we can’t easy understand the main point of the source. But we finally overcome it, we asked our tutor to explains the mainly thinks for us, and we also looked for some information about Vietnam War written in Chinese.

At the end of the war the United States began to pull their troops out of Vietnam. The involvement of American made their people angry. The war killed American boys in the war, it dropped the United States into a terrible time. Many younger people were drafted in the services for the war, the United States government put some National-Guidemen to stop the protest in the college, and sometimes they kill the protestor. The war was finally ended with defeat South Vietnam, North Vietnam unify the whole country under the communist government.

People asked us why we chosen the documentary, because we think the documentary could effectible and easier et people understand the whole thing. It is vivid than those like exhibit or paper. It let people feel not that boring, it had a condign attraction.

Should Father Beat Thier Child

No, no one should not allow to beat their child, because it is not a right thing to do that.Though even their children make a mistake, they could find a better way to educate them, what are the right and wrong things to do.But some father like Huck's father in the story, he fought his son for no reason, and almost killed him. There isn't any law to alow them to do that, but children could protect themself through the law, if their parents fight them, but for no reason.

Should Huck Finn Taught in School

The book was written by Mark Twain, which tells a tale about a boy anmed Huck Finn. He got a thousand dollars which was found by chance, but his father came back, and wanted to take all of it. Huck didn't like his father, so one day, he found a chance to escape from his father. He floated on a raft down the Mississppi River, and began his adventures with the escaping slave, Jim. This is a good book for us to read.It was written in about 1800s, from this book we could know something about the life in that time.
In this book, we could know how people treat the slaves in the past. They called them "nigger" and they thought they were a piece of their property, not people, and not equal to the white folks. Miss Watson's big slave named JIm, was a great example. People lashed him, and froced him to work. There was no equality between them. It was unfair to all of them, people should live together in peace like a big family. For instance, Jim is Huck's best friend, they helped each other when one had trouble, each would help other one. They traveled by raft down the MIssissippi River during their adventure,they had faced many problems. Near the end of the story, Huck was wounded by a shot at his thigh, he told JIm to the boat and leave this place, but Jim didn't do that, he stayed with Huck, and took him to see a doctor. They were caught by the people who were searching all around for them. They tried to killl Jim, because they thought he was a dangerous man, but Jim was not afraid to die. Huck implored them to let him go, the tears ran out from his eyes. At this moment, I could feel how deep their friendship was. What a surprise it was when a woman saved them at last. At the end of the story, Jim became a free man he was happy for that, and I'm glad about this,too.This makes me ask the question: Why couldn't everyone live in peace in those days, just like Huck and Jim?
In the story, we learn about Huck's life. His father was greedy, and very mean. His mother died when he was very young.When Huck's father found out about the money Huck found, of cause, he wanted it all for himself.One day, he kidnopped Huck from the widow. and hid him in his cottage, and locked Huck in so he couldn't get out. The place had no warm rooms for Huck to sleep, his father warned Huck to never try to escape. He would killed him pone night, you could see how dangenous it was for Huck to live with his father.
From this book we could know many thing about that time, it is a good book, why couldn't it teach in school,could it ?