Surprisingly, nobody has posted anything for quite awhile…( it took me an hour to remember my password) And seeing how the summers almost over, it would be wise to go on your PC. While you do so, here are some sites to visit. Go to YouTube for all the latest videos(in fact in a article I read they are trying to purchase every music video ever made) For awesome games to make your hand-eye-coordination better go to, JoyTube. Have a good end of the summer everyone.
Blue = Chocolate Ice Cream
Red = Vanilla Ice Cream
Google has an interesting new site called Google Trends. It allows you to review search patterns from the Google search database. In the above example, I asked Google Trends to compare searches for Chocolate v. Vanilla Ice Cream (I like Vanilla.) The site also provides information on the countries where most of the searches come from and the language most often used. Try it out. You can compare anything; Yankee’s and Red Sox, Math and Science, Dogs and Cats etc. Share some of your findings in the comments section.
Everyone has their favorite car manufacturers but my favorites are BMW and Mercedes-Benz. I have always hade a thing for luxury cars and speed. These two cars give it both. My alltime favorite cars from both Mercedes and BMW are the two flagship (if the company had a flag that car would go on it) cars. The flagship car for Mercedes is the S-600. The flagship car for BMW is the 760Li. Both of these cars are fast and offer luxury. The Mercedes “STAR” stand for “land, air, and sea” because those are the engines they make. BMW stands For “Bavarian Motor Works”
Specifications
Price- $140,675
Engine- 5.5L 36-valve Biturbo V-12 engine
Net Power- 510 hp @ 5,000 rpm
Net Torque- 612 lb-ft @ 1,800- 3,500 rpm
Specifications
Price- $118,400
Engine- 6.0 L V12
Net Power- 438 hp @ 6,000 rpm
Net Torque- 444 lb-ft @ 3,950 rpm
Gulp (left), Room 613’s classroom plant, is happy and well-watered, in his summer quarters, Mr. H’s back porch.
When You Left
by Sarah D.
I’m lying in bed
Your voice is in my head
Can’t get you out of my mind
You were so friendly so kind
All the good times we had
Until we got really mad
Things have changed since you went away
My heart is empty
Everythings a blurr
I wish things were back to how they were
Things have changed since you went away
Everythings quiet
I don’t know what to do
All I can say is that I really miss you
Things have changed since you went away
Everythings different
Everythings changed
And now that your gone things won’t be the same
Things have changed since you went away
Well everyone knows what time it’s going to be right? And of course by that I mean summer vacation! I think the year has flown by. I hope all of the staff of grade six and all of it’s students can say that it has been a year to remember. […]… Have A great summer!!!
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR !
DRAGONS
Dragons amazed
Keepers of nature’s beauty
Guardians of earth
FAIRYTALE CREATURES
Fairytale creature
Wonder of nature’s hope
Goodbye forever
LUNA
Creature’s of night love
Luna moth bask in beauty
Luna forever more
FAIRY
Wonderful colors
As you sit there queen fairy
I keep you secret
Over the weekend I got to see The Lion King at the Bushnell. I would recommend the fascinating play to anyone. It has the classic story with amazing costumes. My favorite part was in the beginning when they sang “The Circle of Life.” All the animal appeared and my favorite one was the elephant that must have had four people in the legs. The lioness had excellent masks. The costumes were made so you could see the face of the actor but so they still looked life like. Also the singers did excellent, even the monkey that portrayed her part excellently. I would give this play five stars *****. Go see for yourself!!!!!!!!!!!
Nature is so sweet.
The bird’s are chirping loud.
Bird’s build their own nest’s.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask “how are you”?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
running through your head.
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
not see thier sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say, “Hi”
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
When you run fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
Its like and unopened gift…. 
Thrown away.
Life is not a race
So do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
Written by David L. Weatherford and published under his name in 1991.
Live everyday of your life like you were dying.
STARE AT ALL THE IMAGES FOR ABOUT 30 SECONDS AND YOU WILL BE AMAZED!!!! IF YOU CLICK ON THE IMAGES THEY WILL BRING YOU TO THE WEBSITE I GOT THEM FROM!
