:. World Disasters.

Earthquake- In Chile, killed more than 700 people. Troops and police cracking down on looters, arrested dozens of people for violating a curfew. Coastal towns were almost completely destroyed because of earthquake with soon after tsunami.

Global Warming- It is hard to convince people that global warming is an issue with all the snow lately. Short term climate changes such as the snow storms in the eastern U.S this winter are not the same thing as Long term climate changes.

European Storm- France hit hardest. Storm killed at least 62 people across coast of western Europe. Left one million homes without electricity. Storm also battered Belgium, Portugal, Spain, and parts of Germany and stalled train and air travel throughout the continent.

All of these storys are about the world's problems. Disasters effect world trade and other business and global warming is always something that effects everyone and everyone should try to do things to help prevent it.

I think that the most important of all of these stories is global warming. Because even though you can not drastically see the effects now, later on in life other people will and might effect them harmfully. People should take it into much more consideration than they do right now.

Night book review

Elie Wiesel‘s book Night haunted me with its story of Elie surviving the Holocaust. I believe that every person should take the time to read this book.

The theme of this book could be never give up. Elie was close to breaking down through the hardships he endured while in the concentration camps, but never gave up and died with millions of others. The author’s style is strait forward and easy to read. It made me feel as though I was actually with him in the camps. It is very unique because of the fact that it had really happened.

Main Characters in Night include mostly just Elie and his father. Elie and his father are separated from their family when they arrive at the first camp. They meet many others that they get separated from such as one of their family members they did not usually see otherwise.

The setting for the most part is with in concentration camps in Europe during the Holocaust. Nazis slaughter Jews in the death camps that they pass on the way to the camp that Elie and his father go to. Living conditions were poor. People die from starvation because of the lack of food. They live in close spaces with no sanitation. The plot is a great one because when Elie makes you think it’s about to be over it is not. The book is not long but he draws out the ending.

I would recommend this novel to anyone who would like to learn about the Holocaust. The novel will help anyone have a better understanding of what actually happened to people during this terrible time. It was a good book.

Completing of junior year...thoughts

I am happy to be completing my junior year. This year has been a long one, and had many good times and bad times during it. The main points in my year include soccer, school work, and friends.

The beginning of soccer turned out to be very good. A week before the first game I tore some ligaments in my knee in half in off season football. After that happened, I decided to not do football and just do soccer for now on. I was in the hospital for a week and at home for another week. Our team did not win conference, but still got to go to the state tournament. I recovered quick and got to play in the state games. We won the first state match. We lost the second to the team that ended up winning the tournament. Our team is only going to lose one starter next year so we should do very well.

School over all was good. I had above a three point four all year long and took the ACT once. I did not do to well on it though. I scored a nineteen because I failed to take it seriously enough and did not get any sleep because I had a lot of friends over at my house the night before so I had did not sleep any that night. School work was easier after I got my laptop for Christmas. It helps a ton for getting things done at home.

After school and on the weekends was great. My friends and I were always up to something crazy and fun. I started going out with my girlfriend Riley on December nineteenth. Shes one of the best things in my life. On the weekends, I would be with her or running around with my friends. We play soccer, Xbox Live, and just chill.

This year overall was alright. It proved to be easy like classes before have said. The year was a little boring compared to last though.

Haiku

Holocaust was bad

Segregation, murdering

Few made it throgh it

Thoughts on Holocaust Research

The Holocaust proved to be a horrible time in history. The research that I have found about the Holocaust has taught me a lot more than what I knew before about this subject. I think that everyone should learn about the Holocaust even though it is a terrible topic to discuss.

I found that a lot more people were murdered than what I thought before. Millions were murdered by the Nazis with various different methods. They killed them in gas chambers, on the range where they shot them, and by burning them alive.

Another thing I learned from my research is that they did not give people very much food so they would eventually die without them having to kill them. I thought that they did not feed them much just to be cruel, but they were in fact trying to kill them. Gas chambers were the most effective way to kill the Jews off.

I learned that the reason so many hate communism is because this happened in a communist country. People do not want something like that to ever happen again. Every time something the government does something that even looks like they are being communistic then people start to get mad because no one wants to fall into a communistic society.

The things I have learned from my research has helped me understand how other countries are like and how things could turn out if my country ever falls into communism.

Favorite web based tech. tool

Many web tools help people in many different ways. My favorites include web tools such as search engines, Microsoft office, and blogging. These tools are tools that I use often and help me do school projects.

Search engines such as google, yahoo, and ask come in handy in everyday life. Whenever you need to look something up to find out what it is used for or anything of that sort, these search engines will give you free answers. These engines can help you find web pages that have information that you can use for whatever you need at the time.

Microsoft office is a tool that has features that include excel, word, and PowerPoint. Excel helps make tables and graphs for work, school, and anything else. Word contributes to writing papers, making resumes, or anything that needs to be typed out. Power points are good for making presentations for a topic in which you are studying or making something for work.

Blogging lets you express yourself over the Internet with others. One can connect with others about things that they have in common. Book reviews are something that many blog about so others can see if a book is good or bad before they decide to read it.

Web based tech. tools are very useful in everyday life and can also help for work or school. I do not know what I would do without them.

SPRING BREAK

This spring break I had a lot of fun. This year’s spring break did not seem as long as it usually is, but it was a whole week out of school.

I stayed at home for most of my break and had friends over every day. If friends were not at my house, I was at there house. Some of my friends live a little out of the way, so I wasted gas.

My friend from Little Rock came down to visit for three days also. We went to Jonesboro and Little Rock, each for a day, to eat and shop. While we were at the house, we just played Xbox live, ate, and went to the movies.

I did not do anything very exciting. Spring break defiantly went by way to fast. I wish it could have been a lot longer.