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Monday, November 30, 2009

Review of Facebook



Facebook is site that people use to post pictures and comment on them and just talk. Nowadays people are on facebook 24/7. Facebook can be a dangerous if you just put all of your information out to the public. If you use facebook properly and have good judgement, facebook will be fun and easy to use. I use facebook just to catch up with old friends. Facebook is very useful to communicate with people all around the world even in foreign countries. Facebook is an excellent social networking website. Most people consider facebook even safer than myspace and so do I. Signing for facebook is free and easy it mainly uses your email to tell you whenever new things happen. I hope after reading this post you will at least consider making a facebook even if you don't trust the internet.

Review of Altavista



AltaVista is a web search engine owned by Yahoo!. AltaVista was once one of the most popular search engines but its popularity has waned with the rise of Google.AltaVista was created by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory who were trying to provide services to make finding files on the public network easier. Although there is some dispute about who was responsible for the original idea, two key participants were Louis Monier, who wrote the crawler, and Michael Burrows, who wrote the indexer. The name AltaVista was chosen in relation to the surroundings of their company at Palo Alto. AltaVista was publicly launched as an internet search engine on 15 December 1995 at altavista.digital.com.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

I Got The Power Of The Icy Tower


I enjoy playing many games on the computer, even old games like Mario. The one game I seem to enjoy the most is Icy Tower.
Icy Tower is a game that my friends showed to me. It is basically a little man that you control with the arrows on the keyboard which is your directions and the spacebar to make him jump. The level you are on is based on how many bars you have jumped and it is counted by one bar jump is 10 points and so you are on level one. If you jump 50 bars you are on level 50 and you have 500 points. Sometimes the game is not even that fun because you lose but the game gets addictive after a while so you find yourself still playing it when you want to stop.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Classes... OoOoOo ... AaAaAaAh.. Maybe even " Oh, No"


My classes in Benjamin Banneker Academy fits my liking.

The class I am most worried about is US History. That's only because I have been

fooling around but I'll do better, I am going to make sure. I think I might get a 75

My best class is Spansih.

I anticipate that I will get a 100 or at least a 98.

I hope to get a 95 in English but that is the subject I have most difficulties with.

I want a 95 in Chemistry also, this I think I can get. For Math B I want 2 97's

because math is my favorite subject but I messed up a little bit.

For Computer class I would like a 100 because i feel as though I understand the

concept of blogging ( positive blogging at that) and I have mastered it. Of course

this is how I feel, but I hope my teachers feel the same way about these grades that

I do.. ( EXCEPT OF COURSE US HISTORY CLASS).

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Progressive Era


The Progressive Era was probably the most important Era for advancement. It especially increased the rights of kids. The Progressives strongly opposed waste and corruption, seeking change in regard to workers' rights and protection of the ordinary citizen in general. Initially the movement was successful at local level, and then it progressed to state and gradually national. The reformers (and their opponents) were predominantly members of the middle class.

Most were well educated white Protestants who lived in the cities. Catholics, Jews and blacks had their own versions of the Progressive Movement, (some of them were more like responses to the movement than alternative versions) led by the likes of George Cardinal Mundelein and Booker T. Washington. The Progressives pushed for social justice, general equality and public safety, but there were contradictions within the movement, especially regarding race. Almost all major politicians, as declared some progressive measure. In politics the most prominent national figures were the Republican politicians Theodore Roosevelt and Robert Lafollette, Sr. and Democratic politicians William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson. Some notable progressers are W.E.B DuBois and Upton Sinclair.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Family


My family consist of my father, my mother, my brother, my sister, and I. Most of the time I enjoy to hang out with my family

but not all the time because sometimes it gets to be annoying just hanging out with people you see everyday. I wouldn't at all

say there boring because actually they keep me quite interested in whatever the topic is that they speak of at almost anytime.

Something is always , how you say "up". When I say this I mean that no matter what day something just seems to happen and you

know it's not always things I truly care for. They are the weirdest group of people. I actually wish you could meet. If you do you

would get used to it.