- Storys Title: Medicaid Rolls Jumped in 2009.
- Byline: KEVIN SACK.
- Date of article: September 30, 2010.
- Website of article: http://www.nytimes.com/.
- Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/health/policy/01medicaid.html?_r=1&ref=us.
- Topic of article: Large increase in medicaid since 2009.
- Summary: An additional 3.7 million people have joined medicaid since last year. There has been 48.5 million people on medicaid since 2009. That is said to be about one of every six Americans. This is also the largest increase since the year 2002.
- Why I chose this article: I chose this article because my family has medicaid and i found it interesting to see if there was going on with medicaid.
- What is this article related to: I do not know anything this might be related to.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
HW#7
1) - Fertile Crescent: The regions curved shape and richness of the land.
- Silt: When a flood leaves a thick bed of mud.
- Irrigation: To dig ditches that carry river water to there fields which allowed a surplus of crops.
- City-State: When each city and surrounding land is controlled.
- Dynasty: A series of rulers from a single family.
- Cultural Diffusion: When a new idea or product is spread from one culture to another.
- Polytheism: To believe in many gods.
- Empire: When several people, nations, and states are under control of one ruler.
- Hammurabi: When the Babylonian Empire reaches its peak during the reign of Hammurabi.
2) Challenges: No way of communicating.
Solutions: Making up writing.
Challenges: No transportation.
Solutions: Making the wheel and the sail.
Challenges: No tools for planting.
Solutions: Inventing the plow.
3) An advantage that is offered from living in a cities is you have no more then one ruler.
Modern cities do offer the same things because we only have one person who runs the cities and that person is the president.
Map Question
1) The Tigris and Euphrates river valleys are located on Mesopotamia.
2) Physical characteristics of this valley is that it over flows from time to time.
Video #1
1) The reason why the Sumerians developed written language is because they had to keep records from the things that would happen in there whole tribes daily lives.
Video#2
1) Cuneiform is symbols that are wedge shaped.
2) The surface they write on are clay tablets. They write on it with a stylus. A stylus grows along the river they cut them from leaves. They write on the tablet while its soft but first they have to pat it to make a smooth surface to write on. Then after there done or have taken up the whole clay they put it under the sun so it gets hard and turns into a hard tablet and lasts long.
3) Some things they drew on were walls and clay.
- Silt: When a flood leaves a thick bed of mud.
- Irrigation: To dig ditches that carry river water to there fields which allowed a surplus of crops.
- City-State: When each city and surrounding land is controlled.
- Dynasty: A series of rulers from a single family.
- Cultural Diffusion: When a new idea or product is spread from one culture to another.
- Polytheism: To believe in many gods.
- Empire: When several people, nations, and states are under control of one ruler.
- Hammurabi: When the Babylonian Empire reaches its peak during the reign of Hammurabi.
2) Challenges: No way of communicating.
Solutions: Making up writing.
Challenges: No transportation.
Solutions: Making the wheel and the sail.
Challenges: No tools for planting.
Solutions: Inventing the plow.
3) An advantage that is offered from living in a cities is you have no more then one ruler.
Modern cities do offer the same things because we only have one person who runs the cities and that person is the president.
Map Question
1) The Tigris and Euphrates river valleys are located on Mesopotamia.
2) Physical characteristics of this valley is that it over flows from time to time.
Video #1
1) The reason why the Sumerians developed written language is because they had to keep records from the things that would happen in there whole tribes daily lives.
Video#2
1) Cuneiform is symbols that are wedge shaped.
2) The surface they write on are clay tablets. They write on it with a stylus. A stylus grows along the river they cut them from leaves. They write on the tablet while its soft but first they have to pat it to make a smooth surface to write on. Then after there done or have taken up the whole clay they put it under the sun so it gets hard and turns into a hard tablet and lasts long.
3) Some things they drew on were walls and clay.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Current Events
- Story Title: Thanet offshore wind farm starts electricity production.
- Byline: Richard Westcott.
- Date of the article: 23 September 2010.
- Website of article: http://bbcnews.com/.
- Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11395824
- Topic of article: Biggest wind farm offshore.
- Brief Summary: The biggest wind farm in the world has been made offshore. This green energy project is located on the Kent coast. When these wind fans are running at full capacity they can power up to half of Kent. These wind fans do have problems like no wind no power and there is no way of storing this power. The electricity also goes up because it is heavily soxidized. This project is said to be small to what's coming.
- Why this is my choice: I chose this article because I have heard that we will be having this same project in New York City so I was interested on how everyday life will be if we had this in our city.
