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Caitlin M

writingitright / Caitlin McClear - 0 views

  • When the Gods created Rome, they were very shy. So they blamed it
    upon two boys named Romulus and Remus. But the thing is, you would never expect
    the tiny God who could barley create a butterfly to create Rome. The tiny little
    God, who lived on earth to create Rome. Especially, if it was the war God, Mars.
    Could you imagine? The tiny little God, so small he lived on earth, creating
    Rome? Well, this story is made to tell you how he did it.
    • Rachel C
       
      Why were the gods shy? what were Remus and Romulus the gods of? why did they chose Romulus and Remus of all the minor gods? What tiny little god?
    • Caitlin M
       
      Remus and Romulus weren't gods. And the god was mars, it says that near the end of the paragraph. I'm not sure why the gods were shy, that's kind of like asking why I think hamburgers taste good.
  • where food wasn't scarce
    • Emma D
       
      Why was food scarce there? What happend to make the food scarce?
    • Caitlin M
       
      the food was scarce because there wasn't a city there or farms or any civilazation there at all.
  • aagain
    • Emma D
       
      There are not two a's in this word
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  • His city had been created
    • Emma D
       
      Was there any way that the pops happened or was it just 'Hey! Its a pretty building! Ooh! Here is another!"?
    • Caitlin M
       
      pretty much 'Hey! Its a pretty building! Ooh! Here is another!'
  • To this day, Rome has been spreading and advancing. I'm sure that Mars, the
    teeny tiny God, is very proud of his city.
    • Rachel C
       
      Didnt the GODS create the city not just Mars?
    • Caitlin M
       
      Mars is a God!
    • Caitlin M
       
      really rachel, those comments are kind of annoying. if you actually read my story, you wouldn't be asking them
Vincent K

BBC NEWS | Americas | Antarctic ice traps cruise ship - 0 views

  • Vincent K
     
    well this isnt good for them. reminds m of the titanic
Vincent K

BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Where is the Berlin Wall now? - 1 views

  • Whe
    re is the Berlin Wall
    now?

    • Karena Z
       
      I wonder why the decided to take peices from the wall and place them every where around the world. Is it so that people could learn about the wall without having to travel to berlin, and/or europe.
    • Orla L
       
      I think its so that people all around the world can remember what bravery can lead to and also people with East German heritage live around the world and wanted to keep a piece
    • Vincent K
       
      I think its that so people can remember the courage that the wreckers of the berlin wall.
Sean L

Russia / Exploring Siberia / The Trans-Siberian Railway - 0 views

    • Chris M
       
      ha sean have you read about this.
    • Sean L
       
      Yep. and I don't see why you said "ha"-I don't see what's so funny.
  • A great part of the pleasure of such a trip is simply sitting back and watching
    the land go by. However, most travelers on the Trans-Siberian find that
    interaction with other passengers, both Russians and tourists, is what makes the
    trip an unforgettable experience. Today, with far fewer travel restrictions, it
    is possible to use the rail journey as the core of a more varied tour. Travelers
    can enjoy stopovers in many of the Russian cities and
    towns
    along the route, from the historic Volga port of Yaroslavl to Irkutsk
    and the scenic Lake Baikal region.
    • Sean L
       
      um...why did you highlight this, chris? What can this information be useful for?
    • Sean L
       
      HELLO CHRIS?
Sean L

tigerseasterneurope2009 / Tran-Siberian Railway - 0 views

  • PLEASE EDIT THE HOT WATER AND TEAPOT PART IN ULAN UDE!!!
    • Sean L
       
      PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Orla L

BBC NEWS | Europe | Basque village caught in Eta purge - 1 views

  • There is rousing Basque music, but the mood is sombre. From large wooden
    placards the faces of seven men and two women stare out.

