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Blog Assigment #15- Richard Nixon- The Watergate Scandal

Posted by 2codaje on April 19, 2009 at 10:54am

The 37th president of the United States and the only president to resign from the office, Richard Nixon has made U.S. history. He was elected as president in 1968 and resigned in 1974. As president he was involved in the Vietnam War, relations with t

Ashley Knowles Richard Nixon

Posted by 8Ashley on April 16, 2009 at 5:43pm

Richard Nixon was our 37th president some say he was a bad president and some say that he was a bad president but in my opinion I think that he was an okay president. Sure he made some mistakes,like opening the gate to China, but he also did some rea

Blog #14- Lyndon Johnson

Posted by 2codaje on April 12, 2009 at 1:42pm

On June 6, 1963, President Kennedy urged our nation to be a part of the action of guaranteeing equal treatment of every American, no matter what the race, in a nationally televised address. After, he proposed that Congress should consider civil right

Lyndon "Beastly" Johnson ♥ Danielle's Weekly Blog Post #14

Posted by 2codaje on April 12, 2009 at 11:06am

Another week, another blog. Le sigh. At least Danielley remembered to do one this week. So we're off to a great start!!! Alrighty, so this week's blog is supposed to be about the 36th president of the United States, Lyndon "Beastly" Johnson. I bet yo

Blog Assignment #14- Lyndon Johnson's Presidency- The Great Society

Posted by 2codaje on April 7, 2009 at 8:32pm

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"The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods."Lyndon Johnson, the 36th

Earthquake in Italy

Posted by 3Mumm on April 5, 2009 at 11:41pm

Besides having a nice ring to it, the title of this blog, Earthquake in Italy also sounds like a good name for a movie. Ok, now on to seriousness. "A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy early Monday, six hours after another quake hit the no

Blog #13- World War 2 Battles- Battle of the Bulge

Posted by 2codaje on April 5, 2009 at 4:49pm

The Battle of the Bulge was a last effort from Hitler to split the Allies. As Chelsea and I found out by just looking at the map of the battle, it was very confusing. The Allies consisted of the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Some of the

Diana Palin.

Posted by whit on April 5, 2009 at 12:08pm

Sarah Palin's sister-in-law, Diana Palin, who is 35, is accused for breaking into the same home twice to steal money. Tuesday she was found breaking into the house and stealing $400. The police saw the tire tracks and shoe prints outside of the house

Blog Assignment #13- U.S. WWII battles- Battle of Okinawa

Posted by 2codaje on April 2, 2009 at 8:42pm

December 8th, 1941 United States declares war on Japan. Citizens of the United States sit in devastation from the event that had occurred the day before. Many of us, especially adults, remember the pain and fear we felt the day the 9-11 incident happ

Response to Hot, Flat, and Crowded

Posted by 3Mumm on March 29, 2009 at 8:31pm

As those of us in CWI know, Thomas Friedman is the author of "The World is Flat". This book is about how nearly everyone in the world (or at least those with technological access) is on the same playing field when it to things like business, revenge,

Gypsies in the Holocaust ♥ Danielle's Weekly Blog Post #11

Posted by 2codaje on March 29, 2009 at 7:21pm

"Like the Jews, Gypsies were singled out by the Nazis for racial persecution and annihilation. They were 'nonpersons,' of 'foreign blood,' 'labor-shy,' and as such were termed asocials. To a degree, they shared the fate of the Jews in their ghettos,

Blog #12- Holocaust Stories- Kindertransport

Posted by 2codaje on March 29, 2009 at 5:28pm

Kindertransport, or Children’s Transport, was the name of a rescue effort which brought thousands of refugee Jewish children to Great Britain from Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1940. After the Nazis attacked Jews on Kristallnacht, the British governm

Blog Assigment #12- Holocaust Stories- Saul and Miriam Kuperhand

Posted by 2codaje on March 29, 2009 at 11:05am

Torture, suffering, and six million Jewish people; this was the Holocaust. We are all taught in school how terrible the Holocaust was, but none of us will ever really understand what it was like. Only those who experienced it will understand the pain

Deforestation of the Amazon

Posted by 3Mumm on March 22, 2009 at 10:21pm

Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon which is located in Brazil. Since the 1970s, the government figures that 38 percent of deforestation from 1966-1975 is from large scale cattle ranching. Today the situation is much w

Bessie Coleman - Danielle's Weekly Blog Post #11

Posted by 2codaje on March 22, 2009 at 7:52pm

As we all know, history is full of plenty of rags to riches stories. That's just sort of how America is. And among one of the greatest of these stories is Bessie Coleman. What a beast.The story starts out in Texas, when a part-African-American-part-N

Blog Assignment # 11- Women's History Month- Harriet Tubman

Posted by 2codaje on March 22, 2009 at 12:18pm

American history is filled with many different kinds of people who did such wonderful and amazing things; people of all races and all genders. History isn’t just dedicated to the blacks and the men it is also dedicated to many important women. This m

Blog #11- Woman in U.S. History- Juliette Gordon Low

Posted by 2codaje on March 20, 2009 at 3:29pm

Juliette Gordon Low played a major role in U.S. History and still does today, though many people do not know who she is. Born Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon on October 31, 1860, she eventually became the founder of Girl Scouts of the USA, a nationwide

Pearl Harbor ♥ Danielle's Weekly Blog Post #10

Posted by 2codaje on March 15, 2009 at 11:53pm

Pearl Harbor. December 7th 1941, Pearl Harbor on Oahu island, Hawaii. You know the story. And if you don't... well, you're lame. Though apparently, in 1941, when told that the Japanese had destroyed Pearl Harbor, actress Joan Crawford replied, “Oh de

Joan of Arc

Posted by 3Mumm on March 15, 2009 at 11:00pm

Joan of Arc was a French Heroine during the "Hundred Years War" in which England had laid France under siege. Joan was born to a peasant family in the war ravaged lands of France in 1412. During her early childhood, the village nearby Joan had been r

Marilyn Bell..

Posted by whit on March 15, 2009 at 8:25pm

Marilyn Bell was a sixteen year old who swam the Lake Ontario in seventy thousand strokes as an underdog. She was know as "The First Lady of the Lake". As she swam eels attacked her legs and by the time she was finished over 100,000 people had joined

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Blog Assigment #15- Richard Nixon- The Watergate Scandal

Ashley Knowles Richard Nixon

Blog #14- Lyndon Johnson

Lyndon "Beastly" Johnson ♥ Danielle's Weekly Blog Post #14

Blog Assignment #14- Lyndon Johnson's Presidency- The Great Society

Earthquake in Italy

Blog #13- World War 2 Battles- Battle of the Bulge

Diana Palin.

Blog Assignment #13- U.S. WWII battles- Battle of Okinawa

Response to Hot, Flat, and Crowded

Gypsies in the Holocaust ♥ Danielle's Weekly Blog Post #11

Blog #12- Holocaust Stories- Kindertransport

Blog Assigment #12- Holocaust Stories- Saul and Miriam Kuperhand

Deforestation of the Amazon

Bessie Coleman - Danielle's Weekly Blog Post #11

Blog Assignment # 11- Women's History Month- Harriet Tubman

Blog #11- Woman in U.S. History- Juliette Gordon Low

Pearl Harbor ♥ Danielle's Weekly Blog Post #10

Joan of Arc

Marilyn Bell..

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