"'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.'" James Joyce

 

The reason why I agree with this is that because histories can sometimes be nightmares. when you got so much of history to study about, they begin to surround you and you might get crazy. But you must fight yourself through this nightmare and wake up. Thats the only way

Why do we study history?

We study history so that we could learn interesting and new things from the past because what the past had does nolonger exist. Like tooth brushes were name chew sticks when they were discovered in Egypt. In the past, there were still thesame things that exist even today. Like clothes, pots, pets, cultures, houses and many more. History can also be exiting for some people because history gets more exiting. I like history also but a littly.

Name: Richard Koys
Teacher: Miss. J
Class: Humanities
Date: 5/19/12
Title: 100-Year Starship: Mae Jemison reaches for the stars
Source of Article: http://www.BBC.com/future news/story/24150558-reaching-for-the-stars
Author of Article: Sharon Weinberger 
Date of Article: 18 may 2012
Exact Location: US, New York
New words: No new words
Definition: No definition

This place is in space. A women named Mae Jemison that has reached the stars with a 100 years old starship has made it. The reason why this women wnt to outer space with a 100 years old starship was because the scientists had some starship but some were already in use and some were already being built. But the scientists had a little secret. The old scientists from 100 years ago hid a starship in a basment and it stayed there from generation to generation. The ship is still working today and is a very dusty. The enginns may have been broken a bit but the starship is still working! After theship was prepared, Mae Jemison got on board and blasted off. After she was in space, she finally reached the stars! Everyone cheered for here victory! They even celebrated here success because she got to the stars with a 100 years old starship. And if there was a race between the 100 years old starship vs 2012 starship, which one would win?

My thoughts about this article was that I dont really belive that a 100 years old starship could still work even if it was rusty, dusty or the enginns didnt work. I think that the person who posted the article (not me) must have made a mistake on something or didnt concentrate on what he was doing! I mean who would belive that a 100 years old starship would have succeded if it was very old?

Name: Richard 6A
Teacher: Miss. J
Class: Humanities
Date: 27/4/2012
Title: US industry to build Solar Orbiter Satellite
Source of Article: http://www.bbc.uk.com/news/science-environment-14743241
Author of Article: Johnathan Amos
Date of Article: 26/4/2012
Exact Location: USA, New York
New words: no new words
Definition: no definition

Johnathan Amos, the smartest scientific inventor has created a new invention of his own: The Solar Orbital Satelite or the SOS. This satelite is not that small or big. It will be launched into space after it is programmed and completed. Johnathan explained that the satelite has a power beam projector that gets the energy from the sun because people want to find out how much warmness does the sun give us. And has two blue wings. When the satelite absorbs too much energy from the sun, the wings begin to flip or spin to block the suns rays. Ones in 1999, some other scientists from a another country have build the same but different satelite but it failed because they forgot to put some specaial oil to it and the satelite got swallowed by the omega hot cylinder ( I mean the sun) Some scientists are nervus about their success and so are the people. Are they going to fail? We will soon find out.

My thoughts about this article was that I didnt really got interested in this because I have heard a tons of times about these satelites and even better ones. In the future, if someone putes a atomic bomb in a satelite, it will make the sun explode! And I am scared of the dark when we dont have the sun. But still, the satelite is very small and looks funny.

Biodiversity loss: How accurate are the numbers?

Name: Richard 6A
Teacher: Miss. J
Class: humanities
Date: 4/26/2012
Title: Biodiversity loss: How accurate are the numbers?
Source of Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-178268972
Author of Article: Richard Knight
Date of Article: 24/4/2012
Exact Location: Rio de janero
New words: Vary
Definition: Vary: to increase

One website claims: "We are indeed experiencing the greatest wave of extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs." But there are even bigger problems than that. All the spieces around the world are begining to dissapear! Every hour about 3 spieces are lost and after 24 hours, 150 spieces are lost. Even scientist are begining to say that when 3 spieces are lost every hour, then 72 spieces are lost a day. Nobody knows where, how and why are the spieces dissapearing. And nobody knows how many spieces are in the world. "Current estimates of the number of species can vary from, let's say, two million species to over 30 or even 100 million species," says Dr Braulio Dias. Some people are trying to save all the animals. They saved some dolphins and a south eastern China Tiger. The other animals? They were not very lucky.

My thoughts about this story was that I really became sad when I noticed that spieces are beginning to dissapear. I really like all the spieces in the world ( well, not all of them) but I even wish I knew the truth why the spieces are dissapearing. But I hope that there will be a day when the spieces will stop dissapearing.

Here is a picture of a South-Eastern China Tiger:

Argentina train crash in Buenos Aires 'kills dozens'

Author: unknown
Date: 22 febuary 2012
Time: last updated at 17:05


There has been a train crash in Argentina in Buenos Aires. The train has hit a barrier at the end of the train station. About 49 of people were killed but some of them survived. The train driver said that the brake was broken and he could not stop the train. This accident happend at 10 o'clock in the morning. When the train was going to crash, all the people started to panic and started to break the window. Some people got out of the windows, the others were very unlucky. The train was going 12mph and it crashed all the engines and destroyed the barrier which everyone thought that might collapse. About more than 12 of hospital cars needed to transport the injured people. This accident happened today and I think that right now the hospital people are having a hard time by taking care of the injured people one at a time. And the worst, this costs a lot of money and the injured people might miss their fun that they planned.

My thoughts about this article were that I feel very sorry for the injured people but I don't blame the driver for not stoping the train because there would be no way. But I hope the hospital people are working as hard as they can right now.

Should animals be stunned before slaughter?

Author: Raffi BergDate: 30 November 2011
Time: Last updated at 18:55

Some people around the world are asking if the animals should be stunned before they get slaughtered. Some people say that they should be because some dangerous animals could hurt people if they don't get stunned first. But other people say that the people should just slaughter the animals right away without getting them stunned. But they are wrong because if the people don't stun the animals, they would get really hurt and nobody wants that. But the true thing that the other people say that animals should never be killed because killing animals is never friendly. Right now there are several groups like PETA fighting for the animals rights and the government doesn't know what to do. Many people fight to win against the animal rights but the war is very hard to win for either side. Finally in the end, the government has finally made their final desision but that will be revealed in the next article part 2 because the article ends right here but will be continued next time.

My first thought about this article was that I agree with the people that say that animas shouldn't now be killed because that is very unfriendly. But I'm really excited about the second part of the story because I am going to write about it as soon as it comes out. Leave me some comments on gmail about your thoughts about which decision do you think the government will make.