Wednesday, January 31, 2007

1. a. Ailing Castro begins 750,000 last words.
b. Inner-city teacher inspires students to stab him
c. Too much expect from nap.
2. satire- a literary composition in which human folly and vice are held
up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. Airplane
4. Killian baseball loses star backup right fielder do to jetski accident.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

1. I will use this site because I can get many different items that I need off this site for free.
2. The best thing is that everything is cheap and you can find anything you need on this site.
3. It can be improved by making everything prices and selling items for these prices instead of saying that they are free and then once you request it, they make you pay a price for it.

Monday, January 29, 2007

1. What's at the Earth's core?
A solid ball of iron the size of the moon.
2. Why do we sleep?
The brain has to idle and we have to rest.
3. What is the universe made of?
Everything in existence plus other "stuff" that we have not yet discovered.
4. Will forests slow global warming - or speed it up?
The answer will depend on which insects eat the leaves. We have to know what lives in the
forest to predict what will happen to global warming.

Friday, January 26, 2007

Assignment 1: Cyber bullying
1. Cyber bullying is public humiliation on the internet where everybody can read about embarrassing things that happened in the past.
2. Myspace has released a guide for school administrators advising them to report acts of cyberbullying and created a hotline and email address for school officials to contact myspace.
3. A bully has never demanded me send them money through paypal. I don't know anyone that is a victim of cyberbullying.
4. The best approach is that there should be guidelines and restrictions about bullying and if bullying continues, there should be punishments.
5. Schools should be worried about cyberbullying because it will bother the students and the schools will be known for bullying. No one would want to attend a school with bullies so schools should recognize it as a major issue.


Assignment 2
1. It is all about a robot challenge that is going to take place.
2. I agree with the direction the technology is taking because it shows how advanced technology can really get and that our world of technology is increasing its abilities to show what it can do.


Assignment 3
1. I am not interested because it looks like they are criticizing American brains and it will be about killings.
2. I don't agree with the premise because there shouldn't even be a movie and the stunts will be extremely disrupting and disgusting.
3. We are getting dumber because our heads are being filled with disgusting images instead of what really matters so we are focusing on non issues instead of focusing what is important.


Assignment 4
1. I did watch the State of the Union address.
2. The hardest part of the job for the writers was to convince congress and the rest of the country that we need more troops in Iraq.
3. Bush proposed sending humans to Mars in 2004.