book report 2

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time is about a boy named Christopher who is 15 and has Asperger’s Syndrome. He live with his father in England. His mother died from a heart attack.

Christopher Boone one day finds his neighbors dog murdered so he decides to investigate and write a book about it. So he starts to ask people around the neighbor hood if they know any thing about it. And he comes to the conclusion that the reason why someone would kill someone’s dog is because they want to make that person sad so Christopher thought that the murderer might be his neighbors ex husband. So he asks is dad about Mr. shears (his neighbors ex husband) and his father says that christopher is not allowed to say that name in his house and that the man is evil then his father finds out that he’s doing investigating and he forbids him not to do any more investigating and butting into other peoples business. Christopher is the kind of boy who does not let himself lie and does what he’s told but he’s also the kind of kid who finds a way to bend the rules. So he does that and finds out that his mother had an affair with Mr. shears and that’s why his father hates Mr. shears. Then his father finds out that he’s still doing detective work and steals the book he’s writing about the mystery he’s solving. One day his father has to go somewhere for a short time so Christopher takes that time to try and find his book so he searches the whole house. Finally he finds it in his fathers bedroom in a shoe box and underneath his book is a pile of letters addressed to him. They end up being from his mother and they say things like we’ve just move in, i got a job, why haven’t you written, and stuff like that information on what’s going on with her. His father finds him reading them and tells him that his mothers still alive and she’s living with Mr. shears. Then he tells him that he was the one who killed wellington, their neighbors dog. Christopher gets really freaked out and runs away. He decides that he going to live with his mom so he finds his way to the train station and gets on a train. On the train a police officer finds him and tells him his father is looking for him and that he has to come with him. But then the train starts to move so they have to wait for the next stop. Christopher tells the police officer that he has to go to the washroom. When he comes out of the washroom he sees the little racks for the luggage and since he likes small spaces he climbs up and puts a suitcase in front so he’s totally blocked in. Finally the train stops and the police officer looks for christopher but can’t find him so he gets off the train. The train starts moving and stops a couple times finally when christopher feels safe he comes out and gets off the train. After wondering around the city christopher finally made it to the address on the letter. And he stays with his mom and Mr. shears. Then his dad comes to visit but christopher won’t see him so he leaves. Then his mom takes him back to his house. And his mother says to him please give your father a chance so he does. And his father says to him christopher i would never hurt you, i was mad at Ms. shears and she yelled at me and i got so out of control and the dog wouldn’t shut up so i killed it, I’m so sorry. Can we please try a little experiment i promise i won’t ever hurt you and i’ll keep my distance but can you try and spend some time with me just that. And so he did.

Christopher
he’s 15
he has Asperger’s Syndrome
loves math and science and is extremely good at it
doesn’t know a lot about humans
he loves things to be in order and have a proper place and patterns and the truth
he hates the colors yellow and brown and being touched
he’s never gone farther then the end of his block by himself
loves Sherloch Holmes
loves mysteries all together
loves schedules
loves small spaces
hates Melissa Brown (a girl at his school)


important issue

The most important part in this book i think is defiantly when Christopher's father finds him reading the letters. I think this is the most important part because it’s when all the mysteries are solved. His mother, The dog. And it’s when Christopher takes his wild adventure to find his mom and get away from his dad.

egyptian pyramids

The ancient Egyptians built pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and their queens. The pharaohs were buried in pyramids of many different shapes and sizes from before the beginning of the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom.

There are about eighty pyramids known today from ancient Egypt. The three largest and best-preserved of these were built at Giza at the beginning of the Old Kingdom. The most well-known of these pyramids was built for the pharaoh Khufu. It is known as the Great Pyramid.

Egyptologists have developed many theories about why the tombs of the early pharaohs were built in the pyramid shape. Some believed that the pyramid represented the first land to appear at the beginning of time a hill called Ben-Ben. Some believed that the pyramid had sloping sides so that the dead pharaoh could, symbolically climb to the sky and live forever. and others believed that the pyramid represented the rays of the sun.

