Napoleon Theme Park

How might a history-themed park help people learn and/or appreciate history?

A history theme park can help people learn and appreciate history.  I think this is true and it is a great idea.  Theme parks usually attract kids, but this theme park, I think it would attract adults as well because of the Napoleon idea.  When people visit this theme park, they usually take the theme park map for a guide around the park.  In this Napoleon theme park, each ride are named after a historical term or event during Napoleon's time so people will get an insight of the events during that time and eventually, they will remember some ride names/ event names by the time they leave the park.  I assume this there will be random tid-bits of information about Napoleon Bonaparte around the park so people could see, read, and benefit from.  

You could visit an article on this theme park  HERE

Courage Developing : Yes or No

Is courage something you are born with or something you can develop? You might wonder why some people are brave, out going, rowdy and why others just shy away from others, keep quiet and stay in their little corner.  The factor that determines these behaviors is your level of courage.  Some people are born in the environment where people encourage them to do different things, to try new things.  Kids born in these kind of environment will become naturally courageous as they get older.  Kids who are in the environment where people does only the basic stuff, never try new things will be scared to try new things therefore their level of courage will be low.  Now, if you know yourself and you classify yourself as a not so courageous person, you can develop it.  Courage is something you can develop regardless of age, gender or nationality.  If you have the heart to do it, you can.  There are many different ways to developing courage but the most important piece is to believe in yourself, be confident.  When you believe in yourself, you tend to think in the mindset that says "I can do it".  Just this simple idea can make a big chance.  If you practice courage on a daily basis, you would become stronger and stronger at it.  Some easy things that you could do on a daily basis are participating in class activities, asking a question when you dont understand, offering help and standing up for yourself or others when you know you need too.  You could try and challenge yourself by doing the things you have never done before like bungee jumping or surfing.  There are many ways to practice courage and develop them.  Why not start now? Remember, the key is to believe in yourself.

Caring Citizen, ESLR : Community Service

Last Friday, we went to Father Ray's daycare center.  We did 2 things there which were playing with the kids and helping them organize their storage room.  At first I was a bit scared to approach the kids,  some of them seem very fragile and some of them just seem to be very wild in general.  However I did approach one girl, she was the only one I could approach.  Her name is Praew, she does not talk much, she only nods her head so I didn't know much about her, but her personality was definitely very playful and optimistic.  After a while of playing with the kids, we went to organize the storage room.  It was very tiring for me because it was very dark, hot and humid in there.  There were some people who could read thai and some who could not, I happened to be one of them who could read thai so I helped with reading the labels and putting items in the right place.  Some labels have no items which fit them, some items have no labels that fit them so it was pretty frustrating for me.  I could relate this trip to being a caring citizen; in my opinion, helping them organize their storage room and playing with the kids fits the "CARING" trait.  I feel like doing charity or community work is devoting your time to a good purpose so it shouldn't be a burden or be a forced situation, it also shows that you care about the kids, you want them to be happy and the way you did that is devoting your time to play with them.  Arranging their storage room for them also shows that you care about the place, you want it to be an organized place, therefore it would make it easier to get supplies.  I don't do charity world on a regular basis but I think I should start doing them now, it felt suprizingly nice, most importantly, it shows that you are a caring citizen.

Patriots or Terrorists

Patriots or terrorists?  I honestly cannot answer that, it is up to your own point of view.  Im my point of view, i think BOTH, this is regarding the Boston Tea Party.  I know it sounds very vague but if you think of it properly, there are really 2 sides to the story.  With the Boston Tea Party, the colonists just want their freedom because the British have obviously been very unfair to them, but the colonists have also involved violence to the issue which make them seem more like terrorists.  But thinking in the British point of view, they are the Mother Country.    They have the rights to control their colony but they have been unfair.  I will be comparing the issue regarding the Boston Tea Party to the issue about Southern Thailand.  Basically the people of Southern Thailand, mostly around the Pattani area wanted to separate form Thailand and have their own country because Pattani used to be an independent state, and also there were problems with hard line movements.  They bombed people, they shot random people, basically killing innocent people.  The main purpose of doing this to create an unrest situation in that area, hoping that the government would use force against them to attract international community attention.  The government has sent troops to those areas for the purpose of law enforcement, this act has improved the situation a bit but on a larger scale, the situation is critical.  With this case, i would say they are more of terrorists than patriots.  Compared to the past world, the modern world has been more violent so i will say i the past, they are just patriots but now in the modern world, they are more of terrorists.