1. The wind blows gently
2. It beckons me to do things
3. The wind is incredible
By: Matthew m 6h
We have been in school since the beggining of the school year! Finally we have reached the end! With only 4 in a half weeks left of school, we are all very excited for the summer. Im sure the teachers are too!
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The poison dart frog is a tiny little frog that lives in the rainforests of South America and in warm humid climates. These little guys can grow to be 1/2 inch to 2 inches big! Despite their small size these frogs can produce ALOT of poison that can kill humans if gets into a cut or your mouth! The most deadliest poison dart frog is the Golden poison dart frog that can produce enough poison to kill 10 humans! Indians gatherd a buch of these frogs put them near a fire and waited until a slime came up from their bodies, after the slime came up indians collected it and put it on their arrow heads or darts to kill predetors faster and from a distance. That is all I have to tell you about the poison dart frog.
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Last Wednesday Mr.Hetherington, me, Emily M., Sam M.,an Sara H took a trip to the state legislative office building for the CECA Tech Expo, a technology convention. While we were there we talked to many people about our grade’s very own website and the Room 613 podcast. Some of the other demonstrations at this fair were students with family trees, and some students even had their own handhelds. Our school was one of about 30 schools. We had our own table and our website set up on Mr.Hetheringtons laptop. We also had our third podcast playing. Many people had questions about these two things that our school experences and some people didn’t even know what these things were. My favorite part of the trip was getting to meet new people and telling them about our podcast and our website. Now you may think that Mr Hetherington did all the talking right? Well he didnt, while we were talking about our school Mr Hetherington was off looking at some of the other schools presentations. Well, that’s what we did on Wednesday on our field trip to the L.O.B
Yes Ice Age 2 has hit theaters with a huge boom and all of the main cast is back: Scrat,Sid,Maney,and Deago,along with a new character and Maney’s new girl friend.Well, [I’m sure] you guys are wondering what’s the story line? Well, the ice age has ended and it’s time for it to warm up a bit. So the gang has to survive the new climate, falling ice, flooding ,and other obstacles.
Photos from http://mediazona.ru/video/asset/245874/
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Age_2:_The_Meltdown
and for more info go to http://iceagemovie.com
Recently my dog Casey ran away and since then I have been looking at a collie rescue sight every second of the day(I’m serious!) Now collies are wonderful dogs and [many] would love to have a good home. There are so many dogs out there that need homes. but I can not take all of them even though I want too. So you have to help. Just go to google.com and type in collie rescue and you will get many pages of collie rescue sights all over the world. So just click on one and start looking for the dog of your dreams then when you have found one, go up to your mom or dad, go on your knees and start pleading for your new collie. It will not be a puppy but that is ok, dogs are the best you can get! They are always so cute! Now my computer will not let me put pictures in but that is all right because use the instructions that I gave you to use to get a collie and you can see pictures there.
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On Tuesday, March 28, 2006, our sixth grade group went to a play based on the award winning book The Giver. I’m about to tell you about what happened during this play and how the play was related to the book.
The play in many ways was similar to the book, but in many ways wasn’t. However I will start with the positives and how the play was similar to the book. The play followed the main story line fairly well and I would rate this part (1-10) about a 7.5. Also most of the characters were there like, Jonas, Fiona and Asher. BUT they left out one of the key players in Jonas’s finding out what a release was. They left out Larrisa who told Jonas of Roberto, the old man who was released in a glorious ceremony. But there was about only one other BIG problem I picked out and that was that the actors did not use bikes like the people did in the community. Insted they used scooters!
Overall the play was a fun experience, my favorite part was when the Giver was transmiting the memories to Jonas and they used a projecter to project the memories that he was receiving on a wall.
I would recommend this play to whoever loves a mystery type of story with suspense added.
