Ellis Island was an island on the New York Harbor. It was used for and inspections place for immigrants. A lot of immigrants were kept at Ellis Island for about a day or two before they were inspected. Even though they were kept there for a while mos
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Today in class I learned that settlers moved to the Great Plains fro riches, a new start, and for cheap land to farm. If i was in one of the settler's situation I would probably move to the East.The government dealt with Native Americans by passing a
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Today in class I presented my power point. I learned that there was more then just gold to get the easterners to go west. One reason was because of culture and religion. Some people even traveled to the west because they would have been in trouble. I
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Today in CWI we listened to the song Party in the USA (: and lots of teachers got mad at Bruns haha. but it was still funny. We did more on our debate today. The first topic we talked about was gay marriage. I learned that Republicans think that we s
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For my Free Choice Blog I picked to do it on A typhoon that hit CABANATUAN CITY, Philippines. The typhoon set off landslides that so far killed 12 people at least. The latest deaths were a 8 and ten year old! Wow that would suck to die that young.The
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Rachel continued her slidshow today.-Restrictions on land-The midwest had Black feet Indians. She just had a picture up and it showed the different tribes the lived there.-Why settlers moved west- There was gold and they make "boom towns" were there
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Today in CWI, we continued our class debate. We began with immigration. Republicans think that we should have stricter laws for illegal immigration. They want to know the identity of everyone that comes over the border to protect from terrorists. Dem
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Today was the last day of the debate and we hit the topics of US Role in War in Iraq, US Role in Afghanistan, and US role in the United Nations. The Democrats views on the US role in the War in Iraq is that we should pull the troops out and move them
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Today Mr.Bruns talked about how we did on our tests. Almost 50% of students got A's, and 27% got F's. We are starting on presentations. The first presentation was by Rachel Schwery.--Chapter 5-1---Culture and Famile Life. If you poke a white person w
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In class we went over Death Penalty, Gay Marriage, and Prayer in School. The Democrats believe that they dont deserve to die, jail for life can be just as bad as death. Republicains believe in the death penalty. I Agree with the republicains on this
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Last Tuesday, Tammy Renee Silas, age 39, went into the home of Maria Gurrolla, age 30. She said that she was an immagration agent. After a little bit Gurrolla was attacked by Silas with a knife. Silas then took her 4 day old son and ran away. Gurroll
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Officials in Venezuela are on the track to banning all violent video games and toys. There is a major violence issue over there. They even stopped releasing the annual murder figures just because they didn't want to scare people. If you have to do th
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Just last Friday, 4 children were having an ordinary school-day in their town of Frankfurt, Germany. They were outside before school, just messing around, when they stumbled upon a brown envelope. Inside the envelope, they discovered approximately 15
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At age 14 in 2002 Elizibeth smarth was tooken from her home at knife point in june 2002. She was tooken to some woods not far from her home and had a marrige ceramony and was repeatedly raped by Brian Mitchell her abducter. Smart says that he often s
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The birth of the 20th century gave rise to a series of explorative, and revolutionary new forms of entertainment, knowledge, art, food, news, and recreation. Even though cities were quickly becoming sprawling metropolises of inovation, and industry,
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Today is Thursday, the first day of October. Holy crap! This year is flying by. Today we started our presentations about our assigned sections of our assigned chapters. Because we had shortened class periods, we only had time for Mikyla to do her pre
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To the Indians living on Great Plains (Plains Indians) the buffalo was one of their most precious resources. Most of these Indians were nomadic and followed the buffalo because of this reason. The Indians hunted the buffalo with many techniques. One
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Coney Island was the largest amusement area from about the 1800's until around World War ll. Back in those days around one million people visited the park each year. The amusement area contains small attraction areas with games such as skeeball and b
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