The video I recently watched was called New York Stock Exchange Floor Tour. It was a tour of the world's largest marketplace. Did you know that students travel to the New York Stock Exchange to experience what the Floor is like. They learn about so many different things such as the IPOS, the technology used to monitor and affect market activity. The bell that rings in the morning at the New York Stock Exchange signifies the beginning of trading every single day at the New York Stock Exchange. Meaning that you can now begin trading stocks. Did you know that every thirty seconds 40.5 million stocks are shared. You can actually trade stocks physically and electronically. The four stocks that I chose were Yahoo! Inc., Analog Device, Inc., Johnson and Johnson and Home Depot. For more information on the Stock Market click here! 

I had been very frightened for my dear friend because I did not see the need for Philomena to go with her father and mother to Rome to see the Emperor Diocletian. When I returned home, I asked my parents if I would be able to write letters to Philomena. They said I could not write letters to Philomena because if the letters were discovered, Diocletian could have us or Philomena’s family killed. I never did write her a letter, but I missed her terribly. We found out later , Philomena and her family arrived in the capital and proceeded directly to Emperor Diocletian’s castle.

As soon as they walked into the castle Diocletian had his eyes fixed upon Philomena. He was enthralled by her beauty and wanted to marry her; she refused and told him and her parents that she had vowed her virginity to the Lord, Our God, when she was a young girl of 13 at the Greek Orthodox Church during Sunday session with the priest. After days of her refusal Diocletian threw a fit of fury and had her chained in the dungeon.

Philomena kept refusing all of Diocletian offers and so Diocletian ordered for Philomena to be thrown into a river with an anchor tied to her neck. Philomena was faithful to God and he sent two angles to save her; they cut the rope and brought her to shore. The next day Philomena refused his offer and he had ordered her to be killed by arrows, but she was saved by the two angels again. Finally, on the third day,  Philomena refused his final offer, and he ordered her to be beheaded. Philomena died on August 10, 304 in Rome, Italy at the age of 13.

 Philomena’s faith in God shows us that we should never give up on God and always have faith in him no matter how bad the situation. My family and I honor my friend, Philomena in a day of feasting on every August 11. Although I never got to see her again, I still remember her in this prayer as I may one day be crowned in heaven with thee someday as well.

“So, that wearing thy holy cord and imitating thee in this life,

I may one day be crowned with thee in heaven.

Amen.

Before Morgan could start this challenge of eating McDonald’s for 30 days straight. He visited 3 specialists to see if he was healthy enough to start.  During the first 2-3 weeks of this diet Morgan was throwing up and having stomach pains etc., during the last couple weeks; he started feeling out of breath too. He learned that although McDonald’s may seem delicious and so much fun to go there to get the toys and to play in the jungle gym, the food is very bad for you with high sodium and sugar levels. The labels may say with real potatoes or with no sugar added or real fruit, people should ask for the nutrition table to see if those things are all true. "SuperSize Me" may seem like a gross and disgusting video about a person who has no life, but to most people who are watching it they are learning that products at the McDonald’s are not what they are cut out to be. The only exercise that Morgan is getting is walking to and from each McDonald’s and then walking up the steps to his apartment. Morgan may have seemed healthy, but when he went to the specialists, the numbers he received for his cholesterol and other things.

I learned that each person that goes to McDonald’s should only be going there about once or twice a year and exercising afterwards and they should keep exercising daily if they want to be physically fit. Below are the equations that we talked about during our health class, they tell you how much weight is lost or gained and the calories burned. I was personally affected by this documentary because I don’t normally go to McDonald’s and it was interesting to see that by this video all of the things that I learned from this video I didn’t realize that McDonald’s could be that bad for you. I rarely go to McDonald’s and I now don’t really want to go after seeing that documentary in health class.

*Maintain weight: calories eaten = calories burned

  Lose weight: calories eaten < calories burned

                                                                  Gain weight: calories eaten > calories burned

       In this project each student was assigned a country and had to write a report on the country explaining some of the history, the good foods and things that fascinated us the most. This project was assigned by our social studies teacher and was a great learning experience for all of the students. I especially liked doing this project because I got to discover things about Poland that I never knew. This project took a lot of work but in the long run of things I think the whole class enjoyed working on a country that they knew little about. It taught all of us a bit of creativity, to learn things our way, and mostly how to research things and how to write. I hope our teacher does another project like this again sometime soon!

      Here are the8 Millennium Development Goals:

1. Water: To create sanitary water to the countries needed.


2. Hunger: To make sure that all children and adults get food. To make sure that people are not malnourished in any country.


3. Child Survival: To make sure that all children will survive. Did you know that 153 million children are below their ideal weight?


4. Child Labor:  Annually 500 thousand women die when giving birth or during their pregnancy. In Africa's Sub-Saharan region 1 in 6 women die in these conditions.


5. Education: 115 million children are NOT enrolled in school.


6. Women's Rights: 64% of the Wolrd's illiterate population is women. 60% of children NOT enrolled in primary school are girls/women.