The ancient Egyptians believed that it was important to be buried properly. A proper burial would allow them to live again in the after life. Thus, most people who could afford to, spent a lot of time and effort making sure that they would be buried well.

Most ordinary ancient Egyptians were probably buried in the desert. Their relatives would wrap their body in a simple cloth and bury it with some everyday objects and food.

Those with more wealth would be able to afford a better burial. The graves of some craftsmen and workers have been found containing a mummified body as well as bread, fruit, amulets and furniture for the afterlife.

Nobles and very wealthy people were often buried in tombs that we call mastabas. This kind of tomb has an underground burial chamber and an above ground offering chapel. These tombs would contain the person's mummified body, as well as food, jewelry and special objects.

The Great Sphinx is a large human-headed lion that was carved from a mound of natural rock. It is located in Giza where it guards the front of Khafra's pyramid.

Legends have been told for many years about the Great Sphinx. These stories tell about the powers and mysteries of this sphinx. Some people even believe that there are hidden passageways or rooms underneath the Great Sphinx, but nothing has been found yet.

The beginning of one story about the Great Sphinx is written on a stele between the sphinx's paws.

The story reads that one day, a young prince fell asleep next to the Great Sphinx. He had been hunting all day, and was very tired. He dreamt that the Great Sphinx promised that he would become the ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt if he cleared away the sand covering its body (the Great Sphinx was covered up to its neck). The rest of the story has disappeared over time and many have tried recovering it and making possible endings. But mostly it’s just a story to tell kids and they get to imagine the rest.

book report 1

I read a book called How I Live Now. It was a great book about a girl who stays with her cousins in London while a war is going on.

The book is about a girl (like i said before) named Elizabeth but everyone calls her Daisy, she is 15. She has four cousins their names are: Edmond who is 14, his twin brother Isaac, Piper who is 9, and Osbert who is 16. their mothers name is Aunt Penn.

Daisy lives in New York with her father, her step mother and her almost half sister who is not born yet. Daisy and her best friend, Leah, have a great disliking for Davina, her step mother. Her mom died giving birth to her. Her father sends her to live with her cousins for the summer. In London with her cousins she realizes the peaceful and natural way her cousins live, they spend lots of time talking and hanging out and Daisy and Edmond get a little two close and slip right into an affair. So they live there lives at the farm while strange things happen because of the war like not being able to go to town, the airport being bombed, and most importantly their house being taken over by the military and them getting separated and having to live with people they don’t know. The books perspective is of Daisy so when they do get separated we only here Daisy and Pipers story. The house that their living at gets invaded and they have to run away to a barn then that place gets invaded and Piper and Daisy escape on there own with a map and a location and lots and lots of miles of flat land. So they walk and walk and finally arrive at their destination which is were Edmond and Isaac were staying but that place was also invaded and they’re not there. Then Piper and Daisy decide to go back to the house.

This part in the book is where it gets confusing. There’s a pause in the book and it jumps forward to Daisy living back with her dad. What happened was her father sent people searching for her and against her will sent her on a plane back to New York. Then, a couple years later, she goes back to England to see her cousins again and has to explain to Edmond that she didn’t leave him on purpose and she was forced to go back home. If your wondering what happened to Edmond and Isaac well when the place they were staying at got invaded they escaped and went back to the house and coincidentally they arrived at the house only one day after Daisy went back to New York. The reason they took longer to get to the house was because Edmond wouldn’t leave the other people to die he couldn’t so Isaac had to leave him and he went back to the house and waited but Edmond never showed up so Isaac had to go look for him. By the time he found him all most dead from starvation Piper and Daisy had made it to the house. If your wondering what happened to Osbert all this time, well he got a job in the military and got separated so he finally went home.