Gandhi was born on October 2 ,1869. But what his parents did not know is that he would be one of India’s greatest leaders in achieving freedom from England. Infact ,Ghandi had 4 children of his own but he had an arranged marriage,meaning,he and his wife were chosen for each other. He was married to Kastura Gandhi.They were both only thirteen years old. She was a inspiration to everyone.Especially when Gandhi was arrested for protesting English rule. She was a big factor on Gandhi’s campaign around Africa and India .When he decided to go on his journeys his goal was to see the pain and starving and the poverty of the people and try to correct it. What he wanted was to free India from English rule but without violance.He wanted to make every person safe free and peaceful. Well some of you are asking did Gandhi ever get the nobel peace prize? Well no he did not. One day on his journey he got assasinated and he became peacful and free from British power and as you can see Gandhi was a peaceful man and he helped free India by fasting and different protests of non-violence . I got my information at www.mkgandhi.org and the movie GHANDI.
Reflection
I have learned that Gandhi was a rich man but not material rich ,but character rich. His goal was not to have civil or aney kind of war. The only thing he wanted was peace and harmoney but some did not like that so India split up muslim and hindu religions into now India and Packistan.The majority of the Muslim people went to the new country Pakistan.The others, the Hindues stayed in India.This happened in 1947.
(He was called Mahatma. Meaning Great soul or great one.)
With no dirt tracks, no roads, no electricity, no schools, water supply, post office, or health care facilities, what would you do? Well, in ‘Old India’ there are none of those things, however, they live near thick jungles surrounded by hills. In four villages there has been an estimated population of 1,000 people. In ‘New India’ the economy has opened up approxamitely 14 years ago. There are roads, electricity, water supply, schools, health care falicities, and post offices. So as you can see there is a difference right there. Alot of people in ‘Old India’ have not been on a bus, seen a train or visited a town. Unlike ‘New India’ when teens ride a bus or train to school and live in a town. Also there is not as much murder or suicide in ‘Old India’ as there is in ‘New India’. Those are some of the reasons that tells you how ‘Old India’ is different to ‘New India’.
Video games, friendly fun and kind of exciting… well my favorite of the three leading video game company’s is, Nintendo. This company has been known for “Kid friendly”, video games. Right now they are planning to make a new console called, “Nintendo Revolution”, as the name suggests this will be a ,”Revolution”, for Nintendo. The most important thing about this is the controller of this will be a T.V. like control. This will also have a motion sensor. (talk about “Playing a game”), this is supposed to launch in the summer of 0′6. Who knows what’s next for Nintendo?
I got my information here
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Mohandas Ghandi was A great leader as you may all know. Infact, he even led the entire country of India to its independence from the super power of the 1800’s, Great Britain. But before he had done all of these amazing things he had to be born right?
Ghandi was born and raised in a town called Poorbander. He slowly became and there. Then he moved to London where he studied the art of law and became an attorney. After a while being an attorney he moved to South Africa where he finally decided he had had enough with all this crazy Brittan leading South African countries! One reason he had chosen this is because there was a lot of going on there. One example of this is, one of the train officials on a train he was riding kicked him out of his first class seat because he was black! He then protested non-violently by calling a meeting in the center of a town in South Africa he there burned the passes that showed that the citizens there were well.. citizens and saying that this is our first step of independance! He continued this defience until the guards that were there beat him senceless! Talk about guts. After this he continued protesting with a crowd that just kept growing and growing. FINALLY in 1947 after years of protesting Ghandi who was now in OLD OLD age finally won the non-violent battle.
Ghandi is now remembered through out the Indian country and has an everlasting flame memorial above his grave. Just recently George W. Bush visted them and threw flowers on his grave as a sign of respect to all the things he had done and to the country for following him.
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When I wrote this paragraph I learned belive it or not that Ghandi was not a female!hahaBut I also learned about all the amazing things he has done. I have only wrote a small portion of things he has done above in the post. Also when I was searching the web for info I dicovered what he looked like too. Overall this project allowed me to learn MANY things about Mohandas Ghandi! 