    • Rodney R
       
      I wounder why basque music and why they had wooden placards?
  • "We have a problem with some young people, and we have to teach them that to be a member of Eta is not to be a hero."
    • William Ferriter
       
      If you grew up in the Basque region, would you consider ETA terrorists to be heros? Why or why not? Why do you think the government is encouraging people to look at ETA members in a bad light?
    • Ariel S
       
      Yes, I belive that they would conceder ETA heros because they are like army men fighting for there freedom!!
    • Danielle R
       
      If you grew up in the Basque region, would you consider ETA terrorists to be heros? Why or why not? Why do you think the government is encouraging people to look at ETA members in a bad light. I think if I lived in the Basque region I would think that ETA would be terrorists because they are doing things that they do not need to be doing. Because they probly do not want people to think that ETA is good.
    • Michael S
       
      yes i wold cnsider them as heros because they are just like in the army
    • Max D
       
      I think that ETA should get their freedom, but bombs are definetely NOT the answer to this conflict. If you can simply join ETA, then it is just like a terrorist group, but otherwise ETA is just a group of people that wants their freedom.
    • Max D
       
      I wonder if there is a new strategy ETA can do to get there freedom.
    • Jonathan P
       
      I think they aren't heroes because they really haven't accomplished anything after fifty years. If they were heroes then they should have at least gotten the Basque Region their freedom from Spain. All they did was set of bombs and assassinate important people. Now that sounds more like a terroist. So why do some of these people consider ETA heroes? they haven't done anything except do some terrorist stuff.
    • Zoe R
       
      I think that if ETA wouldn't go and blow up things then they might get there freedom soon, but useing bombs is not the way. if the would stop even I might side with them..... would you?
    • Orla L
       
      I am not really sure because of I was in the Basque Region I probably should because they fight for the Basque regions freedom but it also depends on if I like the Idea of them doing violence for so long to get freedom.
  • "After the killing, Ignacio's children wrote an open letter to Eta. In it they asked: 'Who are you to decide who should work and who shouldn't? And who are you to kill another Basque in the name of the Basque Country?'"
    • William Ferriter
       
      This is the other side of the story, isn't it? ETA celebrates its actions and claims to be doing the kind of work that other people in the Basque region want done, but clearly not everyone is excited about their decisions.
    • Vincent K
       
      I agree with you.
    • Adam Z
       
      Yeah ETA must think their all that going and killing people but they really aren't. I'm sure some people living in the Basque region think the ETA is great just how we like our military, because they are fighting to help everyone in the country. So I think there are still some people in the Basque region who have hope but I'm sure some have given it up because Eta has been fighting for a little over fifty years now. Do you think that maybe so many people in the Basque region will give up hope and they will be against ETA continuing to fight for their freedom? Do you think ETA are terrorists or just people trying to get freedom? I wonder if soon ETA will give up themselves, but it doesn't seem likely since they haven't for fifty years. Why don't Spain and France work together to end ETA? Do you think that some people in the Basque region absolutley despise ETA?
    • Orla L
       
      I think the people in the Basque region really look up to the ETA and are blinded by what harm they are doing and how ridiculous it is. But especially the ETA militants family members would be holding up their signs. It's like the Basque Region and ETA are proud of killing people.
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  • Two suspected Eta militants were picked up here by Spanish police in June. Their photos were on display at the rally too, held aloft proudly by their family members.
    • William Ferriter
       
      So the people of the Basque region are celebrating terrorists like heros. What do you think of this? Can you ever imagine terrorists being celebrated like heros here? Is it possible that someone you consider a "terrorist" could be a "hero" to someone else?
    • Rebecca L
       
      I think that it is not right to treat terrorists like they are heros because the people that don't think they are heros could be scared that the terrorists will kill someone during one of their attacks, and that person could be them.
    • Zoe R
       
      Rebecca that is a GREAT way to put and I agree they are treating them like heros and I don't understand why. They are bombing things NOT helping things. It is a bad iidea to treat them so nice when they are causing issue. Are there any other thoughts about why they are treating them this way???
  • People who supported Eta in the past are fed up. They feel the only future
    is politics
    • Adam Z
       
