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FiveComments ( the numberrs )
1. Dutch East India Company imports from India went up at a rate of 1.5 per annum during the 1660s.
2. British exports of Indian opium to China increased from 15 tons in 1720 to 75 tons in 1773.
3. In 1699, the Dutch imported 87 tons of Indian opium for distribution to Java and the Indies.
4. The Company refused to raise Bengal's opium exports beyond a quota of 4,000 chests per annum.
5. Demand drove the price per chest up from 415 rupees in 1799 to 2428 rupees 15 years laterr.

FourQuestions.
1. What is a "annum"?
2. Why did the price qo up so much is so many people wanted it ?
3. WHere did all the opium come from? The book did a bad job explianinq how people qot the opium.
4. In all this, when did people start seeinq the harmful effect of opium?

ThreeVocabulary
1. monopoly - exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices
2. ensnaring - to capture in, or involve as in, a snare
3. annum - (Latin) year

OneOverview
1. The numbers tell it all. Opium`s price value was rasinq, and as my book stated "very fast". (LOL).

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FiveComments*
1. When Christopher Columbus went to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand to ask them to pay for his trip, they asked him to bring back many things, includinq opium.
2. Columbus didn`t make it to India, but what he did find did make the King and Queen happy, alonq with other. he found tobacco in the Caribbean.
3. Tobacco opened the doors to a new way to take opium, by smokinq it.
4. Smokinq the druq made it more powerrful, and made people more easily addicted to it.
5. Because of Columbus` new discovery, amonq other reasons, the King and Queen paid for him to qo back, and look for more thinqs, also for Columbus can spread Christianity.

FourQuestions*
1. If Queen Isabella was so reliqious, why did she allow opium, a druq, in her country?
2. If opium was neverr discovered, how would have the Old World progressed ?
3. Since the book did not mention it, did Columbus take opium?
4. If opium mattered so much to the Kinq and Queen, why did Columbus focus on findinq qold form the Tienos?

ThreeVocabulary*
1. moderate ; kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense.
2. excessiveness ; immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits.
3. subtle ; So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive.

OneOverview*
1. One of the main reasons that Queen Isabella and Kinq Ferdinand qave Columbus permission to qo explorinq was to look for opium to use for Spian, but also to sell.

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FiveComment*
1. The book itself took a pause (or the author wanted to take a step back) and explained opium, the drug and what it is and stuff.
2. Opium come from a poppy flower that if delicious to the eyes and smell.
3. Opium is completely natural, there is no need to make it in a " labratroy ".
4. Opium lead the way to other, stronger and mroe dangerous drugs like Meth.
5. Opium is extremely addicting, but it gets more addicting as people improved it made made it into other drugs.

FourQuestions*
1. How does a drug give way to other drug?
2. What does opium do to your health?
3. I thought only " labratory " made drugs were illegal, but opium is natural?
4. If opium has done so much good (to the Romans) why is it illegal?

ThreeVocabulary*
1. Corresponding ; identical in all essentials or respects.
2. Curate ; a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
3. Amended ; To change for the better; improve.

OneOverview*
1. Opium has not destoryed the people that used like, like most drugs, instead it is natural and does not need anything else added to it, like the Romans took it, people is what made the drug illegal.

5-fer-3-tew-1 (#won)

FiveComments*
1. Opium was widely used all around the world at a time in history.
2. Alexander the Great used opium to make his army fight harder (because they could not feel their pain) while he expanded his empire.
3. In the Roman Empire there were actual public houses where people went and eat opium.
4. Opium comes from poppy flowers.
5. The only way to take opium back then was to eat it.

FourQuestions*
1. Why did they think opium was " a miracle plant "?
2. How did opium go from being worshiped to being illegal and hated?
3. How did they eat the opium? Did they eat it with something else like a food?
4. How did opium get outlawed?

Threevocabulary*
1. Addictive Drug ; A substance that cuases physiological dependence.
2. Illict Drug Use ; The use or sale of any substance that is illegal.
3. Addiction ; Aphysiological or psychological dependence on a drug.

OneOverview*
1. The Romans used opium to make thier army invincable, and that was the first RECORDED major use of opium.

TERM TEW ROAR BOOK =)

FOR TERM 2, I AM READING OPIUM : A HISTORY. AND IT'S BASICALLY ABOUT OPIUM, HOW PEOPLE FIRST STARTED USING IT, HOW IT BECOME ILLEGAL AND HOW IT MADE WAY TO SOME OF THE MOST DANGEROUS AND ILLEGAL DRUGS TODAY.

=) HAPPYy READiNqq

Amost A Woman

I forgot to say the name of my book in the beginning of my blog entries. I am reading Almost a Woman. It is by Esmeralda Santiago. It is a biography about her life while she first came to New York when she was 13. It retells her events when she first came to America, and how she learned to speak english and howshe became Americanized.

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5 Comments*

1. When Esmeralda meets Jaime, she likes him.

2. When Jaime learns that he promotes Puetro Rican culture in New Yrok, she acts more distrant towards him.

3. Esmeralda doesn't want to be involved with his political actions until she figures "helps herself".

4. Esmeralda thinks about he becoming more Americanized.

5. Jaime doesn't understand why Esmeralda doesn't want to hepl his polictal cuase.

4 Questions*

1. Why doesn Esmeralda feel seperated from all other Puetro Ricans?

2. Does Esmeralda feel like no one else has experinced what she has?

3. Will Jaime still try to convine her to jion his cuase?

4. Has Esmeralda ruined hers and Jaime freindship by not accepting his offer?

3 Vocabulary*

1. dominating ;

to rule over; govern; control.

2. exasperating ;

to irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely

3. concessions ;

Something, such as a point previously claimed in argument, that is later conceded.

2 Literary Terms*

1. Irony ;

I could be of no help to 'my' people until I helped myself" [p. 288]

2. Metaphor ;

"...and I dreaded the price" [p. 86].

1 Overview*

Esmeralda meets Jaime, and he tells her about his polictical action but Emeralda told him that she didn't want to take part in it because she still doesn't know abotu her own self.