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Our enviroment is a system. Its a system becuase everything is like cycle. A cycle is a lot of liitle things becoming one big thing.

During my long weekend I missed school on Friday becuase my brother had a baseball tournement a long ways away. I didnt stay in a hotel I stayed with my family that lives nearby. I missed school on Friday becuase my mom wanted us to spend time with our family. We usaully dont see them so we had to. The first game of the tournement my brother played a team that they had lost to before. Their name is Mudville. My brothers team ended up winning 11-1. The next game my brothers team played a another team that they had already lost to. Their name is Stampede. My brothers team started out really bad that game. Their first pitcher gave up 10 runs before they pulled him out in the third. The next pitcher pitched the rest of the game and gave up 6 runs. In the last inning my brothers team scored 4 runs but that was not enough. The final score was 16-4 and my brothers team lost. The next day my I wasnt their to watch my brother. I was spending extra time with my family. Their first game my brother played a team he had beat last year. Their name was Pennensula. My brothers team won that game. the next game they played a team named the Diamond Jaxx. They lost that game. The Diamond Jaxx were a really good team who got 2nd place in the tournement. The 3rd and final day of the tournement my brother played a team that he had beat the year before. Their names were the Timberjacks. The first batter of the game hit a triple and scored the first run of the game.The score was 8-5, and the bases were loaded. My brothers team mate hit a triple to tye the score. The game in the 7th was 8-8. They ended up going into extra innings. Its weird how they do extra innings in that tournement. They start with the last out of the 7th inning on 2nd base. The Tomberjacks were up first. The guy on 2nd base stole 3rd. Then they got a hit and he scored. Then they got 3 outs and my brothers team was up. They started with my brothers team mate stealing 3rd. Then there were 2 outs and the bases were loaded again for the same guy who hit the clutch triple. He ended up getting the game winning single. The final score was 9-8. Then they had to play a team my brothers team never beats. They werent that good this year so my brothers team should win this game, but the other team was from very far away and they wanted to get home and not play. But my brothers team wanted to play so they did anyway. They lost 11-5. They ended up getting 6th place.

No Taxation without Representation
By: Lemony
May 20 2008

In 1662 King Charles granted a charter to Connecticut Colony giving the colonists the rights to make their own laws (Speare, 70). Assemblies elected by the colonists made laws, set taxes, and raised companies of troops, called militia to defend the colonists (Carter, 8). In 1687, King James, wanted British Parliament to make laws for the colonists (Speare, 75).

In 1765, British Parliament could make laws for the colonists. The King needed to pay for the French and Indian War so he made laws to tax the colonists (Harcourt, 266).

The King started the Sugar Act in 1764 (Harcourt, 272). “This tariff angered colonists. But what bothered them most was that they had had no part in making this tax law” (Harcourt, 272). The King and Parliament all hade a say in passing laws. “Unlike other British citizens, the colonists could not elect lawmakers… but Parliament was quick to remind colonists they were British subjects” (Harcourt, 265)

The Stamp Act was another blow to the colonists’ democratic ideals. The colonists had been practicing self-government for years (Harcourt, 263). The Stamp Act of 1765 was another attempt by Parliament to get the colonists to help pay the war dept. “The Stamp Act required colonists to pay for a stamp (to show they paid the tax) or all paper goods like newspapers.

Parliament added these new laws to show they could still make laws for the colonists (Harcourt, 277). The Stamp Act Congress met to get the act repealed. Patriot James Odis said the famous quote, “No Taxation Without Representation!” (Harcourt, 274). These British laws were directly against the democratic ideals of self-government the colonists had been practicing for 100 yrs.

The colonists did not get to elect representation into British Parliament. They did not have any say in the tax laws they were being forced to pay. The King made a third law that angered the colonists, the tax on tea, 1773(Maestro, 7). The colonists believed in democracy (Harcourt, 263). The colonists were not represented in British Parliament and believed the only way to ensure their rights was to fight for them.

The colonists were British citizens living in America. When The Sugar Act, The Stamp Act, and The Tax on Tea were trampling their rights, they first appeared to the King and Parliament. When that didn’t work they protested. Eventually, the rally cry of “No Taxation without Representation” would lead the colonists to fight for their freedom. The colonists wanted a true representation government.

“The Congress sent an appeal for peace and harmony to King George and suggested that Parliament get rid of all the unconstitutional laws controlling America (Schanzer, 27). In 1776, in the Revolutionary War, British colonists fight Britain for the right to become American citizens and be truly free.

References
By: Lemony
May 20, 2008

Carter, Alden. The American Revolution. New York: Franklin Watts, 1992.

Harcourt, Brace. We The; Early United States. Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 2000.

January, Brendan. The Revolutionary War. New York: Children’s Press, 2000.

Maestro, Betsy. Liberty or Death; The American Revolution 1763-1783. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.

Schanzer, Rosalyn. George vs. George: The American Revolution as seen from Both Sides. Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2004.

Speare, Elizabeth George. The Witch of Blackbird Pond. New York: bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. 1958.

Hey everybody I just wanted to say hi!!! HI EVERYBODY!!!! I dont know what to talk about but my teacher told me to make it longer. Guess what? I'm on the computer!!! Todays time is 12:09 PM. Today is Thursday April 17, 2008. I am wearing ugly white shoes, blue jeans, and a grey sweatshirt!!! bYe ByE!!!

During Spring Break I was in Olympia with my family. I have a lot of cousins so I basicly went there to baby sit. My cousin(s) had a birthday and it was fantastic. We had a water balloon fight and we had a pinyata. I got back on Sunday the day before school started.

Right now I am sitting in 2 cumfy chairs stacked up on each other writing in a red folder with a Paper-Mate Classic HB 2 pencil on the biggest round table in the classroom that has 4 books on it, 1 tablebin, and one class picture in a school in the USA in the world, this room is Rm. 2 and my backpack is on my 2 cumfy chairs.

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