The first story started out by saying how courntries can fall apart. They used the saying it can happen after one event or it can eat you like cancer. Wich i think is very true becasue having countries in trouble is bad for the whole world. The artic
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Its started with Richare Ely. there was a station in Illinois. They had to create time zones. Everyone went by the sun so they created a schedual.There was a.lot of problems. The farmers having problems with the companies the gov would give them mone
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Continued the discussions from yesterday. Doing blog in class again. News flash- Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for seemingly no reason, but that he tried hard to strengthen bonds with other countries and stop nuclear weapons. So, basically, he got
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A failed state is where a countrys government is very frail or useless that it has almost no control over much of its territory. So basically they can't physically control their land, they can't provide public services, and they can't really interact
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The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, developed the heavier-than-air human flight. Wilbur was older than Orville by four years. Orville was a trouble-maker in school and was once expelled. They both went to high school but never received their dip
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A failed state would be described as a state with either no or a failing government. An anarchy would be an example of a failrd state. Yemen and Somalia are failing states. A failing state is normally created by conflict+government weakness(or lack o
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Today Chelsea continued to present on Chapter 5 Section 3. I learned that farmers were in debt because the machinery was expensive and that they had to borrow money from banks. Wheat prices were also low. I learned that another problem was that in sm
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Toda Ashley continued presenting on Chapter 5 Section 2. I learned that in 1889 there was a major land giveaway in present day Oklahoma. Within one day over 2 million acres were claimed. I also learned that Oklahoma is called the sooner state because
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Ahmadinejad for the longest time said they were enriching uranium for nuclear power plant. They were allowed to do that, and we did not stop them. We thought they were making bombs and hiding them. We recently found one, and they really have not been
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Today was blog discussion day. In 2003 United Nations had a food scandal, where they gave food to Iraq in change for oil. They were making a lot of money on this, and if we invaded it might mess it up. The definition for United Nations is a collectio
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During the mid to late 1800's, railroads made expansion possible and very easily in the U.S. This helped settlers that wanted to move Westword for many reasons. Most of the expansion was that farmers wanted to accuire goo, cheap land. Some wanted to
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Today in class was a free day. I started to research what a failed state is. In 2009 their are twenty states that have been said to be failed states. The top three are Somalia, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. A state becomes a failed state by failing to withsta
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Posted by 4Danielle on October 10, 2009 at 10:30pm
There's two companies, union pasific and central pasific. Union hired Irish immigrants, and is the biggest and oldeset railroad. They hired very few immigrants.Central Pasific; it started in June,28 1864 and hired thousands of chinese, they would lay
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Posted by 2courtneyb on October 10, 2009 at 8:17pm
Today in CWI we went over the Europe map. Mr. Bruns said that we need to start working on this on our own. Next we watched a video on Obama winning the Nobel Peace prize. He got it because of what he stands for. Teddy Roosevelt and Widrow Wilson were
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Thomas Alva Edison developed the very firsdt research labratory in 1876 in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was there that he first invented the first light bulb. His invention was patened in 1880, and soon after he started to come up with ways for electri
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This week, the assigned blog was to pick a topic from a different chapter that you weren't assigned, and discuss it, expand on it. I chose to do chapter 7, section 2, and I chose to talk about Jane Addams.Quoted form the book, "Settlement houses in t
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Ida B. WellsChapter 8 section 3Segregation and DiscriminationIda B. Wells was born in 1862. Both of Ida's parents were slaves who were freed at the end of the Civil War. When Ida was sixteen, both of her parents a
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Today Bruns went over chapter one which DJ was supposed to do but of course didnt do.The invention of the light bulb came which meant that you could work later into the night.Next the type writer was invented. people no longer had to write everything
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