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Lignting Bolt's World Record Race

One word: Amazing! This guy makes everyone else look slow. The final two hundred meters is tomorrow night. Michael Johnson(US) has the world record right now. My bet is that it is broken tomorrow night. Here is Michael Johnson's 200m world record
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tuesday 23 oct

Indian Empire (presentation)

  • Mathematics
    • Gupta made great advancements but had lack of modern devices such as telescopes
    • First to discover seven planets in our solar system
    • Medicine
      • Indian developed the technique of inoculation
      • Inoculation-injecting a pers
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tuesday 23 oct

Indian Empire (presentation)

  • Mathematics
    • Gupta made great advancements but had lack of modern devices such as telescopes
    • First to discover seven planets in our solar system
    • Medicine
      • Indian developed the technique of inoculation
      • Inoculation-injecting a pers
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Background Info

  • Religon has always played a large rolein Roman society
  • However the polytheistic system was very impersonal

Jesus

  • Viewed as the Messiah
  • born in Bethlahem
  • Baptized by John the Baptist
  • Took up carpentry
  • At the age of 30 h then took up ministry
  • Fo
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Tuesday February 25

Talked about topic stories.

Is income inequality morally wrong- You need to have an incentive to work for your money. Some people don't have a opportunity to become not poor. You can not suffer in order to live a good life.

5 things the world can teach

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9-25

Topics:

-Temperance Movement-18th Amendment

-Muckrakers-Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens

-Laws making the workplace better, safer, etc

-Direct Election of US Senators-17th Amendment

-Women's Suffrage Movement-19th Amendment

-Teddy Roosevelt's

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Thursday May 2, 2013

Lydon B Johnson:

  • from Texas
  • Senator
  • 36th president of the U.S (1963-1969)
  • Took over as President after JFK was assassinated
  • 1964 election-was a blow out against Berry Goldwater
  • Electoral shift- where part of the country completely switches political partie
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Mexico

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (BUI)

-This was a peace treaty between America and Mexico

-Ended Mexican American War

-The treaty gave the United States much of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, parts of Wyoming and Colorado

-The Mexicans

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Feb. 20, 2013

NOTES CONTINUED from Feb. 13 and Feb. 14

Renaissance Buildings and Other

Sistine Chapel

  • named after Pope Sixtus the VI
  • Michelangelo completed the chapel's ceiling in 4 years
  • the Cardinals are housed there to debate on who will become the next Pope
  • black sm
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Feb. 13, 2013

Renaissance Notes

  • Rennaissance means "re-birth"
  • Italian: Rinascimento, "to be reborn"
  • It is the cultural rebirth in Western Europe
  • It is very influential movement from the 14th to 17th Centuries
  • Mainly started in Italy

Authors

  • William Shakespeare
    • He wrote Ha
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Semester Blog

1. What are the main historic events(hit five) that took place in 8th Grade US History that helped shape the United States up to 1877?(10 points)-Chapters 1-4

Christopher Columbus: The discovery of America in 1492, was seeking a trade route to the eas

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Monday, December 3, 2012

1. What were the causes of WWI in Europe?

  • Militarism
  • Imperialism
  • Nationalism
  • Economic Competition
  • System of Alliances

2. What were the major alliances of WWI?
When two or more countries join together to fight in a war or even peace.
Allied Powers - Great

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Monday, December 3, 2012

1. What were the causes of WWI in Europe?

  • Militarism
  • Imperialism
  • Nationalism
  • Economic Competition
  • System of Alliances

2. What were the major alliances of WWI?
When two or more countries join together to fight in a war or even peace.
Allied Powers - Great

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monday 11/5/12

Geography

  • Limited agriculture
  • Hot & dry deserts

People of the desert

  • Arab nomads- Bedouins organized clan
  • Clans were created to provide security and support for a life made difficult by desert climate
  • Bedouins ideas; courage loyalty to family, and warrior
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Thursday, Oct.4

We continued to take notes on Rome then we did some research on the slavery in Rome

General information

  • Ancient Rome depended on slaves
  • Most slaves were foreigners and unlike most places it did not depend on race
  • Slaves worked everywhere
  • Slaves were captu
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