Buddhism originated in India. Did you know that Buddhism was from a hindu priest named Siddhartha Gohtama and he lived to be 80 years old. He was born in North India and his followers were called sanghas at the time. Buddha taught that there is no god at all and his teachings were passed thru-out Asia. I found this info at www.arcworld.org and it is a good source to use for looking up the history of Buddhism. I think this religion is superb there and is nice to know.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was also known as Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was born on October 2nd, 1869 in Porbandar which is currently Gujarat. Gandhi went to the University College in London to study law. In 1891 he went back to India and started a law practice in Bombay, which is currently Mumbai. He went to Durban. He was in Southern Africa for about 20 years. When he was in South Africa he got beaten for throwing out his I.D. that showed he was an Indian. He taught about the nonviolent resistance movement too. During The Boer War Gandhi controlled the Red Cross Unit for the British Army. On January 20, 1948 there was an attempt to assassinate Gandhi but it didn’t work, but it worked on January 30, 1948. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the “Indian Leader” was assassinated. That was the end of this great man’s life. During this project, I learned how to make a hyperlink and how to skim Internet websites. I also learned how to copy and paste from a Word Processor.
Cna yuo raed tihs? If yuo raed teh oehtr oen, yuo cna raed tihs oen!
Buddhism was founded in ancient India about 2,500 years ago by Buddah, Shakyamuni who was born in Nepal. Their god is Buddha wich means the enlightened one. In Buddhism the sacred book is the tripitika. Today 359.981,000 people practice buddhism. In Buddhism there are three teachings the Hinayana, Mahayana, Vajrayana teachings. Buddhism attained realization in about 531 B.C.E, the Buddah taught Buddhism untill he passed away in 486 B.C.E. Before the Buddha passed he taught all of the Buddhist teaching’s. When I was writing this paragraph I learned alot of new things about buddhism and how people practice it. That is all I have to tell you. I got my info at this website. below are pictures of buddhas. 
On November 19th, 1917, Indira Gandhi was born. Little did she know that she would go down in history in the future.She was born in Allahabad too! When she got older she studied at Visva-Bharati University in Bengal, then when she felt like she knew enough, she enrolled in the University of Oxford in England. Later on, a very tragic accident happend.Kamala Kual Nehru, which was her mother, died. She passed away in 1936.Soon after this took place, in 1938 she graduated collage and went on with life, and decided to join the Indian National Congress for Indian Independance.Then her love life approached, and she married Parsi, Feroze Gandhi. Later she had her first child, it was a boy, then her second, which was another boy! Finally the Indians won their Independance in 1947. Then another one of those tragic moments brought another death, Indira’s husband passed away in 1960.Trying to get over her husbands loss, before she knew it she was the prime minister of India. Indira Gandhi was then assassinated in 1984.
What I learned from this paper was that she became the prime minister of India. Before I wrote this and took notes I never knew that. Another thing i learned from this paper is that she had two boys, im excited to know that now! I believe Indira Gandhi was a very brave and unique woman, she made it so far and she helped India win its independance. I think back then she was a very inspiring person to many others and even now she still is. She is a great role model.
Indira Gandhi was a very interesting women. She was born on November 19, 1917 but died on October 31, 1984. Also, she was an only child of Jawaharial and Kamala Nehru. Indira’s father was once the prime minister, which she was influenced by him, and eventually became prime minister. Later, she had become a leader of a children’s group called the Monkey Brigade. In that group they were mainly trying to help end the British control in India. While the other children in the group were warning people who were soon going to be arrested, Indira was delivering speeches to people. Indira would take her job very seriously, know matter what it was. But in that group, the Congress took it as a joke. Anyway, later in 1938 she joined the Indian National Congress Party (which she always wanted to do). In 1942, Indira got married to Feroze Gandhi. (Feroze was a journalist.) Much later, they both were sent to prison for charges of subversion by the British. Also, they stayed in prison from September 11, 1942 through May 13, 1943. The prison was the Naini Central Jail. Anyway, Indira later won India’s independence from the British in 1947! Finally! Also, sadly her father died in 1964 and her mother died in 1936. Later, in 1959 Indira became the fourth women elected president of the Indian National Congress, and she became the first elected women to lead a democracy in 1967! However, in 1975 Indira was found guilty of violating the election laws! But besides all of that, she later regained her position as prime minister in 1980. Last, sadly Indira got assassinated by Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984.