Daisy
she is 15
she’s independent
kind and neat
knows who she is and what she wants (not confused about her self/life)
her cousins see her as a kind/sweet girl who knows how to fit in and be who she is


Edmond
he is 14
he’s strong at heart
not afraid to say what he wants but goes with the flow (like the others)
independent but isn’t all over the place and not an outsider
his siblings see him as a kind brother and friend and leader if without osbert but good leader not bossy
daisy sees him as a guy who’s independent but friendly and kind she sees him as a guy she loves but who’s also like a brother

Piper
she is 9
she is a really sweet kind ball of energy
she’s responsible
she’s cute
she’s a happy bouncy little girl who manages things well
her brothers see her as there cute little sweet sister who is also like a best friend but who is very responsible and takes charge especially in the kitchen
daisy sees her as the little sister she never had she takes care of her and respects her

Important issue
At the end of the book it talks about when there older and what happened when Daisy goes home. I think this is one of the most important parts because it explains details on things that happened to other characters like the fact that aunt penn, when she went to Norway, got killed when she tried to get on to a plane back to England. It also talks about what happens to Daisy and Edmond. And explains the place and life in which Daisy belongs.

norway's geography

Norway is situated in the western part of the Scandinavian peninsula. It extends about 1,770 km from the North Sea along the Norwegian Sea to more than 483 km above the Arctic Circle, the farthest north of any European country. It is slightly larger than New Mexico. Nearly 70% of Norway is uninhabitable and covered by mountains, glaciers, moors, and rivers. The hundreds of deep fjords that cut into the coastline give Norway an overall oceanfront of more than 19,312 km. Galdhø Peak, at 2,469 m, is Norway's highest point.

Norway has endless, breathtaking nature attractions. The mountainous regions abound with broad plateaus and magnificent peaks. The fjords that were formed when the glaciers receded are unique in the world. More than anything else, it is nature that makes Norway such a special place to visit or live.

Norway's biggest tourist attraction is without a doubt the nature. Especially the beautiful mountains, fjords and waterfalls in western Norway. The mountains are the place to go for a feeling of freedom and for unique experiences. The distances are great, but cosy tourist cabins can be found at manageable distances. Jotunheimen is said by many to be the most beautiful mountain area.

Fjords can be found along the entire length of the Norwegian coastline, from Oslo Fjord to Varanger Fjord. And each one has good reason to be called the most beautiful. But the best known fjords of all are those found in the west of Norway. They are worldfamous and when you glide along the perfectly calm water in the Hardangerfjord when the fruit is beginning to blossom, you will understand why.

Norway's northern regions lie within the Arctic Circle, where there are borders with Finland and Russia, while much of the long border with Sweden runs through the Scandinavian mountains. This range, sloping to the southeast, is 1,530 km in length and has its highest areas in the south of Norway, where Galdhøpiggen, Norway's highest point, reaches a height of 2,469 m (8,100 ft). Almost all of Norway is high ground; in the north the country becomes narrower, with mountains overlooking the fjords and the islands along the coast, and in the center and south the mountains form a high plateau, where there are permanent ice fields. The only area of low ground is around the Oslo fjord and along the coast to Stavanger. The principal rivers are the Glomma, the Lågen, and Tanaelv. Some 6% of Norway's total area is inland water--mostly long, thin lakes. Two-thirds of the country is tundra, rock, or snowfields, and one-quarter is forested, so good agricultural land is rare. Less than 3% of Norway is cultivated, and these areas are in the southeast and in the river valleys. The mountains of Norway are rich in minerals; there are deposits of iron ore, copper, titanium, coal, zinc, lead, nickel, and pyrite, and large offshore reserves of petroleum and natural gas.

ireland poject

in ireland i saw a movie about michael collins and decided to do a project on his life. he was a great irish leader this is his life and how he changed the lives of the people in ireland.