7. Displacement: 80% of the world's refugee population is women.


8. HIV and AIDS/Diseases: Every year 10 million children die of preventable diseases. In the year 2000, 22 million people died of AIDS.

   There was progress in Malawi! Malawi achieved a 53% food surplus in 2007. Going from a 43% food surplus in 2005. That is a 10% difference to the people living in Malawi! The people in Malawi really appreciate all of the people that helped them to get food. I hope you will take the time to help people, not only in Malawi but the people in many other countries. People can say that they "helped" but in reality... The question is will you take the time to read this blog, read the articles that are attached, and help someone who is willing to help you if it were you in this type of situation? 

Will You?  

Too Much Rain in Iowa! 

 Now here is a picture of where I'd LOVE to be! I think you would like to be there too! 8) Here is the website that I got the picture from:  flickr <- CLICK THERE 

 ~ 1 an object at rest stays at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. This law is often called “the law of inertia".  

 ~ 2 Acceleration is produced when a force acts on mass. The greater the mass the greater the amount of the force needed to accelerate an object.

~ 3 for every action there is an equal and opposite re-action.

                    Now I am going to talk about the roller coaster my team built and what roles every person had. The roller coaster that I and my team made was called "The Stormy Jungle." In my group there was a lot of ... PROBLEMS!!!! Now, I am not going to go into the problems that we had but they other people in my group might. Anyway my role was the the physicist. The physicist had to find out about the physics of the roller coaster and the momentum of the roller coaster. The next role was the design engineer. That person had to find out the energy of a roller coaster and they were kinetic energy and potential energy. The last role was the historian. That person had to find out about Newton's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Laws of Motion.   

           The roller coaster that we designed I think was a success because we used teamwork to get the project done after we compromised. If I had to choose to change anything I wouldn't change a thing! I thought the 2nd roller coaster that we made was awesome. Here is a hyperlink to a reliable source of information about roller coasters: The Stormy Jungle Roller Coaster Information.  Below is an image and the name of the person who posted it, the name of the picture and a hyperlink to the picture website:

 Colossus, Thorpe Park Thanks to Hywel Williams who labeled it for reuse form Creative Commons License! 

>Children/ Teens have commited sucide.

>Children/Teens have left the schools because of bulling-or have lied and said that they have not  been bullied.

>Some children and teens have said that they haven't been bullied and they really are being bullied... when you know that you are being bullied tell someone immediatley!!!

If you want to know more information on being bullied go to this website/ click the bold letters below "digital etiquette".

 In reading class we were reading a novel called "Banner in the Sky" . It was alot of fun then we had to pick out a mountain and I got Mt. Vinson. Hope you enjoy my glog!!! hyperlink http://2013olph021.edu.glogster.com/glog-5803/

1. If someone cyber bullies you ignore it at first, but if it keeps happening you should tell an adult such as your mom or dad, teacher, principal, etc.

2. If you go online to buy items make sure in the URL space it says https otherwise it is probably not a safe site.

3. Make sure if you want to post a picture that you like that one because once you post it you cannot get it back.

4. Do not EVER, EVER, EVER give out personal info. ex: no phone numbers, passwords, addresses, usernames and sometimes even pictures.

5. If an unknown website comes up ask an adult or guardian if the website is okay to stay on it.

6. Don't put any words that could hurt any body because you could hurt people

7. Do not talk to people that you do not know on social networking.

8. Never open an email if you do not recognize it.

9. Don't have a screen name that gives away your identity.

10. Be sure to DELETE any internet scams. 

Be sure to follow all these internet safety tips and you will be as safe as can be on the internet. Have fun and enjoy!!

1. The lunches are so good and the atmosphere is teriffic! My favorite lunch is Baked Ziti!!!

2. Every year we have 2 or 3 carnivals which are so much FUN because there is games, drinks, food, there is Hay Ride where the 8th graders pull you in a wagon up the hallway and best of all it is normally on a Friday then we have a half day.

3. I love all the honors classes like Enrichment that I am in with the teacher Mrs. K.  who is so encouraging about all our class assignments, class writing, and any other activities. I especially enjoy all the people in the class too and I love the "Stories with Holes".

Thank you so much for reading about my school and all the fun facts about it.

Hey,Haley I had a CRAZY weekend too because I was just getting over being sick!!! I hate being sick because then you have to haulandnbsp;all the books back to school!andnbsp;Iandnbsp;think that CRAZY weekends are pretty common.

I also found a girl named Jaiden and this is the comment I would give her:

Hello Jaiden, I love Halloween too and I am going withandnbsp;all my friends in the neighborhood! I have a feeling that I am going to see something REALLY REALLY... SCARY! This halloween I am going as a go go girl and I will try to have fun no matter what.andnbsp;

I found someone named Eagle19 this is the comment I would give:

Hi Eagle19,andnbsp;I love jokesandnbsp; especially the ones you wrote! I love to laugh that is why I chose your jokes.

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