      This is an example of how some people are starting do dislike ETA. Do you think some people aren't happy with ETA and they are embarressed because they look bad to other countries because they work so hard to get their freedom but they can't succeed?
  • "People who supported Eta in the past are fed up. They feel the only future is politics.
    • William Ferriter
       
      This is interesting to me. Why do you think that people who once supported ETA are now growing tired of the group? Would you grow tired of ETA if you lived in the Basque region for all these years?
    • Jonathan E
       
      Why are you so fed up with the Eta?Why does the future seem like politics?
    • Gabriel O
       
      I think that families in the Basque Region are against the ETA because in an article that also has the ETA tells that they are a terrorist group.
    • Conner C
       
      Eta is a terrorist group and they want the basque regoin to be their own country. Why do you think that Spain and France won't let them have what they want?
  • Youth organisations allegedly connected to Eta are also illegal. Annie and Mickel both believe young people are under heavy scrutiny.
    • William Ferriter
       
      And here's another interesting point to me: Should youth groups that are attached with ETA---a terrorist organization---be banned? Are there places and times where the government SHOULD have the right to tell you what groups you can be a part of?
    • Gabriel O
       
      First, they have to prove the connection with the terrorist group. After that, maybe some action can be taken by the police. I don't think the government should tell us what group to participate, but on the other hand, they need to have some access to these groups to know if something illegal is going on.
Orla L

BBC NEWS | Europe | How a blunder finished off the Wall - 2 views

shared by Orla L on 09 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • When the Berlin Wall opened on 9 November 1989
    • Orla L
       
      I think that the officers in East Berlin might have known that they weren't doing any good and were being bad guarding the wall and might have just let it go? But yet again then why did they guard they Berlin Wall anyway?
  • And the decision itself was an accident
    • Torin O
       
      How do you make a good decision by accident?
  • neither to happen the way it did nor to spark off the tumultuous changes that
    followed.
    • Torin O
       
      It wasn't supposed to happen but it did and and it is something we wont't regret and definately won't forget.
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  • With hindsight, it's the border guards we must thank
    • Rachel C
       
      why? because they did not object?
  • sparked off the popular discontent.
Suhas R

Estimate for Deporting Illegal Immigrants: $94 Billion - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Suhas R
     
    Debate 1
Emily C

BBC NEWS | Europe | Berlin celebrates demise of Wall - 10 views

  • Hundreds of giant foam dominoes painted with messages of freedom
    • Gargi D
       
      I wonder why they used giant painted dominoes to give messages of freedom.
    • Travis K
       
      There lined up where the wall was and had messages on them. I'm guessing it's supposed to try to symbolize once one thing happens a chain reaction happens and when it's a bad thing everything will just topple over.
    • Sydney K
       
      Probably to show how the wall is falling and so were the dominos.
    • Izzy H
       
      Maybe to symbolize how it fell over time and how people are celebrating the fall of it. It reminds them that it sorted out over time.
    • Karena Z
       
      I think that it shows how the people used dominos to symbolize the many years of communism being knocked down.
    • Andy S
       
      What if the symbols of fredom where happenings painted on the dominoes leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall?
    • Sean L
       
      I agree that once one of the good things go bad, it will make a chain reaction that topples over all the other good things too, and will put whatever it is in chaos.
    • Izzy H
       
      I agree completely!
    • Rachel C
       
      im pretty sure it symbolises the end of communism
    • Megan B
       
      I agree that is does symbolize it but why would people do dominoes? Why not something else?
    • Caitlin M
       
      Maybe the dominoes symbolized something else, like the spots might say communism on it (the fall of comunism)
    • Andy S
       
      @Megan B Dominoes symbolise chain events so why not something else? Well there isn't anything that represents it better.
  • demise of Wall
    • Torin O
       
