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Thermos Project

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Reflection

It was a hard project to accomplish and even after it ended I still don’t know how to make a good thermo. I think we started good by researching how thermos work. We discover that the primary material of a thermo is a low thermal conductive material, so we did our research and choose for our thermos the one with the lowest conductivity. Latter we discover that we needed a high thermal conductive material too. So at the beginning we kinda knew how we were supposed to do things but they just didn’t work.

So i feel like a failure because even tho we did our research and kinda understood how it works I still couldn’t make the project a good one. In our desperation we even searched how people normally do thermos by themselves but even that was a failure, but it did gave us some ideas. I feel like this was a failure and that in the end I did not learn exactly how it works but at least I have an idea and with more time it could be successful.

It was a stressful project made is such a short time that resulted in an half failure but we were able to learn more through it.

Sustainability of farm salmon

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The fact that it can’t survive by itself and that its depended of other fishes takes away the sustainability for me. The fact that they are getting viruses because of the close space means that Its not a stable way for the salmon to live. We are compromising the salmon existence just to satisfy our desire of money and fish. 

There is no sustainability is farms, is just an easier and safer way to hunt fish because one already have it. Its seams that with the way we are going we will cause the extinction of this animal, not his long lasting survival.

How sustainable is BC’s Forestry Industry?

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Forest industry is not very sustainable. The forest even if is replanted it will not be the same. The trees obtain by this method would not be of the same quality and we are harvesting them faster then what they are planting them. Even if we are planting more trees, we are still taking more then what we are growing. A good tree takes years, too long for the same human that planted it to harvest it, so is not really a good choice. Right now we still have some good old trees but we are getting rid of them, and they will not grow back if we don’t give them some more years. This is not really a give and take situation because we are not giving the same we took. Is not sustainable because we will finish the old grow and they would not grow again.

On another thought the fact that this trees are planted in monoculture and by human hand made me think that they could not really survive without help, I mean they where not made by nature so they may not be strong enough for it. The fact that they are cultivated in monoculture means that is just one of them needs to fall for all of them to die. They are not well prepared for nature so they may not survive it.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: Irony

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Dramatic Irony

The kid thought that the concentration camp and the Jews on them were people in pajamas on a farm working, he did not know what his father and the nazis were doing. He become friends with a Jew without really knowing he was a Jew, not even his family knew he was friends with him; but when he discover that he was Jew and people start to tell him that they were bad, he still didn’t know why he has to hate them. In all the story the Germans think they are going to win pretty soon and are even doing plans for after they win the war, but we know that in reality the Germans lose the war. I think the biggest dramatic irony is that we know that the kid and the Jew were not going to take a shower, we knew that the kid was in a concentration camp whose only propose is to kill Jews, we know they were gonna get killed by gas, but they did not.

Situational Irony

I think we did not expect the Germans to not really know what they were doing to the Jews on the concentration camp, we take for granted that all of them wanted to do that to the Jews. The fact that the mother of an important general of the nazis army was against nazis was kind of ironic, one doesn’t expect that difference in opinion from the mother of a general. Even the fact that the wife starts to hate her husband after she knew what he was doing was not expected, one expects that the wife will back him up on everything he does and that she would have already know. One of the biggest acts we do not expect must be the relationship of the kid with the Jew kid, because is expected for all nazis families to hate Jews and to not form any kind of good relationship with them. Bringing the fact that the kid is son of a nazi general and not a Jew one would never have thought that he would get inside a concentration camp and that he he would die like a Jew, on a horrible way nazis only use because they thought as Jews as less then a human. The fact that the general of the nazis in charge of the concentration camp and the gas chamber gets his child killed by his one hand (or work, at the end he is in charge of them) is a really big irony.