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Okay, so I was reading the most ah-mazing book today durring SSR, which is a silent reading period.  The book was Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer.  I was just getting to a really good part and then….poof…it was time to go!  I was so mad I didn’t want to stop reading!  So when I’m done doing this post and my homework that is what I am going to do….a.k.a. finish the book I have like 4 chapters left!

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Sorry I haven’t done this in a while, I just had so much going on!

ANY-WHO! I picked the song of this week to be Fences by Paramore.  I picked this song because it was about how people in Hollywood have no private lives and you have to just suck it up and accept it by putting on a fake front.  I like this song because it is very real and tells you what the paparratzi and gossip magazines try to cover up.

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Sorry that I haven’t been kepping up with my posts, but with CMT’s and everything else going on I haven’t had time.

The post isn’t Here! UH-OHH!  It’s actually on my About Me Page so it’s up there!

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10 Things That Impacted Andrew Jackson’s Life

1. His father died a few weeks before he was born.
2. He joined the army when he was 13.
3. A British Officer struck him with a sword when he was young after he refused to clean his boots.  It left a scar on him for life.
4. Andrew’s father and brothers died from serious diseases when he was still very young.
5. His mother left to be an army nurse when Andrew was little leaving him to be an orphan.
6. He was raised by his two uncles after his mother died when he was 14.
7. While he was in the war he and one of his brothers were captured for 2 weeks.
8. He received his elementary education, but he also had private tutors.
9. He was said to have a temper and very little patients.
10.  Andrew Jackson owned slaves because he was raised in the south.

http://www.rockwood.k12.mo.us/Lasalle/stretch/sixth/jackson/childhood.htm

http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/nc/bio/public/jackson.htm#Childhood

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/andrewjackson/p/pjackson.htm

http://www.facts-about.org.uk/american-president-andrew-jackson.htm

I feel that you should define a person by their intentions.  It took a long time to get this answer.  I kept going back and forth to the point where I followed Mr. B around the library listening to people and their sides.  After 45 minutes of this I still had no answer, so I kept thinking and thinking.  

Then I did some more thinking when I remembered that my cousin had one of her friends witness his friends hit and run accidents.  The kid that got hit didn’t survive.  The driver of that car didn’t intend on hitting and killing that child, but he probably will go to jail because those people on the jusry will define him by his actions.  Yes his actions were horrible and everyone wishes that this never happened, but it was (I hate using this word here…) an accident. He didn’t mean to.  Why would anybody want to do this to an innocent child.  

Another example is the way we vote for president.  President Obama gave us a whole bunch of promises, but there were no actions before we voted.  If we voted on his action then we would never be able to choose a president.  He won the election because he had better and more enticing intentions.  People trusted him more and believed his intentions.

This is why I feel that you should define people by their intentions.

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Last Month was African American History Month.  Our Social Studies teacher had us make digital stories about a famous African American.  Click on the link below.

Chrissy’s Movie About Ray Charles

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