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21 entries 3/15/10

1/19/2011 The autor used quotes The poor use to sell all kind of products to earn money Very many people didn't have jobs back then

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1/20/2011 Health class I read that everyday people smoke is now effecting their lungs not by the year, but by the minute. Devastating effects of hostility continous release of damaging hormones, and weakens parasympathetic (calming) nervous

1/21/2011 Health class Personality types are Type a,b,c,and d. Ability, interests, and attitudes influence on personality. Type A- coronary prone personality, hostility, anger, suspiciousness Toxic core, and hormones released. Type B- Relaxed personality relaxed, easy going, noncompetitive. Type C- Cancer prone personality, Ambivalent, overly nice, passive. Type D- Distressed personality, social inhibition, excessive dependence, excessive worry.

1/22/2011 Health class Devastating effects of hostility continuous release of damaging hormones weakens parasympathetic calming the nervous system. Worry is a state in which we dwell on something so much it causes us to become apprenensive. Fear is a state of escalated worry and apprenension that causes distinct and emotional reactions. Depression is an occasional sad mood.

1/23/2011 Health class Suicide is warning signs like with drawing from friends, losing interest in hobbies and activities, loss of interest in school work, and grades, not caring what happens, good or bad, feeling bad about oneself, pessimistic and helpless.

1/24/2011 Reading class: Amid War, Passion for TV Chefs, Soaps and Idols Today, we discuss chapter 1 story in the reading book, and it read how Afghanistan is very different from other places. It read about how they couldn't wear long hair, and long beards. It read the conditions on how they live. Everybody in Afghanistan didn't have a television to watch, and they could only watch certain channels on television at a certain time. They also had a certain time where they could use electricity in their homes.

1/24/2011 Novel: The Witch of Blackbird Pond Chapter1 This story is about a sixteen year old, who name is kit Tyler, and she is on this ship that is bringing her to America from Barbados. She has never been to America before, so she is very excited about the trip. Mrs.Eaton, who has been there for Kit is getting off the ship alone the way, and Kit gets upset. After Kit returns back to the ship, she continue her ride up Wethersfield, where her aunt lives.

1/24/2011 Chapter2 After having to stay on the boat for nine days, Kit observes her fellow passengers. She meets a couple of friends and other people on the boat, she think is very cold to her. Kit has a hard time understanding English. She has a father that was raised on the island.

1/25/2011 Health class Biological and biochemical process begins in the brain and spreads through the autonomic nervous system. Stress can be altered by perceptions and atitude. Some stress can be beneficial. Steps for better time managment figure out where your time goes.

1/26/2011 Health class chronic stress can lead to bournout physical and mental exhaustion, physical symptoms, headache, fatigue. Invoking the relaxation response reduces the negative efects of stress. Benefits of relaxation techniques reduce stress, increase resistance to stress, induced illnesses, minimize symptoms of illness, lower blood pressure, and alleriate pain.

1/27/2011 Health class Considerations before beginning a technique make sure you are healthy enough for the relaxation technique you are interested in. Positive soocial ties increases lifespan. Health risks of being isolated increased rate of alcoholism, depression, risk of heart disease, and rates of suicide. Social network is the size, density, durability, intensity, and frequency of social contacts.

1/28/2011 Health class Benefits of social support is likely to be involved in physical activity. Psychological and physical benefits reduces stress, reducess fatigue, and enhances relaxtion. Therapeutic massage is a spacialized form of massage that reduces stress and induces the relaxation response.

1/29/2011 Health class Obesity is excess body fat that can lead to serious health problems. Overweight and obese people in the US have increased. Average American weight has increased. Higher in African American and Hispanic groups. The body is resistant to weight changes through caloric restriction alone.

1/30/2011 Health class Weight loss tends to be in the form of water and protein. Low carbohydrate/high protein diets tend to be high in fat. Carbohydrate functions in the body. Medical illness that involve critical disturbance in eating behaviors. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are common in industrial countries. Common in women, ages 25 to 50, 40% of college age women, and 1 in 10 men have an eating disorder.

