Questions for Sara

How does she feel about the Muslim brotherhood possibly coming in to rule? 

Where did you first hear about the revolution?

How did your family feel about this?

Is there still excitement in Cairo?

Do you know anyone that was effected by the change? 

Did you know about the other revolutions occurring in other countries?

Did you partake in the January 25th movement?

Are there people angry about what happened?

Is there still violence between police and people after this?

How did you feel seeing fires, guns, and fists being thrown? 

Revolution in Cairo

Today, we watched a video in class about a girl named Gigi who lives in Egypt and is supporting the movement. The movement is about Egyptians trying to throw out their leader of 30 years, Mubarak. She is going against her family, an upper middle class family who believes that Mubarak should stay in office until his term is over and then see what happens. Gigi, a 24 year old who studied at the University of America of Cairo, believes that some people in Egypt don't agree with the protests because they haven't known anyone else, so they look up to him like a father almost. She takes a camera crew through the streets explaining what is going on. Fights break out, people are shot, and words are slurred between groups of pro-Mubarak and anti-Mubarak. After almost two weeks of continuous violence, early in the morning, they announced the resignation of President Mubarak. The one thing Gigi has waited for for a long time.      

RAP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIsaPQlw4Eg

A pharaoh's work is like a pyramid

it stands together till the very end

there'll never be another one for sure

farmers and artists here we go

-music-

Stones... heavy like the limestone shown

solid as the ground we've known

and we just wanna carry on

we built it from the bottom up

and even in a desert storm

sturdy as a rock we hold

wishing every moment froze

now i just wanna let you know

earthquakes can't shake us

cyclones can't break us

hurricanes can't take away our god's

pyramid, we've built this on a solid rock

it feels just like it's afterlife's touch

together at the top like a pyramid

and even when the wind is blowin

we'll never fall just keep on goin

forever we will stay like a pyramid

like a pyramid, like a pyramid hey

like a pyramid, like a pyramid hey

like a pyramid, like a pyramid hey

hot never ever when we're close

we will never let it fall

a story that was told

something like a mystery

and every step we've took we grown

look how fast the time has flown

a journey to the place unknown

we're going down in history

earthquakes can't shake us

cyclones can't break us

hurricanes can't take away our god's

pyramid, we've built this on a solid rock

it feels just like it's heaven's touch

together at the top like a pyramid

and even when the wind is blowin

we'll never fall just keep it goin

forever we will stay like a pyramid

like a pyramid god's i'ma show you

that im a slave for you and we're gonna get through

even when it storms i will never go

i'ma be the one to keep you safe

before was a pharaoh i care less than enough

holding on to one another be the stars when it's rough

mother nature, or disaster won't stop our stairway to forever

pyramid... keep it going...

like a pyramid, like a pyramid hey

pyramid, we've built this on a solid rock

it feels just like it's heaven's touch

together at the top like a pyramid

and even when the wind is blowin

we'll never fall just keep on goin

forever we will stay like a pyramid

pyramid..

pyramid, we've built this on a solid rock

it feels just like it's heaven's touch

together at the top like a pyramid

and even when the wind is blowin

we'll never fall just keep it goin

forever we will stay like a pyramid

like a pyramid, like a pyramid hey

like a pyramid, like a pyramid hey

like a pyramid, like a pyramid hey

The Nile Flows North

This class was all about Egypt. Some of us presented our power points which were on a wide range of topics. We listened to some that were not the best and were hard to focus on. Things like shark attacks and mummies wearing hard hats. I don’t think that had anything to do with ancient Egypt, but that’s just me thinking aloud. With some of the other power points I learned about hieroglyphics, mummification, the Nile River, and pyramids. There are four chambers in a pyramid, the Nile River flows north, and during the mummification process they would remove the important organs and put them in jars so that people could use them in the afterlife.      

Hieroglyphics and Pyramids

Today in the class Mr. Schick wasn’t in, we worked on our research projects. Our projects are focused on Ancient Egypt. Me and the other three people in my group are doing our power point on pyramids and hieroglyphics. We’re almost finished and I’m pretty sure that ours is the best. (Just saying). 

My Class Today

Today in class I looked over my notes while others, who didn’t do their work on Friday, gathered their research. I know this isn’t 100 words or more but I have nothing else to write about. 

Pyramids

The most famous pyramids are the Egyptian pyramids. They are huge structures built of brick or stone, some of which are among the world's largest constructions. The age of the pyramids reached its peak at Giza in 2575-2150 B.C. As of 2008, some 138 pyramids have been discovered in Egypt. Most were built as tombs for the country's Pharaohs and their companions during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest in Egypt and one of the largest in the world. The Great Pyramid of Giza was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It is the only one to survive into modern times. The Ancient Egyptians covered the faces of pyramids with polished white limestone, containing great quantities of fossilized seashells. Many of the facing stones have fallen or have been removed and used to build the mosques of Cairo.

Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers

The transition of hunter-gatherers to farmers is one of the biggest things in history. If they had never settled down and became farmers we wouldn’t be living like this and we probably wouldn’t have the skills and technology that we have now. And New Guinea wouldn’t be that different from the world like most of the country is.

                 Thousands of years ago the Middle East was thriving with forests, trees, and plants. The people here were hunter gatherers. They would follow their food, always wondering if they would be able to eat another day. People picked berries, fruits, and anything else they might be able to find. These people came across fields of wheat and barley; these can be stored and last for a really long time. They finally realized that they didn’t have to walk looking for food. They would grow wheat and barley, and raise animals like goats for milk, meat, and wool. Jordan had the earliest village like this known in the world, consisting of about 40 people. They would stay close to any source of water and plant the seeds next to their village. They created a room to store these grains keeping them dry, setting a course to modern civilization with this creation of this room.

Now, in modern times, only in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea can you still find these types of people. The women here chop down the Sago tree and eat the inner pulp because that might be all they can find. The problem is, it takes days to make and it doesn’t last long. They have been farming there in highlands for 10,000 years but the foods grown never had enough protein. They eat tarrow root, bananas, and sago. People don’t get a lot of protein from these plants either. This makes the people not as ‘strong’.   

Upcoming Quiz

Today in class we reviewed what is going to be on our quiz. We gave ideas for questions that could be on the quiz and also answered them. We were told about social hierarchies in the animal world. Draa’ is the very first village ever discovered in the world! I also learned that people in my class can make animal noises. And that was pretty funny.   

Super Bowl Commercials

Today in class we were allowed to do whatever we wanted to. So I watch Super Bowl commercials. Sounds like a waste of time and it might be for some people. I discovered that companies like Dorito’s and Pepsi spend a lot of money on commercials. Dorito’s had at least five and they were all extremely funny. Most of them included taunting animals. (http://superbowlads.fanhouse.com/2011/doritos-house-sitting/?icid=maing|main5|dl4|sec3_lnk3|42247.) The Pepsi ones included women taunting men about their weight and the other way around too. Over all I have to say that the Dorito’s commercials were my favorite. And yes, this is how I spend my free time. 

New Guinea

Area Comparative: Slightly larger than California

Location: Oceania, group of islands including the eastern half of the island of New Guinea between the coral sea and the south Pacific ocean, east of Indonesia.

Natural Resources: gold, copper, silver, natural gas, timber, oil, fisheries.  

Climate: tropical
Monsoon Season: northwest monsoon (December to March), southeast monsoon (May to October); slight seasonal temperature variation

Geography: mostly mountains with coastal lowlands and rolling foothills

Population: 6,064,515
Growth Rate: 2.033%
Labor Force: agriculture: 85%

Average Life Expectancy: 65.99 years

Languages: Tok Pisin, English, and Hiri Motu are official languages; some 860 indigenous languages spoken

Religion: Roman Catholic 27%, Evangelical Lutheran 19.5%, United Church 11.5%

Literacy: 57.3%

Capital: Port Moresby

Independence Day: 16 September 1975

Phone main lines: 60,000

Phone cell lines: 900,000

562 airports

Ports: Kimbe, Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Wewak

Military: 16 years of age for voluntary military service

More females are fit for the military- 1,107,479

*relies on assistance from Australia to keep out illegal cross-border activities from primarily Indonesia, including goods smuggling, illegal narcotics trafficking, and squatters and secessionists*

Fertile Crescent: Cows are the New Egypt

The people of New Guinea haven't changed their ways of doing things for centuries. Fertile Crescent isn't the power house of the world. Eventually they used up all of their resources in the area; this was due to over exploiting. People that lived in the Middle East were able to expand into modern day Europe, Africa, and Asia. When they reached what is now known Egypt there was a civilization boom. Through this they were able to make more food than you needed. In the 1600’s the Europeans brought animals like cows and grains like wheat to America or the new world. Before they brought them there was not one ear of wheat and no cows. Now there are millions of cows in America and I’m guessing billions of ears of wheat.  Now, were all waiting for New Guinea to catch up to the rest of the world. 

Earth's Animals

Over the years the people of the Middle East were becoming domesticated. They had animal domestication; they were able to breed them and control where they went or moved. People could use the animals for both clothes and food. But animals were first used for meat. In New Guinea, the only animals they had were pigs. The pigs were brought over from Asia only a few thousand years ago, even though those people have been there for tens of thousands of years. To domesticate, you need to find ‘social animals’. If you can control the leader of the group then you can gain control of the whole group.

They need to get along with humans. There are fourteen domesticated animals in the world. They are pigs, goats, sheep, cows, and horses, two types of camels, water buffalo, donkeys, llamas, reindeer, yaks, mithans, and Bali cattle. None were native to Australia or New Guinea. The Middle East is called the fertile crest do to all the animals.