An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. While generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists.
The first human in space was Russian Yuri Gagarin, who was launched into space on April 12, 1961 aboard Vostok 1. The first woman was Russian Valentina Tereshkova, launched into space in June 1963 aboard Vostok 6.Alan Shepard became the first American and second person in space on May 5, 1961, while the first American woman in space was Sally Ride, during Spac Shuttle Challenger's mission STS-7, on June 18, 1983. The youngest person to fly in space is Russian Gherman Titov, who was 25 years old when he flew Vostok 2. (Titov was also the first person to suffer space sickness). The oldest person who has flown in space is John Glenn, who was 77 when he flew on STS-95. The longest stay in space was 438 days, by Russian Valeri Polyakov.As of 2006, the most spaceflights by an individual astronaut is seven, a record held by both Jerry L. Ross and Franklin Chang-Diaz. The furthest distance from Earth an astronaut has traveled was 401,056 km, during the Apollo 13 emergency. Now our country also has sent our first astronaut Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar B. Dato’ Sheikh Mustapha Shukor to ISS by Soyuz through Russia.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Newspapers
A lot of people read newspapers when they are travelling to and from work. It's good to have some thing to read on the train or the bus, and newspapers are easy to carry around with you. Newspapers don't just tell the news, they also contain a lot of other interesting information, such as films and music reviews, and gossip about famous people.
At the weekend, the papers have lots of different sections, for example about new ways to decorate your house, ideas for holidays, or new recipes. Many people like to read the papers while they are having breakfast in the morning.
For many people, especially young people, their main source of news now the Internet. They can read about the latest news online as soon as it happens. They can also visit their favourite websites to look for other stories that might interest them. If they want they can also get the news from the television or the radio. In many ways it is surprising that newspapers are still so popular.
Nobody knows what will happen to newspapers in the future, but for the moment they are very much still part of our lives.
At the weekend, the papers have lots of different sections, for example about new ways to decorate your house, ideas for holidays, or new recipes. Many people like to read the papers while they are having breakfast in the morning.
For many people, especially young people, their main source of news now the Internet. They can read about the latest news online as soon as it happens. They can also visit their favourite websites to look for other stories that might interest them. If they want they can also get the news from the television or the radio. In many ways it is surprising that newspapers are still so popular.
Nobody knows what will happen to newspapers in the future, but for the moment they are very much still part of our lives.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Mind mapping
Mind mapping is one of the most important thing in learning.....It is about 75% of students identify themselves as visual learner....So visual mapping or mind mapping is an excellent learning tool...Mind mapping is mapping the chapter as we preview it provides a visual guide to how different chapter ideas fit together...While we are previewing,we use either branching or a wheel structure...In the wheel structure,we place the central ideas at the center in the circle and the central ideas can be the title or introduction to the chapter...The other ideas are place on the spokes emanating from the circle...In the branching map,the main idea goes at the top and followed by following ideas on the second tier and so on...For a better mind mapping we can use different colour of pen while making the mind mapping...
I Have a Dream
I have a dream......Everybody must have their own dream...My dream since i am still a little girl is to be a great teacher to my student....For the first time in my life when my English teacher in primary school asked me what i want to be when i finish my study and f course i said i want to be a teacher.......Actually i don't know why i want to be teacher...But there are some good feeling when i taught other person like my friends and the most valuable feelings is when they understood what i taught them.....Otherwise,I also want to share with others about my knowledge and i think to be a teacher is a right decision if i want to do this.....I also can always improve my knowledge and learn something new if i am a teacher.....
The Greenhouse Effect
Nowadays there are many environmental problems and many of us believed that the way we live our lives today was bring a lot of damaged to our environment such as greenhouse effect...The greenhouse effect is the gradual warming of the Earth caused by pollutions that stops heat from leaving the Earth's atmosphere like pollution from cars,factories and power stations...They are causing harmful greenhouse gases to build up in the Earth's atmosphere ...These gases prevent heat from escaping and as a result our planet is getting warmer...This process is known as Global Warming..Global warming is causing the ice at the North and South Poles to melt and sea levels and sea temperatures to rise...It is leading to serious violent storms and flooding in many parts of the world....In other places ,there will be less rain and become drought....
FILMS
Films is a series of moving pictures recorded with sound that tells a story shown on television or at cinema or movie theater...There are a lot of types of films like comedy,romantic comedy,thriller,action films,war films and others....Everybody must have their own favourited films...My favourited films was English films like The Bourne Identity,Rush Hour 1,2 and 3,Harry potter,The Jackal and others....But the most favourited films is The Bourne Identity...The Bourne Identity is a thriller film that story about Jason,the young man who was lost his memory when was saved by a group of fisherman in the middle f the ocean....Although he has lost his memory,but he has the ability in martial arts and all of this made him more curious about himself...His mission is to find out his identity back but it is not easy to him because he had to face many difficulties...I prefer English films because of the storyline...They have many films that have good and interesting storyline...Besides,the quality of the films also good and they have many talented actor and actress....
Pressure
Pressure??What is mean by pressure?Pressure is difficulties and feelings of anxiety that are caused by the problems in life...Everybody will be under pressure if faced with the problems...When we are under pressure,our body undergoes rapid physiological,behavioral and emotional changes..Our rate of breathing may become more rapid and shallow..We also may experience in changing our ability to think such as confusion,trouble in concentrating and hard to remember thing...Otherwise,our emotions will not stable like always feel scare,anxiety,depress and anger...We also may have insomnia or wake up to early and not be able to go back to sleep.....But there are ways to manage pressure like e in good shape physically and mentally...When our body and mind are healthy it will help ourself against pressure...This means that we need to pay attention to diet,exercise,sleep and mental health....With all of this we can avoid ourselves from pressure.....
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