Posted by 4Lindsey on November 25, 2009 at 10:00am
So, turns out drea brie and heather actually wont be persenting their overpopulation thing today because the file on their zip-drive was empty....so we just moved on to finishing up the free choice blog that was assigned. some topics discussed were s
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Posted by 3Madison on November 25, 2009 at 10:00am
Today Drea's thing didn't work so we went back to ging over the blogs that we did last week. Sarah blog was about finding two fingers and teeth in a vase, and they sold it. It would be horrible to find this in a vase, and they tested it, and found ou
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Yes!! I am so excited for Thanksgiving. I LOVE food. Christmas and Thanksgiving are the only times I get to see my whole family and have AWESOME food. So today in CWI we started by talking about what we are going to do when we come back. We had one p
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Today, in class, we got on the computers and did our blog discussions. Some were weird, like a couple getting kidnapped by a group of Somalian Pirates. They were British and were sailing around the world, and were capture 200 miles off the coast of S
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We were suppose to watch the last presentation but we couldnt becasue there was nothing on the flash drive:(. So we went over the rest of our current events. One story we hit hard was the sara palin thing where they were checking her facts and we saw
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Today, a group couldn't present due to technical difficulties. So people started talking about their current event web logs. Megan talked about how tourists were captured by Somalian pirates and how they have a ransom. The Amazing Jordan Gaul talked
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Trench warfare was a type of warfare that consists of multiple trenches that are deep enough to almost completely protected troops from small arms fire and partially from artillery attacks. They are thought of basically as a stalemate because there i
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Trench warfare started in the 17th century, the purpose was to protect the soilders. There was commonly three or four trenches dug out in a zig-zag pattern then they had wooden planks laid on the ground. The trenches were connected by smaller trenche
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A good chunk of it started basically like this, Mexicans were pissed off and dirt poor.. well sand poor in Mexico would be more suiting, anyway, Mexicans were mad because rich American businessman had shares in Mexican oil wells and basically anythin
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The Philippines were under Spainish rule before the U.S. took over. Cubans started protesting against the Spanish authority. By the end of 1897 about 300,000 Cubans were relocated to Spanish guarded concentration camps. In January 1898 a riot broke o
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Today we got right in to talking about chapter 10.Cuba we wanted Cuba because it looked like a place that could make money. It also looked good for a fort area. The Teller amendment was to block war with Spain for Cuba. Granted Cuban independents aft
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Today we started the chapter 10.Ch. 10Discuss how the US acquired Hawaii and Alaska.Discuss the causes of the Spanish-American War.-In the late 1920's. The causes for the Spanish war were the Am. property and investment in Cuba.-The concentration cam
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Today I was absent, but I got information from other people's blogs.What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?Muckrakers were people who tried to expose and get rid of companies that formed monopolies. Teddy Roosevelt got
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So today in CWI we started by discussing a few more free choice blogs, because the computers wern't working. I learned about these two people who were selling information to Cuba. The guy said that the USA had a whole bunch of flaws and that's why he
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