Today in CWI we went over the Europe map yet again. This worries me immensely, thinking about the massiveness of the map. Slowly though, I'm starting to pick it up...hopefully I won't utterly bomb the test.We also continued to discuss our Iran blogs
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Posted by 2courtneyb on October 12, 2009 at 4:08pm
Today in CWI we went over a little bit of the Europe map.Then we talked about our news share topics. Dru went first and hers was about Calls for cooperation mix with raw rhetoric in U.N. speeches. I went next and it was about Nearly 1 in 4 people are
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We did blog discussions today and didn't get to Nick to present. Mr. Bruns said that we didn't need to take notes about the blog disscussions since they should be in the projects anyways so I didn't take notes and I can't remember exact stories. At t
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Today we are having discussions,. and later we will continue with our presentations.Jes- Ida B. Wells- parents slaves:forced to move her seat for white man in train cartZach- Amusement Parks-created for recreational needs(beauty)Sarah-Wright Brother-
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Today we did our blog talks and i learned about the background of the wright brothers and Jane Adams how she won the nobel peace prize.Then i learned about George Kuster. He died in a battle against indians and was born on december 5th 1839.And i did
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Today is blog discussion day.The working conditions were very bad in the late 1800s. People and children worked as long as 16-hour days, and they worked in places such as textile factories (clothing).Ida B. Wells spoke out about racism. Her parents w
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Today Mr. Bruns was actually here. Unfortunately, the Cowboys won this weekend so Bruns is all excited. Pshh. Anyways we takled about our blogs for this weekend. Our blog topics were to pic a section outside of our previous chapter and research and d
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Settlers began moving west in the year of 1620 until 1870 when Jamestown was founded. The settlers goal was to turn 400 millions acres of forests and prairies into land that was capable of being farmed. After finishing the first 400 acres of land, th
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Today is Monday, and is my sister's birthday. She's 24. :)Josh did 6.2, the same as me, and the railroads created time zones and caused problems for the farmers. Railroad companies gave away unused land to seperate companies instead of giving the lan
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Today we had blog discussion...Railroads- built the time zones so goods could arrive on time, farmers and railroad people butted heads because of controversy against the land.Entertainment- started seeing this around the late 1800's because people we
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today, we talked about what we were suppose to have done over the previuos week, which was over a chapter other then our own. all of which covered stuff we alreadfy talked about.then we did a presentaion, which was over expansion of industry, oil bec
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The railroads were controling towns. They had control over small towns and had very many fight with farmers. They were not liked and gave away land like it was there jobs. The farmers were helped out with acts passed by goverment but later were takin
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In Mr Bruns class we went over the different newshares.What I learned in the Newshare Stories:iran tested Launched two different missoles and the community is not to trilled with the test and the weapons.9.8 of the US has lose there jobs.
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..first we looked at the Europe map. i got in trouble for not paying attention. ill pay more attention tomorrow. i dont know any of them. maybe i should study or something...next we went over our news share. court talked about how there are one in fo
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Today in Mr Bruns class we went over the Eurpoe map.Islands i learned -- Balearic, Calsica, Sardinic, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus.Noble peace prize was awarded to President Obama.Yesterdays topics--irqu and iran -- iran had been supplying our enemys in irqRead more…
Today in class we went over are newsshare. My topic was job market getting worse. Luke's was a watch dog on Iran's Nuclear sites. Haley's topic was holding a meeting about Iran's nuclear weapons.Next we will stay in Afghanistan till we feel terrorist
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Today we did blog discussions. John D Rockefeller who built Rockefeller Center, and who in the 1800s had the biggest oil company in the world and his company was producing thr most oil. John Deere created the first steel plow which helped farmers aro
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Today was blog disscussion day:Striking; people striked to get better things.Age of railroads; the union and pacific hired union many immigrants.Sanfrinsisco earthquake; around 3,000 people died. Many lost homes.John Rockfeller; first job as bookeepe
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Rachel talked about the railroad strike. They were striking because of their wage cut. The senator sent out malitia to try to end the strike, but it wasn't really working.Danielle did her blog on the age of railroads. The Union hired a few irish immi
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