1/31/2011 Reading class: The Problem of Fashion This story was based on fashion and how fashion from the 70's is coming back to style in todays life. Stylist today are bringing the old fashion back, but a different look. I don't think that any fashion is new to me becauase some of it is old from when you was growing up as a child. The story compare the styles from the 70's up to the styles today.

2/1/2011 Reading class: Trained by Inmates, New Best friends for Disable Veterans This story was about trained dogs, trained by imates for disable Veterans. The dogs name was Rainbow, and he was the first dog in the country trained to work with someone who uses both wheel chair and prosthetics to get around. Rainbow was the first to graduate of a new program.

2/2/2011 Health class The amount of of lean body mass lost depends on caloric limitation. Body fat changes with age. Combinning diet and excercise results in greater weight loss. Combining aerobic and strength trainingworks best for weight loss. Aerobic excercise offsets set point. Strength training increases lean mass.

2/3/2011 Health class Resulting weight loss from exercising will take several weeks to notice. Exercise is the only healthy way to gain weight. Strength training is the best approach. Add 500 nutrient dense calories per day; carbohydrates and proteins. Pre exercise and post exercise snacks.

2/4/2011 Health class Cardiovascular disease is all conditions that affect the heart and blood vessels. It is the leading cause of death in the US. Cardiovascular disease narrow arteries due to fatty deposits. Almost all risk factors are preventable reversable. The first symptom is often a heart attack.

2/5/2011 Health class Cholestrol is a waxy, steroid alcohol found in animal fats and oils. An abnormal profile contributes to atheroscerotic plaques. Cholestrol is carried in the blood by proteins. Cholestrol level should be kept below 200mg. LDL should be kept below 100mg. HDL should be at least 40mg.

2/6/2011 Health class Fiber can lower LDL cholestrol. Low fat diets can lower cholestrol. It can also lower HDL. Free fatty acids makes up most of the fat in our diets. Fatty acids speeds up plaque formation. It also cut down on refined sugars, starches, and alcohol. Homocysteine is an amino acid.

2/7/2011 Novel: The Glamorous Life This novel is about a girl, who is a party planner, and she throws parties all over the US. Bambi is a gold digger, and she always dress to impress. Bambi gets married to this guy name Lynex, but Lynex get locked up. Bambi found out that she was pregnant, and she aborted the baby. She had complications and had to have a partial historectum.

2/8/2011 Novel: The Witch of Blackbird Pond Chapter 3 The town is a disappointment to Kit; it was a very small town. She meets her relatives for the first time, when she arrives at her aunt's house. Kit aunt was name Rachel,who is a tired loooking women. Her uncle was name Matthew Woods, who is a fierce looking man. Her cousin Mercy is crippled due to a fever from whe she was a child, and she is a sweet girl. Judith is Mercy's sister, and she is a beautiful girl.

2/9/2011 Chapter 4 When Matthew leaves for work, Rachel takes some cornbread to a needy neighbor,and the three cousins are lefte alone at the house. Kit goes to the trunk and gives all her cousins a garment. Judith looks at the dress what Kit gives her and wonders how William will react, when he sees her at prayer meeting. Rachel comes back home to watch the girls try on the clothes. She is very worried about the work that is not being done around the house. Matthew comes home early from work and is very angry about what is going on. He made the girls return all the clothes back to Kit, and thhe girls are disappointed.

2/10/2011 Chapter 5 The Wood family goes to prayer meeting, and Kit is expected to go with them, even though she doesn't want to. Everybody in the community is expected to go to the meeting. Wethersfield is a puritan community and has norms that have to be abided by all. Matthew is angry by the clothes that Kit is wearing. He feels that she can't go to the meeting in the clothes that she has on. Rachel comes to tell Matthew that maybe the members of the congregation will understand that Kit has not had time to shop for any clothes.

