Today in class we started talking about World War 1. I learned that usually think discussion takes about a month, but this year it'll take us about five days. Maybe even or four (counting on snow days) :].World war 1 lasted from 1914 to 1918. The Uni
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i brought our project with me today, but unfortunatley, the zip drive thing didn't work. so we get another day to try again. (i was going to bring the whole computer but my mom wouldn't let me.)So then we did our fcb's. the topics were as follows; so
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Today, Bruns talked about the semester test and how people are doing it in pairs to save time. We then started watching more of Hotel Rwanda to finish off the shortened class period.
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Similar to our blog last week, on the conflicts in Rwanda and the tragedies of genocide there, we are asked to explore and summarize the war in Darfur. This topic, in contrast to the previous one, I actually have some general knowledge of. This knowl
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Today is Friday! I am really excited for tonight because I am going to go to a KISS concert! Today we finished up with Mr. Bruns's WW1 Powerpoint. I shudder to think about all of the time that he spent creating such a collosal powerpoint. The biggest
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The Hindenburg was a German passenger airship, referred to as a blimp. It was constructed in the mid 30’s and flew from March 1936 to May 1937. It ended its service when it crashed catastrophically in New Jersey on a transatlantic journey.The Hindenb
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There are a lot of horrible things going on in the world, but the one we're focusing on this week is the crisis in Darfur-Sudan. In 2003 two rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), joined fo
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Today we had a two hour late start so our classes were only about 30ish minutes long. We went over semester test schedules and whatnot, and we tried doing a bit of Mr. Bruns's WW1 powerpoint. Gas warefare was a brutal thing. I am really glad that it
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We kept going on watching Hotel rwanda. Its a pretty good movie but its pretty graphic for me. Im not a violent person and it is pretty violent. Im doing this on a sunday so i will tell you the main things that i remember from friday. It came across
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So, I think that we might get done with WWI today. I hope. Bruns started talking about the treaty of versailles and that was what ended the war. There were four countries that met, France, Italy, Enland and U.S. Woodrow Wilson was the person who repr
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Darfar, Sudan is the approximate size of Texas or France. Their crisis started sometime in February 2003. The US believes that this was a genocide, for the reason that the UN had estimated that over 200,000 people were killed. For this reason people
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Bruns just started talking about the semester test. I am going with ray ray from 12:30-12:45. Im pretty nervous for the semester blog because I havent started it yet. So I should probably get started on that. Bruns is also being very nice and waiting
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So today bruns continued to go over WWI. This war was mainly just to get land. Because of Woodrow Wilson, the U.S. declared that they were neutral to the war. It only lasted for three years.Why we went to war1) U.S. very upset with both sides in war.
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