Mahatma Gandhi (see picture above left) was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandr, Gulart, India. When he was 13 years old he married his wife Kasturba (see picture above right) and latter had 4 sons. He grew up in a hindu family (hinduism teaches people to live peacefully). He went to England and studied law and then spent 20 years defending indians in South Africa. During that time Great Britain occupied India and treated its people as slaves and gave them no rights. The people were grossly abused. Ganghi did not believe this treatment was fair and decided to lead (or try to lead) a non-violent protest against the government. One of the famous movements was the “quit india movement” when he asked his followers to give up British titles, schools and anything else British. He had to stop the protest because to many British policeman were being killed by indians and blacks who didn’t agree with Gandhi’s non-violent ways. He served 7 years in jail. After serving his jail sentence he tried again to protest peacefully. He was successful with 10 million people supporting him. The British left the country.
Gandhi was a vegetarian and made his own clothes and lived simply. He tried to achieve by learning from his mistakes and experimenting with himself. Sadly, he was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic during a prayer in New Delhi, India. He lived a good life and no one will forget him. He inspired many world leaders like Martin Luther King. Too bad he died of what he preached against most, violence!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
the picture is also from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
Born on October 2,1869, Putlibia as the mother, was a child named Mohandus Gandhi. He was born into a very religious family. He and his family were Hindu. His mother would not eat a meal without praying to the sun first. Sometimes, when it was raining and the sun was not out, she would last days until she got to pray. When he was a boy he did not care very much, for the subjects he was taught, but soon started liking them. When he was on his way home from school he did not stop to chat with people, or stop to eat, he went straight home to start his studies.When he was thirteen he was married to a woman named Kasturba, who was the same age as Gandhi. In 1885 his father had died of an illness. Soon after, he passed his High School, which made him feel a little better. His family had agreed for Gandhi to go to England to study to become a barrister. After that he had tried to become Diwan, but when he left England he had promised his mother that he would not eat non-vegetarian food, also he would not drink alcohol. When he was away he had alot of people coming up to his trying to get him to become whatever religion that man was. He stuck to his religion, but he studied the Bible, Gita, and the Quran. In 1891, after completing his studies, he returned to India. When he got to India he had found out that his mother had passed. His brother did not contact him in any way when his mother died, because, he did not want this to interfear with his studies. After he qualified for a barraster he tried to be a lawyer in Rajok. When he got no cases he moved to Bombay. He got one case, and tried really hard to present it well, but could not present it satisfactorally. He wasn’t getting any more cases, until his brother came along and got him a case. The man he was doing a case for was named Mr. Abdulla. He was a rich buissnessman who lived in South Africa. Luckily, that case was succesfull. So he left for Africa in 1895. Since that case was succesful he got many more cases. Even though he became a good lawyer, the British treated him badly. There were insults, rude comments, and sometimes the physically assaulted him. When the British fought the Dutch in a war called the Boer war, they needed alot of help. So the many people of India helped them out. The British won!!! They couldn’t have done it without the help [of] the many people of India. So, since they won, they got more rights. On August 15, 1947 India attained it’s freedom. The one person Gandhi admired was Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Also Gandhi thought of him as a mentor. Finally, on January 30, 1948 in New Delhi, when he was on his way to a prayer meeting, he was shot by an assailant. His last words were ‘Hey Ram.’ If anyone asks you who Gandhi was, you say, Gandhi was a man who dedicated his life to humanity, also he taught the importance of truth,and non-violence. The one most benefiting tribute that Indians can pay him, is to follow the path he had shown us.
Would you like to watch a 30 secon video?
How about a speech from Gandhi?
These two great cities [are] both located in present day Pakistan, each with great culture, techniques, and religion!