      20 years ago today David Hasselhoff was on the top of the Berlin Wall singing "I've Been Looking For Freedom" while people were knocking the Berlin Wall down.
    • Maddie K
       
      what do you think demise means?
  • Cold War's
    • Torin O
       
      The war that started the Berlin Wall and the split of East Berlin and West Berlin by the rise of communist economies.
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  • celebrates
    • Karena Z
       
      I thnk it was really cool that they celbrated it with david hasselhoff singing on the wall "i've been looking for freedom". What do you guys think?
    • Torin O
       
      haha yea that was definately the best song that he could've been singing!
    • Andy S
       
      I think it's a bit odd for David Hasselhoff singing "I've Been Looking for Freedom", with his flashing lights jacket but the Germans would have a diffrent view on that. It is a bit cool though.
    • Rachel C
       
      Not really the song he sang was really chesy.
    • Izzy H
       
      I agree! I bet the people of Berlin are so incredibly happy and proud of the day it fell. What do you think the West Berlin side was thinking? If the East were trying to get out, and then when it got knocked down they flooded out. Did the West side like the fall of it?
    • Karena Z
       
      I think that David's song was a little weird, but for the berlins, it was pride that they felt and they didnt really care if it was cheesy or not/
    • Conner C
       
      Thats a good question Izzy. I think that some of the families that lived together on the west side wouldnt care as much as the families that were split apart for 28 years.
    • Karena Z
       
      I think that the west side liked the fall of the wall, because maybe it was getting a little to "blan" always hanging around the rich and maybe snobby people. And they maybe would've wanted the fall so that they could help the others on the eastern side
  • by young people have been placed along the former route of the wall. They will
    be toppled from 1900 GMT to show how the then Communist governments across
    Eastern Europe fell one after another.
    • Karena Z
       
      I think its cool how they used giant foam dominos, because it makes it more unique and understandble.
    • Brittany S
       
      Me too. I like how they are unique and have color on them.
  • by young people have been placed along the former route of the wall. They will
    be toppled from 1900 GMT to show how the then Communist governments across
    Eastern Europe fell one after another.
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Hillary Clinton.
    • Travis K
       
      Wow you would think that Barack Obama or Joe Biden maybe even George Bush would be invited there to represent the United States. Why do you think Hillary Clinton was the one invited there?
    • Gargi D
       
      I really don't know. Maybe because Bill Clinton was president during that time.
    • Brandon W
       
      She was most likely invited beacuse Joe Biden or Obama were busy.
    • Karena Z
       
      I completely agree. I mean, hilary clinton may have meant alot to them, just like David Hassolhoff was there popstar. Maybe to them, Hilary Clinton is their Barack Obama.
    • Torin O
       
      I don't know well maybe they were too busy to go to Germany.
    • Ainsley S
       
      Ummm... You do have to remember that this was back in
      the 1980's. Barack Obama wasn't president at that time, he was just a regular dude who drinks coffee in the morning and yells at his kids when they don't clean their room.
    • Daniel D
       
      good point, maybe becuase barack obama and joe biden are a team. both together they really haven't come through with the things that they promised to fix. not saying that hillary clnton did anything but she has done more as a senate theat barack has done as the presendent.
    • Matt F
       
      Joe Biden or Barack Obama didn't come because they were probably busy or something.
  • celebrates
    • Emma D
       
      If both sides celebrated when it came down, why would they put it up in the first place?
  • The festivities will be capped with fireworks and a
    • Zach M
       
      I wonder if David Hasslehoff will perform in his electric shirt that flashes.
    • Izzy H
       
      I bet he was asked by many people to perform, and i dont know if they would bring the famous jacket out to celebrate again.
  • Communist power
    • Torin O
       
      Well I'm glad that communist economies are gone because look what it did to Europe, what do you think would happen if America split in half because of communism?
    • Daniel D
       
      that would never happen. america is a united country and i feel that we would stand by it. we are kind of like the big brothers of all the other countries, helping them out when the make a bad decsion or something of that sort.
    • Andy S
       
