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Thanksgiving is a huge holiday in the U.S.A.! My family usually go to my aunt’s house and have a big feast with tons of food that is related to Thanksgivivng.On thanks giving we usually think that they were all together celebrating about family, and eating turkey, but what we usually think about Thanksgiving is mostly all lies. For example, the first Thanksgiving was not about family because if it had been about family the Indians would have never invited the Indians because they weren’t even realted and they really didn’t like the Pilgrims. This just proves that what they teach you in school isn’t always true!(hahahahahahahahahahaha)

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This week was the last week of the blogging competition and I learned a lot about blogging!  I have many widgets on my blog as you can see that include music, lyrics to music on my blog, a map of visitors, a google search bar, a counter of visitors to my site, a calendar, and a glitter heart.  I really enjoyed this competition.  I have had about 376 visitors, 26 posts (including this one), around 31 comments on my blog, around 50 comments left on other peoples blogs, 7 widgets, and around 11 different countries.  By doing blogging it has improved my literacy skills immensely.  I think that I have improved by getting a greater vocabulary and better sentence structure.  I would have to say my best post would have to be the one about the important questions because after I published that post I think that it got a lot of other people thinking about what is really important to them and what they should change about what and how they do things.  I think that I improved the most in they area of just the lengths of my posts because they were all really short before and now they vary in length.  I have learned a lot of skills like how to attract visitors to your blog, how to make a blog, and how to put cool thing on your blog.  It is good to write with a world-wide audience in mind because then you will put more heart into it because more than just you and your teacher will be reading it. 

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I believe that this is the International Year of the reef because the ICRI International Year of the Reef 2008 is a world wide campaign focused on informing people about the beauty of the coral reefs and also to inform them about how anybody can help protect and preserve them.  This topic is relevant to my life because I think that the Great Barrier Reef in Australia is beautiful and I hope to live near their one day.  This is also a very interesting topic to me because I think that it is sooooooo cool how all of the fish live in the pretty coral.  Below are a few websites that help prove that this is the International Year of the Reef.

http://www.icriforum.org/

http://www.iyor.org/about/committee.asp

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Life in the 19th century was much more difficult than it is now, especially in the area of education, where the discipline was much stricter. 

19th century-Life in the 19th century was a lot more difficult than now because when the children misbehaved in class the teachers would use physical discipline.  They would hit the kids using a leather strap, a hickory switch, and a paddle.  These devices would be used as a motive for them to behave in school.

Now-Now when children misbehave the children get detention, lunch detention, or sent to the principles office.  If a teacher used physical discipline they would lose their job and probably end up in jail because the use of physical discipline is outlawed.

So as you can see life is very different now than in the 19th century.  Leave a comment if you agree with me, or better yet if you disagree so that I can be more in formed.

♥ Chrissy ♥

OK so my Best Friend moved away a few months ago and I haven’t heard from him since.  But today I got an email from him!!!! I’m sooooooooooooooo happy right now!!!!! Sorry random blogging moment!!!!!

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For class this week we had to write a letter to the President-Elect telling him on what we feel that the first issue we should address is and here is my copy of my letter.  Tell me what you think of my letter by leaving me a comment.

Dear President-Elect O’Bama,

        First off I just wanted to congratulate you on the fine path that lead you to where you are now.  I know that it must have been hard for you to get to where you are, one of the best and most powerful positions in the world.  I liked the way that you ran your campaign and when I am old enough to run for President I would like to have some of the same policies that you do because, well, they obviously worked.  You did a great job on your campaign trail and I hope, well the people of this great country hope to continue to do so.  Thank you for making the history that I thought that this country needed.

        But the reason for me writing this letter is not to just congratulate you on the fine job you did, it was to inform you on what I feel the first issue that you should address is.  I think and what everyone else thinks you should address is the economy because of the bad shape that it is in.  Also, because the economy is something that affects everyone everyday of their lives. 

        You should address this first because we all take part in it and if a couple of people are hurting it will impact the economy and when more people get impacted it will hurt everyone.  Also, the seven-hundred billion dollar bail out plan I believe is working, but very slowly.  I think that it would work faster if CEO’s of huge companies were not giving themselves fifty-thousand dollar raises and sending their employees on spa trips.  A solution to this problem would be to have all of the companies receiving money from the bail out program report what the use the money on to stop them from using the money on whatever they want while the rest of us are all suffering.

        We all are suffering except for the extremely wealthy and I feel that this should stop and have the rich not. Those people are taking the money that we give them and not putting it to good use, only to make us suffer even more.  I feel that it is not fair to everyone else and I’m sure that you will agree.  Thank you for taking the time to read my letter and I really hope that you will listen to my words and put them to use in you time as the President of the United States.

Sincerely,

Christine

My family, my school, and my self all recycle some in other ways than the others, but it really is all the same and we we are all helping to make the world a better place by stopping global warming.  My family recycles by taking all of the plastic, aluminum, and glass bottles or materials and put them in a big trash can and we go about once a month and bring them to a recycling center, so that they can dispose of the cans and bottles properly to help the Earth be a better place.  My school recycles by having one red and one blue bin in each class room and students are encouraged to put their scrap white paper in the red one and their water bottles in the blue bin.  Then the trash man comes at the end of the week and they bring the recycled goods into a recycling facility, but my music teacher claims that they just take it and put it into the same trash bags when they come pick up the stuff. I recycle in both of these ways because I am around my family everyday and at school 5 days a week.  I like to recycle because I feel like I can help the environment and that is something that I really care about.

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I recently visited 3 blogs and I thought that they were really cool.  The first blog I visited was Amanda’s Blog.  The post that I commented on was her post on Election Day.  I commented on this post because this is a recent event that everyone has an opinion on, so I wanted to express my opinion.  The next blog that I visited was Haley’s Blog.  I commented on Haley’s Blog post entitled  Songs: Have you heard them?.  I commented on this post because I saw that she listened to alot of the same songs that I listen to.  The last blog that I came across was Leveris’s Blog.  The blog post that I commented on was Celebrations.  I commented on this blog because I realized that one of the Holidays that they described was a similar event that takes place in America.

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You want to know why we don’t have school?  Yeah I know that you do.  It’s because of Veteran’s Day.  Veteran’s Day is to remember all of the people who have served in the U.S. military that’s what makes it so important.  We have this day off to remember the people who served in our armed forces.  It is also to commemorate the end of World War 1, which ended on November 11th 1918.  Some traditional activities that people do on Veterans Day is going to visit veteran’s in their family and tell them how much it means to them for all that they did for us. Some people also visit many Veteran’s Memorials to help the remember what veteran’s day is all about.

“I have every confidence that our Nation will respond wholeheartedly in the appropriate observance of Veterans Day, 1954.” – President Dwight D. Eiesenhower

An example of a Memorial in New York City.

http://flickr.com/photos/wallyg/332071143/ - Picture URL

http://www.military.com/veteransday/History.htm - Information URL

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New Year’s Day is one of the oldest Holidays celebrated today.  It first started in 2000 B.C. by the ancient Babylonians.  The New Year’s Day was signified by the new moon after the first day of spring.  While we celebrate New Year’s for one or two days, they celebrated New Year’s for eleven days.  The calender was then revised in 153 B.C. and it declared the first of January the start of the new year.  Some traditions include making New Year’s Resolutions (which people rarely stick to), The Rose Parade,and using a baby to signify the new year. Some people believe that what the do or eat on the first day of the first of the year would always bring the luck, so that’s why most people spend New Year’s with their family.

Chrissy

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