sustainability fair notes.

-the old hawaiian people lived on ahupua'as
-an ahupua'a is a land system that provided the hawaiian people with all the resources they needed to survive
-they also used the kapu system which was a law system
-the kapu system included laws such as no overhunting, fishing and harvesting to keep balance to the ahupua'a
-the people had special relationships to the land
-they believed that the taro plant was their older sister
-they believed that they were only workers on the land, not owners
-by taking a shower you can save 40 liters of water
-a ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees
-the energy from recycling one aluminium can is enough energy to watch 3 hours of tv
-everyday each person throws out 4 pounds
-80% of all household waste can be recycled
-styrafoam stays in the ground for 500 years
-85% of golf carts run on electricity
-american swimming pools that are 7ft deep carry enough water to cover san francisco
-1/3 of all energy is used at home
-the amount of wood and paper thrown away is enough energy to heat 50,000,000 homes in 20 years
-it takes 4 months for paper to decompose
-it takes 25 years for a magazine to decompose
-it takes 40 years for a cigarette to decompose
-it takes 80 years for plastic bags to decompose
-it takes 120 years for a water bottle to decompose
-50 5th graders raised $90 for sumatran tigers by collecting 1,800 bottles and turning them into the recycling center
-the girl in charge was alayna kobayashi who gave the money to the honolu zoo at the zoological society
-with the money they collected, they are helping the zoo raise 3 sumatran tigers named djelita, berani, and chrissie

moderator: at the western palace.

Why did Moon Orchid let Brave Orchid boss her around so much?

Why did Moon Orchid get married if her and her husband were so different and didn`t truly love eachother?

How old are Brave Orchid`s children? They sound like grownups but she always talks to them and refers to them as if they were still children.

Why is Brave Orchid so harsh? Has anything bad ever happened to her in her past to make her want Moon Orchid to do such cruel things to her husband and his wife?

How does Brave Orchid`s husband tolerate her?

Are the "children" really as bad as she makes them seem? Are they just more modern-american then Brave Orchid is?

What made Moon Orchid so curious in everything the children did?

Why would she talk out loud to herself instead of thinking in her head?

Has she always been bossed around by her sister and lived Brave Orchid`s shadow?

Why was Moon Orchid`s daughter in America when she wasn`t?

Has Moon Orchid`s daughter not adapted to the american society?

Why is Moon Orchid so incapable of doing simple laundry work?

Why doesn`t Brave Orchid feel bad that she forced her sister to see her husband when he didn`t want her back and she then ended up in a mental hospital, or does she?

Does Brave Orchid always imagine scenes and how certain situations will go?

lost sister (old).

When we read the poem lost sister, to me one quote stood above all the rest. "you find you need china: your one fragile identification, a jade link handcuffed to your wrists. You remember your mother who walked for centuries-and like her you have left no foot print". this shows that the girl misses her home and since she left, she no longer has any ties to her old life in china no matter how much she may want it back. the last part that states "and like her, you have left no foot print" can also mean that since she left, everyone in china who used to know her, no longer remembers her and they all act like she never existed. This quote shows a lot of feeling, in the first part, "you find you need china; your one fragile identification" it shows that the girl doesn`t really know who she really is anymore since she left and she wants and needs to return to her home to find out. Since she left china, she no longer has her "one fragile identification" and she wants it. "a jade link handcuffed to your wrists" also gives off the impression that you can never truly escape china until you completely destroy the "jade link handcuffed to your wrists" and leave. This quote means that, like i said, the girl no longer has any ties to china and feels like a part of her is missing since she left.