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Cuban Missile Crisis

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The Cuban Missile Crisis took place in October of 1962. It was the closest that anyone ever came to a all out nuclear war. Both the U.S. and Soviet Union were on there toes, both at a high state of readiness.

In 1962 America was behind in the arms rac

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The Great Society of Education

For my blog post this week I had to do the Great Society of Education. There were like four acts in place for education; Elementry and Secondary Education act, Higher Eduction act, National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, and Coroperation for

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Assigned Blog #16

Senator James Inhofe's Hot and Cold Media Spin Cycle:

According to Senator Inhofe, everything about global warming is just a huge hoax that was designed to scare people into thinking that climate change is a big problem. He says that the media will go

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friday april 23 2010

Jenna and Erin continued presenting today...their topic is the North African Front

  • The US did not get involved in the war until 1941
  • we went to war is because Britain needed help
  • We became involved with direct assistance in 1941
  • 1940, the war at of the A
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sunday night blog assignment. #16

Okayy, so I skimmed through these sixteen pages we were supposed to read. James Inhofe was talking about the little ice age, then the global warming, then the ice age, and then global warming again. He was putting down the movie, “An Inconvenient Tru

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Eisenhower's Background

Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas on October 14, 1890. Dwight was number three of seven. One of his siblings died as an infant. His parents moved their family to Abilene, Kansas right after Dwight was born, they raised their family ther

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Assigned Blog- Senator James Inhofe's Speech

Senator Inhofe's speech had a lot of good points to it in my view. When he talked about how the media kept flipping topics from an ice age to global warming, back to an ice age and another global warming it really caught my attention to how much the
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The Great Society-Education sunday 4/25/10

This week I have The Great-Society Education.thtwo main goals of the great society was to get rid of poverty and racial injustices.the biggest componet of the education part of the great society was the Elementrey and secondary education act of 1965,

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The 1964 Presidential Election

This week I choose to do my blog over the Presidential Election of 1964. The people that were running were Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater. Lyndon B. Johnson was the democratic candidate and had been President for less than one year. He was onl

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The Hot & Cold Media Spin Cylce

In Senator Inhofe's article it tells his view on Global Warming and talks about something he calls “the most media-hyped environmental issue of all time”. There has been different scares in the media about the world cooling or warming that started ba

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blog # 16

The great society was programs enacted on the United States. President Johnson wanted us to clean up our countries resources that have been poisoned. He said that we need to restore our cities that’s natural resources have been destroyed. In order to

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Friday, April 23, 2010

Today i should not be here right now, we were supposed to leave for drake two hours ago but Osborn is making us stay longer and longer for no reason! Sam and Alex presented theirs again.


Pacific Font

The battle of Midway may 1942. The Battle of Midway

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Thursday, April 22, 2010

We had an activity to do today that took most of the class period. Then Sam and Alex finished their presentation on the Pacific.

The major Allied generals were, U.S.-Chester Nimitz and Douglas MacArthur, GB-Archibald Wavell, Chen Cheng-China. The majo

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assigned blog 16; discrimination

"The Great Society" speech of 1964 was the start of a new beginning. For discrimination there was a lot to do though. You've heard of the schools, businesses, and many other sorts of discrimination. But the bigger picture was the whole country discri
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friday--4-23-10

Today Alex and Sam finished their presentation.

The battle of Iwo Jima-

The goal was to capture 2 airfields. The Americans won at the start. They captured Iwo Jima. There were a lot more deaths for Japan than the U.S.

Battle of Midway-

It was the most im

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thursday--4-22-10

Today we did like an ITED practice thing.

Then we continued the Pacific War presentation.

-U.S. Chester W. Nimitz and Douglas MacArthur

Great Britain Archibald Wavell and Louis Mountbatten

Japan Hideki Tojo and Kotohito Kan’in

The strategy’s for Japan was

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wednesday--4-21-10

Today I had to present. Im pretty nervous, cause I think its gonna be bad.

Well my topic was the African Front and our presentation took the whole class period.. so I dont know what to say.....

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tuesday--4-20-10

-Today Bruns says that he has to talk a lot today. He is assigning like two new projects today. They wont be due for a while, but he just wants to assign them incase we want to work ahead.

-My blog for this week is the Peace Corps. We are supposed to

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monday--4-19-10

We wont have anymore tests until the semester test!!

Then we got our blog topics for this week. My topic is the peace corps. Im supposed to talk about what it is, what it did, is it still around today, who or what it helped.

Then we started on presenta

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Interstate Highway system

The Interstate Highway system started on June 29, 1956(that’s my birthday :), when Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. It cost about 25 billion dollars for the construction. There were over 41,000 miles of highways put in

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