Terrorism

About my views to the terrorism, I think that it is a very atrocious and terrifying actions that may changed a lot of things in the world.

If the insane terrorist have their plan successfully carry out, there will be enormous amount of innocent and pathetic people be killed. Also, the places that were their target, will be totally destroyed. The government would then have to fork out a tremendous amount of money to recover back the place. It then maybe will affect the country financial situation, causing a lot of problems in the country.

For me, currently I am not afraid of it as Mas Selamat has already been arrested back to jail. However, I must admit that he was a very smart and alert person. Although we as the citizens cannot do much about it, but what we can at least do, is to look out for suspicious people around and be alert to it.

English Summary

According to legend, an Ethiopian goathered discovered coffee. Coffee was a simple food and beverage for African tribesmen. Now, it became a popular worldwide drink, as one of the top value in trade. All exporting countries depend on coffee as the main income. Many people depend on it for their living and drink a lot. In 1975, a frost killed Brazil. It nearly damaged half of a country coffee trees and changed the prices. Frost happened again in 1979. Every tree lost of no income for three to five years. This is huge, considering 15 million trees lost. Brazil had to stop exporting coffee. Importers bought it in bulk afraid of the shortage. Coffee was in abundant and the prices fell. Prices increased and farmers began substituting coffee for other crops. Producers and consumers agree to limit production to what the market can absorb, have a reserve and sell at an agreeable price.


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Reflections on Growth Camp

Growth camp is a very unique camp practice by Chong Boon Secondary School. It also teaches us a lot of things including the school values. Before the camp, we were be informed that we will be group together with some of the Secondary 4. I felt so aggressive at that time when I was being informed. I thought that why could not we be with our own classmates. A lot of things also went into my mind. I thought that will it be better than last year camp, who our trainer will be and who will we be group with?

On the first day, we were told to be with our group and we went into our respective classrooms to meet our group members. At there, we introduced to one another to know each other more including the trainers. After that, we went to the hall for a briefing and had our lunch in the canteen after that. We went to the outside of the library for preparation of cheer in the campfire the next day. Next, we went back to the hall for a program of Profiling Workshop that we had to make use of a lot of straws to wrap up the egg and not let it break when it drop. We also had to do a flag painting that had to be used in Sentosa the next day. We went for tea break after that. We went back to the hall after that for a program of Leadership Styles that let us know what type of person we are and to the AVA Room for a program of Testimonies and Managing Studies Effectively that teaches us to set goals. We went to the parade square after that for a program of Leadership Styles and Outdoor Games. We went for dinner and follow by night walk, debrief after that.

The next day, we went to Sentosa for for Amazing Race which I think is a very interesting and meaningful activity as we had applied what we have learn the day before on it in order to win the game. It also had teaches us the importance of team spirit, determination and respect to the others throughout the whole activity. At night, we had campfire in the school field and there were a lot of performance and cheers by every team whereas some of them had sing song which go out of tune. The next day, we had a cheer competition. We also had our area cleaning follow by survey and reflections and prize presentation after that. We had also sang our school song and a talk given by Mr Wong before we were dismissed.

Throughout this marvelous camp, I felt that it was far, far more better as compared to last year. It was also a very meaningful and interesting camp. The group people were also not as terrible as I imagine and they were quite okay and friendly. This camp had also let know more of a lot of new friends and let me learn a lot of important and useful values. I think that this is a wonderful camp and I wish that there would be another camp next year.

Reflective Summary

After doing all these five journals on Tigers and Iguanas Conservation, I learnt that Tigers in India contains 60% of the world population as it was still legal for them to hunt tiger to export skins in the 1970s. It has been starting to decrease as there is huge amount of agriculture, industrialization which will affect the natural habitats, forests and natural grasslands, deforestation and some of the natural disasters such as volcanoes eruption.

For the Iguanas, I learnt all iguanas have strong jaws, long tails and strong legs with long, sharp claws, and the iguana family includes about 30 different species. They are now decreasing because their habitats are being destroyed for housing or farming, natural disasters such as hurricanes and being eaten by their predators such as snakes and many more.

My perspectives have changed during the course of my research because I used to think that they have been decreasing as they were being eaten up and deforestation but I never knew that there were so many reasons to cause them to decrease. I also never knew that the consequences would be that serious. I think that we should try and help to prevent these animals from decreasing as there won’t be any more chances for us to see these animals anymore if it really extinct.
There are actually two group called ‘Tiger Trust’ and ‘Iguana Specialist Group’ which aim to carry out projects to conserve Tigers and Iguanas. I think that I can help by joining or helping these organizations.

