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If you could give a presidential candidate advice, what would it be?

I would write something along the lines of “A Needed Change”
*(This will most likely be changed before Monday)

 I believe this movie has a lot to share. It barely has any colored photos, no words just simply a meaningful song yet it still gets it's point across to it's audience. I think this video, though the others had very powerful messages this one I could understand the most. I think the life lesson is that no matter what you should always find happiness in other people. Every single person has a different lesson to share, a different life story. You will always be able to confide in somebody, or have somebody who cares for you. Listen to other people, don't ignore them, every single person has something important to say.

Why students should come to class?

My opinion:
I do think this is a wonderful idea, but I don’t think many people will agree with it. There will be no interaction other than yourself and the computer. Even with as much work as we do on the computer in our classes we still do other things, we still have discussions as a class and listen to everybody’s opinions and include those into our work. I think that our projects would be very straight forward and there wouldn’t be as much creativity due to the fact not many people are adding there ideas and input into it. I know for myself, I have trouble with math and I have to focus really hard and really pay attention. I think if I was listening to the teacher through the computer, I’d get easily distracted and it would be harder for me to learn it rather than the teacher being with the class in person. I do think this program has it’s high points though, and it really is a great idea.

(Mr. B, I couldn’t find where to comment him….but that’s what I would say, if I find out how to do it in the meantime I’ll post it.)

So I, just like many others, took this blog assignment as something we would like to be in the future. Some things I realize I should have been more specific about (the second slide, I am always there for my friends and family, but I'd like to continue being that way is what I meant). Everything in this slide is 100% true and I am trying my best to work on who I really want to be. Hope you enjoy!

*Note: Let me apologize in advanced for my cracky voice (I've got a cold) and for all the noise in the backround. I thought the microphone in my computer would do just fine, but it didn't manage to block out all the noise in the backround, and my family just didn't feel the need to cooperate with me tonight.

I should really stop writing my blogs on paper before I post them, and then waiting so long to post them because it gets confusing, but I can’t always get to a computer and for whatever reason my phone refuses to work in sync with Learnerblogs. Anyway I wrote this on November 2nd, but the pictures were found today.

I wanted to pick somebody from a more recent date, but I really couldn’t find anybody other than any athletes that were born and sure, they’re good entertainment, but I don’t really think they give any sort of contribution that’s really important.

I decided to go with John James Sainsbury born in 1884 a English billionaire. John Sainsbury founded the Sainsbury supermarket chain now the largest part of J Sainsbury plc. From one store in Holborn, London, opened at 173 Drury Lane in 1869, he built a chain of supermarkets which numbered 128 when he died. When he died in 1928, his last words were “Keep the shops well lit.” By 1882 John James had opened a total of 4 shops and counting. Between 1890 and 1900 the number of Sainsbury’s branches grew from 16 to 48. Although none of the shops have been owned by a Sainsbury since the 1900’s they still recieve 14% of profit. It was said that John grew up in a very poor family and was determined to make high quality items as affordable as possible and his store quickly gained popularity.  Throughout his life Sainbury’s remained a family business he was very dedicated to and passed it down through the years. Jame’s took on the title of Chairman and Governing Director, which he held until his death in 1928.

He seemed to be a very respectful and responsible man and really if you think about his accomplishments and going from a very poor family to a billionaire is quite encouraging.

*Note: I do not own any of these pictures, they were found off www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/BUsainsbury.htm 

For this blog, I opted to go with my Dad. I was thinking about a couple of other internet businesses (i.e. youtube, facebook, myspace, etc.), but after I waited for about a week or so and got no responses I gave up and decided to go with my Dad. My dad own’s a business called Carnival At The Mall. No, there are no rides, games, or music, well unless you count the music playing in the mall. Anyway, my dad had an idea about 3 years ago (?)  to open a kiosk that contained fried dough, cotton candy, candy apples, icecream, everything that you can find at a carnival or a fair, seriously. So since I never really questioned him about it and just let him go along with his business I decided to surprise him with a E-Mail while I was at the rink (thank goodness for my sidekick!)

