Well, my name is Whitney. My full name is Whitney Elaine Gross. I'm fourteen, and my birthday is March 24. Most people don't know this about me, but when i was born i had an ovarian cyst the size of a baseball. I had it removed and now i have a giant
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Hello people of the nation. I am none other than Austin Mumm. Mr. Bruns, you may know me from 8th grade basketball (go B team!). I am approximately 15 and one fourths old and was born and raised in Iowa, Land of the famous Loess Hills, Tractors, and
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Hey there, as you can hopefully see already I am Brandon James Roberts and I attend Harlan Community High School. I listen mainly to heavy metal music such as All That Remains, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, and Trivium. I am also an avid procrastianat
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Hi, I'm Rachel, also known as Ray-Ray and I'm in CWI. Ooo shocker, I bet you didn't see that one coming. I have an older brother who is a senior, and that's it for siblings. It's weird because my mom thinks we're as different as night and day but som
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Posted by megan schwery on January 11, 2009 at 12:00pm
I was born in Council Bluffs on June 29th. I lived there for seven years until one day my grandparents, who liven in Panama, decided to move. Our house has been owned by our family for over a hundred years, so we decided to move. On July 7th we were
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Posted by 6dasarkel on December 16, 2008 at 9:00pm
Pssh. Everyone is doing it” said my father to my mother “We might as well do it to.” This was a lot of settler’s ideas during the late 1800’s. The Union Pacific had started to build railroad tracks that crossed from the east to the west. The railroad
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Posted by 6dasarkel on December 16, 2008 at 8:51pm
1. Expanding westward(Ch. 5)
Expanding WestwardWhy did people move West?People living in the US saw the West as an opportunity for a better life. In the West, they could start a business, get land to farm, or make a fortune mining. Gold and silver was
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Posted by 6dasarkel on December 15, 2008 at 8:35pm
For those of you less gifted in the fine art of Japanese writing, those lil' doodles up there mean "The Last Blog". Of course, maybe they don't. Nowadays you could probably trust online translators about as far as you can throw them. And technically
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Posted by 6dasarkel on November 23, 2008 at 9:30pm
A soilder's time in a frontline trench was usally very brief. Even when in the frontline a soilder rarley spent his time engaging in fighting while there.Life in the trench or on the "front" was very routine. There was three different sections to an
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Posted by 6dasarkel on November 23, 2008 at 7:50pm
On December 12, 1917 a train left Turin, Itlay carrying 1000 WWI troops like the ones below. These troops were headed for Lyon, France on leave. Unfortunately 543 of these men didn't make it home after the train they were on derailed and went up in f
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Posted by 6dasarkel on November 23, 2008 at 2:37pm
For our new project, my group is covering WWI. I myself am presenting the Weapons of WWI and the Treaty of Versailles. And for an extension, I'm doing something completely unrelated to what I'm studying. That's. How. Cool. I. Am. Chapter 11 starts of
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Posted by 6dasarkel on November 19, 2008 at 7:30pm
When your sitting at home bored out of your mind what do you do? Well I turn on my radio and listen to what today is reffered to as rock. When did this come about though?It all started in the late 1940's and early 1950's. The music's roots came from
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Posted by 6dasarkel on November 16, 2008 at 8:00pm
See that man there in the white suit? That's Teddy Roosevelt. In case you haven't paid attention in Mr. Bruns' class lately, he was our 26th predident. But wait! What about the other men in the white suits? Who are they? Which white suit-wearing man
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Posted by 6dasarkel on November 16, 2008 at 6:00pm
♪ There's fear and darkness all around youThe criminals are on the runNo use in hiding in the darkI'll hunt you down 'cause I got my BlogI'm the BlogThe big bad BlogThe Bounty Hunter ♪That's right everybody. I'm Danielley Hernandez, and I gots my blo
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Posted by 6dasarkel on November 9, 2008 at 11:22pm
Like most people in the US that were younger than 18 on November 4, 2008, I was oblivious to the details of the presidential election due to the fact that voting was technically illegal for us.But near the end of October, strangers started calling my
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As that Political Spectrum Quiz showed, I am on the fence. But if I had to be one, I'm more liberal. I honestly would have been okay with either candidate winning. If I was eighteen though, I would have voted for Barack Obama. Mostly because I hate f
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The United States has the very first African American president. Some people say that this is one of the greatest moments in America's history others say that this is the begining of the end. This is what America is based on though personal opions, a
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I settle into my sweet couch, and flip on the tv to once more enjoy the nineteenth annual Treehouse of Horror. It's a classic. Let's face it, The Simpsons is of America, for America, by America. And that America is Matt Groening. That made sense, don
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