Today we learned about the Articles of Confederation, Constitution, and the Washington Presidency.The Articles of Confederation are laws set to make things go the way planned. The Comstitution had twenty seven ammendments and the first tenm ammendmen
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The upside-down Y with a line through the center inside a circle was one of the most popular symbols of the sixties. It meant peace. It also showed the wearer was against the Vietnam War. Many who used the symbol were part of the sixties youth cultur
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(fcb-free choice blog)Everyone has realized that America is having quite the financial crisis. If you haven't you must live under a rock. But how many of have noticed the downfall of the world as a whole? Hmm? Interesting subject is it not?
Today's topics were The Jefferson Presidency, Jackson Presidency, Land Acquired in the 1800's, and The Mexican American War. All I remember is that the Mexican American War is considered a black eye for our country.I think it will help when we can ha
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Kennedy volunteered for the US Army in 1941 but was rejected because of his troublesome past. Later in the same year the he was accepted into the Navy. He was accepted because of the influence of director of the Office of Naval Intelligence, a former
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We didn't talk about anything. So I didn't learn anything. All we did was work on our assignment thing. So yeah. It was an interesting class period. Even though we didn't learn anything.
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People found this cockroach and named it Healthcliffe. The roach is a giant burrowing cockroach and he is eligable for the world's heaviest insect. This cockroach isn't the average roach because they are not the dirty, imported roaches that we usuall
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. His parents were Joseph Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. John had eight brothers and sisters, he was the second oldest. The U.S. had just entered World War l when John
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On June 10, 1991 this 11 year old girl was waiting at the bus stop in Antioch California and was forced into a van. Her case was on Americas Most Wanted t.v. show several times. She was kept in a very private area behind Phillip Garrido's house. Jayc
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Where would be the last place you would want to live right at this moment? The wildfires in California have been threatening 12,000 homes. There are evacuations for several places around the area. When people said to evacuate, three people didn’t lis
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The Kennedy’s inspired Americans with their optimistic political ideas. John F. Kennedy was the second youngest and first catholic president elected by the U.S. He appointed his younger brother, Robert, to the position of U.S. Attorney General.
John F. Kennedy was visiting Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 during his electoral battle tour in the south of the states when he was shot in the head by Lee Harvey Oswald. Him and governor John Connally along with their wives were in the limo of t
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We took a pre-test on what we are doing this semester and to see what we know about it. We are still talking about the 8th grade review blogs and I think we will have to go till Monday cause we still have a few left. Ha, ya , so we talked about the M
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We are still talking about our 8th grade review blogs. Today we talked about the Jefferson Presidency, Jackson Presidency, and Land aquired by U.S. in 1800's.-Jefferson Presidency--He helped Lewis and Clark. His goal of the expedition was to find ind
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On Friday we went over the states and capitals again. One girl in our class actually got up and took her test. We hadn't even gone over the eastern states yet. I would have failed if I had done that. She did pretty darn good.We also worked on our pow
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Just like most High Schools across the country, Westside High School in Omaha, Nebraska, is getting into routine with this year's football season. Just this week, ten percent of Westside's student body called in sick, meaning football season may be a
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Today we are still talking about our 8th grade review blogs. We talked about Articles of Confederation, U.S. Constitution, and the Washihngton Presidency.-Constitution--I learned that the Bill of Rights protected us from England. We were the first to
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Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped at age 11 by Phillip and Nancy Garrado who were both in their late 50's. This happened in South Lake Tahoe, California 18 years ago. She was being held captive in the Garrado's backyard in a shed along with the 2 children
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Today we continued to talk about our 8th grade review blogs. We talked about the Revolutionary War and Exploration and Colonization. We also picked our groups and got assigned seats.
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Today we talked about the blogs we wrote about ourselves. I learned a lot of things about my classmates. Mr. Bruns and Ms. Bryan also talked about themselves. Then we went over the website some more. Then we wrote down any questions we had about anyt
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