2/11/2011 Health class Eating recommends daily servings of vegetables, fruits, grain, and legumes. Five servings of fruit and vegetables. Inflammation is a major risk factor for heat attacks. Elevated(CRP)levels increases risk for heart attack. Elevating and lowering(CRP)levels reduces intake of alcohol, fast foods, and cooking meats at high temp. High sensitivity test measures probability of plaque rupturing.

2/12/2011 Health class Taking statin drugs reduces(CRP)levels. Blood pressure is the measure of force against blood vessels. It is measured by sphygmomonometer. Hypertension is a point where the pressure doubles the mortality risk. It damages the lining of the arery walls, and blockage can lead to a heart attack or stroke.

2/13/2011 Health class Two types of diabetes, type1-insulin-dependent, type2-non-insulin dependent; closely related to over eating, obesity, and physiical inactivity. Blood glucose levels last for 3 months. Chronic rise in insulin leads to abnormalities. Smoking is the single largest peventable cause of illness and premature death. Smoking speeds up the process of atheroesclerosis. It also damage artery walls.

2/14/2011 Chapter 6 Reverend Bulkeley and John Holbrook are invited over to the Woods for dinner. Rachel and the girls worked very hard cooking a nice meal for them. Matthew wasn't pleased. After dinner, the reverend expeses his approval of the Royalists, and Matthew is even more unpleased. During the long prayerr that evening, the reverend says a special prayer for Mercy in her weakness.

2/15/2011 Chapter 7 William and Kit starts dating each other, and Kit doesn't know what to talk about when William comes over. They both felt uncomfortable sitting beside each other because Kit hardly knows him. Holbrook comes up and join the conversation with Kit and William. William tells Holbrook that he plans to build a house on his father's land. The Assembly handed out new concessions of land grants, and Matthew thinks that its a great idea because it will prevent th king from giving land to whomever he wants.

2/16/2011 Chapter 8 Rachel and Mercy makes Kit a calico dress, so she want ruin her good clothes while working. Kit now wears the same clothing as the other girls. Judith and Kit were sent out to the meadows to weed the onion fields. Kit was happy to be out on a sunny day because it reminded her of her happy life in Barbados. When the girls come to the Great Meadow, the beauty of the green fields stuns Kit. Judith tells Kit that the soil is fertile there, but no one lives there because in the spring, it always floods.

2/17/2011 Chapter 9 Kit and Mercy starts teaching the children their letters. All the children got a habit of Kit telling a story at the end of classes. The children really enjoy Kit stories. One day, Kit had the children to pretend that they were characters in a story. Mercy didn't think that it was a good ideal, but Kit insisted that it would be great for them.

2/18/2011 Health class Obesity is an independent risk factor for CHD. Obesity also brings about other risk factors. Overweight people who are active do not have increased risk for premature death. To achieve recommended weight, increase daily physical activity. Eat diets lower in fat and refined sugar, high in complex carbohydrates and fiber.

2/19/2011 Health class When a habit escalates to addiction, it threatens wellness. Addiction is a abnormal or disordered relationship. It evolves over time. Denial is a common component. To be addictive, a substance must produce a change in mood. Physical addiction change in body biochemistry.

2/20/2011 Health class People with psychological addiction have not learned healthy ways to cope. Addiction threatens all seven dimensions of wellness. The idea of an addictive personality is controversial. Characteristics of an non-addictive personality is the ability to face problems head on.

2/21/2011 Reading class: fashion Industry Grapples with Designer Knochoffs This story reads that people in the U.S. shop for knochoffs. Anand is a designer, who follow catwalk shows through photographs posted instantly o the web. Her company is one of hundreds that make inexpensive clothes inspired by other designers' runway looks. Pictures Anand sees on the web, she emails it to the the factory and tells them that she want something similar to the picture are made up just like it. Designers said that if the knockoffs continues, their business will be in jeopardy. Anand maintains that her designer styles has been changed enough that they don't violate a designer's property.

