Well the good Iraqis want basic serves such as clean water and a steady supply of electricity. The United States has been helping with construction over there. This construction isn't done but is moving along. 60 percent of all projects aimed at impr
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A day before the invasion, there was an airstrike on the Iraqi Presidential Palace. The 2003 invasion of Iraq started on March 20, 2003. It was led by the US, and backed by British forces and other smaller forces. That first invasion phase lasted fro
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..Iraq has some goals that they would like to accomplish. One of the goals is to bring more Sunnis into the political process. Sunnis are the largest denomination in Islam. They think that by bringing Sunnis into the poitical process, Iraq will be a
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today in current world issues we got donuts..sha-boo-ya!!! lol we have a free day today to either study for tests, do assigned blogs, and practice our europe map.. i just studied my europe map the whole entire class. these donuts rock!! thanks bruns-
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Posted by 2courtneyb on October 18, 2009 at 2:45pm
The Gulf War was fought between Iraq and allies of Kuwait. It started on January 16th and lasted until February 28, 1991. Overall it lasted 44 days. There are many reasons why Iraq attacked Kuwait. One of them was that Iraq has never really accepted
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Today, we had donuts because the Dow closed at over 10,000! They were glazed and delicious! After I finished my donut, I got on my computer and waited for it to log me on. Bruns talked about stuff, and people started taking the test.When I got on the
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Posted by 2courtneyb on October 18, 2009 at 2:02pm
Today in CWI I studied for the oral test. I ended up just taking it to get it over with so I would not have to worry about it over the weekend. I did pretty well on my oral test. The Europe map test is coming up so I have been studying for that. I al
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Today in class I learned that in 1890 they started building skyscrapers .The flatiron is the first skyscraper in U.S. History and it is still standing today in New York. It made it so you didn't have as many buildings to take up more space. Electrics
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Today in class I learned that labor unions are when people aren't happy with their jobs and they so they join a union to try and change things. A lot of companies made it illegal and it you were going to join on they wouldn't hire you. They hurt big
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Today in class I learned that Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant. He grew up in a very poor family and over time invested in stocks and became very wealthy. His major industry was in steel. Carnegie Steel was the name of his steel. Many people
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The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was led by the U.S., our allies included Britain, Spain, Poland, Australia, and other countries.According to George W. Bush we invaded Iraq for three main reasons. The reasons include getting rid of their weapons of mass
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Today in class I learned that some towns were run by the railroad companies and they would give out money that they paid for in there own currency. There was too major companies. They both started in one spot and came together. A lot of people died f
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In the 1990's Iraq invaded Kuwait. Kuwait has a good oil supply and if Sudain Hussan got control of it we were in big trouble. The united states is Kuwaits allie well the other way around and we went over to help them. This all started on August 2 19
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This is my assigned blog topic of the week, I chose to do this out of a list of Iraq-involved topics.Why did we invade Iraq in the first place?The U.S. and Iraq had hard feelings for each other, dated back to the early 70's, but more specifically the
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Early BaseballBaseball was not a professional sport until 1845. Some people before that used it as a recreational activity though. An amateur player, Alexander J. Cartwright, Established a club in New York City that set up and introduced rules to an
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In the country of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was a very influential and powerful person. He and his actions are the main reasons that the United States went to war against Iraq. Saddam was born into a poor family in northern Iraq April 28, 1937. Only 6 mon
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Today April presented on Chapter 7 Section 1. The key questions are...Why did immigrants come to the US?I learned that people came to the U.S because of the promise of better life people came through the "Golden Door" to escape difficult conditions s
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(Signing of Treaty)On March 20, 2003 we, along with Britain, Australia, and Poland, invaded Iraq. Why, you ask? Because we wanted to quote, "disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), to end Saddam Hussein's support for terroris
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Today in class we got donuts because the Dow Jones hit 10,000! Then Mr. Bruns started to do oral tests over what we have learned over the last weeks or so. For most of the class period I studied for the test and looked up the Democrat and Republican
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