Michael Collins was an irish revolutionary leader. He was born on October 16 1890 and died August 22 1922. He was born in County Cork, Ireland. He was the third son and youngest of eight children. His family had once been the lords of Uí Chonaill, but were reduced to the level of ordinary farmers. His sister had became a nun, his father had become a member of the republican Fenian movement in his youth, but had left and settled down to farming. his father died when he was six. When Michael was 15 he moved to london. In london he stayed with his other sister and her son Daniel. In February 1906, Collins took the British Civil Service examination. He later got a job at the post office. He joined the local Gaelic Athletic Association and, through this, the IRB, a secret oath-bound society introduced the 19 year old collins into the IRB. In time he would come to play a central role in this organisation. On Easter Monday he fought along side with Patrick Pearce and others in the General Post Office in Dublin. The rising became a military disaster. Collins, like many of the risings participants, was arrested, almost sent to the gallows and wound up at Frongoch Internment Camp. There, his leadership skills showed. By the time of the general release, Collins had already become one of the leading figures in the post-rising sinn fein , a small nationalist party which the British government and the Irish media wrongly blamed for the rising. By October 1917 Collins had risen to become a member of the executive of Sinn Fein and director of organisation of the irish volunteers. Like all senior Sinn Fein members, Michael Collins was nominated to seek a seat in the 1918 general election to elect Irish MPs to the British House of Commons in London. collins was elected he became MP for Cork South. In the summer he was elected president of the IRB. In September he was made Director of intelligence of the Irish Republican Army.

The Irish War Of Independence began in January 1919. Collins received another responsibility when de Valera appointed him to the Aireacht as Minister for Finance. Collins created a special assassination squad called The Twelve Apostles to kill British agents. he stole guns from police stations. michael collins started the first Guerilla war. Unlike a regular war he got people to appear and disappear so no one could find them like i said before they stole guns from police and killed british agents but made sure to not be noticed so as not to be found, Collins and Richard Mulcahy were the two principal central organisers for the Irish Republican Army. a great deal of IRA activity was carried out on the initiative of local leaders, with tactics and overall strategy developed by Collins or Mulcahy. By 1920, when he was 30 years old, the British offered a bounty of £10,000 for information leading to the capture or death of Michael Collins. Among national leaders, he made enemies of two particular people Cathal Brugha the Minister for Defense, and Éamom de Valera, the President of Dáil Éireann. Following a truce, arrangements were made for a conference between the British and the leaders of the as well as at the Versailles Peace Conference by Sean T. O'Kelly. De Valera then announced that, as the King would not attend, then neither should he as President of the Republic.
Instead, with the reluctant agreement of his advisers, de Valera nominated a team of delegates headed by Arthur Griffin, with Michael Collins as his deputy. With heavy misgivings, believing de Valera should head the delegation,Collins agreed to go to London.

In London Michael Collins signed a treaty saying that the Irish could govern themselves but remain in the British Empire. When he got back to ireland people did not like the treaty that he signed and many believed that he had sold out to the British government. Few seemed to realise that Collins was not a politician and that he had been put into a situation in which he had no experience of what to do. He was up against British politicians who were experienced in delicate negotiations. Some have argued that de Valera deliberately put Collins in this situation knowing that if he came back with an unacceptable treaty, it would seriously damage the reputation of Collins and weaken whatever political kudos he had in Ireland, therefore removing any potential threat he may have been to de Valera at a political level.

On August 22nd, 1922, Collins journeyed to County Cork. He was due to meet troops of the new Irish Army. His car was ambushed at a place called Beal na mBlath and Collins was shot. No one is completely sure who killed him. No one else was killed in the ambush. Collins' body lay in Dublin for three days and thousands paid their respects. Thousands also lined the streets for his funeral procession.

michael collins was a great leader. some believed he betrayed the irish people by signing the treaty and some believed he did what he had to. but before the civil war in ireland, irish against irish, he started the first gorrila war and changed the lives of many people in ireland.

norway project

Trond Stromgren
the illustrated history of everyday life in the fjords
by stromgren publishing
Batalden 2007
interesting new facts

This book is about life in norway from different time periods showing and talking about how they survived.

