Blog Assignment #25/Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin was born February 11, 1964. She was born in Sandpiont, Idaho, but moved to Alaska with her familt at 3months old. Sarah is best known as John McCain's vice-president canidate in 2008. Her birth name is Sarah Loiuse Heath. Sarah, the first female governor of Alaska. As a child, she played point guard for Wasilla High School's 1982 championship team and she places second in the Miss Alaska contest in 1984.

 

After going to 4 different colleges, Sarah earned a journalism degree from the university of Idaho in 1987. Then, she returned to Alaska adn married Todd Palin, which was her high school boyfriend in 1988.December 4, 2006, she became the first woman governor of Alaska. Two years later John McCain made her the Republican Party's first female canidate for vice president. They were defeted by Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

On January 27, 2009, Sarah formed the political action committee, SarahPAC. It was reported that the SarahPAC had raised nearly $1,000,000. A legal defense fund was set to help Palin challenge ethics complaints, and it had complaints, and it had collected approximately $250,000 by mid-July 2009. In June 2010, Palin's defense fund was ruled illegal and will have to pay back $386, 856 it collected in donations because it used Palin's position as governor to raise money for her personal gain. Sarah subsequently set up a new defense fund.


The Palins have 5 children: son Track(1989), daughter Bristol(1990), daughter Willow(1994), daughter(2000), and son Trig(2008). Trig has down syndrome. Days after her nomination as vice- president in 2008, Sarah annonced that her 17-year -old daughter, Bristol, was pregnant. Palin said Bristol would marry the father, Levi Johnston, but Bristol and Levi later broke up. Their son Tripp, was born in December 2008. 


Sarah's high profile in the 2008 presidential campaign fueled that fact that she will run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. The beginning in November 2008, there was an active "Draft Palin" movement. February 6, 201, when Fox news asked her if she would be running for president in 2012, she said, "I would be willing to be if  I believe that it's right for the country. I won't close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the furute."

blog assignment #24/3 Countries

Japan:

http://www.japantoday.com/

Who? Japanese

 

What? Burger Festival- "Tottori Burger Festa"

Why? It was a way to make money and it attracted visitors.

Where? Daisen,Tottori Prefecture, and other places in Japan.

When? Two days- October 10- October 11.

How? They set up booths of unique burger shops. They sold burgers made of pork, beef or scallops and served them.

Spain:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_27481.shtml

Who? Spanish actor, Manuel Alexandre

What? Death of a famous Spanish actor.

Why? Cancer.

Where? He died in  Spain, his home.

When? October 12, 2010 (today) 

How?  He was so old, and that that healthy, that he couldn't fight cancer anymore. 

Mexico: 

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/mexico/index.html

Who?  Mexican Gunman  

What? Mexican Gunman kills 8 police officers.

Why? Striking against security forces.

Where? Mexico City, Mexico

When? October 11, 2010

How? The Gunman attacked the policemen. (ambush)

Blog assignment #21/Who Am I?

 

My favorite basketball player is Rajon Rondo and my favorite team are the Celtics.

 My favorite college team is Southern University.

I don't like LSU.

One of my hobbies is playing the piano.

 I like Kentucky Fired Chicken.

I like to eat Mc Donalds.

I like to draw pictures of people.

I like iphones and I have an iphone.

I like to go shopping at the mall.

I have an interest in dancing.

I was a cheerleader and I still like to cheer.

 I like alot of colors. My hobby is painting. 

I have to school everyday.

I like to go to the movies and watch movies.

I don't really like to read.

I like celebrating my birthday.

I like my birthstone ring and color.

I love ipods. 

 I like music along with itunes.

 I want my birthday cake to look like this.

Blog Assignment #22/High School Newspapers

Viking Views

• Hoover High School
• Location: 525 7th St. North Canton, OH 44720
• Newspaper: The Vikings View
• Website: http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~vv1nc/
• Other Information: They have pictures of interactivity involving their school. They are organized. There are different thing to do, such as Entertainment and Sports. 

Loin Ledger

• Greenville High School
• Location: 3515 Lion's Lair Rd,Greenville, TX 7540
• Newpaper: Lion Ledger
• Website: http://www.lionledger.com
• Other Information: Their newspaper is for students. They have around 1,200 students that attend their school and that view their newspaper.

The Spectator

• Stuyvesant High School
• Location: New York City, New York
• Newspaper: The Spectaror
• Website: http://stuyspectator.com/
• Other Information: Their website is well organized. It is organized like a newspaper article, such as The Advocate

The Lion's Tale

• Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School
• Location: Washington D.C.
• Newspaper: The Loin's Tale
• Website: http://www.lionstale.org
•  Other Information: They tell about the school's news, such as, new principles. 

Denebola

• Newton South High School 
• Location: Newton, MA 02459 
• Newspaper: Denebola
• Website: http://www.denebolaonline.net/
• Other Information: Their website is well organized and they have great pictures. 

Blog Assign #21/Monet

              

 Monet

               Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Lafitte, in the 9th arrondissment of Paris. On 20 May 1841, he was baptized in the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, as Oscar-Claude, but his parents called him Oscar. In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. He dad wanted to be in the family grocery business, but he wanted to be an artist. While his mother was a singer.

              April 1, 1851, Monet attended Le Havre secondary school of the arts. January 28, 1857, his mother died. At 16 years old, he left school and went to live with his widowed childless aunts.When Monet traveled to Paris to visit the Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. He brought his paints and other tools with him and sat by the window and painted what he saw. He was in Paris for several years, so he meet other young painter, who would become his friends.

             Monet died of lung cancer on December 2, 1926 at the age of 86. He was buried in the Giverny church cemetery. Monet wanted the occasion to be simple; only about 50 people to attend the ceremony.His home, garden and waterlily pond were bequeathed by his son Michel, his only heir, to the French Academy of Fine Arts in 1966. 2004, a painting of his was sold for $20.1 million. An 1873 painting auction in New York on May 6, 2008 sold for $41.4 million. 

blog assignment #20:

       

America's past was good and bad. There was an end of slavery, our American flag, independent nation, and presidents. People are now free to almost anything they want, such as go to any church and have any career. The Declaration of Independence is a document of independence from Great Britain. Our American Flag represents freedom and independence as one nation.

America's past was bad. 911 happened. 911 was a series of suicide attacks. Hijackers purposely crashed two airlines into the Twin Towers. Hurricane Katrina happened. Hurricane Katrina left alot of people without homes, forcing them to live on the streets, move to Baton Rouge, or live in a shelter. World War 1 and 2 happened, and wars are still going on.

America's present involves electronics. Kids and adults now use ipads, iphones, and other things; unlike back then. The health care bill got passed. We have improved in education, because we have better learning resources. There are professional sports teams. Also, there are newer model cars and houses. Our houses have air condition and lots of other features such a pools. Lastly we have video games for Wii, Playstation, XBox and many more.

I think our future will have more people without jobs. More people that are homeless without homes or food. We will have better technology sich as robot people. There will be more war going on. It will get more voilent because of all the shooting going on in just Baton Rouge. There will be more laws becasue of people's descions.