Today, in class, we again went over the United States and capitals. A brave girl went today as her official test. That might've been a mistake in my opinion. She wasn't ready, I think is fair to say. I guess a 94% isn't bad though. At all. We then re
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In the Health care system we have the private and public insurence. In the U.S. health care system the private element is dominate over the public element. The percentage of non-elderly Americans had a private employer-sponsored insurence was 62% 5&
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There is a recent discussion about Obama's Health Care Plan. He is trying to make it so everyone is able to afford Health Insurance and can have it. The cost of Health Care has doubled in the last 8 years, making it that much more
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Today, in class, we started off by going over the states and capitals again. Then we got into our groups and were each assigned a political economic system. The options were Capitalism, Communism, Democracy, Socialism, Dictatorship/Anarchy, and Monar
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Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped while walking to the bus 18 years ago. Her stepfather saw a grey ford pull up to her and take her. Jaycee was 11 years old. She was raped for the first time only a month after being kidnapped by her captor, Phillip Gar
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The mexican American War was between 1846 and 1848 and happend when America annexed Texas and crossed the Nueces River.Mexico then sent its own soilders to the Nueces river, but in the end lost. In the aftermath of the war, the United States bought t
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Several times over the past month or so, there have been terrorist bombings happening in Iraq. These terrorists, suspected to be Sadam loyalists, targeted several places in both rural and urban towns successfully. The most recent of which was Saturda
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On Friday, August 28th Harlan had the ultimate showdown with the Denison Monarchs. The first game of the season. Denison had a good game for the most part, Sherff had some amazing tackles and blocks. The first half was the best part of the game. Deni
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Today in class we discussed two topics having to do with the 8th grade history year. Then we were informed that we have to have the JFK presidency blogged about and a free choice blog due on Monday. Mrs. Brian also did a good job on helping discuss t
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The Revolutionary War, also known as The American War of Independence took place in 1775-1783. The war first began with Great Britian and the 13 United Former Colonies of North America on April 19, 1775, with the battle on Lexington and Concord. Grea
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Today we began to talk about our JFK assassination projects. We learned that each group will be assigned to a different topic pertaining to the assassination. Each group will research their topic and then present what they found to the class. My grou
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Today in history, we learned about our JFK assasination project. We all were assigned topics, and my group got the best topics I think. I think this will be a very interesting project and we all will learn a lot. My group will learn about why JFK was
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On Friday we went over the rest of the states and the capitals and the people who thought they knew it took their test. Then we worked more on our projects. Our project on capitalism is coming along very well. We are doing a powerpoint on zoho. This
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Last week in Brunswick, Georgia, a man called 911 reporting that he had found seven bodies in a mobile home. The man said he was a family member and had found the bodies when he came home. The man, Guy Heinze Jr., 22, was arrested for drug-related ch
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Starting Tuesday September 1st most robocalls will be illegal. robocalls are the prerecorded messages that telemarketers use to reach a lot of people with little effort. Businesses that use these calls after Tuesday will face fines of up to $16,000 p
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Today inclass we talked more about our free choice blog. Most of the people in my class did Micheal Jackson and Ferrah Fawcett. Today I learned more and more about Micheal Jackson and Ferrah Fawcett that I didn't know.
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In class today we talked about our free choice blog. Today we only got through two people. The two people talked about Micheal Jackson, the economy, the Swine Flu and Pirates. A lot of questions and did a lot of talk over the swine flu and pirates, b
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How our plan works in the US. Does it, does it actually "work"? I guess I didn't notice. As far as I'm concerned our current "health plan" says, "Do what you want because I don't care". And I think I rather like it as it is. *smile*
Currently, the United States stands alone against the other developed nations of the world. We stand, being the only one of those nations, without a universal healthcare system currently in use. Universal healthcare is defined as being a program that
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