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Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas



The things I got for Christmas was an iPod Touch and a special request for my best
friend. I do in fact believe in Santa but now I think he really only gives you 40%.
If you are going to write a letter to him whatever you really want, write it in bold,
I asked for 5 things and the 2 that I put in bold on the letter for him he gave me.
Christmas is not supposed to be a time where you use people to get what you want but
when you give people gifts even if it is love. Something to remember is that
Christmas is a magical time, and extra-ordinary things automatically happen. Just
remember I did not said extra-ordinary not good.

Friday, December 18, 2009

The Last Word in Trash Talking

The article I chose was an article about a football player that loves to "talk trash". The article The Last Word In Trash Talking goes in detail explaining why Bart Scott does talk so much trash in football. It actually started out from when he was a kid, he didn't know much better and he watched a lot of professional wrestling therefor making him wanting to be an excellent trash talker. Growing up into a teenager he started to trash talk to his friends steal jokes and even stand/talk trash to bullies also.
Now a days he thinks that he is the absolute best trash talker and many other people agree with him. Two of his inspirations to talk trash ad be such a rough person are Hulk the Professional Wrestler and Muhammad Ali the professional boxer. If you want to learn what trash talk is go to Trash-talk and If you want to learn how to trash talk go to How To Trash Talk

Friday, December 11, 2009

Friday, December 4, 2009

Sports and Recreation


I love to play Basketball. I think I'm good at it but not
everyone else thinks so. I don't really have a
favorite Basketball player. Most people always
believe your choice between your favorite Basketball
player has to be either LeBron James or Kobe Bryant.
This doesn't have to be true for you because you're
entitled to your own opinion.My personal favorite is
Kobe Bryant. To me at times Basketball is my life.
Whenever I am bored and feel like I just need

something to do and I can play Basketball it automatically feels like it is the only thing that

matters to me.If you have time and want to find out recent info on NBA go here NBA


Thursday, December 3, 2009

Review Of Staples




Staples Inc. is the world's largest office supply retail store chain, with over 2,000 stores worldwide in 27 countries. The based in Framinghamm, Massechusetts, USA the company has catalog and delivery businesses and serves customers in Argentina (as Officenet Staples), Austria, (as Staples Office Centre, trading to professional customers only), BelgiumBrazil (as Officent Staples), Cananda (as Staples Business Depot, in Quebec as Bureau en gross), China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy (as Mondoffice), Netherlands (as Staples Office Centre, trading to professional customers only), Portugal, UK and the US.

Review Of Dogpile



Dogpile is a metasearch engine that fetches results from Google, Yahoo !, Bing, Ask.com, About.com and several other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers. It is a registered trademark of Infospace, Inc.Dogpile is a metasearch site — it searches multiple engines, filters for duplicates and then presents the results to the user. Dogpile uses multiple popular search engines, as well as sponsored links.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Review Of Weather.com

Weather.com is a website of The Weather Channel company which is owned by landmark commnuication. On the internet it's one of the ultimate sources that provide you with both national and international weather conditions. The company possesses state of the art forecasting technology and has over 120 expert meteorologists.Due to 7 days a week, 24 hours a day expert forecasts and timely current conditions it has become a top rated online weather information and news site. Plan ahead, for a perfect vacation, a honeymoon or home improvement through hour-by-hour, weekly or monthly weather forecasts.


Review of Barnes and Nobles



Barnes & Noble, Inc. is the largest book retailer in the United States,[2] operating mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores headquartered in lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Barnes & Noble is the nation’s top bookseller brand for the sixth year in a row, as determined by a combination of the brand’s performance on familiarity, quality, and purchase intent; the top bookseller in quality for the second year in a row and the number two retailer in trust, according to the EquiTrend Brand Study by Harris Interactive.

Review of AOL



AOL, L.L.C. (formerly known as its callsign meaning America Online) is an American global Internet services and media company operated by Time Warner. It is headquartered at 770 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Founded in 1983 as Quantum Computer Services, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services.AOL is best known for its online software suite, also called AOL, that allowed millions of customers around the world to access the world's largest "walled garden" online community and eventually reach out to the internet as a whole. At its zenith, AOL's membership was over 30 million members worldwide, most of whom accessed the AOL service through the AOL software suite.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Review Of Yahoo Video



Yahoo Video is a site in which people go on and look at videos. It is important because it allows you to see various videos that give you a better sense of what the world truly is. On this site you could look up whatever you want to see and sit back and enjoy it. More than one million people a day use this site to find videos that mean something to them or just for a quick laugh.The sites you mght consider rivals with Yahoo Video are Google Video and Hulu Player.

Review Of Forbes



Forbes is an American Publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published fortnightly. Basically, its competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published fortnightly, and Business week. The magazine is well-known for its lists, including its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400) and its its lis of billionares. The motto of Forbes magazine is "The Capitalist Tool."According to Forbes.com, the Web site is among the most trusted resources for senior business executives, providing them the real-time reporting, uncompromising commentary, concise analysis, relevant tools and community they need to succeed at work, profit from investing and have fun with the rewards of winning.

Review of Senate



A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature or parliament. There have been many such bodies in history, since senate means the assembly of the eldest and wiser members of the society and ruling class. The members or legislators of a senate are called senators. The Latin word senator was adopted into English with no change in spelling. Its meaning is derived from a very ancient form of simple social organization in which decision-making powers are reserved for the eldest men. For the same reason, the word senate is correctly used when referring to any powerful authority characteristically composed by the eldest members of a community, as a deliberative body of a faculty in an institution of higher learning is often called a senate. Thisismy revieew of the Senate

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.