Blog #15

In the movie, Remember the Titans, the whole team overcomes many obstacles. The movie is about a Virginia high school football team and their journey though the football season as a team. This movie is based on a real story, in the time where African American students where being to go to all white schools for the first time. The Titans are a football team of kids of both white and black races. At the beginning, all the team members are brought to a camp, the white players wanted no part in their African American team mates and their African American coach. But after working hard with each other and getting to know each other, race no longer became an issue. After the camp, school started up. The school was being integrated and many of the students and parents were very upset. The only accepting white people in the school were the ones who played football with the black students. The Titans football team was looked down upon and many other teams believed that they stood no chance because they had African Americans on there team. Instead of losing every game, the Titans flew past all expectations and in the end won the championship. Days before the championship game, the team caption, Gary, got into a car accident and ended up paralyzed from the waist down. His new best friend, who was a black man, was the only person he wanted to see at the time of his accident. This shows that, Gary had overcome racism and liked this black man because of who he was and not by what he looked like. In many ways, the Titans overcame many odds and in the end were victorious.

Blog #15

Barbara Rademacher, a teacher at a community college in Rogers, Arkansas, is overcoming her weight problem. In the past three month, Rademacher has lost six pounds and has never felt better. She says she had the "best day I can imagine" about 2 weeks ago when she was asked by two seperate coworkers if she had lost some weight and that she looked great. Rademacher said, "I have this theory that not working out caused my body to start falling apart,". This fact made her realize that she needed to start doing something about her weight. So she decided to go to the gym. Three times a week, Rademacher goes to the gym and works on her rutine. This rutine consists on 15 minutes of the excercise bike fallowed by 20 to 30 sit ups and to finish it off she will lift weights with her legs and ocassionaly lift free weights to work on her arms. To keep up with the rutine of excercises, she also takes her dog for a nice three mile walk every other day. Her goal for the next month or two is to lose another 5 pounds and continue to work out and "not have jiggle in places where I have jiggle," she says.


Landau, Elizabeth. "Teacher loses weight, educates laid-off workers." CNN.com. 20 Mar 2009. 22 Mar 2009. http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/20/barb.update.irpt/index.html

Blog #14

Michelle and Barack Obama are a loving couple living in the public eye. The First Couple is continuing to show their love for one another even in the new environment and with all of the United States paying close attention to their love life. The Obama couple have been wed sense the year 1992 and have held and showed their love continuously throughout the years. But, when you have a country watching your every move, spontaneous date nights are almost impossible to plan. The couple are having to get creative with their date nights and think of alternative things to do rather then go into public. Many people agree that the couple is going to have to have the staff get them special food and go on dates inside of the White House in order to keep their love life their own. Although the dating is though for the Obamas, they are a strong couple who love each other very much and will not give up essential rituals that make them stronger. These rituals will just have to be reinvented to fit in with their lives today. Obviously, this couple is having one issue that only they can relate to at the moment, but they are having similar problems to the rest of the dating community. Coming up with free time that both the lovers can enjoy and and share is one major problem that a majority of the dating community is dealing with.

Rosenblum , Gail. "Relationships: Love in a fishbowl." startribune.com 06 Feb 2009 17 Mar 2009 http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/family/39207502.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DU2EkP7K_V_GD7EaPc:iLP8iUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

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State Department , State Department . "Background Notes: Liberia." SIRS Jan 2009 15 Mar 2009 http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SMN0307H-0-3396&artno=0000087865&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=liberia&title=Background%20Notes%3A%20Liberia&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=N&ic=Y

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Hill, Michael . "LIBERIA: A NATION FIGHTING ITSELF ." SIRS 14 April 1996 15 Mar 2009 http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SMN0307H-0-3396&artno=0000016096&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=colonization%20of%20liberia&title=Liberia%3A%20A%20Nation%20Fighting%20Itself&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=N&ic=Y

Blog #13

Australia was discovered and colonized by the Europeans. In 1606 European mariners sailed into unknown waters and and they came across Terra Australis Incognita, which means unknown southern land. The years fallowing this discovered were full of discovery. About 54 European ships were sent to Australia between 1606 and 1770. Many of the 54 ships where Dutch merchant ships for the Dutch East Indies Company, and mainly sail around the Northern, Southern and Western parts of Australia, which was known as New Holland. Years after in 1770, the Eastern coast was explored and taken over by a Englishman named Lieutenant James Cook. King George III of England claimed the Eastern coast, with the help of Cook, and August 22, 1770. This take over started at Possession Island, and was renamed New South Wales. The findings by the English men were later used in the making of a map of the coast of Australia by Flinders in 1814. This Colonization processes is very similar to other colonization processes. It started with one crew running into undiscovered land and ended in a new establishment.