2/22/2011 Reading class: Dark Bargains of the Global Economy Wal-Mart is one of the dark bargains in the economy because they sell things like clothes, toys, and food. Factories would be illegal in the U.S. because of the way factories treat their workers and their communities. Because of the pressure of costs, an expert on global factory conditions, do everything possible to save on the third decimal of a penny. Wal-Mart is one of the primary. Every time the door of a factory in a developing country that makes stuff for Americans is cracked open, the view inside is unsettling.

2/22/2011 Reading class: The Source of Globalization Technology has made it possible to move objects and information over long distance quickly and inexpensively. The introduction of commercial shortened the time necessary for international travel. Technology such as: telephone, fax, nd e-mail,allow us to reach people around the globe inexpensively and almost instantly. It is an important part of the story of globalization. Politics on the other hand could not occur without advanced technology, but advanced technology by itself could never bring globalization about. economics is an important source of globalization. Global commodity chains and the new international division of labor, industrial capitalism is always seeking new markets, higher profits, and lower labor costs.

2/23/2011 Reading Textbook: The Fair Division Problem People sharing with others for things that they want. Problems of finding ways in which two or more people can fairly divide something among themselves without thhe aid of an outside arbitractor. People who are trying to share the desirable object are called players. As a child, you have shared toys, space in a room, and parents attention. As adults, they might have shared living space, property, vacation homes, and valuables from a divorce settlement.

2/24/2011 Novel: The Witch of Blackbird pond Chapter 10 Kit tells Mercy and Rachel that Mr.Kimberly went back on his decision, ans he is going to allow them to continue with the school. Kit explained the whole story to him, and he understood that she is new and doesn't know. She promised Mr.Kimberly that, from then on, sshe will abide by the rules and not disappoint them again. Kit went to tell the others back home about the meeting with Hannah Tupper. Rachel gets stressed out about it. No one in town has nothing to do with Hannah. She is a Quaker, and Quakers don't believe in the sacraments. They are troublemakers and herectics.

2/25/2011 Georgia Magazine The Georgia Aquarium's efforts are part of an overall philosophy of research, conservation and preservation in concert with other zoos and aquariums. Development and construction of the Georgia Aquarium's dolphin gallery was lauched more than two years ago. Dolphins have been the most requested animal by visitors at the Georgia Aquarium. The staff has responded by opening this $110 million dolphin gallery and theater.

2/26/2011 Georgia Magazine Twenty-seven years ago, Hunger Walk/Run began as a grassroots movement in response to local and global hunger. On March 13, associates from Georgia Electric Membership Corp. Georgia Transmission Corp joined more than 12,000 other walkers and runners at the 5k event through downw town Atlanta.

2/27/2011 Georgia Magazine Seven outstanding Georgia students have received a $1,000 Walter Harrison scholarship. The scholarship is awarded annually to students who excel in the areas of grade point average, SAT scores, academic standing, scholastic honors, and who demonstrate a financial need. The award pays tribute to the late Walter Harrison, a pioneer in the rural electrification movement.

2/28/2011 Reading class: Seduced b snacks? This article talks about people eat snacks and foods because they are influenced by the size of a package or how much variety there is on a buffet. Things that look good to people make them eat the foods they eat. Food companies used packaging and marketing techniques to get people to buy more food. Sixty-five percent of Americans, who are overweight or obese got that way, in part because they didn't realize how much they were eating.

2/29/2011 Reading book: Ways People Commuicate This story talks about the three ways people communicate. They are intrapersonal, interpersonal, and mass communications. Each form involves different numbers of people in specific ways. Intrapersonal communication is communicating within one person. When communicating wit each other, people rely on their five senses sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Mass communication is communication from one person or group of persons through a transmitting device to large audience or markets.

