E-Waste: The Digital Dark Side KQED education network

• What happens to the electronic waste produced by the United States?
• - Its not really recycled and gets processed really little, and the rest is shipped to developing countries as china, and there its dumped, or gets really little proceced in back yards, taking out important parts then burned or dumped.
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• What happens to e-waste after it arrives in developing countries?
• - People take little parts out from the computers as metal in backyards or little store, and then the plastic parts are burned,or dumped.
• Why does so much e-waste get shipped to Asia?
• - Because recicles can sell them there and theres a market where they can sell the metal.
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• What are the negative effects of dumping e-waste?
• -Non  Protective equipment, they breath chemicals, gets in the water, so its bad.They can get many diseases
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• How do the toxins in e-waste return to the United States?
• -Lead in children's jewelry that gets back to the people in eeuu
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• What can concerned citizens do about e-waste?
• -1.-Look up in a map of where they can recycle nearby
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• 2.-Ask the companies to take back the products that they buy after the use it

LETTER

3. Write a letter to a friend in which you describe your recent meeting with someone whom you

disliked very much at first, but then came to understand and appreciate.

Dear Mark

                 Short time ago I meet a an old class mate in the street, I hadn’t seen this person a long time ago, as it is I hadn’t seen him sins we came out of school, as he wasn’t really my cup of tea.

This old class mate, was the typical geek guy, he always had a book in this pocket, he weard glasses, he had his pants over his waist, t shirt tucked in, never used to go out of his room, didn’t know any girls, he was somebody that wasn’t s the most popular person.

I knew him well because he once was very nasty to me, as I had leand him my home work for him to get some ideas to do his, but in the moment we gave it in we had the same one! And he invented that I had copied him and I got punished because of his fault. So sins then I don’t get along very well.

But some weeks ago there was a school reunion, were I saw lots of my old class mates, I had a great time, at first I saw someone that I didn’t recognize, but after asking who we was I learnt that it was my old class mate that had been nasty to me.

At first I didn’t  want to talk to him because I remember what had happened years ago, but he looked like a different person, and so I didn’t know him very well I gave it a try.

I started talking to him and he turned out to be a great person, he was now a doctor, a really good one, I learnt that people can change and this was the case, we have meet again a couple of times to have a talk and he is a really interesting person, and I am sorry I didn’t get to know him better before, because now I know that he committed a mistake and every mistake can be repaired.

So if you have someone you don’t really like, get to know him better, and you will probably realize you have lots of thing in common, as me whit my old class mate,

Regards

Matthew Faille 

 Dear diary,

Today in class they read a statement about how one should or shouldn't lean other culture that is not, your original and its different that which is your parents.

And I started thinking, and I am not one of those third culture child, I only have two, from my mother I have German culture, and from my father I have a Chilean culture, that’s only two, and in my School as it a German school it has the same culture as my mother so I don't have a third culture.

But for example, my best friend Balotelli, his mother is from South Africa, his father is from England, and he goes to the German school. That is a perfect example of a third culture child. 

In my opinion it is great to learn new cultures, and have more than 2 or 3, but always maintaining you original culture, and not forget about it.