"European discovery and the colonisation of Australia." culture.gov.au 15 Mar 2009 http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/australianhistory/

Blog #12

The Korean War was a war lasting from 1950 to 1953. The war was fought between North and South Korea with many other countries who were involved in aiding one of the Korea's. The war started with the invasion on South Korea from North Korean communists on June 25, 1950. About two days later, President Truman commanded that United States soldiers go and assist South Korea. Throughout the year of 1950, the UN and China communists had become involved in the conflict and many cities is South Korea had been captured and recaptured. Throughout the next proceeding years of the war, China had many of its men in North Korea, which on Oct. 26, 1958, were all orded to get out of North Korea. This war was like many other wars because of all the involvement from other countries. Most of the time, the assistance can and will lead to a bigger and more sevier war, and is unneeded. But, in some cases the need for alliances plays a major role on how a war will be fought, and in the end can lead to the under dogs of the war to be the campions. All together, most of the wars fought throughout the world are fought by more than two countries and are assisted by many others.

"Korean War (1950–1953)." infoplease 2007 10 Mar 2009 http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001291.html

Blog #11

One of the major problems in our world today is energy. People all over are trying to find alternative ways of getting energy. Atlantic City, New Jersey, has found that alternative. Although it is a city which uses a great deal of electricity, they are realizing that the need for alternative sources are necessary. Atlantic City's convention center is the first of the city to try using solar energy. The 13,321 photovoltaic panels produce about of 26 percent of the convention center's energy. It is also said that within the 20 year contract, the convention center will save about 4.4 million dollars on the electricity. This new system will avoid the release of 2,349 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which is equivalent to removing 390 cars for the roads per year. Although this center was able to afford the cost of the panels, they are still way to expensive for massive production, but soon solar power will be used in house holds around the world. The idea of solar powering is a wonderful idea that can save the planet, help stop global warming and make the earth a better place to live in.


Almasy , Steve . "Energy-gobbling city home to biggest solar roof." CNN.com 8 Mar 2009 http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/05/solar.roof.atlantic.city/index.html.

Blog #10

One very popular religious holiday is Christmas. This holiday is celebrated on December 25, which is the birthday of Jesus Christ. During the festive time of year, many people go to church services in honor of Christ. Also many decorations are set up and many gifts are bought. December 25 is also know as winter solstice and no one is 100 percent sure that December 25 is the actual date that Jesus Christ was born. Today, most houses that celebrate Christmas have a big Christmas tree which they out there presents under. The Christmas tree is a Christmas tradition of putting up an evergreen tree in ones house in honor of winter solstice. Another tradition on Christmas is Santa Clause. Sanata Clause is a mythical human that, on December 24, Christmas Eve, comes to all the childrens houses and brings them the presents that they wanted. Even though Santa is a myth, the parent will buy extra presants and buy what the children asked Santa for, and out those present under the tree late on Christmas Eve so the children will wake up and believe that in fact, Santa had come to their house.

Dawson, William . "Christmas." Wikipedia 3 Mar 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

blog #9

Indian cuisine is one of the major things that separates Idian and makes it a unique place. Mainly, the meals of India are vegitarian, but there are a few meals that are cooked with chicken, goat,fish and lamb. The dishes made in India today are a mix between many cultures such as Persian, Mongols and Europe. Every day in the Indian culure, each meal served is a sir down meal. Also each meal consists of two are three main courses such as chutneys adn pickles, carbohydrate staples,like rice and bread and then it is followed with some kind of dessert. Food, in India does not only stand for the means of eating but it also is thought of as a social gatherer adn allows many families to get together with one another. Throughout India, the food is divided into for sections: North, Shouth, East and Western cuisine. The split is due to a number of reasons such as region and religion. Although the four sections of Indian cuisine are all different, they all have a few similarities. In all four of the sections, many of the spices used to make the flavors pop on dishes are used by all four areas. This division is a lot like the United States in the sence taht in the South are very spicey and in the coast states, a lot of fish is eaten and in the North how a lot of beef is eaten.


"Culture of India." Wikipedia 1 Mar 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_India.