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Open Door Policy and Boxer Rebellion

During the 19th Century China was forced to sit back and watch as foreign powers invaded their land. These powers created so called spheres of influence in which countries would control and sometimes claim land in China. Emperors of China were nearly
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Open Door Policy and Boxer Rebellion

During the 19th Century China was forced to sit back and watch as foreign powers invaded their land. These powers created so called spheres of influence in which countries would control and sometimes claim land in China. Emperors of China were nearly
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Foreign Policies in the 1800's and 1900's

Many foreign policies came to be in the 1800’s and 1900’s, including the Monroe Doctrine, the Roosevelt Corollary, Big Stick Diplomacy, the Dollar Diplomacy, and Wilson’s Missionary Diplomacy. These changed many things in the world and are very impor
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Monday, November 9

Today, the first thing we did was go over the Asia maps. Next, Bruns showed us a powerpoint made by some guy over the flat world. It was really eye opening. Technology is improving very very rapidly and it's like kinda scary. By 2013, there is predic
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Dog Found in Afghanistan

This week, I'm doing my story on a happy story. After 14 months, Sabi the black lab gets to return home after her extended stay in Afghanistan. She is a bomb-sniffing dog from Australia, but had been lost in a battle between Australian soldiers and m
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Thursday 11-12-09

Today we continued to present, we started with Better Wages.What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?I learned wages before the Progressive Era were very bad and low. Usually companies would hire children because they would wo
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Friday, November 13th

Today in class Mr. Bruns went over some things that people may have missed in their blogs. I learned that the progressive era brought a lot of change to our country. One of the four major goals of the progressive era were protecting social welfare. T
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Thursday, November 12th

Today in class we went over blog assignments. I learned that socialism is when the government runs a business to make it easier for everyone. Carl Marks invented this theory. The socialists despised capitalist because it benefited the riches. In the
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Wednesday, November 11th

Today in class we went over our blog projects again. I learned that there were many problems with mean prior to the progressives era. They didn't have labels telling how old the meat was and people started to get sick and die. So they made laws again
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Tuesday, November 10th

Today in class we discussed our assigned blog topics. Things I learned today are that prohibition came about was because of all the public drunkenness. The women were the biggest ones to push prohibition. Some of the methods used were that Carrie Nat
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assigned blog-free choice-h1n1 deaths

From My free choice blog i choose to do it on the amount of deaths that are caused and have been caused by the H1N1. The CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stated that the numbers of deaths caused by the H1N1 were 4 times the estimated
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Free Choice

Fort Hood has been the biggest terrorist attack since 9/11 when Al Qaeda attacked the twin towers. Major Nidal Malik Hasan was a thirty nine year old licensed army psychiatrist. On November 5 at 1:20 P.M. he went to where soldiers were getting medica
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November 13, 2009

So today in CWI Mr. Bruns had a list on the board. It was as follows.1. Assigned blog2. Study for test3. Work on Project4. Daily blogThose are the four things we have that we can do today. I have already taken my test and I got 100% on it so that was
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November 11, 2009

So today we only had half of our class because they were all at the Veterans Day parade. So after we figured that out he reminded us that the Asian map test is tomorrow. The only area that I am worried about is the former soviet republic map. It just
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Blog Summarization for Friday

Today in class my group started to put our power point together. Then I started to put the information I had on to it. I researched the rest of the class period on laws that try to clean up pollution.The Clean Air Act which is mainly to prevent and c
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Blog Summarization for Thursday

Today in class I took the Asia test. I thought it was pretty easy, I only missed one because of pronunciation. Then for the rest of the period I researched my topic, pollution. I learned that pollution can be in 3 different states, solid liquid or ga
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