Continued to share newsshare topics. Started with Heather, went on down the line alphebetically. Topics so far have been about a new human species causes controversy; the unemployment rate going up; the Dow Jones going up; top richest Americans; eart
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Today, we talked about the NewsShare stories that we were assigned to. We touched base with the flooding down in Georgia, the richest people, and all that. I talked about the Dow Jones. It is the average of the 30 largest, publicly owned companies.We
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Today, in class, we (for the final time) went over the western portion of the European Map. Tomorrow, the slightly more difficult Northeastern bunch. Subsequent to this, we went over the NewsShare topics we were supposed to summarize. Mine was about
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So today we started by talking about our current events from last week. Heather talked about the Georgia flooding she said that people are dieing because they aren't leaving. Mr. Bruns said that it's probably the people in poverty because they can't
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We continued our current event discussion. Heather did the floods in Georgia. Sarah did hers on the resent discovery of a fossil of a human, It looks like a gorilla. Stacy did hers on the earthquake that hit a different country. Many thousand people
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Well, I got a haircut friday and everybody was spazing out. So it was amusing and annoying at the same time.We are getting dangerously close to donuts in class.William Gates the third is the second richest person in the world. Bill Gates is the riche
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We started by talking about the current events and the first story we talked about today was the flood in georgia. In the story they were talking about the people that didnt leave when the flood warning was issued and they ended up dieing. The next s
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Today in CWI we continued to share our current issue stories that we had to read last week. I read the article about the various flooding in Georgia (the state, not the country).Basically, the main reason people have died, is ignorance or stupidity.
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When railroads were finished, the way of transportation changed dramatically. Expansion became possible and easier for businesses and families. By the year of 1856, railroads reached the Mississippi River. Three years later, they cross the Missouri R
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When a country is no longer able to perform the duties necessary to maintain an independent government it is known as a failed state. Funds for Peace came up with four different elements to characterize a failed state. They include:• Loss of physical
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Today in class we learned that Obama won the Noble Peace Prize. Well, what has Obama done that makes him so worthy of an award? Do they give out Medal of Honor for trying to do something heroic? Do they give out the Medal of Honor for someone who is
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Dictionary definition of a "failed state": a state percieved as having failed at basic responsibilities of a government. Student friendly definition: a government wherein upon the participants fail to realize the bigger picture, or the smaller detail
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Posted by 3BrandonJames on October 11, 2009 at 10:35pm
Today we learned about racial discrimination and how long it has been around. America has always seemed to favor the white people and I think they still do.
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Failed state is the assigned blog topic for the week. Failed State means that a state has failed at some of the basic conditions and responsibilties. Fund of Peace is mostly used to characterize a failed state. Here are some examples lost physical co
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Posted by 3BrandonJames on October 11, 2009 at 10:32pm
Today Tara presented on the culinization of America. We learned abotu how we were racist toward asians and made them go to angel island rather then the normal ellis island like most other immagrants.
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For this week's assigned blog, we were not only asked to read and review two articles, but to also define the term 'failed state'; not only in the most technical of terms, but also the "student friendly" definition. Therefore upon researching, I foun
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Angel Island was on the west coast in the San Francisco Bay. Asians, mainly Chinese, came to Angel Island. Between 1910 and 1940 about 175,000 Asians immigrated to the U.S. The Asians had it way harder then the Europeans because we wanted to make sur
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