Class Response: Finding Oil!

In class we found 'oil'. This involved making a master play map and finding profit. Oil is 10 million years old, is sold in barrels and needs a source, reservoir and trap. Did you know that oil costs $126.62 per barrel? And is in a viscous liquid stage? I think that oil should be used a lot less. It is a non-renewable resource, and is a factor in global warming. It is ruining our earth.

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Extra Credit: Weather Poetry!

Snowflakes
Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.
This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
this is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
now whispered and revealed
to wood and field.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Weather was used in this poem by use of imagery. They were sensory details, there only to amuse the reader. Longfellow's use of knowledge made the poem more interesting and detailed. It gave the poem a more dramatic effect. And most of the weather was used as adjectives. These include clody, troubled sky and such weather conditions like that.
This poem wouldn't be the same without the mentions of weather, after all, the title "Snowflakes" is weather related. The poem would drastically change. Personification was used to describe weather. This was the only peotic device regarding weather. This didn't help my knowledge about weather at all. They only used the words softly, not involving new knowlege.

^there are two paragraphs. I couldn't figure out how to get them to seperate on the final publishing

Class Response: El Nino!

In class we are learning weather. A student from Rutgers University came in and taught us about the weather pattern, El Nino. This has been around for several centuries. It also affects the weather in South America. And on top of that, it wrecks several species of animals because of the flooding. In 1998, it killed nearly 2,100 people and left the US in $33 million in debt. I think this is horrible. It is a natural occuring thing, but it devistates entire countries and peoples lives.
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Social Studies- Anthropolgy!

To complete this assignment, we had to interview 3 or more family members. I chose my mom, aunt and dad. Out of all of the technological advancements, I think the computer is by far the most helpful. I think this because it gave us many things. It gave us many ways of communicating. These ways include the Internet, instant messaging, and e-mailing. It also gave us the capability for you to read this wonderful blog. But above all, it lets us type up our homework assignments that we just love so much(and I do mean that). The computer is magnificent.

Math Current Event #3- Delegate Math!

This article delt with the number of delegates needed to win the election. Despite the setback last Tuesday, Obama still has the delegate math on his side. He claims that they ahev approximately the same lead that they had the same morning. Due to this loss in the middle of his winning streack, he has planned ahead and is visiting other places to get ahead once more. Clinton has won Rhode Island and Ohio, but Obama is still in the lead in delegate math.

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Class Response: Making Atoms!

Recently in science class, we had 2 Rutgers University students come and teach us how to figure out what an atom is made up of(electrons, neutrons, protons). We recieved a work sheet, blue and gold marbles and green beads. In the same order, these represent protons, neutrons, and electrons. We also recieved two sizes of plastic spheres representing the atom shell, or the orbit, and the nucleus. On the worksheet, it told us to construct the correct atom by decoding the periodic table. Then we had a quiz, a partner quiz, on the symbols of 22 elements. We recieved 22/20.

Math Semi-Current Event #2:Math Professor Solves Decades-Old Problem!

Although this is quite an old article, it is still very interesting. It is about a college professor, Steven Hofmann, at the the University of Missouri-Columbia. And how he solved a 40 year old math problem that none of his colleagues could solve. He said that he would think about the problem night and day and sometimes have to stop what he was doing to write down an idea on how to solve it. The name of the problem was Kato's Conjecture, named after Tosio Kato. He wrote it in 1953 and again in 1961. "The problem, known as Kato's Conjecture, applies to the theory of waves moving through different media, such as seismic waves traveling through different types of rock".

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