Month: June 2020

Shelter in place, quarantine, COVID-19,

The world is going crazy!

Masks and bats,

Shops and store closing up,

The stuff in shop are running low.

Researchers are finding diseases and cures,

But wether or not people all around the world are working really hard,

Samples and test are never enough,

Doctor are making it so people don’t cough,

Don’t think negative look on the bright side,

As MLKJ once said: “if you can’t fly than run if you can’t run than walk if you can’t walk than claw but you keep on moving forward.

If I look back in my own life this COVID-19 was just like when we were on a dark night stuck in a road trip going to Reno and our car tier pop my mom and dad took an advice that MLKJ said and they ket on moving we never gave up and solved the problem. Luckily we made it safe out and never gave up.

In my opinion, this book is actually really violent and weird because it includes a lot of killing and the author describes the grandma’s killing with detail that it makes me feel like I’m watching a mini horror movie.

This book also gives me a feeling where you think someone is creeping behind you and you also think that the person is going to murder you.

This book in my opinion belongs in the group of books that me and my parents don’t enjoy or like, because it involves a lot of killing.

I hope that I don’t read much books like this in the future and I hope that our books for next week don’t envolve killing any sort that is described with detail.

Warning: In this piece Shakespearean English is used, and in a very bad way. It is used to match the language of the old days, please do not make fun if used improperly.

The feeling of curiosity

Burns in thy heart

What is it out there? 

Here shall thee start

There are many places

Where thou can travel

Thou shall step afoot 

On stone and gravel

Where is your destination?

The choice is for thee

Is it the Gobi Desert?

Or perhaps India or Italy

Thou shall travel far

Thou shall gain friends

Thou shall discover new places

And reach the journey’s end

Now out thee go

Find some far out places

Go achieve thy dreams

Spot the unknown spaces

Marco Polo was one of the greatest adventurers in the world, and people even named a game after him. He was captured and brought to prison with no form of entertainment and he met a writer named Rustichello da Pisa. After Marco Polo shared all of his adventures, his friend, Rustichello da Pisa, thought it would be great to write a book about all of his exploits. Once they were released from prison, those two published the book and became an overnight bestseller. Marco Polo had become the first European to document many details and information about the Chinese Empire. When the book was published, many people had doubts that he actually traveled across the world with just one life and called him a liar and a fraud. What the people didn’t know was that every single story that he ever told was true and it would take the people many, many years before knowing the truth. Marco Polo’s father and uncle were traveling for most of his young life. They bought goods from countries that were not needed, but then sold them to countries where the product is more valuable. During Marco Polo’s adventures, he needed to go to China, but he could not sail because his family’s boat was being repaired, so he could not sail to China, but rather walk on his two legs. The journey would be a long one, but fortunately, they sent out on a path where they could stop in small cities for rest. They always had goods to sell to other countries, but it was exhausting for Marco Polo. Marco Polo was a trusted adviser and he was able to live among the royal court. Since Marco Polo could speak 5 different languages, he was very useful to the Mongolian empire. Marco Polo had many duties, even so, he still went out to enjoy all of the entertainment that the empire had to offer such as musicals, theaters, horse races, and many more. The Europeans had been frustrated by the thought of how China seemed to be better than Europe. Even when all of the adventures and exploits he had gone, his face and what he looked like is still a mystery to many people today. His adventures he has gone and all of his responsibilities are a fascinating story and inspiring story.

Why is it important to study Coronavirus in bats? How does the characteristics of Coronavirus prove dangerous enough to have more studies on it? It is important to study Coronavirus in bats because they could have carried more types of viruses before. They could discover new kinds of coronavirus in bats that we didn’t know about before. The characteristics of Coronavirus prove dangerous enough to get more studies on it because if we search for new viruses, it can prevent a lot of deaths.

Studying coronavirus in bats can benefit us a lot. In their studies, they tested 464 bats and collected 759 samples. 48 of the samples contained coronaviruses. They found six viruses that used to be unknown to researchers. Most of these were in droppings, which meant that they could be a major source of virus transmission. This will let us be aware about it if someone gets infected with that virus and possibly prevent their death.

The coronavirus is dangerous enough to have more studies on it. In April of 2020, COVID-19 had infected more than 1.5 million people globally, with more than 159,000 people from the United States. In the studies, they have discovered more types of coronavirus in bat droppings. Studying about the virus might be able to prevent it from getting into other people. This will help prevent more deaths from the coronavirus.