To prevent the Tigers and Iguanas from decreasing, we as human-beings can help by avoiding the actions of deforestation and many other more to minimize the damage deal to the forest.


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Reflective Journal 5

I learnt that actually, there are a few ways to solve the over-poaching which is the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt without the landowner's permission problem of the Tigers and Iguanas. In India, there is actually a person named called Kailash Sankhala, had actually set up a conservations called "Tigers Trust" to solve this problem which started in late 1989 which aims to raise aware nature conservation. He succeeded in helping rescue the species from the extinction. Under the Jawahar Lal Nehru fellowship, he conducted an extensive study during a time when tiger population was dwindling at an alarming rate due to poaching and hunting which led him to launch the Project Tiger.

For the Iguanas, I learnt that there is actually a group called ‘Iguana Specialist Group’ which was formerly the West Indian Iguana Specialist Group and aims to help to create and set up effective conservations for Iguanas. Through partnerships with government agencies, conservation organizations, and research institutions, this Iguana Specialist Group seeks to help design and implement immediate and effective conservation measures for this magnificent group of lizards.

My perspectives have changed after I had done my research because I used to think that we can help by spreading the messages to the people, educate other people and also stop the actions of abusing and neglecting the Tigers and Iguanas but I didn’t know that there were actually people setting up group to help to improve this situation.

I think that we can help by joining or helping these two conservations groups to help to improve the situation. I think that we can also donate money to these two groups so that they will have a better financial situation to continue or develop their project on conserving the Tigers and Iguanas these two projects are important which involve a lot of money.

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Taken from http://www.tigertrustindia.com/index.html
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Reflective Journal 4

After doing my research, I learnt the importance of Tigers and Iguanas. I learnt that if we do not conserve Tigers now, it may affect the food chain of the habitats and lead to decrease and increase of other animals. It will lead to other animals to decrease because there is one less prey to control the population of the predator as more or less, they will had to compete for food and it may also cause the other prey of Tigers population to increase because there is one less predator to kill and eat them up. This may even cause the over-growth of these animals.
The problem now is the obvious fall in their population. India, which had 40,000 tigers just one century ago, is now under expectations over tiger populations.
Some are saying that the numbers had been faulty while the other side is standing by their work. Despite this, many people believe that the argument over exact numbers barely changes how much protection the tigers need. The consistent and falls in tiger populations throughout India has been blamed on the government’s lack of force towards hunters. Tigers are killed for their claws, teeth, skulls, and furs which are worth for $12,500 in China. Many conservationists and wildlife experts say that little is done to protect the species and that poaching and urban expansion has brought about declining world populations of tigers.

For the Iguanas, I learnt that because of the loss of Iguanas, the ecosystems which is the population community they belong to, suffered a lot of serious problems as they are the main or important seed dispersers for many native plants.

I think that if we do not do any actions to prevent the Tigers and Iguanas from decreasing now, other than these two animals, it may also affect the other animal population to increase or decrease when these two animals become extinct. So, we should try what we can do now to help all these animals.


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Taken from http://soc202events.blogspot.com/2008/02/steep-tiger-population-decrease-in.html
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Reflective Journal 3

I learnt that the reason for why the tigers are decreasing is because of the huge amount of agriculture, industrialization, deforestation and some of the natural disasters such as volcanoes eruption which will affect forests and natural grasslands which will, more or less, destroy the tigers natural habitat because all these activities as mentioned above will destroy the forests and causes tigers to have no place to live in and will have less food to eat. When that happens, their population will decrease and affect the natural habitat.

For the Iguanas, one of the reasons for why are the iguanas decreasing is that it was cause by the human activities as we have to clear the forests to do build houses and do farming. Another one is that it was caused by the natural disasters such as hurricanes. These will causes the forest to be destroyed and the iguanas will have less places to live in and causes their natural habitat to be destoyed. Last but not least, it can also be caused by natural predators of Iguanas such as snakes and many more. They would always eat them up and hunt them for food to live on.

It was really shocking to me during the course of my research as before I do my research I thought that the reasons of why Tigers and Iguanas are decreasing is because of only deforestation and also eaten by their predators, but after I done my research I knew that there were also many other reasons which can be caused by natural disasters or human beings.
I think that they also have lives and they should have led a comfortable place to live in. Although we cannot solve this problem completely, we can also help by avoiding the actions of agriculture, industrialization and also deforestation as it does not affects the Tigers and Iguanas population, but also causes air pollution. This will make a better place for the human beings and also the Tigers and Iguanas.


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Taken from http://www.ardastra.com/iguanainfo.html