Current Events

5/3/10

Delan Chen

7/8 Blue

Animals

      On April 4 near 55 miles north of Anchorage in Alaska, a German Shepard named Buddy had saved his owner's life when his clothes and house got caught on fire. Heinrichs, the owner, stated that he was working on his truck when somehow a spark ignited the gasoline and setting his clothes on fire. He ran outside and rolled over in the snow to clear out the fire. He let his dog out, Buddy, and told him that they needed help. The dog took off and encountered a trooper named Terrence Shanigan near Caswell Loop Road. Shanigan's global positioning device wasn't working and he was coordinating with the dispatchers to locate Heinrichs's house. The dog led him to the house and firefighters soon arrived at the house. How old is Heinrichs?

       A. 24 years old

       B. 36 years old

       C. 23 years old

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Current Events 4/7/10

Delan Chen

7/8 Blue

Tween Tribune

Twens in the News

A 13-year old boy from California named Jordan Romero had decided to climb the tallest mountain on earth, Mount Everest, with his dad and his dad's girlfriend. When Jordan was 10, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro which is the tallest mountain in Africa. So far, he had climbed four of the tallest peaks excluding Everest. One of them was Alaska's Mount McKinley. Guides that had climbed up Mount Everest said that most likely, Jordan would be safe if his team was careful to react to low oxygen and high altitude. How many months of homework would Jordan take to Nepal so he can catch up with school?

  A. One and a half month

  B. Four months

  C. Two Months

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My Project Proposal 7/8 Blue

Description:
For our project we will be creating a commentary movie using the software Windows Movie Maker. We will have a slide show based presentation with the possibility of a video footage.

Who I am working with:
On this project I will be working with Zuhair Chaudhry.

Deadlines:
We will gather our information the week of  April  4-10. We will work on the movie the week of April 11-17. We will try to wrap up the project the last week.  

Expectation:
We will hand the map in separately from the movie because we think that it will be hard to read the map.
We will commentate the description of the journey and the reason  for moving using pictures and captions we will use Audacity or a equal program that is not decided.   

Share:
We will either send the file as an attachment on E-Mail or if that does not work on our last resort we will post it on the interne

Current Events 3/17/10

Delan Chen

7/8 Blue

Do You Know How to Call 911? This Tween Does!

      On a day, three armed assailants entered a boy's house holding his parents prisoners while the boy and his sister was hiding in a locked bathroom. The boy's name is Carlos and he called 911 telling the dispatcher, Monique Patino, to bring a lot of cops to his house. The assailants entered the house as Carlo's sister left the door open to grab her lunch box. When the police came within 3 minutes, the assailants fled the house taking nothing. Which of the descriptions below fits the car the assailants fled in?

  A. It was a black van.
  B. It was a gray or green two-door compact car
  C. It was a blue BMW.

Apple's Ipad rules while Microsoft Drools

     Apple had started selling it's latest product which is the Ipad. The Ipad resembles a large iphone and netbook combines together. Some of the ipad models would have the data plans with at&t. The CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, claimed that the Ipad would be better than a laptop or smartphone for reading books, watching videos, and playing game. What would be the initial price of the Ipad to consumers?

  A. $499

  B. $399

  C. $450

  

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Current Events 3/9/10

Sony's 3-D TVS Are Compatible With Playstation

     Sony announced that they would be selling four types of 3-D televisions. The 40 and 46-inch 3-D TV which would start on an initial price of 3,200 dollars and will go on sale on June 10 while the 52 and 60-inch TV which would cost around 6,400 dollars will go on sale on July 16 in Japan. Each 3-D TV would include two pairs of 3-D glasses and a camera sensor on the TV that would change the picture quality and sound depending on the viewer's position. Sony also said that the 3-D TV would also be compatible with the playstation 3 so consumers can play it on 3-D. How would they make the playstation 3 compatible?

  A. They would make a new playstation 3 with the compatibility mode in it thus causing consumers to buy another one in order to play it on 3-D.

  B. They would release a firmware update to download and install onto your playstation 3.

  C. They would make an accessory or gadget to insert into your playstation 3.

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Source: http://tweentribune.com/content/sony-sell-3-d-tvs-june

Current Events Top Story of 2009 and Newspaper for Mexican-American War

Delan Chen

7/8 Blue

1/6/10

Conflict Overseas

    The war in Afghanistan started in 2001 and the war in Iraq started in 2003 between the U.S soldiers and the Taliban forces. President Barack Obama proposed plans to withdraw all of the U.S forces from Iraq because the violence had decreased there. Since the violence in Afghanistan increased, Obama decided to send more U.S troops to attain their goal. Their goal is to defeat the Taliban forces, a group that assists Osama Bin Laden and the group called "Al Qaeda". How many troops does Obama want to send to Afghanistan?

  A. 100,000

  B. 45,000

  C. 30,000

The World Today (Uhhhhh... Back Then)

The Battle of the Alamo (The Mexican-American War)

By Delan Chen 

   I had witnessed a very glorious battle between the U.S forces and the Mexican troops. It started on February 23, 1836. The general of the Mexican forces, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, sent 1500 Mexican troops to fight against the U.S forces commanded by William Travis. William Travis wrote several letters for more men but only a few came. It was until March 6, 1836, the Mexican troops had finally annihilated most of the U.S troops in the Alamo. Only two US people had survived. It was very sad. A lot of good people like Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett and others had died. The US troops had fought bravely and took many of the Mexican troops with them. There were around 260 US troops and 2,400 Mexican soldiers. 258 US soldiers had died and around 600 Mexican troops were killed or wounded.  This was a battle to remember.

Source for Battle of the Alamo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo
Source for the Top Ten Stories of 2009: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3753201&grade=78

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Honey Bee Mystery and Mexican-American War Current Events

Delan Chen

7/8 Blue

12/9/09

Honey Bee Mystery

      A lot of honey bees are leaving their hives and dying the the United States. Without the honey bees, we wouldn't get the delicious honey from them, but also since honey bees are pollinators, they allow plants to grow fruits and nuts that many of us have eaten. There are around 40,000 honey bees in each colony. In California, their almond crops rely on around half of the honey bees in the United States which is about 1.5 million colonies! Unfortunately since many honey bees are dying, the almond and other crops may be in danger. The crops wouldn't grow an abundant amount of fruits and nuts since there wouldn't be enough honey bees left to pollinate. Around how long does the honey bees pollinate in the almond groves in California before setting out to pollinate other crops?

   A. 4 weeks

   B. 5 weeks

   C. 6 weeks

Mexican-American War

 The Mexican-American war started in 1846 and ended in 1848. The conflict was over the possession of Texas between the United States and Mexico. The war was fought in several different places such as Texas, Mexican City, New Mexico and many others. The result of the war was that the United States had defeated Mexico and gained possession of Texas. One of the famous battle of this war would be the Battle of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. The casualties for the American soldiers were 13, 780 dead and a lot more wounded. The casualties for the Mexican was a lot higher than the American and some estimate around 25, 000 soldiers dead. Around how many soldiers did the American army had to fight against the Mexicans?


   A. 78,700 soldiers
   B. 40, 000 soldiers
   C. 25, 580 soldiers


Source for the honey bees: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/AnimalsNature/Honey-bee-mystery
Sources for the Mexican-American War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican–American_War
http://www.historyguy.com/Mexican-American_War.html


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