Blog Assignment #19 - Lion's Cub Articles

Assignment #19:

Tasty Bugs

             Hey, it's victoria again with the  candy of the week. The candy I’m talking about is no ordinary candy. Yup that's right it's Bug Candy. According to www.Stupid.com there is an amazing amount of candy with real bugs in it. Hotlix is probably the most well-known maker of candied bugs but you can find them made by severial of companies. You can get  lollipops with a worm inside, Cricket Lick-Its lollipops with a real cricket inside, lollipops with a real scorpion inside. (yeah, I know a scorpion isn’t a bug) You can also get Ant Candy which has real ants and looks like a miniature ant farm, and of course, you can get all manner of bugs covered in chocolate. No matter what kind of candy and no matter what kind of bugs, candy with real bugs in it is gross.

Riddles
   1.  Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I? 
      2.  The big monkey is the father of the small monkey, but the small monkey is not the son of the big monkey. How are they related?
      3.  I am a fat Man, All I do is stand there, I am not scared by the north wind, But I am scared of the sun. What am I?
       4.  It starts cars. It helps make juice. It usually finishes a topic. What is it? 
5.  If I were to die, then you would be born. What is night for me, would be your morn. What happens to me, never happens to you. We are so far out from similar, now guess who?

( Answers)

1.       Fire

2.       The small monkey is the daughter of the big monkey

3.       A snowman

4.       The letter C

5.       I am your opposite

 Do's and don'ts

(Girls)

Do's                                                                                                Don'ts

1. Skinny Jeans (any color)                                              1. Clothes that are way too big
2. Animal Print                                                                 2. Dark colored clothes
3. Bright colored flat shoes                                               3. Plain shirts and jeans

(Boys)

Do's                                                                                                Don'ts

1. Skinny Jeans as well (certain body types)                     1. Pants with holes
2. Prints such as checkard board                                      2. White after Labor Day 
3. Vans                                                                            3. Crocs

Skittles Jar Contest

 I have a fun contest for you. We have put a jar of Skittles somewhere in the school office. The contest is to guess how many skittles is in the jar.Whoever is the closest to the correct answer will win a grand prize. Hurry!!!!!! before someone beats you !!!!! Make your guess by Wednesday 16th!

Blog Assignment #18: Obama

Assignment #18:

       President Barack Obama as we all know has a very interesting family. First lets start from the roots. His father was a government economist in Kenya. He was the father of one daughter and at least four sons. The women of the house hold known as Ann Soetoro who was a teen mother who soon got her P.H.D. She was a dreamer, and made risky bets that only paid off some of the time, choices that her children had to live with. Today Obama is partly a product of what his mother was not. Whereas she swept her children off to unfamiliar lands and even lived apart from her son when he was a teenager, Obama has tried to ground his children in the Midwest.

 President Barack Obama has many responsibilities. He has to keep us safe and too me that is a big responsibility. That one thing that I think is very important is that everyone is counting on him to make a change and that’s a very hard job.   Not only that but people are threatening him all the time and that is something to really worry about because you never know what’s going to happen. Another big responsibility is he always has to make the people of the United States happy and do what’s best for the country.

                As we all know our president is very educated Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979, where he studied at Occidental College for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.  Obama lived off campus in a rented apartment at 142 West 109th St. He was a very smart man, and was serious about his education.  That’s why he now encourages young boys to stay and school, and look and see how far it gets them.

                He is very involved with his kids which I think everyone loves. According to  /moneywatch.bnet.com/  One of the biggest complaints of most parents is that they don’t spend enough time with their kids. Obama makes sure he schedules time with this family each day. Which I think is really nice because being the president you would think him wouldn’t have time for it. As a loving father he makes sure he has time.

                So as you can see even though he Is the president with big responsibilities he still is a normal person. Which I think more people need to realize. Also that he really cares about his family and will do anything for them. To him it’s so important he puts time aside just to be with them which I think is very sweet.  Finally, another thing I’ve learned is that he comes from a very interesting back-round.

Blog Assignment #17 / Comics

Assignment #17:
    Comic #1
(Pickles By: Brian Crane)
      Pickles is very funny it remindes me of when i was little and wanted to ask fifty million questions all at once. It also is personal because i have had a similar conversation with my granddad. The weird thing is he said the same thing. The whole story was funny from beginning to end. The little boy ask his grandmother wht she has wrinkles on her face. So then she told him how wrinles tells a story about the person's life which i believe. She also said how the older you get you start to wear ezpressions on your face which is true sometimes. She aslo told him how every line, bag, or wrinkle means something. Finally, the little boy ask what can you tell when you look at a young person face, and she says (which is really funny) what they had for dinner because some of us tend to make a mess when eating.