Can you believe that the first traces of civilization in India was around 2000 B.C? Well studies show that the first two cities were called Harappa and Mohenjodaro. These two cities were very complex, and they where in what is now present day Pakistan. The people of these cities most likely settled at this spot because they got moved there by the Aryans. Also research says that the citizens liked the fresh water and farming grounds. A surprising fact is that both cities used the same kind of burnt brick for their houses even though they were hundreds of miles apart. The Indus Valley people were very good farmers. Some crops were cotton, sesame, peas, and barley. Besides farming they Indus Valley people were in the merchant class, that used trading with other cities. The women in these cities were always dressed in fine jewelry and they had a good sense of taste. To start these two civilizations the citizens did not have to clear a large portion of forests because they were in the middle of a desert. That’s a good thing too because if they did have to the wouldn’t have the technology. Though they didn’t have to clear large portions they did have to clear some space. They did this by using bronze or stone based items. Both of these cities were ruled by priests and not by a king or queen. Certain clay figures(insert hyperlink here) have been found at the sites where the priests had been. These clay figures are a mother goddess and a male sitting on the ground doing yoga with animals around him. So you may wonder what happened to these two great civilizations? Well the Aryans attacked both of these great cities and they both fell.
At the begging of this project I had no idea what this first two cities were like, but now I know so much more and I had a fun time researching them. I also learned how to put a link in the middle of my story. I can really benefit from that because now I can use it in later projects.
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http://www.punjabilok.com/land/indriver_vallycivil1.htm
http://www.punjabilok.com/land/indriver_vallycivil1.htm
Image from http://www.gosai.com/chaitanya/saranagati/html/vedic-upanisads/indology/harrapa.jpg
“You should be the change that you want to see in the world” says Gandhi at one of his protests!!!! Gandhi was a very wonderful and interesting man!! He did so many great things for our world.
Gandhi was born in the town of Porbander in 1869 on October 2nd. He was married at the age of 13 to a girl named Kasturba; Kasturba was even younger than Gandhi. He went to England in 1888, at the age of 19 to study for a degree in law. The adults in Gandhi’s life did not want him to leave India, but he was determined. His mother told him to promise that he would stay away from WINE, WOMEN, and MEAT!!! He went anyway. When he was studying for a law degree he met many people with new ideas. Many of the people he met were not satisfied with the way society operated. He earned a degree in law in 1891 at the age of 21. Then he worked in the high court of London.
After Gandhi worked in England for about a year he moved on to South Africa. When he was there he worked as a legal advisor to Dada Abdula, an Indian businessman. The Indians in South Africa did not have political rights, so the world was very different in that way as well. The European people in South Africa called them “coolies” which was a derogatory name! Gandhi himself experienced the racism when he had a first class railway ticket but he was forced to the back car because of his color. That incident drove him to thinking that he needed to work for the rights of people of all races. He believed in non-violent resistance, as a way of producing change. Gandhi thought that the way to get people to stop being racist was to get them to think about what they had in common with the people they were oppressing.
In 1915, at the age of 43, Gandhi returned to India. Back in India he became known for working for peoples rights but mostly for workers rights, in textile mills and indigo plantations. Gandhi started the noncoperation movement which was when the Indian people stopped using British institutions and became more self reliant. It was kind of like a strike. Gandhi was then arrested and sentenced to prison for 6 years because of his actions. While he was in prison he fasted for 21 days. He did such a thing because he was upset with the Hindus and Muslims because they had started to fight again.
For the remainder of his life he worked for peace and justice, until a crisis arose. On January 30th 1948 at the age of 79, Gandhi walked out into the garden for a prayer meeting. As he folded his hands to greet his followers, Nathuram Godse shot Gandhi 3 times in the chest, bringing Gandhi to his death. As blood stained his shall Gandhi blessed his assassin. Do you think Gandhi would have punished his assassin? I don’t think so. As Gandhi said, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
Gandhi spent his whole life working for justice and human rights. In some ways Gandhi reminds me of Martin Luther King. They were both very religious. They both believed in equality for all people. They were both members of oppressed races. They both used nonviolent methods to achieve what they wanted. Unfortunately, they both got assassinated. However, they were both really wonderful men!
