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The Hunger Games is an amazing movie. Katniss is from district 12. She volunteered to go to the Hunger Games after her sister Prim got picked. Katniss and Petta goes to the Hunger Games. They go through training and the went to the games. Katniss met Rue from district 11, and they survive together until marvel from district 1, threw a spear at her. Then they announced that 2 people from the same district can win. Katniss goes to find Petta. They killed Cato and they won but then an announcement said that there could only be one person. So Katniss and Petta was about to eat death berries until they announced again that the won.

The movie was great. I liked it because it had lots of exciting events. I would recommend it but not to anyone under 13 due to extreme violence. But in all, it was worth the time. It was 2 hours and 22 minutes. Anyone who likes adventure should see this movie.

This temple was dedicated to the Olympian God Zeus. It took seven centuries to finish. Zeus is the king of all gods. The Athens started the temple in the 6th century BC. The columns in the temple has the Corinthian columns, the temple is made of rows of these fancy columns. It use to have 104 columns, but now it only has 15 columns. Each column is 17 meters high. While the Athens were building the temple, they had to stop building in 510 BC due to political disorders when the Tyrant Hippias was exiled from Athen. The temple is built 3 by 4 and 3 standing on it’s own.
The temple was left unfinished for 336 years. In 174 BC the King Antiochus IV Empiphanes started the reconstruction of the temple. He replaced the material from limestone to the high quality Pentelic Marble. But Antiochus died, once again the temple was left unfinished. In 125 BC the Roman Empire Hadrian included this temple in his Athens building program. In the middle of the 15th century, 21 remained. Although, it took centuries to finish, it was worth it. The whole temple had 104 columns when it finished. In 1852, there was a huge storm that caused the 16th column to blow over. Now there is 15 columns remaining.

The finished temple only survived for a few centuries, all the centuries of building this temple fell as each column fell. This is important to history because this shows how much the Greeks worshiped this powerful god. The Greeks went to this building to worship this god.

If I was in charge, these are the changes I would make is: 1. Only quiet students play on their DS, DSI, 3DS, IPOD, IPAD, MP3, or go to the computer lab on Fridays. Those who are loud can sit in the office and do work. 2. I would make the school lunch menu better. 3. Students will be released early on Wednesdays. 4. You would have to do homework in the computer labs. 5. If you are done with homework on the computer, you could go on Youtube. If I was principal, that was all the changes I would make.

Angel Huynh & Carlia Dabel
Home room: 318
February 9, 2012
Greek Merchant Boats

Ancient Greece started in the 6th, century it was once one of the world’s largest shipping nations. Many Greeks were merchants who sold and traded things from one place to another. They sold things all around the Meditarrean Sea. The ships often carried wine, wheat, olive oil, perfume, glass, cup, vases, jewelry, clothing, and metal tools.
Greek merchant boat had sails instead of oarsmen’s. During the heroic period the Greeks had three types of ships oared galleys and round ships with sails and trireme. Greek boats are important because in ancient Greece they didn’t have that much food, plants or water. Because of the rocky lands, they have to trade for food. Most of the crops grown in Greece failed to grow before harvest season. They use merchant boats to trade for important recourse and things they don’t hat they don’t have at home.
Each town has at least two merchant boats. Traditionally a seafaring nation, the Greek-owned merchant fleet totaled 3,338 ships in March 2005, 8.7% of the world merchant fleet and 16.5% of world tonnage. The Greeks got things from advanced cultures like Egyptians, Phoenicians, Persians and anything else on the cost of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Seas.
Merchant ships were building with rectangular cloth sails. Navigating the ships was difficult. The Greeks had no compasses or charts. The Greeks use stars to guide them. No light houses warned sailors of dangerous coastlines inspite of these dangerous adventures. Sailors carried more and more goods.
Back in ancient Greece ships were very significant there were the easiest ways to travel them gather food and transported it to different places and most significant they use them in big wars and battles. They have different ships for different jobs: one warships merchant ship etc…
These merchant boats were important to us because the Greeks found out a new way to trade and import many different items, and a faster way to travel instead of using horses. Without the idea of trading and shipping the Greece and everyone who lives in it will sees to exist.

My New year's resolution is to have the best year ever! I want to hang out with my friends, and have some time alone. Not every year is the same or what i expect. When you are in the middle of the year, it felt like a thousand years before another year comes. But, when you look back, it felt like it blew over like a blink of an eye. I also have another resolution, it's to be less stress. I get stressed out when I'm stuck on a math problem or I'm completely stumped! And at time when i screw things up, I get so frustrated, I get angry, furious. I get so enraged. And that's all my resolutions.