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Hi my name is Carissa. This is my computer apps wiki spaces page. You will learn about different summaries like wacky weather reports and other things. One of my favorite sports is gymnastics. media type="custom" key="6194535" [|google.com]

WILD WEATHER EVENT:  One wild weather event was the Snafellsjokull volcano. This was a large ice covered volcano located at the western tip of the Snaefellsnes Peninsula. It's last eruption dates back 1750 years ago. This wild volcano was a Stratovolcano which means it is a large and steep volcano that blew out many pyroclastic cones. Lava flowed and craters formed.

Volcano's are very destructive. During this volcano llava flowed. This lava kept on going to the sea over the entire western part of the volcano. The Snafellsjokull volcano is the only large volcano eruption in this part of iceland. CLearly you can see, volcano's are very destructive and they kill many people. media type="youtube" key="MlqLU_tYx7A" height="189" width="299"

Book Review:

11 Birthdays This book was absolutely amazing! This story is about a girl and a boy who have the same birthday. Every year they celebrate their birthday together. But since their 9th birthday they have not because they got in a big fight. Since this on their 11th birthday as usual, they don't celebrate their birthday together. When both of them wake up the day after their birthday, the day of their birthday begins again. Know one knows about it except for them.

The rest of the middle and part of the ending of the book is how the girl Amanda and the boy Leo, become friends again. They go through different things and find out about how this happened. Amanda and Leo find this lady who put the curse of repetition on them and go through different challenges to stop it. This book was very good and you can probably find it in any public library or the Sparta Middle School Media Center. It was great!

 Unsolved Mystery: One unsolved mystery is the Bermuda Triangle. Here since fifty years ago every plane that flies into this area seems to crash and disappear. This place has since been called the triangle of death. The deathly place occupies south of Florida, northeast to Bermuda, and southeast to Puerto Rico. Where do the planes go?

The Bermuda Triangle's most famous victims were the five Avengers of Flight 19.The first part of their flight had gone well but the second part started to go a little weird when the pilots compass began to malfunction. He asked another airman what it was reading and when know one could tell he assumed they were lost. Taylor, the head airman ordered the crew to fly NorthEast. This route would take them saftley back home, but after a little while it just took them farther out to sea. Fuel was running low and time was running out, when the first plane crashed.



Science/Technology Current Event

A current event involving science and technology has to do with global warning. Florian Altermatt is a scientist who chases butterflies but also believes they have something to do with the effects of global warming. He is an ecologist - a scientist who studies how creatures interact with their environment. Over the last 30 years the average temperature in Central Europe has gone up about 1.5 degrees celsius. He also says during that same time 44 more moths and butterflies have added an extra generation during some years, Altermatt found.

Altermatt suspects that in Central Europe, that extra degrees and a half is changing the internal clock for many types of butterflies and moths. Because its warmer outside the amount of butterflies expand sooner. Altermatt also says that the increase in temperature speeds up their growth. These more insects might mix things up in the ecosystem of Central Europe, Patrick Tobin says who is another ecologist. An extra generation of insects provides more food to the animals that feed on them. That means those animals might start to increase their species. This would make life harder on the other species they eat. As well, with an extra generation an endangered insect species may have a better chance of recovering.



Political Current Event One political current event is how the U.S led into war with Iraq. First, the Bush administration manufactured a problem. This declaring that Iraq was a threat to the U.S, as well as their Terrorist Networks. Also the fear stories that spread about what enemies are seeking to do to the Americans.With the thought of their growing danger gave the U.S an urgency to act.

After plenty of debates, finally they decided "we have no choice" - the U.S did not want war but felt they had to act. They thought if the U.N refuses to act than the U.S would. They argued that war is our last option. In this way the U.S made war the only option. For this the majority of Americans came to support the war - which began on March, 19, 2003.



One Social Awareness Topic One Social Awareness Topic is Smoking. Smoking is a life decision that leads to a disease called Emphysema. At the end stage of this disease the lungs don't work and the dying patient needs devices to breathe. Also this person usually can't function. This topic should be noticed so that more people survive and can live the rest of their life.

Smoking is just like burning your money up in smoke. Cigarettes cost about $7 a pack. If you smoke one pack a day that is wasting $210 a month. $2520 a year. A smoker could easily burn up his or her lungs as well as 1,000 of dollars a year. Clearly, smoking is a social awareness topic because of the disease risk's and all of the money wasted.



How Stuff Works

One topic on how stuff works is the Apple ipad. On the ipad you can read, listen to music, play games and more. First, the ipad seems like the a larger version of the iphone or ipod. But is smaller than a notebook computer. What is the Apple ipad? A digital media tablet.

The ipad is more than a giant ipod touch. The apple ipad works a lot like the ipod or iphone but improved. The ipad is a hand held multimedia device. From a multi screen lock to a full size keyboard. You will find there is not a whole lot of a difference from the ipod to the ipad.



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