I got my info at http://sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/gandhi5.html
Dear Sarah,
I am writing today to tell you about a man of many acomplishments and a man with much bravery. He acomplished much but not with violence. Like Gandhi said “Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mighter than the mightest weapon of destruction by the ingenuity of man.”
Gandhi started his life in Porbandar, India in the year 1869 . At the age of 13 he got married to Kasturba (Gandhi). Three years after his marriage his father died. Gandhi was only 16. Then in 1888 his family sent him to study law in London. After law schol he was called to the bar to officaly be an attorny. When he returned from London, he went to Bombay, India to work as a barrister. Soon after, in 1907, Ghandi went to South Africa to work on a bill. While he was in South Africa he started to take part in passive protests against the transvaal government, for they weren’t treating Indian settlers right. In one of his protests he burned his pass and passes of others. Those passes were their identification that they had to have at all times. In the process he was beaten several times but he didn’t hurt anyone. Then in 1915 after joining the congress he returned to India with great intentions in mind. While in India he gave many speeches to the people about boycotting the British, and not buying there goods. Ghandi’s actions put him in jail many a time. The first time he was in jail was in 1922, then in 1930, 1933 and again in 1942. When he was in prison he fasted as another nonviolent protest. In 1931, between one of his arrests he went to Britan for a Round Table conference to discuss his fame and how he could embarrass Britain a great deal, however they didn’t get any where.Britain was starting to put a monopoly on salt production in India, and sure enough Gandhi organized a salt march so that they could produce salt. By now, Gandhi was well known through out the whole world. He went on going with his nonviolent protests to help the Indian people and he did. 1948 came around and India gained its independence, however India broke apart. Gandhi tried to make religions come together but soon realized that that was one thing he couldn’t change. Gandhi knew that because of the brake up it might mean that he was going to be killed. Gandhi’s assasination was attempted on January 20, 1948 but failed. Soon after on January 30 he was shot by an unhappy muslim because that muslim didn’t believe that Muslims and Hindus were the same. Now , to appreciate Gandhi and his heroic deeds for India he has an everlasting light near his grave. May his words be spoken for ever ” An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
Writing this letter really made me realize just how important Gandhi was to India. I love Gandhi a lot because he seemed so wise and so courageous, but it’s more than that now because after researching and discovering knew things about him, it changed the way I think about Gandhi. I also learned what one of his quotes means. “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”. “An eye for an eye” means what you do I’ll do, and “makes the whole world blind’ means that nobody wins. That (to me ) is very powerful. In the tecnical way I learned what an internal link is, I think, thanks to Mr.H, I know more about technology in computers. In conclusion I liked this project in many ways!
Sincerely,
Your Indian friend, Maya
The Aryans were amazing people. They loved to gamble, sing and dance in their spare time. There were three periods - the Epic, the Verdic and the Rig vedic. The Rig vedic period was the earliest period when they took over India. The Epic period was the period of heroes that explained how the Aryan’s culture valued the Rig veda culture. The Verdic period was when cultural mixing accured, thus creating Hinduism. The Aryans lived in tribes and were warlike. They were ruled by Rajas (warcheifs). Their language was Sanskrit. They lived along the Ganges River. They had different levels of people: the Brahmanas (preists), the Kshatriya (warriors), the Vashya (agriculturists) and the Shudra (workers). I hope you learned a little about the Aryans if youwould like toget more information go to http://www.wsu.edu/dee/Ancindia/aryans.htm.
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The Aryans were a huge amount of people who came from Central Asia and invaded Northwest India. They entered India through the Khyber pass. The period from which they lived in, 1500 B.C.E - 1000 B.C.E., was called the Vedric time period. It was named after their four “books” which they called the Vedas. Veda means knowledge.They are the Aryans beliefs and knowledge made into poems and sacred hymns. There were four Vedas, and they were called the Rig, Sama, Yajur, and the Atharva.
The Aryans were nomads. They lived in groups called clans. There were many clans, and sometimes they had wars against clans. Each clan had a warrior chief called a Rajas. Getting the job of the chief was hereditary. That way there was no big argument on who got to be chief.
