Building Websites

Three Interesting Facts:

1. You can customize a website with webs.com.


2. There are backgrounds that you can choose from, but then you can customize them. Ex. change color,picture,icon, etc.


3. You can put music on you website.

Two New Facts:

1. There are websites that teach you how to make a website from scratch (http://www.make-a-web-site.com/)


2. You can get some on to build a website for you

Opinion:

I think that it is important to learn how to build a website and go through the whole proses. I don't think that it is worth hiring someone to build a website for you, because there are plenty of sites that make it very easy for you to build one yourself. Also if you have someone build a website for you, your own style would not be in it. Lastly, I think that building a website is a good learning experience.

My Roller Coaster Website

The Nightmare

Food For The Hungry

South Brunswick high school students are setting up a food drive on February 21 and 22 from 11 p.m. to 4 p.m. in four supermarkets locally. They are doing this local food drive as part of a program called SBHS Character Education. As of right now 350 kids and 30-40 adults are signed up to participate in this drive. All the food donated will go to a fund called the Middlesex County Food Organization and Outreach Distribution Services (MCFOODS). Most of the kids that are volunteering are doing it because they see the effect that the economy has taken on them. I think that this is a great thing to do and more people should help out and should do more things like that.

http://www.centraljersey.com/articles/2009/02/17/south_brunswick_post/news/doc4994436241c80214277964.txt

Wavey World

Three interesting facts:

1. There are many different types of waves (X-rays, radio waves, gamma waves, etc.).


2. Some waves are longitudinal and some are transverse and some are both.


3. There are Electromagnetic waves, which don't need a surface to go through and Matter waves, that do.

Two facts i learned from a different source:

1. The waves that are both longitudinal and transverse are called surface waves.


2. When an wave enters a different medium the wave keeps going and bounces back.

Opinion:

I think that waves are very important and are important to read and learn about. When you learn something new about a topic you already learned about then it it a good thing to remember that so you can pass that knowledge along to some body else. this also goes to show that even if you think there is nothing else you can learn about a topic, there are new things being discovered everyday.

http://library.thinkquest.org/10796/ch8/ch8.htm

N.J. Is Shaking

Earlier this week, in North New Jersey (near

Morris County), there was an earthquake that

had a magnitude of 3.0. That is very minor

compared to the ones that happen in California.

The reason it seemed so big was because it only
happened two feet underground. The residents

of North New Jersey felt and heard every five to

ten seconds of this earthquake. Most residents thought it was a plane or

car crash, but nobody guessed that it was an earthquake. This earthquake

happened because two rocks ,underground, broke. I think that this article

is important to read because people need to know that earthquakes can

happen anywhere. Not just California.

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1233725144156520.xml&coll=1&thispage=2

Climbing Fish

Who: Scientists
What: They discovered a new species of climbing catfish
Where: near the remote shacks of Venezuela
When: the fish was found and started being researched twenty years ago
Why: They decided to research it because it was abnormal

I think this article is important to read so people can realize that new things are found every day. Also, people should read this article so they know what is happening around the world. The new fish that they found sound really cool and interesting. I would want to read more into it, and maybe even see one, one day.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121122947.htm

Barack Obama's Inauguration

On January 20, 2009 Barack Obama's was inauguration. This was a really big deal in American history. It was the most watched inauguration in a long time. In addition, there was the biggest crowd ever to be at an inauguration. All races all around the world joined together to witness this historic event.


First Article: (click to retrieve)

The author makes a good point in this article when he says "Celebrations weren't limited to Washington. Across the country, friends and strangers gathered on the streets and in schools, bars and auditoriums to witness Obama's inauguration, united in their hope that he will deliver on his promise of change." What he was trying to say is that this event is so important that people don't just stop partying in one state, people are partying all over the world. The message that the author is trying to get across in this message is that Obama is a great person and i going to great things for our country. Also he is saying that Obama is a great as some of the other leaders involved in the civil rights movement.


Second Article: (click to retrieve)

In this article the author says "It is especially fitting to celebrate the words of Lincoln as we prepare to inaugurate the first African-American president of the United States." What the author means by this is that this is not the only change we should celebrate. My take on this, is without Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama couldn't be president today. Also, I think that it takes one great person to lead to another, to lead to another.

Opinion:

I think that this whole experience is amazing, but i do have a couple of questions. With two articles on the same subject, how can two people have two different views? In the first article, The author says that Obama is great and as amazing as Martin Luther King. On the other hand, in article two, the author thinks that Abraham Lincoln is a hero and should be honored