i didn’t know that each farm had six different buildings for different uses. i find this interesting because i originally thought there were two or three the farm house, the storage shed and possibly an out house or something.
i didn’t know wood was so important to the Norwegian people in the book they talked about it a lot for the use of houses and buildings and a lot of stuff.
i didn’t know that people cleaned the dishes with there feet evan if it just the big pot they used for milk and butter.
i find it very interesting that the people back then cleaned themselves and other things more frequently then we do now. but i guess it kind of makes sense when your out working in the dirt on a farm all day and the stream or river or whatever water there is, is right there.
i didn’t know milk had to be separated i thought it was squeezed from a cow right into your cup practically.
i had no clue that children used boats so much by themselves. i thought if they needed to get across the fjords or get to school there parents would drive the boat there just like now. though it turns out that kids were more responsible and eligible to do things then we are now.
i didn’t know that ice had to be shipped over to different places. i thought that everyone had there own ice that they collected in the winter. but now that i think about it it makes sense not all places in norway have and if they do small places like flam might not have someone who knows how to extract it.
i didn’t know that we now use machines to milk cows. even though it’s 2007 thought we still milked cows by hand.
i didn’t know that eagles and other birds killed children and livestock. i knew that they ate off dead animals but i didn’t know they killed them.
i find it interesting that sheep wool in the autumn is better than any other season. i never really thought a bout it before but if i were to think about it i would have guessed that it would be best in the spring because thats when things new and fresh and fresh happen like birth and blossoming so i would of guessed then.

ship life assignment

When i was on the Queen Mary II there was so much to do. They had at least five swimming pools, they had three buffets, they had a teen program with scavenger hunts and time in the zone where they had video games, air hockey, foosball, board games and much much more.

The Queen Mary 2 is a grand ship with ball rooms and a large beautiful lobby. the ship has more than a thousand passengers with one staff for every 2 passengers which is the best service on the atlantic. every time yo turned a corner there would be at least one staff.

i met lots of people on the queen mary 2. i met 3 girls from scot land who were sisters named franchesca, antonia, __________. i met a girl from new jersey her name was katerina. my councilors name was mary and she's from toronto.

at dinner time we would go at 8:30 down to the Britannia restaurant and eat dinner at a specific table we were assigned. we were also assigned people that we would eat with. we ate with three people for most of the time the very first time we ate dinner there was also a couple but they only ate with us once. i quite enjoyed there company and the food. if you were a vegetarian like me or had any food allergies then you would be given a vegetarian menu and would order a day before.

our room was on deck 6 were the zone was. to get into the room you had a card that had your picture on it and you would slide it in the slot on the door to get in. the room had a bathroom, 2 beds,2 bed side tables, an arm chair, a desk with a T.V. on top, and a little table beside the chair. the room might seem like it has allot of stuff and you would assume it would be crowded but it wasn't every thing fit together and there was lots of extra room.

there were lots of different rooms on the ship there's a library, a movie theatre which was also a planetarium, a photo room, the zone, Britannia restaurant, 3 buffets, swimming pools, the kennel with the dogs and cats, a spa, a gym, and much much more.

some nights at dinner a photographer comes around and takes your picture than later you can buy them. that's what the photo room is. i liked going there to look at all the guest and then it was fun going around the ship and pointing out the people i saw.

there were many outer deck areas and it was fun on windy days to go up to the top the wind almost blows you away. the temperature out in the ocean wasn't as cold as i expected it was actually quite nice out some day but mostly always windy. one of the days it rained.

there were a couple things i wanted to do that i either never got around to doing or wasn't allowed. i wasn't allowed to go into the gym and the spa cost money but i've never been to a spa before and i wanted to. i never got around to going to see the dogs and cats in the kennel and i never got around to going on the bridge because it was always closed when i always went up there. i also never got around to going swimming which i thought was really really weird.

the queen mary 2 is and amazing ship and a wonderful experience. i wish i could go again it was so much fun.