2/30/2011 Reading book: Video Games versus Traditional Games In this article it says that most video games differ from traditional games like chess or Monopoly. When playing chess at anything beyond a beginner's level, the rule of the game contain no ambiguity; you know exactly the moves allowed for each peice. In the video game world, the rules are rarely established in their entirety before you sit down to play. You're given a few basic instructions about how to manipulate objects or characters on the screen, and a sense of some kind of immediate objective.

2/31/2011 Reading book: Heart-Healthy Diets This article says that Heart disease is the number one killer of adult Americans. To improve heart health, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends following a heart-healthy diet. Two diets are the Heart Healthy Diet and the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Diet; they are nearly identical. Both diets are designed to maintain healthy levels of cholestrol or reduce unhealthy levels of cholestrol. LDL, or "bad" cholestrol, which causes arteries to narrow and become blocked. HDL, or"good" cholestrol, which does the opposite.

3/1/2011 Web: Testing For Arthritis This article reads that there more than 100 types of arthritis. Some show up on an x-ray while others may not. Joint damage to a bacterial infection may take a week or more to appear on an x-ray. The most useful test depends on which type of arthritis is suspected.

3/2/2011 Novel: The Witch of Blackbird Pond Chapter11 Kit is teaching the kids in the summer heat. Mercy explained to Kit that she has come to term with her inability to go out. Kit ask Prudence to come for a lesson, but Prudence says no because her mother want let her.

3/2/2011 Chapter12 Kit finished her work early, so she decides to go visit Hannah. Aunt Rachel gives Kit a piece of leftover apple tart to take to the woman. When Kit arrives at Hannah to find a visitor outside chopping wood, Nat is there chopping Hannah's wood for the winter. Kit offers to help Nat thatch Hannah's roof, so she gathers up the grass that Nat cuts and then they both scrambled up the roof to lay the thatch.

3/3/2011 Novel: The Witch of Blackird Pond Chapter13 Judith and Kit go to the meadow to gather the corn. Judith confesses to Kit that she's going to try to push John Holbrook in to marring her. Kit expresses her doubts about John's readiness, but Judith tells Kit that she should worry about William.

3/3/2011 Chapter14 One day Kit sees her uncle Matthew in the garden; Kit wonders why she has been scared of her uncle for so long. A ship comes to town, down at the dock, and Nat ask Kit to deliver some woolen cloth to Hannah.

3/3/2011 Chapter15 The local men meets at the Wood's house to discuss the political situation and what they are going to do about it. kit wonders why William is there, and Judith tells Kit that William came over to uncle Matthew's way of thinking a while back. The men leave and Matthew tells the family that they will spend Sabbath praying for patience.

3/4/2011 Novel: The Witch of Blackbird Pond Chapter16 It's now Thanksgiving, but the new governor cancelled the holiday. Nobody could celebrate unless he declared them. Mercy baked pies. Kit could see Nat in stock with the Wood family on Lecture Day, so she sneaks out the house early to go to the stocks. When she gets there, a group young boys are taunting the men, and one kid throws an apple at Nat's head. Kit tries to talk to Nat, but he tells her to leave the stock.

3/4/2011 Chapter17 Mercy gets sick, but Matthew refuses to let Bulkeley near the house. The fourth day of Mercy's fever, Matthew decides to ask Bulkeley for help. Kit sneaks out to help Hannah. She drags Hannah into the underbrush just in time. The mob set fire to Hannah's house, and Kit and Hannah runs to the riverbank. She swims to tell Nat what happend. Kit returns back to the Wood's house as the sun rises.

3/4/2011 Chapter18 Kit felt relieved after having on dry clothes with hot food in her stomache. The mob found a silver hornbook in ashes with Kit initials on it. Kit is ask to expained, and she tells that she is friends with Hannah and she helped her out sometimes.

3/5/2011 Novel: The Witch of Blackbird Pond Chapter19 Kit goes to court and captain Tacott reads her charges that she is accused of consulting with Satan and for this she must die. Captain Tacott questoins Kit about Hannah. Mr.Cruff gets Kit out of trouble, and tells her that he'll send Prudence to her school next year.

