Second day of relay in Beijing ends at Temple of Earth
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Updated：2008-08-07 21:02:59
(BEIJING, August 7) -- The second day of the Torch Relay in Beijing ended as the last torchbearer, singer Song Zuying, lit the cauldron before the Worship Platform at the Temple of Earth at 6:30 p.m.
Following the first day of the Torch Relay in Beijing, the Olympic torch continued on to the outskirts of Beijing today. The flame traveled 14.576 kilometers through the seven suburban county towns of Yanqing, Changping, Huairou, Miyun, Pinggu, Shunyi and Tongzhou.
A few well-known sport stars were among the 268 torchbearers, including Olympic champion Liu Xuan, two-time Table Tennis world champion Liu Guozheng, Olympic Flatwater Canoe champion Yang Wenjun and XXIII World Universiade champion Hu Kai from Tsinghua University.
Olympic torch begins final tour of Heilongjiang
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Updated：2008-07-13
(QIQIHAR, July 13) -- Liu Yan, female skating champion of the 10th National Games, carried the flame from the Party Office Center Square at 8:10 a.m. as the first torchbearer of the Qiqihar leg of the Olympic Torch Relay, the last stop in Heilongjiang Province.
A total of 208 torchbearers will participate in the 7.5 km-long relay. Liu Jianrong, director of a local heavy equipment enterprise; Liang Chunsheng, a local teacher; Liu Yukun, an athlete with a disability; and Ma Liang, a hammer athlete, are among the 208 torchbearers.
Qiqihar is a major city in Heilongjiang Province. Close to Qiqihar are numerous wetlands and the Zhalong Nature Reserve, famous for being home to numerous red-crowned cranes.
This is all about the torch relay that happens before every Olympic. And this year the Olympic is being hold in Beijing.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Dark Knight
Ok, my teacher said that we could use this blog for anything at all.... it just had to be in good nature and all that jazz.
Everyone out there should know that Batman: The Dark Knight is out in theaters.
But its more than just that. The new Batman movie is amazing and everyone should go it. Heath Ledger does should a great job as the Joker in the Batman movie. Ledger got into character so well its just sad that people can not enjoy his acting skills anymore because of what happened to him a few months before the movie came out into theaters.
Heath Ledger was not born in this country. He was born in Western Australia, Australia on April 4, 1979. Ledger had wanted to be an act for a while and him and a friend of him at the time went off on their own and tried to get roles in different things. They did all of this in Sydney, Australia. He had his first role in a small budget movie called Blackrock. His acting career what off from there and he get really good at what he did. Whatever role that was handed to him, he would study that role until he become whatever character he was acting as. That is one reason why he was so great as the Joker people say because he get into character well. Some people would say to well because that is what caused him to die. He is taking so many drugs because he got so depressed from the Joker that he could not take it anymore; so he started to take pills for it. On January 22, 2008 he took to many pills and he OD on all of his pills that he took. He died in his Manhattan apartment.
I know that I will miss his acting skills and he seemed like a great guy to know.
I know that the world will miss him so much.
Everyone out there should know that Batman: The Dark Knight is out in theaters.
But its more than just that. The new Batman movie is amazing and everyone should go it. Heath Ledger does should a great job as the Joker in the Batman movie. Ledger got into character so well its just sad that people can not enjoy his acting skills anymore because of what happened to him a few months before the movie came out into theaters.
Heath Ledger was not born in this country. He was born in Western Australia, Australia on April 4, 1979. Ledger had wanted to be an act for a while and him and a friend of him at the time went off on their own and tried to get roles in different things. They did all of this in Sydney, Australia. He had his first role in a small budget movie called Blackrock. His acting career what off from there and he get really good at what he did. Whatever role that was handed to him, he would study that role until he become whatever character he was acting as. That is one reason why he was so great as the Joker people say because he get into character well. Some people would say to well because that is what caused him to die. He is taking so many drugs because he got so depressed from the Joker that he could not take it anymore; so he started to take pills for it. On January 22, 2008 he took to many pills and he OD on all of his pills that he took. He died in his Manhattan apartment.
I know that I will miss his acting skills and he seemed like a great guy to know.
I know that the world will miss him so much.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Abusive Relationships
For my English Class my teacher told my class that she wanted us to write an essay about Abusive Relationships and why the abused do not try to get out of the abusive relationship.
What I found out was that people stay for many different reasons
It can be for love, security, and they don't think that other people will believe them that they are getting abused in their relationship.
What I found out was that people stay for many different reasons
It can be for love, security, and they don't think that other people will believe them that they are getting abused in their relationship.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory was born October 12, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri. He is an African American who is a comedian, social activist, writer, and entrepreneur. Gregory is the first black comedian to successfully perform in front of a black and white crowd. He also was in the arm forces. He started his career after he got out of the arm forces. Dick Gregory has written a lot of books in his life time.
In his life time Gregory has been a very active civil rights activist for the African-Americans in the United States. He started doing things for civil rights in 1960s all across the United States.
In his life time Gregory has been a very active civil rights activist for the African-Americans in the United States. He started doing things for civil rights in 1960s all across the United States.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Marlboro Ads
My Writing teacher wanted my class to look up ads that make people want try a product even though it is bad for you and your health; or the health of the people around yourself.
