Thursday, February 19, 2009

Science Blog on Website

Lately in class, we have been focusing on Newtons Laws of Motion. Along with that, we have been using these laws to construct roller coasters. In addition, once these roller coasters have been completed you are to make a website containing information of your roller coaster as if it were a real life situation. This website was made at www.webs.com. Once creating this site, you are to put information up on hours your roller coaster runs, admission, contact information, and more. However, on this website you can do much more than just putt pictures up. You can put music of almost any song you can think of, upload videos, such as your roller coaster in action, and you can have a calendar and put important dates you may need to remember. Plus, you can customize this website and make it your style. Choose a template, and what information is posted, and you can also put widgets. Widgets are informative and fun. For example, you can get maps, new feeds, pulls, counters, games, and more. You can even access the whole world from where you are. In the end, this project is fun and has a lot of fascinating and entertaining features you can put onto your website.



http://webs.com/pages/features/

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Social Studies Blog #3

We all know McDonald's as a popular fast food place. However, it is not only just located in the United States, or in general North America, it is also located in other countries and continents. For example, three hundred McDonald's restaurants are said to be put in China within the next year. Besides these three hundred McDonald's, there are already some in China. In 2008, there was one hundred and forty-six McDonald's placed in China. In 2012, there is a prediction that there will be thirty thousand McDonald's worldwide. Its popularity does not just come from the commercials, but by the good tasting food as well. Although in China, there are different choices and options of food, then here, in North America, more specifically is New Jersey. All in all, McDonald's we all know now is very popular, but soon to come, like in 2012, McDonald's will be even more known worldwide, but mostly the biggest increase in China.



http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6902287

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Newton's Laws

Lately, in class we have been learning about Newtons Three Laws of Motion. First law being that, An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. The second law is that the change in velocity (acceleration) with which an object moves is directly proportional to the magnitude of the force applied to the object and inversely proportional to the mass of the object. Lastly, the third law is that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Friction, a major part with motion and force, is a conflict with force. It can either cause object to move at a faster pace or to slow down. Newton's laws are mostly used for measuring force, acceleration, and mass. These laws can be related into our daily lives such as a football game. The football will remain in the same spot if there is not friction, a football player to throw it, to cause it to move. It will continue moving if there is not friction, someone throwing it, to slow it down or make it speed up. My thoughts on this topic, is that this subject may be some what confusing, but once understood is very helpful in many situations related to your daily life.


http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/CLASS/newtlaws/u2l3a.html

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Social Sudies Blog--- #2

Recently, jobs have been decreasing and many people are losing their occupation. Popular places, such as, Macy's, AOL, Starbucks, and Target are big stores where the most people have been let go from their jobs. Over 15,000 jobs have been lost just within these stores in the last year. Jobs are cutting down because businesses cannot afford to pay their workers. As a result, led the companies to lay off people unless they were needed. This causes people to have financial trouble. With having financial trouble, people are forced to find jobs, but with people getting let go, it is hard finding a job in a lot of places. This time now, with most people not having jobs, is not considered a depression, but a recession. I personally, think that we should not be in this recession and companies should just pay workers a lower amount, so people get little money rather than none. In the end, maybe eventually we will come out of this recession.


http://abcnews.go.com/Business/CEOProfiles/story?id=6804783&page=1

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Blog_Current_Event* #4

Recently on Thursday, six infants died, while 300,000 others were sickened by tainted milk in China. Sanlu made 905 metric tons of melamine-tainted baby formula powder and out of that 905 sold 813 metric tons of tainted products that were made with contaminated milk. Many people involved in this harmful insident were either sentenced to jail for a period of time ranging from around three to ten months, the deathy penalty, and some have yet to punished. The middle aged men who were sentenced to the death penalty were those who sold melamine to milking stations to add the chemical into the milk. In addition, this tainted contaminated milk has also been proven to cause kidney stones for some infants that took in some of this bad milk. In the end, this is a serious matter where mad milk has come to hurt many hundred thousands and even kill.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/china.tainted.milk/index.html

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Social_Studies_Blog*--Inauguration

This previous Tuesday, January 20, 2009 is the day we will forever remember. The significance to this day is that not only do we get a new president, but our first African American president. In addition, January 20 was the day Barack Obama got sworn in as our new president, also known as the day of the inauguration. If watching the inauguration, you might have noticed when Obama was getting sworn in some words may have been babbled not knowing what happen. This occurred because Chief Justice John Roberts mumbled the words while giving them for Obama to repeat. Because of this Obama retook the oath of office after on Wednesday the following day. But the oath appears in the Constitution itself. And out of an abundance of caution, because there was one word out of sequence, Chief Justice Roberts administered the oath a second time," the statement read.

"President Obama prepares to walk into the Oval Office" shows the leader of the Free World poised outside the broad automated sliding door to -- horrors! -- the press area!" Barack Obama is now officially our president and we honor him, and respect his such courageous acts. He leads us to inspiration and teaches us we can accomplish anything if we put our mind to it. Now as Obama steps into the Oval Office and many other places located in the white house we will officially become the improved United States of America, with help of our new president Barack Obama.

In the end, I believe Obama is the right man for the job and will fulfill his duties as president of the United States. He can view different situations from different peoples prospectives. Obama is up for the challenge and is ready to become the president. Barack Obama is a name we all know now, and will forever remember!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/21/obama.oath/index.html

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2009/01/learning-the-ro.html

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Blog Current Event #3

Earthquakes have been known to cause serious damage. Little did we know that they could also cause flooding. The main cause would not be the earthquake, but the dam containing water being cracked and breaking by the harsh movement of an earthquake. In California, an earthquake of medium or large size has the ability to cause flooding because of the reasons stated above. However, Susan Siravo states that there is nothing to worry about for the reason the the water level is low, so their is no chance of overflow at the time. In addition, if there happens to be a major storm, the water district will have to drain some liquid so that the dam will only be 87% full, so there is no chance of overflow and no chance of leakage. Leakage could unfortunately occur if an unlucky earthquake comes along, which is more likely in California then in other states. In the end, all will remain okay in California as long as no earthquakes or major storms happen that are not treated with.





http://www.ksbw.com/cnn-news/18438278/detail.html