      Well if communism were to ever split America in half (which I would highly doubt) there would definetly be a war between Americas with each trying to overpower the other. But that would never happen since America is a united nation with a secure goverment (my view).
  • concert featuring performances by musicians from across the world.
    • Zach M
       
      This will probrably be including david Hasslehaff
  • symbolically
    • Megan B
       
      This means that they will walk on the Berlin wall as a symbol of justice and no more.
  • Communist power
  • Communist power
  • erected
    • Megan B
       
      What does the word erected mean?
    • Sean L
       
      built up.
    • Bridgette S
       
      it means to position somethng in a certain way. So, when they say erected it means they positioned the wall.
  • Cold War
    • Daniel D
       
      a connection to this would be the cold war with the soviet union and america.
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • capitalist enclave.
    • Megan B
       
      What is the writer trying to explain? Is it saying that people are trying to go into a captialism country?
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Torin O
       
      This guy is an awesome dude because he won the Nobel Peace Prize for what he did and that just is amazing!
  • The fall of the Berlin Wall
    • Izzy H
       
      I wonder how long it took to cut that sliver out of the Berlin Wall?
    • Brittany S
       
      I don't know. That is a good question
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Ainsley S
       
      I thought that this dude was dead!! Oh, well. Anyways, he won the Nobel Peace Prize, right? Well, the man who invented the Nobel Peace Prize also invented dynamite!

      He heard that his dynamite invention had killed more than 1,000 people, and he didn't want to be known for that. So, that's when he decided to invent the Nobel Peace Prize. My little sister wants to be like him when she grows up.
  • "Our history did not end the night the wall came down,"
  • "Our history did not end the night the wall came down,"
  • began with a service at the Gethsemane Church in the east of the city, a centre
  • "To expand freedom to more people, we cannot accept that freedom does not belong
    to all people."
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  • wall fell.
Torin O

BBC NEWS | Europe | The night the Berlin Wall fell - 0 views

  • Berlin Wall fell
    • Torin O
       
      I bet that this was the best night of the East Berliners life, it seems awesome to have David Hasselhoff sing on top of the Berlin Wall while it is being torn down, plus the jacket he was wearing was battery powered, who wouldn't want to be there?
Torin O

BBC NEWS | Europe | A taste for the old East Germany - 0 views

  • Trabant
    • Torin O
       
      Old East Berlin car comes back. The new version of the Trabant is now electric, cool that means that it is good for the economy!
  • Spreewald pickled cucumbers
    • Torin O
       
      Yum pickles, why do you think that Germans like these pickled cucumbers so much?
William Ferriter

BBC NEWS | Europe | Mapping the fall of communism - 0 views

  • William Ferriter
     
    This interactive map from the BBC website shows how countries under Communist rule after World War II collapsed one by one between 1989 and 1991.
  • William Ferriter
     
    This interactive map from the BBC website shows how countries under Communist rule after World War II collapsed one by one between 1989 and 1991.
Erik S

Google Image Result for http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/europe/bulgaria/sofia/map_of_sofia... - 2 views

shared by Erik S on 05 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • Erik S
     
    click on the full size image
    this is a great map as it marks the sites and stuff
  • Becky J
     
    this one doesnt say anything it just takes you to google
  • Erik S
     
    oh sorry i dont know how that happened...
Bridgette S

Chernobyl Museum Kiev | Ukraine - Kiev Life - 0 views

    • Bridgette S
       
      this is a good picture
Bridgette S

World Environment News - EU To Extend Checks On Food From Chernobyl Area - Planet Ark - 0 views

    • Bridgette S
       
      This would be a good source when we move on to food because we could say that the EU stopped shipping them things after the Chernobyl accident.
Emma D

Slovakia Zoo, Slovakia Stud Farms, Animal Gardens in Slovakia - 0 views

  • Emma D
     
    good page
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