Letter to GREAT MAMA

5 MUMMIES WALKING ON THE STREET :D

I took this picture so you guys can't really see me

Ivy's great moment

They were all look gorgeous, but who is missing???...

Here I was!!!! Tada, but played as Justine's horse

EW!! can't understand why my friends took this picture

YAY! I advertised for Yomost comp =)). JK, I was swimming at my cousin's house

My cousin took my glasses!!! Give it back to me gurl

Welll ya see?? I did have a great weekend :D, hope I got an A+ for the 'play outside' homework assignment :)

Mangareva, Pitcairn, and Henderson Islands

There are 2 main problems that Mangareva, Pitcairn, and Henderson islands had, they were:

• Civil War
• Unsustainable Development

Instead of having hereditary chiefs, which meant they would fight each other to get the position, Moreover, because the didn't use the resources wisely and unsustainably therefore people fought for food because foods are human basic needs. They overused and overgraded the lands for farming and deforestation, erosion are the consequences.
There are solutions they should have done to avoid those situations, there were:

• The first chief who ruled the island should have annouced that only his descendants could continue his career, no one else. If the rule was set up like that, it will create a more stable structure of society in the island.
• Instead of overused lands to farm, they should have taken the advantages of seafoods and use that as their main food. Or they should change to be vegetarians and then they wouldn't need to graze livestocks anymore and slow down the process of deforestation.

2nd 'Movember' 2010 Homework - Answer the questions on blog.

How does advertising influence consumption?

Everyday people turn on their TVs, go outside, surf the internet… they might see about 50 ads (that’s the number of ads I have counted so farJ). That tells you there are many companies; organizations… want to attract people to buy their products. Once they want their products to have high attentions and people to buy it, they would never show the bad side or negative side of their products. That’s why we always see and confused which choice should we make when we want to buy something because all the products seem to be perfect. When we see all the good sides, who is going to tell us about the bad sides? Because of the perfect masks like that, people would want to own those perfect products and obviously increase their consumption.

Do you think citizens are sufficiently informed about the sustainability of our consumption habits? If not, how can we become more informed about sustainability issues?

Habits are something that you don’t usually pay much attention of and do it as your routine. While we follow the habits, we don’t think lots about sustainability, about our next generations; we just don’t think that deep. To get people interested in thinking about sustainability, the government could tell us under advertisements, organizations, and social activities in order to send the messages about sustainability. If the advertisement of product we see everyday could attract people to buy the product by showing the good sides of it, why can’t the government get people’s attraction by showing the good sides of thinking about sustainability?

Do you think these advertising techniques influence what you and your friends purchase?

I think my friends do because advertisements have many ‘tricks’. To get people’s interest in their products, some of them use techniques such as celebrities, models… Because people all want to look good, be famous as celebrities and models so getting famous people to involve the ads could make people who admire that famous people to buy stuff that their idols use. For me, the reason why I don’t think it influence to me because I think kinda deeper. What I meant was companies that make contracts with famous people to involve in their advertisements are just actually business work (both sides earn money). Therefore introducing products through famous people’s statuses is just actually the famous people accomplishing their jobs.