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Category
of our Cyberfair Entry
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Description of
"Our Community"
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Years ago,
Hongyeh used to be the habitation of Amis people. They scattered about
mountains near the police station. It was so named as “Gaoyao” for its numerous
Shanmao. Later, the native Amis moved far to the west wing of coastal mountain
(nowadays Hegang)
when the Typhoon arrived, the land flooded and plowland eroded away, in
addition to the harassment and invasion of Bunun. A small number of invaders
settled in the hillside along the Hongyeh River. Since 1993, Truku
began to settle in. They called the area “Itofukelenan”. However, as it’s
narrow in shape and umbrageous with flourish ample trees, the name was
translated as “Hongyeh”, only local Truku still call it “Ifunan.
Hongyeh Village
Truku was actually a clan of Sedeq Toroko. Most
of them firstly lived in Hutou Mt., a southern mountain at the left bank of Hongyeh River lying to the west of Ruisui Hot
Spring. They were named Hongyeh Tribe; Then a small branch of a tribe moved in Dijia Mt.near the nowadays Hongyeh Hot Spring. As the Dijia Mt.sits opposite to the habitation of Hongyeh Tribe, they were also called
“Sipao”; the subsequent colonies, Bunun of Mahowan, occupied the eastern edge
of Hongyeh Tribe habitation.
Hongyeh Community, a small
community in the utmost south of Wanrong Township(mountainous
township), is 3kilometers in the west off the Ruisui Expressway 9. The Hualien
County Government now marks it out as Ruisui New Hot Spring Area (Ruisui Township occupies an area of 500 acres while Wangrong Township Hongye Village takes up 360
acres). The entire Hongyeh Community is embraced in the area. As most hot springs are right
within the community, it has been agreed that the community should be developed
into a Hot spring leisure & sightseeing tourist attraction. Besides the
natural hot spring, the trait of native culture, including traditional songs,
dances, techniques and food, etc should also be preserved and displayed. The
villagers in the community have decided to hold activities aiming at preserving
ethnical culture, which can demonstrate the vitality of the community, on the
one hand and attract more tourists on the other hand. Through these activities,
the management of the community as well as villagers’ life is expected to be
improved.
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Aerial View of Hongye Tribe
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Symbolic Entrance of the
Hongye Tribe
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The
ten Great Mother come from different areas of the country including Taipei,
Taoyuan, Ilan, Jiayi, Kaohsiung,
Pingtung, Hualien. The great deeds of every mother could touch people to the
heart. Mrs. Mei-yuan Lin, trekked all the way moving from Taipei to Yungkang, then to Shipai, Sanchi,
Luchou, and at last settled in Hualie simply to ensure that her daughter could
receive ready treatment for her congenital brain development deficiency. Her
story resembles much of Mencius’s mother who moved their home three times from
bad neighbor in order to keep her son from their bad influence（Mencius
was a great thinker and educator in about 370 BC.）;There
is also Mrs. Chang-hong Li Yang, who patiently attends her disabled son as well
as her granddaughter with Cerebral palsy; to free her two kids with mental
retardation and dysaudia from their father’s abuse and violence and give them
good education, Mrs. Yu-yan Chou ventured to ask for the intervention of social
volunteers. She resorted to every help available in the society to procure the
rights of custody of two kids and fosters two kids independently later. A
vonWillebrand victim, Mrs. Chao-jin Wang, took the trouble of attending two
kids suffering from the same disease. Mrs. Mei-hua Hsu had once thought of
giving up the two kids with dysaudia, but now the two kids become superior
sportsman. With Mrs. Hui-ling Wu careful attendance, her kid who had been
diagnosed to have no more than three months to live by doctors due to development
efficiency of enteric canal nerve is seven years old this year. Another kid
with dysaudia, under years’ attentive care of her mother, Mrs. Chiou-ju Chen,
has grown up to be an accomplished college students studying in the sociology
department of Fujen CatholicUniversity.
In order to acquaint mothers with the symptoms of handicap kids, Mrs. Li-ching
Chen, organized an Ichthyosis Association. Mrs. Yu-ling Hsu founded the
southern chapter of Asperger Syndrome spreading their love to more handicap
kids.
These Great Mothers’ story, the
strength and courage as well as the tensile force and flexibility of life they
displayed in struggle with misfortune, baptized our soul. It spurs us to plan
this project to let all members discern the greatness of mother’s love and
through this, we intend also to give encouragement and consolation to those
suffering friends.
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Our Computer
and Internet Access
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There is only one computer
classroom available in our school. There are 27 computers. Though it is not
very big, it has all the necessary devices. Every computer has access to
internet. The LAN is connected to Hualien County Computer Center with a special
fiber optic line. The Hualien County Computer Center then has already
been linked with TANet. Besides computer classroom, all the other
administrative departments in Hongyeh Elementary School have
all got a computer with access to internet. The data search, compilation, and
record modification are all accomplished in the computer classroom. |
Problems We
Had To Overcome
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Technical
difficulties with computer
We haven’t learnt webpage design, to
say nothing of doing research with it. The teacher has told us the first that
that the work would be very tough. We need to prepare ourselves for it
mentally. During that period of time, we try to learn as much as we can from
our teachers. We learned to record our progress, register email address, surf
on the internet, search webpage, download materials and the most difficult, and
webpage design and art design.
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Difficulty
in obtaining materials
The five of us live in the tribes of Hongyeh Village while those Great Mothers
scatter around countries. Only Mrs. Mei-yuan Lin and Mrs. Hui-ling Wu live in
Hualien, the information of the other mothers can only be obtained through
telephone interview and written data. It is much more difficult than the
previous years’ projects. We have to find relevant pictures and data from
school library and internet as well as the library of National Hualien
University of Education.
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As
we are all in grade six and this is the second time for our five to participate
the project, teachers have to show more concern on our state of studying.
Fortunately, we have college students from Persian Cat Tutor Club of the
National Hualien University of Education to tutor us. Every one of them tutors
one of us on how to use E-mail and MSN Messenger, how to design webpage and
conduct interview. We all make great progress.
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No
pain, no gain. In our preparation for the contest with Mr. Lyu, Mr. Yu, and Ms.
Lyu, we notice that teachers experience more strain and hardship than us. They
make us know that one can not reap without sowing.
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Thanks to our good teamwork, every activity is a
success. Everyone is vital element, their performance can directly influence
the achievement of the whole team.
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We learned through this project a lot about how to
use compute and other digital devices like digital camera, DV and recording
pen.
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