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Torture in the U.S.!?

There are six "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques". Only a handful of CIA interrogators are trained and authorized to use the techniques:1. The Attention Grab: The interrogator forcefully grabs the shirt front of the prisoner and shakes him.2. Attenti
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More uses for tongues?

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Is there technology that your tongue can control? If you’re blind or immobile there’s new technology on the horizon that may improve your life. The tongue has a lot of nerves and isn’t connected to the spinal cord like other muscles. However it’s ver
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Monday 7

Watched football vid today. Nothing else just boring old labor day.
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MLK assassination

On March 29, 1968, Martin Luthur King went to Memphis Tennesee in spite of supporting sanitary black wprkers for better wages. King, was booked at the Lorraine Hotel in room 306. That night, King was shot in his Right cheek, thwen the bullet travelin
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JFK Movie

I choose to watch the JFK movie for this blog and I must say that I didn't really learn anything from it. I thought the movie was random and hard to follow. The beginging was very confusing because it started with when he was elected and it showed cl
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August 31 - September 4 & 7

August 31We discussed our free choice blogs. There are some crazy & sick people out there. Like the spilled milk murder or the person who kept the 11 year old girl for 18 years. Thats pretty crazy. Its really amazing that Stolkholm's Syndrone, a pers
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Backlash Buildup on School Speech

This is my free choice blog. The topic is Obama's upcoming school speech, which is to be broadcasted live from a Virginia school nation-wide to schools. Supposedly, the speech is to say to kids that should stay in school, and that just because you ar
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9-4-09

In class on friday we got back into our groups and worked with our partners to get some of our project done about JFK. While we were working on our projects we found out that some people said that the clip of when JFK was shot was fake, so i'm kinda'
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9/04/09

Tests are still going and the rest of us worked on our projects. I've been assigned to research how the vice president became president after JFK was assassined, the zupruder film, and the motorcade route of the time when john f. kennedy was shot.
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9/7/09 The Assassination of Julius Caesar

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Julius Caesar was a Roman political and military figure in the 1st century B.C. Julius was a successful military leader and he was the one that started a civil war in the Rome. Following this, he was named dictator of Rome. However, some senators in
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9/03/09

Today people tested again and i went and i didnt do very good because i didnt study because i totally forgot about it. Next time i'm going to try really hard to do better. I learn from my mistakes i guess you'd say.Mr. Bruns came and talked to my gro
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9/02/09

Today we started oral testing over the stuff we learned in eighth grade. We went alphabetical order after some people volunteered to go first.When the other people were testing we studied and worked on our projects. My group and I decided what everyo
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9/01/09

Today we talked about our blog topics from last week. I learned a little bit about the history of gum. We watched the photos and film of John F. Kennedy getting shot. It's pretty traumatizing.
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9/7/09. [president McKinley's assassination]

President William McKinley our 25th president was killed September 6, 1901. The morning of McKinley had been visiting Niagara Falls with his wife Ida. Later that day McKinley returned to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He was planni
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Giant Rats

In Paupa, New Guinea, A new rat species was found. It is about the size of a cat, one of the worlds largest rats. It is said that the new rat found, has the same strands of dna as the one found in homes, sewers, and the wilderness across the world. I
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