 He responded and said that it is a fun experience, and it’s always a pleasure to have all sorts of sweets at any second of the day. Sometimes it get’s extremely tiring with all the cleaning and expenses that go along with a business, but I enjoy it.

I know I definitely enjoy it due to the cotton candy machine located at home. When the rink holds banquets or fundraisers (for either figure skating or hockey) my dad always manages to cart along a few of his machines and we always have a great time with all the sweets!

I was really unsure of what to write, and I’m not quite sure if this qualifies, but I’d assume so seeing as I obviously did not know it or else I wouldn’t of looked it up.

So I decided I wanted to know what the most common names of kids in America for the year of 2006 were. I didn’t expect there to be a list for 2007 seeing as the year has not ended yet so I opted for ‘06, but this list was update May 17, 2007 so these names are pretty recent. A couple of them surprised me I didn’t expect some of them to be on there, but it was pretty fun looking at them. The top 5 most common boy names were (in order): Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan, and Matthew. The top 5 most common girl names were (in order): Emily, Emma, Madison, Isabella, and Ava. I’m sure everybody hears a lot of those names today, and have one person or maybe even two with those name’s in your class today. I found it pretty cool, so did a couple other people I told. Eventually a little debate, I guess you can call it, broke out upon the people when they disagreed with a name’s popularity.

Leave your comments, insights, ideas, opinions, anything!

For blog action day I decided to write about saving Trees. I know this topic has been done time and time again, but it is a topic of real importance. Trees do a lot for us, a lot of things we just take for granted such as: clean fresh air, improvement of water quality, saving energy, and get this, raising real estate value!

If it weren’t for our plentiful amount of trees we would not have tree foliage working to get rid of dust, micro sized metals and pollutants such as ozone, nitrogen oxides, ammonia and sulfur dioxides. As I’m sure everybody has once heard in their lifetime and knows that trees take in carbon dioxide which produces oxygen. Tree canopies and root systems slow down and reduce storm water flooding and erosion. Trees also help filter water runoff reducing potential sources of water pollution into our rivers and storm drains. As a result we have nice fresh water. Trees, obviously, provide shade, but they also have water evaporation from the leaves, both cool the air naturally. Generally homes that are shaded by trees spend a lot less money due to using less energy for cooling the house down. Usualyl neighborhoods that are well shaded and have nice landscaped yards are desired more when looking to buy a house.

Trees do a LOT more than just providing us oxygen in which we need for our every day lives, which is why I believe people should think more before cutting down trees. I agree that for every tree cut down another tree should be planted in its place, well not exactly where it once stood, but another tree for ever tree cut down. I would like to know everybody elses opinions on this matter, feel free to leave comments and thoughs.

I, unfortunatly, was unable to contact the maker of this podcast on his page since it required you to have an iTunes account, which I don’t have. The person said to send an E-Mail, but I’d rather not have some random person knowing my E-Mail address.

I thought the podcast was great! The person makes daily podcasts about whats new in Hollywood and what’s going on among the celebs. I mean lets face is, as much as we DON’T want to a large portion of us do enjoy hearing all the drama that is happening to these stars. I searched through many blogs. Name anything, I bet you I searched it. I almost gave up thinking this project was impossible. After some reasurring that “nothing is impossible” and glancing at the weekly Us magazine my Mom always buys I finally got an idea. I searched celebrities and found a podcast called The Gossip Girls. I listened to all of the podcasts that were made dating back to September 25th, 2007 and was pretty into it by the time I reached the last one dated October 10th, 2007. I learned that a lot of stars were out Sunday night to attend the fourth annual movie line Hollywood Lifestyle Awards. The event was held at the Pacific Designs Center in West Hollywood, California was a big hit. Pete Wentz along with Ashlee Simpson, Vanessa Hudgens, Kim Kardashian, and Teri Hatcher. I do intend to check up on this podcast as often as I can and hear the latest celebrity gossip. If you’re into that kind of stuff, I highly recommend checking it out!