- Connect this to class: This does not have anything to do with what we are learning in class or I just cant find anything it has to do with classwork.
- Byline: Richard Westcott.
- Date of the article: 23 September 2010.
- Website of article: http://bbcnews.com/.
- Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11395824
- Topic of article: Biggest wind farm offshore.
- Brief Summary: The biggest wind farm in the world has been made offshore. This green energy project is located on the Kent coast. When these wind fans are running at full capacity they can power up to half of Kent. These wind fans do have problems like no wind no power and there is no way of storing this power. The electricity also goes up because it is heavily soxidized. This project is said to be small to what's coming.
- Why this is my choice: I chose this article because I have heard that we will be having this same project in New York City so I was interested on how everyday life will be if we had this in our city.
- Connect this to class: This does not have anything to do with what we are learning in class or I just cant find anything it has to do with classwork.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
HW#6
Map Questions
1) The earliest agriculture site is located in Europe.
2) The geographic feature that favored the development of agricultural areas before 5000 B.C. is Africa.
Section 2 Assesment
1) Tribes-that do not stay settled in one place but move around a lot in search for food.
- Hunter,Gatherer- a small group from a tribe that goes out to get food for there whole tribe.
- Neolithic Revolution- the evolution of the survival instincts after a certain period of time a human develops.
- Slash-and-burn farming- this means to burn and also cut trees and grass or any living things to farm in that space.
- Domestication- to keep animals and take care of them.
2) - More farmers
- Change in weather
- More animals
1) The earliest agriculture site is located in Europe.
2) The geographic feature that favored the development of agricultural areas before 5000 B.C. is Africa.
Section 2 Assesment
1) Tribes-that do not stay settled in one place but move around a lot in search for food.
- Hunter,Gatherer- a small group from a tribe that goes out to get food for there whole tribe.
- Neolithic Revolution- the evolution of the survival instincts after a certain period of time a human develops.
- Slash-and-burn farming- this means to burn and also cut trees and grass or any living things to farm in that space.
- Domestication- to keep animals and take care of them.
2) - More farmers
- Change in weather
- More animals
Monday, September 20, 2010
HW#5
1st Video
1) The video focuses on a nation called Ethiopia.
2) Lucy was discovered in the year 1974.
3) Lucy is 3.2 million years old.
4) When something or someone is bipedal it means they have two legs or feet like humans.
5) The first continent,region and nation human beings first began to evolve in is Pangea.
2nd Video
1) Hunters and Gathereres were constantly moving around to follow the heard of animals so they can hunt and eat them.
2) As they were traveling they would also collect wild berries, nuts, and greens to eat.
3) Yes, I do think lucy was a Gatherer but not a hunter because the men would allways be the ones hunting and the women would stay behind with the tribe feeding the children and gathering wild berries, nuts, and greens.
1) The video focuses on a nation called Ethiopia.
2) Lucy was discovered in the year 1974.
3) Lucy is 3.2 million years old.
4) When something or someone is bipedal it means they have two legs or feet like humans.
5) The first continent,region and nation human beings first began to evolve in is Pangea.
2nd Video
1) Hunters and Gathereres were constantly moving around to follow the heard of animals so they can hunt and eat them.
2) As they were traveling they would also collect wild berries, nuts, and greens to eat.
3) Yes, I do think lucy was a Gatherer but not a hunter because the men would allways be the ones hunting and the women would stay behind with the tribe feeding the children and gathering wild berries, nuts, and greens.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
HW#4
1) Absolute location- longitude and latitude of a specific place on earth.
2) Absolute location of following countrys
a) Los Angles- 34° North Latitude, 118° West Longitude
b) Paris,France- 49° North Latitude, 2° East Longitude
c) Capetown,South Africa- 34° South Latitude, 18° East Longitude
3) Relative Location- describes a place in terms of it's relation to other places and things around it.
a) Relative location of London,England- is located on the tems river a major water way.
4) Relative location of Queens,NY- located near New York City (Manhattan)
2) Absolute location of following countrys
a) Los Angles- 34° North Latitude, 118° West Longitude
b) Paris,France- 49° North Latitude, 2° East Longitude
c) Capetown,South Africa- 34° South Latitude, 18° East Longitude
3) Relative Location- describes a place in terms of it's relation to other places and things around it.
a) Relative location of London,England- is located on the tems river a major water way.
4) Relative location of Queens,NY- located near New York City (Manhattan)
Thursday, September 9, 2010
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