Yani Ye's Blog

 Today, during my fifth period history class, we went to watch the Aztec dancers and drummers, a wonderful experience for my entire class. Once we arrived, we were kindly greeted with smoke essences and the colorful ambience of the Aztecs. We were then seated in a circle arrangement, having our class along with the other history classes in a large circle around the performers. One of the first things I noticed was the unique clothing that most of the performers were wearing. Some (mainly the drummers) wore basic, everyday clothing, while others wore traditional clothing, with feathers on their backs, shells on their ankles, intricate designs tattooed/on their bodies, etc. I thought the traditional clothes were very unique (I have never seen anything like that before), and was a good representation of the Aztecs and their lifestyle back in the day. We then heard multiple songs being played on the drums, and each one had a noticeable tempo/speed difference to it. Once in a while, dur...

 Reflective Paragraph (With first person pronouns/connections) After reading the article entitled, “Once, Ice Skates Weren't for Jumps and Twirls, They Were for Getting Around,” I have gained new insights and understandings about how ice & ice skating was utilized back in the day (with the exception of being a sport). According to the article, in the past, ice skates were used as a way of transportation and not just a sport or for fun. Personally, I find this extremely shocking, as I am an ice skater myself, and trying to imagine ice skates like a car is pretty difficult. However, I am glad that the people who lived then decided to use their natural weather & surroundings as an advantage, using their frozen lakes as a way to get around is much more environmental friendly. The article also mentions the differences & recent year changes with ice skates, and how much they have shifted to help skaters. Around the 12-15th century, ice skates were made out of animal bones, as...

  A daughter and a son. Yes, they are two entirely different beings, but still share many similarities when setting the gender aside (of course, differences still can be spotted and seen nevertheless). A daughter and son share parallels with a samurai and knight, though we make them out as two very different warriors, there are more similarities than people think. Around the late 400s CE, the Roman empire of Medieval Europe fell & left a weak, divided kingdom. Around the same time, the Japanese court was facing the rise of clans, and also found itself divided & in pieces. As an attempt to piece back their societies, both created a system known as feudalism. Feudalism consisted of a social class “pyramid” which divided people of different incomes and family backgrounds. In Japan, the warriors of their feudal class were the samurai, and in Europe, the knights. As time went on, the Japanese slowly started developing a feudal system inside of the samurai class. This consisted ...

 For my recent bimonthly  current event for my history class, we have been introduced to universal themes, a few common themes found in articles and books. In class, we are given the free choice to pick an article that sparks out interest and complete a Google slideshow pertaining  the article. For this slideshow, I chose my article to be about the history of chocolate, and chose the universal theme of adaption to write my paragraph. Adaptation always leads to change. According to the article, “In 1650, you could order as many different drinks in a chocolate house as you can order coffee drinks in a café now.” The Ancient Mayan people were the first to create a drink made of cacao, and the drink quickly spread to many other parts of the world. Once those countries adapted to the new drink & flavors, they were able to make their own changes & create new coca flavor variations based on their likings. The same thing can be said with the “eating chocolate” we see toda...

Humans have a huge impact on the environment, that is no doubt.  Day after day, humans are still making changes and influencing our environment in many ways, both positively and negatively.  The question of whether humans have more of a positive or negative impact has been up for debate for many years, and many more to come.  The answer, however, is simple.  Humans have more of a negative impact on the environment. There are many reasons why humans have such a negative impact on the environment. The most notable is pollution, specifically garbage/plastic.  According to, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Counts 1.8 Trillion Pieces of Trash , the garbage patch, located in the North Pacific Ocean, is over twice the size of Texas (with over 1.8 trillion pieces of trash!) and is still increasing in size.  All of the trash pollution piled up there is caused by humans, and how irresponsible we can be.  The ocean garbage patch is also definitely not the only pol...