High School is a time to make great friends, start on the path to a career, and just start to become an adult. There is a single reason why highschool is important to me and it is very simple. Ever since first grade there has been almost like a ladder of power, starting with the lowest rung at 1st grade and slowly working up untill your at the top which is fifth grade. But then the next year you are at the bottom again and have to start all over. But when you get out of high school there is a different ladder, you have to work as hard as you can and once your at the top there is no automatic event that kickes you back again, you have to keep trying and when you get into high school for some people this is one of the ony times where there is a lot of responsibility put on them there is nobody to hold their hand, and that is why highschool is important to me because it is a time to show who adn what your and how hard you are willing to work.
Today on November 7th 1877, a composer named Henry Balfour Gardiner was born. He was a composer, a teacher and a musician. He composed 2 symphonies and is best know for his piece titled Evening Hymn. He soon became a conductor of contemporary British composers and he financed many of the concerts himself. He also was quite generous with his small fortune and purchased one of his friends houses while he was dieing so he could still live in it. henry quit composing in 1925.
When mayor Dickinson told us a story, this is what it sounded like:
A kangaroo was in a fenced in area with an 8 foot high fence and the zoo keepers went to bed and the next morning they found the kangaroo out on the side walk. so they put him back and built the walls 30 feet high and when the zookeepers came back in the morning they found the kangaroo out on the sidewalk again. So the giraffe asked how high do you think that they will build this fence? and that kangaroo answered 100 feet maybe 1000 feet I don’t know but I will always get out as long as they don’t lock the gate.
now mayor Dickinson said that this story meant that we can’t forget the basics but I think that it is just common sense and that he is right in the way that we need to have a foundation before we can thrive, but it’s just common sense.
This was the blog that I read, This is a paragraph from it
Americans drank some 37 billion bottles of water in 2005, despite the inconvenient truth that in most parts of the country, tap water is not only perfectly safe, but also more tightly regulated that its bottled counterpart… manufacturing plastic bottles for bottled water creates an astounding amount of pollution — an annual equivalent of 1.5 billion barrels of oil… Bottled water ‘very clearly reflects the wasteful and reckless consumerism in this country…
I found this blog by typing in Blog+Rainforest and I found this earth blog. I just read a few of the posts and this one just got my interest. Here is the comment that i left the bloggers:
Wow I just cant believe that in just one year making water bottles produces just as mush polution as 1.5 billion barrels of oil. I liked the post because it was short and to the point. And it gave alot f information.
I was unable to comment but I will try later, I could not comment because of the fact that there was an error when I hit the post button.
When I looked at the assignment this is what I saw:
The best way to participate is to post on your blog something that relates to the environment. Your post can be about anything to do with the environment. So you could write a post which is off topic for your blog OR relate the environment back to your topic in some way.
I thought that it was going be something that would take a few minutes because I didn’t think I would be that interested in this topic. What I found out about the Rainforest was very amazing in a bad way.
So here are some facts:
Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth, now they cover 6%
1 1/2 acres of rainforests are destroyed every second!
Estimate show that we are losing 137 plant and animal species every day due to rainforest devastation.
If you multiply that times 365 you get around 50,005 Species PER YEAR that are gone forever
Five centuries ago there were about 10 million native Indians living in the Amazon rainforest now there are only about 200,000
Just in Brazil European colonists have destroyed more than 90 indigenous tribes
When the medicine man of a certain tribe dies without passing knowledge on to another generation, it is like losing thousands of years of medicinal plants and survival techniques.
Sometimes described as the lungs of our planet, the rainforest provides us with 20% of the earths oxygen
The Amazon rainforest alone makes up for a quarter of the entire bird species, imagine if that were destroyed,
Nearly half of all plants, animals, or microorganisms will become extinct or endangered in the next quarter of a century due to rainforest deforestation.
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