The old ads for Marlboro cigarettes were aimed to want people to smoke the Marlboro Cigarettes. The ads were mostly aimed for men. The ads that more men smoke Marlboro cigarettes in the world then any other cigarettes. The web sit that I found these ads were:
http://home.honolulu.hawaii.edu/~pine/Book2/marlboro-ads.html
The old ads for Marlboro cigarettes were aimed to want people to smoke the Marlboro Cigarettes. The ads were mostly aimed for men. The ads that more men smoke Marlboro cigarettes in the world then any other cigarettes. The web sit that I found these ads were:
http://home.honolulu.hawaii.edu/~pine/Book2/marlboro-ads.html
Monday, July 7, 2008
Here's to Your Health
Last week in my English writing class we had to read an essay entitled Here's to Your Health. Joan Dunayer is the writer of Here's to Your Health. She is the author of a couple of books. The book titles are Speciesism and Animal Equality: Language and Liberation. All of the books that Dunayer has done over the year have been of animal rights and issues in the world. Her essays that she has written have been in magazines, college textbooks, journals, and anthologies. Dunayer is a writer, editor, and animal rights advocate. She is the graduate of Princeton University where she got her degrees in English Literature, English Education, and psychology.
To go along with Here's Your Health, we had to look up what propaganda was and what propaganda there is around the world today or in the past.
Propaganda is a concerted set of massages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of a large group of people. Propaganda was used a lot in the Second World War on both sides. Propaganda was also used in the Cold War between the Soviets and the United States, that happened after the Second World War.
http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/jwb/collab/ColdWar/Propaganda/CivDefProp.jpg
This is one of the things that the United States used during the Cold War with the Soviets.
Do you think Dunayer's essay is one-sided or balanced? Explain. What additional points could be used to support her point or to rebut it?
Personally, I think that Dunayer's essay is one-sided and not balanced at all. To address the things at once she could have added why people drink in the first place and to add the statics that doctors have found out what might happen if people drink a little bit a day in there life.
To go along with Here's Your Health, we had to look up what propaganda was and what propaganda there is around the world today or in the past.
Propaganda is a concerted set of massages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of a large group of people. Propaganda was used a lot in the Second World War on both sides. Propaganda was also used in the Cold War between the Soviets and the United States, that happened after the Second World War.
http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/jwb/collab/ColdWar/Propaganda/CivDefProp.jpg
This is one of the things that the United States used during the Cold War with the Soviets.
Do you think Dunayer's essay is one-sided or balanced? Explain. What additional points could be used to support her point or to rebut it?
Personally, I think that Dunayer's essay is one-sided and not balanced at all. To address the things at once she could have added why people drink in the first place and to add the statics that doctors have found out what might happen if people drink a little bit a day in there life.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
President Richard Nixon
For my next assignment that I had to do for my writing class I had to find information about our 37th President Richard Nixon. I find out a lot of new things about Nixon that I did not know before I did this assignment. But it also refreshed my memory to about Nixon.
Nixon was born on January ninth 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. And he died on April twenty-second, 1994 in New York, New York. Richard Nixon went to Whittier College and Duke University Law School. After he graduated he opened up his own law firm. When the Second World War came around, Nixon served as Navy Lieutenant Commander in the Pacific. He started his policial career after he left the Navy. He was married to Patricia Ryan Nixon and they had two daughters together. Like I just said Nixon was the 37th President that the United States had in the country. Nixon was elected for two terms in office.
When Nixon was put into office the Vietnam War was still going on and he was the President that helped end that war. And also Nixon helped the United States relates with U.S.S.R. and China, which in part helped the Cold War because of what Nixon did with U.S.S.R. and China. But Nixon was thrown out of office after what happened with Watergate. Because he was thrown out of office, Nixon's second term ended in the first year (Nixon could not complete his second term).
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rn37.html
In short the Watergate Scandal was just a way for the government it cover up what had happened in the past that they did not want the American people to know about. The reason why President Nixon resigned was because he was part of it and he wanted to just added it then and there. If you want to learn more about the Watergate Scandal you can go to the website that I find the information about the scandal. The website is:
http://www.watergate.info/
If you want to see a picture of President Richard Nixon go to any website that talks about President Nixon. When you do there should be a picture of the President.
Nixon was born on January ninth 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. And he died on April twenty-second, 1994 in New York, New York. Richard Nixon went to Whittier College and Duke University Law School. After he graduated he opened up his own law firm. When the Second World War came around, Nixon served as Navy Lieutenant Commander in the Pacific. He started his policial career after he left the Navy. He was married to Patricia Ryan Nixon and they had two daughters together. Like I just said Nixon was the 37th President that the United States had in the country. Nixon was elected for two terms in office.
When Nixon was put into office the Vietnam War was still going on and he was the President that helped end that war. And also Nixon helped the United States relates with U.S.S.R. and China, which in part helped the Cold War because of what Nixon did with U.S.S.R. and China. But Nixon was thrown out of office after what happened with Watergate. Because he was thrown out of office, Nixon's second term ended in the first year (Nixon could not complete his second term).
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rn37.html
In short the Watergate Scandal was just a way for the government it cover up what had happened in the past that they did not want the American people to know about. The reason why President Nixon resigned was because he was part of it and he wanted to just added it then and there. If you want to learn more about the Watergate Scandal you can go to the website that I find the information about the scandal. The website is:
http://www.watergate.info/
If you want to see a picture of President Richard Nixon go to any website that talks about President Nixon. When you do there should be a picture of the President.
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