Comic #2
( Sally Forth By: Francesco Marciuliano)
      Sally Forth to me is interesting because men really do seem to have a connection with thier grills. So when i read this i knew i had to put it on blogger. What happened was it was starting to become fall and during the fall people stop grilling. So the mans wife was telling him how it was their last time grilling for a while. Him being in  love with his grill he wanted time to him self . So they wife said okay because you're not going to see it for a while. I think it's funny because my uncle is the same way and so is his wife.
Comic #3
(Mallard Fillmore By: Bruce Tinsley)
       I like Mallard Fillmore because it is funny, and it's happening today. You see a lot of movies are being remade into a more modern version. So when everyone sat down and the film said " The following picture is not a re-make" people were suprised. I like it because you don't relize people are starting to that until someone says something. So once i understood what it said i really thought about it and wondered why they are starting to do that.

Blog Assignment #16 / Hershey Celebration

Assignment #16:

      Milton Hershey was born on September 13, 1857, to Veronica "Fanny" Snavely and Henry Hershey, in the central Pennsylvania town Derry Church, renamed Hershey in 1906. His only sibling, Serena, was born in 1862. Due to the family’s moves he dropped out of school after he turned 12 years old. He then served a four-year beginner with a Lancaster candy and ice-cream maker, Joseph Royer. In 1876 after completing his beginner experience he established his first candy-making business in Philadelphia. The Candy business failed due to lack of finance and customers. He moved out westward to Colorado with his father. Once Milton and his father got there  he then looked for a secure job, unlike his father who went in the search of gold.

       With the proceeds from the 1900 sale of the Lancaster Caramel Company, Hershey initially acquired some 1,200 acres of farm land about 30 miles northwest of Lancaster, near his birthplace of Derry Church. There, he could hold the large supplies of fresh milk needed to produce milk chocolate. Excited by the potential of milk chocolate, which at that time was a Swiss luxury product, Hershey was determined to develop a formula for milk chocolate and market and sell it to the American public. Through hard times he created his own formula for milk chocolate. Hershey continued to experiment and perfect the process of making milk chocolate.

        The main candy that comes from Hershey that we eat today is the original Hershey Milk Chocolate Bar. Most people like it because well people like chocolate so that makes it even better. Not only that but it's sweet and almost everyone has a sweet tooth. Another good reason is it can also be romantic which is why people purchase chocolate on Valentines Day. So as you can see not only has Milton Hershey had an effect on our lives but his chocolate too.

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Blog Assignment #15/Monet.

Assignment #15: Claude Monet
          Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840. He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet. One interesting fact I learned is that his father wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a singer. On 1 April 1851, Monet entered Le Havre secondary school of the arts. In 1845 the family moved to Le Havre, France, where Monet's father and uncle ran a business selling supplies for ship. Through an exhibition of his drawings at a local frame shop in 1858, Monet met Eugène Boudin, a landscape painter who became a great influence on the young artist.
           By 1859 Monet was determined to pursue an artistic career. Monet was in Paris for several years and met other young painters who would become friends. By the time his was sixteen, in 1856, most of the traits that were to make Monet a great painter were evident. He was not religious and had little faith in anything that was not drawn from direct experience. It was at this time that Monet found his first mentor in a local painter, Louis Eugene Boudin. Monet later confessed that the first time he had seen Boudin's nature studies displayed in the same shop window as his own caricature portraits, "His painting inspired me with an intense aversion and, without knowing the man, I hated him."

             In 1859, at the age of 19, Monet went to Paris. From 1860 to 1862, Monet was called up for military service and chose to serve in Algeria because he was attracted to the sky. The southern light and color he experienced in Africa excited him and remained an inspiration throughout his life. After he was sent home on sick leave, his sympathetic aunt bought a substitute to complete the remaining five years of his service for him. In 1867, Monet was in acute financial difficulties. His friend Bazille bought Women in the Garden, an enormously challenging piece painted entirely out-of-doors. So that Monet would have an income, Bazille arranged to pay for it in installments over four years. So as you can see nothing stopped this man from doing what he loved, and that's why he is remembered today.

                                               

                      

Blog Assignment #14-G.Muller

Assignment #14:

          George Muller was German his original name was Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller. He was born in Kroppenstedt, a village in the Kingdom of Prussia which is located in Russia.  In 1828, Müller almost started working with Jews in England.  He believed that God would provide for his needs as he did his Christian work. He became the pastor of a chapel in Devon, and soon after, he married Miss Mary Groves.   While he was the pastor of the church, he would not take a regular salary.

            Müller and his wife began working with orphans in 1836. They then kept thirty girls in their own home.  Soon after that, they opened three more orphanages. That made the total of children they cared for about 130. In 1849, that home opened. By 1870, more than 2,000 children were being helped in their five homes. To this point, Müller had never asked for financial support, and he did not go into debt. Even though their five homes cost over 100,000 to build. Many times, he would get free food donations only hours before it was time to eat.

           That helped his faith in God even more. Every morning after breakfast there was a time of Bible reading and prayer. Every child was given a Bible when they left the orphanage. The children had nice clothes. Müller even had a school inspector make sure things were done right. Even though he died in Bristol at the age of 93, George Muller was and still is a very inspirational person that I think any boy should look up to. He defiantly has inspired many lives.

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