3/6/2011 Novel: The Witch of Blackbird Pond Chapter20 Mercy is finally able to get out of bed. They all gather up and takes her to sit by the front window to see the first snow flakes fall down. William comes by and Kit is distant. Kit and William walks to the door to have a talk.

3/6/2011 Chapter21 John Holbrook and Mercy gets married and so do Judith and William Ashby. William house gets finished by the time Judith can furnish it. Kit began her own preparations, she's going to sell all he fancy dresses, so she can sail back to Barbados. Hannah is doing well. Nat buys a boat, and named it Witch after Kit.

3/7/2011 Georgia Magazine Georgians are watching petroleum prices climb amid on-goin unrest in oil-producer. Legislators were subject to the perennial push for home-grown alternatives to fossil fuels. German experts took a new tack at the Capitol with a promising presentation on renewable sources of energy and their economic benefits.

3/8/2011 Georgia Magazine Energy generation in the United States is the cleanest it has ever been. Energy productivity is the highest ever. Americans are producing so much per capita with less energy output. Energy solar,wind, biomass and hydropower is not clean energy. Technology makes energy cleaner. Nuclear energy provides the best option.

3/9/2011 Georgia Magazine Sandersville/Washington County Animal Control is responsible for the collection of animal that are considered to be stray and abused. The shelter makes every effort to find animal homes that can provide a safe and healthy environment for their care. The Washington Electric Foundation made a donation to the Sandersville Animal Shelter. The donation will help the animal shelter continue its operation.

3/10/2011 Georgia Magazine The Washington Electric Foundation is funded through donations made by Washington EMC members through their voluntary participation in the Operation Round Up program. Since Washington Electric Membership Corporation(EMC) was organized in 1937, it has been dedicated to helping the people in East Central Georgia live better lives.

3/11/2011 Georgia Magazine Programmable thermostats are not for everyone. They're best for families who are away during the day, and for homes with HVAC systems other than heat pumps. Heat pumps works i its heating mode, setting back the thermostat can cause the unit to operate ineffficiently, which cancels out any savings achieved by lowering the temperature.

3/12/2011 Georgia Magazine In Georgia, a HVAC system combines an electric A/C unit with a gas-fired furnace for winter heating. Dual-fuel systems that heat with electricity first and then change to gas as temperatures drop are becoming more popular. Equipment can differ widely with variable capacity heating, humidity control, sound-dampening operations and many other options.

3/13/2011 Georgia Magazine Since lighting accounts for about 11% of home energy use, switch your traditional incandesent lightbulb with compact fluorescent lightbulb. An Energy Star-qualified CFL uses about 75% less energy, and last up 10 times longer and can save about $40 in energy costs over its lifetime. A four pack of 14-watt CFL's runs about $6.

3/14/2011 Geogia Magazine A water heater blanket can save 4% to 9% in water heating costs. To knw if your water heater needs more insulation, you have to touch it. You can save more than $70 per year by keeping your water heater's thermostat set at 120 degrees fahrenheit. If your water heater gets hot, wrap it.

3/15/2011 Georgia Magazine The fresher the fruit and vegetables, the more nutrients and flavor retained. Health bebefits not only include the nutrients in homegrown food, but exercise and fresh air received while working in your garden.

3/16/2011 Georgia Magazine Homade compost soil created from garden clippings and kitchen scraps is the best soil amendment you can add to your garden. Most fruits and vegetables need plenty of water to stay healthy and produce a crop. Water deeply a couple of times a week.

3/17/2011 Georgia Magazine The Washington Youth Tour was inspired by former president Lyndon Johnson who, as a senator, had encourage electric cooperatives. The tour begins in Georgia, where students get to know one another. They learn about Georgia's 42 EMCs and enjoy a private tour of the Little White House in Warm Springs.

4/11/2011 I read the comprehension test practice 1&2

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