The Aryans wrote many magnificent stories. They shared these stories by either singing or reading them to each other for centuries. Some of them were called Ramayana and Mahabharata. These were very famous stories!
They also raised livestock, rode chariots, and did all the other things that the people in their time did. The Aryans favorite past time was gambling. They loved to gamble. It was a big hit in their time.
The Aryans were a very important part in India’s history.
The story about the Aryans is a theory. There is little evidence about them, so they are still unaware if they are real or not. India acts like the Aryans did, so some people believe that they were real. The British put the Aryans in the school text books, but that is all we know about them now!
Picture in the Ramayana
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I never knew that people could be unsure about history and still teach it in school. They drew such beautiful pictures!
Buddhism was first started in 560-400 B.C. by the birth of Siddhartha Gautama. Buddhism is a religion that finds peace within oneself. It was made to give happiness during the present life and the next life. Buddhists do not believe in one god. They believe in many spiritual beings.
Buddhism is still practiced today in many countries around the world.
Information received from: Eyewitness Books: RELIGION and also http://journals.iranscience.net
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Mohandas Gandhi started of as a lawyer for two years in India. In 1893 Gandhi went to south africa to see his wife and his children. Later after that he became a leader in India and tried to stop and fight discrimination. Gandhi came back to india at about 1915. Gandhi helped the British in World War 1 and tried to get freedom from doing so. Later Gandhi lead the “200-mi. march” to get salt from the sea. He had to go to prison for doing this but he was let out of prison in 1931. Gandhi wanted to grant “immediate independence” for India by trying to help during World War 2 but sadly his offer was rejected. Later during a prayer Ghandhi was shot on January 30, 1948. But Ghandi’s grave has a fire that will never burn out and to this day it still burns.
During this assignment I learned all about Gandhi and how much he helped to try to free the people of India.
I got my information from this site.
Buddhism, a form of religion started in India around 500 B.C., was based on one god named (obviously) Buddha. He was sometimes called “The Enlighted One” and was born in Nepal. This religion was started by a man named Gautama Siddhartha. A lot of people believed in this religion. In fact, today’s Buddhist total population is about 359,981,000. They had a sacred book, like any other religion, called the Tripitika. It was full of Buddha’s laws and teachings. Buddhism had three teachings which were all different in various ways. One of them was called the Hinayana teachings. Another was called the Mahayana. The final one was called Vajarayana teachings. All of these teachings had a different appearance of Buddha. Most of these had Buddha appearing to be large and a few had Buddha appearing to be normal sized.
This experience learning about Buddhism taught me that there are many kinds of the same religion but they are all practiced differently. For example, I didn’t know much about all three kinds of Buddhism and that they all had the same god. I also didn’t know why people had different ideas about the way Buddha looked, but I found out that it’s because of their type of Buddhism.
By the way, what do YOU think Buddha looks like?
The Larger Buddha: The Normal Size Buddha
Runescape is an online adventure game by Jagex. When you sign up for Runescape you first select your age then you type in a username of your choice and check the availability then you read and agree to the terms & conditions, and you’re finshed signing up. Then you play!! First you select a world (my favorite world is 85) and sign in. After signing in you create a person then the game takes you through training island where you learn to play. After that you’re on Runescape. I recommend going and destroying a few goblins so you can get Runescape money. The best item to buy with your Runescape money (that willl help you the most) is a newcomer map. It will tell you where you are on Runescape. After that you should have fun and meet new people. Who knows, they could be from China or France. But remember don’t give out personal information. It is ok to say your country. It’s interesting to learn where in the world people are from. If you need help on Runescape my name is leofire94. I’ll be sure to help you!!
++Make sure you get your parents permission first! Mr. H.
Well the Scots were in northern Britain and had land, but a British king wanted to conquer Scotland and did. The Scots [then] fought back and William Wallis helped the Scots get their land back from the English. [Afterward,] the Scots lived peacefully in the area north of England in Scotland. [There,] they built big castles and forts.
