101 year old driver

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2008/05/29/gordon.101.yo.driver.wctv


A woman named Lilian Cox has been driving since she was 8. She is now one hundred and one years old and still driving. She just recently had her drivers liscence renewed and it will last her until 2011.

I think 101 is just too old to be driving. She is a threat to society. She could easily die at any moment while on the road. Sure she may be able to drive alright, but would she be able to react to someone else's mistakes at the same rate as someone like me. I think that old people driving is just not a good idea in general.

non profit website

my website is on Zoli's DP

laboriously

laboriously- something that requires a lot of work

it takes a ton of work to build a patio.

bibliography for research paper

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html#INTRO

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BestEffortGlobalWarmingTrajectories/

http://www.pewclimate.org/

current event

news paper
new york times

a new study has been started that has turned out to be a cure to alzshimers. They descovered this when testing mice. Basically they found how to prevent it before it even happens. This will be similar to the polio vaccination. It basically blocks something in your brain from being produced that causes alzhimers.

I think that this is a great advancement in science. Alzhimers affects so many americans each year, and if they are able to create a vaccination that can eliminate it that would be great for society.

intuit

intuit-to know by intuition.

She knows things by intuition.

interminable

interminable-incapable of being terminated.

article response

This is my response to the article :Classrooms have become unnecessarily high tech
By Matt Baxter found on http://www.mercurynews.com/community/ci_9034769?nclick_check=1&forced=true.


I do understand some of the points that he makes in the article. But for the most part I completely disagree. Computers are a completely necessary part of our education system. All schools should be able to supply its students with computers. The world we live in today is using less and less paper, and more and more computers. We do not write letters, we send emails. We do not write out our papers in nice hand writing, we type them. We do not look through text books and encyclopedias to access our information. We simply find it on the internet. High tech high is the model for what schools should look like, in terms of technology. Every person in our school has access to a laptop any time of day. We have projectors in all of our classrooms for the teachers to display what is on their computer without the use of old annoying overheads. The author of the article does make a good point about the high cost of buying books for schools, and that they constantly need to be updated. I completely agree with this statement. But it is basically an argument for why computers are the perfect solution for replacing textbooks. The internet automatically updates its information without the government having to pay the 30,000 dollars that he said it costs to replace the books. I believe that computers are the perfect solution to this problem. Here at our school we do not need books, because we have all the information we need right in front of us on the computer. Schools do need to have computers in order to keep up with the technological world. High Tech High is a perfect school to model that thinking around.

current event

A sixteen year old girl who calls herself Crystal on youtube pleas for help. She decided to post a video on youtube telling people that she was raped. She desided to do this after the district attourny dismissed her case. She has gotten lots of media attention after posting this video on the internet. The man who had raped her is now being charged with rape.

I think that it is really good that she did this. She felt alone and hopeless before she posted this video. But after she recieved support from so many people. The other good thing about this is that many other people who have been victims of rape, have also posted similar videos on youtube. So this girl helped herself, but she also inspired other victims to tell their stories on the internet.







http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/148260

book report

Paulsen, Gary. Brians Hunt. New York, NY. sen Wendy Lamb Books: December 23, 2003.

Reason, Type and Setting: I really like Gary Paulsen and I really like survival books. I really liked reading Hatchet, Brians winter, and The River. But I was eager to get back in to the story of Brian Robeson after finding out that there was yet another story in this excellent series. This book is similar to hatchet but many variables have changed. He is in a different place with lots of wilderness. Also this time he is very prepared this time, also he is there by choice. This book is a survival story.

Plot: Basically there is a boy named Brian Robeson. He is pretty much a survival expert now. He has been living a normal life in New York and has realized that he belongs in nature. So he decides to return to where he belongs for yet another summer. He brings with him a large amount of supplies including a canoe, and bow and arrow, tent, sleeping bag, pots, lighters, etc. He travels along the river by day and makes camp at the shore every night. During his travels he encounters an injured dog that he cares for. The dogs injury has a horrific story tied behind it.

Character: Brian Robeson. He is a now a 17 year old boy. I really don't know what he looks like. I know that in the start of Hatchet he was slightly chubby. But by the end of that book he had become very lean and mean, so i guess that is what he looks like now. He is a very determined person. He is dedicated to survival. I chose him because he is the only character. He is very interesting because he is able to handle problems so well. He can take new situations and adapt to them very easily. I think that It would be extremely hard to survive in the conditions that Brian does. But like always Brian handles it very well and gets out in the end still alive.

Evaluation:

I definitely liked the novel. It was very interesting and entertaining. This story taught me a lot about surviving on the water. Before he had been surviving with a shelter to go home to every night. Now he is living on a canoe basically. He had to make his fires on the shore at night, he had to survive rapids, he had to fish in a moving canoe. So it definitely taught me a lot of new things about survival.

This book is real life. It reminds me that some people in the world today actually have to live like this. Live in caves. Hunt for food. Make your own raft from trees and vines. Make tools themselves. Most people in this situation aren't even lucky enough to have a knife like Brian does. It is important to read. You appreciate the life that you live more after reading this book.

I think that I would have done everything the same. I think that I, like Brian, would have been very skeptical at first of taking in the dog. The dog could potentially be very dangerous. But what I've learned from reading Gary Paulsens books is that living in the wilderness can become extremely lonely, and that having a dog along could provide excellent company.

Author, Context and Trivia:

Gary Paulsen writes a lot of survival books. I have read two about Brian Robeson being a survivor from a plane crash in Canada and another about a boy who fights in the civil war. All of these stories were really good. This book is similar but very different. But I would definetley say that they were all very good. I would definitely read this author again, he is becoming one of my new favorites. If I find anymore in this series I will read them.

non profit

Splash is an environmental organization that seeks to raise awareness
of the environmental impact of car washing and to promote alternate
methods that leave smaller ecological footprints.

conversely

conversely- something opposite or contrary

acquiesce

acquiesce-to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest

amorous

amorous- showing or expressing love

aroma

aroma- an odor arising from spices, plants, cooking

awkward

awkward - lacking grace or ease in movement


this man is 7 feet 9 inches tall. he is probably a very awkward person

ecstasy

ecstasy-an overpowering emotion.

My girlfriend overwhelms me with extremely happy emotions.