Counting the number of COVID-19 deaths is hard. It is also very dangerous. The reason is that if you detect someone with COVID-19, you might get it too. This is not good news, so we try to catch bats. Since COVID-19 comes from bats, we can measure the number of bats and try to find out how many deaths there will be. This is one purpose of catching bats. The other is to not allow the bats to even get to humans. “‘The goal is to prevent the virus from getting into the humans in the first place,’ says Marc Valitutto, lead author of the study and a former wildlife veterinarian with the Global Health Program.” It is not easy to do this: “Searching for new viruses is ‘a grueling job,’ he adds, ‘but this is what’s required if you want to prevent 90,000 deaths, which is what we’re seeing today. So, it’s a small investment monetarily compared to what we’re spending now.’” Also, “Zoonotic pathogens, which spread between animals and humans, have caused almost three[-]quarters[!] of infectious diseases in humans [in only] this century. This interaction happens because of changes in land use and other human behavior.” Bats are not rare though, “One cave that the researchers studied in Myanmar, Linno Cave, had more than half a million bats. Tourists would visit the area to watch the bats leave the cave each night. Caves in Myanmar also serve as religious sites, and local people go there to collect bat droppings for fertilizer.” This may be one of the reasons there are so many COVID-19 cases. “We have been saying within the medical community, ‘An epidemic is coming, it’s coming soon, it’s likely to be one of these three or four viral families, it has the potential to kill a lot of people,’ Murray says. ‘Until it really touches people, it’s hard to recognize how connected we are. And as long as something’s happening across an ocean and far away, sometimes it’s hard to really feel the relevance of it.’ People now realize, she says, that “we’re more connected than we think we are.”

Finding new diseases is dangerous work,
Setting traps, getting ready there’s no perk.
Wearin’ suits from head to 2 to toe,
COVID-19 was their only foe.
“Searching 4 new viruses is a grueling job,
It’s not easy it’s no piece of cake.
It’s not something we want 4 do.” says Rob
But then you’ll have to worry every time you wake.
“Hey, Rob!” said Bob come look at this!
It’s some bats we found, in the Abyss.
Let’s test it now,
Somewhere safe n’ sound.
They tested 464 bats, 11 kinds of them.
“AHEM!” the boss said, “Hurry up, we don’t have time!”
Don’t just stand there like a mime, test, test, test!
The crew started to put the bats in and flick (the tester).
“Hey, boss!” Rob said “We found Six
new viruses!!
THE END

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I liked the idea of “Rules of the Game” alot, and I really enjoyed reading it. It tells about how the more time you spend at something, you will get better at it. Meimei, a little girl who lives in Chinatown with her mom and two brothers one day discovers chess. Her brother got the set as a Christmas present from their church. Meimei learns on her own from the library and from an man in the playground. She gets very good, and plays in many tournaments. She is just short of a grandmaster, and is getting slightly annoyed at her family for not meeting her requirements of how the live, and they keep on having to adjust to her needs. She finally has had it when her mom goes around and shows her off to other people. Meimei runs off and returns later, knowing that no matter how famous she is, she just like everyone else and needs to plan things out. I found this story very entertaining by the very Chinese point of view, and the moral that you always need to look ahead

The short story, The Rules of the Game is about a girl named Waverly that has a mom that judges her a lot and uses her to become more popular. One day she sees her brother playing chess and she wanted to learn how to play. After her brother teaches her how to play she starts to read books about the pieces and improves very fast. She got so good that people stoped playing her. After playing some people at the park, people started to watch her. Her mom starts to brag about her. Waverly gets angry and has a fight with her mom. I think the moral of the story is to stand up for yourself. I believe this because her mom is taking advantage of her and I think that she could stand up for herself.

Curtis Zhang

6/3/20

Rules of the Game

The short story “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan is a story that tells about a Chinese girl(Waverly) growing up in Chinatown and becoming a chess prodigy and trying to get away from her mom who she thinks doesn’t care about her, but actually does. Some things that I have noticed about this story is how her mom is trying to use her to bring their family honor, Waverly not noticing that her mom is actually caring about her, and the daughter trying to escape from living to please her mom.

Waverly shows how her mom is controlling her life as well when in the chess tournament her mom accidentally annoys her without knowing, but she cannot say anything “I was annoyed, but I couldn’t say anything.” The Narrator then shows why her mom wants to use her daughter when her mom went around the street telling everyone that her daughter was Waverly to try and get people to think highly of her. This shows that the mom is controlling her for honor and praise and Waverly dislikes that. Waverly even runs off when her mom shows her off and hides in the dark alleyways for a few hours.

Waverly either does not like the way her mom is presenting her care for her or does not realize that her mom actually cares for her, as her mom makes her brothers do all her chores and makes her study chess right after school. She shows that she dislikes her mom’s care when her mom is standing over her and making  “a soft “Hmmmmph” would escape from her nose,” and she tells her mom that she can’t concentrate when she does that and her mom does not appreciate that and makes loud noises in the kitchen, presumably because of her being annoyed at her daughter.

It also shows that the daughter wants to escape from the way that her mom is trying to control her, as shown when the daughter tries to escape by running away from her mom but ultimately failing. This is also made more apparent in the fact that at the end of the story Waverly declares her mom as her enemy and decides her next move against her mom. 

The story “Rules of the Game” is very interesting because it shows the struggles of a strained relationship between a mom and a daughter.